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 26 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 158 117
Rank change year-on-year +74 -41 -27
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 1,450 493 690
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.11% 1.76% 2.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.68% 1.94% 2.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 892 325 491
10th Percentile £358 £300 £325
25th Percentile £450 £375 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -1.96% +2.00%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £600
90th Percentile £693 £672 £688
UK median daily rate £545 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +8.93% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 10 17
10th Percentile £34.99 £25.70 £51.06
25th Percentile £58.43 £29.00 £60.00
Median hourly rate £74.00 £32.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +131.25% -54.29% -
75th Percentile £85.00 £35.00 -
90th Percentile £99.60 £40.16 £86.80
UK median hourly rate £74.00 £32.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +131.25% -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 39,398 25,390 28,245
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.63% 90.87% 86.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,997 16,126 17,350
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £645
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,849 1,543 1,244
10th Percentile £13.90 £14.41 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £17.87 £20.00
Median hourly rate £41.56 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +65.23% -41.51% -1.94%
75th Percentile £67.70 £47.50 £66.61
90th Percentile £79.00 £67.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +59.05% -40.82% -

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 26 September 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 26 September 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 26 September 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 +52 436 £550 +3.19% 684
North of England +74 331 £515 +3.00% 281
South East +16 283 £559 +22.97% 273
North West +50 155 £525 -4.55% 154
Midlands +42 152 £481 +5.19% 133
South West +33 143 £575 +3.60% 130
Yorkshire +31 124 £500 - 81
West Midlands +21 108 £525 +16.67% 82
East of England +22 88 £519 +29.69% 80
North East +8 63 £600 -7.69% 48
East Midlands +18 42 £450 -3.23% 51
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 (4.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 45 (3.10%) SharePoint
3 32 (2.21%) Confluence
4 12 (0.83%) Apache
4 12 (0.83%) CICS
5 9 (0.62%) SAS
6 7 (0.48%) WebSphere
7 6 (0.41%) Apache Spark
8 5 (0.34%) nginx
8 5 (0.34%) OpenStack
8 5 (0.34%) SharePoint Server
9 4 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.21%) CloudStack
11 2 (0.14%) CMS
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 17 (1.17%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (1.03%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (0.55%) MS Visio
4 5 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.28%) AutoCAD
6 3 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.069%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.069%) CINEMA 4D
7 1 (0.069%) CPLEX
7 1 (0.069%) Houdini
7 1 (0.069%) MicroStation
7 1 (0.069%) NUKE
7 1 (0.069%) Revit
7 1 (0.069%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (0.55%) 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
1 486 (33.52%) Azure
2 265 (18.28%) AWS
3 156 (10.76%) Entra ID
4 126 (8.69%) Microsoft 365
5 109 (7.52%) GCP
6 90 (6.21%) GitHub
7 81 (5.59%) IaaS
8 69 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
9 67 (4.62%) OCI
10 57 (3.93%) GitHub Actions
11 45 (3.10%) SaaS
12 37 (2.55%) PaaS
13 36 (2.48%) Azure Monitor
14 32 (2.21%) Azure AKS
15 31 (2.14%) OpenShift
16 28 (1.93%) Power Platform
17 27 (1.86%) Azure Sentinel
18 26 (1.79%) Amazon EKS
19 23 (1.59%) AWS CloudFormation
20 21 (1.45%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 239 (16.48%) DNS
2 228 (15.72%) Firewall
3 143 (9.86%) DHCP
4 96 (6.62%) VPN
5 88 (6.07%) Network Security
6 83 (5.72%) TCP/IP
7 66 (4.55%) WAN
8 65 (4.48%) SAN
8 65 (4.48%) VLAN
9 47 (3.24%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 40 (2.76%) BIG-IP
10 40 (2.76%) Wi-Fi
11 39 (2.69%) LAN
12 37 (2.55%) SD-WAN
13 34 (2.34%) BGP
14 32 (2.21%) SSL
15 28 (1.93%) OSPF
16 27 (1.86%) VXLAN
17 26 (1.79%) Ethernet VPN
17 26 (1.79%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (4.21%) SQL Server
2 22 (1.52%) Oracle Exadata
2 22 (1.52%) Power BI
3 21 (1.45%) Data Lake
4 20 (1.38%) Oracle Database
5 18 (1.24%) Relational Database
6 17 (1.17%) NoSQL
7 14 (0.97%) Metadata
7 14 (0.97%) RDBMS
8 13 (0.90%) Data Warehouse
9 10 (0.69%) Elasticsearch
9 10 (0.69%) PostgreSQL
10 9 (0.62%) Pentaho
11 8 (0.55%) Amazon RDS
11 8 (0.55%) Azure SQL Database
12 6 (0.41%) BigQuery
13 5 (0.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 4 (0.28%) Snowflake Schema
15 3 (0.21%) Data Mining
15 3 (0.21%) Db2
Development Applications
1 74 (5.10%) GitLab
2 59 (4.07%) Git
3 57 (3.93%) JIRA
4 54 (3.72%) Jenkins
5 6 (0.41%) Artifactory
6 4 (0.28%) Chocolatey
6 4 (0.28%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (0.21%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.21%) Claude Code
7 3 (0.21%) JUnit
7 3 (0.21%) Oracle Forms
8 2 (0.14%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.14%) HP UFT
8 2 (0.14%) IBM UrbanCode
8 2 (0.14%) Selenium
8 2 (0.14%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.14%) Subversion
9 1 (0.069%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.069%) Snyk
9 1 (0.069%) Terragrunt
General
1 248 (17.10%) Social Skills
2 151 (10.41%) Finance
3 104 (7.17%) Public Sector
4 89 (6.14%) Analytical Skills
5 57 (3.93%) Banking
5 57 (3.93%) Documentation Skills
6 30 (2.07%) Telecoms
7 24 (1.66%) Manufacturing
8 19 (1.31%) Aerospace
9 17 (1.17%) Military
10 16 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 15 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
11 15 (1.03%) Retail
12 13 (0.90%) Law
13 12 (0.83%) Legal
13 12 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
14 10 (0.69%) Automotive
14 10 (0.69%) Marketing
15 6 (0.41%) Billing
15 6 (0.41%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 899 (62.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 285 (19.66%) Senior
3 220 (15.17%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 152 (10.48%) Cloud Engineer
5 113 (7.79%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 92 (6.34%) Azure Engineer
7 75 (5.17%) Network Engineer
8 72 (4.97%) Lead
9 63 (4.34%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
10 60 (4.14%) Architect
10 60 (4.14%) DevOps Engineer
11 48 (3.31%) VMware Engineer
12 47 (3.24%) Security Engineer
13 43 (2.97%) Platform Engineer
14 41 (2.83%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
15 35 (2.41%) Support Engineer
16 34 (2.34%) Test Engineer
17 33 (2.28%) IT Engineer
17 33 (2.28%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
18 32 (2.21%) Infrastructure Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 316 (21.79%) Terraform
2 29 (2.00%) ARM Templates
3 25 (1.72%) REST
4 21 (1.45%) Kafka
5 15 (1.03%) YAML
6 14 (0.97%) Oracle GoldenGate
7 13 (0.90%) SAML
8 12 (0.83%) 802.1X
8 12 (0.83%) JSON
8 12 (0.83%) Middleware
8 12 (0.83%) OpenID
9 11 (0.76%) LDAP
10 10 (0.69%) Loki
10 10 (0.69%) OAuth
11 9 (0.62%) Elastic Stack
12 8 (0.55%) .NET
12 8 (0.55%) ModSecurity
13 7 (0.48%) SOAP
13 7 (0.48%) Web Services
14 5 (0.34%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 154 (10.62%) Data Centre
2 105 (7.24%) Hybrid Cloud
3 73 (5.03%) Cloud Native
4 61 (4.21%) PKI
5 57 (3.93%) Public Cloud
6 53 (3.66%) Onboarding
7 45 (3.10%) Replication
8 36 (2.48%) Enterprise Storage
9 35 (2.41%) Private Cloud
10 30 (2.07%) Management Information System
11 28 (1.93%) Enterprise Cloud
12 27 (1.86%) Linux Command Line
13 26 (1.79%) Security Posture
14 25 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
15 22 (1.52%) Clustering
16 21 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
17 18 (1.24%) Product Ownership
17 18 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
18 14 (0.97%) Virtual Team
19 13 (0.90%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 386 (26.62%) Windows
2 284 (19.59%) Linux
3 260 (17.93%) Windows Server
4 61 (4.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 23 (1.59%) Unix
6 19 (1.31%) CentOS
6 19 (1.31%) Ubuntu
6 19 (1.31%) VMS
6 19 (1.31%) Windows Server 2019
7 17 (1.17%) Android
7 17 (1.17%) Apple iOS
7 17 (1.17%) Windows 10
8 14 (0.97%) AIX
8 14 (0.97%) Rocky
8 14 (0.97%) Windows Server 2016
9 12 (0.83%) Mac OS
9 12 (0.83%) zOS
10 8 (0.55%) Windows Server 2012
11 6 (0.41%) Windows Server 2003
12 5 (0.34%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 379 (26.14%) Infrastructure as Code
2 304 (20.97%) CI/CD
3 300 (20.69%) DevOps
4 195 (13.45%) Migration
5 185 (12.76%) Problem-Solving
6 167 (11.52%) Platform Engineering
7 142 (9.79%) Continuous Improvement
8 136 (9.38%) Stakeholder Management
9 133 (9.17%) Agile
10 126 (8.69%) Infrastructure Automation
11 109 (7.52%) Observability
12 106 (7.31%) AI
12 106 (7.31%) Cybersecurity
13 105 (7.24%) Disaster Recovery
14 104 (7.17%) High Availability
14 104 (7.17%) ITIL
15 103 (7.10%) Technical Leadership
16 97 (6.69%) Project Delivery
17 86 (5.93%) Cloud Security
17 86 (5.93%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 244 (16.83%) PowerShell
2 243 (16.76%) Python
3 119 (8.21%) Bash
4 67 (4.62%) SQL
5 61 (4.21%) Bicep
6 37 (2.55%) Java
7 16 (1.10%) C#
7 16 (1.10%) Go
8 14 (0.97%) ActionScript
8 14 (0.97%) Shell Script
9 9 (0.62%) C++
9 9 (0.62%) Perl
10 7 (0.48%) TypeScript
11 6 (0.41%) Kusto Query Language
12 5 (0.34%) C
12 5 (0.34%) JCL
13 4 (0.28%) JavaScript
14 3 (0.21%) Groovy
15 2 (0.14%) Korn
15 2 (0.14%) PHP
Qualifications
1 559 (38.55%) Security Cleared
2 343 (23.66%) SC Cleared
3 212 (14.62%) DV Cleared
4 60 (4.14%) Degree
5 46 (3.17%) Azure Certification
6 31 (2.14%) Cisco Certification
6 31 (2.14%) Microsoft Certification
7 28 (1.93%) AWS Certification
8 22 (1.52%) CISSP
9 21 (1.45%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 18 (1.24%) CCNP
10 18 (1.24%) Computer Science Degree
11 17 (1.17%) CCNA
12 13 (0.90%) VCAP
13 12 (0.83%) PMI Certification
14 11 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
14 11 (0.76%) MCSE
14 11 (0.76%) PMP
15 10 (0.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 9 (0.62%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (3.45%) QA
2 35 (2.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 22 (1.52%) NCSC
3 22 (1.52%) NIST
4 18 (1.24%) SLA
5 16 (1.10%) Data Quality
6 14 (0.97%) Cyber Essentials
7 10 (0.69%) PMO
8 9 (0.62%) GRC
8 9 (0.62%) PCI DSS
9 8 (0.55%) JSP 440
10 4 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 3 (0.21%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.14%) IASME
12 2 (0.14%) ISO 19650
12 2 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 2 (0.14%) NIST 800
13 1 (0.069%) Disclosure Scotland
13 1 (0.069%) FedRAMP
System Software
1 278 (19.17%) VMware Infrastructure
2 266 (18.34%) Active Directory
3 112 (7.72%) Hyper-V
4 83 (5.72%) vSphere
5 77 (5.31%) VMware ESXi
6 74 (5.10%) Docker
7 61 (4.21%) Virtual Machines
8 35 (2.41%) VMware NSX
9 29 (2.00%) Virtual Desktop
10 16 (1.10%) Virtual Servers
11 15 (1.03%) Oracle RAC
12 14 (0.97%) NFS
13 13 (0.90%) Firmware
14 11 (0.76%) KVM
15 6 (0.41%) oVirt
16 5 (0.34%) BitLocker
16 5 (0.34%) Ceph
16 5 (0.34%) GPFS
17 4 (0.28%) Microsoft Virtual Server
17 4 (0.28%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 201 (13.86%) Ansible
2 188 (12.97%) Kubernetes
3 84 (5.79%) Microsoft Intune
4 51 (3.52%) SCCM
5 42 (2.90%) vCenter Server
6 36 (2.48%) Grafana
7 31 (2.14%) Prometheus
8 21 (1.45%) Puppet
9 20 (1.38%) Nessus
9 20 (1.38%) WSUS
10 19 (1.31%) Argo
11 17 (1.17%) NetBackup
11 17 (1.17%) Single Sign-On
12 15 (1.03%) Oracle RMAN
13 14 (0.97%) Data Guard
13 14 (0.97%) Progress Chef
13 14 (0.97%) SCOM
14 12 (0.83%) Packer
14 12 (0.83%) VxRail
15 10 (0.69%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 366 (25.24%) Microsoft
2 347 (23.93%) VMware
3 85 (5.86%) Cisco
4 59 (4.07%) Citrix
5 58 (4.00%) Oracle
6 57 (3.93%) F5
7 50 (3.45%) NetApp
8 45 (3.10%) Google
9 42 (2.90%) Red Hat
10 41 (2.83%) Veeam
11 40 (2.76%) Palo Alto
12 29 (2.00%) ServiceNow
13 26 (1.79%) Dell
14 23 (1.59%) Arista
14 23 (1.59%) Aruba
14 23 (1.59%) Tenable
15 19 (1.31%) CyberArk
15 19 (1.31%) Juniper
16 18 (1.24%) IBM
16 18 (1.24%) Zscaler