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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 135 90
Rank change year-on-year +43 -45 +11
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 1,203 543 897
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.69% 2.00% 2.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.15% 2.21% 2.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 758 354 668
10th Percentile £350 £329 £312
25th Percentile £425 £400 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.50% +5.00% -1.96%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £599
90th Percentile £675 £650 £678
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -3.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 5 31
10th Percentile £55.06 £38.43 £45.00
25th Percentile £58.43 £51.06 £46.18
Median hourly rate £72.54 £77.00 £54.88
Median % change year-on-year -5.79% +40.32% -24.31%
75th Percentile £78.75 £200.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.86 - -
UK median hourly rate £73.27 £77.00 £54.88
% change year-on-year -4.84% +40.32% -22.98%

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 38,219 24,611 31,409
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.42% 90.71% 85.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,063 15,813 20,400
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
25th Percentile £420 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £645
90th Percentile £734 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,375 1,290 2,230
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.39 £13.00
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.10 £16.25
Median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +88.87% -34.02% -6.09%
75th Percentile £68.75 £54.56 £62.50
90th Percentile £83.00 £71.60 £72.58
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -4.70%

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 15 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 15 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 15 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 +39 349 £550 +4.76% 164
North of England +19 279 £519 -1.24% 119
South East +18 238 £536 -2.47% 151
South West +23 137 £549 -2.40% 95
Midlands +8 132 £463 +8.82% 85
Yorkshire -6 121 £500 -4.76% 47
North West +7 111 £525 +0.05% 57
West Midlands -25 84 £513 +28.13% 47
North East +3 56 £600 -7.69% 17
East of England 0 53 £500 +9.11% 51
East Midlands +18 46 £450 - 38
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 (4.57%) Microsoft Exchange
2 27 (2.24%) Confluence
2 27 (2.24%) SharePoint
3 12 (1.00%) CICS
4 7 (0.58%) Apache
4 7 (0.58%) WebSphere
5 4 (0.33%) SAS
6 3 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.25%) CloudStack
7 2 (0.17%) Apache Pulsar
7 2 (0.17%) nginx
7 2 (0.17%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.17%) SharePoint Server
8 1 (0.083%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.083%) IBM HTTP Server
8 1 (0.083%) TPMS
8 1 (0.083%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 12 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (0.58%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.25%) AutoCAD
3 3 (0.25%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.083%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.083%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.083%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.17%) Primavera
2 1 (0.083%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.083%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.083%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.083%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.083%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 398 (33.08%) Azure
2 223 (18.54%) AWS
3 95 (7.90%) Entra ID
4 93 (7.73%) GCP
5 92 (7.65%) GitHub
6 88 (7.32%) Microsoft 365
7 62 (5.15%) GitHub Actions
8 60 (4.99%) IaaS
9 58 (4.82%) Azure DevOps
10 50 (4.16%) OCI
11 41 (3.41%) PaaS
11 41 (3.41%) SaaS
12 34 (2.83%) Azure AKS
13 27 (2.24%) Serverless
14 26 (2.16%) Amazon EKS
14 26 (2.16%) Azure Monitor
15 20 (1.66%) Amazon S3
15 20 (1.66%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 19 (1.58%) OpenShift
17 18 (1.50%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 182 (15.13%) DNS
2 172 (14.30%) Firewall
3 105 (8.73%) DHCP
4 64 (5.32%) Network Security
4 64 (5.32%) VPN
5 60 (4.99%) SAN
6 54 (4.49%) WAN
7 51 (4.24%) VLAN
8 48 (3.99%) TCP/IP
9 44 (3.66%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 34 (2.83%) BIG-IP
11 33 (2.74%) BGP
12 32 (2.66%) SD-WAN
13 29 (2.41%) LAN
14 28 (2.33%) OSPF
15 26 (2.16%) VXLAN
16 25 (2.08%) Ethernet VPN
17 23 (1.91%) SSL
17 23 (1.91%) Wi-Fi
18 22 (1.83%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (4.07%) SQL Server
2 15 (1.25%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (1.16%) Oracle Database
4 13 (1.08%) Relational Database
5 12 (1.00%) Oracle Exadata
6 11 (0.91%) RDBMS
7 10 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
8 9 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
9 8 (0.67%) Azure SQL Database
9 8 (0.67%) DynamoDB
10 7 (0.58%) Metadata
10 7 (0.58%) Power BI
11 6 (0.50%) Db2
12 5 (0.42%) Data Lake
12 5 (0.42%) NoSQL
13 4 (0.33%) Big Data
13 4 (0.33%) Data Mining
13 4 (0.33%) Data Warehouse
13 4 (0.33%) Snowflake Schema
14 3 (0.25%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 68 (5.65%) GitLab
2 51 (4.24%) JIRA
3 48 (3.99%) Jenkins
4 42 (3.49%) Git
5 9 (0.75%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.17%) Artifactory
6 2 (0.17%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.17%) Subversion
7 1 (0.083%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.083%) Chocolatey
7 1 (0.083%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.083%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.083%) CMake
7 1 (0.083%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.083%) GoCD
7 1 (0.083%) Gradle
7 1 (0.083%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.083%) Introscope
7 1 (0.083%) MLflow
7 1 (0.083%) MSI
General
1 186 (15.46%) Social Skills
2 113 (9.39%) Finance
3 92 (7.65%) Public Sector
4 57 (4.74%) Analytical Skills
5 49 (4.07%) Banking
6 44 (3.66%) Documentation Skills
7 23 (1.91%) Military
8 22 (1.83%) Legal
9 15 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 15 (1.25%) Retail
10 14 (1.16%) Aerospace
10 14 (1.16%) Telecoms
11 11 (0.91%) Manufacturing
12 10 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
12 10 (0.83%) Marketing
12 10 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
13 8 (0.67%) Law
14 5 (0.42%) Billing
14 5 (0.42%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (0.33%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 813 (67.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 222 (18.45%) Senior
3 174 (14.46%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 108 (8.98%) Cloud Engineer
5 78 (6.48%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 73 (6.07%) Azure Engineer
7 52 (4.32%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 50 (4.16%) Network Engineer
9 40 (3.33%) DevOps Engineer
10 38 (3.16%) Lead
11 37 (3.08%) VMware Engineer
12 36 (2.99%) IT Engineer
12 36 (2.99%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
13 35 (2.91%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
14 34 (2.83%) Infrastructure Support
15 33 (2.74%) Support Engineer
16 32 (2.66%) 3rd Line Engineer
16 32 (2.66%) Architect
17 31 (2.58%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
17 31 (2.58%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (2.24%) REST
2 14 (1.16%) SOAP
3 12 (1.00%) JSON
3 12 (1.00%) LDAP
4 11 (0.91%) Elastic Stack
4 11 (0.91%) Middleware
5 10 (0.83%) OAuth
5 10 (0.83%) Oracle GoldenGate
6 9 (0.75%) ARM Templates
6 9 (0.75%) OpenID
7 8 (0.67%) Kafka
7 8 (0.67%) Loki
7 8 (0.67%) SAML
7 8 (0.67%) YAML
8 7 (0.58%) Flash
8 7 (0.58%) Web Services
9 6 (0.50%) ModSecurity
9 6 (0.50%) RESTful
9 6 (0.50%) WSDL
10 5 (0.42%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 134 (11.14%) Data Centre
2 74 (6.15%) Hybrid Cloud
3 55 (4.57%) Cloud Native
4 52 (4.32%) Public Cloud
5 49 (4.07%) PKI
6 34 (2.83%) Onboarding
7 33 (2.74%) Enterprise Storage
8 31 (2.58%) Replication
9 21 (1.75%) Private Cloud
10 18 (1.50%) Clustering
11 17 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
11 17 (1.41%) Distributed Systems
11 17 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
12 16 (1.33%) Management Information System
13 15 (1.25%) Linux Command Line
13 15 (1.25%) Virtual Team
14 13 (1.08%) Mainframe
15 12 (1.00%) Enterprise Cloud
16 10 (0.83%) Security Posture
17 9 (0.75%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 320 (26.60%) Windows
2 201 (16.71%) Linux
3 197 (16.38%) Windows Server
4 44 (3.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 20 (1.66%) Windows Server 2019
6 17 (1.41%) Apple iOS
6 17 (1.41%) Windows 10
7 16 (1.33%) Windows Server 2016
8 15 (1.25%) Android
8 15 (1.25%) Ubuntu
8 15 (1.25%) Unix
9 13 (1.08%) CentOS
10 12 (1.00%) zOS
11 11 (0.91%) AIX
12 10 (0.83%) VMS
13 8 (0.67%) Windows Server 2012
14 7 (0.58%) Mac OS
14 7 (0.58%) Rocky
14 7 (0.58%) Windows Server 2003
15 6 (0.50%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 264 (21.95%) Infrastructure as Code
2 226 (18.79%) DevOps
3 215 (17.87%) CI/CD
4 140 (11.64%) Migration
5 130 (10.81%) Problem-Solving
6 112 (9.31%) Agile
7 111 (9.23%) Platform Engineering
8 100 (8.31%) High Availability
9 84 (6.98%) Infrastructure Automation
10 79 (6.57%) Containerisation
11 77 (6.40%) Disaster Recovery
12 76 (6.32%) AI
12 76 (6.32%) Project Delivery
13 75 (6.23%) Continuous Improvement
14 69 (5.74%) Zero Trust
15 68 (5.65%) Observability
16 66 (5.49%) Validation
17 60 (4.99%) Cybersecurity
18 54 (4.49%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 54 (4.49%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 196 (16.29%) Python
2 187 (15.54%) PowerShell
3 89 (7.40%) Bash
4 54 (4.49%) SQL
5 36 (2.99%) Bicep
6 23 (1.91%) Java
7 21 (1.75%) Shell Script
8 20 (1.66%) C#
9 10 (0.83%) ActionScript
10 8 (0.67%) Go
11 7 (0.58%) JavaScript
12 6 (0.50%) JCL
12 6 (0.50%) PHP
12 6 (0.50%) TypeScript
13 4 (0.33%) Groovy
14 3 (0.25%) C++
14 3 (0.25%) Kusto Query Language
15 2 (0.17%) C
15 2 (0.17%) Korn
15 2 (0.17%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 448 (37.24%) Security Cleared
2 284 (23.61%) SC Cleared
3 172 (14.30%) DV Cleared
4 44 (3.66%) Degree
5 34 (2.83%) Cisco Certification
6 28 (2.33%) Azure Certification
7 22 (1.83%) Microsoft Certification
8 20 (1.66%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 19 (1.58%) AWS Certification
9 19 (1.58%) CCNA
10 18 (1.50%) CISSP
11 14 (1.16%) CCNP
12 12 (1.00%) MCSE
13 10 (0.83%) CISM
14 9 (0.75%) Computer Science Degree
14 9 (0.75%) VCAP
15 7 (0.58%) PMI Certification
16 6 (0.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 6 (0.50%) MCSA
16 6 (0.50%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (2.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 28 (2.33%) QA
3 27 (2.24%) NIST
4 15 (1.25%) Cyber Essentials
5 14 (1.16%) NCSC
6 9 (0.75%) PCI DSS
6 9 (0.75%) SLA
7 6 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 6 (0.50%) Data Quality
8 5 (0.42%) GDPR
9 4 (0.33%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.25%) GRC
10 3 (0.25%) NIST 800
10 3 (0.25%) PMO
11 1 (0.083%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.083%) Disclosure Scotland
11 1 (0.083%) FedRAMP
11 1 (0.083%) GLBA
11 1 (0.083%) ISO 19650
11 1 (0.083%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 214 (17.79%) VMware Infrastructure
2 210 (17.46%) Active Directory
3 83 (6.90%) Hyper-V
4 77 (6.40%) VMware ESXi
5 71 (5.90%) Docker
6 69 (5.74%) vSphere
7 46 (3.82%) Virtual Machines
8 38 (3.16%) VMware NSX
9 26 (2.16%) Virtual Desktop
10 16 (1.33%) NFS
11 10 (0.83%) BitLocker
11 10 (0.83%) Oracle RAC
12 8 (0.67%) Firmware
12 8 (0.67%) Microsoft App-V
13 5 (0.42%) GPFS
13 5 (0.42%) KVM
13 5 (0.42%) Terminal Services
14 4 (0.33%) Virtual Servers
15 2 (0.17%) SRDF
15 2 (0.17%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 244 (20.28%) Terraform
2 151 (12.55%) Kubernetes
3 147 (12.22%) Ansible
4 58 (4.82%) Microsoft Intune
5 50 (4.16%) vCenter Server
6 30 (2.49%) Grafana
6 30 (2.49%) SCCM
7 24 (2.00%) Prometheus
8 22 (1.83%) Puppet
9 19 (1.58%) WSUS
10 17 (1.41%) Argo
11 14 (1.16%) Packer
11 14 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
12 13 (1.08%) Nessus
12 13 (1.08%) SCOM
13 12 (1.00%) NetBackup
14 10 (0.83%) Data Guard
14 10 (0.83%) Oracle RMAN
15 9 (0.75%) vRealize
16 8 (0.67%) vMotion
Vendors
1 277 (23.03%) VMware
2 271 (22.53%) Microsoft
3 70 (5.82%) Citrix
4 65 (5.40%) Cisco
5 53 (4.41%) F5
6 46 (3.82%) NetApp
7 43 (3.57%) Google
7 43 (3.57%) ServiceNow
8 38 (3.16%) Oracle
9 32 (2.66%) Palo Alto
10 30 (2.49%) Veeam
11 25 (2.08%) Dell
12 24 (2.00%) Arista
13 23 (1.91%) Fortinet
13 23 (1.91%) Red Hat
14 22 (1.83%) Aruba
15 18 (1.50%) Tenable
16 17 (1.41%) Juniper
17 14 (1.16%) Zscaler
18 13 (1.08%) SolarWinds