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 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 92 59 74
Rank change year-on-year -33 +15 +19
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 338 624 688
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.61% 3.07% 2.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.89% 3.65% 3.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 222 475 515
10th Percentile £310 £279 £315
25th Percentile £385 £363 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £465 £500
Median % change year-on-year +12.91% -7.01% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £581
90th Percentile £650 £650 £698
UK median daily rate £525 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +10.53% -9.52% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 33 14
10th Percentile £40.31 £21.25 £35.80
25th Percentile £53.22 £45.00 £52.50
Median hourly rate £62.50 £54.88 £59.03
Median % change year-on-year +13.90% -7.03% +98.57%
75th Percentile £136.88 £63.75 £72.88
90th Percentile £200.00 £70.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £54.88 £62.68
% change year-on-year +13.90% -12.45% +47.48%

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 11,711 17,111 20,579
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.54% 84.30% 89.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,292 10,219 14,183
10th Percentile £235 £250 £258
25th Percentile £375 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +4.17%
75th Percentile £580 £600 £600
90th Percentile £651 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 850 2,064 1,254
10th Percentile £14.02 £12.35 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.08 £15.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% +7.14% +75.00%
75th Percentile £63.40 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £73.74
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £36.05 £36.00
% change year-on-year -22.32% +0.13% +40.19%

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 19 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 19 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 19 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 +1 97 £525 +23.53% 175
South East -28 83 £525 +13.51% 206
South West -4 62 £569 +15.19% 84
Yorkshire +27 50 £525 +38.16% 46
North West -21 42 £525 +23.53% 103
Midlands +1 38 £400 -5.88% 98
East of England +12 27 £474 -9.76% 69
Scotland -34 27 £525 +10.53% 36
West Midlands -14 26 £345 -27.37% 50
East Midlands +15 12 £450 +26.32% 41
North East +1 11 £650 +48.57% 30
Wales +4 8 £425 +16.44% 15
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 12
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 43 (12.72%) Microsoft Exchange
2 39 (11.54%) Confluence
3 25 (7.40%) SharePoint
4 15 (4.44%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 6 (1.78%) Skype for Business
6 3 (0.89%) IIS
7 2 (0.59%) Apache
8 1 (0.30%) nginx
8 1 (0.30%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.30%) Traefik
Applications
1 29 (8.58%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.89%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.30%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.59%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 91 (26.92%) Azure
2 62 (18.34%) AWS
3 58 (17.16%) Microsoft 365
4 51 (15.09%) Entra ID
5 28 (8.28%) IaaS
6 22 (6.51%) OpenShift
7 16 (4.73%) PaaS
8 14 (4.14%) Serverless
9 10 (2.96%) GCP
10 8 (2.37%) GitHub
10 8 (2.37%) Google Workspace
11 7 (2.07%) Cohesity
12 6 (1.78%) Cloud Computing
12 6 (1.78%) OneDrive
13 5 (1.48%) Amazon S3
13 5 (1.48%) Nutanix
13 5 (1.48%) SaaS
14 3 (0.89%) Amazon EKS
15 2 (0.59%) Microsoft Purview
15 2 (0.59%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 87 (25.74%) DNS
2 53 (15.68%) DHCP
3 46 (13.61%) Firewall
4 34 (10.06%) SAN
5 21 (6.21%) VPN
6 18 (5.33%) Network Security
7 17 (5.03%) LAN
7 17 (5.03%) TCP/IP
8 13 (3.85%) NAS
8 13 (3.85%) WAN
9 9 (2.66%) SSL
10 8 (2.37%) HTTP
10 8 (2.37%) Skype
10 8 (2.37%) SMTP
10 8 (2.37%) VSAN
11 7 (2.07%) Cisco ISE
11 7 (2.07%) Fibre Channel
11 7 (2.07%) VLAN
12 6 (1.78%) Intrusion Detection
12 6 (1.78%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (5.62%) Oracle Database
2 13 (3.85%) SQL Server
3 9 (2.66%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (2.66%) Elasticsearch
4 7 (2.07%) Big Data
5 4 (1.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (0.59%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.30%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.30%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.30%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.30%) MySQL
7 1 (0.30%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.30%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 41 (12.13%) JIRA
2 25 (7.40%) Bitbucket
3 18 (5.33%) Jenkins
4 17 (5.03%) Git
5 9 (2.66%) GitLab
6 4 (1.18%) ScriptRunner
7 3 (0.89%) Robot Framework
8 2 (0.59%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.59%) Eclipse
8 2 (0.59%) GoogleTest
9 1 (0.30%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.30%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.30%) Maven
9 1 (0.30%) Postman
9 1 (0.30%) Selenium
9 1 (0.30%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.30%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.30%) TestNG
9 1 (0.30%) Visual Studio
General
1 84 (24.85%) Social Skills
2 40 (11.83%) Public Sector
3 21 (6.21%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (4.44%) Finance
5 12 (3.55%) Telecoms
6 11 (3.25%) Legal
7 8 (2.37%) Banking
8 6 (1.78%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (1.78%) Manufacturing
8 6 (1.78%) Military
9 5 (1.48%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (0.89%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.59%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.59%) Electronics
11 2 (0.59%) Local Government
12 1 (0.30%) Advertising
12 1 (0.30%) French Language
12 1 (0.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.30%) Retail
12 1 (0.30%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 226 (66.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 26 (7.69%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 24 (7.10%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 22 (6.51%) Senior
5 21 (6.21%) IT Engineer
5 21 (6.21%) Support Engineer
6 18 (5.33%) Infrastructure Support
6 18 (5.33%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 18 (5.33%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 18 (5.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 17 (5.03%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
8 15 (4.44%) Linux Engineer
8 15 (4.44%) Virtualisation Engineer
8 15 (4.44%) VMware Engineer
9 14 (4.14%) Infrastructure Specialist
10 13 (3.85%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
10 13 (3.85%) Windows Engineer
11 12 (3.55%) Azure Engineer
11 12 (3.55%) Network Engineer
11 12 (3.55%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (4.14%) Flash
2 6 (1.78%) REST
3 5 (1.48%) Microsoft Graph
3 5 (1.48%) SOAP
4 4 (1.18%) Middleware
5 3 (0.89%) HTML
5 3 (0.89%) Kafka
6 2 (0.59%) 802.1X
6 2 (0.59%) CSS
6 2 (0.59%) RESTful
7 1 (0.30%) Apache Axis
7 1 (0.30%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (0.30%) Java RMI
7 1 (0.30%) LDAP
7 1 (0.30%) Loki
7 1 (0.30%) Node.js
7 1 (0.30%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (0.30%) Software Packaging
7 1 (0.30%) XML
7 1 (0.30%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 28 (8.28%) Data Centre
2 27 (7.99%) Clustering
3 23 (6.80%) Hybrid Cloud
4 19 (5.62%) Linux Command Line
5 17 (5.03%) Onboarding
5 17 (5.03%) PKI
6 13 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
7 10 (2.96%) Driving Licence
8 6 (1.78%) Enterprise Storage
8 6 (1.78%) Replication
9 5 (1.48%) Management Information System
9 5 (1.48%) Public Cloud
10 3 (0.89%) Cloud Native
10 3 (0.89%) Fibre Optics
10 3 (0.89%) Product Ownership
10 3 (0.89%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (0.89%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.59%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (0.59%) Video Conferencing
11 2 (0.59%) YubiKey
Operating Systems
1 188 (55.62%) Windows
2 143 (42.31%) Windows Server
3 100 (29.59%) Linux
4 28 (8.28%) Windows 10
4 28 (8.28%) Windows Server 2019
5 27 (7.99%) Windows Server 2016
6 19 (5.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 18 (5.33%) Windows Server 2012
8 16 (4.73%) Unix
9 13 (3.85%) VMS
10 8 (2.37%) Windows Server 2003
11 7 (2.07%) CentOS
11 7 (2.07%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.59%) Windows 7
12 2 (0.59%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.30%) Amazon Linux
13 1 (0.30%) Android
13 1 (0.30%) Debian
13 1 (0.30%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.30%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (21.89%) Agile
2 56 (16.57%) Problem-Solving
3 47 (13.91%) ITIL
4 39 (11.54%) Migration
5 34 (10.06%) High Availability
6 31 (9.17%) Computer Science
7 30 (8.88%) DevOps
7 30 (8.88%) Validation
8 28 (8.28%) Infrastructure as Code
9 27 (7.99%) CI/CD
10 26 (7.69%) Service Management
11 25 (7.40%) Containerisation
12 22 (6.51%) Project Delivery
12 22 (6.51%) Server Management
12 22 (6.51%) Waterfall
13 21 (6.21%) Cybersecurity
14 20 (5.92%) Data Protection
14 20 (5.92%) Microservices
14 20 (5.92%) System Testing
15 19 (5.62%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 86 (25.44%) PowerShell
2 64 (18.93%) Python
3 43 (12.72%) Bash
4 35 (10.36%) SQL
5 21 (6.21%) Perl
6 17 (5.03%) PL/SQL
7 12 (3.55%) Shell Script
8 6 (1.78%) Java
9 4 (1.18%) Groovy
10 3 (0.89%) C++
10 3 (0.89%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.30%) C#
11 1 (0.30%) C-shell
11 1 (0.30%) Go
11 1 (0.30%) Ruby
11 1 (0.30%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.30%) VBA
11 1 (0.30%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 141 (41.72%) Security Cleared
2 93 (27.51%) SC Cleared
3 54 (15.98%) DV Cleared
4 44 (13.02%) Cisco Certification
5 40 (11.83%) Degree
6 24 (7.10%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 20 (5.92%) CCNA
8 17 (5.03%) Microsoft Certification
9 14 (4.14%) AWS Certification
10 12 (3.55%) Master's Degree
11 10 (2.96%) AWS Certified Developer
11 10 (2.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 10 (2.96%) CCNP
12 8 (2.37%) Azure Certification
13 7 (2.07%) Computer Science Degree
13 7 (2.07%) MCSE
14 4 (1.18%) CompTIA Security+
15 3 (0.89%) CCDP
15 3 (0.89%) OCA
15 3 (0.89%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (3.25%) SLA
2 8 (2.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (2.07%) QA
4 2 (0.59%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (0.59%) JSP 440
4 2 (0.59%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.30%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27005
5 1 (0.30%) NCSC
5 1 (0.30%) NIST
5 1 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 145 (42.90%) Active Directory
2 93 (27.51%) VMware Infrastructure
3 48 (14.20%) VMware ESXi
4 47 (13.91%) Hyper-V
5 33 (9.76%) vSphere
6 32 (9.47%) VMware NSX
7 27 (7.99%) Docker
8 14 (4.14%) Virtual Servers
9 11 (3.25%) BitLocker
9 11 (3.25%) Virtual Machines
10 7 (2.07%) Microsoft App-V
10 7 (2.07%) Terminal Services
11 6 (1.78%) DFS Replication
11 6 (1.78%) Firmware
11 6 (1.78%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 2 (0.59%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 2 (0.59%) Virtual Desktop
13 1 (0.30%) NFS
13 1 (0.30%) ProxySG
13 1 (0.30%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 50 (14.79%) Ansible
2 46 (13.61%) vCenter Server
3 41 (12.13%) Terraform
4 30 (8.88%) Kubernetes
5 26 (7.69%) Microsoft Intune
5 26 (7.69%) Puppet
6 22 (6.51%) WSUS
7 20 (5.92%) SCCM
8 10 (2.96%) NetBackup
9 9 (2.66%) Progress Chef
9 9 (2.66%) Single Sign-On
9 9 (2.66%) VxRail
10 8 (2.37%) Nagios
11 7 (2.07%) Nessus
11 7 (2.07%) vMotion
11 7 (2.07%) vRealize
12 5 (1.48%) Oracle RMAN
12 5 (1.48%) PowerCLI
13 4 (1.18%) Failover Clustering
13 4 (1.18%) SCOM
Vendors
1 158 (46.75%) VMware
2 100 (29.59%) Microsoft
3 73 (21.60%) Cisco
4 32 (9.47%) Dell
5 28 (8.28%) Citrix
6 25 (7.40%) Red Hat
7 23 (6.80%) Oracle
8 22 (6.51%) Atlassian
8 22 (6.51%) HP
9 21 (6.21%) Veeam
10 19 (5.62%) Google
11 11 (3.25%) Symantec
11 11 (3.25%) Veritas
12 10 (2.96%) Wyse
13 9 (2.66%) SolarWinds
14 7 (2.07%) Meraki
15 6 (1.78%) F5
15 6 (1.78%) Zscaler
16 5 (1.48%) 3PAR
16 5 (1.48%) CyberArk