Infrastructure Engineering Contracts in England

Infrastructure Engineering
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Infrastructure Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Infrastructure Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 138 92 103
Rank change year-on-year -46 +11 +31
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 537 909 1,145
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.02% 2.44% 2.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.22% 2.85% 2.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 351 682 848
10th Percentile £325 £310 £325
25th Percentile £400 £381 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £507
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -1.38% +6.74%
75th Percentile £600 £598 £625
90th Percentile £650 £688 £714
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +5.00% -3.80% +9.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 33 30
10th Percentile £38.43 £39.10 £35.00
25th Percentile £51.06 £46.18 £56.25
Median hourly rate £57.75 £54.88 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.24% -24.31% +53.15%
75th Percentile £200.00 £70.00 £78.00
90th Percentile - - £80.83
UK median hourly rate £57.75 £54.88 £72.50
% change year-on-year +5.24% -24.31% +59.41%

All Process and 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 24,147 31,870 43,245
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.93% 85.64% 89.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,520 20,680 30,282
10th Percentile £300 £305 £325
25th Percentile £406 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £645 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% +0.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,216 2,288 1,563
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.79 £12.50
25th Percentile £17.87 £16.06 £16.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £39.55
Median % change year-on-year -34.02% -3.62% +54.01%
75th Percentile £54.81 £61.60 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.00 £72.73 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £38.18
% change year-on-year -32.93% -1.77% +46.83%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Infrastructure Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineering in England

Infrastructure Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in England.

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Engineering in England

Infrastructure Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in England over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in England

Infrastructure Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in England.

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Engineering in England

Infrastructure Engineering
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in England over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

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 6 July 2025. 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 -38 187 £525 +1.45% 241
North of England +8 110 £525 +16.67% 136
South East -34 92 £550 +15.79% 151
Yorkshire +36 59 £525 +16.67% 49
Midlands -5 54 £400 -20.00% 75
South West -21 53 £563 +11.11% 91
North West -17 48 £525 +16.67% 79
West Midlands -4 39 £388 -26.19% 39
East of England +18 30 £467 -6.70% 74
East Midlands -7 15 £450 +0.22% 35
North East +5 9 £650 +136.36% 8
Infrastructure Engineering
UK

Infrastructure Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 66 (12.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 37 (6.89%) SharePoint
3 35 (6.52%) Confluence
4 13 (2.42%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 7 (1.30%) Apache
5 7 (1.30%) IIS
6 6 (1.12%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (1.12%) Skype for Business
7 3 (0.56%) WebSphere
7 3 (0.56%) WebSphere Application Server
8 1 (0.19%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.19%) Mattermost
Applications
1 26 (4.84%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.93%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.74%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 193 (35.94%) Azure
2 98 (18.25%) Entra ID
3 96 (17.88%) Microsoft 365
4 83 (15.46%) AWS
5 55 (10.24%) IaaS
6 29 (5.40%) PaaS
7 28 (5.21%) GCP
8 27 (5.03%) GitHub
9 25 (4.66%) SaaS
10 22 (4.10%) Azure DevOps
11 16 (2.98%) OpenShift
12 12 (2.23%) Google Workspace
13 11 (2.05%) Azure Monitor
13 11 (2.05%) Serverless
14 10 (1.86%) OneDrive
15 8 (1.49%) Mimecast
16 7 (1.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 7 (1.30%) AWS Lambda
16 7 (1.30%) Nutanix
17 6 (1.12%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 132 (24.58%) DNS
2 110 (20.48%) Firewall
3 80 (14.90%) DHCP
4 49 (9.12%) VPN
5 34 (6.33%) WAN
6 33 (6.15%) Network Security
6 33 (6.15%) TCP/IP
7 32 (5.96%) SAN
8 29 (5.40%) LAN
9 23 (4.28%) Wi-Fi
10 19 (3.54%) VLAN
11 17 (3.17%) SSL
12 15 (2.79%) SD-WAN
12 15 (2.79%) SMTP
13 13 (2.42%) Wireless
14 12 (2.23%) MPLS
15 11 (2.05%) Cisco ISE
15 11 (2.05%) NAS
15 11 (2.05%) VSAN
16 9 (1.68%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (3.54%) Oracle Database
2 17 (3.17%) SQL Server
3 16 (2.98%) Amazon RDS
4 9 (1.68%) Elasticsearch
5 8 (1.49%) Big Data
6 4 (0.74%) Power BI
7 3 (0.56%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.19%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.19%) ClickHouse
8 1 (0.19%) Looker
8 1 (0.19%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.19%) MySQL
8 1 (0.19%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.19%) Oracle Database 11g
8 1 (0.19%) Oracle Database 12c
8 1 (0.19%) Oracle Exadata
8 1 (0.19%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.19%) UniData
Development Applications
1 46 (8.57%) JIRA
2 27 (5.03%) Jenkins
3 16 (2.98%) Git
4 15 (2.79%) GitLab
5 14 (2.61%) Bitbucket
6 10 (1.86%) ScriptRunner
7 4 (0.74%) Robot Framework
8 3 (0.56%) Log4j
8 3 (0.56%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.37%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.37%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.37%) Eclipse
9 2 (0.37%) GoogleTest
9 2 (0.37%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (0.37%) Postman
9 2 (0.37%) SoapUI
10 1 (0.19%) eggPlant
10 1 (0.19%) JIRA Agile
10 1 (0.19%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.19%) TestNG
General
1 118 (21.97%) Social Skills
2 72 (13.41%) Finance
3 55 (10.24%) Public Sector
4 28 (5.21%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (3.54%) Banking
6 12 (2.23%) Documentation Skills
7 10 (1.86%) Law
7 10 (1.86%) Military
8 9 (1.68%) Legal
8 9 (1.68%) Presentation Skills
9 8 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (1.49%) Telecoms
10 6 (1.12%) Manufacturing
11 5 (0.93%) Local Government
11 5 (0.93%) Retail
12 4 (0.74%) Marketing
12 4 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.74%) Spanish Language
13 3 (0.56%) Financial Institution
13 3 (0.56%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 352 (65.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 67 (12.48%) Senior
3 51 (9.50%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 36 (6.70%) Azure Engineer
5 33 (6.15%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
6 30 (5.59%) Support Engineer
6 30 (5.59%) VMware Engineer
7 28 (5.21%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 27 (5.03%) Infrastructure Support
9 25 (4.66%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
10 24 (4.47%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
11 23 (4.28%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
11 23 (4.28%) Network Engineer
12 22 (4.10%) Architect
13 21 (3.91%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
13 21 (3.91%) Windows Engineer
14 20 (3.72%) Cloud Engineer
14 20 (3.72%) IT Engineer
14 20 (3.72%) Lead
14 20 (3.72%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (2.05%) Flash
1 11 (2.05%) YAML
2 8 (1.49%) ARM Templates
3 6 (1.12%) ADO
3 6 (1.12%) LDAP
3 6 (1.12%) Middleware
3 6 (1.12%) REST
3 6 (1.12%) SOAP
4 5 (0.93%) Elastic Stack
4 5 (0.93%) OAuth
4 5 (0.93%) SAML
5 4 (0.74%) 802.1X
5 4 (0.74%) Kafka
5 4 (0.74%) RESTful
6 3 (0.56%) HTML
6 3 (0.56%) JDBC
6 3 (0.56%) JMS
6 3 (0.56%) JNDI
6 3 (0.56%) Node.js
6 3 (0.56%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 39 (7.26%) Data Centre
2 33 (6.15%) Hybrid Cloud
3 31 (5.77%) PKI
4 27 (5.03%) Clustering
5 22 (4.10%) Onboarding
6 19 (3.54%) Linux Command Line
7 10 (1.86%) Data Protection Act
8 9 (1.68%) Replication
9 8 (1.49%) Product Ownership
10 7 (1.30%) Cloud Native
10 7 (1.30%) Enterprise Storage
10 7 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
10 7 (1.30%) Video Conferencing
11 6 (1.12%) Public Cloud
12 5 (0.93%) Driving Licence
12 5 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
12 5 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
12 5 (0.93%) Security Operations Centre
13 4 (0.74%) Legacy Applications
13 4 (0.74%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 264 (49.16%) Windows
2 169 (31.47%) Windows Server
3 127 (23.65%) Linux
4 45 (8.38%) Windows 10
5 23 (4.28%) Windows Server 2019
6 21 (3.91%) Windows Server 2016
7 19 (3.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 13 (2.42%) Ubuntu
9 12 (2.23%) Windows Server 2003
9 12 (2.23%) Windows Server 2012
10 11 (2.05%) Unix
11 10 (1.86%) VMS
12 8 (1.49%) CentOS
13 6 (1.12%) Mac OS
14 2 (0.37%) Apple iOS
14 2 (0.37%) Windows 7
15 1 (0.19%) AIX
15 1 (0.19%) Android
15 1 (0.19%) SUSE
15 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (18.06%) Agile
2 91 (16.95%) Problem-Solving
3 82 (15.27%) DevOps
4 75 (13.97%) Migration
5 56 (10.43%) CI/CD
6 53 (9.87%) ITIL
7 52 (9.68%) Infrastructure as Code
8 44 (8.19%) High Availability
9 31 (5.77%) Containerisation
9 31 (5.77%) Infrastructure Automation
10 30 (5.59%) Project Delivery
10 30 (5.59%) Validation
11 29 (5.40%) Cybersecurity
12 26 (4.84%) Computer Science
12 26 (4.84%) Disaster Recovery
13 25 (4.66%) Server Management
13 25 (4.66%) Service Management
14 23 (4.28%) Business Continuity
14 23 (4.28%) Information Security
14 23 (4.28%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 144 (26.82%) PowerShell
2 95 (17.69%) Python
3 57 (10.61%) Bash
4 40 (7.45%) SQL
5 25 (4.66%) Perl
6 15 (2.79%) PL/SQL
7 11 (2.05%) Groovy
7 11 (2.05%) Shell Script
8 10 (1.86%) Bicep
9 8 (1.49%) Java
10 7 (1.30%) JavaScript
11 5 (0.93%) C++
11 5 (0.93%) Go
12 3 (0.56%) C#
12 3 (0.56%) Ruby
13 2 (0.37%) C
13 2 (0.37%) TypeScript
14 1 (0.19%) PHP
14 1 (0.19%) VBA
14 1 (0.19%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 192 (35.75%) Security Cleared
2 122 (22.72%) SC Cleared
3 76 (14.15%) DV Cleared
4 54 (10.06%) Degree
5 51 (9.50%) Cisco Certification
6 24 (4.47%) CCNA
6 24 (4.47%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 18 (3.35%) CCNP
8 15 (2.79%) Microsoft Certification
9 13 (2.42%) Azure Certification
9 13 (2.42%) Computer Science Degree
10 9 (1.68%) Master's Degree
11 7 (1.30%) DBS Check
12 5 (0.93%) MCSE
12 5 (0.93%) VCAP
13 4 (0.74%) AWS Certification
13 4 (0.74%) CompTIA Security+
14 3 (0.56%) OCA
14 3 (0.56%) Oracle Certification
14 3 (0.56%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (2.61%) SLA
2 12 (2.23%) QA
3 9 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (1.12%) NCSC
5 3 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (0.56%) GDPR
5 3 (0.56%) NIST
6 2 (0.37%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.19%) GRC
7 1 (0.19%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.19%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.19%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.19%) PMO
7 1 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 216 (40.22%) Active Directory
2 119 (22.16%) VMware Infrastructure
3 61 (11.36%) VMware ESXi
4 55 (10.24%) Hyper-V
5 46 (8.57%) vSphere
6 40 (7.45%) Docker
7 32 (5.96%) Virtual Machines
8 30 (5.59%) VMware NSX
9 13 (2.42%) Virtual Servers
10 11 (2.05%) BitLocker
11 9 (1.68%) DFS Replication
11 9 (1.68%) Microsoft App-V
12 8 (1.49%) Terminal Services
13 6 (1.12%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 4 (0.74%) Firmware
15 2 (0.37%) VMware Workstation
16 1 (0.19%) NFS
16 1 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
16 1 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 71 (13.22%) Terraform
2 63 (11.73%) Ansible
3 59 (10.99%) Microsoft Intune
4 48 (8.94%) vCenter Server
5 38 (7.08%) Kubernetes
6 34 (6.33%) SCCM
7 27 (5.03%) Puppet
8 21 (3.91%) WSUS
9 18 (3.35%) Single Sign-On
10 11 (2.05%) VxRail
11 10 (1.86%) FortiGate
11 10 (1.86%) Progress Chef
12 8 (1.49%) Jamf Pro
12 8 (1.49%) Nagios
12 8 (1.49%) vMotion
13 7 (1.30%) NetBackup
13 7 (1.30%) PowerCLI
13 7 (1.30%) Prometheus
13 7 (1.30%) vRealize
14 6 (1.12%) SCOM
Vendors
1 198 (36.87%) VMware
2 164 (30.54%) Microsoft
3 92 (17.13%) Cisco
4 37 (6.89%) Dell
5 35 (6.52%) Citrix
6 34 (6.33%) Google
7 29 (5.40%) Veeam
8 27 (5.03%) Atlassian
9 24 (4.47%) Red Hat
10 23 (4.28%) Oracle
11 21 (3.91%) HP
12 20 (3.72%) SolarWinds
13 17 (3.17%) Palo Alto
14 13 (2.42%) Fortinet
15 12 (2.23%) Meraki
16 11 (2.05%) F5
16 11 (2.05%) Symantec
16 11 (2.05%) Wyse
17 9 (1.68%) IBM
17 9 (1.68%) Splunk