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 18 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 168 125 89
Rank change year-on-year -43 -36 +39
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 530 615 1,019
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.76% 2.00% 2.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.95% 2.31% 2.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 362 425 736
10th Percentile £300 £330 £319
25th Percentile £391 £405 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £614 £616
90th Percentile £675 £688 £713
UK median daily rate £500 £508 £500
% change year-on-year -1.48% +1.50% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 16 42
10th Percentile £26.30 £51.69 £23.00
25th Percentile £29.00 £59.85 £37.89
Median hourly rate £34.00 £70.00 £63.63
Median % change year-on-year -51.43% +10.01% +15.17%
75th Percentile £43.86 - £76.15
90th Percentile £73.76 £91.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £34.00 £70.00 £68.63
% change year-on-year -51.43% +1.99% +24.22%

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 27,183 26,639 35,184
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.25% 86.82% 88.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,253 16,245 24,094
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £405 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £644 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,795 955 1,480
10th Percentile £14.75 £15.10 £14.49
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% -16.67% +28.57%
75th Percentile £47.06 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.94 £74.82 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% -20.45% +25.71%

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 18 November 2025.

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 18 November 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 18 November 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 -27 203 £525 -4.55% 232
South East -18 104 £450 -4.26% 166
North of England -19 77 £500 +5.26% 66
South West -11 58 £550 - 76
Midlands -45 44 £450 -14.29% 65
Yorkshire -19 38 £500 +5.26% 25
North West -24 36 £472 +2.05% 32
West Midlands -27 35 £450 -21.74% 45
East of England -13 29 £413 -2.94% 42
East Midlands -29 9 £415 -10.27% 20
North East -4 4 £466 - 10
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 39 (7.36%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (2.83%) Confluence
3 11 (2.08%) Apache
4 10 (1.89%) SharePoint
5 8 (1.51%) IIS
6 7 (1.32%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (0.94%) WebSphere
7 5 (0.94%) WebSphere Application Server
8 4 (0.75%) TPMS
9 2 (0.38%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.38%) iPlanet
9 2 (0.38%) JBoss
9 2 (0.38%) nginx
9 2 (0.38%) Skype for Business
9 2 (0.38%) Traefik
10 1 (0.19%) Anypoint
10 1 (0.19%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.19%) Exchange Server 2010
10 1 (0.19%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.19%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.19%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.19%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (0.57%) Maximo
2 1 (0.19%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 206 (38.87%) Azure
2 108 (20.38%) AWS
3 75 (14.15%) Microsoft 365
4 69 (13.02%) Entra ID
5 37 (6.98%) GitHub
6 36 (6.79%) Azure DevOps
7 30 (5.66%) GCP
8 25 (4.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 25 (4.72%) Amazon S3
9 23 (4.34%) PaaS
10 22 (4.15%) IaaS
11 21 (3.96%) GitHub Actions
11 21 (3.96%) SaaS
12 20 (3.77%) Amazon EC2
12 20 (3.77%) Azure Monitor
13 17 (3.21%) Serverless
14 16 (3.02%) Google Workspace
14 16 (3.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 13 (2.45%) Azure Sentinel
15 13 (2.45%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 112 (21.13%) Firewall
2 86 (16.23%) DNS
3 56 (10.57%) TCP/IP
4 51 (9.62%) VPN
5 47 (8.87%) DHCP
6 39 (7.36%) WAN
7 37 (6.98%) VLAN
8 32 (6.04%) Network Security
8 32 (6.04%) Wi-Fi
9 30 (5.66%) SSL
10 26 (4.91%) LAN
11 25 (4.72%) SAN
12 12 (2.26%) Wireless
13 11 (2.08%) 4G
13 11 (2.08%) SD-WAN
14 7 (1.32%) BGP
14 7 (1.32%) MPLS
15 6 (1.13%) HTTP
15 6 (1.13%) SMTP
15 6 (1.13%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (2.83%) SQL Server
2 6 (1.13%) MongoDB
3 5 (0.94%) Oracle Database
3 5 (0.94%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (0.94%) Power BI
4 4 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (0.75%) MySQL
5 3 (0.57%) Apache Cassandra
5 3 (0.57%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (0.57%) Big Data
5 3 (0.57%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (0.57%) Oracle Exadata
5 3 (0.57%) SAP HANA
6 2 (0.38%) DynamoDB
6 2 (0.38%) MariaDB
6 2 (0.38%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.38%) Oracle Database 12c
6 2 (0.38%) RDBMS
6 2 (0.38%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 36 (6.79%) Jenkins
2 26 (4.91%) JIRA
3 25 (4.72%) GitLab
4 24 (4.53%) Git
5 5 (0.94%) Robot Framework
6 3 (0.57%) Log4j
6 3 (0.57%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.38%) Bitbucket Server
7 2 (0.38%) CA Release Automation
8 1 (0.19%) CMake
8 1 (0.19%) GoCD
8 1 (0.19%) Gradle
8 1 (0.19%) MLflow
8 1 (0.19%) MSI
8 1 (0.19%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.19%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (0.19%) SonarQube
General
1 140 (26.42%) Social Skills
2 82 (15.47%) Finance
3 51 (9.62%) Public Sector
4 46 (8.68%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (4.34%) Banking
6 22 (4.15%) Documentation Skills
7 17 (3.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 14 (2.64%) Military
9 9 (1.70%) Legal
10 8 (1.51%) Law
10 8 (1.51%) Retail
11 7 (1.32%) Financial Institution
11 7 (1.32%) Telecoms
12 6 (1.13%) Local Government
12 6 (1.13%) Manufacturing
13 5 (0.94%) Aviation
13 5 (0.94%) Marketing
13 5 (0.94%) Spanish Language
14 4 (0.75%) Aerospace
14 4 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 347 (65.47%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 76 (14.34%) Senior
3 55 (10.38%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 47 (8.87%) Infrastructure Support
5 45 (8.49%) Support Engineer
6 44 (8.30%) Azure Engineer
7 40 (7.55%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
8 38 (7.17%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
9 37 (6.98%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
10 35 (6.60%) Network Engineer
11 34 (6.42%) Cloud Engineer
12 23 (4.34%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
13 21 (3.96%) VMware Engineer
14 20 (3.77%) Platform Engineer
15 19 (3.58%) IT Engineer
15 19 (3.58%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
15 19 (3.58%) Security Engineer
16 18 (3.40%) DevOps Engineer
16 18 (3.40%) Windows Engineer
17 17 (3.21%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (3.40%) SAML
2 17 (3.21%) Middleware
3 15 (2.83%) ARM Templates
4 14 (2.64%) YAML
5 12 (2.26%) OAuth
5 12 (2.26%) OpenID
6 10 (1.89%) Kafka
7 8 (1.51%) REST
8 7 (1.32%) ADO
8 7 (1.32%) LDAP
8 7 (1.32%) OAuth2
8 7 (1.32%) RESTful
9 6 (1.13%) Elastic Stack
9 6 (1.13%) JMS
9 6 (1.13%) Microsoft Graph
10 5 (0.94%) GraphQL
11 4 (0.75%) gRPC
12 3 (0.57%) AWT
12 3 (0.57%) JDBC
12 3 (0.57%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 33 (6.23%) Hybrid Cloud
2 32 (6.04%) Data Centre
3 25 (4.72%) Replication
4 21 (3.96%) Onboarding
4 21 (3.96%) PKI
5 17 (3.21%) Private Cloud
6 13 (2.45%) Analytical Mindset
6 13 (2.45%) Public Cloud
7 12 (2.26%) Cloud Native
8 9 (1.70%) Clustering
9 8 (1.51%) Legacy Systems
9 8 (1.51%) Management Information System
9 8 (1.51%) Security Posture
10 7 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
10 7 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
10 7 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
10 7 (1.32%) NHS
11 6 (1.13%) Linux Command Line
11 6 (1.13%) Self-Motivation
12 5 (0.94%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 208 (39.25%) Windows
2 124 (23.40%) Linux
3 103 (19.43%) Windows Server
4 26 (4.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 24 (4.53%) Unix
6 23 (4.34%) Windows 10
7 14 (2.64%) Ubuntu
8 10 (1.89%) VMS
9 9 (1.70%) CentOS
9 9 (1.70%) Mac OS
10 7 (1.32%) Android
10 7 (1.32%) Windows Server 2012
11 6 (1.13%) Apple iOS
11 6 (1.13%) Windows Server 2019
12 5 (0.94%) Windows Server 2003
12 5 (0.94%) Windows Server 2016
13 3 (0.57%) SUSE
14 2 (0.38%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
15 1 (0.19%) AIX
15 1 (0.19%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (20.75%) DevOps
1 110 (20.75%) Problem-Solving
2 98 (18.49%) Infrastructure as Code
3 88 (16.60%) CI/CD
4 67 (12.64%) Migration
5 62 (11.70%) ITIL
6 57 (10.75%) Agile
7 46 (8.68%) High Availability
8 44 (8.30%) Containerisation
9 42 (7.92%) Infrastructure Automation
10 37 (6.98%) Cybersecurity
11 34 (6.42%) Disaster Recovery
12 32 (6.04%) Continuous Improvement
13 31 (5.85%) Observability
14 29 (5.47%) Platform Engineering
14 29 (5.47%) RBAC
15 26 (4.91%) Analytics
15 26 (4.91%) Identity Access Management
15 26 (4.91%) Stakeholder Management
16 24 (4.53%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 112 (21.13%) Python
2 101 (19.06%) PowerShell
3 58 (10.94%) Bash
4 23 (4.34%) SQL
5 22 (4.15%) Java
6 18 (3.40%) Bicep
7 14 (2.64%) Go
7 14 (2.64%) Perl
8 13 (2.45%) Shell Script
9 3 (0.57%) C++
9 3 (0.57%) Groovy
9 3 (0.57%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.38%) JavaScript
10 2 (0.38%) Ruby
11 1 (0.19%) C
11 1 (0.19%) C#
11 1 (0.19%) PHP
11 1 (0.19%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.19%) VB
11 1 (0.19%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 163 (30.75%) Security Cleared
2 102 (19.25%) SC Cleared
3 62 (11.70%) DV Cleared
4 37 (6.98%) Azure Certification
5 31 (5.85%) Microsoft Certification
6 29 (5.47%) Degree
7 18 (3.40%) Cisco Certification
7 18 (3.40%) Network+ Certification
8 13 (2.45%) Computer Science Degree
9 12 (2.26%) CCNA
9 12 (2.26%) CCNP
9 12 (2.26%) Server+ Certification
10 9 (1.70%) CISSP
11 8 (1.51%) AWS Certification
11 8 (1.51%) CISM
12 7 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
13 5 (0.94%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 4 (0.75%) FFIEC
15 3 (0.57%) DBS Check
15 3 (0.57%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (2.45%) GDPR
2 11 (2.08%) SLA
3 10 (1.89%) NIST
4 9 (1.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (1.13%) QA
6 5 (0.94%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (0.75%) GLBA
8 3 (0.57%) NIST 800
8 3 (0.57%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.38%) COBIT
9 2 (0.38%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.19%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.19%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 1 (0.19%) NCSC
10 1 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 133 (25.09%) Active Directory
2 97 (18.30%) VMware Infrastructure
3 55 (10.38%) Docker
4 49 (9.25%) Hyper-V
5 35 (6.60%) vSphere
6 26 (4.91%) Virtual Machines
6 26 (4.91%) VMware ESXi
7 9 (1.70%) VMware NSX
8 5 (0.94%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (0.75%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (0.57%) DFS Replication
10 3 (0.57%) Oracle RAC
11 2 (0.38%) BitLocker
11 2 (0.38%) Firmware
11 2 (0.38%) Tivoli Directory Server
12 1 (0.19%) etcd
12 1 (0.19%) Sendmail
12 1 (0.19%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 1 (0.19%) Terminal Services
12 1 (0.19%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 125 (23.58%) Terraform
2 75 (14.15%) Ansible
3 59 (11.13%) Kubernetes
4 54 (10.19%) Microsoft Intune
5 53 (10.00%) SCCM
6 25 (4.72%) Single Sign-On
7 21 (3.96%) vCenter Server
8 19 (3.58%) Grafana
9 17 (3.21%) FortiGate
9 17 (3.21%) Prometheus
10 12 (2.26%) Red Hat Satellite
11 11 (2.08%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 9 (1.70%) Jamf Pro
13 8 (1.51%) SCOM
14 7 (1.32%) Dell DRAC
14 7 (1.32%) vRealize
15 6 (1.13%) CASB
15 6 (1.13%) SCOrch
16 5 (0.94%) Argo
16 5 (0.94%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 169 (31.89%) Microsoft
2 145 (27.36%) VMware
3 36 (6.79%) Palo Alto
4 35 (6.60%) Cisco
5 34 (6.42%) Red Hat
6 33 (6.23%) Google
7 30 (5.66%) F5
8 28 (5.28%) Dell
9 24 (4.53%) ServiceNow
10 20 (3.77%) CheckPoint
10 20 (3.77%) Citrix
11 19 (3.58%) Veeam
12 18 (3.40%) Splunk
13 16 (3.02%) IBM
13 16 (3.02%) SolarWinds
14 14 (2.64%) Oracle
15 13 (2.45%) Aruba
15 13 (2.45%) Fortinet
15 13 (2.45%) Zscaler
16 12 (2.26%) HP