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

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 170 110
Rank change year-on-year +86 -60 -22
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 1,426 478 714
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.06% 1.72% 2.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.61% 1.89% 2.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 868 318 518
10th Percentile £358 £321 £324
25th Percentile £450 £386 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £549 £500 £506
Median % change year-on-year +9.80% -1.23% +1.25%
75th Percentile £625 £603 £594
90th Percentile £688 £670 £686
UK median daily rate £540 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +8.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 7 17
10th Percentile £47.68 £27.80 -
25th Percentile £58.43 £29.00 £51.06
Median hourly rate £74.00 £30.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +146.67% -57.14% -
75th Percentile £85.00 £35.00 -
90th Percentile £98.80 £54.20 -
UK median hourly rate £74.00 £30.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +146.67% -57.14% -

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 39,448 25,281 28,365
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.75% 90.90% 86.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,130 16,062 17,635
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £645
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,805 1,509 1,303
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.75 £17.79 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -3.37%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £66.55
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% -1.91%

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 19 September 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 19 September 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 19 September 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 +58 429 £550 +2.90% 699
North of England +67 324 £515 +3.00% 248
South East +18 276 £560 +16.97% 258
Midlands +40 157 £475 +5.56% 125
North West +38 150 £525 -4.55% 141
South West +35 140 £570 +0.88% 113
Yorkshire +31 122 £500 - 66
West Midlands +17 111 £525 +16.67% 77
East of England +30 84 £519 +35.62% 79
North East +3 63 £600 -7.69% 42
East Midlands +23 44 £450 -3.23% 48
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 61 (4.28%) Microsoft Exchange
2 44 (3.09%) SharePoint
3 29 (2.03%) Confluence
4 13 (0.91%) CICS
5 12 (0.84%) Apache
6 9 (0.63%) SAS
7 7 (0.49%) WebSphere
8 6 (0.42%) Apache Spark
9 5 (0.35%) OpenStack
9 5 (0.35%) SharePoint Server
10 4 (0.28%) nginx
11 3 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
11 3 (0.21%) CloudStack
12 2 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2013
12 2 (0.14%) IIS
12 2 (0.14%) Skype for Business
13 1 (0.070%) CMS
13 1 (0.070%) JBoss
13 1 (0.070%) Tomcat
13 1 (0.070%) WebLogic
Applications
1 17 (1.19%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (0.98%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (0.56%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.21%) AutoCAD
5 3 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.070%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.070%) CINEMA 4D
6 1 (0.070%) CPLEX
6 1 (0.070%) Houdini
6 1 (0.070%) NUKE
6 1 (0.070%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (0.49%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.21%) Primavera
3 2 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.070%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.070%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 483 (33.87%) Azure
2 264 (18.51%) AWS
3 148 (10.38%) Entra ID
4 125 (8.77%) Microsoft 365
5 106 (7.43%) GCP
6 91 (6.38%) GitHub
7 78 (5.47%) IaaS
8 67 (4.70%) Azure DevOps
8 67 (4.70%) OCI
9 58 (4.07%) GitHub Actions
10 46 (3.23%) SaaS
11 38 (2.66%) PaaS
12 35 (2.45%) Azure Monitor
13 30 (2.10%) Azure AKS
13 30 (2.10%) OpenShift
14 28 (1.96%) Power Platform
15 26 (1.82%) Amazon EKS
15 26 (1.82%) Azure Sentinel
16 21 (1.47%) Amazon S3
16 21 (1.47%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 230 (16.13%) DNS
2 225 (15.78%) Firewall
3 140 (9.82%) DHCP
4 93 (6.52%) VPN
5 86 (6.03%) Network Security
6 82 (5.75%) TCP/IP
7 66 (4.63%) VLAN
8 65 (4.56%) WAN
9 64 (4.49%) SAN
10 49 (3.44%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 39 (2.73%) BIG-IP
12 38 (2.66%) LAN
13 37 (2.59%) Wi-Fi
14 35 (2.45%) BGP
14 35 (2.45%) SD-WAN
15 31 (2.17%) SSL
16 29 (2.03%) OSPF
17 28 (1.96%) VXLAN
18 27 (1.89%) Ethernet VPN
19 26 (1.82%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (4.35%) SQL Server
2 22 (1.54%) Oracle Exadata
2 22 (1.54%) Power BI
3 21 (1.47%) Data Lake
4 20 (1.40%) Oracle Database
5 18 (1.26%) Relational Database
6 16 (1.12%) NoSQL
7 14 (0.98%) Metadata
7 14 (0.98%) RDBMS
8 13 (0.91%) Data Warehouse
9 10 (0.70%) Elasticsearch
9 10 (0.70%) PostgreSQL
10 9 (0.63%) Pentaho
11 8 (0.56%) Amazon RDS
11 8 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
12 6 (0.42%) BigQuery
13 5 (0.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 4 (0.28%) Db2
14 4 (0.28%) DynamoDB
14 4 (0.28%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 72 (5.05%) GitLab
2 58 (4.07%) Git
3 54 (3.79%) JIRA
4 52 (3.65%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.35%) Artifactory
6 4 (0.28%) Chocolatey
7 3 (0.21%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.21%) Oracle Forms
7 3 (0.21%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.14%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.14%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.14%) HP UFT
8 2 (0.14%) IBM UrbanCode
8 2 (0.14%) JUnit
8 2 (0.14%) Selenium
8 2 (0.14%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.14%) Subversion
9 1 (0.070%) Snyk
9 1 (0.070%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.070%) Vagrant
General
1 245 (17.18%) Social Skills
2 144 (10.10%) Finance
3 103 (7.22%) Public Sector
4 87 (6.10%) Analytical Skills
5 56 (3.93%) Documentation Skills
6 54 (3.79%) Banking
7 25 (1.75%) Telecoms
8 24 (1.68%) Manufacturing
9 19 (1.33%) Aerospace
10 18 (1.26%) Military
11 16 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 16 (1.12%) Retail
12 15 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
13 13 (0.91%) Law
14 12 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
15 11 (0.77%) Legal
16 10 (0.70%) Automotive
16 10 (0.70%) Marketing
17 5 (0.35%) Aviation
17 5 (0.35%) Billing
Job Titles
1 891 (62.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 282 (19.78%) Senior
3 219 (15.36%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 150 (10.52%) Cloud Engineer
5 109 (7.64%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 93 (6.52%) Azure Engineer
7 76 (5.33%) Network Engineer
8 69 (4.84%) Lead
9 64 (4.49%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
10 59 (4.14%) Architect
11 58 (4.07%) DevOps Engineer
12 48 (3.37%) VMware Engineer
13 44 (3.09%) Platform Engineer
13 44 (3.09%) Security Engineer
14 41 (2.88%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
15 35 (2.45%) IT Engineer
15 35 (2.45%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
16 34 (2.38%) Support Engineer
17 32 (2.24%) Test Engineer
18 31 (2.17%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 306 (21.46%) Terraform
2 28 (1.96%) ARM Templates
3 23 (1.61%) REST
4 20 (1.40%) Kafka
5 15 (1.05%) YAML
6 14 (0.98%) Oracle GoldenGate
7 13 (0.91%) JSON
8 12 (0.84%) 802.1X
8 12 (0.84%) Middleware
8 12 (0.84%) SAML
9 11 (0.77%) LDAP
9 11 (0.77%) OpenID
10 10 (0.70%) Loki
11 8 (0.56%) .NET
11 8 (0.56%) ModSecurity
11 8 (0.56%) OAuth
11 8 (0.56%) Web Services
12 7 (0.49%) Elastic Stack
13 6 (0.42%) SOAP
14 5 (0.35%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 141 (9.89%) Data Centre
2 104 (7.29%) Hybrid Cloud
3 70 (4.91%) Cloud Native
4 60 (4.21%) PKI
5 56 (3.93%) Public Cloud
6 53 (3.72%) Onboarding
7 44 (3.09%) Replication
8 35 (2.45%) Enterprise Storage
8 35 (2.45%) Private Cloud
9 30 (2.10%) Management Information System
10 27 (1.89%) Linux Command Line
11 26 (1.82%) Enterprise Cloud
12 24 (1.68%) Distributed Systems
12 24 (1.68%) Security Posture
13 21 (1.47%) Clustering
13 21 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
14 19 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
15 17 (1.19%) Product Ownership
16 15 (1.05%) Virtual Team
17 14 (0.98%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 388 (27.21%) Windows
2 281 (19.71%) Linux
3 261 (18.30%) Windows Server
4 60 (4.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 22 (1.54%) Unix
6 19 (1.33%) CentOS
6 19 (1.33%) Ubuntu
6 19 (1.33%) Windows 10
6 19 (1.33%) Windows Server 2019
7 17 (1.19%) Android
7 17 (1.19%) Apple iOS
7 17 (1.19%) VMS
8 14 (0.98%) AIX
8 14 (0.98%) Rocky
8 14 (0.98%) Windows Server 2016
9 13 (0.91%) zOS
10 11 (0.77%) Mac OS
11 8 (0.56%) Windows Server 2012
12 6 (0.42%) Debian
12 6 (0.42%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 367 (25.74%) Infrastructure as Code
2 296 (20.76%) CI/CD
3 290 (20.34%) DevOps
4 186 (13.04%) Migration
4 186 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
5 165 (11.57%) Platform Engineering
6 135 (9.47%) Continuous Improvement
7 128 (8.98%) Stakeholder Management
8 126 (8.84%) Agile
9 122 (8.56%) Infrastructure Automation
10 107 (7.50%) Observability
11 104 (7.29%) AI
11 104 (7.29%) Disaster Recovery
12 103 (7.22%) ITIL
13 102 (7.15%) Cybersecurity
14 101 (7.08%) High Availability
15 100 (7.01%) Technical Leadership
16 93 (6.52%) Project Delivery
17 84 (5.89%) Validation
18 81 (5.68%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 242 (16.97%) PowerShell
2 238 (16.69%) Python
3 118 (8.27%) Bash
4 68 (4.77%) SQL
5 58 (4.07%) Bicep
6 35 (2.45%) Java
7 15 (1.05%) C#
8 14 (0.98%) Shell Script
9 13 (0.91%) ActionScript
9 13 (0.91%) Go
10 9 (0.63%) C++
10 9 (0.63%) Perl
11 7 (0.49%) TypeScript
12 6 (0.42%) C
12 6 (0.42%) JCL
13 5 (0.35%) Kusto Query Language
14 3 (0.21%) Groovy
14 3 (0.21%) JavaScript
15 2 (0.14%) COBOL
15 2 (0.14%) PHP
Qualifications
1 551 (38.64%) Security Cleared
2 342 (23.98%) SC Cleared
3 207 (14.52%) DV Cleared
4 59 (4.14%) Degree
5 45 (3.16%) Azure Certification
6 33 (2.31%) Cisco Certification
6 33 (2.31%) Microsoft Certification
7 27 (1.89%) AWS Certification
8 22 (1.54%) CISSP
9 21 (1.47%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 18 (1.26%) CCNA
10 18 (1.26%) CCNP
10 18 (1.26%) Computer Science Degree
11 13 (0.91%) MCSE
12 12 (0.84%) VCAP
13 11 (0.77%) PMI Certification
14 10 (0.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 10 (0.70%) PMP
15 9 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
15 9 (0.63%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (3.30%) QA
2 36 (2.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 23 (1.61%) NIST
4 22 (1.54%) NCSC
5 18 (1.26%) SLA
6 17 (1.19%) Data Quality
7 15 (1.05%) Cyber Essentials
8 10 (0.70%) PMO
9 8 (0.56%) GRC
9 8 (0.56%) JSP 440
9 8 (0.56%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 3 (0.21%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.14%) IASME
12 2 (0.14%) NIST 800
13 1 (0.070%) Disclosure Scotland
13 1 (0.070%) FedRAMP
13 1 (0.070%) GDPR
13 1 (0.070%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 271 (19.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 264 (18.51%) Active Directory
3 111 (7.78%) Hyper-V
4 78 (5.47%) vSphere
5 76 (5.33%) VMware ESXi
6 71 (4.98%) Docker
7 59 (4.14%) Virtual Machines
8 38 (2.66%) VMware NSX
9 27 (1.89%) Virtual Desktop
10 15 (1.05%) Oracle RAC
11 14 (0.98%) NFS
12 13 (0.91%) Virtual Servers
13 12 (0.84%) Firmware
14 11 (0.77%) KVM
15 6 (0.42%) oVirt
16 5 (0.35%) BitLocker
16 5 (0.35%) Ceph
16 5 (0.35%) GPFS
17 4 (0.28%) Microsoft App-V
17 4 (0.28%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 201 (14.10%) Ansible
2 182 (12.76%) Kubernetes
3 83 (5.82%) Microsoft Intune
4 51 (3.58%) SCCM
5 42 (2.95%) vCenter Server
6 32 (2.24%) Grafana
7 27 (1.89%) Prometheus
8 21 (1.47%) WSUS
9 20 (1.40%) Puppet
10 19 (1.33%) Nessus
11 18 (1.26%) Argo
12 17 (1.19%) NetBackup
13 16 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
14 15 (1.05%) Oracle RMAN
14 15 (1.05%) SCOM
15 14 (0.98%) Data Guard
16 12 (0.84%) Packer
16 12 (0.84%) Progress Chef
16 12 (0.84%) VxRail
17 10 (0.70%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 362 (25.39%) Microsoft
2 345 (24.19%) VMware
3 86 (6.03%) Cisco
4 65 (4.56%) Citrix
5 58 (4.07%) Oracle
6 57 (4.00%) F5
7 47 (3.30%) NetApp
8 46 (3.23%) Google
9 41 (2.88%) Palo Alto
10 39 (2.73%) Red Hat
10 39 (2.73%) Veeam
11 30 (2.10%) ServiceNow
12 25 (1.75%) Dell
13 24 (1.68%) Arista
13 24 (1.68%) Aruba
14 22 (1.54%) Tenable
15 19 (1.33%) CyberArk
15 19 (1.33%) Juniper
16 18 (1.26%) IBM
16 18 (1.26%) Zscaler