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 16 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 146 142 92
Rank change year-on-year -4 -50 +38
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 614 500 878
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.93% 1.86% 2.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.18% 2.08% 2.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 456 347 641
10th Percentile £313 £316 £313
25th Percentile £405 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £493
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +6.60% +3.68%
75th Percentile £600 £633 £606
90th Percentile £675 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 12 35
10th Percentile £26.13 £27.22 £21.25
25th Percentile £26.25 £55.19 £23.00
Median hourly rate £34.00 £62.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -45.60% +8.70% +6.98%
75th Percentile £70.50 £69.57 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £108.18 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £34.00 £62.50 £57.99
% change year-on-year -45.60% +7.78% +7.89%

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 28,110 24,036 31,774
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.29% 89.17% 87.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,964 14,778 21,397
10th Percentile £304 £309 £305
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £649 £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 1,739 771 1,493
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £14.18
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.63 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -17.65% +21.43%
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.38 £75.00 £76.91
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £40.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -19.75% +16.41%

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 16 January 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 16 January 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 16 January 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 -26 199 £550 - 80
South East +3 122 £475 +5.56% 127
North of England -6 105 £466 -1.89% 81
South West +13 89 £555 +0.91% 68
Yorkshire -13 61 £463 -7.50% 43
East of England +4 44 £438 -27.08% 44
North West -9 42 £459 +9.49% 27
Midlands -37 36 £450 -10.00% 56
West Midlands -32 27 £487 -17.11% 26
East Midlands -24 9 £415 -17.00% 30
North East -15 3 £466 - 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 50 (8.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (2.77%) SharePoint
3 14 (2.28%) Apache
4 11 (1.79%) Confluence
5 10 (1.63%) IIS
5 10 (1.63%) TPMS
6 5 (0.81%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.49%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.33%) Exchange Server 2010
8 2 (0.33%) iPlanet
8 2 (0.33%) JBoss
8 2 (0.33%) nginx
8 2 (0.33%) Skype for Business
8 2 (0.33%) Traefik
8 2 (0.33%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.33%) WebSphere Application Server
9 1 (0.16%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.16%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.16%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 9 (1.47%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.33%) Acrobat
4 1 (0.16%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.16%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (1.30%) Maximo
2 4 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.16%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 212 (34.53%) Azure
2 127 (20.68%) AWS
3 93 (15.15%) Microsoft 365
4 65 (10.59%) Entra ID
5 37 (6.03%) GCP
6 34 (5.54%) Azure DevOps
7 28 (4.56%) GitHub
8 27 (4.40%) IaaS
8 27 (4.40%) OpenShift
9 24 (3.91%) Amazon S3
9 24 (3.91%) Azure Monitor
10 23 (3.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 23 (3.75%) PaaS
11 21 (3.42%) Serverless
12 20 (3.26%) Azure Sentinel
13 18 (2.93%) AWS CloudFormation
13 18 (2.93%) GitHub Actions
14 17 (2.77%) Amazon EC2
15 16 (2.61%) Nutanix
15 16 (2.61%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 122 (19.87%) Firewall
2 80 (13.03%) DNS
3 61 (9.93%) VPN
4 56 (9.12%) TCP/IP
5 48 (7.82%) DHCP
6 41 (6.68%) WAN
7 36 (5.86%) Wi-Fi
8 35 (5.70%) Network Security
9 34 (5.54%) VLAN
10 31 (5.05%) LAN
11 29 (4.72%) SAN
12 28 (4.56%) SSL
13 13 (2.12%) MPLS
14 12 (1.95%) SSH
15 11 (1.79%) Wireless
16 10 (1.63%) 4G
16 10 (1.63%) SNMP
17 9 (1.47%) BGP
18 8 (1.30%) Fibre Channel
18 8 (1.30%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (4.23%) SQL Server
2 10 (1.63%) MongoDB
3 9 (1.47%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (0.98%) Relational Database
5 5 (0.81%) Big Data
5 5 (0.81%) NoSQL
5 5 (0.81%) Power BI
5 5 (0.81%) RDBMS
6 4 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (0.65%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (0.65%) DynamoDB
6 4 (0.65%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (0.65%) MySQL
6 4 (0.65%) Oracle Database
7 3 (0.49%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (0.49%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (0.49%) SAP HANA
7 3 (0.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (0.33%) MariaDB
8 2 (0.33%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 31 (5.05%) Jenkins
2 30 (4.89%) Git
3 25 (4.07%) GitLab
4 17 (2.77%) JIRA
5 3 (0.49%) Robot Framework
5 3 (0.49%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.33%) Bitbucket Server
6 2 (0.33%) CA Release Automation
7 1 (0.16%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.16%) GoCD
7 1 (0.16%) Jaeger
7 1 (0.16%) MLflow
7 1 (0.16%) MSI
General
1 130 (21.17%) Social Skills
2 86 (14.01%) Finance
3 61 (9.93%) Analytical Skills
3 61 (9.93%) Public Sector
4 29 (4.72%) Documentation Skills
5 27 (4.40%) Banking
6 13 (2.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (1.95%) Military
8 8 (1.30%) Billing
8 8 (1.30%) Legal
8 8 (1.30%) Local Government
8 8 (1.30%) Telecoms
9 7 (1.14%) Retail
10 6 (0.98%) Aerospace
10 6 (0.98%) Aviation
10 6 (0.98%) Spanish Language
11 5 (0.81%) Financial Institution
11 5 (0.81%) Manufacturing
11 5 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.65%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 395 (64.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 84 (13.68%) Senior
3 66 (10.75%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 50 (8.14%) Infrastructure Support
5 46 (7.49%) Support Engineer
6 45 (7.33%) Network Engineer
7 43 (7.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
8 41 (6.68%) Azure Engineer
8 41 (6.68%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
9 31 (5.05%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
10 27 (4.40%) Cloud Engineer
11 26 (4.23%) VMware Engineer
12 25 (4.07%) Automation Engineer
13 23 (3.75%) DevOps Engineer
14 22 (3.58%) Platform Engineer
15 21 (3.42%) IT Engineer
15 21 (3.42%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
16 20 (3.26%) Security Engineer
17 18 (2.93%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
18 17 (2.77%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (2.61%) SAML
2 15 (2.44%) ARM Templates
3 14 (2.28%) OpenID
3 14 (2.28%) REST
4 11 (1.79%) Middleware
5 10 (1.63%) Kafka
6 9 (1.47%) OAuth
7 7 (1.14%) OAuth2
8 6 (0.98%) Microsoft Graph
9 5 (0.81%) Elastic Stack
9 5 (0.81%) GraphQL
9 5 (0.81%) RESTful
9 5 (0.81%) YAML
10 4 (0.65%) gRPC
10 4 (0.65%) LDAP
10 4 (0.65%) NumPy
10 4 (0.65%) Pandas
10 4 (0.65%) SOAP
10 4 (0.65%) Web Services
11 3 (0.49%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 32 (5.21%) Data Centre
2 30 (4.89%) Replication
3 28 (4.56%) Hybrid Cloud
3 28 (4.56%) PKI
4 23 (3.75%) Private Cloud
5 22 (3.58%) Onboarding
6 17 (2.77%) Public Cloud
7 15 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
8 14 (2.28%) Cloud Native
9 13 (2.12%) Analytical Mindset
10 11 (1.79%) Clustering
11 10 (1.63%) Self-Motivation
12 8 (1.30%) Enterprise Storage
13 7 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
13 7 (1.14%) Management Information System
13 7 (1.14%) NHS
14 6 (0.98%) Distributed Systems
14 6 (0.98%) Legacy Systems
14 6 (0.98%) Product Ownership
15 5 (0.81%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 220 (35.83%) Windows
2 133 (21.66%) Linux
3 120 (19.54%) Windows Server
4 26 (4.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 22 (3.58%) Unix
6 19 (3.09%) Windows 10
7 13 (2.12%) Ubuntu
7 13 (2.12%) VMS
8 11 (1.79%) Windows Server 2012
9 8 (1.30%) Windows Server 2019
10 7 (1.14%) Android
10 7 (1.14%) Windows Server 2016
11 5 (0.81%) Apple iOS
12 4 (0.65%) CentOS
12 4 (0.65%) Windows Server 2003
13 3 (0.49%) Mac OS
14 2 (0.33%) Debian
14 2 (0.33%) SUSE
14 2 (0.33%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
15 1 (0.16%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (20.20%) DevOps
2 116 (18.89%) Problem-Solving
3 106 (17.26%) Infrastructure as Code
4 103 (16.78%) CI/CD
5 80 (13.03%) ITIL
6 67 (10.91%) Migration
7 62 (10.10%) Agile
8 57 (9.28%) Containerisation
9 56 (9.12%) High Availability
10 54 (8.79%) Cybersecurity
11 52 (8.47%) Infrastructure Automation
12 50 (8.14%) Disaster Recovery
13 48 (7.82%) Observability
14 44 (7.17%) Platform Engineering
15 37 (6.03%) Continuous Improvement
16 36 (5.86%) Project Delivery
17 31 (5.05%) Analytics
17 31 (5.05%) Change Management
17 31 (5.05%) RBAC
18 29 (4.72%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 102 (16.61%) Python
2 96 (15.64%) PowerShell
3 49 (7.98%) Bash
4 25 (4.07%) Java
5 24 (3.91%) SQL
6 21 (3.42%) Bicep
7 13 (2.12%) Perl
7 13 (2.12%) Shell Script
8 10 (1.63%) Go
9 7 (1.14%) JavaScript
10 6 (0.98%) PHP
10 6 (0.98%) Ruby
11 5 (0.81%) C++
12 4 (0.65%) C#
13 3 (0.49%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.33%) Groovy
14 2 (0.33%) Scala
15 1 (0.16%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.16%) VB
15 1 (0.16%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 185 (30.13%) Security Cleared
2 119 (19.38%) SC Cleared
3 66 (10.75%) DV Cleared
4 40 (6.51%) Azure Certification
5 37 (6.03%) Microsoft Certification
6 28 (4.56%) Degree
7 20 (3.26%) CISSP
8 19 (3.09%) CISM
9 17 (2.77%) Cisco Certification
10 15 (2.44%) Network+ Certification
11 12 (1.95%) CCNP
11 12 (1.95%) Server+ Certification
12 11 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
13 10 (1.63%) AWS Certification
13 10 (1.63%) CCNA
13 10 (1.63%) FFIEC
14 9 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
15 8 (1.30%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
16 5 (0.81%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 5 (0.81%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (3.58%) NIST
2 21 (3.42%) GDPR
3 15 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 14 (2.28%) PCI DSS
5 13 (2.12%) SLA
6 10 (1.63%) Cyber Essentials
6 10 (1.63%) GLBA
7 8 (1.30%) NIST 800
8 3 (0.49%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.33%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.33%) COBIT
9 2 (0.33%) Data Quality
9 2 (0.33%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.33%) QA
10 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.16%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 1 (0.16%) ISO 19650
10 1 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 142 (23.13%) Active Directory
2 114 (18.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 65 (10.59%) Docker
4 63 (10.26%) Hyper-V
5 26 (4.23%) vSphere
6 15 (2.44%) Virtual Machines
6 15 (2.44%) VMware ESXi
7 12 (1.95%) Virtual Desktop
8 9 (1.47%) VMware NSX
9 6 (0.98%) NFS
10 4 (0.65%) BitLocker
10 4 (0.65%) Firmware
11 3 (0.49%) DFS Replication
11 3 (0.49%) Virtual Servers
12 2 (0.33%) Microsoft App-V
12 2 (0.33%) Oracle RAC
12 2 (0.33%) QEMU
12 2 (0.33%) Sendmail
12 2 (0.33%) Tivoli Directory Server
13 1 (0.16%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 141 (22.96%) Terraform
2 95 (15.47%) Kubernetes
3 83 (13.52%) Ansible
4 62 (10.10%) Microsoft Intune
5 54 (8.79%) SCCM
6 27 (4.40%) Single Sign-On
7 19 (3.09%) Grafana
7 19 (3.09%) vCenter Server
8 15 (2.44%) FortiGate
8 15 (2.44%) Red Hat Satellite
9 13 (2.12%) Prometheus
10 10 (1.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 8 (1.30%) Dell DRAC
11 8 (1.30%) VxRail
12 7 (1.14%) Istio
13 6 (0.98%) CASB
13 6 (0.98%) Nessus
13 6 (0.98%) SCOrch
13 6 (0.98%) vRealize
14 5 (0.81%) Puppet
Vendors
1 205 (33.39%) Microsoft
2 161 (26.22%) VMware
3 41 (6.68%) Palo Alto
4 39 (6.35%) Cisco
5 37 (6.03%) Red Hat
6 32 (5.21%) Dell
7 26 (4.23%) F5
7 26 (4.23%) Google
8 23 (3.75%) ServiceNow
8 23 (3.75%) Splunk
9 22 (3.58%) Veeam
10 21 (3.42%) IBM
11 19 (3.09%) Citrix
12 15 (2.44%) CheckPoint
12 15 (2.44%) Oracle
13 14 (2.28%) SolarWinds
13 14 (2.28%) Thales
14 13 (2.12%) Aruba
14 13 (2.12%) Zscaler
15 12 (1.95%) Fortinet