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

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 151 104
Rank change year-on-year +64 -47 -13
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 1,354 504 762
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.97% 1.83% 2.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.49% 2.01% 2.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 828 326 571
10th Percentile £350 £329 £313
25th Percentile £430 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £542 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.21% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £612 £604 £588
90th Percentile £688 £672 £675
UK median daily rate £540 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +2.86% +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 7 23
10th Percentile £48.00 £27.80 £49.21
25th Percentile £58.43 £29.00 £51.06
Median hourly rate £73.27 £30.00 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +144.23% -55.56% -6.90%
75th Percentile £78.75 £70.84 £70.00
90th Percentile £100.00 £129.80 -
UK median hourly rate £74.00 £30.00 £68.75
% change year-on-year +146.67% -56.36% -3.51%

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 38,779 25,035 28,563
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.92% 90.85% 85.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,017 15,949 18,476
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £630 £626 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,559 1,455 1,574
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.22 £14.05
25th Percentile £19.25 £17.92 £17.80
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -40.82% +3.61%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.05 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £40.50
% change year-on-year +67.00% -37.90% -1.22%

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 21 August 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 21 August 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 21 August 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 +58 416 £550 +2.09% 106
North of England +45 306 £525 +0.48% 84
South East +31 282 £550 +4.76% 115
South West +26 142 £550 -2.22% 73
North West +34 137 £538 -6.52% 40
Midlands +22 136 £475 +5.56% 44
Yorkshire +11 125 £500 - 27
West Midlands -3 96 £525 +16.67% 31
East of England +15 61 £505 +18.82% 48
North East +3 54 £600 -7.69% 18
East Midlands +10 38 £450 - 13
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 (4.28%) Microsoft Exchange
2 39 (2.88%) SharePoint
3 32 (2.36%) Confluence
4 13 (0.96%) CICS
5 11 (0.81%) Apache
6 8 (0.59%) WebSphere
7 7 (0.52%) SAS
8 5 (0.37%) SharePoint Server
9 4 (0.30%) Apache Spark
9 4 (0.30%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.22%) CloudStack
11 2 (0.15%) Exchange Server 2013
11 2 (0.15%) nginx
12 1 (0.074%) IBM HTTP Server
12 1 (0.074%) IIS
12 1 (0.074%) JBoss
12 1 (0.074%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.074%) WebLogic
12 1 (0.074%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 20 (1.48%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.37%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.22%) AutoCAD
6 2 (0.15%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.074%) CINEMA 4D
7 1 (0.074%) Houdini
7 1 (0.074%) NUKE
7 1 (0.074%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (0.30%) 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
1 470 (34.71%) Azure
2 247 (18.24%) AWS
3 125 (9.23%) Entra ID
4 114 (8.42%) Microsoft 365
5 100 (7.39%) GCP
6 95 (7.02%) GitHub
7 75 (5.54%) Azure DevOps
8 70 (5.17%) IaaS
9 66 (4.87%) OCI
10 64 (4.73%) GitHub Actions
11 46 (3.40%) SaaS
12 39 (2.88%) Azure Monitor
13 38 (2.81%) PaaS
14 35 (2.58%) Azure AKS
15 25 (1.85%) Amazon EKS
16 24 (1.77%) Serverless
17 23 (1.70%) Azure Sentinel
18 21 (1.55%) Amazon S3
18 21 (1.55%) OpenShift
18 21 (1.55%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 219 (16.17%) DNS
2 206 (15.21%) Firewall
3 137 (10.12%) DHCP
4 85 (6.28%) VPN
5 75 (5.54%) Network Security
5 75 (5.54%) TCP/IP
6 64 (4.73%) WAN
7 61 (4.51%) SAN
8 60 (4.43%) VLAN
9 43 (3.18%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 37 (2.73%) LAN
11 36 (2.66%) SD-WAN
12 34 (2.51%) BIG-IP
12 34 (2.51%) Wi-Fi
13 32 (2.36%) BGP
14 28 (2.07%) OSPF
14 28 (2.07%) SSL
15 27 (1.99%) VXLAN
16 26 (1.92%) Ethernet VPN
17 22 (1.62%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (4.51%) SQL Server
2 21 (1.55%) Oracle Exadata
3 17 (1.26%) Oracle Database
4 15 (1.11%) Power BI
5 14 (1.03%) Relational Database
6 13 (0.96%) Data Lake
6 13 (0.96%) RDBMS
7 11 (0.81%) Elasticsearch
7 11 (0.81%) Metadata
7 11 (0.81%) PostgreSQL
8 9 (0.66%) Data Warehouse
8 9 (0.66%) NoSQL
9 7 (0.52%) Amazon RDS
9 7 (0.52%) Azure SQL Database
9 7 (0.52%) Pentaho
10 6 (0.44%) BigQuery
10 6 (0.44%) Db2
10 6 (0.44%) DynamoDB
11 5 (0.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 4 (0.30%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 67 (4.95%) GitLab
2 53 (3.91%) Git
3 49 (3.62%) Jenkins
4 48 (3.55%) JIRA
5 5 (0.37%) Bitbucket
6 4 (0.30%) Chocolatey
7 3 (0.22%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.15%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.15%) Oracle Forms
8 2 (0.15%) Subversion
9 1 (0.074%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.074%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.074%) CMake
9 1 (0.074%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.074%) Gradle
9 1 (0.074%) Introscope
9 1 (0.074%) Maven
9 1 (0.074%) MSI
9 1 (0.074%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.074%) Terragrunt
General
1 230 (16.99%) Social Skills
2 126 (9.31%) Finance
3 104 (7.68%) Public Sector
4 79 (5.83%) Analytical Skills
5 56 (4.14%) Banking
6 53 (3.91%) Documentation Skills
7 22 (1.62%) Telecoms
8 18 (1.33%) Aerospace
8 18 (1.33%) Retail
9 17 (1.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 17 (1.26%) Manufacturing
10 16 (1.18%) Military
11 15 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
12 13 (0.96%) Law
12 13 (0.96%) Legal
13 10 (0.74%) Marketing
14 9 (0.66%) Automotive
14 9 (0.66%) Organisational Skills
15 5 (0.37%) Advertising
15 5 (0.37%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 889 (65.66%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 263 (19.42%) Senior
3 207 (15.29%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 141 (10.41%) Cloud Engineer
5 103 (7.61%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 97 (7.16%) Azure Engineer
7 70 (5.17%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 64 (4.73%) Network Engineer
9 63 (4.65%) Lead
10 51 (3.77%) DevOps Engineer
11 50 (3.69%) VMware Engineer
12 47 (3.47%) Architect
13 42 (3.10%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
14 37 (2.73%) Platform Engineer
15 35 (2.58%) IT Engineer
15 35 (2.58%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
15 35 (2.58%) Support Engineer
16 34 (2.51%) Infrastructure Support
16 34 (2.51%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
17 31 (2.29%) 3rd Line Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 285 (21.05%) Terraform
2 27 (1.99%) REST
3 25 (1.85%) ARM Templates
4 16 (1.18%) YAML
5 14 (1.03%) Middleware
5 14 (1.03%) SOAP
6 13 (0.96%) JSON
6 13 (0.96%) Kafka
6 13 (0.96%) Oracle GoldenGate
7 11 (0.81%) OpenID
7 11 (0.81%) SAML
8 10 (0.74%) Loki
8 10 (0.74%) OAuth
9 9 (0.66%) 802.1X
10 8 (0.59%) Elastic Stack
10 8 (0.59%) ModSecurity
11 7 (0.52%) Flash
11 7 (0.52%) LDAP
11 7 (0.52%) Web Services
12 6 (0.44%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 137 (10.12%) Data Centre
2 92 (6.79%) Hybrid Cloud
3 61 (4.51%) Cloud Native
4 57 (4.21%) PKI
5 48 (3.55%) Public Cloud
6 43 (3.18%) Onboarding
7 41 (3.03%) Replication
8 39 (2.88%) Enterprise Storage
9 29 (2.14%) Private Cloud
10 27 (1.99%) Management Information System
11 26 (1.92%) Clustering
12 22 (1.62%) Enterprise Cloud
13 20 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
13 20 (1.48%) Linux Command Line
13 20 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
14 19 (1.40%) Distributed Systems
15 15 (1.11%) Virtual Team
16 14 (1.03%) Mainframe
16 14 (1.03%) Security Posture
17 11 (0.81%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 369 (27.25%) Windows
2 247 (18.24%) Linux
3 242 (17.87%) Windows Server
4 57 (4.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 22 (1.62%) Unix
6 20 (1.48%) Windows Server 2019
7 18 (1.33%) Windows 10
8 17 (1.26%) Apple iOS
8 17 (1.26%) CentOS
8 17 (1.26%) Ubuntu
9 16 (1.18%) Android
9 16 (1.18%) Windows Server 2016
10 15 (1.11%) VMS
11 14 (1.03%) AIX
12 13 (0.96%) zOS
13 11 (0.81%) Rocky
14 10 (0.74%) Mac OS
15 8 (0.59%) Windows Server 2012
16 6 (0.44%) Debian
16 6 (0.44%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 322 (23.78%) Infrastructure as Code
2 266 (19.65%) DevOps
3 257 (18.98%) CI/CD
4 176 (13.00%) Migration
5 163 (12.04%) Problem-Solving
6 144 (10.64%) Platform Engineering
7 119 (8.79%) Agile
8 116 (8.57%) Continuous Improvement
9 112 (8.27%) High Availability
9 112 (8.27%) Infrastructure Automation
10 97 (7.16%) Disaster Recovery
11 96 (7.09%) Stakeholder Management
12 94 (6.94%) AI
13 89 (6.57%) Observability
14 84 (6.20%) Project Delivery
14 84 (6.20%) Technical Leadership
15 83 (6.13%) ITIL
16 80 (5.91%) Cybersecurity
17 79 (5.83%) Validation
18 74 (5.47%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 242 (17.87%) PowerShell
2 229 (16.91%) Python
3 122 (9.01%) Bash
4 63 (4.65%) SQL
5 56 (4.14%) Bicep
6 28 (2.07%) Java
7 21 (1.55%) C#
8 17 (1.26%) Shell Script
9 8 (0.59%) ActionScript
9 8 (0.59%) Go
10 7 (0.52%) C++
10 7 (0.52%) Perl
11 6 (0.44%) JCL
11 6 (0.44%) TypeScript
12 5 (0.37%) C
12 5 (0.37%) JavaScript
13 3 (0.22%) Kusto Query Language
13 3 (0.22%) PHP
14 2 (0.15%) Korn
14 2 (0.15%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 524 (38.70%) Security Cleared
2 343 (25.33%) SC Cleared
3 184 (13.59%) DV Cleared
4 56 (4.14%) Degree
5 40 (2.95%) Azure Certification
6 38 (2.81%) Cisco Certification
7 31 (2.29%) Microsoft Certification
8 26 (1.92%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 21 (1.55%) CISSP
10 20 (1.48%) CCNA
10 20 (1.48%) CCNP
11 18 (1.33%) AWS Certification
12 13 (0.96%) Computer Science Degree
12 13 (0.96%) MCSE
12 13 (0.96%) VCAP
13 9 (0.66%) CISM
13 9 (0.66%) PMI Certification
14 7 (0.52%) MCSA
14 7 (0.52%) PMP
14 7 (0.52%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (2.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 37 (2.73%) QA
3 25 (1.85%) NIST
4 19 (1.40%) NCSC
5 16 (1.18%) SLA
6 13 (0.96%) Cyber Essentials
7 9 (0.66%) Data Quality
8 7 (0.52%) GRC
8 7 (0.52%) PCI DSS
9 6 (0.44%) PMO
10 5 (0.37%) JSP 440
11 4 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 3 (0.22%) GDPR
12 3 (0.22%) SOC 2
13 2 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
13 2 (0.15%) IASME
13 2 (0.15%) NIST 800
14 1 (0.074%) Disclosure Scotland
14 1 (0.074%) FedRAMP
14 1 (0.074%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 255 (18.83%) VMware Infrastructure
2 240 (17.73%) Active Directory
3 103 (7.61%) Hyper-V
4 75 (5.54%) VMware ESXi
4 75 (5.54%) vSphere
5 67 (4.95%) Docker
6 57 (4.21%) Virtual Machines
7 45 (3.32%) VMware NSX
8 28 (2.07%) Virtual Desktop
9 14 (1.03%) NFS
9 14 (1.03%) Oracle RAC
10 11 (0.81%) Firmware
10 11 (0.81%) KVM
11 9 (0.66%) Virtual Servers
12 8 (0.59%) BitLocker
13 7 (0.52%) Microsoft App-V
14 5 (0.37%) Ceph
14 5 (0.37%) GPFS
14 5 (0.37%) Terminal Services
15 3 (0.22%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 192 (14.18%) Ansible
2 169 (12.48%) Kubernetes
3 74 (5.47%) Microsoft Intune
4 51 (3.77%) vCenter Server
5 43 (3.18%) SCCM
6 29 (2.14%) Grafana
7 26 (1.92%) Puppet
8 24 (1.77%) Prometheus
9 22 (1.62%) WSUS
10 19 (1.40%) Argo
10 19 (1.40%) NetBackup
11 17 (1.26%) Single Sign-On
12 15 (1.11%) SCOM
13 14 (1.03%) Nessus
13 14 (1.03%) Oracle RMAN
13 14 (1.03%) Packer
14 13 (0.96%) Data Guard
14 13 (0.96%) Progress Chef
15 11 (0.81%) FortiGate
16 9 (0.66%) vRealize
Vendors
1 338 (24.96%) Microsoft
2 322 (23.78%) VMware
3 78 (5.76%) Cisco
4 69 (5.10%) Citrix
5 57 (4.21%) Oracle
6 52 (3.84%) F5
7 43 (3.18%) Google
7 43 (3.18%) NetApp
8 37 (2.73%) Palo Alto
9 35 (2.58%) Veeam
10 31 (2.29%) Red Hat
11 30 (2.22%) ServiceNow
12 24 (1.77%) Aruba
13 22 (1.62%) Arista
13 22 (1.62%) Dell
14 20 (1.48%) Juniper
15 19 (1.40%) Tenable
16 18 (1.33%) Zscaler
17 16 (1.18%) CyberArk
18 14 (1.03%) IBM