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

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 141 94
Rank change year-on-year +46 -47 +4
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 1,173 536 903
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.64% 2.01% 2.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.09% 2.21% 2.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 752 351 677
10th Percentile £350 £325 £310
25th Percentile £425 £400 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -1.38%
75th Percentile £602 £600 £596
90th Percentile £675 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 5 32
10th Percentile £47.20 £38.43 £45.00
25th Percentile £58.43 £51.06 £46.18
Median hourly rate £72.54 £57.75 £54.88
Median % change year-on-year +25.61% +5.24% -24.31%
75th Percentile £78.75 £200.00 £70.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £72.54 £57.75 £54.88
% change year-on-year +25.61% +5.24% -24.31%

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 37,991 24,251 31,775
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.46% 90.90% 85.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,934 15,590 20,626
10th Percentile £325 £300 £305
25th Percentile £419 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £524 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.65% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £645
90th Percentile £729 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £517 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +2.28% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,364 1,224 2,273
10th Percentile £15.32 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £20.88 £17.98 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -4.70%
75th Percentile £68.75 £54.81 £61.60
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.20 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% -6.25%

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 8 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 8 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 8 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 +31 346 £550 +4.76% 133
North of England +12 271 £515 -1.90% 119
South East +14 227 £525 -4.55% 107
South West +22 136 £545 -3.20% 75
Midlands -3 128 £475 +15.15% 55
Yorkshire 0 118 £500 -4.76% 44
North West +5 106 £519 -1.19% 63
West Midlands -19 82 £525 +31.25% 33
North East +4 56 £600 -7.69% 15
East of England -4 52 £493 +5.57% 25
East Midlands +16 44 £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 (4.60%) Microsoft Exchange
2 27 (2.30%) Confluence
3 22 (1.88%) SharePoint
4 11 (0.94%) CICS
5 8 (0.68%) Apache
6 6 (0.51%) WebSphere
7 4 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (0.34%) SAS
8 3 (0.26%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.26%) CloudStack
9 2 (0.17%) Apache Pulsar
9 2 (0.17%) nginx
9 2 (0.17%) TPMS
10 1 (0.085%) IBM HTTP Server
10 1 (0.085%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.085%) SharePoint Server
10 1 (0.085%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 11 (0.94%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.26%) AutoCAD
3 3 (0.26%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.085%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.085%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.085%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.085%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.085%) Primavera
1 1 (0.085%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (0.085%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
1 1 (0.085%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 385 (32.82%) Azure
2 218 (18.58%) AWS
3 94 (8.01%) GCP
4 92 (7.84%) GitHub
5 86 (7.33%) Entra ID
6 81 (6.91%) Microsoft 365
7 62 (5.29%) GitHub Actions
8 57 (4.86%) IaaS
9 55 (4.69%) Azure DevOps
10 48 (4.09%) OCI
11 41 (3.50%) SaaS
12 40 (3.41%) PaaS
13 34 (2.90%) Azure AKS
14 26 (2.22%) Amazon EKS
14 26 (2.22%) Azure Monitor
14 26 (2.22%) Serverless
15 20 (1.71%) Amazon S3
15 20 (1.71%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 18 (1.53%) AWS Lambda
17 17 (1.45%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 172 (14.66%) DNS
2 163 (13.90%) Firewall
3 99 (8.44%) DHCP
4 64 (5.46%) Network Security
5 61 (5.20%) VPN
6 57 (4.86%) SAN
7 53 (4.52%) WAN
8 47 (4.01%) VLAN
9 43 (3.67%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 40 (3.41%) TCP/IP
11 34 (2.90%) BIG-IP
12 32 (2.73%) BGP
12 32 (2.73%) SD-WAN
13 28 (2.39%) LAN
13 28 (2.39%) OSPF
14 26 (2.22%) VXLAN
15 25 (2.13%) Ethernet VPN
16 22 (1.88%) SSL
16 22 (1.88%) Wi-Fi
17 21 (1.79%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (4.01%) SQL Server
2 16 (1.36%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (1.11%) Relational Database
4 12 (1.02%) Oracle Database
5 11 (0.94%) RDBMS
6 10 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
7 9 (0.77%) Amazon RDS
7 9 (0.77%) Oracle Exadata
8 8 (0.68%) DynamoDB
9 7 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
9 7 (0.60%) Metadata
9 7 (0.60%) NoSQL
9 7 (0.60%) Power BI
10 6 (0.51%) Db2
11 5 (0.43%) Big Data
11 5 (0.43%) Data Lake
12 4 (0.34%) Data Mining
12 4 (0.34%) Data Warehouse
12 4 (0.34%) MongoDB
12 4 (0.34%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 68 (5.80%) GitLab
2 51 (4.35%) JIRA
3 48 (4.09%) Jenkins
4 37 (3.15%) Git
5 9 (0.77%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.17%) Artifactory
6 2 (0.17%) Subversion
7 1 (0.085%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.085%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.085%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.085%) CMake
7 1 (0.085%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.085%) GoCD
7 1 (0.085%) Gradle
7 1 (0.085%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.085%) Introscope
7 1 (0.085%) MLflow
7 1 (0.085%) MSI
7 1 (0.085%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.085%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 181 (15.43%) Social Skills
2 110 (9.38%) Finance
3 89 (7.59%) Public Sector
4 51 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
5 47 (4.01%) Banking
6 44 (3.75%) Documentation Skills
7 23 (1.96%) Military
8 21 (1.79%) Legal
9 16 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 16 (1.36%) Retail
10 13 (1.11%) Aerospace
10 13 (1.11%) Telecoms
11 11 (0.94%) Manufacturing
12 10 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
12 10 (0.85%) Marketing
12 10 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
13 7 (0.60%) Law
14 5 (0.43%) Billing
14 5 (0.43%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (0.34%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 787 (67.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 212 (18.07%) Senior
3 167 (14.24%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 100 (8.53%) Cloud Engineer
5 72 (6.14%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 67 (5.71%) Azure Engineer
7 48 (4.09%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
7 48 (4.09%) Network Engineer
8 38 (3.24%) VMware Engineer
9 37 (3.15%) DevOps Engineer
10 34 (2.90%) Lead
10 34 (2.90%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
11 33 (2.81%) Architect
11 33 (2.81%) IT Engineer
11 33 (2.81%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
12 31 (2.64%) Infrastructure Support
13 30 (2.56%) Support Engineer
14 29 (2.47%) 3rd Line Engineer
14 29 (2.47%) Platform Engineer
15 28 (2.39%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (2.30%) REST
2 14 (1.19%) SOAP
3 12 (1.02%) JSON
4 11 (0.94%) Elastic Stack
4 11 (0.94%) LDAP
4 11 (0.94%) OAuth
5 10 (0.85%) Middleware
5 10 (0.85%) OpenID
6 9 (0.77%) ARM Templates
6 9 (0.77%) Kafka
6 9 (0.77%) SAML
7 8 (0.68%) Loki
7 8 (0.68%) Oracle GoldenGate
7 8 (0.68%) YAML
8 7 (0.60%) Flash
8 7 (0.60%) Web Services
9 6 (0.51%) ModSecurity
9 6 (0.51%) OAuth2
9 6 (0.51%) RESTful
9 6 (0.51%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 129 (11.00%) Data Centre
2 70 (5.97%) Hybrid Cloud
3 55 (4.69%) Cloud Native
4 49 (4.18%) Public Cloud
5 45 (3.84%) PKI
6 34 (2.90%) Onboarding
7 31 (2.64%) Enterprise Storage
8 28 (2.39%) Replication
9 23 (1.96%) Private Cloud
10 18 (1.53%) Clustering
11 17 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
11 17 (1.45%) Distributed Systems
11 17 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
12 15 (1.28%) Management Information System
12 15 (1.28%) Virtual Team
13 12 (1.02%) Linux Command Line
13 12 (1.02%) Mainframe
14 11 (0.94%) Enterprise Cloud
15 10 (0.85%) Security Posture
16 9 (0.77%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 315 (26.85%) Windows
2 198 (16.88%) Windows Server
3 190 (16.20%) Linux
4 41 (3.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 18 (1.53%) Windows Server 2019
6 17 (1.45%) Apple iOS
6 17 (1.45%) Windows 10
7 15 (1.28%) Android
7 15 (1.28%) Unix
7 15 (1.28%) Windows Server 2016
8 14 (1.19%) Ubuntu
9 12 (1.02%) CentOS
10 11 (0.94%) zOS
11 9 (0.77%) AIX
11 9 (0.77%) Windows Server 2012
12 8 (0.68%) VMS
12 8 (0.68%) Windows Server 2003
13 7 (0.60%) Mac OS
14 6 (0.51%) Debian
14 6 (0.51%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 258 (21.99%) Infrastructure as Code
2 222 (18.93%) DevOps
3 212 (18.07%) CI/CD
4 136 (11.59%) Migration
5 126 (10.74%) Problem-Solving
6 107 (9.12%) Agile
7 104 (8.87%) Platform Engineering
8 100 (8.53%) High Availability
9 82 (6.99%) Infrastructure Automation
10 80 (6.82%) Containerisation
11 75 (6.39%) AI
11 75 (6.39%) Disaster Recovery
12 71 (6.05%) Project Delivery
13 70 (5.97%) Continuous Improvement
14 69 (5.88%) Zero Trust
15 68 (5.80%) Observability
16 67 (5.71%) Validation
17 56 (4.77%) Cybersecurity
18 53 (4.52%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 52 (4.43%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 189 (16.11%) Python
2 177 (15.09%) PowerShell
3 83 (7.08%) Bash
4 54 (4.60%) SQL
5 34 (2.90%) Bicep
6 24 (2.05%) Java
7 20 (1.71%) C#
7 20 (1.71%) Shell Script
8 10 (0.85%) ActionScript
9 8 (0.68%) Go
10 7 (0.60%) JavaScript
11 6 (0.51%) JCL
11 6 (0.51%) TypeScript
12 5 (0.43%) PHP
13 4 (0.34%) Groovy
14 3 (0.26%) C++
14 3 (0.26%) Kusto Query Language
15 2 (0.17%) C
15 2 (0.17%) Ruby
15 2 (0.17%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 437 (37.25%) Security Cleared
2 271 (23.10%) SC Cleared
3 165 (14.07%) DV Cleared
4 42 (3.58%) Degree
5 33 (2.81%) Cisco Certification
6 24 (2.05%) Azure Certification
7 21 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
8 19 (1.62%) CCNA
8 19 (1.62%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 18 (1.53%) AWS Certification
10 17 (1.45%) CISSP
11 13 (1.11%) CCNP
12 12 (1.02%) MCSE
13 9 (0.77%) CISM
14 8 (0.68%) Computer Science Degree
15 7 (0.60%) PMI Certification
15 7 (0.60%) VCAP
16 6 (0.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 6 (0.51%) RHCA
17 5 (0.43%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (2.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 28 (2.39%) NIST
3 27 (2.30%) QA
4 15 (1.28%) Cyber Essentials
5 14 (1.19%) NCSC
6 10 (0.85%) PCI DSS
7 8 (0.68%) SLA
8 7 (0.60%) Data Quality
9 6 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 6 (0.51%) GDPR
10 4 (0.34%) SOC 2
11 3 (0.26%) NIST 800
11 3 (0.26%) PMO
12 2 (0.17%) GLBA
12 2 (0.17%) GRC
13 1 (0.085%) Actionable Recommendations
13 1 (0.085%) Disclosure Scotland
13 1 (0.085%) FedRAMP
13 1 (0.085%) ISO 19650
13 1 (0.085%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 203 (17.31%) VMware Infrastructure
2 201 (17.14%) Active Directory
3 83 (7.08%) Hyper-V
4 74 (6.31%) VMware ESXi
5 70 (5.97%) Docker
6 64 (5.46%) vSphere
7 40 (3.41%) Virtual Machines
8 36 (3.07%) VMware NSX
9 26 (2.22%) Virtual Desktop
10 16 (1.36%) NFS
11 11 (0.94%) BitLocker
12 9 (0.77%) Firmware
12 9 (0.77%) Microsoft App-V
13 8 (0.68%) Oracle RAC
14 5 (0.43%) GPFS
14 5 (0.43%) KVM
14 5 (0.43%) Terminal Services
15 4 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
16 2 (0.17%) UAG
16 2 (0.17%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 236 (20.12%) Terraform
2 147 (12.53%) Kubernetes
3 139 (11.85%) Ansible
4 55 (4.69%) Microsoft Intune
5 47 (4.01%) vCenter Server
6 30 (2.56%) SCCM
7 29 (2.47%) Grafana
8 23 (1.96%) Prometheus
8 23 (1.96%) Puppet
9 19 (1.62%) WSUS
10 18 (1.53%) Single Sign-On
11 17 (1.45%) Argo
12 13 (1.11%) Nessus
12 13 (1.11%) Packer
12 13 (1.11%) SCOM
13 11 (0.94%) NetBackup
14 10 (0.85%) vRealize
15 9 (0.77%) vMotion
15 9 (0.77%) VxRail
16 8 (0.68%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 269 (22.93%) VMware
2 257 (21.91%) Microsoft
3 70 (5.97%) Citrix
4 64 (5.46%) Cisco
5 52 (4.43%) F5
6 44 (3.75%) NetApp
7 43 (3.67%) ServiceNow
8 42 (3.58%) Google
9 34 (2.90%) Oracle
10 32 (2.73%) Palo Alto
11 28 (2.39%) Veeam
12 25 (2.13%) Dell
13 23 (1.96%) Arista
13 23 (1.96%) Fortinet
14 22 (1.88%) Aruba
14 22 (1.88%) Red Hat
15 17 (1.45%) Tenable
16 16 (1.36%) Juniper
17 14 (1.19%) Zscaler
18 13 (1.11%) SolarWinds