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

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 141 95
Rank change year-on-year +43 -46 +7
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 1,151 527 903
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.62% 2.02% 2.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.07% 2.22% 2.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 743 346 678
10th Percentile £350 £329 £310
25th Percentile £425 £400 £382
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -2.44%
75th Percentile £603 £600 £598
90th Percentile £675 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 5 33
10th Percentile £47.20 £38.43 £39.10
25th Percentile £58.43 £51.06 £46.18
Median hourly rate £72.54 £57.75 £54.88
Median % change year-on-year +25.61% +5.24% -24.31%
75th Percentile £78.75 £200.00 £70.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £72.54 £57.75 £54.88
% change year-on-year +25.61% +5.24% -24.31%

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 37,490 23,760 31,971
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.37% 91.05% 85.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,605 15,276 20,748
10th Percentile £325 £300 £305
25th Percentile £419 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.46% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £730 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +1.98% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,362 1,184 2,308
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.23 £12.79
25th Percentile £20.79 £17.95 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% +1.65%
75th Percentile £68.55 £55.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.50 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +3.45%

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 3 July 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 3 July 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 3 July 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 +33 342 £550 +4.76% 164
North of England +11 268 £514 -2.14% 123
South East +16 221 £525 -4.55% 102
South West +28 130 £545 -3.20% 113
Midlands +2 125 £475 +11.76% 69
Yorkshire -5 121 £500 -4.76% 37
North West +4 101 £519 -1.19% 73
West Midlands -18 80 £525 +31.25% 43
North East +4 54 £600 -7.69% 16
East of England 0 52 £485 +3.97% 23
East Midlands +13 43 £450 - 26
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 53 (4.60%) Microsoft Exchange
2 26 (2.26%) Confluence
3 19 (1.65%) SharePoint
4 11 (0.96%) CICS
5 8 (0.70%) Apache
6 6 (0.52%) WebSphere
7 4 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (0.35%) SAS
8 3 (0.26%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.26%) CloudStack
8 3 (0.26%) TPMS
9 2 (0.17%) Apache Pulsar
9 2 (0.17%) nginx
10 1 (0.087%) IBM HTTP Server
10 1 (0.087%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.087%) SharePoint Server
10 1 (0.087%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 11 (0.96%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.26%) AutoCAD
3 3 (0.26%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.087%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.087%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.087%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.087%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.087%) Primavera
1 1 (0.087%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (0.087%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
1 1 (0.087%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 379 (32.93%) Azure
2 213 (18.51%) AWS
3 94 (8.17%) GCP
4 88 (7.65%) GitHub
5 83 (7.21%) Entra ID
6 80 (6.95%) Microsoft 365
7 60 (5.21%) GitHub Actions
8 57 (4.95%) IaaS
9 52 (4.52%) Azure DevOps
10 46 (4.00%) OCI
11 41 (3.56%) SaaS
12 38 (3.30%) PaaS
13 34 (2.95%) Azure AKS
14 26 (2.26%) Serverless
15 25 (2.17%) Amazon EKS
15 25 (2.17%) Azure Monitor
16 20 (1.74%) Amazon S3
16 20 (1.74%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 18 (1.56%) AWS Lambda
18 16 (1.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 165 (14.34%) DNS
2 161 (13.99%) Firewall
3 95 (8.25%) DHCP
4 65 (5.65%) Network Security
5 60 (5.21%) VPN
6 56 (4.87%) SAN
7 53 (4.60%) WAN
8 46 (4.00%) VLAN
9 42 (3.65%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 38 (3.30%) TCP/IP
11 33 (2.87%) BIG-IP
12 32 (2.78%) BGP
12 32 (2.78%) SD-WAN
13 28 (2.43%) LAN
13 28 (2.43%) OSPF
14 26 (2.26%) VXLAN
15 25 (2.17%) Ethernet VPN
16 23 (2.00%) SSL
17 22 (1.91%) Wi-Fi
18 21 (1.82%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (3.91%) SQL Server
2 15 (1.30%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (0.96%) Relational Database
4 10 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
4 10 (0.87%) Oracle Database
5 9 (0.78%) Amazon RDS
5 9 (0.78%) RDBMS
6 8 (0.70%) DynamoDB
7 7 (0.61%) Metadata
7 7 (0.61%) NoSQL
7 7 (0.61%) Power BI
8 6 (0.52%) Azure SQL Database
8 6 (0.52%) Db2
8 6 (0.52%) Oracle Exadata
9 5 (0.43%) Big Data
9 5 (0.43%) Data Lake
10 4 (0.35%) Data Mining
10 4 (0.35%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (0.35%) MongoDB
10 4 (0.35%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 65 (5.65%) GitLab
2 50 (4.34%) JIRA
3 48 (4.17%) Jenkins
4 34 (2.95%) Git
5 8 (0.70%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.17%) Artifactory
6 2 (0.17%) Subversion
7 1 (0.087%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.087%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.087%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.087%) CMake
7 1 (0.087%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.087%) GoCD
7 1 (0.087%) Gradle
7 1 (0.087%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.087%) Introscope
7 1 (0.087%) MLflow
7 1 (0.087%) MSI
7 1 (0.087%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.087%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 173 (15.03%) Social Skills
2 106 (9.21%) Finance
3 89 (7.73%) Public Sector
4 49 (4.26%) Analytical Skills
5 47 (4.08%) Banking
6 43 (3.74%) Documentation Skills
7 23 (2.00%) Military
8 21 (1.82%) Legal
9 16 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 16 (1.39%) Retail
10 13 (1.13%) Aerospace
10 13 (1.13%) Telecoms
11 11 (0.96%) Manufacturing
12 10 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
12 10 (0.87%) Marketing
12 10 (0.87%) Organisational Skills
13 7 (0.61%) Law
14 5 (0.43%) Billing
14 5 (0.43%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (0.35%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 773 (67.16%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 206 (17.90%) Senior
3 162 (14.07%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 96 (8.34%) Cloud Engineer
5 68 (5.91%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 65 (5.65%) Azure Engineer
7 48 (4.17%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 47 (4.08%) Network Engineer
9 37 (3.21%) VMware Engineer
10 35 (3.04%) DevOps Engineer
11 33 (2.87%) Architect
11 33 (2.87%) Lead
11 33 (2.87%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
12 32 (2.78%) IT Engineer
12 32 (2.78%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
13 30 (2.61%) Infrastructure Support
14 29 (2.52%) Support Engineer
15 28 (2.43%) 3rd Line Engineer
15 28 (2.43%) Security Engineer
16 27 (2.35%) Citrix Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (2.35%) REST
2 14 (1.22%) SOAP
3 12 (1.04%) JSON
4 11 (0.96%) Elastic Stack
4 11 (0.96%) LDAP
4 11 (0.96%) OAuth
5 10 (0.87%) Middleware
5 10 (0.87%) OpenID
6 9 (0.78%) ARM Templates
6 9 (0.78%) Kafka
6 9 (0.78%) SAML
7 8 (0.70%) Loki
7 8 (0.70%) YAML
8 7 (0.61%) Flash
8 7 (0.61%) Web Services
9 6 (0.52%) ModSecurity
9 6 (0.52%) OAuth2
9 6 (0.52%) Oracle GoldenGate
9 6 (0.52%) RESTful
9 6 (0.52%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 127 (11.03%) Data Centre
2 70 (6.08%) Hybrid Cloud
3 55 (4.78%) Cloud Native
4 46 (4.00%) Public Cloud
5 45 (3.91%) PKI
6 34 (2.95%) Onboarding
7 31 (2.69%) Enterprise Storage
8 27 (2.35%) Replication
9 23 (2.00%) Private Cloud
10 17 (1.48%) Clustering
10 17 (1.48%) Distributed Systems
10 17 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
11 15 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
11 15 (1.30%) Management Information System
11 15 (1.30%) Virtual Team
12 12 (1.04%) Linux Command Line
12 12 (1.04%) Mainframe
13 11 (0.96%) Enterprise Cloud
14 10 (0.87%) Security Posture
15 9 (0.78%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 308 (26.76%) Windows
2 193 (16.77%) Windows Server
3 188 (16.33%) Linux
4 40 (3.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 18 (1.56%) Windows Server 2019
6 17 (1.48%) Apple iOS
7 16 (1.39%) Unix
7 16 (1.39%) Windows 10
8 15 (1.30%) Android
8 15 (1.30%) Windows Server 2016
9 14 (1.22%) Ubuntu
10 11 (0.96%) CentOS
10 11 (0.96%) zOS
11 9 (0.78%) Windows Server 2012
12 8 (0.70%) VMS
12 8 (0.70%) Windows Server 2003
13 7 (0.61%) AIX
13 7 (0.61%) Mac OS
14 6 (0.52%) Debian
15 5 (0.43%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 249 (21.63%) Infrastructure as Code
2 216 (18.77%) DevOps
3 204 (17.72%) CI/CD
4 134 (11.64%) Migration
5 124 (10.77%) Problem-Solving
6 104 (9.04%) Agile
7 100 (8.69%) High Availability
7 100 (8.69%) Platform Engineering
8 80 (6.95%) Infrastructure Automation
9 78 (6.78%) Containerisation
10 75 (6.52%) AI
11 74 (6.43%) Disaster Recovery
12 71 (6.17%) Project Delivery
13 70 (6.08%) Zero Trust
14 67 (5.82%) Continuous Improvement
14 67 (5.82%) Observability
15 64 (5.56%) Validation
16 53 (4.60%) Cybersecurity
16 53 (4.60%) ITIL
16 53 (4.60%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 185 (16.07%) Python
2 172 (14.94%) PowerShell
3 80 (6.95%) Bash
4 51 (4.43%) SQL
5 33 (2.87%) Bicep
6 24 (2.09%) Java
7 20 (1.74%) C#
7 20 (1.74%) Shell Script
8 10 (0.87%) ActionScript
9 8 (0.70%) Go
10 7 (0.61%) JavaScript
11 6 (0.52%) JCL
11 6 (0.52%) TypeScript
12 5 (0.43%) PHP
13 4 (0.35%) Groovy
14 3 (0.26%) C++
14 3 (0.26%) Kusto Query Language
15 2 (0.17%) C
15 2 (0.17%) Ruby
15 2 (0.17%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 423 (36.75%) Security Cleared
2 265 (23.02%) SC Cleared
3 159 (13.81%) DV Cleared
4 42 (3.65%) Degree
5 33 (2.87%) Cisco Certification
6 23 (2.00%) Azure Certification
7 21 (1.82%) Microsoft Certification
8 19 (1.65%) CCNA
8 19 (1.65%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 18 (1.56%) AWS Certification
10 17 (1.48%) CISSP
11 13 (1.13%) CCNP
12 12 (1.04%) MCSE
13 9 (0.78%) CISM
14 8 (0.70%) Computer Science Degree
15 7 (0.61%) PMI Certification
15 7 (0.61%) VCAP
16 6 (0.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 6 (0.52%) RHCA
17 5 (0.43%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (2.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 28 (2.43%) NIST
3 26 (2.26%) QA
4 16 (1.39%) Cyber Essentials
5 13 (1.13%) NCSC
6 11 (0.96%) PCI DSS
7 8 (0.70%) SLA
8 7 (0.61%) Data Quality
8 7 (0.61%) GDPR
9 6 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 4 (0.35%) SOC 2
11 3 (0.26%) GLBA
11 3 (0.26%) NIST 800
11 3 (0.26%) PMO
12 2 (0.17%) GRC
13 1 (0.087%) Actionable Recommendations
13 1 (0.087%) Disclosure Scotland
13 1 (0.087%) FedRAMP
13 1 (0.087%) ISO 19650
13 1 (0.087%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 200 (17.38%) Active Directory
1 200 (17.38%) VMware Infrastructure
2 80 (6.95%) Hyper-V
3 74 (6.43%) VMware ESXi
4 68 (5.91%) Docker
5 61 (5.30%) vSphere
6 40 (3.48%) Virtual Machines
7 35 (3.04%) VMware NSX
8 23 (2.00%) Virtual Desktop
9 16 (1.39%) NFS
10 11 (0.96%) BitLocker
11 9 (0.78%) Firmware
11 9 (0.78%) Microsoft App-V
12 6 (0.52%) Oracle RAC
13 5 (0.43%) GPFS
13 5 (0.43%) Terminal Services
14 4 (0.35%) KVM
14 4 (0.35%) Virtual Servers
15 2 (0.17%) SRDF
15 2 (0.17%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 228 (19.81%) Terraform
2 145 (12.60%) Kubernetes
3 133 (11.56%) Ansible
4 54 (4.69%) Microsoft Intune
5 47 (4.08%) vCenter Server
6 31 (2.69%) SCCM
7 29 (2.52%) Grafana
8 23 (2.00%) Prometheus
8 23 (2.00%) Puppet
9 19 (1.65%) WSUS
10 18 (1.56%) Single Sign-On
11 17 (1.48%) Argo
12 13 (1.13%) Nessus
12 13 (1.13%) SCOM
13 12 (1.04%) Packer
14 10 (0.87%) NetBackup
14 10 (0.87%) vRealize
15 9 (0.78%) vMotion
15 9 (0.78%) VxRail
16 8 (0.70%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 266 (23.11%) VMware
2 254 (22.07%) Microsoft
3 69 (5.99%) Citrix
4 65 (5.65%) Cisco
5 51 (4.43%) F5
6 44 (3.82%) ServiceNow
7 43 (3.74%) NetApp
8 42 (3.65%) Google
9 33 (2.87%) Palo Alto
10 31 (2.69%) Oracle
11 27 (2.35%) Veeam
12 25 (2.17%) Dell
13 23 (2.00%) Arista
13 23 (2.00%) Fortinet
14 22 (1.91%) Aruba
14 22 (1.91%) Red Hat
15 17 (1.48%) Tenable
16 16 (1.39%) Juniper
17 14 (1.22%) SolarWinds
17 14 (1.22%) Zscaler