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

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 132 92
Rank change year-on-year +34 -40 +28
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 969 500 861
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.36% 2.06% 2.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.79% 2.26% 2.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 668 348 647
10th Percentile £335 £325 £286
25th Percentile £425 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +10.53% -7.09%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £650 £700
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -0.95% +10.53% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 7 33
10th Percentile £46.00 £40.31 £21.25
25th Percentile £58.43 £53.22 £45.00
Median hourly rate £72.54 £62.50 £54.88
Median % change year-on-year +16.06% +13.90% -12.45%
75th Percentile £78.75 £136.88 £63.75
90th Percentile - £200.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £72.54 £62.50 £54.88
% change year-on-year +16.06% +13.90% -9.37%

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 34,792 22,163 31,446
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.62% 91.27% 86.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,183 14,469 20,624
10th Percentile £325 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £510 £514 £525
% change year-on-year -0.88% -2.10% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,136 960 2,252
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.42 £12.93
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.20 £15.99
Median hourly rate £46.11 £28.75 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +60.37% -21.23% -1.75%
75th Percentile £67.84 £62.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £28.17 £36.05
% change year-on-year +50.90% -21.86% +0.13%

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 May 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 May 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 May 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 +10 260 £550 +4.76% 122
North of England +8 209 £496 -5.52% 75
South East +12 200 £515 -2.00% 100
South West +7 121 £545 -5.22% 54
Yorkshire -8 111 £427 -18.76% 17
Midlands -2 103 £450 +12.50% 55
North West -12 71 £575 +9.52% 44
West Midlands -14 65 £525 +45.83% 29
East of England -4 54 £475 +0.53% 27
East Midlands -4 37 £450 - 25
North East -6 29 £600 -7.69% 14
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 (6.30%) Microsoft Exchange
2 18 (1.86%) SharePoint
3 15 (1.55%) Confluence
4 11 (1.14%) Apache
5 6 (0.62%) TPMS
6 5 (0.52%) CICS
7 4 (0.41%) IIS
7 4 (0.41%) SAS
8 3 (0.31%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.31%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.21%) Apache Pulsar
9 2 (0.21%) CloudStack
9 2 (0.21%) nginx
9 2 (0.21%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.10%) Exchange Server 2010
10 1 (0.10%) IBM HTTP Server
10 1 (0.10%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.10%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 15 (1.55%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.41%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.21%) Acrobat
3 2 (0.21%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.10%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (0.52%) Maximo
2 1 (0.10%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.10%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.10%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.10%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 309 (31.89%) Azure
2 168 (17.34%) AWS
3 88 (9.08%) Microsoft 365
4 69 (7.12%) GCP
5 67 (6.91%) Entra ID
6 65 (6.71%) GitHub
7 49 (5.06%) Azure DevOps
8 47 (4.85%) IaaS
9 45 (4.64%) GitHub Actions
10 36 (3.72%) PaaS
11 35 (3.61%) SaaS
12 34 (3.51%) Azure AKS
13 33 (3.41%) OpenShift
14 30 (3.10%) Serverless
15 28 (2.89%) Azure Monitor
16 27 (2.79%) OCI
17 23 (2.37%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 22 (2.27%) AWS Lambda
19 17 (1.75%) AWS CloudFormation
19 17 (1.75%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 135 (13.93%) Firewall
2 122 (12.59%) DNS
3 74 (7.64%) DHCP
4 57 (5.88%) VPN
5 48 (4.95%) Network Security
6 44 (4.54%) WAN
7 43 (4.44%) SAN
8 35 (3.61%) VLAN
9 30 (3.10%) LAN
10 28 (2.89%) TCP/IP
11 27 (2.79%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 26 (2.68%) BGP
13 24 (2.48%) SD-WAN
14 22 (2.27%) NAS
14 22 (2.27%) OSPF
15 20 (2.06%) BIG-IP
16 19 (1.96%) VXLAN
16 19 (1.96%) Wi-Fi
17 18 (1.86%) Ethernet VPN
18 17 (1.75%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (3.72%) SQL Server
2 9 (0.93%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (0.83%) DynamoDB
3 8 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
4 7 (0.72%) Metadata
4 7 (0.72%) NoSQL
4 7 (0.72%) Power BI
5 6 (0.62%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (0.41%) Data Lake
6 4 (0.41%) Data Mining
6 4 (0.41%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (0.41%) DB2
6 4 (0.41%) MongoDB
6 4 (0.41%) Relational Database
6 4 (0.41%) Snowflake Schema
7 3 (0.31%) NonStop SQL
7 3 (0.31%) Oracle Database
7 3 (0.31%) Pentaho
7 3 (0.31%) RDBMS
8 2 (0.21%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 50 (5.16%) GitLab
2 37 (3.82%) Jenkins
3 29 (2.99%) JIRA
4 28 (2.89%) Git
5 7 (0.72%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.21%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.10%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.10%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.10%) CMake
7 1 (0.10%) GoCD
7 1 (0.10%) Gradle
7 1 (0.10%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.10%) Introscope
7 1 (0.10%) Jaeger
7 1 (0.10%) MSI
7 1 (0.10%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.10%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 146 (15.07%) Social Skills
2 87 (8.98%) Finance
3 78 (8.05%) Public Sector
4 53 (5.47%) Analytical Skills
5 39 (4.02%) Banking
6 28 (2.89%) Documentation Skills
7 22 (2.27%) Military
8 17 (1.75%) Legal
9 12 (1.24%) Aerospace
9 12 (1.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 11 (1.14%) Retail
11 10 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
12 9 (0.93%) Manufacturing
13 8 (0.83%) Marketing
14 7 (0.72%) Billing
15 6 (0.62%) Telecoms
16 5 (0.52%) Organisational Skills
17 4 (0.41%) Front Office
17 4 (0.41%) Presentation Skills
18 3 (0.31%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 644 (66.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 160 (16.51%) Senior
3 123 (12.69%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 63 (6.50%) Cloud Engineer
5 57 (5.88%) Azure Engineer
6 48 (4.95%) Network Engineer
7 44 (4.54%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 43 (4.44%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
9 37 (3.82%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
9 37 (3.82%) VMware Engineer
10 35 (3.61%) Automation Engineer
11 32 (3.30%) Architect
11 32 (3.30%) DevOps Engineer
11 32 (3.30%) Support Engineer
12 30 (3.10%) Infrastructure Support
12 30 (3.10%) IT Engineer
12 30 (3.10%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
13 28 (2.89%) 3rd Line Engineer
14 27 (2.79%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
14 27 (2.79%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (2.68%) REST
2 16 (1.65%) SOAP
3 13 (1.34%) ARM Templates
4 9 (0.93%) Elastic Stack
4 9 (0.93%) LDAP
4 9 (0.93%) Web Services
5 8 (0.83%) Kafka
6 7 (0.72%) Flash
6 7 (0.72%) Middleware
6 7 (0.72%) OAuth
7 6 (0.62%) OpenID
8 5 (0.52%) GraphQL
8 5 (0.52%) JSON
8 5 (0.52%) OAuth2
8 5 (0.52%) SAML
9 4 (0.41%) ADO
9 4 (0.41%) OpenTelemetry
9 4 (0.41%) RESTful
9 4 (0.41%) WSDL
9 4 (0.41%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 76 (7.84%) Data Centre
2 56 (5.78%) Hybrid Cloud
3 40 (4.13%) PKI
4 36 (3.72%) Public Cloud
5 34 (3.51%) Cloud Native
6 29 (2.99%) Enterprise Storage
7 27 (2.79%) Onboarding
8 26 (2.68%) Replication
9 25 (2.58%) Private Cloud
10 18 (1.86%) Self-Motivation
11 15 (1.55%) Virtual Team
12 14 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
13 12 (1.24%) Clustering
14 10 (1.03%) Management Information System
15 9 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
16 8 (0.83%) Enterprise Cloud
16 8 (0.83%) Mainframe
17 7 (0.72%) Analytical Mindset
17 7 (0.72%) Linux Command Line
17 7 (0.72%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 272 (28.07%) Windows
2 167 (17.23%) Windows Server
3 157 (16.20%) Linux
4 27 (2.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 19 (1.96%) Windows Server 2016
5 19 (1.96%) Windows Server 2019
6 18 (1.86%) Ubuntu
7 17 (1.75%) Apple iOS
8 15 (1.55%) Android
9 14 (1.44%) Windows 10
10 13 (1.34%) VMS
11 12 (1.24%) Unix
12 9 (0.93%) Windows Server 2012
13 8 (0.83%) CentOS
13 8 (0.83%) Windows Server 2003
14 7 (0.72%) Debian
14 7 (0.72%) Mac OS
15 5 (0.52%) zOS
16 2 (0.21%) Data ONTAP
17 1 (0.10%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 199 (20.54%) DevOps
2 191 (19.71%) Infrastructure as Code
3 172 (17.75%) CI/CD
4 129 (13.31%) Problem-Solving
5 108 (11.15%) Migration
6 92 (9.49%) Agile
7 83 (8.57%) High Availability
7 83 (8.57%) Platform Engineering
8 78 (8.05%) Infrastructure Automation
9 74 (7.64%) Containerisation
10 70 (7.22%) Disaster Recovery
11 67 (6.91%) ITIL
12 64 (6.60%) Zero Trust
13 58 (5.99%) Project Delivery
14 52 (5.37%) Continuous Improvement
14 52 (5.37%) Observability
15 47 (4.85%) Cybersecurity
15 47 (4.85%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 46 (4.75%) Technical Leadership
17 44 (4.54%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 137 (14.14%) PowerShell
2 136 (14.04%) Python
3 54 (5.57%) Bash
4 40 (4.13%) SQL
5 34 (3.51%) Bicep
6 20 (2.06%) C#
6 20 (2.06%) Shell Script
7 17 (1.75%) Java
8 10 (1.03%) JavaScript
8 10 (1.03%) PHP
9 6 (0.62%) C++
9 6 (0.62%) Ruby
10 5 (0.52%) Go
11 4 (0.41%) Groovy
11 4 (0.41%) JCL
12 2 (0.21%) ActionScript
12 2 (0.21%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.21%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.10%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.10%) Scala
Qualifications
1 359 (37.05%) Security Cleared
2 232 (23.94%) SC Cleared
3 136 (14.04%) DV Cleared
4 39 (4.02%) Degree
5 27 (2.79%) Cisco Certification
6 25 (2.58%) Azure Certification
7 21 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
8 18 (1.86%) CISSP
9 15 (1.55%) CCNA
10 14 (1.44%) CISM
10 14 (1.44%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 13 (1.34%) AWS Certification
12 12 (1.24%) CCNP
13 8 (0.83%) Computer Science Degree
14 7 (0.72%) MCSE
15 6 (0.62%) FFIEC
15 6 (0.62%) RHCA
16 5 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
16 5 (0.52%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
16 5 (0.52%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (3.10%) NIST
2 26 (2.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 16 (1.65%) QA
4 15 (1.55%) Cyber Essentials
5 14 (1.44%) GDPR
5 14 (1.44%) PCI DSS
6 12 (1.24%) SLA
7 10 (1.03%) NCSC
8 7 (0.72%) Data Quality
8 7 (0.72%) NIST 800
9 6 (0.62%) GLBA
10 3 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.21%) ISO 19650
11 2 (0.21%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.10%) Accessibility
12 1 (0.10%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.10%) ISO 20022
12 1 (0.10%) ISO 9001
12 1 (0.10%) PMO
12 1 (0.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 168 (17.34%) Active Directory
2 164 (16.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 73 (7.53%) Hyper-V
4 63 (6.50%) Docker
5 56 (5.78%) vSphere
6 46 (4.75%) VMware ESXi
7 31 (3.20%) Virtual Machines
8 26 (2.68%) VMware NSX
9 21 (2.17%) NFS
9 21 (2.17%) Virtual Desktop
10 9 (0.93%) BitLocker
11 7 (0.72%) Firmware
11 7 (0.72%) Microsoft App-V
12 5 (0.52%) GPFS
13 3 (0.31%) DFS Replication
13 3 (0.31%) Sendmail
13 3 (0.31%) Virtual Servers
14 2 (0.21%) SRDF
14 2 (0.21%) UAG
14 2 (0.21%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 188 (19.40%) Terraform
2 148 (15.27%) Kubernetes
3 106 (10.94%) Ansible
4 57 (5.88%) Microsoft Intune
5 34 (3.51%) vCenter Server
6 31 (3.20%) SCCM
7 19 (1.96%) Grafana
8 17 (1.75%) Prometheus
9 16 (1.65%) Puppet
10 15 (1.55%) WSUS
11 14 (1.44%) Single Sign-On
12 12 (1.24%) SCOM
13 11 (1.14%) Packer
14 10 (1.03%) Nessus
14 10 (1.03%) vRealize
15 9 (0.93%) Argo
15 9 (0.93%) Progress Chef
15 9 (0.93%) VxRail
16 8 (0.83%) Istio
17 7 (0.72%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 233 (24.05%) VMware
2 224 (23.12%) Microsoft
3 63 (6.50%) Citrix
4 60 (6.19%) Cisco
5 44 (4.54%) NetApp
6 37 (3.82%) F5
6 37 (3.82%) Palo Alto
7 34 (3.51%) Veeam
8 32 (3.30%) ServiceNow
9 30 (3.10%) Google
10 29 (2.99%) Red Hat
11 27 (2.79%) Dell
12 25 (2.58%) Fortinet
13 19 (1.96%) Arista
13 19 (1.96%) Aruba
13 19 (1.96%) IBM
14 16 (1.65%) Oracle
15 15 (1.55%) SolarWinds
15 15 (1.55%) Splunk
16 11 (1.14%) Tenable