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

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 133 90
Rank change year-on-year -8 -43 +35
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 669 510 905
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.97% 1.97% 2.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.26% 2.19% 2.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 497 348 664
10th Percentile £313 £328 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £488
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% +7.69% -2.50%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £713
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 11 41
10th Percentile £26.25 £24.18 £21.25
25th Percentile £26.94 £57.38 £32.00
Median hourly rate £34.00 £62.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -45.60% +35.34% -21.85%
75th Percentile £73.01 £70.96 £70.00
90th Percentile £84.20 £112.00 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £34.00 £62.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year -45.60% +35.34% -21.85%

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 29,666 23,261 33,042
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.57% 89.75% 87.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,990 14,365 22,049
10th Percentile £306 £310 £300
25th Percentile £411 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £618 £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 1,857 734 1,965
10th Percentile £15.14 £15.62 £13.41
25th Percentile £18.05 £21.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.77 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.37% - -
75th Percentile £60.25 £64.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £72.84
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £33.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -2.99% +2.48%

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 February 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 February 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 February 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 -38 201 £548 +1.86% 86
South East -8 128 £483 -3.50% 93
North of England -15 123 £481 -8.38% 99
South West +12 104 £553 -4.95% 47
Yorkshire -9 70 £475 - 36
Midlands -41 51 £450 -10.00% 52
North West -28 46 £481 -8.38% 49
East of England -2 45 £463 -9.54% 28
West Midlands -40 32 £500 - 33
East Midlands -16 19 £433 -8.95% 19
North East -11 7 £500 - 14
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 54 (8.07%) Microsoft Exchange
2 18 (2.69%) SharePoint
3 14 (2.09%) Apache
4 11 (1.64%) Confluence
4 11 (1.64%) TPMS
5 10 (1.49%) IIS
6 5 (0.75%) Apache Spark
7 4 (0.60%) nginx
8 3 (0.45%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.30%) Apache Pulsar
9 2 (0.30%) Exchange Server 2010
9 2 (0.30%) iPlanet
9 2 (0.30%) JBoss
9 2 (0.30%) Skype for Business
9 2 (0.30%) Traefik
9 2 (0.30%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.30%) WebSphere Application Server
10 1 (0.15%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.15%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.15%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 9 (1.35%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.30%) Acrobat
4 1 (0.15%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 8 (1.20%) Maximo
2 4 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 225 (33.63%) Azure
2 120 (17.94%) AWS
3 97 (14.50%) Microsoft 365
4 69 (10.31%) Entra ID
5 44 (6.58%) GCP
6 33 (4.93%) Azure DevOps
7 31 (4.63%) OpenShift
8 30 (4.48%) IaaS
9 26 (3.89%) PaaS
10 25 (3.74%) GitHub
11 24 (3.59%) Azure Monitor
12 21 (3.14%) Serverless
13 20 (2.99%) Azure Sentinel
13 20 (2.99%) Nutanix
14 19 (2.84%) AWS CloudFormation
15 18 (2.69%) Azure AKS
16 17 (2.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 17 (2.54%) Amazon S3
16 17 (2.54%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 15 (2.24%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 119 (17.79%) Firewall
2 86 (12.86%) DNS
3 56 (8.37%) VPN
4 53 (7.92%) DHCP
5 46 (6.88%) TCP/IP
6 41 (6.13%) Network Security
7 40 (5.98%) WAN
8 35 (5.23%) VLAN
9 33 (4.93%) LAN
9 33 (4.93%) SAN
10 32 (4.78%) Wi-Fi
11 18 (2.69%) SSL
12 17 (2.54%) MPLS
13 14 (2.09%) SSH
14 13 (1.94%) BGP
14 13 (1.94%) SNMP
15 10 (1.49%) Fibre Channel
15 10 (1.49%) NAS
16 9 (1.35%) 4G
17 8 (1.20%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (3.44%) SQL Server
2 10 (1.49%) MongoDB
2 10 (1.49%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (1.05%) Relational Database
4 6 (0.90%) Elasticsearch
4 6 (0.90%) NoSQL
5 5 (0.75%) Big Data
5 5 (0.75%) Power BI
5 5 (0.75%) RDBMS
6 4 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (0.60%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (0.60%) DynamoDB
6 4 (0.60%) MySQL
6 4 (0.60%) Oracle Database
7 3 (0.45%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (0.45%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.30%) Hadoop
8 2 (0.30%) MariaDB
8 2 (0.30%) SAP HANA
8 2 (0.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 26 (3.89%) GitLab
2 23 (3.44%) Jenkins
3 19 (2.84%) Git
4 18 (2.69%) JIRA
5 3 (0.45%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.30%) Bitbucket Server
6 2 (0.30%) CA Release Automation
7 1 (0.15%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.15%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.15%) GoCD
7 1 (0.15%) Jaeger
7 1 (0.15%) MLflow
7 1 (0.15%) MSI
General
1 134 (20.03%) Social Skills
2 92 (13.75%) Finance
3 61 (9.12%) Analytical Skills
4 60 (8.97%) Public Sector
5 30 (4.48%) Documentation Skills
6 28 (4.19%) Banking
7 21 (3.14%) Military
8 15 (2.24%) Legal
9 13 (1.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (1.35%) Billing
11 8 (1.20%) Telecoms
12 7 (1.05%) Local Government
13 6 (0.90%) Aviation
13 6 (0.90%) Spanish Language
14 5 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (0.75%) Retail
15 4 (0.60%) Aerospace
16 3 (0.45%) Front Office
17 2 (0.30%) Financial Institution
17 2 (0.30%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 425 (63.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 79 (11.81%) Senior
3 61 (9.12%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 48 (7.17%) Infrastructure Support
5 45 (6.73%) Azure Engineer
5 45 (6.73%) Support Engineer
6 41 (6.13%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 37 (5.53%) Network Engineer
8 35 (5.23%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 35 (5.23%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
9 28 (4.19%) Cloud Engineer
9 28 (4.19%) VMware Engineer
10 27 (4.04%) Security Engineer
11 25 (3.74%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
12 24 (3.59%) Automation Engineer
13 23 (3.44%) DevOps Engineer
13 23 (3.44%) Platform Engineer
14 22 (3.29%) IT Engineer
14 22 (3.29%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
15 19 (2.84%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (2.39%) SAML
2 15 (2.24%) ARM Templates
3 14 (2.09%) OpenID
4 12 (1.79%) REST
5 11 (1.64%) OAuth
6 9 (1.35%) OAuth2
7 8 (1.20%) Kafka
7 8 (1.20%) LDAP
8 6 (0.90%) Microsoft Graph
8 6 (0.90%) Middleware
9 5 (0.75%) Elastic Stack
10 4 (0.60%) Keycloak
10 4 (0.60%) NumPy
10 4 (0.60%) OpenTelemetry
10 4 (0.60%) Pandas
10 4 (0.60%) RESTful
10 4 (0.60%) SOAP
10 4 (0.60%) Web Services
10 4 (0.60%) YAML
11 3 (0.45%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 33 (4.93%) Hybrid Cloud
2 32 (4.78%) Data Centre
2 32 (4.78%) PKI
3 28 (4.19%) Onboarding
4 25 (3.74%) Replication
5 22 (3.29%) Private Cloud
5 22 (3.29%) Public Cloud
6 17 (2.54%) Cloud Native
7 15 (2.24%) Enterprise Software
8 13 (1.94%) Analytical Mindset
9 12 (1.79%) Clustering
9 12 (1.79%) Enterprise Storage
10 10 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
11 9 (1.35%) Distributed Systems
12 8 (1.20%) NHS
13 7 (1.05%) Operational Technology
13 7 (1.05%) Product Ownership
14 6 (0.90%) Management Information System
15 5 (0.75%) CCTV
15 5 (0.75%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 237 (35.43%) Windows
2 142 (21.23%) Linux
3 129 (19.28%) Windows Server
4 28 (4.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 20 (2.99%) Windows 10
6 16 (2.39%) Ubuntu
7 15 (2.24%) Unix
7 15 (2.24%) VMS
8 13 (1.94%) Windows Server 2012
8 13 (1.94%) Windows Server 2019
9 10 (1.49%) Windows Server 2016
10 7 (1.05%) Android
10 7 (1.05%) Apple iOS
11 5 (0.75%) CentOS
11 5 (0.75%) Windows Server 2003
12 4 (0.60%) Mac OS
13 2 (0.30%) Debian
13 2 (0.30%) SUSE
13 2 (0.30%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 2 (0.30%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (19.43%) DevOps
2 122 (18.24%) Problem-Solving
3 110 (16.44%) Infrastructure as Code
4 107 (15.99%) CI/CD
5 83 (12.41%) ITIL
6 74 (11.06%) Migration
7 69 (10.31%) Agile
8 63 (9.42%) Cybersecurity
9 61 (9.12%) Containerisation
10 57 (8.52%) Disaster Recovery
11 55 (8.22%) Platform Engineering
12 53 (7.92%) High Availability
13 51 (7.62%) Observability
14 48 (7.17%) Infrastructure Automation
15 44 (6.58%) Project Delivery
16 36 (5.38%) Continuous Improvement
17 34 (5.08%) Cloud Security
17 34 (5.08%) RBAC
18 33 (4.93%) Analytics
19 32 (4.78%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 102 (15.25%) PowerShell
2 90 (13.45%) Python
3 43 (6.43%) Bash
4 25 (3.74%) Bicep
5 20 (2.99%) SQL
6 19 (2.84%) Java
7 15 (2.24%) Shell Script
8 8 (1.20%) Perl
8 8 (1.20%) PHP
9 7 (1.05%) Go
9 7 (1.05%) JavaScript
10 6 (0.90%) Ruby
11 4 (0.60%) C++
12 3 (0.45%) C#
12 3 (0.45%) Groovy
13 2 (0.30%) ActionScript
13 2 (0.30%) Scala
14 1 (0.15%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.15%) MATLAB
14 1 (0.15%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 218 (32.59%) Security Cleared
2 123 (18.39%) SC Cleared
3 97 (14.50%) DV Cleared
4 41 (6.13%) Azure Certification
5 38 (5.68%) Microsoft Certification
6 29 (4.33%) Degree
7 22 (3.29%) CISSP
8 21 (3.14%) Cisco Certification
8 21 (3.14%) CISM
9 15 (2.24%) AWS Certification
10 14 (2.09%) Network+ Certification
11 13 (1.94%) CCNP
11 13 (1.94%) Computer Science Degree
12 12 (1.79%) CCNA
12 12 (1.79%) Server+ Certification
13 11 (1.64%) FFIEC
14 9 (1.35%) BPSS Clearance
15 8 (1.20%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
16 6 (0.90%) GIAC
17 5 (0.75%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (4.33%) NIST
2 22 (3.29%) GDPR
3 18 (2.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 17 (2.54%) PCI DSS
5 13 (1.94%) Cyber Essentials
6 11 (1.64%) GLBA
6 11 (1.64%) SLA
7 9 (1.35%) NIST 800
8 3 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 3 (0.45%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.30%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.30%) Data Quality
9 2 (0.30%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.30%) NCSC
9 2 (0.30%) QA
10 1 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.15%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 1 (0.15%) ISO 19650
10 1 (0.15%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.15%) RMADS
System Software
1 153 (22.87%) Active Directory
2 134 (20.03%) VMware Infrastructure
3 67 (10.01%) Hyper-V
4 66 (9.87%) Docker
5 35 (5.23%) vSphere
6 24 (3.59%) VMware ESXi
7 18 (2.69%) Virtual Machines
8 13 (1.94%) Virtual Desktop
9 9 (1.35%) VMware NSX
10 8 (1.20%) NFS
11 6 (0.90%) BitLocker
12 5 (0.75%) Firmware
13 3 (0.45%) DFS Replication
13 3 (0.45%) Microsoft App-V
13 3 (0.45%) Virtual Servers
14 2 (0.30%) QEMU
14 2 (0.30%) Sendmail
14 2 (0.30%) Tivoli Directory Server
15 1 (0.15%) UAG
15 1 (0.15%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 138 (20.63%) Terraform
2 107 (15.99%) Kubernetes
3 71 (10.61%) Ansible
3 71 (10.61%) Microsoft Intune
4 57 (8.52%) SCCM
5 28 (4.19%) Single Sign-On
6 24 (3.59%) vCenter Server
7 20 (2.99%) Grafana
8 15 (2.24%) Red Hat Satellite
9 14 (2.09%) Prometheus
10 12 (1.79%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 11 (1.64%) FortiGate
12 10 (1.49%) Istio
12 10 (1.49%) VxRail
13 8 (1.20%) Dell DRAC
13 8 (1.20%) SCOM
14 7 (1.05%) AirWatch
15 6 (0.90%) CASB
15 6 (0.90%) Packer
15 6 (0.90%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 220 (32.88%) Microsoft
2 186 (27.80%) VMware
3 47 (7.03%) Cisco
4 39 (5.83%) Red Hat
5 34 (5.08%) Dell
6 31 (4.63%) ServiceNow
7 30 (4.48%) Palo Alto
8 28 (4.19%) Google
9 26 (3.89%) Splunk
10 25 (3.74%) Fortinet
11 24 (3.59%) Veeam
12 23 (3.44%) NetApp
13 21 (3.14%) Citrix
13 21 (3.14%) IBM
14 20 (2.99%) F5
15 16 (2.39%) Thales
16 15 (2.24%) SolarWinds
17 13 (1.94%) CyberArk
18 12 (1.79%) Oracle
19 9 (1.35%) Juniper