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 1 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
1 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 126 90
Rank change year-on-year -6 -36 +35
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 778 545 910
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.04% 2.25% 2.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.37% 2.48% 2.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 561 382 665
10th Percentile £325 £313 £295
25th Percentile £415 £396 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £528 £488
Median % change year-on-year -0.47% +8.21% -2.50%
75th Percentile £600 £611 £600
90th Percentile £663 £675 £713
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -2.86% +5.00% -1.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 11 37
10th Percentile £26.25 £24.18 £21.25
25th Percentile £54.22 £53.22 £37.08
Median hourly rate £72.54 £62.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +16.06% +35.34% -28.95%
75th Percentile £77.63 £70.96 £62.50
90th Percentile £82.04 £200.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £72.54 £62.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +16.06% +35.34% -26.32%

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 32,858 22,016 32,689
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.08% 90.81% 86.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,074 14,505 21,608
10th Percentile £313 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,007 857 2,166
10th Percentile £15.34 £15.00 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.27 £20.00 £16.00
Median hourly rate £37.00 £32.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.85% - -13.33%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £58.36
90th Percentile £77.50 £76.63 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £32.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +10.94% -1.54% -11.33%

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 1 April 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 1 April 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 1 April 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 -39 229 £550 +4.76% 89
North of England -27 158 £487 -7.24% 100
South East -6 149 £510 -2.86% 87
South West +6 119 £550 -4.35% 64
Yorkshire -14 97 £475 -9.52% 32
Midlands -42 64 £450 +12.50% 44
North West -37 55 £492 -6.29% 59
East of England -11 45 £475 -13.64% 27
West Midlands -44 36 £482 +28.53% 32
East Midlands -17 28 £450 - 12
North East -14 6 £500 +36.99% 9
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 57 (7.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (2.06%) Confluence
2 16 (2.06%) SharePoint
3 13 (1.67%) Apache
4 10 (1.29%) TPMS
5 8 (1.03%) IIS
6 3 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.39%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.39%) CICS
6 3 (0.39%) nginx
7 2 (0.26%) Apache Pulsar
7 2 (0.26%) Exchange Server 2010
8 1 (0.13%) IBM HTTP Server
8 1 (0.13%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.13%) SAS
8 1 (0.13%) SharePoint Server
8 1 (0.13%) Skype for Business
8 1 (0.13%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.13%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 13 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.26%) Acrobat
3 2 (0.26%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (0.90%) Maximo
2 2 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 247 (31.75%) Azure
2 119 (15.30%) AWS
3 90 (11.57%) Microsoft 365
4 69 (8.87%) Entra ID
5 53 (6.81%) GCP
6 48 (6.17%) GitHub
7 43 (5.53%) Azure DevOps
8 42 (5.40%) IaaS
9 37 (4.76%) PaaS
10 34 (4.37%) OpenShift
11 32 (4.11%) Serverless
12 29 (3.73%) GitHub Actions
13 26 (3.34%) Azure Monitor
14 25 (3.21%) Azure AKS
15 23 (2.96%) AWS CloudFormation
16 22 (2.83%) AWS Lambda
17 21 (2.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 21 (2.70%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 21 (2.70%) Nutanix
17 21 (2.70%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 131 (16.84%) Firewall
2 101 (12.98%) DNS
3 62 (7.97%) VPN
4 57 (7.33%) DHCP
5 43 (5.53%) Network Security
6 37 (4.76%) WAN
7 33 (4.24%) SAN
7 33 (4.24%) TCP/IP
8 32 (4.11%) LAN
9 27 (3.47%) VLAN
10 19 (2.44%) Wi-Fi
11 18 (2.31%) SSL
12 16 (2.06%) MPLS
13 15 (1.93%) NAS
14 13 (1.67%) BGP
14 13 (1.67%) Fibre Channel
14 13 (1.67%) iSCSI
15 12 (1.54%) SNMP
15 12 (1.54%) SSH
16 11 (1.41%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (3.47%) SQL Server
2 10 (1.29%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (1.16%) DynamoDB
3 9 (1.16%) Elasticsearch
4 8 (1.03%) MongoDB
5 6 (0.77%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (0.64%) Relational Database
7 4 (0.51%) Big Data
7 4 (0.51%) NoSQL
7 4 (0.51%) Power BI
8 3 (0.39%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (0.39%) DB2
8 3 (0.39%) MySQL
8 3 (0.39%) NonStop SQL
8 3 (0.39%) Oracle Database
8 3 (0.39%) RDBMS
9 2 (0.26%) Hadoop
9 2 (0.26%) SAP HANA
9 2 (0.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (0.26%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 36 (4.63%) Jenkins
2 32 (4.11%) GitLab
2 32 (4.11%) JIRA
3 27 (3.47%) Git
4 6 (0.77%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.26%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.13%) GoCD
6 1 (0.13%) IntelliJ
6 1 (0.13%) Introscope
6 1 (0.13%) Jaeger
6 1 (0.13%) MSI
6 1 (0.13%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.13%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 144 (18.51%) Social Skills
2 89 (11.44%) Finance
3 66 (8.48%) Public Sector
4 54 (6.94%) Analytical Skills
5 41 (5.27%) Banking
6 30 (3.86%) Documentation Skills
7 20 (2.57%) Legal
7 20 (2.57%) Military
8 12 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (1.03%) Billing
9 8 (1.03%) Retail
10 6 (0.77%) Telecoms
11 5 (0.64%) Aerospace
11 5 (0.64%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (0.64%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.51%) Front Office
12 4 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.39%) Investment Banking
13 3 (0.39%) Local Government
13 3 (0.39%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 484 (62.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 101 (12.98%) Senior
3 74 (9.51%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 60 (7.71%) Azure Engineer
5 47 (6.04%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
6 46 (5.91%) Cloud Engineer
7 36 (4.63%) Network Engineer
7 36 (4.63%) VMware Engineer
8 32 (4.11%) Automation Engineer
9 28 (3.60%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
10 27 (3.47%) Architect
10 27 (3.47%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
11 26 (3.34%) DevOps Engineer
11 26 (3.34%) Infrastructure Support
11 26 (3.34%) Support Engineer
12 24 (3.08%) Platform Engineer
12 24 (3.08%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
13 22 (2.83%) IT Engineer
13 22 (2.83%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
13 22 (2.83%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (3.21%) REST
2 15 (1.93%) ARM Templates
2 15 (1.93%) SOAP
3 12 (1.54%) SAML
4 11 (1.41%) OAuth
5 10 (1.29%) OpenID
6 9 (1.16%) OAuth2
7 8 (1.03%) Web Services
8 7 (0.90%) Elastic Stack
8 7 (0.90%) Kafka
8 7 (0.90%) LDAP
9 5 (0.64%) GraphQL
9 5 (0.64%) Middleware
10 4 (0.51%) ADO
10 4 (0.51%) Keycloak
10 4 (0.51%) OpenTelemetry
11 3 (0.39%) Apache NiFi
11 3 (0.39%) AWS CDK
11 3 (0.39%) OpenAPI
11 3 (0.39%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 43 (5.53%) PKI
2 40 (5.14%) Data Centre
2 40 (5.14%) Hybrid Cloud
3 34 (4.37%) Public Cloud
4 28 (3.60%) Onboarding
5 27 (3.47%) Replication
6 25 (3.21%) Enterprise Storage
7 24 (3.08%) Private Cloud
8 21 (2.70%) Cloud Native
9 16 (2.06%) Enterprise Software
9 16 (2.06%) Self-Motivation
10 14 (1.80%) Clustering
11 8 (1.03%) Mainframe
12 7 (0.90%) CCTV
12 7 (0.90%) DataPower
12 7 (0.90%) Operational Technology
12 7 (0.90%) Virtual Team
13 6 (0.77%) Analytical Mindset
13 6 (0.77%) Distributed Systems
13 6 (0.77%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 238 (30.59%) Windows
2 140 (17.99%) Linux
3 139 (17.87%) Windows Server
4 26 (3.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 17 (2.19%) Ubuntu
6 16 (2.06%) Unix
6 16 (2.06%) VMS
7 15 (1.93%) Windows 10
7 15 (1.93%) Windows Server 2012
8 14 (1.80%) Windows Server 2019
9 13 (1.67%) Windows Server 2016
10 7 (0.90%) Windows Server 2003
11 6 (0.77%) CentOS
12 3 (0.39%) Android
12 3 (0.39%) Apple iOS
12 3 (0.39%) Debian
12 3 (0.39%) zOS
13 2 (0.26%) Mac OS
13 2 (0.26%) SUSE
13 2 (0.26%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (20.18%) DevOps
2 144 (18.51%) Infrastructure as Code
3 129 (16.58%) CI/CD
4 108 (13.88%) Problem-Solving
5 95 (12.21%) Migration
6 85 (10.93%) Agile
7 76 (9.77%) Containerisation
8 69 (8.87%) High Availability
8 69 (8.87%) Platform Engineering
9 65 (8.35%) ITIL
10 64 (8.23%) Disaster Recovery
10 64 (8.23%) Infrastructure Automation
11 60 (7.71%) Cybersecurity
12 53 (6.81%) Project Delivery
13 50 (6.43%) Observability
14 45 (5.78%) Cloud Security
14 45 (5.78%) Continuous Improvement
15 39 (5.01%) Validation
16 37 (4.76%) Change Management
17 35 (4.50%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 135 (17.35%) PowerShell
2 117 (15.04%) Python
3 58 (7.46%) Bash
4 32 (4.11%) Bicep
5 29 (3.73%) SQL
6 25 (3.21%) Shell Script
7 11 (1.41%) C#
7 11 (1.41%) Java
8 9 (1.16%) JavaScript
8 9 (1.16%) PHP
9 7 (0.90%) Ruby
10 4 (0.51%) C++
10 4 (0.51%) Go
10 4 (0.51%) Groovy
10 4 (0.51%) Perl
11 3 (0.39%) JCL
12 2 (0.26%) ActionScript
12 2 (0.26%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.26%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.13%) Scala
Qualifications
1 279 (35.86%) Security Cleared
2 167 (21.47%) SC Cleared
3 116 (14.91%) DV Cleared
4 32 (4.11%) Azure Certification
4 32 (4.11%) Degree
5 27 (3.47%) Cisco Certification
6 24 (3.08%) Microsoft Certification
7 20 (2.57%) CISSP
8 18 (2.31%) CISM
9 15 (1.93%) CCNA
9 15 (1.93%) CCNP
10 14 (1.80%) AWS Certification
11 13 (1.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 10 (1.29%) FFIEC
13 9 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
13 9 (1.16%) Computer Science Degree
14 7 (0.90%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
15 5 (0.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 5 (0.64%) CompTIA Security+
15 5 (0.64%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (4.24%) NIST
2 25 (3.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 18 (2.31%) GDPR
4 16 (2.06%) PCI DSS
5 15 (1.93%) Cyber Essentials
6 11 (1.41%) SLA
7 10 (1.29%) GLBA
8 8 (1.03%) NCSC
8 8 (1.03%) NIST 800
9 6 (0.77%) QA
10 3 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (0.39%) Data Quality
11 2 (0.26%) Accessibility
11 2 (0.26%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.13%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 1 (0.13%) ISO 19650
12 1 (0.13%) ISO 20022
12 1 (0.13%) PMO
12 1 (0.13%) RMADS
System Software
1 162 (20.82%) Active Directory
2 151 (19.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 68 (8.74%) Docker
4 62 (7.97%) Hyper-V
5 44 (5.66%) vSphere
6 40 (5.14%) VMware ESXi
7 24 (3.08%) Virtual Machines
8 19 (2.44%) Virtual Desktop
8 19 (2.44%) VMware NSX
9 13 (1.67%) NFS
10 9 (1.16%) BitLocker
11 7 (0.90%) Firmware
11 7 (0.90%) Microsoft App-V
12 4 (0.51%) Sendmail
13 3 (0.39%) DFS Replication
14 2 (0.26%) Postfix
14 2 (0.26%) QEMU
14 2 (0.26%) SRDF
14 2 (0.26%) Varnish
15 1 (0.13%) UAG
Systems Management
1 157 (20.18%) Terraform
2 134 (17.22%) Kubernetes
3 85 (10.93%) Ansible
4 64 (8.23%) Microsoft Intune
5 48 (6.17%) SCCM
6 32 (4.11%) vCenter Server
7 26 (3.34%) Single Sign-On
8 20 (2.57%) Grafana
9 17 (2.19%) Puppet
10 16 (2.06%) Prometheus
11 11 (1.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 10 (1.29%) Istio
12 10 (1.29%) Progress Chef
12 10 (1.29%) SCOM
13 9 (1.16%) VxRail
14 8 (1.03%) Packer
14 8 (1.03%) Red Hat Satellite
14 8 (1.03%) vRealize
14 8 (1.03%) WSUS
15 7 (0.90%) vMotion
Vendors
1 222 (28.53%) Microsoft
2 199 (25.58%) VMware
3 52 (6.68%) Cisco
4 46 (5.91%) Citrix
5 34 (4.37%) Red Hat
6 33 (4.24%) NetApp
7 32 (4.11%) Dell
7 32 (4.11%) ServiceNow
8 31 (3.98%) Google
9 28 (3.60%) Veeam
10 27 (3.47%) Fortinet
11 23 (2.96%) Splunk
12 19 (2.44%) F5
12 19 (2.44%) Palo Alto
13 18 (2.31%) IBM
14 15 (1.93%) SolarWinds
14 15 (1.93%) Thales
15 12 (1.54%) Oracle
16 11 (1.41%) Aruba
16 11 (1.41%) Juniper
396 Infrastructure Engineering jobs in England