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

 6 months to
20 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 94 140 93
Rank change year-on-year +46 -47 +7
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 1,221 540 869
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.72% 1.97% 2.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.19% 2.17% 2.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 763 350 656
10th Percentile £350 £329 £313
25th Percentile £425 £400 £387
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £604 £600 £589
90th Percentile £675 £650 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 5 26
10th Percentile £55.06 £38.43 £45.59
25th Percentile £58.43 £51.06 £49.33
Median hourly rate £72.54 £77.00 £58.69
Median % change year-on-year -5.79% +31.20% -19.05%
75th Percentile £78.75 £200.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.86 - -
UK median hourly rate £73.27 £77.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -4.84% +18.46% -8.77%

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 38,301 24,864 30,650
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.33% 90.66% 85.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,041 15,953 19,995
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £421 £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 £735 £745 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,379 1,324 2,046
10th Percentile £15.33 £14.23 £13.22
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.88 £16.90
Median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year +88.87% -36.33% -7.06%
75th Percentile £69.10 £53.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £83.00 £71.39 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -10.31%

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 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 20 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 20 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 +32 352 £550 +4.76% 147
North of England +23 280 £525 - 85
South East +16 255 £536 -2.47% 116
South West +16 133 £549 -2.40% 56
Midlands +15 132 £463 +5.71% 48
Yorkshire -4 119 £500 - 31
North West +8 114 £550 +4.76% 40
West Midlands -20 84 £488 +21.88% 30
North East +2 56 £600 -7.69% 16
East of England +7 54 £500 +11.11% 23
East Midlands +16 46 £450 - 18
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 (4.42%) Microsoft Exchange
2 28 (2.29%) SharePoint
3 27 (2.21%) Confluence
4 13 (1.06%) CICS
5 8 (0.66%) WebSphere
6 6 (0.49%) Apache
7 4 (0.33%) SAS
8 3 (0.25%) CloudStack
8 3 (0.25%) SharePoint Server
9 2 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.16%) Apache Pulsar
9 2 (0.16%) nginx
9 2 (0.16%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.082%) IBM HTTP Server
10 1 (0.082%) JBoss
10 1 (0.082%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 14 (1.15%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.25%) AutoCAD
3 3 (0.25%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.082%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.082%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.082%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.16%) Primavera
2 1 (0.082%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.082%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.082%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.082%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.082%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 412 (33.74%) Azure
2 226 (18.51%) AWS
3 101 (8.27%) Entra ID
4 93 (7.62%) GCP
4 93 (7.62%) GitHub
5 89 (7.29%) Microsoft 365
6 63 (5.16%) GitHub Actions
7 62 (5.08%) IaaS
8 61 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
9 52 (4.26%) OCI
10 41 (3.36%) PaaS
10 41 (3.36%) SaaS
11 35 (2.87%) Azure AKS
12 32 (2.62%) Azure Monitor
13 27 (2.21%) Amazon EKS
13 27 (2.21%) Serverless
14 21 (1.72%) Amazon S3
15 19 (1.56%) AWS Lambda
15 19 (1.56%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 18 (1.47%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 190 (15.56%) DNS
2 182 (14.91%) Firewall
3 112 (9.17%) DHCP
4 68 (5.57%) VPN
5 63 (5.16%) Network Security
6 59 (4.83%) SAN
7 56 (4.59%) TCP/IP
8 54 (4.42%) VLAN
9 53 (4.34%) WAN
10 44 (3.60%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 34 (2.78%) BIG-IP
12 32 (2.62%) SD-WAN
13 31 (2.54%) BGP
14 28 (2.29%) LAN
14 28 (2.29%) OSPF
15 26 (2.13%) VXLAN
16 25 (2.05%) Ethernet VPN
17 23 (1.88%) Wi-Fi
18 22 (1.80%) SSL
19 20 (1.64%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (3.93%) SQL Server
2 15 (1.23%) Oracle Database
3 14 (1.15%) Oracle Exadata
3 14 (1.15%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (1.06%) Relational Database
5 11 (0.90%) RDBMS
6 10 (0.82%) Amazon RDS
7 9 (0.74%) Elasticsearch
8 8 (0.66%) Azure SQL Database
8 8 (0.66%) DynamoDB
9 7 (0.57%) Metadata
9 7 (0.57%) Power BI
10 6 (0.49%) Db2
11 5 (0.41%) Data Lake
12 4 (0.33%) Data Mining
12 4 (0.33%) NoSQL
12 4 (0.33%) Snowflake Schema
13 3 (0.25%) Data Warehouse
13 3 (0.25%) NonStop SQL
13 3 (0.25%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 69 (5.65%) GitLab
2 50 (4.10%) JIRA
3 48 (3.93%) Jenkins
4 44 (3.60%) Git
5 9 (0.74%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.16%) Artifactory
6 2 (0.16%) Subversion
7 1 (0.082%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.082%) Chocolatey
7 1 (0.082%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.082%) CMake
7 1 (0.082%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.082%) Gradle
7 1 (0.082%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.082%) Introscope
7 1 (0.082%) MLflow
7 1 (0.082%) MSI
7 1 (0.082%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.082%) Snyk
7 1 (0.082%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 191 (15.64%) Social Skills
2 111 (9.09%) Finance
3 96 (7.86%) Public Sector
4 58 (4.75%) Analytical Skills
5 49 (4.01%) Banking
6 43 (3.52%) Documentation Skills
7 25 (2.05%) Military
8 21 (1.72%) Legal
9 15 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 15 (1.23%) Retail
10 14 (1.15%) Aerospace
10 14 (1.15%) Telecoms
11 12 (0.98%) Manufacturing
12 11 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
13 10 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
13 10 (0.82%) Marketing
14 8 (0.66%) Law
15 5 (0.41%) Presentation Skills
16 4 (0.33%) Advertising
16 4 (0.33%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 825 (67.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 231 (18.92%) Senior
3 183 (14.99%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 116 (9.50%) Cloud Engineer
5 83 (6.80%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 80 (6.55%) Azure Engineer
7 57 (4.67%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 51 (4.18%) Network Engineer
9 41 (3.36%) DevOps Engineer
10 40 (3.28%) VMware Engineer
11 39 (3.19%) Lead
12 35 (2.87%) IT Engineer
12 35 (2.87%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
12 35 (2.87%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
12 35 (2.87%) Platform Engineer
13 34 (2.78%) Infrastructure Support
14 32 (2.62%) 3rd Line Engineer
14 32 (2.62%) Support Engineer
15 31 (2.54%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
15 31 (2.54%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (2.21%) REST
2 14 (1.15%) ARM Templates
2 14 (1.15%) SOAP
3 12 (0.98%) JSON
3 12 (0.98%) Middleware
4 11 (0.90%) Oracle GoldenGate
5 10 (0.82%) Elastic Stack
5 10 (0.82%) LDAP
5 10 (0.82%) OAuth
6 9 (0.74%) OpenID
6 9 (0.74%) YAML
7 8 (0.66%) Loki
7 8 (0.66%) SAML
8 7 (0.57%) Flash
8 7 (0.57%) Kafka
8 7 (0.57%) Web Services
9 6 (0.49%) ModSecurity
9 6 (0.49%) RESTful
9 6 (0.49%) WSDL
10 5 (0.41%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 135 (11.06%) Data Centre
2 79 (6.47%) Hybrid Cloud
3 55 (4.50%) Public Cloud
4 54 (4.42%) Cloud Native
5 49 (4.01%) PKI
6 38 (3.11%) Onboarding
7 32 (2.62%) Enterprise Storage
7 32 (2.62%) Replication
8 22 (1.80%) Private Cloud
9 19 (1.56%) Clustering
9 19 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
10 18 (1.47%) Management Information System
11 17 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
11 17 (1.39%) Distributed Systems
12 16 (1.31%) Linux Command Line
13 15 (1.23%) Virtual Team
14 14 (1.15%) Enterprise Cloud
14 14 (1.15%) Mainframe
15 13 (1.06%) Security Posture
16 9 (0.74%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 326 (26.70%) Windows
2 209 (17.12%) Linux
3 203 (16.63%) Windows Server
4 46 (3.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 19 (1.56%) Windows Server 2019
6 17 (1.39%) Apple iOS
6 17 (1.39%) Windows 10
7 16 (1.31%) Windows Server 2016
8 15 (1.23%) Android
8 15 (1.23%) Unix
9 14 (1.15%) Ubuntu
10 13 (1.06%) CentOS
10 13 (1.06%) zOS
11 12 (0.98%) AIX
11 12 (0.98%) VMS
12 8 (0.66%) Rocky
12 8 (0.66%) Windows Server 2012
13 7 (0.57%) Mac OS
13 7 (0.57%) Windows Server 2003
14 6 (0.49%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 275 (22.52%) Infrastructure as Code
2 231 (18.92%) DevOps
3 219 (17.94%) CI/CD
4 143 (11.71%) Migration
5 132 (10.81%) Problem-Solving
6 116 (9.50%) Platform Engineering
7 115 (9.42%) Agile
8 98 (8.03%) High Availability
9 85 (6.96%) Infrastructure Automation
10 82 (6.72%) Continuous Improvement
11 77 (6.31%) Containerisation
11 77 (6.31%) Disaster Recovery
11 77 (6.31%) Project Delivery
12 76 (6.22%) AI
13 71 (5.81%) Validation
14 69 (5.65%) Observability
14 69 (5.65%) Zero Trust
15 59 (4.83%) ITIL
16 58 (4.75%) Stakeholder Management
17 57 (4.67%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 200 (16.38%) Python
2 197 (16.13%) PowerShell
3 99 (8.11%) Bash
4 53 (4.34%) SQL
5 45 (3.69%) Bicep
6 22 (1.80%) Java
7 21 (1.72%) Shell Script
8 20 (1.64%) C#
9 10 (0.82%) ActionScript
10 8 (0.66%) Go
11 7 (0.57%) JavaScript
12 6 (0.49%) JCL
12 6 (0.49%) TypeScript
13 5 (0.41%) PHP
14 4 (0.33%) Groovy
15 3 (0.25%) C++
15 3 (0.25%) Kusto Query Language
16 2 (0.16%) C
16 2 (0.16%) Ruby
16 2 (0.16%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 462 (37.84%) Security Cleared
2 293 (24.00%) SC Cleared
3 174 (14.25%) DV Cleared
4 47 (3.85%) Degree
5 35 (2.87%) Cisco Certification
6 29 (2.38%) Azure Certification
7 23 (1.88%) Microsoft Certification
8 21 (1.72%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 20 (1.64%) AWS Certification
10 19 (1.56%) CCNA
11 16 (1.31%) CISSP
12 15 (1.23%) CCNP
13 12 (0.98%) MCSE
14 11 (0.90%) VCAP
15 10 (0.82%) Computer Science Degree
16 8 (0.66%) CISM
17 7 (0.57%) PMI Certification
18 6 (0.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 6 (0.49%) MCSA
18 6 (0.49%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (2.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 29 (2.38%) QA
3 25 (2.05%) NIST
4 15 (1.23%) NCSC
5 14 (1.15%) Cyber Essentials
6 9 (0.74%) SLA
7 8 (0.66%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 5 (0.41%) Data Quality
8 5 (0.41%) GRC
8 5 (0.41%) PMO
9 4 (0.33%) GDPR
9 4 (0.33%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.25%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.082%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.082%) Disclosure Scotland
11 1 (0.082%) FedRAMP
11 1 (0.082%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.082%) JSP 440
11 1 (0.082%) RMADS
System Software
1 219 (17.94%) VMware Infrastructure
2 217 (17.77%) Active Directory
3 84 (6.88%) Hyper-V
4 78 (6.39%) VMware ESXi
5 73 (5.98%) Docker
6 70 (5.73%) vSphere
7 50 (4.10%) Virtual Machines
8 40 (3.28%) VMware NSX
9 26 (2.13%) Virtual Desktop
10 14 (1.15%) NFS
11 11 (0.90%) Oracle RAC
12 10 (0.82%) BitLocker
13 8 (0.66%) Firmware
13 8 (0.66%) Microsoft App-V
14 6 (0.49%) KVM
15 5 (0.41%) GPFS
15 5 (0.41%) Terminal Services
16 4 (0.33%) Virtual Servers
17 2 (0.16%) VirtualBox
17 2 (0.16%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 257 (21.05%) Terraform
2 155 (12.69%) Kubernetes
3 153 (12.53%) Ansible
4 61 (5.00%) Microsoft Intune
5 51 (4.18%) vCenter Server
6 33 (2.70%) SCCM
7 30 (2.46%) Grafana
8 24 (1.97%) Prometheus
9 22 (1.80%) Puppet
10 19 (1.56%) WSUS
11 17 (1.39%) Argo
12 14 (1.15%) Nessus
12 14 (1.15%) Packer
12 14 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
13 13 (1.06%) NetBackup
14 11 (0.90%) Data Guard
14 11 (0.90%) Oracle RMAN
14 11 (0.90%) SCOM
15 9 (0.74%) vRealize
16 8 (0.66%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 282 (23.10%) VMware
2 280 (22.93%) Microsoft
3 70 (5.73%) Citrix
4 66 (5.41%) Cisco
5 53 (4.34%) F5
6 48 (3.93%) NetApp
7 44 (3.60%) Google
7 44 (3.60%) ServiceNow
8 41 (3.36%) Oracle
9 32 (2.62%) Palo Alto
9 32 (2.62%) Veeam
10 25 (2.05%) Dell
11 24 (1.97%) Arista
11 24 (1.97%) Red Hat
12 23 (1.88%) Fortinet
13 22 (1.80%) Aruba
14 18 (1.47%) Juniper
14 18 (1.47%) Tenable
15 14 (1.15%) Zscaler
16 13 (1.06%) IBM
447 Infrastructure Engineering jobs in England