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

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 91 145 93
Rank change year-on-year +54 -52 +6
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 1,239 532 852
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.76% 1.95% 2.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.24% 2.15% 2.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 773 345 643
10th Percentile £350 £329 £313
25th Percentile £425 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £610 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £650 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 5 25
10th Percentile £56.75 £38.43 £45.47
25th Percentile £58.43 £51.06 £51.06
Median hourly rate £72.54 £77.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.79% +23.20% -13.79%
75th Percentile £78.75 £200.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.16 - -
UK median hourly rate £73.27 £77.00 £67.50
% change year-on-year -4.84% +14.07% -6.90%

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 38,278 24,745 30,322
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.32% 90.65% 85.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,038 15,865 19,799
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £420 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £635 £645
90th Percentile £737 £738 £751
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,361 1,324 1,984
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.23 £13.25
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.95 £17.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +88.87% -37.13% -6.98%
75th Percentile £69.50 £53.56 £63.75
90th Percentile £83.00 £70.16 £74.31
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -10.31%

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 22 July 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 22 July 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 22 July 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 +47 364 £550 +4.76% 221
North of England +20 281 £525 - 93
South East +19 261 £536 -2.47% 132
South West +16 133 £550 -2.31% 61
Midlands +4 130 £463 +5.71% 54
Yorkshire +3 119 £500 - 31
North West +12 116 £550 +4.76% 48
West Midlands -15 83 £488 +21.88% 37
East of England +6 55 £500 +11.11% 39
North East +2 55 £600 -7.69% 15
East Midlands +18 45 £450 - 17
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 (4.68%) Microsoft Exchange
2 33 (2.66%) SharePoint
3 27 (2.18%) Confluence
4 13 (1.05%) CICS
5 8 (0.65%) WebSphere
6 6 (0.48%) Apache
7 4 (0.32%) SAS
8 3 (0.24%) CloudStack
8 3 (0.24%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.24%) SharePoint Server
9 2 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.16%) Apache Pulsar
9 2 (0.16%) nginx
10 1 (0.081%) IBM HTTP Server
10 1 (0.081%) JBoss
10 1 (0.081%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 17 (1.37%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.24%) AutoCAD
3 3 (0.24%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.081%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.081%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.081%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.16%) Primavera
1 2 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.081%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.081%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.081%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.081%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 428 (34.54%) Azure
2 227 (18.32%) AWS
3 111 (8.96%) Entra ID
4 96 (7.75%) GitHub
4 96 (7.75%) Microsoft 365
5 93 (7.51%) GCP
6 65 (5.25%) Azure DevOps
6 65 (5.25%) GitHub Actions
7 63 (5.08%) IaaS
8 54 (4.36%) OCI
9 43 (3.47%) SaaS
10 41 (3.31%) PaaS
11 36 (2.91%) Azure AKS
12 35 (2.82%) Azure Monitor
13 27 (2.18%) Amazon EKS
13 27 (2.18%) Serverless
14 21 (1.69%) Amazon S3
15 20 (1.61%) Azure Sentinel
16 19 (1.53%) AWS Lambda
16 19 (1.53%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 198 (15.98%) DNS
2 190 (15.33%) Firewall
3 120 (9.69%) DHCP
4 74 (5.97%) VPN
5 69 (5.57%) Network Security
6 63 (5.08%) TCP/IP
7 60 (4.84%) SAN
8 56 (4.52%) VLAN
8 56 (4.52%) WAN
9 44 (3.55%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 34 (2.74%) BIG-IP
11 33 (2.66%) SD-WAN
12 32 (2.58%) BGP
13 30 (2.42%) LAN
14 29 (2.34%) OSPF
15 27 (2.18%) VXLAN
15 27 (2.18%) Wi-Fi
16 26 (2.10%) Ethernet VPN
17 23 (1.86%) SSL
18 20 (1.61%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (4.28%) SQL Server
2 15 (1.21%) Oracle Database
3 14 (1.13%) Oracle Exadata
3 14 (1.13%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (1.05%) Relational Database
5 11 (0.89%) RDBMS
6 9 (0.73%) Amazon RDS
6 9 (0.73%) Elasticsearch
7 8 (0.65%) Azure SQL Database
7 8 (0.65%) DynamoDB
8 7 (0.56%) Metadata
8 7 (0.56%) Power BI
9 6 (0.48%) Db2
10 5 (0.40%) Data Lake
11 4 (0.32%) Data Mining
11 4 (0.32%) Snowflake Schema
12 3 (0.24%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (0.24%) NonStop SQL
12 3 (0.24%) NoSQL
12 3 (0.24%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 69 (5.57%) GitLab
2 48 (3.87%) Jenkins
2 48 (3.87%) JIRA
3 47 (3.79%) Git
4 8 (0.65%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.16%) Artifactory
5 2 (0.16%) Chocolatey
5 2 (0.16%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.16%) Subversion
6 1 (0.081%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.081%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.081%) CMake
6 1 (0.081%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.081%) Gradle
6 1 (0.081%) IntelliJ
6 1 (0.081%) Introscope
6 1 (0.081%) MLflow
6 1 (0.081%) MSI
6 1 (0.081%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.081%) Snyk
General
1 197 (15.90%) Social Skills
2 114 (9.20%) Finance
3 97 (7.83%) Public Sector
4 64 (5.17%) Analytical Skills
5 49 (3.95%) Banking
6 45 (3.63%) Documentation Skills
7 24 (1.94%) Military
8 22 (1.78%) Legal
9 17 (1.37%) Telecoms
10 15 (1.21%) Aerospace
10 15 (1.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 15 (1.21%) Retail
11 12 (0.97%) Manufacturing
12 11 (0.89%) Organisational Skills
13 10 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
13 10 (0.81%) Marketing
14 8 (0.65%) Law
15 5 (0.40%) Automotive
15 5 (0.40%) Presentation Skills
16 4 (0.32%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 830 (66.99%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 235 (18.97%) Senior
3 187 (15.09%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 122 (9.85%) Cloud Engineer
5 88 (7.10%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 84 (6.78%) Azure Engineer
7 60 (4.84%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 55 (4.44%) Network Engineer
9 44 (3.55%) Lead
10 42 (3.39%) DevOps Engineer
11 40 (3.23%) VMware Engineer
12 36 (2.91%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
13 35 (2.82%) Architect
13 35 (2.82%) Platform Engineer
14 33 (2.66%) IT Engineer
14 33 (2.66%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
15 32 (2.58%) 3rd Line Engineer
15 32 (2.58%) Infrastructure Support
16 31 (2.50%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
17 30 (2.42%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (2.26%) REST
2 17 (1.37%) ARM Templates
3 14 (1.13%) SOAP
4 13 (1.05%) JSON
5 12 (0.97%) Middleware
6 11 (0.89%) Oracle GoldenGate
7 10 (0.81%) OAuth
7 10 (0.81%) YAML
8 9 (0.73%) Elastic Stack
8 9 (0.73%) LDAP
8 9 (0.73%) Loki
8 9 (0.73%) OpenID
9 8 (0.65%) SAML
10 7 (0.56%) Flash
10 7 (0.56%) Kafka
10 7 (0.56%) ModSecurity
10 7 (0.56%) Web Services
11 6 (0.48%) 802.1X
11 6 (0.48%) RESTful
11 6 (0.48%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 135 (10.90%) Data Centre
2 83 (6.70%) Hybrid Cloud
3 57 (4.60%) Public Cloud
4 53 (4.28%) Cloud Native
5 51 (4.12%) PKI
6 40 (3.23%) Onboarding
7 33 (2.66%) Enterprise Storage
7 33 (2.66%) Replication
8 22 (1.78%) Private Cloud
9 20 (1.61%) Management Information System
10 19 (1.53%) Clustering
10 19 (1.53%) Self-Motivation
11 17 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
11 17 (1.37%) Linux Command Line
12 16 (1.29%) Distributed Systems
12 16 (1.29%) Enterprise Cloud
13 15 (1.21%) Virtual Team
14 14 (1.13%) Mainframe
15 13 (1.05%) Security Posture
16 10 (0.81%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 333 (26.88%) Windows
2 214 (17.27%) Linux
3 212 (17.11%) Windows Server
4 47 (3.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 19 (1.53%) Windows Server 2019
6 16 (1.29%) Apple iOS
6 16 (1.29%) Unix
6 16 (1.29%) Windows 10
7 15 (1.21%) Android
7 15 (1.21%) Ubuntu
7 15 (1.21%) Windows Server 2016
8 14 (1.13%) CentOS
9 13 (1.05%) zOS
10 12 (0.97%) AIX
10 12 (0.97%) VMS
11 9 (0.73%) Rocky
12 8 (0.65%) Windows Server 2012
13 7 (0.56%) Windows Server 2003
14 6 (0.48%) Debian
14 6 (0.48%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 285 (23.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 237 (19.13%) DevOps
3 225 (18.16%) CI/CD
4 147 (11.86%) Migration
5 135 (10.90%) Problem-Solving
6 120 (9.69%) Platform Engineering
7 115 (9.28%) Agile
8 100 (8.07%) High Availability
9 89 (7.18%) Infrastructure Automation
10 88 (7.10%) Continuous Improvement
11 82 (6.62%) Project Delivery
12 81 (6.54%) Disaster Recovery
13 78 (6.30%) AI
14 77 (6.21%) Containerisation
15 74 (5.97%) Validation
16 73 (5.89%) Observability
17 70 (5.65%) Zero Trust
18 64 (5.17%) ITIL
18 64 (5.17%) Stakeholder Management
19 62 (5.00%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 205 (16.55%) PowerShell
2 204 (16.46%) Python
3 105 (8.47%) Bash
4 53 (4.28%) SQL
5 50 (4.04%) Bicep
6 22 (1.78%) Java
7 21 (1.69%) Shell Script
8 20 (1.61%) C#
9 9 (0.73%) ActionScript
10 8 (0.65%) Go
11 7 (0.56%) JavaScript
12 6 (0.48%) JCL
12 6 (0.48%) TypeScript
13 5 (0.40%) PHP
14 4 (0.32%) Groovy
15 3 (0.24%) C++
15 3 (0.24%) Kusto Query Language
16 2 (0.16%) C
16 2 (0.16%) Perl
16 2 (0.16%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 473 (38.18%) Security Cleared
2 302 (24.37%) SC Cleared
3 177 (14.29%) DV Cleared
4 49 (3.95%) Degree
5 37 (2.99%) Cisco Certification
6 34 (2.74%) Azure Certification
7 26 (2.10%) Microsoft Certification
8 22 (1.78%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 19 (1.53%) AWS Certification
9 19 (1.53%) CCNA
10 18 (1.45%) CISSP
11 17 (1.37%) CCNP
12 13 (1.05%) MCSE
13 11 (0.89%) Computer Science Degree
13 11 (0.89%) VCAP
14 9 (0.73%) CISM
15 8 (0.65%) PMI Certification
16 7 (0.56%) RHCA
17 6 (0.48%) MCSA
17 6 (0.48%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (2.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 29 (2.34%) QA
3 26 (2.10%) NIST
4 16 (1.29%) NCSC
5 15 (1.21%) Cyber Essentials
6 13 (1.05%) SLA
7 8 (0.65%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 5 (0.40%) Data Quality
8 5 (0.40%) GRC
8 5 (0.40%) PMO
9 4 (0.32%) GDPR
9 4 (0.32%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.24%) NIST 800
11 2 (0.16%) JSP 440
12 1 (0.081%) ISO 14001
12 1 (0.081%) ISO 9001
12 1 (0.081%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 1 (0.081%) RMADS
12 1 (0.081%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 223 (18.00%) Active Directory
2 222 (17.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 87 (7.02%) Hyper-V
4 78 (6.30%) VMware ESXi
5 74 (5.97%) Docker
6 70 (5.65%) vSphere
7 52 (4.20%) Virtual Machines
8 41 (3.31%) VMware NSX
9 28 (2.26%) Virtual Desktop
10 14 (1.13%) NFS
11 11 (0.89%) Oracle RAC
12 9 (0.73%) BitLocker
13 8 (0.65%) Firmware
13 8 (0.65%) Microsoft App-V
14 7 (0.56%) KVM
15 5 (0.40%) GPFS
15 5 (0.40%) Terminal Services
16 4 (0.32%) Virtual Servers
17 2 (0.16%) Ceph
17 2 (0.16%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 268 (21.63%) Terraform
2 161 (12.99%) Ansible
3 158 (12.75%) Kubernetes
4 68 (5.49%) Microsoft Intune
5 51 (4.12%) vCenter Server
6 35 (2.82%) SCCM
7 29 (2.34%) Grafana
8 24 (1.94%) Prometheus
9 23 (1.86%) Puppet
10 19 (1.53%) WSUS
11 18 (1.45%) Argo
12 15 (1.21%) Packer
13 14 (1.13%) Nessus
13 14 (1.13%) NetBackup
13 14 (1.13%) Single Sign-On
14 11 (0.89%) Data Guard
14 11 (0.89%) Oracle RMAN
14 11 (0.89%) SCOM
15 9 (0.73%) vRealize
16 8 (0.65%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 296 (23.89%) Microsoft
2 288 (23.24%) VMware
3 71 (5.73%) Cisco
4 70 (5.65%) Citrix
5 54 (4.36%) F5
6 49 (3.95%) NetApp
7 43 (3.47%) Google
7 43 (3.47%) Oracle
8 42 (3.39%) ServiceNow
9 33 (2.66%) Palo Alto
10 32 (2.58%) Veeam
11 25 (2.02%) Dell
12 24 (1.94%) Arista
12 24 (1.94%) Red Hat
13 22 (1.78%) Aruba
14 21 (1.69%) Fortinet
15 19 (1.53%) Juniper
15 19 (1.53%) Tenable
16 17 (1.37%) Zscaler
17 13 (1.05%) CyberArk