Infrastructure Engineering Contract Job Trends in England

Infrastructure Engineering
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Infrastructure Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 146 91
Rank change year-on-year +53 -55 +10
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 1,242 527 843
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.76% 1.93% 2.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.24% 2.12% 2.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 773 343 635
10th Percentile £350 £329 £313
25th Percentile £425 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% +5.00% -4.63%
75th Percentile £610 £600 £595
90th Percentile £675 £650 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 5 24
10th Percentile £56.75 £38.43 £45.35
25th Percentile £58.43 £51.06 £51.06
Median hourly rate £72.54 £77.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.79% +18.46% -10.34%
75th Percentile £78.75 £200.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.16 - -
UK median hourly rate £73.27 £77.00 £68.75
% change year-on-year -4.84% +12.00% -5.17%

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

Infrastructure Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 38,365 24,818 30,014
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.35% 90.70% 85.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,059 15,915 19,627
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £420 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £633 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £753
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,375 1,336 1,933
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.23 £13.60
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.98 £17.25
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +86.88% -37.13% -8.32%
75th Percentile £69.63 £52.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £71.35 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -37.13% -6.98%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Infrastructure Engineering relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Infrastructure Engineering job vacancy trend in England

Infrastructure Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Infrastructure Engineering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Infrastructure Engineering

Infrastructure Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in England over the 6 months to 24 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in England

Infrastructure Engineering
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Infrastructure Engineering.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Infrastructure Engineering

Infrastructure Engineering
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in England over the 6 months to 24 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in England

Infrastructure Engineering
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering within the England region over the 6 months to 24 July 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +40 363 £550 +4.76% 224
North of England +28 283 £525 - 94
South East +26 262 £536 -2.47% 150
South West +16 133 £550 -2.22% 84
Midlands +5 131 £475 +5.56% 56
Yorkshire +2 120 £490 -2.00% 39
North West +15 117 £550 +4.76% 42
West Midlands -18 84 £513 +24.24% 34
East of England +7 56 £500 +11.11% 48
North East +3 55 £600 -7.69% 14
East Midlands +19 45 £450 - 22
Infrastructure Engineering
UK

Infrastructure Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 56 (4.51%) Microsoft Exchange
2 34 (2.74%) SharePoint
3 28 (2.25%) Confluence
4 13 (1.05%) CICS
5 8 (0.64%) WebSphere
6 6 (0.48%) Apache
6 6 (0.48%) SAS
7 4 (0.32%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.24%) CloudStack
8 3 (0.24%) SharePoint Server
9 2 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.16%) Apache Pulsar
9 2 (0.16%) nginx
10 1 (0.081%) IBM HTTP Server
10 1 (0.081%) JBoss
10 1 (0.081%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 17 (1.37%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.24%) AutoCAD
3 3 (0.24%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.16%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.081%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (0.24%) Primavera
2 2 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.081%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.081%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.081%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 427 (34.38%) Azure
2 226 (18.20%) AWS
3 110 (8.86%) Entra ID
4 99 (7.97%) GitHub
5 94 (7.57%) Microsoft 365
6 92 (7.41%) GCP
7 67 (5.39%) Azure DevOps
7 67 (5.39%) GitHub Actions
8 62 (4.99%) IaaS
9 54 (4.35%) OCI
10 43 (3.46%) SaaS
11 40 (3.22%) PaaS
12 37 (2.98%) Azure AKS
13 36 (2.90%) Azure Monitor
14 28 (2.25%) Amazon EKS
15 27 (2.17%) Serverless
16 21 (1.69%) Amazon S3
17 20 (1.61%) Azure Sentinel
18 19 (1.53%) AWS Lambda
18 19 (1.53%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 197 (15.86%) DNS
2 187 (15.06%) Firewall
3 119 (9.58%) DHCP
4 73 (5.88%) VPN
5 66 (5.31%) Network Security
6 61 (4.91%) TCP/IP
7 60 (4.83%) SAN
8 57 (4.59%) VLAN
9 56 (4.51%) WAN
10 44 (3.54%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 34 (2.74%) BIG-IP
12 33 (2.66%) SD-WAN
13 31 (2.50%) BGP
14 30 (2.42%) LAN
15 28 (2.25%) OSPF
16 27 (2.17%) VXLAN
16 27 (2.17%) Wi-Fi
17 26 (2.09%) Ethernet VPN
18 23 (1.85%) SSL
19 20 (1.61%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (4.35%) SQL Server
2 15 (1.21%) Oracle Database
3 14 (1.13%) Oracle Exadata
3 14 (1.13%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (1.05%) Relational Database
5 11 (0.89%) Power BI
5 11 (0.89%) RDBMS
6 9 (0.72%) Amazon RDS
6 9 (0.72%) Elasticsearch
6 9 (0.72%) Metadata
7 8 (0.64%) Azure SQL Database
7 8 (0.64%) DynamoDB
8 7 (0.56%) Data Lake
9 6 (0.48%) Db2
10 5 (0.40%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (0.40%) NoSQL
10 5 (0.40%) Pentaho
11 4 (0.32%) Data Mining
11 4 (0.32%) Snowflake Schema
12 3 (0.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 70 (5.64%) GitLab
2 50 (4.03%) Jenkins
2 50 (4.03%) JIRA
3 47 (3.78%) Git
4 8 (0.64%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.16%) Artifactory
5 2 (0.16%) Chocolatey
5 2 (0.16%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.16%) Subversion
6 1 (0.081%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.081%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.081%) CMake
6 1 (0.081%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.081%) Gradle
6 1 (0.081%) IntelliJ
6 1 (0.081%) Introscope
6 1 (0.081%) MLflow
6 1 (0.081%) MSI
6 1 (0.081%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.081%) Snyk
General
1 198 (15.94%) Social Skills
2 112 (9.02%) Finance
3 100 (8.05%) Public Sector
4 62 (4.99%) Analytical Skills
5 49 (3.95%) Banking
6 44 (3.54%) Documentation Skills
7 24 (1.93%) Military
8 20 (1.61%) Legal
9 16 (1.29%) Telecoms
10 15 (1.21%) Aerospace
10 15 (1.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 15 (1.21%) Retail
11 12 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
11 12 (0.97%) Manufacturing
12 11 (0.89%) Organisational Skills
13 10 (0.81%) Marketing
14 8 (0.64%) Law
15 5 (0.40%) Automotive
16 4 (0.32%) Advertising
16 4 (0.32%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 826 (66.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 237 (19.08%) Senior
3 186 (14.98%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 122 (9.82%) Cloud Engineer
5 88 (7.09%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 84 (6.76%) Azure Engineer
7 60 (4.83%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 55 (4.43%) Network Engineer
9 46 (3.70%) Lead
10 42 (3.38%) DevOps Engineer
11 40 (3.22%) VMware Engineer
12 36 (2.90%) Architect
12 36 (2.90%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
13 35 (2.82%) Platform Engineer
14 33 (2.66%) IT Engineer
14 33 (2.66%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
15 32 (2.58%) 3rd Line Engineer
15 32 (2.58%) Infrastructure Support
16 31 (2.50%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
17 30 (2.42%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (2.25%) REST
2 18 (1.45%) ARM Templates
3 14 (1.13%) SOAP
4 13 (1.05%) JSON
4 13 (1.05%) Middleware
5 11 (0.89%) Oracle GoldenGate
6 10 (0.81%) Elastic Stack
6 10 (0.81%) OAuth
6 10 (0.81%) YAML
7 9 (0.72%) LDAP
7 9 (0.72%) Loki
7 9 (0.72%) OpenID
8 8 (0.64%) SAML
9 7 (0.56%) Flash
9 7 (0.56%) Kafka
9 7 (0.56%) ModSecurity
9 7 (0.56%) Web Services
10 6 (0.48%) 802.1X
10 6 (0.48%) RESTful
10 6 (0.48%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 133 (10.71%) Data Centre
2 81 (6.52%) Hybrid Cloud
3 55 (4.43%) Cloud Native
3 55 (4.43%) Public Cloud
4 51 (4.11%) PKI
5 39 (3.14%) Onboarding
6 34 (2.74%) Replication
7 33 (2.66%) Enterprise Storage
8 22 (1.77%) Private Cloud
9 21 (1.69%) Clustering
10 20 (1.61%) Management Information System
11 19 (1.53%) Self-Motivation
12 17 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
12 17 (1.37%) Linux Command Line
13 16 (1.29%) Distributed Systems
13 16 (1.29%) Enterprise Cloud
14 15 (1.21%) Virtual Team
15 14 (1.13%) Mainframe
16 13 (1.05%) Security Posture
17 10 (0.81%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 332 (26.73%) Windows
2 217 (17.47%) Linux
3 212 (17.07%) Windows Server
4 48 (3.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 17 (1.37%) Windows Server 2019
6 16 (1.29%) Apple iOS
6 16 (1.29%) Unix
6 16 (1.29%) Windows 10
7 15 (1.21%) Android
7 15 (1.21%) CentOS
7 15 (1.21%) Ubuntu
7 15 (1.21%) Windows Server 2016
8 13 (1.05%) zOS
9 12 (0.97%) AIX
10 11 (0.89%) VMS
11 10 (0.81%) Rocky
12 7 (0.56%) Windows Server 2003
13 6 (0.48%) Debian
13 6 (0.48%) Mac OS
13 6 (0.48%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 288 (23.19%) Infrastructure as Code
2 241 (19.40%) DevOps
3 231 (18.60%) CI/CD
4 147 (11.84%) Migration
5 136 (10.95%) Problem-Solving
6 120 (9.66%) Platform Engineering
7 117 (9.42%) Agile
8 103 (8.29%) High Availability
9 92 (7.41%) Continuous Improvement
10 90 (7.25%) Infrastructure Automation
11 83 (6.68%) AI
12 81 (6.52%) Disaster Recovery
13 80 (6.44%) Project Delivery
14 79 (6.36%) Containerisation
15 74 (5.96%) Observability
15 74 (5.96%) Validation
16 69 (5.56%) Zero Trust
17 68 (5.48%) Stakeholder Management
18 64 (5.15%) ITIL
19 62 (4.99%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 208 (16.75%) PowerShell
2 205 (16.51%) Python
3 107 (8.62%) Bash
4 54 (4.35%) SQL
5 51 (4.11%) Bicep
6 25 (2.01%) Java
7 21 (1.69%) Shell Script
8 20 (1.61%) C#
9 9 (0.72%) ActionScript
9 9 (0.72%) Go
10 7 (0.56%) JavaScript
11 6 (0.48%) JCL
11 6 (0.48%) TypeScript
12 5 (0.40%) PHP
13 4 (0.32%) Groovy
14 3 (0.24%) C++
14 3 (0.24%) Kusto Query Language
15 2 (0.16%) C
15 2 (0.16%) Perl
15 2 (0.16%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 481 (38.73%) Security Cleared
2 310 (24.96%) SC Cleared
3 178 (14.33%) DV Cleared
4 50 (4.03%) Degree
5 36 (2.90%) Cisco Certification
6 33 (2.66%) Azure Certification
7 26 (2.09%) Microsoft Certification
8 22 (1.77%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 19 (1.53%) AWS Certification
9 19 (1.53%) CCNA
10 17 (1.37%) CISSP
11 16 (1.29%) CCNP
12 13 (1.05%) MCSE
13 11 (0.89%) Computer Science Degree
13 11 (0.89%) VCAP
14 9 (0.72%) PMI Certification
15 8 (0.64%) CISM
16 7 (0.56%) PMP
16 7 (0.56%) RHCA
17 6 (0.48%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (2.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 31 (2.50%) QA
3 26 (2.09%) NIST
4 15 (1.21%) NCSC
5 14 (1.13%) Cyber Essentials
5 14 (1.13%) SLA
6 8 (0.64%) PCI DSS
7 7 (0.56%) Data Quality
8 6 (0.48%) PMO
9 5 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 5 (0.40%) GRC
10 4 (0.32%) GDPR
10 4 (0.32%) SOC 2
11 3 (0.24%) NIST 800
12 2 (0.16%) JSP 440
13 1 (0.081%) ISO 14001
13 1 (0.081%) ISO 8583
13 1 (0.081%) ISO 9001
13 1 (0.081%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 1 (0.081%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 222 (17.87%) Active Directory
2 220 (17.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 86 (6.92%) Hyper-V
4 78 (6.28%) VMware ESXi
5 74 (5.96%) Docker
6 67 (5.39%) vSphere
7 50 (4.03%) Virtual Machines
8 41 (3.30%) VMware NSX
9 29 (2.33%) Virtual Desktop
10 14 (1.13%) NFS
11 11 (0.89%) Oracle RAC
12 9 (0.72%) BitLocker
13 8 (0.64%) Firmware
13 8 (0.64%) KVM
13 8 (0.64%) Microsoft App-V
14 5 (0.40%) GPFS
14 5 (0.40%) Terminal Services
15 4 (0.32%) Virtual Servers
16 3 (0.24%) Ceph
17 2 (0.16%) UAG
Systems Management
1 272 (21.90%) Terraform
2 165 (13.29%) Ansible
3 159 (12.80%) Kubernetes
4 66 (5.31%) Microsoft Intune
5 51 (4.11%) vCenter Server
6 35 (2.82%) SCCM
7 29 (2.33%) Grafana
8 25 (2.01%) Prometheus
9 23 (1.85%) Puppet
10 19 (1.53%) WSUS
11 18 (1.45%) Argo
12 15 (1.21%) NetBackup
12 15 (1.21%) Packer
13 14 (1.13%) Nessus
13 14 (1.13%) Single Sign-On
14 11 (0.89%) Data Guard
14 11 (0.89%) Oracle RMAN
14 11 (0.89%) SCOM
15 9 (0.72%) vRealize
16 8 (0.64%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 295 (23.75%) Microsoft
2 285 (22.95%) VMware
3 69 (5.56%) Cisco
3 69 (5.56%) Citrix
4 53 (4.27%) F5
5 50 (4.03%) NetApp
6 42 (3.38%) Google
6 42 (3.38%) Oracle
6 42 (3.38%) ServiceNow
7 32 (2.58%) Palo Alto
7 32 (2.58%) Veeam
8 25 (2.01%) Dell
9 23 (1.85%) Red Hat
10 22 (1.77%) Arista
10 22 (1.77%) Aruba
11 19 (1.53%) Fortinet
11 19 (1.53%) Tenable
12 18 (1.45%) Juniper
13 17 (1.37%) Zscaler
14 13 (1.05%) IBM