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

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 129 86
Rank change year-on-year +7 -43 +42
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 830 524 912
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.12% 2.15% 2.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.48% 2.36% 2.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 582 367 670
10th Percentile £350 £309 £286
25th Percentile £425 £398 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £524 £525 £488
Median % change year-on-year -0.24% +7.69% -2.50%
75th Percentile £600 £603 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £710
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -1.90% +5.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 10 36
10th Percentile £33.40 £24.18 £21.25
25th Percentile £58.43 £52.14 £37.49
Median hourly rate £72.54 £62.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +16.06% +35.34% -28.95%
75th Percentile £78.75 £71.56 £59.64
90th Percentile £79.63 £200.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £72.54 £62.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +16.06% +35.34% -26.32%

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 33,504 22,203 32,130
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.48% 91.02% 86.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,453 14,593 21,161
10th Percentile £313 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,080 880 2,196
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.83 £12.85
25th Percentile £20.07 £18.51 £15.75
Median hourly rate £41.56 £31.76 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.84% -6.59% -9.33%
75th Percentile £66.50 £64.50 £58.69
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.28 £71.75
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £30.78 £33.07
% change year-on-year +20.21% -6.91% -8.79%

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 April 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 April 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 April 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 -17 240 £550 +4.76% 95
North of England -14 165 £487 -7.24% 84
South East -14 152 £525 -4.55% 77
South West +8 124 £550 -2.22% 51
Yorkshire -5 103 £475 -9.52% 29
Midlands -15 81 £450 +12.50% 39
North West -30 55 £525 +0.02% 41
East of England -2 53 £475 -10.38% 21
West Midlands -36 46 £494 +43.04% 31
East Midlands -7 35 £450 - 8
North East -19 8 £500 +36.99% 15
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 57 (6.87%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (2.05%) SharePoint
3 12 (1.45%) Confluence
4 11 (1.33%) Apache
5 8 (0.96%) TPMS
6 6 (0.72%) IIS
7 3 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.36%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.36%) CICS
7 3 (0.36%) SAS
8 2 (0.24%) Apache Pulsar
8 2 (0.24%) Exchange Server 2010
8 2 (0.24%) nginx
9 1 (0.12%) IBM HTTP Server
9 1 (0.12%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.12%) SharePoint Server
9 1 (0.12%) Skype for Business
9 1 (0.12%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.12%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 15 (1.81%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.24%) Acrobat
3 2 (0.24%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (0.84%) Maximo
2 2 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 257 (30.96%) Azure
2 130 (15.66%) AWS
3 89 (10.72%) Microsoft 365
4 71 (8.55%) Entra ID
5 58 (6.99%) GCP
6 51 (6.14%) GitHub
7 47 (5.66%) IaaS
8 42 (5.06%) Azure DevOps
9 41 (4.94%) PaaS
10 34 (4.10%) OpenShift
11 33 (3.98%) Serverless
12 32 (3.86%) GitHub Actions
13 27 (3.25%) Azure AKS
13 27 (3.25%) SaaS
14 25 (3.01%) Azure Monitor
15 24 (2.89%) AWS CloudFormation
16 23 (2.77%) AWS Lambda
16 23 (2.77%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 21 (2.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 20 (2.41%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 124 (14.94%) Firewall
2 105 (12.65%) DNS
3 62 (7.47%) DHCP
3 62 (7.47%) VPN
4 45 (5.42%) Network Security
5 36 (4.34%) SAN
6 32 (3.86%) WAN
7 31 (3.73%) VLAN
8 30 (3.61%) LAN
9 29 (3.49%) TCP/IP
10 17 (2.05%) NAS
10 17 (2.05%) SSL
11 16 (1.93%) MPLS
12 15 (1.81%) Wi-Fi
13 13 (1.57%) BGP
13 13 (1.57%) Fibre Channel
13 13 (1.57%) iSCSI
14 12 (1.45%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 10 (1.20%) SMTP
15 10 (1.20%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (3.37%) SQL Server
2 10 (1.20%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (1.08%) DynamoDB
3 9 (1.08%) Elasticsearch
4 8 (0.96%) MongoDB
5 6 (0.72%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (0.72%) NoSQL
5 6 (0.72%) Power BI
6 5 (0.60%) Relational Database
7 4 (0.48%) Data Mining
8 3 (0.36%) Big Data
8 3 (0.36%) Data Lake
8 3 (0.36%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (0.36%) DB2
8 3 (0.36%) Metadata
8 3 (0.36%) NonStop SQL
8 3 (0.36%) Oracle Database
8 3 (0.36%) RDBMS
9 2 (0.24%) SAP HANA
9 2 (0.24%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 34 (4.10%) Jenkins
2 31 (3.73%) GitLab
3 28 (3.37%) Git
3 28 (3.37%) JIRA
4 6 (0.72%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.24%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.12%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.12%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.12%) GoCD
6 1 (0.12%) IntelliJ
6 1 (0.12%) Introscope
6 1 (0.12%) Jaeger
6 1 (0.12%) MSI
6 1 (0.12%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.12%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 140 (16.87%) Social Skills
2 84 (10.12%) Finance
3 72 (8.67%) Public Sector
4 54 (6.51%) Analytical Skills
5 43 (5.18%) Banking
6 29 (3.49%) Documentation Skills
7 22 (2.65%) Military
8 19 (2.29%) Legal
9 12 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 11 (1.33%) Aerospace
11 8 (0.96%) Billing
11 8 (0.96%) Influencing Skills
11 8 (0.96%) Retail
12 6 (0.72%) Manufacturing
12 6 (0.72%) Telecoms
13 5 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (0.48%) Front Office
14 4 (0.48%) Presentation Skills
15 3 (0.36%) Investment Banking
15 3 (0.36%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 525 (63.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 116 (13.98%) Senior
3 82 (9.88%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 59 (7.11%) Azure Engineer
5 52 (6.27%) Cloud Engineer
6 46 (5.54%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
7 39 (4.70%) Network Engineer
8 36 (4.34%) VMware Engineer
9 32 (3.86%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
9 32 (3.86%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
10 31 (3.73%) Automation Engineer
11 30 (3.61%) Architect
12 29 (3.49%) DevOps Engineer
13 25 (3.01%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
14 24 (2.89%) IT Engineer
14 24 (2.89%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
14 24 (2.89%) Platform Engineer
15 23 (2.77%) Support Engineer
16 22 (2.65%) 3rd Line Engineer
16 22 (2.65%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (3.01%) REST
2 15 (1.81%) SOAP
3 14 (1.69%) ARM Templates
4 11 (1.33%) OAuth
4 11 (1.33%) SAML
5 9 (1.08%) OAuth2
5 9 (1.08%) OpenID
6 8 (0.96%) Kafka
6 8 (0.96%) Web Services
7 7 (0.84%) Elastic Stack
7 7 (0.84%) LDAP
8 5 (0.60%) GraphQL
8 5 (0.60%) Middleware
9 4 (0.48%) Keycloak
9 4 (0.48%) OpenTelemetry
10 3 (0.36%) Apache NiFi
10 3 (0.36%) OpenAPI
10 3 (0.36%) Pandas
10 3 (0.36%) Spring Boot
10 3 (0.36%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 43 (5.18%) Data Centre
1 43 (5.18%) PKI
2 39 (4.70%) Hybrid Cloud
3 33 (3.98%) Public Cloud
4 29 (3.49%) Private Cloud
5 27 (3.25%) Cloud Native
5 27 (3.25%) Onboarding
5 27 (3.25%) Replication
6 26 (3.13%) Enterprise Storage
7 19 (2.29%) Enterprise Software
7 19 (2.29%) Self-Motivation
8 14 (1.69%) Clustering
9 10 (1.20%) Virtual Team
10 8 (0.96%) Mainframe
11 7 (0.84%) Analytical Mindset
11 7 (0.84%) CCTV
11 7 (0.84%) DataPower
11 7 (0.84%) Operational Technology
11 7 (0.84%) Product Ownership
12 6 (0.72%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 249 (30.00%) Windows
2 146 (17.59%) Windows Server
3 141 (16.99%) Linux
4 26 (3.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 17 (2.05%) Ubuntu
5 17 (2.05%) Windows Server 2016
6 15 (1.81%) Unix
6 15 (1.81%) Windows Server 2012
7 14 (1.69%) VMS
7 14 (1.69%) Windows 10
7 14 (1.69%) Windows Server 2019
8 13 (1.57%) Apple iOS
9 11 (1.33%) Android
10 8 (0.96%) Mac OS
11 7 (0.84%) Windows Server 2003
12 6 (0.72%) CentOS
13 4 (0.48%) Debian
14 3 (0.36%) zOS
15 2 (0.24%) SUSE
15 2 (0.24%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 169 (20.36%) DevOps
2 150 (18.07%) Infrastructure as Code
3 137 (16.51%) CI/CD
4 119 (14.34%) Problem-Solving
5 103 (12.41%) Migration
6 87 (10.48%) Agile
7 78 (9.40%) Platform Engineering
8 77 (9.28%) Containerisation
9 70 (8.43%) High Availability
10 67 (8.07%) Infrastructure Automation
11 65 (7.83%) ITIL
12 64 (7.71%) Disaster Recovery
13 58 (6.99%) Cybersecurity
14 53 (6.39%) Project Delivery
15 48 (5.78%) Observability
16 45 (5.42%) Continuous Improvement
17 44 (5.30%) Cloud Security
18 40 (4.82%) Zero Trust
19 39 (4.70%) Technical Leadership
19 39 (4.70%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 138 (16.63%) PowerShell
2 115 (13.86%) Python
3 58 (6.99%) Bash
4 31 (3.73%) Bicep
4 31 (3.73%) SQL
5 25 (3.01%) Shell Script
6 13 (1.57%) C#
6 13 (1.57%) Java
7 9 (1.08%) JavaScript
7 9 (1.08%) PHP
8 7 (0.84%) Ruby
9 4 (0.48%) C++
9 4 (0.48%) Go
9 4 (0.48%) Groovy
9 4 (0.48%) Perl
10 3 (0.36%) JCL
11 2 (0.24%) ActionScript
11 2 (0.24%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.24%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.24%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 310 (37.35%) Security Cleared
2 193 (23.25%) SC Cleared
3 124 (14.94%) DV Cleared
4 32 (3.86%) Degree
5 30 (3.61%) Azure Certification
6 27 (3.25%) Microsoft Certification
7 26 (3.13%) Cisco Certification
8 19 (2.29%) CISSP
9 17 (2.05%) CISM
10 16 (1.93%) CCNA
11 14 (1.69%) AWS Certification
11 14 (1.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 13 (1.57%) CCNP
13 9 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
14 8 (0.96%) Computer Science Degree
14 8 (0.96%) FFIEC
15 7 (0.84%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
16 5 (0.60%) CompTIA Security+
16 5 (0.60%) GIAC
16 5 (0.60%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (3.73%) NIST
2 25 (3.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 16 (1.93%) Cyber Essentials
3 16 (1.93%) GDPR
4 14 (1.69%) PCI DSS
5 10 (1.20%) SLA
6 9 (1.08%) QA
7 8 (0.96%) GLBA
7 8 (0.96%) NCSC
7 8 (0.96%) NIST 800
8 6 (0.72%) Data Quality
9 3 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (0.24%) ISO 19650
10 2 (0.24%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.12%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.12%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 1 (0.12%) PMO
11 1 (0.12%) RMADS
System Software
1 162 (19.52%) Active Directory
1 162 (19.52%) VMware Infrastructure
2 69 (8.31%) Docker
3 68 (8.19%) Hyper-V
4 45 (5.42%) vSphere
5 40 (4.82%) VMware ESXi
6 23 (2.77%) Virtual Machines
7 22 (2.65%) VMware NSX
8 20 (2.41%) Virtual Desktop
9 13 (1.57%) NFS
10 10 (1.20%) BitLocker
11 7 (0.84%) Firmware
11 7 (0.84%) Microsoft App-V
12 4 (0.48%) Sendmail
13 3 (0.36%) DFS Replication
14 2 (0.24%) Postfix
14 2 (0.24%) QEMU
14 2 (0.24%) SRDF
14 2 (0.24%) Varnish
15 1 (0.12%) iptables
Systems Management
1 163 (19.64%) Terraform
2 139 (16.75%) Kubernetes
3 86 (10.36%) Ansible
4 64 (7.71%) Microsoft Intune
5 43 (5.18%) SCCM
6 34 (4.10%) vCenter Server
7 24 (2.89%) Single Sign-On
8 18 (2.17%) Grafana
9 17 (2.05%) Puppet
10 14 (1.69%) Prometheus
11 12 (1.45%) SCOM
12 11 (1.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 10 (1.20%) Istio
13 10 (1.20%) Packer
13 10 (1.20%) Progress Chef
13 10 (1.20%) WSUS
14 9 (1.08%) VxRail
15 8 (0.96%) vRealize
16 7 (0.84%) AirWatch
16 7 (0.84%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 226 (27.23%) Microsoft
2 210 (25.30%) VMware
3 54 (6.51%) Cisco
4 48 (5.78%) Citrix
5 38 (4.58%) NetApp
6 34 (4.10%) Red Hat
7 31 (3.73%) Dell
7 31 (3.73%) Google
7 31 (3.73%) Veeam
8 30 (3.61%) ServiceNow
9 26 (3.13%) Fortinet
10 21 (2.53%) Splunk
11 20 (2.41%) F5
12 19 (2.29%) Palo Alto
13 17 (2.05%) IBM
13 17 (2.05%) SolarWinds
14 12 (1.45%) Oracle
14 12 (1.45%) Thales
15 10 (1.20%) Juniper
16 9 (1.08%) EMC