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

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 137 94
Rank change year-on-year +34 -43 +20
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 997 490 865
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.40% 2.06% 2.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.83% 2.25% 2.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 685 339 653
10th Percentile £335 £325 £295
25th Percentile £425 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +10.53% -7.32%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £650 £699
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £475
% change year-on-year - +10.53% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 7 33
10th Percentile £44.20 £40.31 £24.53
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% -15.58%
75th Percentile £77.06 £136.88 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £200.00 -
UK median hourly rate £72.54 £62.50 £54.88
% change year-on-year +16.06% +13.90% -14.04%

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 35,194 21,730 31,440
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.78% 91.29% 86.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,373 14,199 20,591
10th Percentile £325 £305 £300
25th Percentile £413 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £620 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £510 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -0.49% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,179 923 2,284
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.22 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.13 £15.99
Median hourly rate £45.59 £28.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +62.80% -23.29% -2.67%
75th Percentile £68.00 £60.00 £61.11
90th Percentile £81.01 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.28 £27.45 £36.00
% change year-on-year +54.01% -23.75% -3.49%

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 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 26 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 26 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 -2 268 £550 +4.76% 92
North of England +11 221 £500 -4.76% 74
South East +14 202 £515 -1.90% 86
South West +11 119 £550 -4.35% 51
Yorkshire -8 116 £428 -18.48% 13
Midlands -5 107 £450 +12.50% 49
North West -1 76 £575 +9.52% 52
West Midlands -24 68 £525 +40.00% 30
East of England -5 58 £475 +1.17% 28
East Midlands -3 38 £450 - 19
North East -2 33 £600 -7.69% 9
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 60 (6.02%) Microsoft Exchange
2 20 (2.01%) SharePoint
3 15 (1.50%) Confluence
4 10 (1.00%) Apache
5 7 (0.70%) CICS
6 6 (0.60%) TPMS
7 4 (0.40%) IIS
7 4 (0.40%) SAS
8 3 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.30%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.20%) Apache Pulsar
9 2 (0.20%) CloudStack
9 2 (0.20%) nginx
9 2 (0.20%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.10%) IBM HTTP Server
10 1 (0.10%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.10%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 16 (1.60%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.20%) Acrobat
3 2 (0.20%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.10%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.10%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (0.50%) Maximo
2 1 (0.10%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.10%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.10%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 317 (31.80%) Azure
2 167 (16.75%) AWS
3 89 (8.93%) Microsoft 365
4 72 (7.22%) GCP
5 69 (6.92%) Entra ID
6 67 (6.72%) GitHub
7 50 (5.02%) Azure DevOps
7 50 (5.02%) IaaS
8 45 (4.51%) GitHub Actions
9 38 (3.81%) SaaS
10 36 (3.61%) PaaS
11 33 (3.31%) Azure AKS
11 33 (3.31%) OpenShift
12 30 (3.01%) OCI
13 28 (2.81%) Azure Monitor
13 28 (2.81%) Serverless
14 24 (2.41%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 20 (2.01%) AWS Lambda
16 18 (1.81%) Nutanix
17 14 (1.40%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 139 (13.94%) Firewall
2 127 (12.74%) DNS
3 78 (7.82%) DHCP
4 59 (5.92%) VPN
5 50 (5.02%) Network Security
6 48 (4.81%) WAN
7 45 (4.51%) SAN
8 36 (3.61%) VLAN
9 32 (3.21%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 31 (3.11%) BGP
10 31 (3.11%) LAN
11 28 (2.81%) TCP/IP
12 27 (2.71%) OSPF
12 27 (2.71%) SD-WAN
13 25 (2.51%) BIG-IP
14 23 (2.31%) NAS
14 23 (2.31%) VXLAN
15 22 (2.21%) Ethernet VPN
16 19 (1.91%) SSL
16 19 (1.91%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (3.61%) SQL Server
2 9 (0.90%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (0.80%) DynamoDB
3 8 (0.80%) Elasticsearch
3 8 (0.80%) Power BI
4 7 (0.70%) Metadata
4 7 (0.70%) NoSQL
5 6 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (0.60%) DB2
6 4 (0.40%) Data Lake
6 4 (0.40%) Data Mining
6 4 (0.40%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (0.40%) MongoDB
6 4 (0.40%) Relational Database
6 4 (0.40%) Snowflake Schema
7 3 (0.30%) NonStop SQL
7 3 (0.30%) Oracle Database
7 3 (0.30%) Pentaho
7 3 (0.30%) RDBMS
8 2 (0.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 51 (5.12%) GitLab
2 38 (3.81%) Jenkins
3 32 (3.21%) JIRA
4 27 (2.71%) Git
5 8 (0.80%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.10%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.10%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.10%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.10%) CMake
6 1 (0.10%) GoCD
6 1 (0.10%) Gradle
6 1 (0.10%) IntelliJ
6 1 (0.10%) Introscope
6 1 (0.10%) Jaeger
6 1 (0.10%) MSI
6 1 (0.10%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.10%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 151 (15.15%) Social Skills
2 87 (8.73%) Finance
3 79 (7.92%) Public Sector
4 55 (5.52%) Analytical Skills
5 43 (4.31%) Banking
6 28 (2.81%) Documentation Skills
7 22 (2.21%) Military
8 17 (1.71%) Legal
9 13 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 13 (1.30%) Retail
10 12 (1.20%) Aerospace
11 10 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
12 9 (0.90%) Manufacturing
13 8 (0.80%) Marketing
13 8 (0.80%) Telecoms
14 7 (0.70%) Billing
14 7 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
15 4 (0.40%) Local Government
15 4 (0.40%) Presentation Skills
16 3 (0.30%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 667 (66.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 170 (17.05%) Senior
3 132 (13.24%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 64 (6.42%) Cloud Engineer
5 57 (5.72%) Azure Engineer
6 49 (4.91%) Network Engineer
7 46 (4.61%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 44 (4.41%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
9 37 (3.71%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
10 36 (3.61%) Automation Engineer
11 35 (3.51%) VMware Engineer
12 32 (3.21%) Support Engineer
13 31 (3.11%) Architect
14 30 (3.01%) DevOps Engineer
14 30 (3.01%) IT Engineer
14 30 (3.01%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
15 29 (2.91%) Infrastructure Support
16 28 (2.81%) 3rd Line Engineer
16 28 (2.81%) Security Engineer
17 27 (2.71%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (2.61%) REST
2 18 (1.81%) SOAP
3 13 (1.30%) ARM Templates
4 11 (1.10%) Web Services
5 9 (0.90%) LDAP
6 8 (0.80%) Elastic Stack
6 8 (0.80%) JSON
6 8 (0.80%) Kafka
7 7 (0.70%) Flash
7 7 (0.70%) Middleware
7 7 (0.70%) OAuth
8 6 (0.60%) RESTful
8 6 (0.60%) WSDL
9 5 (0.50%) GraphQL
9 5 (0.50%) OAuth2
9 5 (0.50%) OpenID
9 5 (0.50%) YAML
10 4 (0.40%) ADO
10 4 (0.40%) Keycloak
10 4 (0.40%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 85 (8.53%) Data Centre
2 61 (6.12%) Hybrid Cloud
3 41 (4.11%) PKI
4 36 (3.61%) Public Cloud
5 35 (3.51%) Cloud Native
6 29 (2.91%) Enterprise Storage
6 29 (2.91%) Onboarding
7 25 (2.51%) Private Cloud
7 25 (2.51%) Replication
8 19 (1.91%) Self-Motivation
9 15 (1.50%) Virtual Team
10 14 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
11 12 (1.20%) Clustering
12 11 (1.10%) Management Information System
13 10 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
14 8 (0.80%) Analytical Mindset
14 8 (0.80%) Enterprise Cloud
14 8 (0.80%) Mainframe
14 8 (0.80%) Security Posture
15 7 (0.70%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 276 (27.68%) Windows
2 167 (16.75%) Windows Server
3 158 (15.85%) Linux
4 31 (3.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 19 (1.91%) Windows Server 2019
6 18 (1.81%) Windows Server 2016
7 17 (1.71%) Apple iOS
8 16 (1.60%) Ubuntu
9 15 (1.50%) Android
10 14 (1.40%) Windows 10
11 13 (1.30%) Unix
11 13 (1.30%) VMS
12 8 (0.80%) CentOS
12 8 (0.80%) Windows Server 2003
12 8 (0.80%) Windows Server 2012
13 7 (0.70%) Debian
13 7 (0.70%) Mac OS
13 7 (0.70%) zOS
14 2 (0.20%) Data ONTAP
15 1 (0.10%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 199 (19.96%) Infrastructure as Code
2 198 (19.86%) DevOps
3 176 (17.65%) CI/CD
4 129 (12.94%) Problem-Solving
5 108 (10.83%) Migration
6 94 (9.43%) Agile
7 86 (8.63%) Platform Engineering
8 83 (8.32%) High Availability
9 81 (8.12%) Infrastructure Automation
10 72 (7.22%) Disaster Recovery
11 71 (7.12%) Containerisation
12 67 (6.72%) Zero Trust
13 66 (6.62%) ITIL
14 60 (6.02%) Project Delivery
15 54 (5.42%) Continuous Improvement
16 51 (5.12%) Observability
17 48 (4.81%) Cybersecurity
18 47 (4.71%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 46 (4.61%) AI
19 46 (4.61%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 141 (14.14%) Python
2 140 (14.04%) PowerShell
3 57 (5.72%) Bash
4 43 (4.31%) SQL
5 34 (3.41%) Bicep
6 20 (2.01%) Shell Script
7 19 (1.91%) C#
8 18 (1.81%) Java
9 10 (1.00%) JavaScript
9 10 (1.00%) PHP
10 6 (0.60%) Go
10 6 (0.60%) JCL
11 5 (0.50%) C++
12 4 (0.40%) ActionScript
12 4 (0.40%) Groovy
12 4 (0.40%) Ruby
13 2 (0.20%) C
13 2 (0.20%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.20%) TypeScript
14 1 (0.10%) VB
Qualifications
1 363 (36.41%) Security Cleared
2 236 (23.67%) SC Cleared
3 138 (13.84%) DV Cleared
4 37 (3.71%) Degree
5 29 (2.91%) Cisco Certification
6 24 (2.41%) Azure Certification
7 22 (2.21%) Microsoft Certification
8 19 (1.91%) CISSP
9 17 (1.71%) CCNA
10 15 (1.50%) CISM
11 14 (1.40%) CCNP
11 14 (1.40%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 12 (1.20%) AWS Certification
13 9 (0.90%) MCSE
14 7 (0.70%) Computer Science Degree
15 6 (0.60%) FFIEC
15 6 (0.60%) RHCA
16 5 (0.50%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
16 5 (0.50%) ISTQB
16 5 (0.50%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (3.11%) NIST
2 26 (2.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 16 (1.60%) QA
4 14 (1.40%) Cyber Essentials
4 14 (1.40%) GDPR
4 14 (1.40%) PCI DSS
5 13 (1.30%) SLA
6 10 (1.00%) NCSC
7 8 (0.80%) NIST 800
8 7 (0.70%) Data Quality
9 6 (0.60%) GLBA
10 3 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.20%) ISO 19650
11 2 (0.20%) PMO
11 2 (0.20%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.10%) Accessibility
12 1 (0.10%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.10%) Disclosure Scotland
12 1 (0.10%) FedRAMP
12 1 (0.10%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 171 (17.15%) Active Directory
2 167 (16.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 73 (7.32%) Hyper-V
4 60 (6.02%) Docker
5 58 (5.82%) vSphere
6 48 (4.81%) VMware ESXi
7 32 (3.21%) Virtual Machines
8 27 (2.71%) VMware NSX
9 21 (2.11%) NFS
10 20 (2.01%) Virtual Desktop
11 9 (0.90%) BitLocker
12 8 (0.80%) Firmware
13 7 (0.70%) Microsoft App-V
14 5 (0.50%) GPFS
15 3 (0.30%) DFS Replication
15 3 (0.30%) Virtual Servers
16 2 (0.20%) Postfix
16 2 (0.20%) Sendmail
16 2 (0.20%) SRDF
16 2 (0.20%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 195 (19.56%) Terraform
2 145 (14.54%) Kubernetes
3 110 (11.03%) Ansible
4 56 (5.62%) Microsoft Intune
5 34 (3.41%) vCenter Server
6 28 (2.81%) SCCM
7 18 (1.81%) Grafana
8 16 (1.60%) Prometheus
9 15 (1.50%) Puppet
9 15 (1.50%) WSUS
10 14 (1.40%) Single Sign-On
11 12 (1.20%) SCOM
12 10 (1.00%) Nessus
12 10 (1.00%) Packer
12 10 (1.00%) vRealize
13 9 (0.90%) Argo
13 9 (0.90%) VxRail
14 8 (0.80%) Istio
14 8 (0.80%) Progress Chef
15 7 (0.70%) AirWatch
Vendors
1 236 (23.67%) VMware
2 228 (22.87%) Microsoft
3 63 (6.32%) Citrix
4 62 (6.22%) Cisco
5 44 (4.41%) NetApp
6 42 (4.21%) F5
7 40 (4.01%) Palo Alto
8 33 (3.31%) Google
8 33 (3.31%) ServiceNow
8 33 (3.31%) Veeam
9 30 (3.01%) Red Hat
10 27 (2.71%) Dell
11 24 (2.41%) Fortinet
12 22 (2.21%) Arista
12 22 (2.21%) Aruba
13 17 (1.71%) IBM
14 16 (1.60%) Oracle
15 15 (1.50%) SolarWinds
16 14 (1.40%) Splunk
17 12 (1.20%) Tenable