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

6 months to
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 146 92 125
Rank change year-on-year -54 +33 +31
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 581 1,027 1,241
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.98% 2.37% 2.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.18% 2.74% 2.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 398 762 928
10th Percentile £313 £300 £338
25th Percentile £400 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £484 £525
Median % change year-on-year +8.53% -7.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £625
90th Percentile £650 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £470 £475
% change year-on-year +11.70% -1.05% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 38 18
10th Percentile £24.18 £21.25 £40.34
25th Percentile £51.06 £38.22 £53.63
Median hourly rate £62.50 £46.18 £61.62
Median % change year-on-year +35.34% -25.05% +43.09%
75th Percentile £73.75 £63.44 £77.38
90th Percentile £200.00 £70.38 £81.09
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.13 £46.18 £57.50
% change year-on-year +30.20% -19.69% +27.49%

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 26,635 37,480 53,073
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.90% 86.37% 89.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,151 24,166 36,804
10th Percentile £306 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +3.77%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £745 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,086 2,447 1,751
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.96 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.35% -0.11% +44.00%
75th Percentile £61.28 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -26.67% +7.14% +75.00%

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 7 May 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 7 May 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 7 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
England -43 513 £525 +10.53% 756
UK excluding London -34 344 £525 +11.70% 581
London -32 188 £525 - 260
Work from Home -29 139 £536 +19.11% 377
North of England +1 101 £525 +23.53% 178
South East -26 88 £538 +17.81% 159
South West -8 61 £569 +13.75% 67
Yorkshire +30 51 £525 +38.16% 40
North West -14 44 £525 +23.53% 126
Midlands +4 35 £400 -4.48% 94
Scotland -18 29 £525 +10.53% 31
East of England +18 26 £473 -10.00% 58
West Midlands -2 24 £323 -24.12% 47
East Midlands +14 11 £450 +33.33% 41
North East +3 11 £650 +48.57% 15
Wales +7 8 £425 -22.73% 9
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 2

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 71 (12.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 49 (8.43%) Confluence
3 46 (7.92%) SharePoint
4 15 (2.58%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 6 (1.03%) Skype for Business
6 4 (0.69%) IIS
6 4 (0.69%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.52%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.34%) Apache
8 2 (0.34%) nginx
8 2 (0.34%) Traefik
8 2 (0.34%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.17%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.17%) CMS
9 1 (0.17%) Mattermost
Applications
1 36 (6.20%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.86%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.69%) 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
1 210 (36.14%) Azure
2 121 (20.83%) Microsoft 365
3 109 (18.76%) AWS
4 100 (17.21%) Entra ID
5 59 (10.15%) IaaS
6 27 (4.65%) OpenShift
7 25 (4.30%) PaaS
8 23 (3.96%) GCP
9 20 (3.44%) Serverless
10 19 (3.27%) SaaS
11 18 (3.10%) GitHub
12 14 (2.41%) Azure DevOps
13 13 (2.24%) OneDrive
14 9 (1.55%) Cloud Computing
14 9 (1.55%) Nutanix
15 8 (1.38%) Google Workspace
16 7 (1.20%) Amazon EKS
16 7 (1.20%) Amazon S3
16 7 (1.20%) AWS CloudFormation
16 7 (1.20%) Cohesity
Communications & Networking
1 134 (23.06%) DNS
2 106 (18.24%) Firewall
3 79 (13.60%) DHCP
4 41 (7.06%) SAN
5 40 (6.88%) VPN
6 36 (6.20%) Network Security
7 34 (5.85%) TCP/IP
8 32 (5.51%) Wi-Fi
9 31 (5.34%) WAN
10 28 (4.82%) LAN
11 20 (3.44%) MPLS
11 20 (3.44%) NAS
12 15 (2.58%) Wireless
13 11 (1.89%) HTTP
13 11 (1.89%) SD-WAN
13 11 (1.89%) VLAN
13 11 (1.89%) VSAN
14 10 (1.72%) SMTP
14 10 (1.72%) SSL
14 10 (1.72%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (4.82%) SQL Server
2 21 (3.61%) Oracle Database
3 18 (3.10%) Amazon RDS
4 10 (1.72%) Elasticsearch
5 8 (1.38%) Big Data
6 6 (1.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 4 (0.69%) DynamoDB
8 3 (0.52%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.34%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.34%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.34%) DB2
9 2 (0.34%) Power BI
9 2 (0.34%) RDBMS
9 2 (0.34%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.17%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (0.17%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.17%) ClickHouse
10 1 (0.17%) MySQL
10 1 (0.17%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 54 (9.29%) JIRA
2 36 (6.20%) Jenkins
3 26 (4.48%) GitLab
4 25 (4.30%) Bitbucket
5 22 (3.79%) Git
6 11 (1.89%) ScriptRunner
7 3 (0.52%) 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%) Postman
8 2 (0.34%) SoapUI
8 2 (0.34%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.17%) Maven
9 1 (0.17%) Selenium
9 1 (0.17%) Subversion
9 1 (0.17%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.17%) TestNG
9 1 (0.17%) Visual Studio
General
1 138 (23.75%) Social Skills
2 81 (13.94%) Finance
3 56 (9.64%) Public Sector
4 35 (6.02%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (3.61%) Banking
6 18 (3.10%) Telecoms
7 17 (2.93%) Documentation Skills
8 14 (2.41%) Legal
9 11 (1.89%) Manufacturing
9 11 (1.89%) Military
10 6 (1.03%) Electronics
10 6 (1.03%) Marketing
10 6 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (0.86%) Pharmaceutical
11 5 (0.86%) Spanish Language
12 4 (0.69%) Investment Banking
12 4 (0.69%) Local Government
12 4 (0.69%) Retail
13 3 (0.52%) Law
Job Titles
1 378 (65.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 73 (12.56%) Senior
3 57 (9.81%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 35 (6.02%) Azure Engineer
5 29 (4.99%) Lead
6 27 (4.65%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 26 (4.48%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
7 26 (4.48%) Network Engineer
8 25 (4.30%) IT Engineer
9 24 (4.13%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
9 24 (4.13%) DevOps Engineer
10 23 (3.96%) Infrastructure Support
10 23 (3.96%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
10 23 (3.96%) Support Engineer
11 22 (3.79%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
11 22 (3.79%) VMware Engineer
11 22 (3.79%) Windows Engineer
12 21 (3.61%) Architect
12 21 (3.61%) Linux Engineer
12 21 (3.61%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (2.41%) Flash
2 7 (1.20%) Kafka
3 6 (1.03%) Microsoft Graph
3 6 (1.03%) Middleware
3 6 (1.03%) REST
3 6 (1.03%) SOAP
4 5 (0.86%) .NET
5 4 (0.69%) 802.1X
5 4 (0.69%) Elastic Stack
5 4 (0.69%) LDAP
5 4 (0.69%) Node.js
6 3 (0.52%) ARM Templates
6 3 (0.52%) HTML
7 2 (0.34%) ASP.NET
7 2 (0.34%) cloud-init
7 2 (0.34%) CSS
7 2 (0.34%) Keycloak
7 2 (0.34%) pytest
7 2 (0.34%) RESTful
7 2 (0.34%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 55 (9.47%) Data Centre
2 34 (5.85%) Hybrid Cloud
3 31 (5.34%) Clustering
4 28 (4.82%) PKI
5 21 (3.61%) Onboarding
6 19 (3.27%) Linux Command Line
7 18 (3.10%) Data Protection Act
8 15 (2.58%) Video Conferencing
9 12 (2.07%) Public Cloud
10 11 (1.89%) Cloud Native
11 10 (1.72%) Driving Licence
12 8 (1.38%) Management Information System
13 7 (1.20%) Enterprise Storage
13 7 (1.20%) Product Ownership
13 7 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
14 6 (1.03%) Replication
14 6 (1.03%) Virtual Team
15 5 (0.86%) Enterprise Software
16 4 (0.69%) Legacy Systems
16 4 (0.69%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 309 (53.18%) Windows
2 214 (36.83%) Windows Server
3 154 (26.51%) Linux
4 52 (8.95%) Windows 10
5 33 (5.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 32 (5.51%) Windows Server 2019
7 30 (5.16%) Windows Server 2016
8 27 (4.65%) Unix
9 20 (3.44%) Windows Server 2012
10 14 (2.41%) VMS
11 10 (1.72%) CentOS
11 10 (1.72%) Ubuntu
12 8 (1.38%) Windows Server 2003
13 3 (0.52%) Mac OS
13 3 (0.52%) 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
15 1 (0.17%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (17.04%) Agile
2 94 (16.18%) Problem-Solving
3 84 (14.46%) DevOps
4 75 (12.91%) Migration
5 66 (11.36%) CI/CD
6 65 (11.19%) ITIL
7 61 (10.50%) Infrastructure as Code
8 50 (8.61%) High Availability
9 46 (7.92%) Containerisation
10 41 (7.06%) Project Delivery
11 37 (6.37%) Computer Science
12 36 (6.20%) Server Management
13 33 (5.68%) Cybersecurity
14 32 (5.51%) Infrastructure Automation
15 31 (5.34%) Validation
16 28 (4.82%) Microservices
17 27 (4.65%) Data Protection
17 27 (4.65%) ITSM
18 26 (4.48%) Change Management
18 26 (4.48%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 142 (24.44%) PowerShell
2 106 (18.24%) Python
3 60 (10.33%) Bash
4 53 (9.12%) SQL
5 28 (4.82%) Perl
6 17 (2.93%) PL/SQL
7 15 (2.58%) Shell Script
8 11 (1.89%) Groovy
9 10 (1.72%) Java
10 8 (1.38%) JavaScript
11 5 (0.86%) C#
11 5 (0.86%) C++
12 3 (0.52%) Bicep
12 3 (0.52%) Go
12 3 (0.52%) 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
1 183 (31.50%) Security Cleared
2 130 (22.38%) SC Cleared
3 67 (11.53%) DV Cleared
4 57 (9.81%) Cisco Certification
5 55 (9.47%) Degree
6 28 (4.82%) CCNA
6 28 (4.82%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 22 (3.79%) Microsoft Certification
8 17 (2.93%) AWS Certification
8 17 (2.93%) CCNP
9 15 (2.58%) Azure Certification
10 14 (2.41%) Master's Degree
11 12 (2.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 11 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
13 10 (1.72%) AWS Certified Developer
14 8 (1.38%) MCSE
15 7 (1.20%) CompTIA Security+
16 5 (0.86%) RHCE
16 5 (0.86%) VCAP
17 4 (0.69%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (2.24%) QA
2 11 (1.89%) SLA
3 9 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (1.20%) NCSC
5 4 (0.69%) NIST
6 3 (0.52%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.52%) PMO
7 2 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.34%) Disclosure Scotland
7 2 (0.34%) GDPR
7 2 (0.34%) JSP 440
7 2 (0.34%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.17%) DICOM
8 1 (0.17%) Government Security Classifications
8 1 (0.17%) HL7
8 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27005
8 1 (0.17%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 240 (41.31%) Active Directory
2 133 (22.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 63 (10.84%) Hyper-V
4 52 (8.95%) VMware ESXi
5 48 (8.26%) Docker
6 34 (5.85%) vSphere
7 33 (5.68%) VMware NSX
8 22 (3.79%) Virtual Machines
9 15 (2.58%) Virtual Servers
10 12 (2.07%) BitLocker
11 9 (1.55%) Microsoft App-V
12 8 (1.38%) Terminal Services
13 7 (1.20%) Firmware
14 6 (1.03%) DFS Replication
14 6 (1.03%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 2 (0.34%) Apache ZooKeeper
15 2 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
16 1 (0.17%) Veritas Cluster Server
16 1 (0.17%) VMware Server
16 1 (0.17%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 96 (16.52%) Terraform
2 81 (13.94%) Ansible
3 64 (11.02%) Microsoft Intune
4 59 (10.15%) Kubernetes
5 53 (9.12%) vCenter Server
6 37 (6.37%) SCCM
7 30 (5.16%) Puppet
8 23 (3.96%) WSUS
9 13 (2.24%) Single Sign-On
10 12 (2.07%) NetBackup
10 12 (2.07%) Progress Chef
11 9 (1.55%) FortiGate
11 9 (1.55%) Nagios
11 9 (1.55%) Nessus
11 9 (1.55%) VxRail
12 8 (1.38%) vMotion
13 7 (1.20%) vRealize
14 6 (1.03%) PowerCLI
15 5 (0.86%) Oracle RMAN
15 5 (0.86%) SCOM
Vendors
1 220 (37.87%) VMware
2 193 (33.22%) Microsoft
3 111 (19.10%) Cisco
4 43 (7.40%) Dell
5 32 (5.51%) Citrix
6 31 (5.34%) Atlassian
7 30 (5.16%) Oracle
7 30 (5.16%) Red Hat
8 28 (4.82%) HP
9 27 (4.65%) Google
10 23 (3.96%) Veeam
11 18 (3.10%) Meraki
12 13 (2.24%) Fortinet
12 13 (2.24%) Palo Alto
12 13 (2.24%) Splunk
12 13 (2.24%) Symantec
12 13 (2.24%) Veritas
13 12 (2.07%) SolarWinds
14 11 (1.89%) SAP
15 9 (1.55%) Wyse