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

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 97 139 94
Rank change year-on-year +42 -45 +16
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 1,114 511 896
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.57% 2.04% 2.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.01% 2.23% 2.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 719 341 675
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% -0.70%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £599
90th Percentile £675 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -2.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 4 32
10th Percentile £38.58 £52.36 £38.36
25th Percentile £58.43 £54.30 £46.18
Median hourly rate £72.54 £128.88 £54.88
Median % change year-on-year -43.71% +134.85% -24.31%
75th Percentile £78.75 £200.00 £70.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £72.54 £128.88 £54.88
% change year-on-year -43.71% +134.85% -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 37,051 22,942 31,995
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.33% 91.40% 85.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,408 14,828 20,735
10th Percentile £325 £300 £304
25th Percentile £416 £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 £514 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +1.78% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,328 1,099 2,362
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.76
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.87 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.00 £26.45 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +77.69% -29.47% +6.72%
75th Percentile £68.55 £55.00 £61.48
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.50 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +7.14%

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 25 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 25 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 25 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 +20 323 £550 +4.76% 125
North of England +17 262 £500 -4.76% 96
South East +6 210 £514 -6.55% 79
South West +16 130 £540 -4.00% 76
Yorkshire -1 124 £480 -8.57% 28
Midlands -2 119 £450 +9.09% 48
North West +9 94 £525 - 56
West Midlands -17 77 £513 +28.13% 29
East of England -2 54 £475 +3.66% 25
North East +4 51 £600 -7.69% 15
East Midlands +9 41 £450 - 19
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 (4.85%) Microsoft Exchange
2 19 (1.71%) Confluence
2 19 (1.71%) SharePoint
3 10 (0.90%) CICS
4 9 (0.81%) Apache
5 5 (0.45%) WebSphere
6 4 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.36%) SAS
6 4 (0.36%) TPMS
7 3 (0.27%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.18%) Apache Pulsar
8 2 (0.18%) CloudStack
8 2 (0.18%) IIS
8 2 (0.18%) nginx
9 1 (0.090%) IBM HTTP Server
9 1 (0.090%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.090%) SharePoint Server
9 1 (0.090%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 12 (1.08%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.27%) AutoCAD
3 3 (0.27%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.090%) Acrobat
4 1 (0.090%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.090%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.090%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (0.45%) Maximo
2 1 (0.090%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.090%) Primavera
2 1 (0.090%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.090%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.090%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 365 (32.76%) Azure
2 196 (17.59%) AWS
3 97 (8.71%) GCP
4 85 (7.63%) Entra ID
5 82 (7.36%) GitHub
5 82 (7.36%) Microsoft 365
6 56 (5.03%) Azure DevOps
7 55 (4.94%) IaaS
8 53 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
9 43 (3.86%) SaaS
10 39 (3.50%) Azure AKS
11 36 (3.23%) PaaS
12 34 (3.05%) OCI
13 29 (2.60%) Azure Monitor
14 26 (2.33%) Serverless
15 23 (2.06%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 21 (1.89%) OpenShift
17 18 (1.62%) Amazon EKS
17 18 (1.62%) AWS Lambda
18 15 (1.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 158 (14.18%) Firewall
2 155 (13.91%) DNS
3 93 (8.35%) DHCP
4 65 (5.83%) VPN
5 57 (5.12%) Network Security
6 52 (4.67%) SAN
7 50 (4.49%) WAN
8 45 (4.04%) VLAN
9 41 (3.68%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 35 (3.14%) TCP/IP
11 33 (2.96%) BIG-IP
12 32 (2.87%) BGP
13 30 (2.69%) SD-WAN
14 28 (2.51%) LAN
14 28 (2.51%) OSPF
15 26 (2.33%) VXLAN
16 25 (2.24%) Ethernet VPN
17 24 (2.15%) SSL
18 22 (1.97%) Wi-Fi
19 20 (1.80%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (3.86%) SQL Server
2 14 (1.26%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (0.90%) Elasticsearch
4 9 (0.81%) 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%) Azure SQL Database
8 5 (0.45%) Big Data
8 5 (0.45%) Data Lake
8 5 (0.45%) RDBMS
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%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 61 (5.48%) GitLab
2 50 (4.49%) Jenkins
3 49 (4.40%) JIRA
4 27 (2.42%) Git
5 8 (0.72%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.090%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.090%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.090%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.090%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.090%) CMake
6 1 (0.090%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.090%) GoCD
6 1 (0.090%) Gradle
6 1 (0.090%) IntelliJ
6 1 (0.090%) Introscope
6 1 (0.090%) MLflow
6 1 (0.090%) MSI
6 1 (0.090%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.090%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 162 (14.54%) Social Skills
2 102 (9.16%) Finance
3 82 (7.36%) Public Sector
4 48 (4.31%) Analytical Skills
5 46 (4.13%) Banking
6 42 (3.77%) Documentation Skills
7 23 (2.06%) Military
8 21 (1.89%) Legal
9 16 (1.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 16 (1.44%) Retail
10 14 (1.26%) Aerospace
11 13 (1.17%) Telecoms
12 10 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
12 10 (0.90%) Manufacturing
12 10 (0.90%) Marketing
13 9 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (0.54%) Law
15 5 (0.45%) Billing
15 5 (0.45%) Presentation Skills
16 4 (0.36%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 756 (67.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 199 (17.86%) Senior
3 156 (14.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 88 (7.90%) Cloud Engineer
5 66 (5.92%) Azure Engineer
6 65 (5.83%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
7 51 (4.58%) Network Engineer
8 48 (4.31%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
9 41 (3.68%) DevOps Engineer
10 36 (3.23%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
11 35 (3.14%) VMware Engineer
12 34 (3.05%) Architect
13 33 (2.96%) Support Engineer
14 32 (2.87%) Infrastructure Support
14 32 (2.87%) IT Engineer
14 32 (2.87%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
15 29 (2.60%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
15 29 (2.60%) Security Engineer
16 28 (2.51%) 3rd Line Engineer
17 27 (2.42%) Citrix Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (2.24%) REST
2 14 (1.26%) SOAP
3 13 (1.17%) ARM Templates
4 12 (1.08%) LDAP
5 11 (0.99%) OAuth
6 10 (0.90%) JSON
6 10 (0.90%) Middleware
7 9 (0.81%) Elastic Stack
7 9 (0.81%) Kafka
7 9 (0.81%) OpenID
8 8 (0.72%) SAML
8 8 (0.72%) YAML
9 7 (0.63%) Flash
9 7 (0.63%) Web Services
10 6 (0.54%) OAuth2
10 6 (0.54%) RESTful
10 6 (0.54%) WSDL
11 5 (0.45%) AWS CDK
11 5 (0.45%) Keycloak
12 4 (0.36%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 119 (10.68%) Data Centre
2 73 (6.55%) Hybrid Cloud
3 52 (4.67%) Cloud Native
4 46 (4.13%) PKI
5 43 (3.86%) Public Cloud
6 37 (3.32%) Onboarding
7 29 (2.60%) Enterprise Storage
8 24 (2.15%) Replication
9 23 (2.06%) Private Cloud
10 19 (1.71%) Self-Motivation
11 17 (1.53%) Clustering
12 15 (1.35%) Distributed Systems
12 15 (1.35%) Management Information System
12 15 (1.35%) Virtual Team
13 13 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
13 13 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
14 12 (1.08%) Linux Command Line
15 11 (0.99%) Enterprise Cloud
15 11 (0.99%) Mainframe
16 10 (0.90%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 296 (26.57%) Windows
2 186 (16.70%) Windows Server
3 173 (15.53%) Linux
4 38 (3.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 17 (1.53%) Apple iOS
5 17 (1.53%) Windows Server 2019
6 16 (1.44%) Unix
6 16 (1.44%) Windows 10
7 15 (1.35%) Android
8 14 (1.26%) Windows Server 2016
9 13 (1.17%) Ubuntu
10 10 (0.90%) zOS
11 9 (0.81%) CentOS
12 8 (0.72%) Windows Server 2003
12 8 (0.72%) Windows Server 2012
13 7 (0.63%) Mac OS
13 7 (0.63%) VMS
14 6 (0.54%) Debian
15 3 (0.27%) AIX
16 2 (0.18%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 228 (20.47%) Infrastructure as Code
2 218 (19.57%) DevOps
3 191 (17.15%) CI/CD
4 125 (11.22%) Problem-Solving
5 123 (11.04%) Migration
6 105 (9.43%) Agile
7 97 (8.71%) High Availability
8 95 (8.53%) Platform Engineering
9 76 (6.82%) Containerisation
9 76 (6.82%) Infrastructure Automation
10 73 (6.55%) AI
11 71 (6.37%) Zero Trust
12 68 (6.10%) Disaster Recovery
13 67 (6.01%) Project Delivery
14 63 (5.66%) Continuous Improvement
15 61 (5.48%) ITIL
16 60 (5.39%) Validation
17 55 (4.94%) Observability
18 51 (4.58%) Cloud Security
18 51 (4.58%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 171 (15.35%) Python
2 161 (14.45%) PowerShell
3 68 (6.10%) Bash
4 47 (4.22%) SQL
5 34 (3.05%) Bicep
6 21 (1.89%) Java
6 21 (1.89%) Shell Script
7 20 (1.80%) C#
8 10 (0.90%) ActionScript
9 8 (0.72%) Go
10 7 (0.63%) JavaScript
11 6 (0.54%) JCL
11 6 (0.54%) TypeScript
12 5 (0.45%) PHP
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
1 405 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 257 (23.07%) SC Cleared
3 156 (14.00%) DV Cleared
4 42 (3.77%) Degree
5 32 (2.87%) Cisco Certification
6 26 (2.33%) Azure Certification
6 26 (2.33%) Microsoft Certification
7 22 (1.97%) CISSP
8 19 (1.71%) CCNA
9 18 (1.62%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 17 (1.53%) AWS Certification
11 14 (1.26%) CISM
12 12 (1.08%) CCNP
12 12 (1.08%) 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 36 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 34 (3.05%) NIST
3 25 (2.24%) QA
4 17 (1.53%) Cyber Essentials
5 13 (1.17%) NCSC
6 12 (1.08%) PCI DSS
7 10 (0.90%) SLA
8 8 (0.72%) GDPR
8 8 (0.72%) NIST 800
9 7 (0.63%) Data Quality
10 6 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 4 (0.36%) GLBA
11 4 (0.36%) SOC 2
12 3 (0.27%) PMO
13 2 (0.18%) GRC
13 2 (0.18%) ISO 19650
14 1 (0.090%) Actionable Recommendations
14 1 (0.090%) Disclosure Scotland
14 1 (0.090%) FedRAMP
14 1 (0.090%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 196 (17.59%) Active Directory
2 190 (17.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 80 (7.18%) Hyper-V
4 71 (6.37%) VMware ESXi
5 61 (5.48%) Docker
6 58 (5.21%) vSphere
7 39 (3.50%) Virtual Machines
8 34 (3.05%) VMware NSX
9 23 (2.06%) Virtual Desktop
10 15 (1.35%) NFS
11 11 (0.99%) BitLocker
12 9 (0.81%) Firmware
12 9 (0.81%) Microsoft App-V
13 5 (0.45%) GPFS
14 4 (0.36%) Terminal Services
14 4 (0.36%) Virtual Servers
15 2 (0.18%) KVM
15 2 (0.18%) UAG
15 2 (0.18%) Varnish
15 2 (0.18%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 216 (19.39%) Terraform
2 147 (13.20%) Kubernetes
3 124 (11.13%) Ansible
4 55 (4.94%) Microsoft Intune
5 45 (4.04%) vCenter Server
6 29 (2.60%) SCCM
7 21 (1.89%) Grafana
7 21 (1.89%) Prometheus
8 20 (1.80%) Puppet
9 19 (1.71%) Single Sign-On
9 19 (1.71%) WSUS
10 13 (1.17%) Nessus
11 12 (1.08%) Packer
11 12 (1.08%) SCOM
12 10 (0.90%) Argo
12 10 (0.90%) vRealize
13 9 (0.81%) vMotion
14 8 (0.72%) Istio
14 8 (0.72%) Progress Chef
14 8 (0.72%) VxRail
Vendors
1 258 (23.16%) VMware
2 247 (22.17%) Microsoft
3 66 (5.92%) Cisco
3 66 (5.92%) Citrix
4 50 (4.49%) F5
5 45 (4.04%) Google
6 42 (3.77%) ServiceNow
7 39 (3.50%) NetApp
8 37 (3.32%) Palo Alto
9 28 (2.51%) Red Hat
10 26 (2.33%) Veeam
11 24 (2.15%) Dell
12 23 (2.06%) Arista
12 23 (2.06%) Aruba
13 22 (1.97%) Fortinet
14 19 (1.71%) Oracle
15 15 (1.35%) IBM
15 15 (1.35%) Juniper
15 15 (1.35%) SolarWinds
15 15 (1.35%) Tenable