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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 140 88
Rank change year-on-year +44 -52 +12
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 1,204 535 890
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.69% 1.97% 2.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.15% 2.17% 2.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 757 347 665
10th Percentile £350 £329 £311
25th Percentile £425 £400 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -2.44%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £596
90th Percentile £675 £650 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 5 30
10th Percentile £55.06 £38.43 £45.00
25th Percentile £58.43 £51.06 £46.18
Median hourly rate £72.54 £77.00 £54.88
Median % change year-on-year -5.79% +40.32% -24.31%
75th Percentile £78.75 £200.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.86 - -
UK median hourly rate £73.27 £77.00 £54.88
% change year-on-year -4.84% +40.32% -22.98%

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 38,234 24,648 31,320
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.43% 90.68% 85.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,071 15,798 20,362
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
25th Percentile £420 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £645
90th Percentile £735 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,374 1,309 2,214
10th Percentile £15.57 £14.39 £13.00
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.98 £16.25
Median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +88.87% -34.02% -8.14%
75th Percentile £68.75 £54.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £83.00 £71.70 £73.60
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -5.29%

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 16 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 16 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 16 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 +38 348 £550 +4.76% 139
North of England +20 281 £525 - 82
South East +20 242 £525 -4.55% 122
South West +27 136 £549 -2.40% 62
Midlands 0 129 £450 +2.86% 59
Yorkshire -4 121 £500 - 32
North West +5 113 £550 +4.76% 36
West Midlands -18 81 £488 +21.88% 37
North East +3 56 £600 -7.69% 16
East of England 0 53 £500 +9.11% 27
East Midlands +18 46 £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 (4.49%) Microsoft Exchange
2 27 (2.24%) Confluence
2 27 (2.24%) SharePoint
3 13 (1.08%) CICS
4 8 (0.66%) WebSphere
5 6 (0.50%) Apache
6 4 (0.33%) SAS
7 3 (0.25%) CloudStack
8 2 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.17%) Apache Pulsar
8 2 (0.17%) nginx
8 2 (0.17%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.17%) SharePoint Server
9 1 (0.083%) IBM HTTP Server
9 1 (0.083%) TPMS
9 1 (0.083%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 14 (1.16%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.25%) AutoCAD
3 3 (0.25%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.083%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.083%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.083%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.17%) Primavera
2 1 (0.083%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.083%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.083%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.083%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.083%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 400 (33.22%) Azure
2 222 (18.44%) AWS
3 97 (8.06%) Entra ID
4 92 (7.64%) GCP
4 92 (7.64%) GitHub
5 89 (7.39%) Microsoft 365
6 62 (5.15%) GitHub Actions
7 61 (5.07%) IaaS
8 59 (4.90%) Azure DevOps
9 50 (4.15%) OCI
10 41 (3.41%) PaaS
10 41 (3.41%) SaaS
11 34 (2.82%) Azure AKS
12 26 (2.16%) Amazon EKS
12 26 (2.16%) Azure Monitor
12 26 (2.16%) Serverless
13 20 (1.66%) Amazon S3
13 20 (1.66%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 19 (1.58%) OpenShift
15 18 (1.50%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 183 (15.20%) DNS
2 174 (14.45%) Firewall
3 106 (8.80%) DHCP
4 64 (5.32%) VPN
5 62 (5.15%) Network Security
6 60 (4.98%) SAN
7 53 (4.40%) VLAN
7 53 (4.40%) WAN
8 50 (4.15%) TCP/IP
9 44 (3.65%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 34 (2.82%) BIG-IP
11 32 (2.66%) BGP
11 32 (2.66%) SD-WAN
12 28 (2.33%) LAN
12 28 (2.33%) OSPF
13 26 (2.16%) VXLAN
14 25 (2.08%) Ethernet VPN
15 23 (1.91%) SSL
15 23 (1.91%) Wi-Fi
16 22 (1.83%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (3.99%) SQL Server
2 14 (1.16%) Oracle Database
2 14 (1.16%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (1.00%) Oracle Exadata
3 12 (1.00%) Relational Database
4 10 (0.83%) RDBMS
5 9 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
5 9 (0.75%) Elasticsearch
6 8 (0.66%) Azure SQL Database
6 8 (0.66%) DynamoDB
7 7 (0.58%) Metadata
7 7 (0.58%) Power BI
8 6 (0.50%) Db2
9 5 (0.42%) Data Lake
10 4 (0.33%) Data Mining
10 4 (0.33%) NoSQL
10 4 (0.33%) Snowflake Schema
11 3 (0.25%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (0.25%) NonStop SQL
11 3 (0.25%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 68 (5.65%) GitLab
2 49 (4.07%) JIRA
3 48 (3.99%) Jenkins
4 43 (3.57%) Git
5 9 (0.75%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.17%) Artifactory
6 2 (0.17%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.17%) Subversion
7 1 (0.083%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.083%) Chocolatey
7 1 (0.083%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.083%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.083%) CMake
7 1 (0.083%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.083%) GoCD
7 1 (0.083%) Gradle
7 1 (0.083%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.083%) MLflow
7 1 (0.083%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.083%) Snyk
General
1 188 (15.61%) Social Skills
2 113 (9.39%) Finance
3 93 (7.72%) Public Sector
4 56 (4.65%) Analytical Skills
5 49 (4.07%) Banking
6 44 (3.65%) Documentation Skills
7 23 (1.91%) Military
8 22 (1.83%) Legal
9 15 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 15 (1.25%) Retail
10 14 (1.16%) Aerospace
10 14 (1.16%) Telecoms
11 12 (1.00%) Manufacturing
12 10 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
12 10 (0.83%) Marketing
12 10 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
13 8 (0.66%) Law
14 5 (0.42%) Billing
14 5 (0.42%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (0.33%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 814 (67.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 222 (18.44%) Senior
3 175 (14.53%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 110 (9.14%) Cloud Engineer
5 79 (6.56%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 74 (6.15%) Azure Engineer
7 53 (4.40%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 51 (4.24%) Network Engineer
9 40 (3.32%) DevOps Engineer
10 38 (3.16%) Lead
11 37 (3.07%) VMware Engineer
12 36 (2.99%) IT Engineer
12 36 (2.99%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
12 36 (2.99%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
13 34 (2.82%) Infrastructure Support
14 33 (2.74%) Support Engineer
15 32 (2.66%) 3rd Line Engineer
16 31 (2.57%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
16 31 (2.57%) Architect
16 31 (2.57%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (2.24%) REST
2 14 (1.16%) SOAP
3 12 (1.00%) JSON
3 12 (1.00%) Middleware
4 11 (0.91%) LDAP
5 10 (0.83%) Elastic Stack
5 10 (0.83%) OAuth
5 10 (0.83%) Oracle GoldenGate
6 9 (0.75%) ARM Templates
6 9 (0.75%) OpenID
7 8 (0.66%) Loki
7 8 (0.66%) SAML
7 8 (0.66%) YAML
8 7 (0.58%) Flash
8 7 (0.58%) Kafka
8 7 (0.58%) Web Services
9 6 (0.50%) ModSecurity
9 6 (0.50%) RESTful
9 6 (0.50%) WSDL
10 5 (0.42%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 134 (11.13%) Data Centre
2 74 (6.15%) Hybrid Cloud
3 54 (4.49%) Cloud Native
4 53 (4.40%) Public Cloud
5 49 (4.07%) PKI
6 34 (2.82%) Onboarding
7 33 (2.74%) Enterprise Storage
8 32 (2.66%) Replication
9 21 (1.74%) Private Cloud
10 19 (1.58%) Self-Motivation
11 18 (1.50%) Clustering
12 17 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
12 17 (1.41%) Distributed Systems
13 16 (1.33%) Linux Command Line
13 16 (1.33%) Management Information System
14 15 (1.25%) Virtual Team
15 14 (1.16%) Mainframe
16 13 (1.08%) Enterprise Cloud
17 11 (0.91%) Security Posture
18 9 (0.75%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 320 (26.58%) Windows
2 201 (16.69%) Linux
3 196 (16.28%) Windows Server
4 44 (3.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 19 (1.58%) Windows Server 2019
6 17 (1.41%) Apple iOS
6 17 (1.41%) Windows 10
7 16 (1.33%) Windows Server 2016
8 15 (1.25%) Android
8 15 (1.25%) Ubuntu
8 15 (1.25%) Unix
9 13 (1.08%) CentOS
9 13 (1.08%) zOS
10 11 (0.91%) AIX
11 10 (0.83%) VMS
12 8 (0.66%) Windows Server 2012
13 7 (0.58%) Mac OS
13 7 (0.58%) Rocky
13 7 (0.58%) Windows Server 2003
14 6 (0.50%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 266 (22.09%) Infrastructure as Code
2 227 (18.85%) DevOps
3 214 (17.77%) CI/CD
4 142 (11.79%) Migration
5 130 (10.80%) Problem-Solving
6 112 (9.30%) Platform Engineering
7 110 (9.14%) Agile
8 100 (8.31%) High Availability
9 84 (6.98%) Infrastructure Automation
10 78 (6.48%) Containerisation
11 77 (6.40%) Continuous Improvement
11 77 (6.40%) Disaster Recovery
12 75 (6.23%) AI
12 75 (6.23%) Project Delivery
13 69 (5.73%) Zero Trust
14 68 (5.65%) Observability
15 67 (5.56%) Validation
16 57 (4.73%) Cybersecurity
17 56 (4.65%) Stakeholder Management
18 54 (4.49%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 196 (16.28%) Python
2 188 (15.61%) PowerShell
3 90 (7.48%) Bash
4 53 (4.40%) SQL
5 37 (3.07%) Bicep
6 22 (1.83%) Java
7 21 (1.74%) Shell Script
8 20 (1.66%) C#
9 10 (0.83%) ActionScript
10 8 (0.66%) Go
11 7 (0.58%) JavaScript
12 6 (0.50%) JCL
12 6 (0.50%) TypeScript
13 5 (0.42%) PHP
14 4 (0.33%) Groovy
15 3 (0.25%) C++
15 3 (0.25%) Kusto Query Language
16 2 (0.17%) C
16 2 (0.17%) Korn
16 2 (0.17%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 449 (37.29%) Security Cleared
2 285 (23.67%) SC Cleared
3 172 (14.29%) DV Cleared
4 43 (3.57%) Degree
5 35 (2.91%) Cisco Certification
6 28 (2.33%) Azure Certification
7 23 (1.91%) Microsoft Certification
8 20 (1.66%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 19 (1.58%) AWS Certification
9 19 (1.58%) CCNA
10 16 (1.33%) CISSP
11 15 (1.25%) CCNP
12 12 (1.00%) MCSE
13 9 (0.75%) Computer Science Degree
13 9 (0.75%) VCAP
14 8 (0.66%) CISM
15 7 (0.58%) PMI Certification
16 6 (0.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 6 (0.50%) MCSA
16 6 (0.50%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (2.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 28 (2.33%) QA
3 27 (2.24%) NIST
4 14 (1.16%) Cyber Essentials
4 14 (1.16%) NCSC
5 9 (0.75%) PCI DSS
5 9 (0.75%) SLA
6 5 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 5 (0.42%) Data Quality
6 5 (0.42%) GDPR
6 5 (0.42%) PMO
7 4 (0.33%) GRC
7 4 (0.33%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.25%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.083%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.083%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.083%) FedRAMP
9 1 (0.083%) GLBA
9 1 (0.083%) ISO 19650
9 1 (0.083%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 213 (17.69%) VMware Infrastructure
2 210 (17.44%) Active Directory
3 83 (6.89%) Hyper-V
4 76 (6.31%) VMware ESXi
5 70 (5.81%) Docker
6 68 (5.65%) vSphere
7 47 (3.90%) Virtual Machines
8 38 (3.16%) VMware NSX
9 26 (2.16%) Virtual Desktop
10 16 (1.33%) NFS
11 10 (0.83%) BitLocker
11 10 (0.83%) Oracle RAC
12 8 (0.66%) Firmware
12 8 (0.66%) Microsoft App-V
13 5 (0.42%) GPFS
13 5 (0.42%) KVM
13 5 (0.42%) Terminal Services
14 4 (0.33%) Virtual Servers
15 2 (0.17%) SRDF
15 2 (0.17%) UAG
Systems Management
1 246 (20.43%) Terraform
2 151 (12.54%) Kubernetes
3 147 (12.21%) Ansible
4 59 (4.90%) Microsoft Intune
5 49 (4.07%) vCenter Server
6 30 (2.49%) Grafana
6 30 (2.49%) SCCM
7 24 (1.99%) Prometheus
8 21 (1.74%) Puppet
9 19 (1.58%) WSUS
10 17 (1.41%) Argo
11 14 (1.16%) Nessus
11 14 (1.16%) Packer
11 14 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
12 12 (1.00%) NetBackup
12 12 (1.00%) SCOM
13 10 (0.83%) Data Guard
13 10 (0.83%) Oracle RMAN
14 9 (0.75%) vRealize
15 8 (0.66%) vMotion
Vendors
1 276 (22.92%) VMware
2 274 (22.76%) Microsoft
3 70 (5.81%) Citrix
4 65 (5.40%) Cisco
5 53 (4.40%) F5
6 46 (3.82%) NetApp
7 44 (3.65%) Google
8 43 (3.57%) ServiceNow
9 38 (3.16%) Oracle
10 32 (2.66%) Palo Alto
11 31 (2.57%) Veeam
12 24 (1.99%) Arista
12 24 (1.99%) Dell
13 23 (1.91%) Fortinet
13 23 (1.91%) Red Hat
14 22 (1.83%) Aruba
15 18 (1.50%) Juniper
15 18 (1.50%) Tenable
16 14 (1.16%) Zscaler
17 13 (1.08%) IBM