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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 150 102
Rank change year-on-year +63 -48 -11
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 1,357 504 763
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.97% 1.83% 2.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.50% 2.01% 2.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 830 324 570
10th Percentile £350 £329 £313
25th Percentile £430 £400 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £525 £501
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% +4.90% +0.10%
75th Percentile £610 £603 £588
90th Percentile £688 £668 £673
UK median daily rate £538 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +2.38% +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 7 23
10th Percentile £48.00 £27.80 £49.21
25th Percentile £58.43 £29.00 £51.06
Median hourly rate £73.27 £30.00 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +144.23% -55.56% -6.90%
75th Percentile £78.75 £70.84 £70.00
90th Percentile £100.00 £129.80 -
UK median hourly rate £74.00 £30.00 £68.75
% change year-on-year +146.67% -56.36% -3.51%

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 38,776 25,061 28,469
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.95% 90.80% 85.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,043 15,975 18,472
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £530
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -3.77% -3.64%
75th Percentile £630 £626 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,543 1,444 1,583
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.22 £14.05
25th Percentile £19.25 £17.88 £18.12
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +4.83%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.21 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.63 £25.15 £40.94
% change year-on-year +65.54% -38.57% -0.24%

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 August 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 August 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 August 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 +56 418 £550 +1.85% 164
North of England +46 306 £525 +2.44% 81
South East +34 285 £545 +3.78% 123
South West +29 140 £550 -2.22% 73
North West +40 137 £550 -4.35% 36
Midlands +18 136 £475 +8.57% 38
Yorkshire +16 125 £500 - 25
West Midlands +1 96 £525 +23.53% 27
East of England +12 61 £505 +18.82% 54
North East +3 54 £600 -7.69% 21
East Midlands +11 38 £450 - 11
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 58 (4.27%) Microsoft Exchange
2 39 (2.87%) SharePoint
3 32 (2.36%) Confluence
4 13 (0.96%) CICS
5 11 (0.81%) Apache
6 8 (0.59%) SAS
6 8 (0.59%) WebSphere
7 5 (0.37%) SharePoint Server
8 4 (0.29%) Apache Spark
8 4 (0.29%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.22%) CloudStack
10 2 (0.15%) Exchange Server 2013
10 2 (0.15%) nginx
11 1 (0.074%) IBM HTTP Server
11 1 (0.074%) IIS
11 1 (0.074%) JBoss
11 1 (0.074%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.074%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.074%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 20 (1.47%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.37%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.22%) AutoCAD
5 3 (0.22%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.074%) CINEMA 4D
6 1 (0.074%) Houdini
6 1 (0.074%) NUKE
6 1 (0.074%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (0.29%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.22%) Primavera
3 2 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.074%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.074%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 475 (35.00%) Azure
2 249 (18.35%) AWS
3 129 (9.51%) Entra ID
4 113 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
5 100 (7.37%) GCP
6 96 (7.07%) GitHub
7 77 (5.67%) Azure DevOps
8 70 (5.16%) IaaS
9 65 (4.79%) GitHub Actions
9 65 (4.79%) OCI
10 45 (3.32%) SaaS
11 40 (2.95%) Azure Monitor
12 38 (2.80%) PaaS
13 36 (2.65%) Azure AKS
14 25 (1.84%) Amazon EKS
14 25 (1.84%) Serverless
15 23 (1.69%) Azure Sentinel
16 21 (1.55%) Amazon S3
16 21 (1.55%) OpenShift
16 21 (1.55%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 221 (16.29%) DNS
2 206 (15.18%) Firewall
3 139 (10.24%) DHCP
4 85 (6.26%) VPN
5 74 (5.45%) Network Security
5 74 (5.45%) TCP/IP
6 64 (4.72%) WAN
7 61 (4.50%) SAN
8 59 (4.35%) VLAN
9 43 (3.17%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 37 (2.73%) LAN
11 36 (2.65%) SD-WAN
12 34 (2.51%) BIG-IP
12 34 (2.51%) Wi-Fi
13 31 (2.28%) BGP
14 30 (2.21%) SSL
15 28 (2.06%) OSPF
16 27 (1.99%) VXLAN
17 26 (1.92%) Ethernet VPN
18 22 (1.62%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (4.57%) SQL Server
2 21 (1.55%) Oracle Exadata
3 17 (1.25%) Oracle Database
4 15 (1.11%) Power BI
5 14 (1.03%) Relational Database
6 13 (0.96%) Data Lake
6 13 (0.96%) RDBMS
7 12 (0.88%) Metadata
7 12 (0.88%) PostgreSQL
8 11 (0.81%) Elasticsearch
9 9 (0.66%) Data Warehouse
9 9 (0.66%) NoSQL
10 8 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
10 8 (0.59%) Azure SQL Database
11 7 (0.52%) Pentaho
12 6 (0.44%) BigQuery
12 6 (0.44%) Db2
12 6 (0.44%) DynamoDB
13 5 (0.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 4 (0.29%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 67 (4.94%) GitLab
2 55 (4.05%) Git
3 50 (3.68%) Jenkins
4 49 (3.61%) JIRA
5 5 (0.37%) Bitbucket
6 4 (0.29%) Chocolatey
7 3 (0.22%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.15%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.15%) Oracle Forms
8 2 (0.15%) Subversion
9 1 (0.074%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.074%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.074%) CMake
9 1 (0.074%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.074%) Gradle
9 1 (0.074%) Introscope
9 1 (0.074%) Maven
9 1 (0.074%) MSI
9 1 (0.074%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.074%) Terragrunt
General
1 231 (17.02%) Social Skills
2 125 (9.21%) Finance
3 105 (7.74%) Public Sector
4 81 (5.97%) Analytical Skills
5 55 (4.05%) Banking
6 53 (3.91%) Documentation Skills
7 22 (1.62%) Telecoms
8 19 (1.40%) Retail
9 18 (1.33%) Aerospace
10 17 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 17 (1.25%) Manufacturing
11 16 (1.18%) Military
12 15 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
13 13 (0.96%) Law
13 13 (0.96%) Legal
14 10 (0.74%) Marketing
15 9 (0.66%) Automotive
15 9 (0.66%) Organisational Skills
16 5 (0.37%) Advertising
16 5 (0.37%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 888 (65.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 264 (19.45%) Senior
3 207 (15.25%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 141 (10.39%) Cloud Engineer
5 103 (7.59%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 97 (7.15%) Azure Engineer
7 70 (5.16%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 64 (4.72%) Network Engineer
9 61 (4.50%) Lead
10 51 (3.76%) DevOps Engineer
11 50 (3.68%) VMware Engineer
12 46 (3.39%) Architect
13 42 (3.10%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
14 38 (2.80%) Platform Engineer
15 35 (2.58%) IT Engineer
15 35 (2.58%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
15 35 (2.58%) Support Engineer
16 34 (2.51%) Infrastructure Support
16 34 (2.51%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
17 31 (2.28%) 3rd Line Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 287 (21.15%) Terraform
2 27 (1.99%) REST
3 26 (1.92%) ARM Templates
4 16 (1.18%) YAML
5 14 (1.03%) Middleware
5 14 (1.03%) SOAP
6 13 (0.96%) JSON
6 13 (0.96%) Kafka
6 13 (0.96%) Oracle GoldenGate
7 11 (0.81%) OpenID
7 11 (0.81%) SAML
8 10 (0.74%) Loki
8 10 (0.74%) OAuth
9 9 (0.66%) 802.1X
10 8 (0.59%) Elastic Stack
10 8 (0.59%) ModSecurity
11 7 (0.52%) Flash
11 7 (0.52%) LDAP
11 7 (0.52%) Web Services
12 6 (0.44%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 137 (10.10%) Data Centre
2 92 (6.78%) Hybrid Cloud
3 60 (4.42%) Cloud Native
4 56 (4.13%) PKI
5 48 (3.54%) Public Cloud
6 43 (3.17%) Onboarding
7 42 (3.10%) Replication
8 38 (2.80%) Enterprise Storage
9 28 (2.06%) Private Cloud
10 27 (1.99%) Clustering
10 27 (1.99%) Management Information System
11 22 (1.62%) Enterprise Cloud
12 20 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
12 20 (1.47%) Linux Command Line
12 20 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
13 19 (1.40%) Distributed Systems
14 15 (1.11%) Virtual Team
15 14 (1.03%) Mainframe
15 14 (1.03%) Security Posture
16 12 (0.88%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 369 (27.19%) Windows
2 248 (18.28%) Linux
3 242 (17.83%) Windows Server
4 56 (4.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 22 (1.62%) Unix
6 20 (1.47%) Windows Server 2019
7 18 (1.33%) Windows 10
8 17 (1.25%) Apple iOS
8 17 (1.25%) CentOS
9 16 (1.18%) Android
9 16 (1.18%) Ubuntu
9 16 (1.18%) Windows Server 2016
10 15 (1.11%) VMS
11 14 (1.03%) AIX
12 13 (0.96%) zOS
13 11 (0.81%) Rocky
14 10 (0.74%) Mac OS
15 8 (0.59%) Windows Server 2012
16 6 (0.44%) Debian
16 6 (0.44%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 321 (23.66%) Infrastructure as Code
2 266 (19.60%) DevOps
3 257 (18.94%) CI/CD
4 178 (13.12%) Migration
5 166 (12.23%) Problem-Solving
6 144 (10.61%) Platform Engineering
7 119 (8.77%) Agile
8 117 (8.62%) Continuous Improvement
9 114 (8.40%) High Availability
10 112 (8.25%) Infrastructure Automation
11 98 (7.22%) Disaster Recovery
12 94 (6.93%) AI
13 93 (6.85%) Stakeholder Management
14 89 (6.56%) Observability
15 86 (6.34%) Project Delivery
16 84 (6.19%) Technical Leadership
17 83 (6.12%) ITIL
18 80 (5.90%) Cybersecurity
19 79 (5.82%) Validation
20 76 (5.60%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 244 (17.98%) PowerShell
2 229 (16.88%) Python
3 122 (8.99%) Bash
4 64 (4.72%) SQL
5 57 (4.20%) Bicep
6 28 (2.06%) Java
7 21 (1.55%) C#
8 17 (1.25%) Shell Script
9 8 (0.59%) ActionScript
9 8 (0.59%) Go
10 7 (0.52%) C++
10 7 (0.52%) Perl
11 6 (0.44%) JCL
11 6 (0.44%) TypeScript
12 5 (0.37%) C
12 5 (0.37%) JavaScript
13 3 (0.22%) Kusto Query Language
13 3 (0.22%) PHP
14 2 (0.15%) Korn
14 2 (0.15%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 524 (38.61%) Security Cleared
2 345 (25.42%) SC Cleared
3 180 (13.26%) DV Cleared
4 56 (4.13%) Degree
5 42 (3.10%) Azure Certification
6 38 (2.80%) Cisco Certification
7 31 (2.28%) Microsoft Certification
8 26 (1.92%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 21 (1.55%) CISSP
10 20 (1.47%) CCNA
10 20 (1.47%) CCNP
11 18 (1.33%) AWS Certification
12 13 (0.96%) Computer Science Degree
12 13 (0.96%) MCSE
12 13 (0.96%) VCAP
13 10 (0.74%) PMI Certification
14 9 (0.66%) CISM
15 8 (0.59%) PMP
16 7 (0.52%) MCSA
16 7 (0.52%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (2.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 37 (2.73%) QA
3 25 (1.84%) NIST
4 19 (1.40%) NCSC
5 17 (1.25%) SLA
6 13 (0.96%) Cyber Essentials
7 9 (0.66%) Data Quality
8 7 (0.52%) GRC
8 7 (0.52%) PCI DSS
8 7 (0.52%) PMO
9 5 (0.37%) JSP 440
10 4 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 3 (0.22%) GDPR
11 3 (0.22%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.15%) IASME
12 2 (0.15%) NIST 800
13 1 (0.074%) Disclosure Scotland
13 1 (0.074%) FedRAMP
13 1 (0.074%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 256 (18.87%) VMware Infrastructure
2 242 (17.83%) Active Directory
3 103 (7.59%) Hyper-V
4 77 (5.67%) VMware ESXi
5 75 (5.53%) vSphere
6 68 (5.01%) Docker
7 60 (4.42%) Virtual Machines
8 45 (3.32%) VMware NSX
9 28 (2.06%) Virtual Desktop
10 14 (1.03%) NFS
10 14 (1.03%) Oracle RAC
11 10 (0.74%) Firmware
11 10 (0.74%) KVM
12 9 (0.66%) Virtual Servers
13 8 (0.59%) BitLocker
14 7 (0.52%) Microsoft App-V
15 5 (0.37%) Ceph
15 5 (0.37%) GPFS
15 5 (0.37%) Terminal Services
16 3 (0.22%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 192 (14.15%) Ansible
2 170 (12.53%) Kubernetes
3 74 (5.45%) Microsoft Intune
4 51 (3.76%) vCenter Server
5 43 (3.17%) SCCM
6 30 (2.21%) Grafana
7 26 (1.92%) Puppet
8 25 (1.84%) Prometheus
9 22 (1.62%) WSUS
10 19 (1.40%) Argo
10 19 (1.40%) NetBackup
11 17 (1.25%) Single Sign-On
12 15 (1.11%) SCOM
13 14 (1.03%) Nessus
13 14 (1.03%) Oracle RMAN
13 14 (1.03%) Packer
14 13 (0.96%) Data Guard
14 13 (0.96%) Progress Chef
15 11 (0.81%) FortiGate
16 9 (0.66%) vRealize
Vendors
1 341 (25.13%) Microsoft
2 323 (23.80%) VMware
3 76 (5.60%) Cisco
4 69 (5.08%) Citrix
5 56 (4.13%) Oracle
6 52 (3.83%) F5
7 43 (3.17%) Google
8 42 (3.10%) NetApp
9 37 (2.73%) Palo Alto
10 35 (2.58%) Veeam
11 32 (2.36%) Red Hat
12 31 (2.28%) ServiceNow
13 24 (1.77%) Aruba
14 22 (1.62%) Arista
14 22 (1.62%) Dell
15 20 (1.47%) Juniper
16 19 (1.40%) Tenable
17 18 (1.33%) Zscaler
18 16 (1.18%) CyberArk
19 14 (1.03%) IBM