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 6 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 133 92
Rank change year-on-year +26 -41 +30
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 916 514 883
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.25% 2.11% 2.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.66% 2.31% 2.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 626 358 659
10th Percentile £340 £312 £286
25th Percentile £425 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +10.53% -5.47%
75th Percentile £600 £603 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £480
% change year-on-year -2.86% +9.38% -8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 9 36
10th Percentile £46.80 £24.18 £21.25
25th Percentile £58.43 £51.06 £37.63
Median hourly rate £72.54 £62.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +16.06% +35.34% -27.66%
75th Percentile £78.75 £73.75 £62.50
90th Percentile - £200.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £72.54 £62.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +16.06% +35.34% -25.05%

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 34,459 22,249 31,937
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.78% 91.20% 86.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,987 14,574 20,950
10th Percentile £319 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,148 932 2,245
10th Percentile £15.36 £14.67 £12.92
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £45.46 £30.00 £36.05
Median % change year-on-year +51.53% -16.77% -0.96%
75th Percentile £67.50 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £41.56 £29.00 £35.95
% change year-on-year +43.29% -19.33% +0.42%

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 6 May 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 6 May 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 6 May 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 +6 248 £550 +4.76% 97
North of England 0 189 £487 -7.24% 82
South East +5 174 £515 -6.45% 99
South West +7 125 £538 -5.49% 41
Yorkshire -13 110 £428 -18.48% 21
Midlands -10 99 £450 +12.50% 44
North West -25 62 £575 +9.52% 47
East of England -1 60 £475 +0.53% 23
West Midlands -21 59 £513 +58.91% 30
East Midlands -1 39 £450 - 13
North East -11 19 £600 -7.69% 15
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 64 (6.99%) Microsoft Exchange
2 19 (2.07%) SharePoint
3 14 (1.53%) Confluence
4 11 (1.20%) Apache
5 8 (0.87%) TPMS
6 6 (0.66%) IIS
7 4 (0.44%) CICS
7 4 (0.44%) SAS
8 3 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.33%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.22%) Apache Pulsar
9 2 (0.22%) Exchange Server 2010
9 2 (0.22%) nginx
10 1 (0.11%) IBM HTTP Server
10 1 (0.11%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.11%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.11%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 15 (1.64%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.55%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.22%) Acrobat
3 2 (0.22%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (0.66%) Maximo
2 2 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 292 (31.88%) Azure
2 146 (15.94%) AWS
3 95 (10.37%) Microsoft 365
4 72 (7.86%) Entra ID
5 65 (7.10%) GCP
6 61 (6.66%) GitHub
7 48 (5.24%) Azure DevOps
8 45 (4.91%) IaaS
9 42 (4.59%) GitHub Actions
10 38 (4.15%) PaaS
11 33 (3.60%) OpenShift
11 33 (3.60%) SaaS
12 32 (3.49%) Azure AKS
12 32 (3.49%) Serverless
13 29 (3.17%) Azure Monitor
14 23 (2.51%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 22 (2.40%) AWS Lambda
16 21 (2.29%) AWS CloudFormation
17 20 (2.18%) Nutanix
18 19 (2.07%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 129 (14.08%) Firewall
2 117 (12.77%) DNS
3 69 (7.53%) DHCP
4 61 (6.66%) VPN
5 48 (5.24%) Network Security
6 39 (4.26%) SAN
7 38 (4.15%) WAN
8 31 (3.38%) VLAN
9 28 (3.06%) LAN
10 27 (2.95%) TCP/IP
11 22 (2.40%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 21 (2.29%) BGP
13 18 (1.97%) NAS
13 18 (1.97%) SSL
14 17 (1.86%) OSPF
15 16 (1.75%) MPLS
15 16 (1.75%) SD-WAN
15 16 (1.75%) Wi-Fi
16 15 (1.64%) BIG-IP
17 13 (1.42%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (3.71%) SQL Server
2 10 (1.09%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (0.98%) DynamoDB
4 8 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
5 7 (0.76%) Metadata
5 7 (0.76%) NoSQL
6 6 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (0.66%) Power BI
7 5 (0.55%) Relational Database
8 4 (0.44%) Data Lake
8 4 (0.44%) Data Mining
8 4 (0.44%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (0.44%) DB2
8 4 (0.44%) MongoDB
9 3 (0.33%) NonStop SQL
9 3 (0.33%) Oracle Database
9 3 (0.33%) Pentaho
9 3 (0.33%) RDBMS
10 2 (0.22%) Hadoop
10 2 (0.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 42 (4.59%) GitLab
2 34 (3.71%) Jenkins
3 29 (3.17%) Git
3 29 (3.17%) JIRA
4 6 (0.66%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.22%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.11%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.11%) GoCD
6 1 (0.11%) IntelliJ
6 1 (0.11%) Introscope
6 1 (0.11%) Jaeger
6 1 (0.11%) MSI
6 1 (0.11%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.11%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 143 (15.61%) Social Skills
2 85 (9.28%) Finance
3 80 (8.73%) Public Sector
4 54 (5.90%) Analytical Skills
5 38 (4.15%) Banking
6 30 (3.28%) Documentation Skills
7 22 (2.40%) Military
8 17 (1.86%) Legal
9 14 (1.53%) Aerospace
9 14 (1.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 11 (1.20%) Retail
11 10 (1.09%) Influencing Skills
12 9 (0.98%) Manufacturing
13 7 (0.76%) Billing
14 6 (0.66%) Telecoms
15 5 (0.55%) Organisational Skills
16 4 (0.44%) Front Office
16 4 (0.44%) Presentation Skills
17 3 (0.33%) Investment Banking
17 3 (0.33%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 599 (65.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 138 (15.07%) Senior
3 102 (11.14%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 59 (6.44%) Azure Engineer
4 59 (6.44%) Cloud Engineer
5 49 (5.35%) Network Engineer
6 45 (4.91%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
7 42 (4.59%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 39 (4.26%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
9 37 (4.04%) VMware Engineer
10 34 (3.71%) Automation Engineer
11 33 (3.60%) Architect
12 32 (3.49%) DevOps Engineer
13 26 (2.84%) IT Engineer
13 26 (2.84%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
13 26 (2.84%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
14 25 (2.73%) Infrastructure Support
14 25 (2.73%) Support Engineer
15 24 (2.62%) 3rd Line Engineer
16 23 (2.51%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (2.73%) REST
2 16 (1.75%) SOAP
3 14 (1.53%) ARM Templates
4 9 (0.98%) OAuth
4 9 (0.98%) Web Services
5 8 (0.87%) Kafka
5 8 (0.87%) LDAP
5 8 (0.87%) SAML
6 7 (0.76%) OAuth2
6 7 (0.76%) OpenID
7 6 (0.66%) Elastic Stack
7 6 (0.66%) Flash
8 5 (0.55%) GraphQL
8 5 (0.55%) Middleware
9 4 (0.44%) ADO
9 4 (0.44%) JSON
9 4 (0.44%) Keycloak
9 4 (0.44%) OpenTelemetry
9 4 (0.44%) RESTful
9 4 (0.44%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 62 (6.77%) Data Centre
2 48 (5.24%) Hybrid Cloud
3 42 (4.59%) PKI
4 33 (3.60%) Cloud Native
5 31 (3.38%) Public Cloud
6 28 (3.06%) Enterprise Storage
7 27 (2.95%) Onboarding
8 26 (2.84%) Private Cloud
8 26 (2.84%) Replication
9 20 (2.18%) Self-Motivation
10 18 (1.97%) Enterprise Software
11 14 (1.53%) Virtual Team
12 13 (1.42%) Clustering
13 10 (1.09%) Management Information System
14 8 (0.87%) Data Protection Act
14 8 (0.87%) Mainframe
15 7 (0.76%) Analytical Mindset
15 7 (0.76%) DataPower
15 7 (0.76%) Mobile App
16 6 (0.66%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 262 (28.60%) Windows
2 159 (17.36%) Windows Server
3 138 (15.07%) Linux
4 22 (2.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 20 (2.18%) Windows Server 2016
6 19 (2.07%) Windows Server 2019
7 17 (1.86%) Apple iOS
7 17 (1.86%) Ubuntu
8 15 (1.64%) Android
9 13 (1.42%) VMS
10 12 (1.31%) Windows Server 2012
11 11 (1.20%) Windows 10
12 10 (1.09%) Unix
13 7 (0.76%) CentOS
13 7 (0.76%) Mac OS
14 6 (0.66%) Windows Server 2003
15 4 (0.44%) Debian
15 4 (0.44%) zOS
16 2 (0.22%) Data ONTAP
17 1 (0.11%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 187 (20.41%) DevOps
2 173 (18.89%) Infrastructure as Code
3 161 (17.58%) CI/CD
4 128 (13.97%) Problem-Solving
5 106 (11.57%) Migration
6 93 (10.15%) Agile
7 79 (8.62%) Platform Engineering
8 77 (8.41%) Containerisation
9 75 (8.19%) High Availability
10 74 (8.08%) Infrastructure Automation
11 67 (7.31%) ITIL
12 63 (6.88%) Disaster Recovery
13 55 (6.00%) Project Delivery
14 54 (5.90%) Zero Trust
15 51 (5.57%) Cybersecurity
16 50 (5.46%) Continuous Improvement
16 50 (5.46%) Observability
17 43 (4.69%) Technical Leadership
18 41 (4.48%) Cloud Security
19 40 (4.37%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 140 (15.28%) PowerShell
2 126 (13.76%) Python
3 53 (5.79%) Bash
4 38 (4.15%) SQL
5 32 (3.49%) Bicep
6 21 (2.29%) Shell Script
7 18 (1.97%) C#
8 16 (1.75%) Java
9 10 (1.09%) JavaScript
9 10 (1.09%) PHP
10 6 (0.66%) C++
10 6 (0.66%) Ruby
11 5 (0.55%) Go
12 4 (0.44%) Groovy
12 4 (0.44%) JCL
13 2 (0.22%) ActionScript
13 2 (0.22%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.22%) TypeScript
14 1 (0.11%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.11%) Scala
Qualifications
1 339 (37.01%) Security Cleared
2 220 (24.02%) SC Cleared
3 129 (14.08%) DV Cleared
4 40 (4.37%) Degree
5 27 (2.95%) Azure Certification
6 25 (2.73%) Cisco Certification
7 24 (2.62%) Microsoft Certification
8 19 (2.07%) CISSP
9 16 (1.75%) CCNA
9 16 (1.75%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 15 (1.64%) CISM
11 14 (1.53%) AWS Certification
12 10 (1.09%) CCNP
13 9 (0.98%) Computer Science Degree
14 8 (0.87%) FFIEC
15 6 (0.66%) BPSS Clearance
15 6 (0.66%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
15 6 (0.66%) MCSE
15 6 (0.66%) RHCA
16 5 (0.55%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (3.60%) NIST
2 27 (2.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 16 (1.75%) GDPR
3 16 (1.75%) PCI DSS
4 15 (1.64%) Cyber Essentials
5 13 (1.42%) QA
6 10 (1.09%) NCSC
7 9 (0.98%) SLA
8 8 (0.87%) GLBA
8 8 (0.87%) NIST 800
9 6 (0.66%) Data Quality
10 3 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.22%) ISO 19650
12 1 (0.11%) Accessibility
12 1 (0.11%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.11%) ISO 20022
12 1 (0.11%) ISO 9001
12 1 (0.11%) PMO
12 1 (0.11%) RMADS
12 1 (0.11%) SOC 2
System Software
1 172 (18.78%) Active Directory
2 165 (18.01%) VMware Infrastructure
3 78 (8.52%) Hyper-V
4 68 (7.42%) Docker
5 50 (5.46%) vSphere
6 44 (4.80%) VMware ESXi
7 28 (3.06%) Virtual Machines
8 23 (2.51%) VMware NSX
9 19 (2.07%) Virtual Desktop
10 17 (1.86%) NFS
11 10 (1.09%) BitLocker
12 8 (0.87%) Firmware
13 7 (0.76%) Microsoft App-V
14 4 (0.44%) GPFS
14 4 (0.44%) Sendmail
15 3 (0.33%) DFS Replication
16 2 (0.22%) Postfix
16 2 (0.22%) QEMU
16 2 (0.22%) SRDF
16 2 (0.22%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 181 (19.76%) Terraform
2 146 (15.94%) Kubernetes
3 104 (11.35%) Ansible
4 63 (6.88%) Microsoft Intune
5 38 (4.15%) SCCM
6 34 (3.71%) vCenter Server
7 17 (1.86%) Grafana
7 17 (1.86%) Puppet
7 17 (1.86%) Single Sign-On
8 15 (1.64%) Prometheus
8 15 (1.64%) WSUS
9 13 (1.42%) SCOM
10 12 (1.31%) Packer
11 11 (1.20%) Nessus
12 10 (1.09%) Progress Chef
13 9 (0.98%) Argo
13 9 (0.98%) vRealize
13 9 (0.98%) VxRail
14 8 (0.87%) Istio
15 7 (0.76%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 228 (24.89%) Microsoft
2 223 (24.34%) VMware
3 57 (6.22%) Cisco
4 52 (5.68%) Citrix
5 42 (4.59%) NetApp
6 32 (3.49%) F5
6 32 (3.49%) Veeam
7 31 (3.38%) Palo Alto
8 29 (3.17%) Dell
8 29 (3.17%) Google
8 29 (3.17%) ServiceNow
9 27 (2.95%) Red Hat
10 24 (2.62%) Fortinet
11 19 (2.07%) IBM
12 16 (1.75%) Oracle
12 16 (1.75%) SolarWinds
13 15 (1.64%) Aruba
13 15 (1.64%) Splunk
14 14 (1.53%) Arista
15 12 (1.31%) Thales