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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 138 89
Rank change year-on-year +40 -49 +19
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 1,104 510 900
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.56% 2.05% 2.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.00% 2.24% 2.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 723 342 682
10th Percentile £350 £329 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -1.38%
75th Percentile £603 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 5 31
10th Percentile £38.58 £52.79 £37.63
25th Percentile £58.43 £55.38 £45.59
Median hourly rate £72.54 £72.50 £54.88
Median % change year-on-year +0.06% +32.12% -24.31%
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% -20.18%

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 36,836 22,759 32,181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.26% 91.40% 85.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,282 14,723 20,802
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £415 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £730 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £502 £525
% change year-on-year +2.19% -4.48% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,303 1,078 2,398
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.10 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.50 £27.40 £37.63
Median % change year-on-year +73.36% -27.18% +4.81%
75th Percentile £68.75 £56.25 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year +72.39% -32.00% +7.05%

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 20 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 20 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 20 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 +22 320 £550 +4.76% 93
North of England +14 256 £514 -2.14% 87
South East +5 208 £512 -6.91% 70
South West +23 127 £539 -4.22% 74
Yorkshire -3 122 £450 -14.29% 20
Midlands -4 116 £450 +12.50% 48
North West +2 91 £525 +0.05% 54
West Midlands -19 74 £525 +31.25% 25
East of England -5 58 £475 +3.66% 20
North East +2 50 £600 -7.69% 14
East Midlands +9 41 £450 - 23
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 (4.98%) Microsoft Exchange
2 19 (1.72%) Confluence
2 19 (1.72%) SharePoint
3 10 (0.91%) Apache
4 7 (0.63%) CICS
5 5 (0.45%) TPMS
6 4 (0.36%) SAS
7 3 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.27%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.27%) IIS
8 2 (0.18%) Apache Pulsar
8 2 (0.18%) CloudStack
8 2 (0.18%) nginx
8 2 (0.18%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.091%) IBM HTTP Server
9 1 (0.091%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.091%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 11 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.45%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.27%) AutoCAD
4 2 (0.18%) Acrobat
4 2 (0.18%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.091%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.091%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.091%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (0.45%) Maximo
2 1 (0.091%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.091%) Primavera
2 1 (0.091%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.091%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.091%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 364 (32.97%) Azure
2 195 (17.66%) AWS
3 98 (8.88%) GCP
4 87 (7.88%) Entra ID
5 84 (7.61%) Microsoft 365
6 82 (7.43%) GitHub
7 57 (5.16%) Azure DevOps
8 55 (4.98%) IaaS
9 53 (4.80%) GitHub Actions
10 43 (3.89%) SaaS
11 38 (3.44%) Azure AKS
12 36 (3.26%) PaaS
13 34 (3.08%) OCI
14 28 (2.54%) Azure Monitor
15 26 (2.36%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 26 (2.36%) Serverless
16 21 (1.90%) OpenShift
17 18 (1.63%) Amazon EKS
17 18 (1.63%) AWS Lambda
18 15 (1.36%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 159 (14.40%) Firewall
2 153 (13.86%) DNS
3 92 (8.33%) DHCP
4 65 (5.89%) VPN
5 56 (5.07%) Network Security
6 51 (4.62%) WAN
7 47 (4.26%) SAN
8 46 (4.17%) VLAN
9 40 (3.62%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 36 (3.26%) TCP/IP
11 33 (2.99%) BIG-IP
12 32 (2.90%) BGP
13 30 (2.72%) SD-WAN
14 28 (2.54%) LAN
14 28 (2.54%) OSPF
15 26 (2.36%) VXLAN
16 25 (2.26%) Ethernet VPN
16 25 (2.26%) SSL
17 22 (1.99%) Wi-Fi
18 20 (1.81%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (3.53%) SQL Server
2 12 (1.09%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (1.00%) Elasticsearch
4 9 (0.82%) Amazon RDS
5 8 (0.72%) DynamoDB
5 8 (0.72%) Power BI
6 7 (0.63%) Metadata
6 7 (0.63%) NoSQL
6 7 (0.63%) Relational Database
7 6 (0.54%) Db2
7 6 (0.54%) Oracle Database
8 5 (0.45%) Big Data
8 5 (0.45%) RDBMS
9 4 (0.36%) Data Lake
9 4 (0.36%) Data Mining
9 4 (0.36%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (0.36%) MongoDB
9 4 (0.36%) Snowflake Schema
10 3 (0.27%) NonStop SQL
10 3 (0.27%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 60 (5.43%) GitLab
2 50 (4.53%) Jenkins
3 47 (4.26%) JIRA
4 29 (2.63%) Git
5 8 (0.72%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.091%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.091%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.091%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.091%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.091%) CMake
6 1 (0.091%) GoCD
6 1 (0.091%) Gradle
6 1 (0.091%) IntelliJ
6 1 (0.091%) Introscope
6 1 (0.091%) MSI
6 1 (0.091%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.091%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 162 (14.67%) Social Skills
2 100 (9.06%) Finance
3 82 (7.43%) Public Sector
4 47 (4.26%) Analytical Skills
5 45 (4.08%) Banking
6 39 (3.53%) Documentation Skills
7 22 (1.99%) Military
8 19 (1.72%) Legal
9 16 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 15 (1.36%) Retail
11 14 (1.27%) Telecoms
12 13 (1.18%) Aerospace
13 10 (0.91%) Influencing Skills
13 10 (0.91%) Marketing
14 9 (0.82%) Manufacturing
14 9 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
15 8 (0.72%) Billing
16 6 (0.54%) Law
17 5 (0.45%) Presentation Skills
18 4 (0.36%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 753 (68.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 199 (18.03%) Senior
3 155 (14.04%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 87 (7.88%) Cloud Engineer
5 64 (5.80%) Azure Engineer
5 64 (5.80%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 54 (4.89%) Network Engineer
7 46 (4.17%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 42 (3.80%) DevOps Engineer
9 41 (3.71%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
10 35 (3.17%) Support Engineer
11 34 (3.08%) Architect
11 34 (3.08%) Infrastructure Support
11 34 (3.08%) VMware Engineer
12 31 (2.81%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
12 31 (2.81%) IT Engineer
12 31 (2.81%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
13 30 (2.72%) 3rd Line Engineer
13 30 (2.72%) Security Engineer
14 29 (2.63%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (2.26%) REST
2 14 (1.27%) SOAP
3 12 (1.09%) ARM Templates
3 12 (1.09%) LDAP
4 11 (1.00%) OAuth
5 10 (0.91%) JSON
6 9 (0.82%) Elastic Stack
6 9 (0.82%) Kafka
6 9 (0.82%) OpenID
7 8 (0.72%) SAML
8 7 (0.63%) Flash
8 7 (0.63%) Middleware
8 7 (0.63%) Web Services
8 7 (0.63%) YAML
9 6 (0.54%) OAuth2
9 6 (0.54%) RESTful
9 6 (0.54%) WSDL
10 5 (0.45%) AWS CDK
10 5 (0.45%) Keycloak
11 4 (0.36%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 114 (10.33%) Data Centre
2 74 (6.70%) Hybrid Cloud
3 52 (4.71%) Cloud Native
4 44 (3.99%) PKI
5 43 (3.89%) Public Cloud
6 39 (3.53%) Onboarding
7 28 (2.54%) Enterprise Storage
8 24 (2.17%) Replication
9 23 (2.08%) Private Cloud
10 19 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
11 15 (1.36%) Clustering
11 15 (1.36%) Distributed Systems
12 14 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
12 14 (1.27%) Management Information System
12 14 (1.27%) Virtual Team
13 12 (1.09%) Linux Command Line
14 11 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
15 10 (0.91%) CMDB
15 10 (0.91%) Enterprise Cloud
15 10 (0.91%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 297 (26.90%) Windows
2 185 (16.76%) Windows Server
3 171 (15.49%) Linux
4 36 (3.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 17 (1.54%) Apple iOS
5 17 (1.54%) Windows Server 2019
6 16 (1.45%) Unix
6 16 (1.45%) Windows 10
7 15 (1.36%) Android
8 14 (1.27%) Ubuntu
8 14 (1.27%) Windows Server 2016
9 9 (0.82%) CentOS
9 9 (0.82%) VMS
9 9 (0.82%) Windows Server 2003
10 8 (0.72%) Debian
10 8 (0.72%) Windows Server 2012
11 7 (0.63%) Mac OS
11 7 (0.63%) zOS
12 3 (0.27%) AIX
13 2 (0.18%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 228 (20.65%) Infrastructure as Code
2 221 (20.02%) DevOps
3 194 (17.57%) CI/CD
4 124 (11.23%) Problem-Solving
5 119 (10.78%) Migration
6 105 (9.51%) Agile
7 95 (8.61%) Platform Engineering
8 94 (8.51%) High Availability
9 79 (7.16%) Infrastructure Automation
10 76 (6.88%) Containerisation
11 72 (6.52%) AI
11 72 (6.52%) Zero Trust
12 66 (5.98%) Disaster Recovery
13 65 (5.89%) Project Delivery
14 62 (5.62%) ITIL
15 61 (5.53%) Continuous Improvement
16 58 (5.25%) Observability
17 57 (5.16%) Validation
18 54 (4.89%) Cybersecurity
19 52 (4.71%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 169 (15.31%) Python
2 161 (14.58%) PowerShell
3 67 (6.07%) Bash
4 45 (4.08%) SQL
5 34 (3.08%) Bicep
6 21 (1.90%) Java
6 21 (1.90%) Shell Script
7 20 (1.81%) C#
8 10 (0.91%) ActionScript
9 8 (0.72%) Go
10 7 (0.63%) JavaScript
11 6 (0.54%) JCL
12 5 (0.45%) PHP
12 5 (0.45%) TypeScript
13 4 (0.36%) Groovy
14 3 (0.27%) C++
15 2 (0.18%) C
15 2 (0.18%) Kusto Query Language
15 2 (0.18%) Ruby
15 2 (0.18%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 403 (36.50%) Security Cleared
2 255 (23.10%) SC Cleared
3 155 (14.04%) DV Cleared
4 42 (3.80%) Degree
5 32 (2.90%) Cisco Certification
6 26 (2.36%) Azure Certification
6 26 (2.36%) Microsoft Certification
7 22 (1.99%) CISSP
8 19 (1.72%) CCNA
9 18 (1.63%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 17 (1.54%) AWS Certification
11 14 (1.27%) CISM
12 12 (1.09%) CCNP
12 12 (1.09%) MCSE
13 8 (0.72%) Computer Science Degree
14 7 (0.63%) PMI Certification
14 7 (0.63%) VCAP
15 6 (0.54%) RHCA
16 5 (0.45%) MCSA
16 5 (0.45%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (3.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 35 (3.17%) NIST
2 22 (1.99%) QA
3 17 (1.54%) Cyber Essentials
4 13 (1.18%) NCSC
4 13 (1.18%) PCI DSS
5 12 (1.09%) SLA
6 9 (0.82%) GDPR
7 8 (0.72%) NIST 800
8 7 (0.63%) Data Quality
9 6 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 5 (0.45%) GLBA
11 4 (0.36%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.18%) GRC
12 2 (0.18%) ISO 19650
12 2 (0.18%) PMO
13 1 (0.091%) Actionable Recommendations
13 1 (0.091%) Disclosure Scotland
13 1 (0.091%) FedRAMP
13 1 (0.091%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 196 (17.75%) Active Directory
2 189 (17.12%) VMware Infrastructure
3 78 (7.07%) Hyper-V
4 69 (6.25%) VMware ESXi
5 61 (5.53%) Docker
6 60 (5.43%) vSphere
7 38 (3.44%) Virtual Machines
8 33 (2.99%) VMware NSX
9 24 (2.17%) Virtual Desktop
10 15 (1.36%) NFS
11 12 (1.09%) BitLocker
12 10 (0.91%) Microsoft App-V
13 9 (0.82%) Firmware
14 5 (0.45%) GPFS
15 4 (0.36%) Terminal Services
15 4 (0.36%) Virtual Servers
16 2 (0.18%) Postfix
16 2 (0.18%) Sendmail
16 2 (0.18%) SRDF
16 2 (0.18%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 216 (19.57%) Terraform
2 145 (13.13%) Kubernetes
3 127 (11.50%) Ansible
4 56 (5.07%) Microsoft Intune
5 45 (4.08%) vCenter Server
6 29 (2.63%) SCCM
7 22 (1.99%) Grafana
7 22 (1.99%) Prometheus
8 21 (1.90%) Puppet
9 19 (1.72%) Single Sign-On
10 16 (1.45%) WSUS
11 12 (1.09%) Nessus
11 12 (1.09%) Packer
11 12 (1.09%) SCOM
12 10 (0.91%) Argo
12 10 (0.91%) vMotion
12 10 (0.91%) vRealize
13 9 (0.82%) VxRail
14 8 (0.72%) Istio
14 8 (0.72%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 257 (23.28%) VMware
2 245 (22.19%) Microsoft
3 67 (6.07%) Citrix
4 65 (5.89%) Cisco
5 49 (4.44%) F5
6 45 (4.08%) Google
7 43 (3.89%) ServiceNow
8 40 (3.62%) NetApp
8 40 (3.62%) Palo Alto
9 28 (2.54%) Veeam
10 26 (2.36%) Red Hat
11 25 (2.26%) Dell
12 24 (2.17%) Aruba
13 23 (2.08%) Arista
14 22 (1.99%) Fortinet
15 18 (1.63%) Oracle
16 16 (1.45%) SolarWinds
17 14 (1.27%) Tenable
18 13 (1.18%) Juniper
18 13 (1.18%) Splunk