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

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 136 90
Rank change year-on-year +40 -46 +19
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 1,089 515 886
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.54% 2.09% 2.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.99% 2.28% 2.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 714 347 668
10th Percentile £350 £325 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -1.19%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £594
90th Percentile £675 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 5 31
10th Percentile £46.40 £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% -15.58%

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 36,481 22,561 31,958
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.14% 91.35% 85.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,067 14,578 20,676
10th Percentile £325 £302 £300
25th Percentile £415 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.46% -0.98% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £506 £525
% change year-on-year +1.28% -3.62% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,283 1,053 2,381
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £20.81 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.00 £27.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +70.91% -26.67% +7.05%
75th Percentile £68.00 £56.25 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £26.32 £37.18
% change year-on-year +67.02% -29.21% +6.23%

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 16 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 16 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 16 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 +21 318 £550 +4.76% 138
North of England +14 251 £515 -1.90% 98
South East +5 206 £512 -6.91% 74
South West +20 121 £538 -4.44% 94
Yorkshire -2 121 £450 -14.29% 23
Midlands +2 112 £450 +12.50% 68
North West +4 88 £575 +9.52% 60
West Midlands -18 73 £525 +40.00% 37
East of England -6 58 £475 +1.82% 25
North East +1 49 £600 -7.69% 16
East Midlands +3 38 £450 - 31
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 56 (5.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 18 (1.65%) Confluence
2 18 (1.65%) SharePoint
3 10 (0.92%) Apache
4 7 (0.64%) CICS
5 5 (0.46%) TPMS
6 4 (0.37%) SAS
7 3 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.28%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.28%) IIS
8 2 (0.18%) Apache Pulsar
8 2 (0.18%) CloudStack
8 2 (0.18%) nginx
8 2 (0.18%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.092%) IBM HTTP Server
9 1 (0.092%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.092%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 11 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.46%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.28%) AutoCAD
4 2 (0.18%) Acrobat
4 2 (0.18%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.092%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.092%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.092%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (0.46%) Maximo
2 1 (0.092%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.092%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.092%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.092%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 358 (32.87%) Azure
2 195 (17.91%) AWS
3 94 (8.63%) GCP
4 84 (7.71%) Microsoft 365
5 82 (7.53%) GitHub
6 81 (7.44%) Entra ID
7 57 (5.23%) Azure DevOps
8 56 (5.14%) IaaS
9 55 (5.05%) GitHub Actions
10 43 (3.95%) SaaS
11 37 (3.40%) Azure AKS
12 36 (3.31%) OCI
12 36 (3.31%) PaaS
13 30 (2.75%) Azure Monitor
14 27 (2.48%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 27 (2.48%) Serverless
15 21 (1.93%) OpenShift
16 19 (1.74%) Amazon EKS
16 19 (1.74%) AWS Lambda
17 18 (1.65%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 156 (14.33%) Firewall
2 148 (13.59%) DNS
3 90 (8.26%) DHCP
4 63 (5.79%) VPN
5 54 (4.96%) Network Security
6 49 (4.50%) WAN
7 44 (4.04%) SAN
8 41 (3.76%) VLAN
9 38 (3.49%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 35 (3.21%) TCP/IP
11 32 (2.94%) BGP
11 32 (2.94%) BIG-IP
12 31 (2.85%) SD-WAN
13 28 (2.57%) OSPF
14 26 (2.39%) LAN
14 26 (2.39%) VXLAN
15 25 (2.30%) Ethernet VPN
16 24 (2.20%) SSL
17 19 (1.74%) Wi-Fi
18 18 (1.65%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (3.40%) SQL Server
2 11 (1.01%) Elasticsearch
2 11 (1.01%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (0.83%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (0.73%) DynamoDB
4 8 (0.73%) Power BI
5 7 (0.64%) Metadata
5 7 (0.64%) NoSQL
6 6 (0.55%) Db2
6 6 (0.55%) Relational Database
7 5 (0.46%) Big Data
7 5 (0.46%) Oracle Database
7 5 (0.46%) RDBMS
8 4 (0.37%) Data Lake
8 4 (0.37%) Data Mining
8 4 (0.37%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (0.37%) Snowflake Schema
9 3 (0.28%) MongoDB
9 3 (0.28%) NonStop SQL
9 3 (0.28%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 59 (5.42%) GitLab
2 48 (4.41%) Jenkins
3 45 (4.13%) JIRA
4 29 (2.66%) Git
5 8 (0.73%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.092%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.092%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.092%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.092%) CMake
6 1 (0.092%) GoCD
6 1 (0.092%) Gradle
6 1 (0.092%) IntelliJ
6 1 (0.092%) Introscope
6 1 (0.092%) MSI
6 1 (0.092%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.092%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 156 (14.33%) Social Skills
2 98 (9.00%) Finance
3 79 (7.25%) Public Sector
4 49 (4.50%) Analytical Skills
5 43 (3.95%) Banking
6 38 (3.49%) Documentation Skills
7 21 (1.93%) Military
8 18 (1.65%) Legal
9 15 (1.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 15 (1.38%) Retail
10 14 (1.29%) Telecoms
11 13 (1.19%) Aerospace
12 10 (0.92%) Influencing Skills
12 10 (0.92%) Marketing
13 9 (0.83%) Billing
13 9 (0.83%) Manufacturing
14 8 (0.73%) Organisational Skills
15 6 (0.55%) Law
16 5 (0.46%) Presentation Skills
17 4 (0.37%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 742 (68.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 194 (17.81%) Senior
3 151 (13.87%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 82 (7.53%) Cloud Engineer
5 64 (5.88%) Azure Engineer
6 60 (5.51%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
7 54 (4.96%) Network Engineer
8 47 (4.32%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
9 43 (3.95%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
10 42 (3.86%) DevOps Engineer
11 37 (3.40%) Support Engineer
12 35 (3.21%) Infrastructure Support
13 34 (3.12%) VMware Engineer
14 33 (3.03%) Architect
15 32 (2.94%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
16 31 (2.85%) IT Engineer
16 31 (2.85%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
17 30 (2.75%) 3rd Line Engineer
17 30 (2.75%) Security Engineer
18 29 (2.66%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (2.39%) REST
2 14 (1.29%) SOAP
3 13 (1.19%) ARM Templates
4 11 (1.01%) LDAP
5 10 (0.92%) OAuth
6 9 (0.83%) Elastic Stack
6 9 (0.83%) JSON
7 8 (0.73%) Kafka
7 8 (0.73%) OpenID
8 7 (0.64%) Flash
8 7 (0.64%) Middleware
8 7 (0.64%) SAML
8 7 (0.64%) Web Services
8 7 (0.64%) YAML
9 6 (0.55%) OAuth2
9 6 (0.55%) RESTful
9 6 (0.55%) WSDL
10 5 (0.46%) ADO
10 5 (0.46%) AWS CDK
10 5 (0.46%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 111 (10.19%) Data Centre
2 72 (6.61%) Hybrid Cloud
3 50 (4.59%) Cloud Native
4 43 (3.95%) Public Cloud
5 42 (3.86%) PKI
6 38 (3.49%) Onboarding
7 27 (2.48%) Enterprise Storage
8 24 (2.20%) Private Cloud
8 24 (2.20%) Replication
9 20 (1.84%) Self-Motivation
10 15 (1.38%) Clustering
11 14 (1.29%) Distributed Systems
11 14 (1.29%) Enterprise Software
11 14 (1.29%) Virtual Team
12 12 (1.10%) Management Information System
13 10 (0.92%) CMDB
13 10 (0.92%) Data Protection Act
13 10 (0.92%) Linux Command Line
14 9 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
14 9 (0.83%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 294 (27.00%) Windows
2 178 (16.35%) Windows Server
3 169 (15.52%) Linux
4 34 (3.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 17 (1.56%) Apple iOS
5 17 (1.56%) Windows Server 2019
6 16 (1.47%) Unix
6 16 (1.47%) Windows 10
7 15 (1.38%) Android
8 14 (1.29%) Ubuntu
8 14 (1.29%) Windows Server 2016
9 9 (0.83%) VMS
9 9 (0.83%) Windows Server 2003
9 9 (0.83%) Windows Server 2012
10 8 (0.73%) CentOS
10 8 (0.73%) Debian
11 7 (0.64%) Mac OS
11 7 (0.64%) zOS
12 3 (0.28%) AIX
13 2 (0.18%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 227 (20.84%) Infrastructure as Code
2 221 (20.29%) DevOps
3 192 (17.63%) CI/CD
4 124 (11.39%) Problem-Solving
5 116 (10.65%) Migration
6 102 (9.37%) Agile
7 95 (8.72%) Platform Engineering
8 90 (8.26%) High Availability
9 76 (6.98%) Containerisation
10 75 (6.89%) Infrastructure Automation
11 72 (6.61%) Zero Trust
12 68 (6.24%) AI
13 63 (5.79%) Disaster Recovery
13 63 (5.79%) Project Delivery
14 62 (5.69%) ITIL
15 60 (5.51%) Observability
16 59 (5.42%) Continuous Improvement
17 55 (5.05%) Validation
18 52 (4.78%) Cybersecurity
18 52 (4.78%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 163 (14.97%) Python
2 154 (14.14%) PowerShell
3 65 (5.97%) Bash
4 43 (3.95%) SQL
5 33 (3.03%) Bicep
6 21 (1.93%) Java
6 21 (1.93%) Shell Script
7 19 (1.74%) C#
8 9 (0.83%) ActionScript
9 8 (0.73%) Go
10 7 (0.64%) JavaScript
11 6 (0.55%) JCL
12 5 (0.46%) PHP
13 4 (0.37%) Groovy
13 4 (0.37%) TypeScript
14 3 (0.28%) 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
1 389 (35.72%) Security Cleared
2 246 (22.59%) SC Cleared
3 150 (13.77%) DV Cleared
4 40 (3.67%) Degree
5 31 (2.85%) Cisco Certification
6 24 (2.20%) Azure Certification
7 23 (2.11%) Microsoft Certification
8 21 (1.93%) CISSP
9 19 (1.74%) CCNA
10 17 (1.56%) AWS Certification
10 17 (1.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 15 (1.38%) CISM
12 12 (1.10%) CCNP
13 9 (0.83%) MCSE
14 7 (0.64%) Computer Science Degree
15 6 (0.55%) PMI Certification
15 6 (0.55%) RHCA
15 6 (0.55%) VCAP
16 5 (0.46%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
16 5 (0.46%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (3.12%) NIST
2 32 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 21 (1.93%) QA
4 15 (1.38%) Cyber Essentials
5 14 (1.29%) SLA
6 13 (1.19%) PCI DSS
7 12 (1.10%) NCSC
8 10 (0.92%) GDPR
9 8 (0.73%) NIST 800
10 7 (0.64%) Data Quality
11 5 (0.46%) GLBA
12 4 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 4 (0.37%) SOC 2
13 2 (0.18%) GRC
13 2 (0.18%) ISO 19650
13 2 (0.18%) PMO
14 1 (0.092%) Actionable Recommendations
14 1 (0.092%) Disclosure Scotland
14 1 (0.092%) FedRAMP
14 1 (0.092%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 188 (17.26%) Active Directory
2 180 (16.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 77 (7.07%) Hyper-V
4 63 (5.79%) Docker
4 63 (5.79%) VMware ESXi
5 59 (5.42%) vSphere
6 37 (3.40%) Virtual Machines
7 33 (3.03%) VMware NSX
8 22 (2.02%) Virtual Desktop
9 15 (1.38%) NFS
10 12 (1.10%) BitLocker
11 10 (0.92%) Microsoft App-V
12 8 (0.73%) Firmware
13 5 (0.46%) GPFS
14 4 (0.37%) Terminal Services
14 4 (0.37%) Virtual Servers
15 3 (0.28%) DFS Replication
16 2 (0.18%) SRDF
16 2 (0.18%) UAG
16 2 (0.18%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 213 (19.56%) Terraform
2 145 (13.31%) Kubernetes
3 124 (11.39%) Ansible
4 57 (5.23%) Microsoft Intune
5 40 (3.67%) vCenter Server
6 28 (2.57%) SCCM
7 22 (2.02%) Grafana
7 22 (2.02%) Prometheus
8 21 (1.93%) Puppet
9 17 (1.56%) Single Sign-On
10 15 (1.38%) WSUS
11 12 (1.10%) Packer
11 12 (1.10%) SCOM
12 10 (0.92%) Argo
12 10 (0.92%) Nessus
12 10 (0.92%) vMotion
12 10 (0.92%) vRealize
13 9 (0.83%) VxRail
14 8 (0.73%) Istio
14 8 (0.73%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 250 (22.96%) VMware
2 239 (21.95%) Microsoft
3 66 (6.06%) Citrix
4 62 (5.69%) Cisco
5 48 (4.41%) F5
6 44 (4.04%) Google
6 44 (4.04%) ServiceNow
7 41 (3.76%) Palo Alto
8 39 (3.58%) NetApp
9 28 (2.57%) Veeam
10 25 (2.30%) Dell
10 25 (2.30%) Red Hat
11 24 (2.20%) Aruba
12 23 (2.11%) Arista
13 22 (2.02%) Fortinet
14 19 (1.74%) Oracle
15 14 (1.29%) SolarWinds
16 13 (1.19%) Splunk
17 12 (1.10%) IBM
17 12 (1.10%) Juniper