Infrastructure Engineering Contracts in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Engineering
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Infrastructure Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Infrastructure Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 91 62 83
Rank change year-on-year -29 +21 +14
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 348 624 705
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.73% 3.00% 2.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.01% 3.55% 3.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 230 472 537
10th Percentile £310 £285 £313
25th Percentile £400 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £600 £590 £575
90th Percentile £650 £650 £694
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 32 17
10th Percentile £24.18 £21.25 £39.21
25th Percentile £44.34 £40.23 £52.00
Median hourly rate £60.13 £46.18 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +30.20% -19.69% -4.92%
75th Percentile £105.31 £62.50 £75.50
90th Percentile £200.00 £70.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £46.18 £61.62
% change year-on-year +35.34% -25.05% +23.23%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,543 17,602 21,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.42% 84.74% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,249 10,520 14,947
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,048 1,307
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.28 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Infrastructure Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineering in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Engineering in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Engineering in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Engineering
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Engineering
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
North of England +7 101 £525 +23.53% 152
South East -24 90 £550 +22.22% 191
South West -3 63 £569 +13.75% 102
Yorkshire +25 51 £525 +38.16% 49
North West -15 44 £525 +23.53% 85
Midlands +3 34 £400 -4.48% 108
Scotland -21 30 £550 +15.79% 40
East of England +17 26 £473 -10.00% 88
West Midlands -7 23 £323 -24.12% 65
East Midlands +13 11 £450 +33.33% 36
North East +6 11 £650 +48.57% 21
Wales -1 8 £425 -29.17% 14
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 3
Infrastructure Engineering
UK

Infrastructure Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 46 (13.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 37 (10.63%) Confluence
3 25 (7.18%) SharePoint
4 15 (4.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 6 (1.72%) Skype for Business
6 3 (0.86%) IIS
7 2 (0.57%) Apache
8 1 (0.29%) nginx
8 1 (0.29%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.29%) Traefik
Applications
1 30 (8.62%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.86%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.29%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.57%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 101 (29.02%) Azure
2 67 (19.25%) Microsoft 365
3 66 (18.97%) AWS
4 54 (15.52%) Entra ID
5 29 (8.33%) IaaS
6 27 (7.76%) OpenShift
7 16 (4.60%) PaaS
8 14 (4.02%) Serverless
9 10 (2.87%) GCP
9 10 (2.87%) Google Workspace
10 9 (2.59%) SaaS
11 8 (2.30%) GitHub
12 7 (2.01%) Cohesity
13 6 (1.72%) Cloud Computing
14 5 (1.44%) Amazon S3
14 5 (1.44%) Nutanix
14 5 (1.44%) OneDrive
15 3 (0.86%) Amazon EKS
16 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Purview
16 2 (0.57%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 84 (24.14%) DNS
2 50 (14.37%) DHCP
3 47 (13.51%) Firewall
4 35 (10.06%) SAN
5 19 (5.46%) Network Security
6 18 (5.17%) VPN
7 16 (4.60%) LAN
8 14 (4.02%) TCP/IP
9 13 (3.74%) NAS
10 12 (3.45%) WAN
11 9 (2.59%) VSAN
12 8 (2.30%) HTTP
12 8 (2.30%) Skype
12 8 (2.30%) SMTP
12 8 (2.30%) SSL
13 7 (2.01%) Cisco ISE
13 7 (2.01%) Fibre Channel
14 6 (1.72%) Intrusion Detection
14 6 (1.72%) Remote Desktop
14 6 (1.72%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (5.46%) Oracle Database
2 16 (4.60%) SQL Server
3 9 (2.59%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (2.59%) Elasticsearch
4 7 (2.01%) Big Data
5 6 (1.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (0.57%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.29%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.29%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.29%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.29%) MySQL
7 1 (0.29%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.29%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 39 (11.21%) JIRA
2 25 (7.18%) Bitbucket
3 19 (5.46%) Jenkins
4 17 (4.89%) Git
5 10 (2.87%) GitLab
6 4 (1.15%) ScriptRunner
7 3 (0.86%) Robot Framework
8 2 (0.57%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.57%) Eclipse
8 2 (0.57%) GoogleTest
9 1 (0.29%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.29%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.29%) Maven
9 1 (0.29%) Postman
9 1 (0.29%) Selenium
9 1 (0.29%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.29%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.29%) TestNG
9 1 (0.29%) Visual Studio
General
1 88 (25.29%) Social Skills
2 38 (10.92%) Public Sector
3 25 (7.18%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (4.02%) Finance
5 13 (3.74%) Legal
5 13 (3.74%) Telecoms
6 8 (2.30%) Banking
7 6 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (1.72%) Manufacturing
8 5 (1.44%) Military
8 5 (1.44%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.57%) Aerospace
10 2 (0.57%) Electronics
10 2 (0.57%) Local Government
11 1 (0.29%) Advertising
11 1 (0.29%) French Language
11 1 (0.29%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.29%) Retail
11 1 (0.29%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 237 (68.10%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 28 (8.05%) Senior
3 25 (7.18%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 24 (6.90%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 23 (6.61%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
6 22 (6.32%) IT Engineer
7 21 (6.03%) Support Engineer
8 19 (5.46%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
8 19 (5.46%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
9 18 (5.17%) Infrastructure Support
9 18 (5.17%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
10 15 (4.31%) Linux Engineer
10 15 (4.31%) Virtualisation Engineer
11 14 (4.02%) Infrastructure Specialist
12 13 (3.74%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
13 12 (3.45%) Lead
14 11 (3.16%) 3rd Line Support
14 11 (3.16%) Automation Engineer
14 11 (3.16%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
14 11 (3.16%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (4.02%) Flash
2 7 (2.01%) Microsoft Graph
3 6 (1.72%) REST
4 5 (1.44%) SOAP
5 4 (1.15%) Kafka
5 4 (1.15%) Middleware
6 3 (0.86%) 802.1X
6 3 (0.86%) HTML
7 2 (0.57%) CSS
7 2 (0.57%) RESTful
8 1 (0.29%) Elastic Stack
8 1 (0.29%) Gherkin
8 1 (0.29%) Java RMI
8 1 (0.29%) LDAP
8 1 (0.29%) Loki
8 1 (0.29%) Node.js
8 1 (0.29%) pytest
8 1 (0.29%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (0.29%) XML
8 1 (0.29%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 29 (8.33%) Data Centre
2 27 (7.76%) Clustering
3 26 (7.47%) Hybrid Cloud
4 19 (5.46%) Linux Command Line
4 19 (5.46%) PKI
5 16 (4.60%) Onboarding
6 13 (3.74%) Data Protection Act
7 10 (2.87%) Driving Licence
8 9 (2.59%) Public Cloud
9 7 (2.01%) Management Information System
10 6 (1.72%) Enterprise Storage
10 6 (1.72%) Replication
11 5 (1.44%) Product Ownership
12 4 (1.15%) Cloud Native
13 3 (0.86%) Self-Motivation
13 3 (0.86%) Virtual Team
14 2 (0.57%) Enterprise Software
14 2 (0.57%) Fibre Optics
14 2 (0.57%) Video Conferencing
14 2 (0.57%) YubiKey
Operating Systems
1 196 (56.32%) Windows
2 149 (42.82%) Windows Server
3 108 (31.03%) Linux
4 31 (8.91%) Windows Server 2016
5 29 (8.33%) Windows Server 2019
6 28 (8.05%) Windows 10
7 21 (6.03%) Unix
8 19 (5.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 18 (5.17%) Windows Server 2012
10 14 (4.02%) VMS
11 11 (3.16%) CentOS
11 11 (3.16%) Ubuntu
12 6 (1.72%) Windows Server 2003
13 4 (1.15%) AIX
14 2 (0.57%) Windows 7
14 2 (0.57%) Windows Server 2008
15 1 (0.29%) Amazon Linux
15 1 (0.29%) Android
15 1 (0.29%) Debian
15 1 (0.29%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (23.28%) Agile
2 56 (16.09%) Problem-Solving
3 47 (13.51%) ITIL
4 40 (11.49%) Migration
5 34 (9.77%) High Availability
6 31 (8.91%) Computer Science
6 31 (8.91%) DevOps
7 29 (8.33%) CI/CD
8 28 (8.05%) Infrastructure as Code
8 28 (8.05%) Validation
9 27 (7.76%) Service Management
10 25 (7.18%) Containerisation
10 25 (7.18%) Cybersecurity
11 23 (6.61%) Waterfall
12 22 (6.32%) Project Delivery
12 22 (6.32%) Server Management
13 21 (6.03%) Microservices
14 20 (5.75%) Change Management
14 20 (5.75%) Data Protection
14 20 (5.75%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 90 (25.86%) PowerShell
2 65 (18.68%) Python
3 43 (12.36%) Bash
4 38 (10.92%) SQL
5 21 (6.03%) Perl
6 17 (4.89%) PL/SQL
7 12 (3.45%) Shell Script
8 6 (1.72%) Java
9 4 (1.15%) Groovy
10 3 (0.86%) C++
10 3 (0.86%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.29%) C#
11 1 (0.29%) C-shell
11 1 (0.29%) Go
11 1 (0.29%) Ruby
11 1 (0.29%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.29%) VBA
11 1 (0.29%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 142 (40.80%) Security Cleared
2 94 (27.01%) SC Cleared
3 53 (15.23%) DV Cleared
4 43 (12.36%) Cisco Certification
4 43 (12.36%) Degree
5 24 (6.90%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 19 (5.46%) CCNA
7 18 (5.17%) Microsoft Certification
8 14 (4.02%) AWS Certification
9 12 (3.45%) Master's Degree
10 10 (2.87%) AWS Certified Developer
10 10 (2.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 9 (2.59%) CCNP
12 8 (2.30%) Azure Certification
13 7 (2.01%) Computer Science Degree
13 7 (2.01%) MCSE
14 4 (1.15%) CompTIA Security+
15 3 (0.86%) CCDP
15 3 (0.86%) OCA
15 3 (0.86%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (2.87%) SLA
2 8 (2.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (2.01%) QA
4 4 (1.15%) NIST
5 2 (0.57%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (0.57%) JSP 440
5 2 (0.57%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.29%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27005
6 1 (0.29%) NCSC
6 1 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 152 (43.68%) Active Directory
2 99 (28.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 49 (14.08%) Hyper-V
4 43 (12.36%) VMware ESXi
5 31 (8.91%) VMware NSX
5 31 (8.91%) vSphere
6 30 (8.62%) Docker
7 14 (4.02%) Virtual Servers
8 11 (3.16%) BitLocker
8 11 (3.16%) Virtual Machines
9 7 (2.01%) Microsoft App-V
9 7 (2.01%) Terminal Services
10 6 (1.72%) DFS Replication
10 6 (1.72%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 5 (1.44%) Firmware
12 2 (0.57%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 2 (0.57%) Virtual Desktop
13 1 (0.29%) NFS
13 1 (0.29%) Veritas Cluster Server
13 1 (0.29%) Xen
Systems Management
1 58 (16.67%) Ansible
2 50 (14.37%) vCenter Server
3 46 (13.22%) Terraform
4 37 (10.63%) Kubernetes
5 31 (8.91%) Microsoft Intune
6 30 (8.62%) Puppet
7 24 (6.90%) SCCM
8 23 (6.61%) WSUS
9 14 (4.02%) Progress Chef
10 11 (3.16%) Nessus
11 10 (2.87%) NetBackup
12 9 (2.59%) Single Sign-On
12 9 (2.59%) VxRail
13 8 (2.30%) Nagios
14 7 (2.01%) vMotion
14 7 (2.01%) vRealize
15 5 (1.44%) Oracle RMAN
15 5 (1.44%) PowerCLI
16 4 (1.15%) Failover Clustering
16 4 (1.15%) SCOM
Vendors
1 163 (46.84%) VMware
2 118 (33.91%) Microsoft
3 74 (21.26%) Cisco
4 34 (9.77%) Dell
5 28 (8.05%) Red Hat
6 27 (7.76%) Citrix
7 26 (7.47%) HP
8 23 (6.61%) Oracle
9 22 (6.32%) Atlassian
10 21 (6.03%) Google
11 19 (5.46%) Veeam
12 11 (3.16%) Veritas
13 10 (2.87%) Symantec
14 9 (2.59%) Wyse
15 7 (2.01%) Meraki
15 7 (2.01%) SolarWinds
16 6 (1.72%) F5
16 6 (1.72%) Zscaler
17 5 (1.44%) 3PAR
17 5 (1.44%) CyberArk