Infrastructure Maintenance Contract Job Trends in England

Infrastructure Maintenance
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Infrastructure Maintenance skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 573 463 544
Rank change year-on-year -110 +81 +135
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Maintenance 4 8 4
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.011% 0.033% 0.011%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.012% 0.036% 0.012%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 1
10th Percentile £334 - -
25th Percentile £384 - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £300 £525
Median % change year-on-year +62.50% -42.86% -24.46%
75th Percentile £506 £488 £538
90th Percentile - £600 -
UK median daily rate £488 £300 £375
% change year-on-year +62.50% -20.00% -46.04%

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

Infrastructure Maintenance 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 32,374 22,226 32,746
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.47% 90.74% 86.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,766 14,506 21,651
10th Percentile £313 £310 £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 £615 £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 1,980 825 2,147
10th Percentile £15.49 £15.07 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.00 £16.06
Median hourly rate £32.50 £34.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.41% +4.62% -10.48%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £57.83
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.81 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £30.32 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -6.71% - -7.14%

Infrastructure Maintenance
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Infrastructure Maintenance relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Infrastructure Maintenance job vacancy trend in England

Infrastructure Maintenance
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Infrastructure Maintenance.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Infrastructure Maintenance

Infrastructure Maintenance
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Maintenance in England over the 6 months to 21 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Maintenance in England

Infrastructure Maintenance
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Infrastructure Maintenance.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Infrastructure Maintenance

Infrastructure Maintenance
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 Maintenance within the England region over the 6 months to 21 March 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 2 £488 -25.00% 2
North West -28 1 £300 - 1
South East -51 1 - - 2
North of England -68 1 £300 - 3
Infrastructure Maintenance
UK

Infrastructure Maintenance
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 2 (50.00%) nginx
1 2 (50.00%) Tomcat
1 2 (50.00%) WebLogic
2 1 (25.00%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Azure AKS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (25.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) HTTP
2 1 (25.00%) DNS
2 1 (25.00%) Firewall
2 1 (25.00%) Internet
2 1 (25.00%) SSL
2 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (25.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Middleware
2 1 (25.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Legacy Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (25.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
1 3 (75.00%) Windows Server
1 3 (75.00%) Windows Server 2016
1 3 (75.00%) Windows Server 2019
2 2 (50.00%) Linux
2 2 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (50.00%) Solaris
2 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps
1 3 (75.00%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) ETL
2 2 (50.00%) Master Data Management
2 2 (50.00%) Refactoring
2 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Change Management
3 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (25.00%) ITIL
3 1 (25.00%) Machine Learning
3 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (25.00%) Project Management
3 1 (25.00%) Project Planning
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) PL/SQL
3 1 (25.00%) Bicep
3 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
2 2 (50.00%) Oracle RAC
2 2 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (25.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (25.00%) SCCM
2 1 (25.00%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) VMware
2 2 (50.00%) IBM
2 2 (50.00%) Oracle
2 2 (50.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (25.00%) Citrix
3 1 (25.00%) SolarWinds