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

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 164 123
Rank change year-on-year +76 -41 -29
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 1,454 504 632
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.10% 1.79% 1.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.66% 1.97% 2.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 902 335 443
10th Percentile £364 £300 £329
25th Percentile £450 £377 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £628 £600 £608
90th Percentile £699 £668 £688
UK median daily rate £550 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 10 16
10th Percentile £27.35 £25.70 £57.01
25th Percentile £56.64 £29.00 £67.50
Median hourly rate £71.74 £32.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +124.20% -54.29% -
75th Percentile £92.21 £35.00 -
90th Percentile £100.00 £40.16 £91.00
UK median hourly rate £72.54 £32.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +126.69% -54.29% -

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 39,775 25,570 27,639
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.94% 90.90% 86.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,015 16,235 16,841
10th Percentile £325 £294 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,044 1,594 1,106
10th Percentile £13.70 £14.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.41 £17.87 £20.30
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -40.82% -5.56%
75th Percentile £67.47 £44.80 £66.90
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.25 £74.22
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +49.11% -37.13% -10.11%

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 14 October 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 14 October 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 14 October 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 +35 440 £550 +2.90% 570
North of England +71 334 £540 +8.00% 223
South East +23 288 £570 +26.56% 217
North West +49 166 £550 +16.53% 126
South West +35 151 £575 +3.60% 110
Midlands +34 140 £481 +3.49% 91
Yorkshire +32 113 £500 - 65
West Midlands +17 103 £494 +5.61% 53
East of England +26 86 £513 +28.13% 73
North East +10 65 £600 -7.69% 34
East Midlands +11 35 £456 -1.88% 38
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 56 (3.85%) Microsoft Exchange
2 48 (3.30%) SharePoint
3 38 (2.61%) Confluence
4 12 (0.83%) Apache
4 12 (0.83%) CICS
5 9 (0.62%) SAS
6 7 (0.48%) Apache Spark
6 7 (0.48%) WebSphere
7 6 (0.41%) nginx
8 5 (0.34%) OpenStack
8 5 (0.34%) SharePoint Server
9 4 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
9 4 (0.28%) CMS
10 3 (0.21%) CloudStack
11 2 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2013
11 2 (0.14%) IIS
11 2 (0.14%) Skype for Business
12 1 (0.069%) JBoss
12 1 (0.069%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.069%) WebLogic
Applications
1 15 (1.03%) Microsoft Excel
1 15 (1.03%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (0.62%) MS Visio
3 5 (0.34%) AutoCAD
3 5 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.14%) MicroStation
5 2 (0.14%) Revit
6 1 (0.069%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.069%) CINEMA 4D
6 1 (0.069%) CPLEX
6 1 (0.069%) Houdini
6 1 (0.069%) NUKE
6 1 (0.069%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (0.62%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.21%) Primavera
3 2 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.069%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.069%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 496 (34.11%) Azure
2 249 (17.13%) AWS
3 176 (12.10%) Entra ID
4 134 (9.22%) Microsoft 365
5 104 (7.15%) GCP
6 97 (6.67%) GitHub
7 85 (5.85%) IaaS
8 70 (4.81%) Azure DevOps
9 68 (4.68%) OCI
10 61 (4.20%) GitHub Actions
11 44 (3.03%) Azure Monitor
12 36 (2.48%) SaaS
13 35 (2.41%) OpenShift
14 32 (2.20%) PaaS
15 30 (2.06%) Azure AKS
16 29 (1.99%) Amazon EKS
16 29 (1.99%) Power Platform
17 28 (1.93%) Azure Sentinel
18 23 (1.58%) Amazon S3
19 22 (1.51%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 238 (16.37%) DNS
2 233 (16.02%) Firewall
3 141 (9.70%) DHCP
4 96 (6.60%) VPN
5 92 (6.33%) Network Security
6 89 (6.12%) TCP/IP
7 64 (4.40%) WAN
8 63 (4.33%) SAN
9 57 (3.92%) VLAN
10 48 (3.30%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 44 (3.03%) BIG-IP
12 42 (2.89%) Wi-Fi
13 39 (2.68%) LAN
14 35 (2.41%) SD-WAN
15 34 (2.34%) BGP
16 31 (2.13%) SSL
17 28 (1.93%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
17 28 (1.93%) OSPF
18 27 (1.86%) VXLAN
19 26 (1.79%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (4.54%) SQL Server
2 24 (1.65%) Oracle Database
3 23 (1.58%) Power BI
4 22 (1.51%) Data Lake
4 22 (1.51%) Oracle Exadata
5 19 (1.31%) Relational Database
6 17 (1.17%) NoSQL
7 15 (1.03%) RDBMS
8 14 (0.96%) Metadata
9 13 (0.89%) Data Warehouse
10 11 (0.76%) PostgreSQL
11 10 (0.69%) Azure SQL Database
11 10 (0.69%) Elasticsearch
12 9 (0.62%) Pentaho
13 8 (0.55%) Amazon RDS
14 6 (0.41%) BigQuery
15 5 (0.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 4 (0.28%) Big Data
16 4 (0.28%) MongoDB
16 4 (0.28%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 76 (5.23%) GitLab
2 65 (4.47%) JIRA
3 61 (4.20%) Git
4 59 (4.06%) Jenkins
5 7 (0.48%) Artifactory
6 6 (0.41%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (0.28%) Chocolatey
8 3 (0.21%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.21%) Claude Code
8 3 (0.21%) JUnit
8 3 (0.21%) Oracle Forms
9 2 (0.14%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.14%) HP UFT
9 2 (0.14%) IBM UrbanCode
9 2 (0.14%) MLflow
9 2 (0.14%) Selenium
9 2 (0.14%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.14%) Subversion
10 1 (0.069%) Liquibase
10 1 (0.069%) Vagrant
General
1 261 (17.95%) Social Skills
2 166 (11.42%) Finance
3 107 (7.36%) Public Sector
4 94 (6.46%) Analytical Skills
5 59 (4.06%) Banking
6 55 (3.78%) Documentation Skills
7 35 (2.41%) Telecoms
8 18 (1.24%) Manufacturing
9 15 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 15 (1.03%) Military
9 15 (1.03%) Retail
10 14 (0.96%) Influencing Skills
11 13 (0.89%) Legal
12 12 (0.83%) Aerospace
12 12 (0.83%) Automotive
12 12 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
13 11 (0.76%) Law
14 10 (0.69%) Marketing
15 7 (0.48%) Billing
15 7 (0.48%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 887 (61.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 282 (19.39%) Senior
3 223 (15.34%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 158 (10.87%) Cloud Engineer
5 119 (8.18%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 103 (7.08%) Azure Engineer
7 74 (5.09%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 73 (5.02%) Lead
9 67 (4.61%) Network Engineer
10 63 (4.33%) DevOps Engineer
11 58 (3.99%) Architect
12 54 (3.71%) Security Engineer
13 46 (3.16%) VMware Engineer
14 44 (3.03%) Platform Engineer
15 38 (2.61%) Test Engineer
16 36 (2.48%) Support Engineer
17 33 (2.27%) Infrastructure Support
17 33 (2.27%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
18 30 (2.06%) IT Engineer
18 30 (2.06%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 325 (22.35%) Terraform
2 35 (2.41%) ARM Templates
3 32 (2.20%) REST
4 22 (1.51%) Kafka
5 15 (1.03%) YAML
6 14 (0.96%) Oracle GoldenGate
7 13 (0.89%) Middleware
8 12 (0.83%) 802.1X
8 12 (0.83%) JSON
8 12 (0.83%) LDAP
9 11 (0.76%) .NET
9 11 (0.76%) Loki
9 11 (0.76%) OAuth
9 11 (0.76%) OpenID
9 11 (0.76%) SAML
10 10 (0.69%) Elastic Stack
10 10 (0.69%) Web Services
11 9 (0.62%) SOAP
12 8 (0.55%) ModSecurity
13 5 (0.34%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 160 (11.00%) Data Centre
2 105 (7.22%) Hybrid Cloud
3 77 (5.30%) Cloud Native
4 61 (4.20%) Onboarding
5 60 (4.13%) PKI
6 54 (3.71%) Public Cloud
7 43 (2.96%) Replication
8 33 (2.27%) Management Information System
9 31 (2.13%) Enterprise Storage
10 30 (2.06%) Private Cloud
11 29 (1.99%) Linux Command Line
12 27 (1.86%) Distributed Systems
12 27 (1.86%) Enterprise Cloud
12 27 (1.86%) Security Posture
13 22 (1.51%) Data Protection Act
14 21 (1.44%) Clustering
15 20 (1.38%) Product Ownership
16 19 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
17 15 (1.03%) Cyber Threat
18 14 (0.96%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 373 (25.65%) Windows
2 288 (19.81%) Linux
3 253 (17.40%) Windows Server
4 61 (4.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 23 (1.58%) Unix
6 20 (1.38%) VMS
6 20 (1.38%) Windows Server 2019
7 19 (1.31%) CentOS
7 19 (1.31%) Ubuntu
8 14 (0.96%) AIX
8 14 (0.96%) Rocky
9 12 (0.83%) Windows 10
9 12 (0.83%) zOS
10 11 (0.76%) Windows Server 2016
11 8 (0.55%) Android
11 8 (0.55%) Windows Server 2012
12 7 (0.48%) Apple iOS
13 6 (0.41%) macOS
14 5 (0.34%) Oracle Linux
14 5 (0.34%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 388 (26.69%) Infrastructure as Code
2 309 (21.25%) CI/CD
3 301 (20.70%) DevOps
4 199 (13.69%) Migration
5 183 (12.59%) Problem-Solving
6 176 (12.10%) Platform Engineering
7 151 (10.39%) Continuous Improvement
8 150 (10.32%) Stakeholder Management
9 143 (9.83%) Agile
10 123 (8.46%) Infrastructure Automation
11 120 (8.25%) Cybersecurity
12 119 (8.18%) Observability
13 114 (7.84%) Disaster Recovery
14 111 (7.63%) ITIL
15 103 (7.08%) Technical Leadership
16 102 (7.02%) AI
17 99 (6.81%) High Availability
18 95 (6.53%) Project Delivery
19 87 (5.98%) Configuration Management
20 85 (5.85%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 261 (17.95%) PowerShell
2 251 (17.26%) Python
3 126 (8.67%) Bash
4 72 (4.95%) SQL
5 64 (4.40%) Bicep
6 39 (2.68%) Java
7 19 (1.31%) C#
8 16 (1.10%) ActionScript
8 16 (1.10%) Go
9 13 (0.89%) Shell Script
10 10 (0.69%) C++
11 9 (0.62%) Perl
12 8 (0.55%) Kusto Query Language
13 6 (0.41%) TypeScript
14 5 (0.34%) C
14 5 (0.34%) JavaScript
14 5 (0.34%) JCL
15 2 (0.14%) COBOL
15 2 (0.14%) Korn
15 2 (0.14%) PHP
Qualifications
1 550 (37.83%) Security Cleared
2 332 (22.83%) SC Cleared
3 210 (14.44%) DV Cleared
4 64 (4.40%) Degree
5 44 (3.03%) Azure Certification
6 31 (2.13%) Cisco Certification
7 28 (1.93%) AWS Certification
7 28 (1.93%) Microsoft Certification
8 23 (1.58%) CISSP
9 22 (1.51%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 21 (1.44%) Computer Science Degree
11 18 (1.24%) CCNP
12 16 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
12 16 (1.10%) CCNA
13 14 (0.96%) VCAP
14 12 (0.83%) PMI Certification
15 11 (0.76%) MCSE
15 11 (0.76%) PMP
16 10 (0.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 9 (0.62%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (3.71%) QA
2 37 (2.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 24 (1.65%) NIST
4 18 (1.24%) NCSC
4 18 (1.24%) SLA
5 16 (1.10%) Data Quality
6 13 (0.89%) Cyber Essentials
7 10 (0.69%) PCI DSS
7 10 (0.69%) PMO
8 9 (0.62%) GRC
9 8 (0.55%) JSP 440
10 4 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 4 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 3 (0.21%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.14%) GDPR
12 2 (0.14%) IASME
12 2 (0.14%) ISO 19650
12 2 (0.14%) NIST 800
13 1 (0.069%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 271 (18.64%) Active Directory
1 271 (18.64%) VMware Infrastructure
2 105 (7.22%) Hyper-V
3 83 (5.71%) vSphere
4 81 (5.57%) Docker
5 74 (5.09%) VMware ESXi
6 69 (4.75%) Virtual Machines
7 34 (2.34%) VMware NSX
8 29 (1.99%) Virtual Desktop
9 17 (1.17%) Virtual Servers
10 15 (1.03%) Oracle RAC
11 12 (0.83%) Firmware
12 11 (0.76%) KVM
12 11 (0.76%) NFS
13 6 (0.41%) oVirt
14 5 (0.34%) Ceph
14 5 (0.34%) GPFS
14 5 (0.34%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 4 (0.28%) Terminal Services
15 4 (0.28%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 204 (14.03%) Ansible
2 189 (13.00%) Kubernetes
3 88 (6.05%) Microsoft Intune
4 54 (3.71%) SCCM
5 40 (2.75%) Grafana
5 40 (2.75%) vCenter Server
6 32 (2.20%) Prometheus
7 21 (1.44%) Puppet
8 19 (1.31%) Nessus
9 18 (1.24%) Argo
10 17 (1.17%) NetBackup
10 17 (1.17%) Single Sign-On
11 16 (1.10%) Progress Chef
12 15 (1.03%) Data Guard
12 15 (1.03%) Oracle RMAN
12 15 (1.03%) WSUS
13 13 (0.89%) VxRail
14 12 (0.83%) FortiGate
14 12 (0.83%) SCOM
15 10 (0.69%) Packer
Vendors
1 377 (25.93%) Microsoft
2 339 (23.31%) VMware
3 82 (5.64%) Cisco
4 63 (4.33%) Oracle
5 62 (4.26%) F5
6 53 (3.65%) Citrix
7 48 (3.30%) NetApp
8 47 (3.23%) Google
8 47 (3.23%) Red Hat
9 43 (2.96%) Palo Alto
10 42 (2.89%) Veeam
11 29 (1.99%) ServiceNow
12 25 (1.72%) Dell
13 23 (1.58%) Arista
13 23 (1.58%) Aruba
14 22 (1.51%) Tenable
15 19 (1.31%) Commvault
15 19 (1.31%) CyberArk
16 17 (1.17%) IBM
16 17 (1.17%) Juniper