Infrastructure Engineering Contracts

Infrastructure Engineering
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 142 93 123
Rank change year-on-year -49 +30 +34
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 593 1,028 1,255
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.03% 2.36% 2.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.23% 2.73% 2.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 411 758 940
10th Percentile £313 £300 £335
25th Percentile £400 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £601 £608 £625
90th Percentile £656 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +10.53% - +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 38 20
10th Percentile £24.18 £21.25 £42.61
25th Percentile £51.06 £38.22 £52.56
Median hourly rate £62.50 £46.18 £61.62
Median % change year-on-year +35.34% -25.05% +23.23%
75th Percentile £73.75 £63.44 £78.00
90th Percentile £200.00 £72.98 £79.52
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.13 £46.18 £57.50
% change year-on-year +30.20% -19.69% -4.92%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,551 37,621 53,662
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.82% 86.30% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,137 24,254 37,244
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.86% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £744 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.80% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,437 1,746
10th Percentile £14.70 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.31% -4.83% +49.20%
75th Percentile £62.00 £59.95 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.94 £36.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -23.45% +1.39% +80.00%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Infrastructure Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineering in the UK

Infrastructure Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering.

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Engineering in the UK

Infrastructure Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in the UK

Infrastructure Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering.

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Engineering in the UK

Infrastructure Engineering
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in the UK

Infrastructure Engineering
Top 17 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England -36 521 £525 +10.53% 504
UK excluding London -27 347 £525 +10.53% 371
London -36 194 £525 - 167
Work from Home -17 142 £533 +14.63% 233
North of England +7 101 £525 +23.53% 95
South East -25 89 £550 +22.22% 86
South West -6 63 £569 +13.75% 64
Yorkshire +30 51 £525 +38.16% 26
North West -19 45 £525 +23.53% 55
Midlands +6 35 £400 -3.03% 57
Scotland -26 30 £550 +15.79% 28
East of England +20 26 £473 -10.00% 36
West Midlands -4 24 £323 -24.12% 37
North East +7 12 £650 +48.57% 15
East Midlands +14 11 £450 +33.33% 19
Wales +3 8 £425 -29.17% 7
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 1

Infrastructure Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 72 (12.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 48 (8.09%) Confluence
3 47 (7.93%) SharePoint
4 15 (2.53%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 6 (1.01%) Skype for Business
6 4 (0.67%) IIS
6 4 (0.67%) OpenStack
6 4 (0.67%) Tomcat
7 3 (0.51%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.34%) Apache
8 2 (0.34%) nginx
8 2 (0.34%) Traefik
9 1 (0.17%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.17%) CMS
9 1 (0.17%) Mattermost
Applications
1 38 (6.41%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.84%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.67%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.17%) Notion
5 1 (0.17%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.34%) Remedy ITSM
1 2 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.17%) SAP HCM
2 1 (0.17%) SAP IBP
2 1 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 218 (36.76%) Azure
2 126 (21.25%) Microsoft 365
3 120 (20.24%) AWS
4 103 (17.37%) Entra ID
5 59 (9.95%) IaaS
6 29 (4.89%) OpenShift
7 24 (4.05%) PaaS
8 23 (3.88%) GCP
9 21 (3.54%) SaaS
10 20 (3.37%) Serverless
11 18 (3.04%) GitHub
12 14 (2.36%) Azure DevOps
12 14 (2.36%) OneDrive
13 10 (1.69%) Google Workspace
13 10 (1.69%) Nutanix
14 9 (1.52%) Cloud Computing
15 7 (1.18%) Amazon EKS
15 7 (1.18%) Amazon S3
15 7 (1.18%) AWS CloudFormation
15 7 (1.18%) Cohesity
Communications & Networking
1 132 (22.26%) DNS
2 107 (18.04%) Firewall
3 77 (12.98%) DHCP
4 42 (7.08%) SAN
5 40 (6.75%) VPN
6 37 (6.24%) Network Security
7 34 (5.73%) Wi-Fi
8 31 (5.23%) TCP/IP
9 30 (5.06%) WAN
10 28 (4.72%) LAN
11 21 (3.54%) NAS
12 20 (3.37%) MPLS
13 16 (2.70%) Wireless
14 11 (1.85%) HTTP
14 11 (1.85%) SSL
14 11 (1.85%) VSAN
15 10 (1.69%) Internet
15 10 (1.69%) SD-WAN
15 10 (1.69%) SMTP
15 10 (1.69%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (5.06%) SQL Server
2 21 (3.54%) Oracle Database
3 18 (3.04%) Amazon RDS
4 10 (1.69%) Elasticsearch
5 8 (1.35%) Big Data
5 8 (1.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 4 (0.67%) DynamoDB
7 3 (0.51%) DB2
7 3 (0.51%) MongoDB
7 3 (0.51%) RDBMS
7 3 (0.51%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.34%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.34%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.34%) Power BI
8 2 (0.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.17%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.17%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.17%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.17%) ClickHouse
9 1 (0.17%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 53 (8.94%) JIRA
2 38 (6.41%) Jenkins
3 28 (4.72%) GitLab
4 25 (4.22%) Bitbucket
5 22 (3.71%) Git
6 11 (1.85%) ScriptRunner
7 3 (0.51%) Robot Framework
8 2 (0.34%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.34%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.34%) Eclipse
8 2 (0.34%) GoogleTest
8 2 (0.34%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.17%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.17%) Maven
9 1 (0.17%) Selenium
9 1 (0.17%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.17%) Subversion
9 1 (0.17%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.17%) TestNG
9 1 (0.17%) Visual Studio
General
1 147 (24.79%) Social Skills
2 80 (13.49%) Finance
3 57 (9.61%) Public Sector
4 40 (6.75%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (3.54%) Banking
5 21 (3.54%) Telecoms
6 18 (3.04%) Documentation Skills
7 16 (2.70%) Legal
8 13 (2.19%) Manufacturing
9 10 (1.69%) Military
10 8 (1.35%) Electronics
10 8 (1.35%) Marketing
11 6 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (0.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 5 (0.84%) Pharmaceutical
12 5 (0.84%) Spanish Language
13 4 (0.67%) Investment Banking
13 4 (0.67%) Local Government
13 4 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (0.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 388 (65.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 77 (12.98%) Senior
3 60 (10.12%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 33 (5.56%) Azure Engineer
5 30 (5.06%) Lead
6 28 (4.72%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 26 (4.38%) DevOps Engineer
7 26 (4.38%) Network Engineer
8 25 (4.22%) IT Engineer
9 24 (4.05%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
9 24 (4.05%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
9 24 (4.05%) Support Engineer
10 23 (3.88%) Infrastructure Support
10 23 (3.88%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
11 22 (3.71%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
11 22 (3.71%) Linux Engineer
11 22 (3.71%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
12 21 (3.54%) Architect
12 21 (3.54%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
12 21 (3.54%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (2.36%) Flash
2 8 (1.35%) Microsoft Graph
3 7 (1.18%) Kafka
3 7 (1.18%) Middleware
4 6 (1.01%) REST
5 5 (0.84%) .NET
5 5 (0.84%) 802.1X
5 5 (0.84%) SOAP
6 4 (0.67%) Elastic Stack
6 4 (0.67%) LDAP
6 4 (0.67%) Node.js
7 3 (0.51%) ARM Templates
7 3 (0.51%) HTML
8 2 (0.34%) ASP.NET
8 2 (0.34%) cloud-init
8 2 (0.34%) CSS
8 2 (0.34%) Keycloak
8 2 (0.34%) pytest
8 2 (0.34%) RESTful
8 2 (0.34%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 56 (9.44%) Data Centre
2 34 (5.73%) Hybrid Cloud
3 31 (5.23%) Clustering
4 29 (4.89%) PKI
5 23 (3.88%) Onboarding
6 19 (3.20%) Linux Command Line
7 17 (2.87%) Data Protection Act
8 16 (2.70%) Video Conferencing
9 14 (2.36%) Public Cloud
10 11 (1.85%) Cloud Native
11 10 (1.69%) Driving Licence
11 10 (1.69%) Product Ownership
12 9 (1.52%) Management Information System
13 7 (1.18%) Enterprise Storage
14 6 (1.01%) Replication
14 6 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
14 6 (1.01%) Virtual Team
15 5 (0.84%) Enterprise Software
16 4 (0.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
17 3 (0.51%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 314 (52.95%) Windows
2 216 (36.42%) Windows Server
3 166 (27.99%) Linux
4 52 (8.77%) Windows 10
5 36 (6.07%) Unix
6 34 (5.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 31 (5.23%) Windows Server 2016
7 31 (5.23%) Windows Server 2019
8 20 (3.37%) Windows Server 2012
9 14 (2.36%) VMS
10 11 (1.85%) CentOS
10 11 (1.85%) Ubuntu
11 8 (1.35%) AIX
12 7 (1.18%) Windows Server 2003
13 3 (0.51%) Mac OS
13 3 (0.51%) SUSE
14 2 (0.34%) Windows 7
14 2 (0.34%) Windows Server 2008
15 1 (0.17%) Android
15 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (17.54%) Agile
2 94 (15.85%) Problem-Solving
3 86 (14.50%) DevOps
4 76 (12.82%) Migration
5 69 (11.64%) CI/CD
6 66 (11.13%) ITIL
7 61 (10.29%) Infrastructure as Code
8 48 (8.09%) Containerisation
8 48 (8.09%) High Availability
9 41 (6.91%) Project Delivery
10 39 (6.58%) Infrastructure Automation
11 37 (6.24%) Server Management
12 36 (6.07%) Computer Science
12 36 (6.07%) Cybersecurity
13 31 (5.23%) Validation
14 30 (5.06%) Configuration Management
15 29 (4.89%) Change Management
15 29 (4.89%) Microservices
16 28 (4.72%) ITSM
17 27 (4.55%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 150 (25.30%) PowerShell
2 107 (18.04%) Python
3 61 (10.29%) Bash
4 56 (9.44%) SQL
5 28 (4.72%) Perl
6 17 (2.87%) PL/SQL
7 15 (2.53%) Shell Script
8 11 (1.85%) Groovy
9 10 (1.69%) Java
10 8 (1.35%) JavaScript
11 5 (0.84%) C#
11 5 (0.84%) C++
12 3 (0.51%) Bicep
12 3 (0.51%) Go
12 3 (0.51%) Ruby
13 2 (0.34%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.34%) TypeScript
13 2 (0.34%) VB
13 2 (0.34%) VBScript
14 1 (0.17%) VBA
Qualifications
1 192 (32.38%) Security Cleared
2 137 (23.10%) SC Cleared
3 69 (11.64%) DV Cleared
4 58 (9.78%) Cisco Certification
5 56 (9.44%) Degree
6 29 (4.89%) CCNA
7 28 (4.72%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 23 (3.88%) Microsoft Certification
9 17 (2.87%) AWS Certification
9 17 (2.87%) CCNP
10 15 (2.53%) Azure Certification
11 14 (2.36%) Master's Degree
12 12 (2.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 10 (1.69%) AWS Certified Developer
13 10 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
14 8 (1.35%) MCSE
15 7 (1.18%) CompTIA Security+
16 5 (0.84%) RHCE
16 5 (0.84%) VCAP
17 4 (0.67%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (2.36%) QA
2 10 (1.69%) NIST
2 10 (1.69%) SLA
3 9 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (1.18%) NCSC
5 4 (0.67%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.51%) PMO
7 2 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.34%) DICOM
7 2 (0.34%) Disclosure Scotland
7 2 (0.34%) GDPR
7 2 (0.34%) HL7
7 2 (0.34%) JSP 440
7 2 (0.34%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.17%) Government Security Classifications
8 1 (0.17%) GRC
8 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27005
8 1 (0.17%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 243 (40.98%) Active Directory
2 141 (23.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 69 (11.64%) Hyper-V
4 57 (9.61%) Docker
5 51 (8.60%) VMware ESXi
6 32 (5.40%) VMware NSX
6 32 (5.40%) vSphere
7 22 (3.71%) Virtual Machines
8 15 (2.53%) Virtual Servers
9 12 (2.02%) BitLocker
10 9 (1.52%) Microsoft App-V
11 8 (1.35%) Terminal Services
12 6 (1.01%) DFS Replication
12 6 (1.01%) Firmware
12 6 (1.01%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 2 (0.34%) Apache ZooKeeper
13 2 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
14 1 (0.17%) Veritas Cluster Server
14 1 (0.17%) VMware Server
14 1 (0.17%) Xen
Systems Management
1 101 (17.03%) Terraform
2 91 (15.35%) Ansible
3 70 (11.80%) Kubernetes
3 70 (11.80%) Microsoft Intune
4 55 (9.27%) vCenter Server
5 45 (7.59%) SCCM
6 37 (6.24%) Puppet
7 24 (4.05%) WSUS
8 19 (3.20%) Progress Chef
9 14 (2.36%) Single Sign-On
10 12 (2.02%) NetBackup
11 11 (1.85%) Nessus
12 9 (1.52%) Nagios
12 9 (1.52%) VxRail
13 8 (1.35%) vMotion
14 7 (1.18%) FortiGate
14 7 (1.18%) vRealize
15 6 (1.01%) PowerCLI
16 5 (0.84%) Oracle RMAN
16 5 (0.84%) SCOM
Vendors
1 229 (38.62%) VMware
2 211 (35.58%) Microsoft
3 113 (19.06%) Cisco
4 43 (7.25%) Dell
5 32 (5.40%) Oracle
6 31 (5.23%) Atlassian
6 31 (5.23%) Citrix
7 30 (5.06%) Red Hat
8 29 (4.89%) Google
9 28 (4.72%) HP
10 22 (3.71%) Veeam
11 19 (3.20%) Meraki
12 14 (2.36%) Fortinet
13 13 (2.19%) Palo Alto
13 13 (2.19%) SAP
13 13 (2.19%) Splunk
13 13 (2.19%) Veritas
14 12 (2.02%) Symantec
15 11 (1.85%) SolarWinds
16 9 (1.52%) Wyse