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 18 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 118 94
Rank change year-on-year -14 -24 +32
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 756 549 878
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.05% 2.24% 2.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.37% 2.47% 2.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 545 377 637
10th Percentile £325 £327 £285
25th Percentile £413 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £538 £488
Median % change year-on-year -5.12% +10.26% -2.50%
75th Percentile £594 £613 £606
90th Percentile £666 £680 £715
UK median daily rate £503 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.29% +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 13 38
10th Percentile - £29.56 £21.25
25th Percentile £26.25 £55.38 £36.90
Median hourly rate £47.00 £63.79 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -26.31% +38.12% -21.85%
75th Percentile £74.26 £112.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £84.80 £182.40 £70.38
UK median hourly rate £48.50 £63.79 £46.18
% change year-on-year -23.96% +38.12% -23.73%

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 31,926 22,217 32,932
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.44% 90.67% 86.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,427 14,455 21,796
10th Percentile £313 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.29% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,975 819 2,151
10th Percentile £15.31 £15.14 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.00 £16.06
Median hourly rate £31.00 £33.11 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.37% +1.88% -11.33%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.50 £70.50
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -7.69% - -7.14%

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 18 March 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 18 March 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 18 March 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 -18 234 £550 +2.33% 85
North of England -16 153 £480 -8.57% 82
South East -7 142 £500 -4.76% 86
South West +4 116 £550 -2.22% 52
Yorkshire -10 92 £450 -14.29% 33
North West -28 54 £491 -6.48% 39
Midlands -42 54 £450 +12.50% 37
East of England -12 42 £450 -18.18% 22
West Midlands -50 28 £487 +21.75% 27
East Midlands -26 26 £450 +5.88% 10
North East -13 7 £500 +36.99% 10
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 55 (7.28%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (2.25%) Confluence
2 17 (2.25%) SharePoint
3 12 (1.59%) Apache
4 10 (1.32%) TPMS
5 8 (1.06%) IIS
6 4 (0.53%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.40%) nginx
8 2 (0.26%) Apache Pulsar
8 2 (0.26%) CICS
8 2 (0.26%) Exchange Server 2010
9 1 (0.13%) IBM HTTP Server
9 1 (0.13%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.13%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.13%) SAS
9 1 (0.13%) SharePoint Server
9 1 (0.13%) Skype for Business
9 1 (0.13%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.13%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 12 (1.59%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.40%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.26%) Acrobat
5 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (0.93%) Maximo
2 4 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 249 (32.94%) Azure
2 117 (15.48%) AWS
3 94 (12.43%) Microsoft 365
4 73 (9.66%) Entra ID
5 53 (7.01%) GCP
6 48 (6.35%) GitHub
7 42 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
8 37 (4.89%) IaaS
8 37 (4.89%) PaaS
9 33 (4.37%) Serverless
10 30 (3.97%) GitHub Actions
11 29 (3.84%) Azure Monitor
11 29 (3.84%) OpenShift
12 23 (3.04%) AWS CloudFormation
12 23 (3.04%) Azure AKS
13 22 (2.91%) AWS Lambda
14 21 (2.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 20 (2.65%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 20 (2.65%) Nutanix
16 18 (2.38%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 126 (16.67%) Firewall
2 88 (11.64%) DNS
3 59 (7.80%) VPN
4 52 (6.88%) DHCP
5 39 (5.16%) Network Security
5 39 (5.16%) WAN
6 33 (4.37%) TCP/IP
7 32 (4.23%) LAN
8 30 (3.97%) SAN
9 29 (3.84%) Wi-Fi
10 25 (3.31%) VLAN
11 17 (2.25%) MPLS
11 17 (2.25%) SSL
12 13 (1.72%) SSH
13 12 (1.59%) BGP
13 12 (1.59%) SNMP
14 11 (1.46%) NAS
15 10 (1.32%) Fibre Channel
15 10 (1.32%) iSCSI
16 9 (1.19%) 4G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (3.31%) SQL Server
2 12 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (1.19%) MongoDB
4 8 (1.06%) DynamoDB
4 8 (1.06%) Elasticsearch
5 7 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (0.79%) Relational Database
7 5 (0.66%) Big Data
7 5 (0.66%) NoSQL
7 5 (0.66%) Power BI
8 4 (0.53%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (0.53%) MySQL
8 4 (0.53%) RDBMS
9 3 (0.40%) NonStop SQL
9 3 (0.40%) Oracle Database
10 2 (0.26%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (0.26%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.26%) Hadoop
10 2 (0.26%) SAP HANA
10 2 (0.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 35 (4.63%) Jenkins
2 30 (3.97%) JIRA
3 29 (3.84%) GitLab
4 24 (3.17%) Git
5 6 (0.79%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.26%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.13%) GoCD
7 1 (0.13%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.13%) Introscope
7 1 (0.13%) Jaeger
7 1 (0.13%) MLflow
7 1 (0.13%) MSI
7 1 (0.13%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.13%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 144 (19.05%) Social Skills
2 91 (12.04%) Finance
3 66 (8.73%) Public Sector
4 57 (7.54%) Analytical Skills
5 38 (5.03%) Banking
6 33 (4.37%) Documentation Skills
7 20 (2.65%) Military
8 18 (2.38%) Legal
9 13 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (1.06%) Billing
11 7 (0.93%) Retail
11 7 (0.93%) Telecoms
12 6 (0.79%) Aviation
12 6 (0.79%) Spanish Language
13 5 (0.66%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (0.66%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (0.53%) Aerospace
14 4 (0.53%) Local Government
14 4 (0.53%) Presentation Skills
15 3 (0.40%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 469 (62.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 95 (12.57%) Senior
3 72 (9.52%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 59 (7.80%) Azure Engineer
5 47 (6.22%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
6 42 (5.56%) Cloud Engineer
7 36 (4.76%) Network Engineer
8 33 (4.37%) VMware Engineer
9 31 (4.10%) Infrastructure Support
9 31 (4.10%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
9 31 (4.10%) Support Engineer
10 30 (3.97%) Automation Engineer
11 27 (3.57%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
12 26 (3.44%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
12 26 (3.44%) Platform Engineer
13 24 (3.17%) Architect
13 24 (3.17%) DevOps Engineer
13 24 (3.17%) Security Engineer
14 22 (2.91%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
15 21 (2.78%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (3.31%) REST
2 16 (2.12%) ARM Templates
3 14 (1.85%) SAML
3 14 (1.85%) SOAP
4 12 (1.59%) OpenID
5 11 (1.46%) OAuth
6 9 (1.19%) Kafka
6 9 (1.19%) OAuth2
7 7 (0.93%) Elastic Stack
7 7 (0.93%) LDAP
7 7 (0.93%) Web Services
8 6 (0.79%) Middleware
9 5 (0.66%) GraphQL
10 4 (0.53%) Keycloak
10 4 (0.53%) Microsoft Graph
10 4 (0.53%) NumPy
10 4 (0.53%) OpenTelemetry
10 4 (0.53%) Pandas
11 3 (0.40%) SciPy
11 3 (0.40%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 43 (5.69%) Data Centre
2 40 (5.29%) PKI
3 36 (4.76%) Hybrid Cloud
4 28 (3.70%) Onboarding
4 28 (3.70%) Public Cloud
5 24 (3.17%) Replication
6 22 (2.91%) Cloud Native
6 22 (2.91%) Private Cloud
7 19 (2.51%) Enterprise Storage
8 17 (2.25%) Enterprise Software
9 14 (1.85%) Clustering
10 12 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
11 7 (0.93%) Analytical Mindset
11 7 (0.93%) Distributed Systems
11 7 (0.93%) Product Ownership
12 6 (0.79%) CCTV
12 6 (0.79%) Data Protection Act
12 6 (0.79%) DataPower
12 6 (0.79%) Mainframe
12 6 (0.79%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 236 (31.22%) Windows
2 134 (17.72%) Windows Server
3 130 (17.20%) Linux
4 27 (3.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 18 (2.38%) Unix
6 17 (2.25%) Ubuntu
7 15 (1.98%) VMS
7 15 (1.98%) Windows 10
8 14 (1.85%) Windows Server 2012
8 14 (1.85%) Windows Server 2019
9 13 (1.72%) Windows Server 2016
10 6 (0.79%) CentOS
10 6 (0.79%) Windows Server 2003
11 4 (0.53%) Android
11 4 (0.53%) Apple iOS
12 3 (0.40%) Mac OS
13 2 (0.26%) Debian
13 2 (0.26%) SUSE
13 2 (0.26%) Windows 7
13 2 (0.26%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 152 (20.11%) DevOps
2 134 (17.72%) Infrastructure as Code
3 126 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 109 (14.42%) Problem-Solving
5 91 (12.04%) Migration
6 82 (10.85%) Agile
7 72 (9.52%) Containerisation
8 68 (8.99%) Platform Engineering
9 66 (8.73%) ITIL
10 65 (8.60%) High Availability
11 63 (8.33%) Cybersecurity
12 59 (7.80%) Disaster Recovery
13 57 (7.54%) Infrastructure Automation
14 53 (7.01%) Project Delivery
15 52 (6.88%) Observability
16 44 (5.82%) Continuous Improvement
17 42 (5.56%) Cloud Security
18 37 (4.89%) RBAC
19 35 (4.63%) Change Management
20 34 (4.50%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 131 (17.33%) PowerShell
2 120 (15.87%) Python
3 57 (7.54%) Bash
4 29 (3.84%) SQL
5 26 (3.44%) Bicep
6 23 (3.04%) Shell Script
7 12 (1.59%) Java
8 11 (1.46%) C#
9 9 (1.19%) PHP
10 8 (1.06%) JavaScript
11 7 (0.93%) Ruby
12 6 (0.79%) Perl
13 4 (0.53%) C++
13 4 (0.53%) Go
14 3 (0.40%) Groovy
15 2 (0.26%) ActionScript
15 2 (0.26%) JCL
15 2 (0.26%) Kusto Query Language
15 2 (0.26%) T-SQL
16 1 (0.13%) VB
Qualifications
1 259 (34.26%) Security Cleared
2 153 (20.24%) SC Cleared
3 104 (13.76%) DV Cleared
4 36 (4.76%) Azure Certification
5 32 (4.23%) Degree
6 27 (3.57%) Cisco Certification
7 25 (3.31%) Microsoft Certification
8 23 (3.04%) CISSP
9 21 (2.78%) CISM
10 17 (2.25%) AWS Certification
11 16 (2.12%) CCNP
12 15 (1.98%) CCNA
13 11 (1.46%) Computer Science Degree
13 11 (1.46%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 10 (1.32%) FFIEC
15 9 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
16 7 (0.93%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
17 6 (0.79%) PMI Certification
18 5 (0.66%) Oracle Certification
18 5 (0.66%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (4.10%) NIST
2 24 (3.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 22 (2.91%) GDPR
4 17 (2.25%) PCI DSS
5 14 (1.85%) Cyber Essentials
6 11 (1.46%) SLA
7 10 (1.32%) GLBA
8 8 (1.06%) NIST 800
9 5 (0.66%) QA
10 4 (0.53%) SOC 2
11 3 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 3 (0.40%) NCSC
12 2 (0.26%) Accessibility
12 2 (0.26%) Data Quality
12 2 (0.26%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 1 (0.13%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 1 (0.13%) ISO 20022
13 1 (0.13%) ISO 8583
13 1 (0.13%) RMADS
System Software
1 167 (22.09%) Active Directory
2 147 (19.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 68 (8.99%) Docker
4 58 (7.67%) Hyper-V
5 42 (5.56%) vSphere
6 36 (4.76%) VMware ESXi
7 24 (3.17%) Virtual Machines
8 19 (2.51%) Virtual Desktop
9 14 (1.85%) VMware NSX
10 9 (1.19%) NFS
11 8 (1.06%) BitLocker
12 6 (0.79%) Firmware
12 6 (0.79%) Microsoft App-V
13 3 (0.40%) DFS Replication
13 3 (0.40%) Sendmail
14 2 (0.26%) QEMU
14 2 (0.26%) SRDF
15 1 (0.13%) Postfix
15 1 (0.13%) UAG
15 1 (0.13%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 155 (20.50%) Terraform
2 126 (16.67%) Kubernetes
3 81 (10.71%) Ansible
4 67 (8.86%) Microsoft Intune
5 53 (7.01%) SCCM
6 32 (4.23%) vCenter Server
7 29 (3.84%) Single Sign-On
8 21 (2.78%) Grafana
9 17 (2.25%) Prometheus
10 16 (2.12%) Puppet
11 11 (1.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 10 (1.32%) Istio
12 10 (1.32%) Progress Chef
12 10 (1.32%) VxRail
13 9 (1.19%) Red Hat Satellite
13 9 (1.19%) SCOM
14 8 (1.06%) FortiGate
14 8 (1.06%) Packer
15 7 (0.93%) Dell DRAC
15 7 (0.93%) vRealize
Vendors
1 227 (30.03%) Microsoft
2 190 (25.13%) VMware
3 44 (5.82%) Cisco
4 36 (4.76%) Citrix
4 36 (4.76%) Red Hat
5 35 (4.63%) ServiceNow
6 33 (4.37%) Dell
7 32 (4.23%) Google
8 31 (4.10%) NetApp
9 29 (3.84%) Fortinet
10 27 (3.57%) Veeam
11 23 (3.04%) Splunk
12 20 (2.65%) Palo Alto
13 18 (2.38%) IBM
14 16 (2.12%) Thales
15 15 (1.98%) F5
16 14 (1.85%) SolarWinds
17 12 (1.59%) Aruba
17 12 (1.59%) Oracle
18 11 (1.46%) CyberArk