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

 6 months to
3 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 138 93
Rank change year-on-year +39 -45 +20
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 1,023 489 884
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.45% 2.04% 2.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.88% 2.24% 2.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 692 330 671
10th Percentile £340 £329 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% -2.50%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £650 £695
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £475
% change year-on-year - +10.53% -7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 6 32
10th Percentile £44.20 £53.22 £37.63
25th Percentile £58.43 £57.16 £45.00
Median hourly rate £72.54 £67.50 £54.88
Median % change year-on-year +7.47% +23.01% -20.18%
75th Percentile £77.06 £168.44 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £200.00 -
UK median hourly rate £72.54 £67.50 £54.88
% change year-on-year +7.47% +23.01% -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 35,462 21,869 31,644
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.04% 91.35% 85.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,467 14,201 20,640
10th Percentile £325 £305 £300
25th Percentile £413 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £513 £525
% change year-on-year - -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,230 965 2,327
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.85
25th Percentile £20.69 £18.10 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.00 £28.60 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +64.34% -23.73% +0.54%
75th Percentile £68.00 £60.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.91 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.69 £27.85 £36.50
% change year-on-year +53.27% -23.70% +1.39%

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 3 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 3 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 3 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 +3 281 £550 +4.76% 144
North of England +9 231 £500 -4.76% 93
South East +12 206 £525 -4.55% 113
South West +12 117 £550 -4.35% 83
Yorkshire -7 115 £425 -19.05% 26
Midlands 0 106 £450 +12.50% 53
North West +5 83 £525 +0.05% 52
West Midlands -23 68 £525 +40.00% 34
East of England -2 59 £475 +1.82% 22
North East -4 39 £600 -7.69% 15
East Midlands -2 37 £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 59 (5.77%) Microsoft Exchange
2 20 (1.96%) SharePoint
3 15 (1.47%) Confluence
4 10 (0.98%) Apache
5 7 (0.68%) CICS
6 5 (0.49%) TPMS
7 4 (0.39%) IIS
7 4 (0.39%) SAS
8 3 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.29%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.20%) Apache Pulsar
9 2 (0.20%) CloudStack
9 2 (0.20%) nginx
9 2 (0.20%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.098%) IBM HTTP Server
10 1 (0.098%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.098%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 15 (1.47%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.20%) Acrobat
3 2 (0.20%) AutoCAD
3 2 (0.20%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.098%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.098%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.098%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (0.49%) Maximo
2 1 (0.098%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.098%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.098%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 332 (32.45%) Azure
2 179 (17.50%) AWS
3 89 (8.70%) Microsoft 365
4 82 (8.02%) GCP
5 72 (7.04%) GitHub
6 71 (6.94%) Entra ID
7 52 (5.08%) IaaS
8 51 (4.99%) Azure DevOps
9 47 (4.59%) GitHub Actions
10 40 (3.91%) SaaS
11 35 (3.42%) PaaS
12 33 (3.23%) Azure AKS
12 33 (3.23%) OCI
13 27 (2.64%) Azure Monitor
13 27 (2.64%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 26 (2.54%) Serverless
15 22 (2.15%) OpenShift
16 18 (1.76%) AWS Lambda
17 17 (1.66%) Nutanix
18 14 (1.37%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 145 (14.17%) Firewall
2 136 (13.29%) DNS
3 82 (8.02%) DHCP
4 58 (5.67%) VPN
5 49 (4.79%) Network Security
6 48 (4.69%) WAN
7 43 (4.20%) SAN
8 36 (3.52%) VLAN
9 35 (3.42%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 31 (3.03%) TCP/IP
11 30 (2.93%) BGP
12 29 (2.83%) SD-WAN
13 28 (2.74%) BIG-IP
13 28 (2.74%) LAN
14 26 (2.54%) OSPF
15 24 (2.35%) VXLAN
16 23 (2.25%) Ethernet VPN
17 20 (1.96%) NAS
18 19 (1.86%) SSL
18 19 (1.86%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (3.42%) SQL Server
2 10 (0.98%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (0.78%) DynamoDB
3 8 (0.78%) Elasticsearch
3 8 (0.78%) Power BI
4 7 (0.68%) Metadata
4 7 (0.68%) NoSQL
5 6 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (0.59%) DB2
6 4 (0.39%) Data Lake
6 4 (0.39%) Data Mining
6 4 (0.39%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (0.39%) Relational Database
6 4 (0.39%) Snowflake Schema
7 3 (0.29%) MongoDB
7 3 (0.29%) NonStop SQL
7 3 (0.29%) Oracle Database
7 3 (0.29%) Pentaho
7 3 (0.29%) RDBMS
8 2 (0.20%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 52 (5.08%) GitLab
2 42 (4.11%) Jenkins
3 38 (3.71%) JIRA
4 26 (2.54%) Git
5 8 (0.78%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.098%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.098%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.098%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.098%) CMake
6 1 (0.098%) GoCD
6 1 (0.098%) Gradle
6 1 (0.098%) IntelliJ
6 1 (0.098%) Introscope
6 1 (0.098%) MSI
6 1 (0.098%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.098%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 154 (15.05%) Social Skills
2 90 (8.80%) Finance
3 80 (7.82%) Public Sector
4 55 (5.38%) Analytical Skills
5 42 (4.11%) Banking
6 35 (3.42%) Documentation Skills
7 21 (2.05%) Military
8 18 (1.76%) Legal
9 13 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 13 (1.27%) Retail
10 12 (1.17%) Aerospace
11 10 (0.98%) Influencing Skills
11 10 (0.98%) Telecoms
12 9 (0.88%) Billing
12 9 (0.88%) Manufacturing
13 8 (0.78%) Marketing
14 7 (0.68%) Organisational Skills
15 5 (0.49%) Presentation Skills
16 4 (0.39%) Advertising
16 4 (0.39%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 695 (67.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 180 (17.60%) Senior
3 141 (13.78%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 70 (6.84%) Cloud Engineer
5 59 (5.77%) Azure Engineer
6 51 (4.99%) Network Engineer
7 49 (4.79%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 44 (4.30%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
9 40 (3.91%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
9 40 (3.91%) VMware Engineer
10 36 (3.52%) Automation Engineer
11 32 (3.13%) Architect
11 32 (3.13%) DevOps Engineer
11 32 (3.13%) Support Engineer
12 30 (2.93%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
13 29 (2.83%) Infrastructure Support
13 29 (2.83%) IT Engineer
13 29 (2.83%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
13 29 (2.83%) Security Engineer
14 28 (2.74%) Citrix Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (2.54%) REST
2 18 (1.76%) SOAP
3 13 (1.27%) ARM Templates
4 11 (1.08%) Web Services
5 9 (0.88%) Elastic Stack
5 9 (0.88%) LDAP
6 8 (0.78%) JSON
6 8 (0.78%) Kafka
7 7 (0.68%) Flash
7 7 (0.68%) Middleware
7 7 (0.68%) OAuth
8 6 (0.59%) RESTful
8 6 (0.59%) WSDL
9 5 (0.49%) GraphQL
9 5 (0.49%) OAuth2
9 5 (0.49%) OpenID
9 5 (0.49%) YAML
10 4 (0.39%) ADO
10 4 (0.39%) Keycloak
10 4 (0.39%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 99 (9.68%) Data Centre
2 65 (6.35%) Hybrid Cloud
3 41 (4.01%) Public Cloud
4 39 (3.81%) Cloud Native
5 38 (3.71%) PKI
6 33 (3.23%) Onboarding
7 27 (2.64%) Enterprise Storage
7 27 (2.64%) Private Cloud
8 26 (2.54%) Replication
9 20 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
10 14 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
10 14 (1.37%) Virtual Team
11 12 (1.17%) Clustering
12 11 (1.08%) Management Information System
13 10 (0.98%) Data Protection Act
14 9 (0.88%) Analytical Mindset
15 8 (0.78%) CMDB
15 8 (0.78%) Enterprise Cloud
15 8 (0.78%) Mainframe
15 8 (0.78%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 280 (27.37%) Windows
2 170 (16.62%) Windows Server
3 155 (15.15%) Linux
4 31 (3.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 19 (1.86%) Windows Server 2019
6 17 (1.66%) Apple iOS
6 17 (1.66%) Windows Server 2016
7 15 (1.47%) Android
8 14 (1.37%) Ubuntu
8 14 (1.37%) Windows 10
9 12 (1.17%) Unix
10 10 (0.98%) VMS
11 8 (0.78%) CentOS
11 8 (0.78%) Debian
11 8 (0.78%) Windows Server 2003
11 8 (0.78%) Windows Server 2012
12 7 (0.68%) Mac OS
12 7 (0.68%) zOS
13 2 (0.20%) Data ONTAP
14 1 (0.098%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 204 (19.94%) Infrastructure as Code
2 197 (19.26%) DevOps
3 178 (17.40%) CI/CD
4 126 (12.32%) Problem-Solving
5 108 (10.56%) Migration
6 97 (9.48%) Agile
7 85 (8.31%) High Availability
7 85 (8.31%) Platform Engineering
8 82 (8.02%) Infrastructure Automation
9 68 (6.65%) Disaster Recovery
9 68 (6.65%) Zero Trust
10 65 (6.35%) Containerisation
10 65 (6.35%) ITIL
10 65 (6.35%) Project Delivery
11 57 (5.57%) Continuous Improvement
12 50 (4.89%) Observability
13 49 (4.79%) AI
14 48 (4.69%) Cybersecurity
15 46 (4.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 46 (4.50%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 147 (14.37%) Python
2 141 (13.78%) PowerShell
3 58 (5.67%) Bash
4 42 (4.11%) SQL
5 33 (3.23%) Bicep
6 19 (1.86%) Shell Script
7 18 (1.76%) C#
7 18 (1.76%) Java
8 10 (0.98%) JavaScript
8 10 (0.98%) PHP
9 7 (0.68%) ActionScript
9 7 (0.68%) Go
10 6 (0.59%) JCL
11 4 (0.39%) C++
11 4 (0.39%) Groovy
12 2 (0.20%) C
12 2 (0.20%) Ruby
12 2 (0.20%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.20%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.098%) VB
Qualifications
1 375 (36.66%) Security Cleared
2 243 (23.75%) SC Cleared
3 137 (13.39%) DV Cleared
4 36 (3.52%) Degree
5 29 (2.83%) Cisco Certification
6 23 (2.25%) Azure Certification
7 22 (2.15%) Microsoft Certification
8 18 (1.76%) CCNA
8 18 (1.76%) CISSP
9 17 (1.66%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 13 (1.27%) CISM
11 12 (1.17%) AWS Certification
11 12 (1.17%) CCNP
12 9 (0.88%) MCSE
13 7 (0.68%) Computer Science Degree
14 6 (0.59%) PMI Certification
14 6 (0.59%) RHCA
14 6 (0.59%) VCAP
15 5 (0.49%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
15 5 (0.49%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (3.03%) NIST
2 26 (2.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 16 (1.56%) QA
4 14 (1.37%) Cyber Essentials
4 14 (1.37%) SLA
5 10 (0.98%) GDPR
5 10 (0.98%) NCSC
5 10 (0.98%) PCI DSS
6 8 (0.78%) NIST 800
7 7 (0.68%) Data Quality
8 5 (0.49%) GLBA
9 3 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (0.29%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.20%) ISO 19650
10 2 (0.20%) PMO
11 1 (0.098%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.098%) Disclosure Scotland
11 1 (0.098%) FedRAMP
11 1 (0.098%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.098%) RMADS
System Software
1 176 (17.20%) VMware Infrastructure
2 173 (16.91%) Active Directory
3 73 (7.14%) Hyper-V
4 60 (5.87%) vSphere
5 58 (5.67%) Docker
6 55 (5.38%) VMware ESXi
7 32 (3.13%) Virtual Machines
7 32 (3.13%) VMware NSX
8 19 (1.86%) Virtual Desktop
9 18 (1.76%) NFS
10 9 (0.88%) BitLocker
11 7 (0.68%) Firmware
11 7 (0.68%) Microsoft App-V
12 5 (0.49%) GPFS
13 4 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
14 3 (0.29%) DFS Replication
15 2 (0.20%) Postfix
15 2 (0.20%) SRDF
15 2 (0.20%) UAG
15 2 (0.20%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 192 (18.77%) Terraform
2 133 (13.00%) Kubernetes
3 110 (10.75%) Ansible
4 56 (5.47%) Microsoft Intune
5 38 (3.71%) vCenter Server
6 27 (2.64%) SCCM
7 18 (1.76%) Grafana
8 16 (1.56%) Prometheus
9 15 (1.47%) Puppet
9 15 (1.47%) WSUS
10 14 (1.37%) Single Sign-On
11 12 (1.17%) SCOM
12 11 (1.08%) Packer
13 10 (0.98%) Nessus
13 10 (0.98%) vRealize
14 9 (0.88%) Argo
14 9 (0.88%) VxRail
15 8 (0.78%) Istio
15 8 (0.78%) Progress Chef
16 7 (0.68%) AirWatch
Vendors
1 246 (24.05%) VMware
2 232 (22.68%) Microsoft
3 65 (6.35%) Citrix
4 60 (5.87%) Cisco
5 45 (4.40%) F5
6 41 (4.01%) NetApp
7 40 (3.91%) Palo Alto
8 39 (3.81%) ServiceNow
9 36 (3.52%) Google
10 32 (3.13%) Veeam
11 28 (2.74%) Red Hat
12 25 (2.44%) Dell
13 23 (2.25%) Aruba
13 23 (2.25%) Fortinet
14 22 (2.15%) Arista
15 16 (1.56%) Oracle
16 15 (1.47%) SolarWinds
17 14 (1.37%) IBM
18 12 (1.17%) Splunk
18 12 (1.17%) Tenable
493 Infrastructure Engineering jobs in England