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 28 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
28 Jan 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 143 143 87
Rank change year-on-year 0 -56 +38
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 643 495 909
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.96% 1.87% 2.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.23% 2.09% 2.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 481 335 660
10th Percentile £313 £315 £300
25th Percentile £406 £394 £387
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £480
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% +9.38% -4.00%
75th Percentile £594 £638 £602
90th Percentile £675 £688 £713
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £493
% change year-on-year -4.76% +6.60% -1.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 12 43
10th Percentile £26.13 £27.22 £21.25
25th Percentile £26.25 £55.19 £27.50
Median hourly rate £34.00 £62.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -45.60% +35.34% -26.32%
75th Percentile £70.50 £69.57 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £108.18 £75.60
UK median hourly rate £34.00 £62.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year -45.60% +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 28,832 23,662 32,842
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.89% 89.43% 87.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,449 14,467 21,997
10th Percentile £305 £310 £300
25th Percentile £410 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.53% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £625 £642 £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 1,786 760 1,829
10th Percentile £15.05 £15.62 £13.99
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.00 £17.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £34.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.03% -6.85% +4.29%
75th Percentile £60.00 £63.75 £62.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.98
% change year-on-year -22.62% -9.67% +12.44%

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 28 January 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 28 January 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 28 January 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 -32 206 £550 +1.15% 88
South East 0 122 £483 +1.15% 131
North of England -12 114 £474 -5.30% 107
South West +15 99 £550 -8.33% 75
Yorkshire -10 66 £475 -5.00% 44
East of England +8 43 £425 -29.17% 38
North West -19 43 £472 -10.19% 49
Midlands -38 40 £450 -10.00% 55
West Midlands -29 29 £482 -12.36% 29
East Midlands -28 11 £415 -17.00% 25
North East -13 6 £500 - 14
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 53 (8.24%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (2.64%) SharePoint
3 14 (2.18%) Apache
4 11 (1.71%) Confluence
4 11 (1.71%) TPMS
5 10 (1.56%) IIS
6 5 (0.78%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.47%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.31%) Exchange Server 2010
8 2 (0.31%) iPlanet
8 2 (0.31%) JBoss
8 2 (0.31%) nginx
8 2 (0.31%) Skype for Business
8 2 (0.31%) Traefik
8 2 (0.31%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.31%) WebSphere Application Server
9 1 (0.16%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.16%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.16%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 9 (1.40%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.47%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.31%) Acrobat
4 1 (0.16%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 8 (1.24%) Maximo
2 4 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.16%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 218 (33.90%) Azure
2 125 (19.44%) AWS
3 96 (14.93%) Microsoft 365
4 68 (10.58%) Entra ID
5 39 (6.07%) GCP
6 34 (5.29%) Azure DevOps
7 31 (4.82%) OpenShift
8 29 (4.51%) IaaS
9 25 (3.89%) Amazon S3
9 25 (3.89%) GitHub
9 25 (3.89%) PaaS
10 24 (3.73%) Azure Monitor
11 23 (3.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 21 (3.27%) Serverless
13 20 (3.11%) Azure Sentinel
14 19 (2.95%) Nutanix
15 17 (2.64%) Amazon EC2
16 16 (2.49%) AWS CloudFormation
17 15 (2.33%) Azure AKS
17 15 (2.33%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 126 (19.60%) Firewall
2 88 (13.69%) DNS
3 61 (9.49%) VPN
4 58 (9.02%) TCP/IP
5 51 (7.93%) DHCP
6 42 (6.53%) WAN
7 39 (6.07%) Network Security
8 36 (5.60%) SAN
9 35 (5.44%) VLAN
9 35 (5.44%) Wi-Fi
10 32 (4.98%) LAN
11 30 (4.67%) SSL
12 15 (2.33%) MPLS
13 14 (2.18%) SSH
14 13 (2.02%) SNMP
15 11 (1.71%) BGP
16 10 (1.56%) Fibre Channel
16 10 (1.56%) NAS
17 9 (1.40%) 4G
17 9 (1.40%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (3.89%) SQL Server
2 10 (1.56%) MongoDB
3 9 (1.40%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (0.93%) NoSQL
4 6 (0.93%) Relational Database
5 5 (0.78%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (0.78%) Big Data
5 5 (0.78%) Power BI
5 5 (0.78%) RDBMS
6 4 (0.62%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (0.62%) DynamoDB
6 4 (0.62%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (0.62%) MySQL
6 4 (0.62%) Oracle Database
7 3 (0.47%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (0.47%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (0.47%) SAP HANA
7 3 (0.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (0.31%) MariaDB
8 2 (0.31%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 32 (4.98%) Jenkins
2 28 (4.35%) Git
3 26 (4.04%) GitLab
4 16 (2.49%) JIRA
5 4 (0.62%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.31%) Bitbucket Server
6 2 (0.31%) CA Release Automation
6 2 (0.31%) GoCD
6 2 (0.31%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.16%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.16%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.16%) Jaeger
7 1 (0.16%) MLflow
7 1 (0.16%) MSI
General
1 136 (21.15%) Social Skills
2 92 (14.31%) Finance
3 60 (9.33%) Analytical Skills
4 58 (9.02%) Public Sector
5 31 (4.82%) Documentation Skills
6 28 (4.35%) Banking
7 13 (2.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (1.87%) Military
9 11 (1.71%) Legal
10 9 (1.40%) Billing
10 9 (1.40%) Telecoms
11 8 (1.24%) Local Government
12 6 (0.93%) Aerospace
12 6 (0.93%) Aviation
12 6 (0.93%) Retail
12 6 (0.93%) Spanish Language
13 5 (0.78%) Manufacturing
13 5 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (0.62%) Financial Institution
14 4 (0.62%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 422 (65.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 85 (13.22%) Senior
3 67 (10.42%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 52 (8.09%) Infrastructure Support
5 49 (7.62%) Support Engineer
6 45 (7.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 42 (6.53%) Network Engineer
8 41 (6.38%) Azure Engineer
9 40 (6.22%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
10 31 (4.82%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
11 27 (4.20%) Cloud Engineer
12 26 (4.04%) VMware Engineer
13 24 (3.73%) Automation Engineer
13 24 (3.73%) Security Engineer
14 23 (3.58%) DevOps Engineer
14 23 (3.58%) IT Engineer
14 23 (3.58%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
15 22 (3.42%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
16 21 (3.27%) Platform Engineer
17 19 (2.95%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (2.49%) SAML
2 15 (2.33%) ARM Templates
3 14 (2.18%) OpenID
4 12 (1.87%) REST
5 10 (1.56%) Middleware
6 9 (1.40%) OAuth
7 8 (1.24%) Kafka
8 7 (1.09%) OAuth2
9 6 (0.93%) LDAP
9 6 (0.93%) Microsoft Graph
10 5 (0.78%) RESTful
11 4 (0.62%) Elastic Stack
11 4 (0.62%) NumPy
11 4 (0.62%) Pandas
11 4 (0.62%) SOAP
11 4 (0.62%) Web Services
11 4 (0.62%) YAML
12 3 (0.47%) GraphQL
12 3 (0.47%) gRPC
12 3 (0.47%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 34 (5.29%) Data Centre
2 31 (4.82%) Replication
3 29 (4.51%) Hybrid Cloud
4 28 (4.35%) PKI
5 25 (3.89%) Private Cloud
6 23 (3.58%) Onboarding
7 18 (2.80%) Public Cloud
8 15 (2.33%) Cloud Native
8 15 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
9 13 (2.02%) Analytical Mindset
10 11 (1.71%) Clustering
10 11 (1.71%) Enterprise Storage
11 10 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
12 8 (1.24%) NHS
13 7 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
13 7 (1.09%) Distributed Systems
13 7 (1.09%) Product Ownership
14 6 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
14 6 (0.93%) Management Information System
15 5 (0.78%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 230 (35.77%) Windows
2 141 (21.93%) Linux
3 124 (19.28%) Windows Server
4 27 (4.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 21 (3.27%) Unix
6 20 (3.11%) Windows 10
7 14 (2.18%) Ubuntu
7 14 (2.18%) VMS
8 12 (1.87%) Windows Server 2012
9 11 (1.71%) Windows Server 2019
10 9 (1.40%) Windows Server 2016
11 7 (1.09%) Android
12 6 (0.93%) Apple iOS
13 5 (0.78%) CentOS
14 4 (0.62%) Mac OS
14 4 (0.62%) Windows Server 2003
15 2 (0.31%) Debian
15 2 (0.31%) SUSE
15 2 (0.31%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
15 2 (0.31%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (20.06%) DevOps
2 117 (18.20%) Problem-Solving
3 105 (16.33%) CI/CD
3 105 (16.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 85 (13.22%) ITIL
5 73 (11.35%) Migration
6 63 (9.80%) Agile
7 60 (9.33%) High Availability
8 59 (9.18%) Containerisation
9 58 (9.02%) Cybersecurity
10 56 (8.71%) Disaster Recovery
11 53 (8.24%) Infrastructure Automation
12 48 (7.47%) Observability
13 46 (7.15%) Platform Engineering
14 40 (6.22%) Continuous Improvement
15 39 (6.07%) Project Delivery
16 34 (5.29%) Change Management
17 32 (4.98%) RBAC
18 31 (4.82%) Analytics
19 30 (4.67%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 101 (15.71%) Python
2 98 (15.24%) PowerShell
3 50 (7.78%) Bash
4 24 (3.73%) SQL
5 22 (3.42%) Java
6 21 (3.27%) Bicep
7 13 (2.02%) Shell Script
8 12 (1.87%) Perl
9 8 (1.24%) Go
10 7 (1.09%) JavaScript
11 6 (0.93%) PHP
11 6 (0.93%) Ruby
12 5 (0.78%) C++
13 4 (0.62%) C#
14 3 (0.47%) PL/SQL
15 2 (0.31%) Groovy
15 2 (0.31%) Scala
16 1 (0.16%) Kusto Query Language
16 1 (0.16%) MATLAB
16 1 (0.16%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 192 (29.86%) Security Cleared
2 117 (18.20%) SC Cleared
3 77 (11.98%) DV Cleared
4 40 (6.22%) Azure Certification
5 37 (5.75%) Microsoft Certification
6 28 (4.35%) Degree
7 21 (3.27%) CISSP
8 20 (3.11%) CISM
9 18 (2.80%) Cisco Certification
10 14 (2.18%) Network+ Certification
11 12 (1.87%) CCNP
11 12 (1.87%) Server+ Certification
12 11 (1.71%) AWS Certification
12 11 (1.71%) Computer Science Degree
12 11 (1.71%) FFIEC
13 10 (1.56%) CCNA
14 9 (1.40%) BPSS Clearance
15 8 (1.24%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
16 5 (0.78%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 5 (0.78%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (3.73%) NIST
2 22 (3.42%) GDPR
3 16 (2.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 15 (2.33%) PCI DSS
5 13 (2.02%) SLA
6 11 (1.71%) Cyber Essentials
6 11 (1.71%) GLBA
7 8 (1.24%) NIST 800
8 3 (0.47%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.31%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.31%) COBIT
9 2 (0.31%) Data Quality
9 2 (0.31%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.31%) QA
10 1 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.16%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 1 (0.16%) ISO 19650
10 1 (0.16%) RMADS
10 1 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 151 (23.48%) Active Directory
2 125 (19.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 66 (10.26%) Docker
4 64 (9.95%) Hyper-V
5 32 (4.98%) vSphere
6 18 (2.80%) VMware ESXi
7 17 (2.64%) Virtual Machines
8 13 (2.02%) Virtual Desktop
9 9 (1.40%) VMware NSX
10 8 (1.24%) NFS
11 5 (0.78%) BitLocker
11 5 (0.78%) Firmware
12 3 (0.47%) DFS Replication
12 3 (0.47%) Virtual Servers
13 2 (0.31%) Microsoft App-V
13 2 (0.31%) Oracle RAC
13 2 (0.31%) QEMU
13 2 (0.31%) Sendmail
13 2 (0.31%) Tivoli Directory Server
14 1 (0.16%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 138 (21.46%) Terraform
2 96 (14.93%) Kubernetes
3 84 (13.06%) Ansible
4 69 (10.73%) Microsoft Intune
5 55 (8.55%) SCCM
6 27 (4.20%) Single Sign-On
7 20 (3.11%) vCenter Server
8 19 (2.95%) Grafana
9 15 (2.33%) Red Hat Satellite
10 13 (2.02%) FortiGate
10 13 (2.02%) Prometheus
11 11 (1.71%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 8 (1.24%) Dell DRAC
12 8 (1.24%) VxRail
13 7 (1.09%) AirWatch
13 7 (1.09%) Istio
14 6 (0.93%) CASB
14 6 (0.93%) Nessus
14 6 (0.93%) SCOM
14 6 (0.93%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 213 (33.13%) Microsoft
2 175 (27.22%) VMware
3 43 (6.69%) Cisco
4 42 (6.53%) Palo Alto
5 38 (5.91%) Red Hat
6 32 (4.98%) Dell
7 28 (4.35%) F5
8 25 (3.89%) Google
9 24 (3.73%) ServiceNow
9 24 (3.73%) Splunk
10 23 (3.58%) Veeam
11 21 (3.27%) Citrix
11 21 (3.27%) IBM
12 17 (2.64%) CheckPoint
13 16 (2.49%) Fortinet
14 15 (2.33%) SolarWinds
14 15 (2.33%) Thales
15 14 (2.18%) Oracle
16 13 (2.02%) NetApp
17 12 (1.87%) CyberArk
469 Infrastructure Engineering jobs in England