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 1 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 155 103
Rank change year-on-year +67 -52 -14
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 1,362 514 751
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.98% 1.86% 2.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.52% 2.05% 2.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 827 336 556
10th Percentile £350 £327 £313
25th Percentile £434 £397 £387
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £549 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.57% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £622 £601 £588
90th Percentile £688 £660 £675
UK median daily rate £540 £513 £500
% change year-on-year +5.37% +2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 7 20
10th Percentile £49.00 £27.80 -
25th Percentile £58.43 £29.00 £51.06
Median hourly rate £74.00 £30.00 £68.75
Median % change year-on-year +146.67% -56.36% -5.17%
75th Percentile £81.05 £70.84 £70.00
90th Percentile £100.00 £129.80 -
UK median hourly rate £74.00 £30.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +146.67% -57.14% -3.45%

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 38,738 25,035 28,393
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.83% 90.79% 85.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,882 15,942 18,107
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £631 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £753
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,595 1,467 1,443
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.25 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.87 £18.63
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.09 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +63.39% -40.82% +2.41%

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 1 September 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 1 September 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 1 September 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 +51 421 £550 +2.61% 592
North of England +50 309 £522 +2.35% 169
South East +21 274 £550 +13.99% 153
North West +35 148 £525 -8.70% 93
Midlands +23 142 £475 +5.56% 73
South West +29 141 £550 -0.90% 107
Yorkshire +15 117 £500 - 49
West Midlands +5 101 £525 +16.67% 47
East of England +9 64 £510 +27.50% 86
North East -1 54 £600 -7.69% 28
East Midlands +15 39 £450 - 26
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 58 (4.26%) Microsoft Exchange
2 41 (3.01%) SharePoint
3 26 (1.91%) Confluence
4 12 (0.88%) Apache
5 11 (0.81%) CICS
6 8 (0.59%) WebSphere
7 7 (0.51%) SAS
8 6 (0.44%) Apache Spark
9 5 (0.37%) SharePoint Server
10 4 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
10 4 (0.29%) nginx
10 4 (0.29%) OpenStack
11 3 (0.22%) CloudStack
12 2 (0.15%) Exchange Server 2013
13 1 (0.073%) IIS
13 1 (0.073%) JBoss
13 1 (0.073%) Skype for Business
13 1 (0.073%) Tomcat
13 1 (0.073%) WebLogic
13 1 (0.073%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 17 (1.25%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (0.88%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.37%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.22%) AutoCAD
6 2 (0.15%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.073%) CINEMA 4D
7 1 (0.073%) CPLEX
7 1 (0.073%) Houdini
7 1 (0.073%) NUKE
7 1 (0.073%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (0.37%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.22%) Primavera
3 2 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.073%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.073%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 470 (34.51%) Azure
2 253 (18.58%) AWS
3 130 (9.54%) Entra ID
4 118 (8.66%) Microsoft 365
5 101 (7.42%) GCP
6 96 (7.05%) GitHub
7 73 (5.36%) Azure DevOps
8 70 (5.14%) IaaS
9 68 (4.99%) OCI
10 65 (4.77%) GitHub Actions
11 46 (3.38%) SaaS
12 38 (2.79%) Azure Monitor
13 35 (2.57%) PaaS
14 31 (2.28%) Azure AKS
15 26 (1.91%) Amazon EKS
16 23 (1.69%) Azure Sentinel
16 23 (1.69%) Power Platform
17 22 (1.62%) Amazon S3
17 22 (1.62%) OpenShift
17 22 (1.62%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 223 (16.37%) DNS
2 212 (15.57%) Firewall
3 139 (10.21%) DHCP
4 88 (6.46%) VPN
5 77 (5.65%) TCP/IP
6 74 (5.43%) Network Security
7 64 (4.70%) WAN
8 63 (4.63%) SAN
9 62 (4.55%) VLAN
10 44 (3.23%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 38 (2.79%) LAN
12 35 (2.57%) SD-WAN
13 34 (2.50%) BGP
13 34 (2.50%) BIG-IP
13 34 (2.50%) Wi-Fi
14 29 (2.13%) OSPF
15 28 (2.06%) SSL
16 27 (1.98%) VXLAN
17 26 (1.91%) Ethernet VPN
18 21 (1.54%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (4.33%) SQL Server
2 22 (1.62%) Oracle Exadata
3 19 (1.40%) Oracle Database
4 17 (1.25%) Power BI
5 16 (1.17%) Data Lake
5 16 (1.17%) Relational Database
6 14 (1.03%) RDBMS
7 11 (0.81%) Elasticsearch
7 11 (0.81%) Metadata
7 11 (0.81%) NoSQL
7 11 (0.81%) PostgreSQL
8 10 (0.73%) Data Warehouse
9 8 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
10 7 (0.51%) Azure SQL Database
10 7 (0.51%) Pentaho
11 6 (0.44%) BigQuery
12 5 (0.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 4 (0.29%) Data Mining
13 4 (0.29%) Db2
13 4 (0.29%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 69 (5.07%) GitLab
2 54 (3.96%) Git
3 43 (3.16%) Jenkins
4 41 (3.01%) JIRA
5 4 (0.29%) Chocolatey
6 3 (0.22%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.22%) Oracle Forms
6 3 (0.22%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.15%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.15%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.15%) Subversion
8 1 (0.073%) CMake
8 1 (0.073%) Gradle
8 1 (0.073%) Introscope
8 1 (0.073%) Maven
8 1 (0.073%) MLflow
8 1 (0.073%) MSI
8 1 (0.073%) Snyk
8 1 (0.073%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.073%) Visual Studio
General
1 230 (16.89%) Social Skills
2 126 (9.25%) Finance
3 102 (7.49%) Public Sector
4 79 (5.80%) Analytical Skills
5 54 (3.96%) Documentation Skills
6 49 (3.60%) Banking
7 22 (1.62%) Manufacturing
7 22 (1.62%) Telecoms
8 20 (1.47%) Military
9 19 (1.40%) Aerospace
10 18 (1.32%) Retail
11 16 (1.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 14 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
13 13 (0.95%) Law
14 12 (0.88%) Legal
15 10 (0.73%) Automotive
15 10 (0.73%) Marketing
15 10 (0.73%) Organisational Skills
16 5 (0.37%) Aviation
16 5 (0.37%) Billing
Job Titles
1 881 (64.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 269 (19.75%) Senior
3 213 (15.64%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 145 (10.65%) Cloud Engineer
5 103 (7.56%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 94 (6.90%) Azure Engineer
7 68 (4.99%) Network Engineer
8 67 (4.92%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
9 64 (4.70%) Lead
10 52 (3.82%) DevOps Engineer
11 51 (3.74%) Architect
11 51 (3.74%) VMware Engineer
12 43 (3.16%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
13 41 (3.01%) Platform Engineer
14 36 (2.64%) IT Engineer
14 36 (2.64%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
15 35 (2.57%) Support Engineer
16 34 (2.50%) Infrastructure Support
17 33 (2.42%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
18 31 (2.28%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 287 (21.07%) Terraform
2 26 (1.91%) ARM Templates
3 20 (1.47%) REST
4 16 (1.17%) YAML
5 14 (1.03%) Kafka
5 14 (1.03%) Oracle GoldenGate
6 11 (0.81%) 802.1X
6 11 (0.81%) JSON
6 11 (0.81%) Middleware
6 11 (0.81%) OpenID
6 11 (0.81%) SAML
7 10 (0.73%) Loki
7 10 (0.73%) OAuth
8 8 (0.59%) Elastic Stack
8 8 (0.59%) ModSecurity
9 7 (0.51%) LDAP
10 6 (0.44%) .NET
10 6 (0.44%) SOAP
11 5 (0.37%) ADO
11 5 (0.37%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 136 (9.99%) Data Centre
2 93 (6.83%) Hybrid Cloud
3 66 (4.85%) Cloud Native
4 57 (4.19%) PKI
5 45 (3.30%) Onboarding
5 45 (3.30%) Public Cloud
6 42 (3.08%) Replication
7 35 (2.57%) Enterprise Storage
8 31 (2.28%) Private Cloud
9 29 (2.13%) Management Information System
10 25 (1.84%) Linux Command Line
11 23 (1.69%) Clustering
12 21 (1.54%) Enterprise Cloud
13 20 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
13 20 (1.47%) Distributed Systems
14 18 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
15 14 (1.03%) Security Posture
16 12 (0.88%) Mainframe
16 12 (0.88%) Product Ownership
16 12 (0.88%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 369 (27.09%) Windows
2 249 (18.28%) Linux
3 248 (18.21%) Windows Server
4 56 (4.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 21 (1.54%) Unix
6 20 (1.47%) Windows Server 2019
7 19 (1.40%) Ubuntu
8 18 (1.32%) CentOS
8 18 (1.32%) Windows 10
9 17 (1.25%) Apple iOS
10 16 (1.17%) Android
11 15 (1.10%) AIX
11 15 (1.10%) VMS
11 15 (1.10%) Windows Server 2016
12 12 (0.88%) Rocky
13 11 (0.81%) Mac OS
13 11 (0.81%) zOS
14 8 (0.59%) Windows Server 2012
15 6 (0.44%) Debian
15 6 (0.44%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 328 (24.08%) Infrastructure as Code
2 273 (20.04%) DevOps
3 260 (19.09%) CI/CD
4 182 (13.36%) Migration
5 159 (11.67%) Problem-Solving
6 153 (11.23%) Platform Engineering
7 120 (8.81%) Continuous Improvement
8 110 (8.08%) Infrastructure Automation
9 109 (8.00%) Agile
10 106 (7.78%) Stakeholder Management
11 105 (7.71%) High Availability
12 101 (7.42%) AI
13 98 (7.20%) Disaster Recovery
14 97 (7.12%) Observability
15 93 (6.83%) Technical Leadership
16 87 (6.39%) ITIL
17 85 (6.24%) Cybersecurity
17 85 (6.24%) Project Delivery
18 78 (5.73%) Validation
19 76 (5.58%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 238 (17.47%) PowerShell
2 229 (16.81%) Python
3 118 (8.66%) Bash
4 63 (4.63%) SQL
5 57 (4.19%) Bicep
6 30 (2.20%) Java
7 17 (1.25%) C#
8 12 (0.88%) Shell Script
9 10 (0.73%) Go
10 9 (0.66%) C++
11 8 (0.59%) ActionScript
11 8 (0.59%) Perl
12 7 (0.51%) TypeScript
13 6 (0.44%) C
14 4 (0.29%) JavaScript
14 4 (0.29%) JCL
15 3 (0.22%) Kusto Query Language
16 2 (0.15%) Groovy
16 2 (0.15%) Korn
16 2 (0.15%) PHP
Qualifications
1 526 (38.62%) Security Cleared
2 336 (24.67%) SC Cleared
3 190 (13.95%) DV Cleared
4 57 (4.19%) Degree
5 42 (3.08%) Azure Certification
6 33 (2.42%) Cisco Certification
7 32 (2.35%) Microsoft Certification
8 21 (1.54%) CISSP
8 21 (1.54%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 18 (1.32%) AWS Certification
9 18 (1.32%) CCNA
9 18 (1.32%) CCNP
10 15 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
11 13 (0.95%) MCSE
12 12 (0.88%) VCAP
13 10 (0.73%) PMI Certification
14 9 (0.66%) CISM
15 8 (0.59%) PMP
16 7 (0.51%) MCSA
17 6 (0.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (3.08%) QA
2 39 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 25 (1.84%) NIST
4 22 (1.62%) NCSC
5 16 (1.17%) SLA
6 15 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials
7 10 (0.73%) Data Quality
8 7 (0.51%) GRC
8 7 (0.51%) JSP 440
8 7 (0.51%) PCI DSS
8 7 (0.51%) PMO
9 4 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (0.22%) GDPR
10 3 (0.22%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.15%) IASME
11 2 (0.15%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.073%) Disclosure Scotland
12 1 (0.073%) ISO 19650
12 1 (0.073%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 257 (18.87%) VMware Infrastructure
2 245 (17.99%) Active Directory
3 108 (7.93%) Hyper-V
4 77 (5.65%) vSphere
5 74 (5.43%) VMware ESXi
6 70 (5.14%) Docker
7 57 (4.19%) Virtual Machines
8 42 (3.08%) VMware NSX
9 27 (1.98%) Virtual Desktop
10 15 (1.10%) Oracle RAC
11 13 (0.95%) NFS
12 12 (0.88%) Firmware
13 11 (0.81%) KVM
14 10 (0.73%) Virtual Servers
15 7 (0.51%) BitLocker
16 6 (0.44%) Microsoft App-V
17 5 (0.37%) Ceph
17 5 (0.37%) GPFS
17 5 (0.37%) Terminal Services
18 3 (0.22%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 186 (13.66%) Ansible
2 174 (12.78%) Kubernetes
3 74 (5.43%) Microsoft Intune
4 47 (3.45%) vCenter Server
5 44 (3.23%) SCCM
6 31 (2.28%) Grafana
7 26 (1.91%) Prometheus
8 22 (1.62%) WSUS
9 21 (1.54%) Puppet
10 19 (1.40%) Argo
10 19 (1.40%) NetBackup
11 18 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
12 15 (1.10%) Oracle RMAN
12 15 (1.10%) SCOM
13 14 (1.03%) Data Guard
13 14 (1.03%) Nessus
14 13 (0.95%) Packer
15 11 (0.81%) FortiGate
15 11 (0.81%) Progress Chef
16 8 (0.59%) systemd
Vendors
1 339 (24.89%) Microsoft
2 328 (24.08%) VMware
3 81 (5.95%) Cisco
4 65 (4.77%) Citrix
5 58 (4.26%) Oracle
6 52 (3.82%) F5
7 44 (3.23%) NetApp
8 43 (3.16%) Google
9 38 (2.79%) Palo Alto
10 35 (2.57%) Veeam
11 33 (2.42%) Red Hat
12 30 (2.20%) ServiceNow
13 24 (1.76%) Arista
14 23 (1.69%) Aruba
15 21 (1.54%) Dell
16 19 (1.40%) Juniper
17 18 (1.32%) Tenable
17 18 (1.32%) Zscaler
18 16 (1.17%) CyberArk
19 14 (1.03%) IBM