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 11 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 132 94
Rank change year-on-year +34 -38 +18
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 1,086 513 886
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.55% 2.10% 2.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.99% 2.30% 2.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 723 347 673
10th Percentile £340 £327 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -1.38%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £599
90th Percentile £675 £650 £690
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £494
% change year-on-year - +6.28% -4.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 5 30
10th Percentile £46.40 £52.79 £35.99
25th Percentile £58.43 £55.38 £45.30
Median hourly rate £72.54 £72.50 £54.88
Median % change year-on-year +0.06% +32.12% -20.18%
75th Percentile £78.75 £200.00 £70.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £72.54 £72.50 £54.88
% change year-on-year +0.06% +32.12% -15.58%

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 36,262 22,351 32,031
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.14% 91.35% 85.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,961 14,463 20,809
10th Percentile £325 £303 £300
25th Percentile £413 £407 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +0.99% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,273 1,016 2,371
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.81
25th Percentile £20.82 £18.12 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £28.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +69.64% -25.33% +4.17%
75th Percentile £68.00 £58.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £27.28 £36.50
% change year-on-year +61.14% -25.26% +1.39%

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 11 June 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 11 June 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 11 June 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 +15 311 £550 +4.76% 113
North of England +11 248 £500 -4.76% 73
South East +8 209 £514 -6.55% 71
South West +23 122 £545 -3.11% 60
Yorkshire -1 120 £425 -19.05% 17
Midlands -11 111 £450 +12.50% 47
North West +3 88 £575 +9.52% 44
West Midlands -21 72 £525 +35.48% 29
East of England +2 61 £475 +1.82% 20
North East +1 46 £600 -7.69% 13
East Midlands -1 38 £450 - 18
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 (5.34%) Microsoft Exchange
2 20 (1.84%) SharePoint
3 17 (1.57%) Confluence
4 10 (0.92%) Apache
5 7 (0.64%) CICS
6 5 (0.46%) TPMS
7 4 (0.37%) SAS
8 3 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.28%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.28%) IIS
9 2 (0.18%) Apache Pulsar
9 2 (0.18%) CloudStack
9 2 (0.18%) nginx
9 2 (0.18%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.092%) IBM HTTP Server
10 1 (0.092%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.092%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 11 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.46%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.28%) AutoCAD
4 2 (0.18%) Acrobat
4 2 (0.18%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.092%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.092%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.092%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (0.46%) Maximo
2 1 (0.092%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.092%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.092%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.092%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 361 (33.24%) Azure
2 193 (17.77%) AWS
3 91 (8.38%) Microsoft 365
4 90 (8.29%) GCP
5 80 (7.37%) Entra ID
5 80 (7.37%) GitHub
6 56 (5.16%) IaaS
7 55 (5.06%) Azure DevOps
8 53 (4.88%) GitHub Actions
9 42 (3.87%) SaaS
10 36 (3.31%) PaaS
11 35 (3.22%) Azure AKS
11 35 (3.22%) OCI
12 30 (2.76%) Azure Monitor
13 27 (2.49%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 27 (2.49%) Serverless
14 21 (1.93%) OpenShift
15 19 (1.75%) AWS Lambda
15 19 (1.75%) Nutanix
16 18 (1.66%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 157 (14.46%) Firewall
2 150 (13.81%) DNS
3 93 (8.56%) DHCP
4 66 (6.08%) VPN
5 52 (4.79%) Network Security
6 50 (4.60%) WAN
7 45 (4.14%) SAN
8 41 (3.78%) VLAN
9 38 (3.50%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 35 (3.22%) TCP/IP
11 32 (2.95%) BGP
12 31 (2.85%) BIG-IP
12 31 (2.85%) SD-WAN
13 28 (2.58%) LAN
13 28 (2.58%) OSPF
14 26 (2.39%) VXLAN
15 25 (2.30%) Ethernet VPN
16 24 (2.21%) SSL
17 20 (1.84%) Wi-Fi
18 19 (1.75%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (3.59%) SQL Server
2 11 (1.01%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (0.92%) Elasticsearch
4 8 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (0.74%) DynamoDB
4 8 (0.74%) Power BI
5 7 (0.64%) Metadata
5 7 (0.64%) NoSQL
6 6 (0.55%) Db2
7 5 (0.46%) Relational Database
8 4 (0.37%) Big Data
8 4 (0.37%) Data Lake
8 4 (0.37%) Data Mining
8 4 (0.37%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (0.37%) Oracle Database
8 4 (0.37%) RDBMS
8 4 (0.37%) Snowflake Schema
9 3 (0.28%) MongoDB
9 3 (0.28%) NonStop SQL
9 3 (0.28%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 58 (5.34%) GitLab
2 47 (4.33%) Jenkins
3 44 (4.05%) JIRA
4 27 (2.49%) Git
5 8 (0.74%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.092%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.092%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.092%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.092%) CMake
6 1 (0.092%) GoCD
6 1 (0.092%) Gradle
6 1 (0.092%) IntelliJ
6 1 (0.092%) Introscope
6 1 (0.092%) MSI
6 1 (0.092%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.092%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 154 (14.18%) Social Skills
2 94 (8.66%) Finance
3 77 (7.09%) Public Sector
4 54 (4.97%) Analytical Skills
5 42 (3.87%) Banking
6 37 (3.41%) Documentation Skills
7 21 (1.93%) Military
8 18 (1.66%) Legal
9 15 (1.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 15 (1.38%) Retail
10 13 (1.20%) Aerospace
10 13 (1.20%) Telecoms
11 10 (0.92%) Influencing Skills
11 10 (0.92%) Marketing
12 9 (0.83%) Billing
12 9 (0.83%) Manufacturing
13 8 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (0.46%) Law
14 5 (0.46%) Local Government
14 5 (0.46%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 740 (68.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 193 (17.77%) Senior
3 151 (13.90%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 79 (7.27%) Cloud Engineer
5 62 (5.71%) Azure Engineer
6 56 (5.16%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
7 55 (5.06%) Network Engineer
8 46 (4.24%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
9 44 (4.05%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
10 40 (3.68%) VMware Engineer
11 38 (3.50%) DevOps Engineer
12 37 (3.41%) Support Engineer
13 35 (3.22%) Architect
13 35 (3.22%) Infrastructure Support
14 33 (3.04%) IT Engineer
14 33 (3.04%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
15 32 (2.95%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
16 31 (2.85%) Automation Engineer
17 30 (2.76%) Security Engineer
17 30 (2.76%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (2.39%) REST
2 14 (1.29%) SOAP
3 13 (1.20%) ARM Templates
4 10 (0.92%) LDAP
5 9 (0.83%) Elastic Stack
5 9 (0.83%) OAuth
6 8 (0.74%) JSON
6 8 (0.74%) Kafka
7 7 (0.64%) Flash
7 7 (0.64%) Middleware
7 7 (0.64%) OpenID
7 7 (0.64%) Web Services
8 6 (0.55%) RESTful
8 6 (0.55%) SAML
8 6 (0.55%) WSDL
9 5 (0.46%) AWS CDK
9 5 (0.46%) GraphQL
9 5 (0.46%) Keycloak
9 5 (0.46%) OAuth2
9 5 (0.46%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 109 (10.04%) Data Centre
2 71 (6.54%) Hybrid Cloud
3 46 (4.24%) Cloud Native
4 43 (3.96%) Public Cloud
5 41 (3.78%) PKI
6 37 (3.41%) Onboarding
7 28 (2.58%) Enterprise Storage
7 28 (2.58%) Private Cloud
8 25 (2.30%) Replication
9 20 (1.84%) Self-Motivation
10 14 (1.29%) Clustering
10 14 (1.29%) Enterprise Software
10 14 (1.29%) Virtual Team
11 12 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
11 12 (1.10%) Management Information System
12 10 (0.92%) CMDB
12 10 (0.92%) Data Protection Act
13 9 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
13 9 (0.83%) Linux Command Line
13 9 (0.83%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 300 (27.62%) Windows
2 183 (16.85%) Windows Server
3 165 (15.19%) Linux
4 33 (3.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 19 (1.75%) Windows Server 2019
6 17 (1.57%) Apple iOS
7 16 (1.47%) Windows 10
7 16 (1.47%) Windows Server 2016
8 15 (1.38%) Android
9 14 (1.29%) Ubuntu
9 14 (1.29%) Unix
10 10 (0.92%) Windows Server 2012
11 9 (0.83%) VMS
11 9 (0.83%) Windows Server 2003
12 8 (0.74%) CentOS
12 8 (0.74%) Debian
13 7 (0.64%) Mac OS
13 7 (0.64%) zOS
14 2 (0.18%) AIX
14 2 (0.18%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 223 (20.53%) Infrastructure as Code
2 213 (19.61%) DevOps
3 187 (17.22%) CI/CD
4 126 (11.60%) Problem-Solving
5 113 (10.41%) Migration
6 100 (9.21%) Agile
7 91 (8.38%) Platform Engineering
8 90 (8.29%) High Availability
9 79 (7.27%) Infrastructure Automation
10 73 (6.72%) Containerisation
11 72 (6.63%) Zero Trust
12 68 (6.26%) Disaster Recovery
13 63 (5.80%) AI
13 63 (5.80%) ITIL
14 62 (5.71%) Project Delivery
15 57 (5.25%) Continuous Improvement
16 56 (5.16%) Observability
17 55 (5.06%) Validation
18 52 (4.79%) Cybersecurity
19 51 (4.70%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 158 (14.55%) Python
2 155 (14.27%) PowerShell
3 62 (5.71%) Bash
4 43 (3.96%) SQL
5 33 (3.04%) Bicep
6 21 (1.93%) Java
6 21 (1.93%) Shell Script
7 19 (1.75%) C#
8 9 (0.83%) ActionScript
9 8 (0.74%) Go
10 7 (0.64%) JavaScript
11 6 (0.55%) JCL
12 5 (0.46%) PHP
13 4 (0.37%) Groovy
14 3 (0.28%) C++
14 3 (0.28%) TypeScript
15 2 (0.18%) C
15 2 (0.18%) Kusto Query Language
15 2 (0.18%) Ruby
15 2 (0.18%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 387 (35.64%) Security Cleared
2 247 (22.74%) SC Cleared
3 144 (13.26%) DV Cleared
4 37 (3.41%) Degree
5 30 (2.76%) Cisco Certification
6 24 (2.21%) Azure Certification
6 24 (2.21%) Microsoft Certification
7 19 (1.75%) CCNA
7 19 (1.75%) CISSP
8 17 (1.57%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 16 (1.47%) AWS Certification
10 13 (1.20%) CISM
11 12 (1.10%) CCNP
12 9 (0.83%) MCSE
13 6 (0.55%) Computer Science Degree
13 6 (0.55%) PMI Certification
13 6 (0.55%) RHCA
13 6 (0.55%) VCAP
14 5 (0.46%) FFIEC
14 5 (0.46%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (2.95%) NIST
2 30 (2.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 19 (1.75%) QA
4 15 (1.38%) Cyber Essentials
5 14 (1.29%) SLA
6 12 (1.10%) NCSC
6 12 (1.10%) PCI DSS
7 10 (0.92%) GDPR
8 8 (0.74%) NIST 800
9 7 (0.64%) Data Quality
10 5 (0.46%) GLBA
11 4 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 3 (0.28%) SOC 2
13 2 (0.18%) GRC
13 2 (0.18%) ISO 19650
13 2 (0.18%) PMO
14 1 (0.092%) Actionable Recommendations
14 1 (0.092%) Disclosure Scotland
14 1 (0.092%) FedRAMP
14 1 (0.092%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 191 (17.59%) Active Directory
2 186 (17.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 79 (7.27%) Hyper-V
4 62 (5.71%) VMware ESXi
5 61 (5.62%) Docker
5 61 (5.62%) vSphere
6 38 (3.50%) Virtual Machines
7 33 (3.04%) VMware NSX
8 23 (2.12%) Virtual Desktop
9 16 (1.47%) NFS
10 11 (1.01%) BitLocker
11 9 (0.83%) Microsoft App-V
12 8 (0.74%) Firmware
13 5 (0.46%) GPFS
14 4 (0.37%) Virtual Servers
15 3 (0.28%) DFS Replication
15 3 (0.28%) Terminal Services
16 2 (0.18%) UAG
16 2 (0.18%) Varnish
16 2 (0.18%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 210 (19.34%) Terraform
2 143 (13.17%) Kubernetes
3 121 (11.14%) Ansible
4 59 (5.43%) Microsoft Intune
5 40 (3.68%) vCenter Server
6 29 (2.67%) SCCM
7 21 (1.93%) Grafana
8 20 (1.84%) Prometheus
8 20 (1.84%) Puppet
9 17 (1.57%) Single Sign-On
10 15 (1.38%) WSUS
11 12 (1.10%) Packer
11 12 (1.10%) SCOM
12 11 (1.01%) Nessus
13 10 (0.92%) Argo
13 10 (0.92%) vRealize
14 9 (0.83%) vMotion
14 9 (0.83%) VxRail
15 8 (0.74%) Istio
15 8 (0.74%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 259 (23.85%) VMware
2 246 (22.65%) Microsoft
3 66 (6.08%) Citrix
4 61 (5.62%) Cisco
5 48 (4.42%) F5
6 42 (3.87%) ServiceNow
7 41 (3.78%) Palo Alto
8 39 (3.59%) Google
8 39 (3.59%) NetApp
9 31 (2.85%) Veeam
10 26 (2.39%) Red Hat
11 25 (2.30%) Dell
12 24 (2.21%) Aruba
13 23 (2.12%) Arista
13 23 (2.12%) Fortinet
14 18 (1.66%) Oracle
15 14 (1.29%) SolarWinds
16 12 (1.10%) IBM
16 12 (1.10%) Juniper
16 12 (1.10%) Splunk