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

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 142 95
Rank change year-on-year +46 -47 +15
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 1,114 509 895
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.57% 2.02% 2.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.01% 2.21% 2.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 720 339 673
10th Percentile £350 £325 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -0.70%
75th Percentile £600 £596 £596
90th Percentile £675 £650 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -2.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 4 32
10th Percentile £38.58 £52.36 £38.36
25th Percentile £58.43 £54.30 £46.18
Median hourly rate £72.54 £128.88 £54.88
Median % change year-on-year -43.71% +134.85% -24.31%
75th Percentile £78.75 £200.00 £70.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £72.54 £128.88 £54.88
% change year-on-year -43.71% +134.85% -24.31%

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 37,044 23,037 31,936
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.35% 91.39% 85.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,386 14,872 20,693
10th Percentile £325 £300 £304
25th Percentile £417 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £729 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £502 £525
% change year-on-year +2.54% -4.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,321 1,118 2,341
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.87 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +88.87% -34.02% +8.48%
75th Percentile £68.55 £55.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.50 £72.90
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +7.14%

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 26 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 26 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 26 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 +30 325 £550 +4.76% 141
North of England +21 261 £500 -4.76% 105
South East +14 211 £515 -6.36% 94
South West +22 128 £539 -4.22% 86
Yorkshire +3 123 £490 -6.67% 32
Midlands -4 119 £450 +9.09% 53
North West +5 93 £525 - 61
West Midlands -16 77 £513 +28.13% 31
East of England -4 54 £480 +4.75% 24
North East +8 53 £600 -7.69% 15
East Midlands +17 41 £450 - 22
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 54 (4.85%) Microsoft Exchange
2 19 (1.71%) Confluence
2 19 (1.71%) SharePoint
3 10 (0.90%) CICS
4 9 (0.81%) Apache
5 5 (0.45%) WebSphere
6 4 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.36%) SAS
6 4 (0.36%) TPMS
7 3 (0.27%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.27%) CloudStack
8 2 (0.18%) Apache Pulsar
8 2 (0.18%) nginx
9 1 (0.090%) IBM HTTP Server
9 1 (0.090%) IIS
9 1 (0.090%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.090%) SharePoint Server
9 1 (0.090%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 12 (1.08%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.27%) AutoCAD
3 3 (0.27%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.090%) Acrobat
4 1 (0.090%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.090%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.090%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.18%) Maximo
2 1 (0.090%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.090%) Primavera
2 1 (0.090%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.090%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.090%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 363 (32.59%) Azure
2 200 (17.95%) AWS
3 96 (8.62%) GCP
4 83 (7.45%) Entra ID
5 81 (7.27%) GitHub
6 80 (7.18%) Microsoft 365
7 56 (5.03%) IaaS
8 54 (4.85%) Azure DevOps
9 53 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
10 42 (3.77%) SaaS
11 36 (3.23%) Azure AKS
11 36 (3.23%) OCI
11 36 (3.23%) PaaS
12 26 (2.33%) Azure Monitor
12 26 (2.33%) Serverless
13 22 (1.97%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 18 (1.62%) Amazon EKS
14 18 (1.62%) AWS Lambda
14 18 (1.62%) OpenShift
15 16 (1.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 160 (14.36%) Firewall
2 156 (14.00%) DNS
3 93 (8.35%) DHCP
4 62 (5.57%) VPN
5 57 (5.12%) Network Security
6 54 (4.85%) SAN
7 49 (4.40%) WAN
8 46 (4.13%) VLAN
9 41 (3.68%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 35 (3.14%) TCP/IP
11 33 (2.96%) BIG-IP
12 32 (2.87%) BGP
13 30 (2.69%) SD-WAN
14 28 (2.51%) OSPF
15 27 (2.42%) LAN
16 26 (2.33%) VXLAN
17 25 (2.24%) Ethernet VPN
18 24 (2.15%) SSL
19 22 (1.97%) Wi-Fi
20 21 (1.89%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (3.86%) SQL Server
2 14 (1.26%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (0.90%) Elasticsearch
4 9 (0.81%) Amazon RDS
4 9 (0.81%) Relational Database
5 8 (0.72%) DynamoDB
5 8 (0.72%) Oracle Database
5 8 (0.72%) Power BI
6 7 (0.63%) Metadata
6 7 (0.63%) NoSQL
6 7 (0.63%) RDBMS
7 6 (0.54%) Db2
8 5 (0.45%) Azure SQL Database
8 5 (0.45%) Big Data
8 5 (0.45%) Data Lake
9 4 (0.36%) Data Mining
9 4 (0.36%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (0.36%) MongoDB
9 4 (0.36%) Oracle Exadata
9 4 (0.36%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 64 (5.75%) GitLab
2 50 (4.49%) Jenkins
3 49 (4.40%) JIRA
4 28 (2.51%) Git
5 8 (0.72%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.090%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.090%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.090%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.090%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.090%) CMake
6 1 (0.090%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.090%) GoCD
6 1 (0.090%) Gradle
6 1 (0.090%) IntelliJ
6 1 (0.090%) Introscope
6 1 (0.090%) MLflow
6 1 (0.090%) MSI
6 1 (0.090%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.090%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 160 (14.36%) Social Skills
2 103 (9.25%) Finance
3 82 (7.36%) Public Sector
4 48 (4.31%) Analytical Skills
5 46 (4.13%) Banking
6 42 (3.77%) Documentation Skills
7 23 (2.06%) Military
8 21 (1.89%) Legal
9 16 (1.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 16 (1.44%) Retail
10 14 (1.26%) Aerospace
11 13 (1.17%) Telecoms
12 10 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
12 10 (0.90%) Manufacturing
12 10 (0.90%) Marketing
13 9 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (0.54%) Law
15 5 (0.45%) Billing
15 5 (0.45%) Presentation Skills
16 4 (0.36%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 757 (67.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 200 (17.95%) Senior
3 156 (14.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 89 (7.99%) Cloud Engineer
5 66 (5.92%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 63 (5.66%) Azure Engineer
7 50 (4.49%) Network Engineer
8 48 (4.31%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
9 38 (3.41%) DevOps Engineer
10 36 (3.23%) VMware Engineer
11 35 (3.14%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
12 33 (2.96%) Architect
13 31 (2.78%) Infrastructure Support
13 31 (2.78%) IT Engineer
13 31 (2.78%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
13 31 (2.78%) Support Engineer
14 29 (2.60%) Security Engineer
15 28 (2.51%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
16 27 (2.42%) Citrix Engineer
16 27 (2.42%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (2.24%) REST
2 14 (1.26%) SOAP
3 12 (1.08%) LDAP
4 11 (0.99%) Elastic Stack
4 11 (0.99%) OAuth
5 10 (0.90%) ARM Templates
5 10 (0.90%) JSON
5 10 (0.90%) Middleware
6 9 (0.81%) Kafka
6 9 (0.81%) OpenID
7 8 (0.72%) SAML
7 8 (0.72%) YAML
8 7 (0.63%) Flash
8 7 (0.63%) Web Services
9 6 (0.54%) OAuth2
9 6 (0.54%) RESTful
9 6 (0.54%) WSDL
10 5 (0.45%) AWS CDK
10 5 (0.45%) Keycloak
11 4 (0.36%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 121 (10.86%) Data Centre
2 71 (6.37%) Hybrid Cloud
3 52 (4.67%) Cloud Native
4 46 (4.13%) PKI
5 45 (4.04%) Public Cloud
6 37 (3.32%) Onboarding
7 29 (2.60%) Enterprise Storage
8 25 (2.24%) Replication
9 23 (2.06%) Private Cloud
10 18 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
11 17 (1.53%) Clustering
12 16 (1.44%) Distributed Systems
13 15 (1.35%) Management Information System
13 15 (1.35%) Virtual Team
14 13 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
15 12 (1.08%) Linux Command Line
16 11 (0.99%) Enterprise Cloud
16 11 (0.99%) Mainframe
17 10 (0.90%) Enterprise Software
17 10 (0.90%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 298 (26.75%) Windows
2 188 (16.88%) Windows Server
3 179 (16.07%) Linux
4 39 (3.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 17 (1.53%) Apple iOS
5 17 (1.53%) Windows Server 2019
6 16 (1.44%) Unix
6 16 (1.44%) Windows 10
7 15 (1.35%) Android
8 14 (1.26%) Ubuntu
8 14 (1.26%) Windows Server 2016
9 10 (0.90%) CentOS
9 10 (0.90%) zOS
10 8 (0.72%) Windows Server 2003
10 8 (0.72%) Windows Server 2012
11 7 (0.63%) Mac OS
11 7 (0.63%) VMS
12 6 (0.54%) Debian
13 5 (0.45%) AIX
14 3 (0.27%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 230 (20.65%) Infrastructure as Code
2 216 (19.39%) DevOps
3 191 (17.15%) CI/CD
4 127 (11.40%) Migration
5 123 (11.04%) Problem-Solving
6 104 (9.34%) Agile
7 98 (8.80%) High Availability
8 95 (8.53%) Platform Engineering
9 77 (6.91%) Containerisation
10 76 (6.82%) Infrastructure Automation
11 73 (6.55%) AI
12 71 (6.37%) Zero Trust
13 69 (6.19%) Disaster Recovery
14 67 (6.01%) Project Delivery
15 64 (5.75%) Continuous Improvement
16 60 (5.39%) Validation
17 57 (5.12%) Observability
18 56 (5.03%) ITIL
19 52 (4.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
20 51 (4.58%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 171 (15.35%) Python
2 163 (14.63%) PowerShell
3 69 (6.19%) Bash
4 47 (4.22%) SQL
5 31 (2.78%) Bicep
6 21 (1.89%) Java
6 21 (1.89%) Shell Script
7 20 (1.80%) C#
8 10 (0.90%) ActionScript
9 8 (0.72%) Go
10 7 (0.63%) JavaScript
11 6 (0.54%) JCL
11 6 (0.54%) TypeScript
12 5 (0.45%) PHP
13 4 (0.36%) Groovy
14 3 (0.27%) C++
15 2 (0.18%) C
15 2 (0.18%) Kusto Query Language
15 2 (0.18%) Ruby
15 2 (0.18%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 406 (36.45%) Security Cleared
2 257 (23.07%) SC Cleared
3 153 (13.73%) DV Cleared
4 42 (3.77%) Degree
5 33 (2.96%) Cisco Certification
6 24 (2.15%) Azure Certification
7 23 (2.06%) Microsoft Certification
8 19 (1.71%) CCNA
8 19 (1.71%) CISSP
8 19 (1.71%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 18 (1.62%) AWS Certification
10 13 (1.17%) CCNP
11 12 (1.08%) MCSE
12 11 (0.99%) CISM
13 8 (0.72%) Computer Science Degree
14 7 (0.63%) PMI Certification
14 7 (0.63%) VCAP
15 6 (0.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 6 (0.54%) RHCA
16 5 (0.45%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (2.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 31 (2.78%) NIST
3 25 (2.24%) QA
4 17 (1.53%) Cyber Essentials
5 13 (1.17%) NCSC
6 12 (1.08%) PCI DSS
7 10 (0.90%) SLA
8 8 (0.72%) GDPR
9 7 (0.63%) Data Quality
10 6 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 5 (0.45%) NIST 800
12 4 (0.36%) GLBA
12 4 (0.36%) SOC 2
13 3 (0.27%) PMO
14 2 (0.18%) GRC
14 2 (0.18%) ISO 19650
15 1 (0.090%) Actionable Recommendations
15 1 (0.090%) Disclosure Scotland
15 1 (0.090%) FedRAMP
15 1 (0.090%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 196 (17.59%) Active Directory
2 191 (17.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 79 (7.09%) Hyper-V
4 71 (6.37%) VMware ESXi
5 62 (5.57%) Docker
6 59 (5.30%) vSphere
7 39 (3.50%) Virtual Machines
8 34 (3.05%) VMware NSX
9 23 (2.06%) Virtual Desktop
10 15 (1.35%) NFS
11 11 (0.99%) BitLocker
12 9 (0.81%) Firmware
12 9 (0.81%) Microsoft App-V
13 5 (0.45%) GPFS
14 4 (0.36%) Oracle RAC
14 4 (0.36%) Terminal Services
14 4 (0.36%) Virtual Servers
15 3 (0.27%) KVM
16 2 (0.18%) SRDF
16 2 (0.18%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 215 (19.30%) Terraform
2 145 (13.02%) Kubernetes
3 126 (11.31%) Ansible
4 54 (4.85%) Microsoft Intune
5 45 (4.04%) vCenter Server
6 29 (2.60%) SCCM
7 23 (2.06%) Grafana
7 23 (2.06%) Prometheus
8 20 (1.80%) Puppet
9 19 (1.71%) Single Sign-On
9 19 (1.71%) WSUS
10 13 (1.17%) Nessus
11 12 (1.08%) Packer
11 12 (1.08%) SCOM
12 10 (0.90%) Argo
12 10 (0.90%) vRealize
13 9 (0.81%) vMotion
14 8 (0.72%) Progress Chef
14 8 (0.72%) VxRail
15 7 (0.63%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 259 (23.25%) VMware
2 243 (21.81%) Microsoft
3 67 (6.01%) Cisco
3 67 (6.01%) Citrix
4 50 (4.49%) F5
5 44 (3.95%) Google
6 42 (3.77%) ServiceNow
7 39 (3.50%) NetApp
8 36 (3.23%) Palo Alto
9 27 (2.42%) Veeam
10 25 (2.24%) Red Hat
11 24 (2.15%) Dell
12 23 (2.06%) Arista
12 23 (2.06%) Aruba
12 23 (2.06%) Fortinet
13 22 (1.97%) Oracle
14 15 (1.35%) Juniper
14 15 (1.35%) Tenable
15 14 (1.26%) Zscaler
16 13 (1.17%) SolarWinds