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

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 91 161 106
Rank change year-on-year +70 -55 -18
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 1,356 494 740
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.97% 1.81% 2.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.50% 2.00% 2.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 824 326 547
10th Percentile £354 £325 £313
25th Percentile £450 £386 £387
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £549 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.80% - -
75th Percentile £625 £600 £588
90th Percentile £688 £657 £675
UK median daily rate £540 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +8.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 7 19
10th Percentile £49.00 £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% -3.45%
75th Percentile £81.05 £46.84 -
90th Percentile £100.00 £68.41 -
UK median hourly rate £74.00 £30.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +146.67% -57.14% -3.45%

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 38,742 24,707 27,973
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.90% 90.77% 85.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,892 15,711 17,811
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £636 £626 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £751
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,598 1,453 1,393
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.25 £14.41
25th Percentile £18.34 £17.87 £20.00
Median hourly rate £43.56 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +73.20% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £66.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +63.02% -40.82% +2.41%

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 4 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 4 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 4 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 +43 416 £550 +4.76% 630
North of England +54 310 £525 +5.00% 172
South East +15 269 £550 +13.99% 174
North West +45 147 £525 +5.00% 92
Midlands +32 143 £475 +5.56% 83
South West +31 141 £550 -0.90% 104
Yorkshire +20 117 £500 - 51
West Midlands +11 101 £525 +16.67% 56
East of England +16 66 £510 +27.50% 72
North East +6 56 £600 -7.69% 30
East Midlands +10 40 £450 - 27
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 (4.42%) Microsoft Exchange
2 42 (3.10%) SharePoint
3 26 (1.92%) Confluence
4 12 (0.88%) Apache
5 11 (0.81%) CICS
6 7 (0.52%) SAS
6 7 (0.52%) WebSphere
7 6 (0.44%) Apache Spark
8 5 (0.37%) SharePoint Server
9 4 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
9 4 (0.29%) nginx
9 4 (0.29%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.22%) CloudStack
11 2 (0.15%) Exchange Server 2013
12 1 (0.074%) CMS
12 1 (0.074%) IIS
12 1 (0.074%) JBoss
12 1 (0.074%) Skype for Business
12 1 (0.074%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.074%) WebLogic
Applications
1 18 (1.33%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (0.88%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.37%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.22%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.074%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.074%) CINEMA 4D
6 1 (0.074%) CPLEX
6 1 (0.074%) Houdini
6 1 (0.074%) NUKE
6 1 (0.074%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (0.37%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.22%) Primavera
3 2 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.074%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.074%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 468 (34.51%) Azure
2 252 (18.58%) AWS
3 133 (9.81%) Entra ID
4 123 (9.07%) Microsoft 365
5 101 (7.45%) GCP
6 91 (6.71%) GitHub
7 70 (5.16%) Azure DevOps
7 70 (5.16%) IaaS
8 68 (5.01%) OCI
9 60 (4.42%) GitHub Actions
10 46 (3.39%) SaaS
11 35 (2.58%) Azure Monitor
11 35 (2.58%) PaaS
12 29 (2.14%) Azure AKS
13 25 (1.84%) Amazon EKS
14 24 (1.77%) Azure Sentinel
15 23 (1.70%) OpenShift
15 23 (1.70%) Power Platform
16 21 (1.55%) Amazon S3
17 20 (1.47%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 222 (16.37%) DNS
2 212 (15.63%) Firewall
3 138 (10.18%) DHCP
4 90 (6.64%) VPN
5 77 (5.68%) TCP/IP
6 75 (5.53%) Network Security
7 64 (4.72%) WAN
8 63 (4.65%) SAN
9 61 (4.50%) VLAN
10 44 (3.24%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 38 (2.80%) LAN
12 35 (2.58%) SD-WAN
12 35 (2.58%) Wi-Fi
13 34 (2.51%) BGP
13 34 (2.51%) BIG-IP
14 29 (2.14%) OSPF
15 28 (2.06%) SSL
16 27 (1.99%) VXLAN
17 26 (1.92%) Ethernet VPN
18 21 (1.55%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (4.28%) SQL Server
2 22 (1.62%) Oracle Exadata
3 19 (1.40%) Oracle Database
4 17 (1.25%) Data Lake
4 17 (1.25%) Power BI
5 16 (1.18%) Relational Database
6 14 (1.03%) RDBMS
7 12 (0.88%) NoSQL
8 11 (0.81%) Elasticsearch
8 11 (0.81%) Metadata
8 11 (0.81%) PostgreSQL
9 10 (0.74%) Data Warehouse
10 8 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
11 7 (0.52%) Azure SQL Database
11 7 (0.52%) Pentaho
12 6 (0.44%) BigQuery
13 5 (0.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 4 (0.29%) Data Mining
14 4 (0.29%) Db2
14 4 (0.29%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 70 (5.16%) GitLab
2 53 (3.91%) Git
3 43 (3.17%) Jenkins
4 42 (3.10%) JIRA
5 4 (0.29%) Chocolatey
6 3 (0.22%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.22%) Oracle Forms
6 3 (0.22%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.15%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.15%) Subversion
8 1 (0.074%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.074%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.074%) CMake
8 1 (0.074%) Gradle
8 1 (0.074%) Maven
8 1 (0.074%) MLflow
8 1 (0.074%) MSI
8 1 (0.074%) Snyk
8 1 (0.074%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.074%) Visual Studio
General
1 227 (16.74%) Social Skills
2 125 (9.22%) Finance
3 103 (7.60%) Public Sector
4 79 (5.83%) Analytical Skills
5 54 (3.98%) Documentation Skills
6 48 (3.54%) Banking
7 22 (1.62%) Manufacturing
7 22 (1.62%) Telecoms
8 20 (1.47%) Military
9 19 (1.40%) Aerospace
10 17 (1.25%) Retail
11 15 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 14 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
13 13 (0.96%) Law
14 11 (0.81%) Legal
15 10 (0.74%) Automotive
15 10 (0.74%) Marketing
15 10 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
16 5 (0.37%) Aviation
16 5 (0.37%) Billing
Job Titles
1 873 (64.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 268 (19.76%) Senior
3 212 (15.63%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 142 (10.47%) Cloud Engineer
5 102 (7.52%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 91 (6.71%) Azure Engineer
7 69 (5.09%) Network Engineer
8 65 (4.79%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 65 (4.79%) Lead
9 53 (3.91%) DevOps Engineer
10 51 (3.76%) Architect
11 50 (3.69%) VMware Engineer
12 43 (3.17%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
12 43 (3.17%) Platform Engineer
13 35 (2.58%) IT Engineer
13 35 (2.58%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
14 34 (2.51%) Support Engineer
15 33 (2.43%) Security Engineer
16 32 (2.36%) Infrastructure Support
16 32 (2.36%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 286 (21.09%) Terraform
2 25 (1.84%) ARM Templates
3 21 (1.55%) REST
4 16 (1.18%) YAML
5 14 (1.03%) Kafka
5 14 (1.03%) Oracle GoldenGate
6 11 (0.81%) 802.1X
6 11 (0.81%) JSON
6 11 (0.81%) OpenID
6 11 (0.81%) SAML
7 10 (0.74%) Loki
7 10 (0.74%) Middleware
7 10 (0.74%) OAuth
8 8 (0.59%) Elastic Stack
8 8 (0.59%) ModSecurity
9 7 (0.52%) LDAP
10 6 (0.44%) .NET
10 6 (0.44%) SOAP
11 5 (0.37%) Flash
12 4 (0.29%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 132 (9.73%) Data Centre
2 94 (6.93%) Hybrid Cloud
3 65 (4.79%) Cloud Native
4 56 (4.13%) PKI
5 45 (3.32%) Public Cloud
6 44 (3.24%) Onboarding
7 43 (3.17%) Replication
8 35 (2.58%) Enterprise Storage
9 31 (2.29%) Private Cloud
10 29 (2.14%) Management Information System
11 25 (1.84%) Linux Command Line
12 23 (1.70%) Clustering
13 22 (1.62%) Enterprise Cloud
14 20 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
14 20 (1.47%) Distributed Systems
15 17 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
16 14 (1.03%) Security Posture
17 12 (0.88%) Mainframe
17 12 (0.88%) Product Ownership
17 12 (0.88%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 368 (27.14%) Windows
2 251 (18.51%) Windows Server
3 249 (18.36%) Linux
4 55 (4.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 20 (1.47%) Unix
6 19 (1.40%) Windows Server 2019
7 18 (1.33%) CentOS
7 18 (1.33%) Ubuntu
7 18 (1.33%) Windows 10
8 17 (1.25%) Android
8 17 (1.25%) Apple iOS
9 15 (1.11%) VMS
10 14 (1.03%) AIX
10 14 (1.03%) Windows Server 2016
11 13 (0.96%) Rocky
12 11 (0.81%) Mac OS
12 11 (0.81%) zOS
13 8 (0.59%) Windows Server 2012
14 6 (0.44%) Debian
14 6 (0.44%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 333 (24.56%) Infrastructure as Code
2 271 (19.99%) DevOps
3 259 (19.10%) CI/CD
4 181 (13.35%) Migration
5 157 (11.58%) Problem-Solving
6 153 (11.28%) Platform Engineering
7 119 (8.78%) Continuous Improvement
8 112 (8.26%) Infrastructure Automation
9 107 (7.89%) Agile
9 107 (7.89%) Stakeholder Management
10 104 (7.67%) High Availability
11 101 (7.45%) Disaster Recovery
12 100 (7.37%) AI
13 97 (7.15%) Observability
14 92 (6.78%) Technical Leadership
15 91 (6.71%) ITIL
16 84 (6.19%) Cybersecurity
16 84 (6.19%) Project Delivery
17 76 (5.60%) Validation
17 76 (5.60%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 237 (17.48%) PowerShell
2 224 (16.52%) Python
3 117 (8.63%) Bash
4 61 (4.50%) SQL
5 58 (4.28%) Bicep
6 29 (2.14%) Java
7 15 (1.11%) C#
8 11 (0.81%) Shell Script
9 10 (0.74%) Go
10 9 (0.66%) C++
11 8 (0.59%) ActionScript
11 8 (0.59%) Perl
12 7 (0.52%) TypeScript
13 6 (0.44%) C
14 4 (0.29%) JavaScript
14 4 (0.29%) JCL
14 4 (0.29%) Kusto Query Language
15 2 (0.15%) Groovy
15 2 (0.15%) Korn
15 2 (0.15%) PHP
Qualifications
1 524 (38.64%) Security Cleared
2 332 (24.48%) SC Cleared
3 193 (14.23%) DV Cleared
4 57 (4.20%) Degree
5 41 (3.02%) Azure Certification
6 33 (2.43%) Cisco Certification
7 32 (2.36%) Microsoft Certification
8 21 (1.55%) CISSP
8 21 (1.55%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 18 (1.33%) AWS Certification
9 18 (1.33%) CCNA
9 18 (1.33%) CCNP
10 15 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
11 13 (0.96%) MCSE
12 12 (0.88%) VCAP
13 9 (0.66%) CISM
13 9 (0.66%) PMI Certification
14 8 (0.59%) PMP
15 7 (0.52%) MCSA
16 6 (0.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (3.02%) QA
2 39 (2.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 25 (1.84%) NIST
4 22 (1.62%) NCSC
5 18 (1.33%) SLA
6 15 (1.11%) Cyber Essentials
7 10 (0.74%) Data Quality
8 7 (0.52%) GRC
8 7 (0.52%) JSP 440
8 7 (0.52%) PCI DSS
8 7 (0.52%) PMO
9 4 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (0.22%) GDPR
10 3 (0.22%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.15%) IASME
11 2 (0.15%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.074%) Disclosure Scotland
12 1 (0.074%) FedRAMP
12 1 (0.074%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 259 (19.10%) VMware Infrastructure
2 247 (18.22%) Active Directory
3 109 (8.04%) Hyper-V
4 76 (5.60%) vSphere
5 74 (5.46%) VMware ESXi
6 71 (5.24%) Docker
7 57 (4.20%) Virtual Machines
8 42 (3.10%) VMware NSX
9 28 (2.06%) Virtual Desktop
10 15 (1.11%) Oracle RAC
11 13 (0.96%) NFS
12 11 (0.81%) Firmware
12 11 (0.81%) KVM
13 10 (0.74%) Virtual Servers
14 7 (0.52%) BitLocker
15 6 (0.44%) Microsoft App-V
16 5 (0.37%) Ceph
16 5 (0.37%) GPFS
16 5 (0.37%) oVirt
16 5 (0.37%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 186 (13.72%) Ansible
2 172 (12.68%) Kubernetes
3 78 (5.75%) Microsoft Intune
4 47 (3.47%) SCCM
4 47 (3.47%) vCenter Server
5 31 (2.29%) Grafana
6 26 (1.92%) Prometheus
7 22 (1.62%) WSUS
8 20 (1.47%) NetBackup
9 19 (1.40%) Argo
9 19 (1.40%) Puppet
10 18 (1.33%) Single Sign-On
11 15 (1.11%) Oracle RMAN
11 15 (1.11%) SCOM
12 14 (1.03%) Data Guard
12 14 (1.03%) Nessus
13 12 (0.88%) Packer
14 11 (0.81%) FortiGate
15 10 (0.74%) Progress Chef
16 8 (0.59%) systemd
Vendors
1 342 (25.22%) Microsoft
2 330 (24.34%) VMware
3 79 (5.83%) Cisco
4 65 (4.79%) Citrix
5 57 (4.20%) Oracle
6 52 (3.83%) F5
7 44 (3.24%) NetApp
8 43 (3.17%) Google
9 38 (2.80%) Palo Alto
10 35 (2.58%) Veeam
11 34 (2.51%) Red Hat
12 30 (2.21%) ServiceNow
13 24 (1.77%) Arista
14 22 (1.62%) Aruba
15 20 (1.47%) Dell
15 20 (1.47%) Juniper
16 18 (1.33%) Tenable
16 18 (1.33%) Zscaler
17 16 (1.18%) CyberArk
18 14 (1.03%) IBM