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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 162 117
Rank change year-on-year +78 -45 -23
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 1,455 495 649
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.13% 1.77% 2.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.69% 1.95% 2.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 899 325 459
10th Percentile £360 £300 £325
25th Percentile £450 £375 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -1.48% +1.50%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £600
90th Percentile £700 £668 £688
UK median daily rate £549 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +9.80% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 10 17
10th Percentile £33.64 £25.70 £51.06
25th Percentile £58.43 £29.00 £60.00
Median hourly rate £73.27 £32.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +128.97% -54.29% -
75th Percentile £86.62 £35.00 -
90th Percentile £100.00 £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 39,431 25,424 27,856
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.70% 90.99% 86.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,955 16,149 17,033
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £512 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.64% -2.57% -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 2,897 1,546 1,199
10th Percentile £13.87 £14.42 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £17.87 £20.30
Median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +63.02% -41.51% -3.37%
75th Percentile £67.50 £46.55 £67.01
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £39.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +55.07% -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 1 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 1 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 1 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 +53 438 £550 +4.76% 550
North of England +75 335 £522 +4.40% 261
South East +23 283 £559 +20.16% 212
North West +47 159 £538 +7.50% 151
Midlands +37 151 £481 +3.49% 127
South West +37 144 £575 +3.60% 133
Yorkshire +36 122 £500 - 70
West Midlands +27 108 £525 +12.30% 78
East of England +27 87 £525 +34.19% 74
North East +11 65 £600 -7.69% 42
East Midlands +18 41 £450 -3.23% 49
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 60 (4.12%) Microsoft Exchange
2 49 (3.37%) SharePoint
3 34 (2.34%) Confluence
4 12 (0.82%) Apache
4 12 (0.82%) 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 (0.27%) 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 (0.27%) 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 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
1 490 (33.68%) Azure
2 261 (17.94%) AWS
3 164 (11.27%) Entra ID
4 134 (9.21%) Microsoft 365
5 111 (7.63%) GCP
6 92 (6.32%) GitHub
7 85 (5.84%) IaaS
8 67 (4.60%) OCI
9 66 (4.54%) Azure DevOps
10 58 (3.99%) GitHub Actions
11 43 (2.96%) SaaS
12 38 (2.61%) Azure Monitor
12 38 (2.61%) PaaS
13 31 (2.13%) OpenShift
14 30 (2.06%) Azure AKS
15 28 (1.92%) Power Platform
16 26 (1.79%) Amazon EKS
16 26 (1.79%) Azure Sentinel
17 22 (1.51%) AWS CloudFormation
18 20 (1.37%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 239 (16.43%) DNS
2 229 (15.74%) Firewall
3 144 (9.90%) DHCP
4 96 (6.60%) VPN
5 91 (6.25%) Network Security
6 83 (5.70%) TCP/IP
7 65 (4.47%) WAN
8 63 (4.33%) SAN
8 63 (4.33%) VLAN
9 47 (3.23%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 42 (2.89%) BIG-IP
11 41 (2.82%) Wi-Fi
12 39 (2.68%) LAN
13 36 (2.47%) SD-WAN
14 34 (2.34%) BGP
15 32 (2.20%) SSL
16 28 (1.92%) OSPF
17 27 (1.86%) VXLAN
18 26 (1.79%) Ethernet VPN
18 26 (1.79%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (4.33%) SQL Server
2 22 (1.51%) Oracle Exadata
2 22 (1.51%) Power BI
3 21 (1.44%) Data Lake
4 20 (1.37%) Oracle Database
5 18 (1.24%) Relational Database
6 17 (1.17%) NoSQL
7 14 (0.96%) Metadata
7 14 (0.96%) RDBMS
8 13 (0.89%) Data Warehouse
9 10 (0.69%) Azure SQL Database
9 10 (0.69%) Elasticsearch
9 10 (0.69%) PostgreSQL
10 9 (0.62%) Pentaho
11 8 (0.55%) Amazon RDS
12 6 (0.41%) BigQuery
13 5 (0.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 4 (0.27%) Snowflake Schema
15 3 (0.21%) MongoDB
15 3 (0.21%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 75 (5.15%) GitLab
2 59 (4.05%) Git
3 58 (3.99%) JIRA
4 57 (3.92%) Jenkins
5 7 (0.48%) Artifactory
6 5 (0.34%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (0.27%) 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%) Selenium
9 2 (0.14%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.14%) Subversion
10 1 (0.069%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.069%) Snyk
10 1 (0.069%) Terragrunt
General
1 248 (17.04%) Social Skills
2 155 (10.65%) Finance
3 104 (7.15%) Public Sector
4 89 (6.12%) Analytical Skills
5 56 (3.85%) Banking
5 56 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
6 31 (2.13%) Telecoms
7 23 (1.58%) Manufacturing
8 18 (1.24%) 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 12 (0.82%) Law
12 12 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
13 11 (0.76%) Automotive
14 10 (0.69%) Legal
14 10 (0.69%) Marketing
15 6 (0.41%) Billing
15 6 (0.41%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 905 (62.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 287 (19.73%) Senior
3 223 (15.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 156 (10.72%) Cloud Engineer
5 118 (8.11%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 93 (6.39%) Azure Engineer
7 73 (5.02%) Network Engineer
8 72 (4.95%) Lead
9 66 (4.54%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
10 59 (4.05%) Architect
10 59 (4.05%) DevOps Engineer
11 49 (3.37%) Security Engineer
12 48 (3.30%) VMware Engineer
13 43 (2.96%) Platform Engineer
14 39 (2.68%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
15 36 (2.47%) Support Engineer
15 36 (2.47%) Test Engineer
16 33 (2.27%) Infrastructure Support
17 32 (2.20%) IT Engineer
17 32 (2.20%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 315 (21.65%) Terraform
2 30 (2.06%) ARM Templates
3 25 (1.72%) REST
4 22 (1.51%) Kafka
5 15 (1.03%) YAML
6 14 (0.96%) Oracle GoldenGate
7 13 (0.89%) OpenID
7 13 (0.89%) SAML
8 12 (0.82%) 802.1X
8 12 (0.82%) JSON
8 12 (0.82%) Middleware
9 11 (0.76%) LDAP
9 11 (0.76%) OAuth
10 10 (0.69%) Elastic Stack
10 10 (0.69%) Loki
11 8 (0.55%) .NET
11 8 (0.55%) ModSecurity
12 7 (0.48%) SOAP
12 7 (0.48%) Web Services
13 5 (0.34%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 156 (10.72%) Data Centre
2 102 (7.01%) Hybrid Cloud
3 74 (5.09%) Cloud Native
4 62 (4.26%) PKI
5 56 (3.85%) Public Cloud
6 52 (3.57%) Onboarding
7 43 (2.96%) Replication
8 35 (2.41%) Enterprise Storage
8 35 (2.41%) Private Cloud
9 30 (2.06%) Management Information System
10 28 (1.92%) Enterprise Cloud
10 28 (1.92%) Linux Command Line
11 26 (1.79%) Security Posture
12 25 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
13 22 (1.51%) Clustering
14 21 (1.44%) Data Protection Act
15 18 (1.24%) Product Ownership
15 18 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
16 13 (0.89%) Cyber Threat
16 13 (0.89%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 387 (26.60%) Windows
2 279 (19.18%) Linux
3 260 (17.87%) Windows Server
4 60 (4.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 24 (1.65%) 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
8 15 (1.03%) Windows 10
9 14 (0.96%) AIX
9 14 (0.96%) Rocky
9 14 (0.96%) Windows Server 2016
10 12 (0.82%) Mac OS
10 12 (0.82%) zOS
11 7 (0.48%) Windows Server 2012
12 6 (0.41%) Windows Server 2003
13 5 (0.34%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 380 (26.12%) Infrastructure as Code
2 302 (20.76%) CI/CD
3 293 (20.14%) DevOps
4 198 (13.61%) Migration
5 184 (12.65%) Problem-Solving
6 168 (11.55%) Platform Engineering
7 141 (9.69%) Continuous Improvement
8 138 (9.48%) Stakeholder Management
9 131 (9.00%) Agile
10 123 (8.45%) Infrastructure Automation
11 107 (7.35%) Observability
12 106 (7.29%) Cybersecurity
13 104 (7.15%) AI
13 104 (7.15%) Disaster Recovery
13 104 (7.15%) ITIL
14 103 (7.08%) Technical Leadership
15 99 (6.80%) High Availability
16 98 (6.74%) Project Delivery
17 87 (5.98%) Validation
18 84 (5.77%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 248 (17.04%) PowerShell
2 245 (16.84%) Python
3 117 (8.04%) Bash
4 71 (4.88%) SQL
5 59 (4.05%) Bicep
6 38 (2.61%) Java
7 17 (1.17%) C#
8 16 (1.10%) Go
9 15 (1.03%) ActionScript
10 14 (0.96%) Shell Script
11 10 (0.69%) C++
12 9 (0.62%) Perl
13 7 (0.48%) TypeScript
14 6 (0.41%) Kusto Query Language
15 5 (0.34%) C
15 5 (0.34%) JavaScript
15 5 (0.34%) JCL
16 2 (0.14%) COBOL
16 2 (0.14%) Groovy
16 2 (0.14%) Korn
Qualifications
1 558 (38.35%) Security Cleared
2 339 (23.30%) SC Cleared
3 213 (14.64%) DV Cleared
4 61 (4.19%) Degree
5 46 (3.16%) Azure Certification
6 31 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
7 30 (2.06%) Cisco Certification
8 28 (1.92%) AWS Certification
9 23 (1.58%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 22 (1.51%) CISSP
11 19 (1.31%) Computer Science Degree
12 18 (1.24%) CCNP
13 16 (1.10%) CCNA
14 14 (0.96%) VCAP
15 12 (0.82%) PMI Certification
16 11 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
16 11 (0.76%) MCSE
16 11 (0.76%) PMP
17 10 (0.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 9 (0.62%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (3.57%) QA
2 36 (2.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 22 (1.51%) NIST
4 19 (1.31%) NCSC
5 18 (1.24%) SLA
6 16 (1.10%) Data Quality
7 14 (0.96%) Cyber Essentials
8 10 (0.69%) PMO
9 9 (0.62%) GRC
9 9 (0.62%) PCI DSS
10 8 (0.55%) JSP 440
11 4 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 3 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 3 (0.21%) SOC 2
13 2 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
13 2 (0.14%) IASME
13 2 (0.14%) ISO 19650
13 2 (0.14%) NIST 800
14 1 (0.069%) GDPR
14 1 (0.069%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 279 (19.18%) VMware Infrastructure
2 268 (18.42%) Active Directory
3 112 (7.70%) Hyper-V
4 83 (5.70%) vSphere
5 77 (5.29%) VMware ESXi
6 74 (5.09%) Docker
7 62 (4.26%) Virtual Machines
8 36 (2.47%) VMware NSX
9 30 (2.06%) Virtual Desktop
10 17 (1.17%) Virtual Servers
11 15 (1.03%) Oracle RAC
12 13 (0.89%) Firmware
12 13 (0.89%) NFS
13 11 (0.76%) KVM
14 6 (0.41%) oVirt
15 5 (0.34%) BitLocker
15 5 (0.34%) Ceph
15 5 (0.34%) GPFS
15 5 (0.34%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 4 (0.27%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 201 (13.81%) Ansible
2 186 (12.78%) Kubernetes
3 88 (6.05%) Microsoft Intune
4 51 (3.51%) SCCM
5 42 (2.89%) vCenter Server
6 36 (2.47%) Grafana
7 31 (2.13%) Prometheus
8 22 (1.51%) Puppet
9 20 (1.37%) Nessus
10 19 (1.31%) Argo
10 19 (1.31%) WSUS
11 17 (1.17%) NetBackup
11 17 (1.17%) Single Sign-On
12 15 (1.03%) Oracle RMAN
12 15 (1.03%) Progress Chef
13 14 (0.96%) Data Guard
13 14 (0.96%) SCOM
14 12 (0.82%) Packer
14 12 (0.82%) VxRail
15 10 (0.69%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 369 (25.36%) Microsoft
2 348 (23.92%) VMware
3 82 (5.64%) Cisco
4 59 (4.05%) F5
5 58 (3.99%) Oracle
6 57 (3.92%) Citrix
7 53 (3.64%) NetApp
8 46 (3.16%) Google
9 43 (2.96%) Red Hat
9 43 (2.96%) Veeam
10 41 (2.82%) Palo Alto
11 29 (1.99%) ServiceNow
12 25 (1.72%) Dell
13 23 (1.58%) Arista
13 23 (1.58%) Aruba
13 23 (1.58%) Tenable
14 19 (1.31%) CyberArk
14 19 (1.31%) Juniper
15 18 (1.24%) Commvault
15 18 (1.24%) Zscaler