Infrastructure Engineering Contracts in Central London

Infrastructure Engineering
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for Infrastructure Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Infrastructure Engineering over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 71 122 125
Rank change year-on-year +51 +3 -26
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 64 57 84
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 2.63% 1.51% 1.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.91% 1.66% 2.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 36 66
10th Percentile £385 £441 £363
25th Percentile £416 £550 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £500
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +20.00% +9.59%
75th Percentile £670 £700 £574
90th Percentile £710 £820 £675
London median daily rate £525 £575 £519
% change year-on-year -8.70% +10.74% +9.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £84.09 -
London median hourly rate - £84.09 £43.06
% change year-on-year - +95.29% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

Infrastructure Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,202 3,443 4,113
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.62% 91.33% 91.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,567 2,335 3,145
10th Percentile £350 £325 £375
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £570
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £800 £823 £775
London median daily rate £550 £590 £575
% change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 28 43
10th Percentile £20.22 £15.18 £18.50
25th Percentile £22.75 £18.03 £22.63
Median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.54% -13.58% +102.50%
75th Percentile £30.41 £55.00 £53.50
90th Percentile £41.47 £88.30 £65.10
London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.00 £37.00
% change year-on-year -28.21% +5.41% +12.63%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineering in Central London

Infrastructure Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Engineering in Central London

Infrastructure Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in Central London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in Central London

Infrastructure Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Engineering in Central London

Infrastructure Engineering
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 9 May 2024. 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
City of London +50 59 £550 -8.33% 11
Infrastructure Engineering
London

Infrastructure Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 15 (23.44%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (10.94%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.56%) IIS
3 1 (1.56%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.56%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 28 (43.75%) Azure
2 21 (32.81%) Microsoft 365
3 16 (25.00%) Entra ID
4 13 (20.31%) AWS
5 11 (17.19%) IaaS
5 11 (17.19%) Mimecast
6 7 (10.94%) PaaS
7 6 (9.38%) OneDrive
7 6 (9.38%) Power Platform
8 5 (7.81%) SaaS
9 3 (4.69%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (4.69%) Azure Storage
10 2 (3.13%) Amazon EventBridge
10 2 (3.13%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (3.13%) AWS CodePipeline
10 2 (3.13%) Azure Sentinel
11 1 (1.56%) Amazon EC2
11 1 (1.56%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 20 (31.25%) Firewall
2 9 (14.06%) DNS
3 4 (6.25%) MPLS
3 4 (6.25%) Network Security
3 4 (6.25%) SAN
4 3 (4.69%) DHCP
4 3 (4.69%) VPN
4 3 (4.69%) WAN
5 2 (3.13%) NAS
5 2 (3.13%) SD-WAN
5 2 (3.13%) Wireless
6 1 (1.56%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (1.56%) iSCSI
6 1 (1.56%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (1.56%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (14.06%) MongoDB
2 3 (4.69%) Sybase ASE
3 2 (3.13%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.56%) Power BI
4 1 (1.56%) Sisense
Development Applications
1 6 (9.38%) Jenkins
2 5 (7.81%) Git
3 1 (1.56%) JIRA
General
1 21 (32.81%) Social Skills
2 8 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
2 8 (12.50%) Finance
3 5 (7.81%) Presentation Skills
4 4 (6.25%) French Language
5 3 (4.69%) Banking
5 3 (4.69%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.56%) Front Office
6 1 (1.56%) Retail
6 1 (1.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 30 (46.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 9 (14.06%) Site Engineer
2 9 (14.06%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 7 (10.94%) AWS Engineer
4 6 (9.38%) Python Engineer
5 5 (7.81%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (7.81%) Cloud Engineer
5 5 (7.81%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (6.25%) Architect
6 4 (6.25%) Azure Engineer
6 4 (6.25%) Java Engineer
6 4 (6.25%) Senior
6 4 (6.25%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (4.69%) Applications Engineer
7 3 (4.69%) Desktop Engineer
7 3 (4.69%) Integration Architect
7 3 (4.69%) IT Engineer
7 3 (4.69%) Support Engineer
8 2 (3.13%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
8 2 (3.13%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (14.06%) Kafka
1 9 (14.06%) RabbitMQ
2 6 (9.38%) RESTful
3 2 (3.13%) AWS CDK
4 1 (1.56%) LAMP
4 1 (1.56%) OAuth
4 1 (1.56%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (15.63%) Data Centre
2 9 (14.06%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (9.38%) Algorithms
3 6 (9.38%) Data Structures
4 3 (4.69%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.56%) Clustering
5 1 (1.56%) CMDB
5 1 (1.56%) HP Storage
5 1 (1.56%) iPhone
5 1 (1.56%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.56%) PKI
5 1 (1.56%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.56%) Replication
5 1 (1.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 26 (40.63%) Windows
2 16 (25.00%) Linux
3 11 (17.19%) Windows Server
4 3 (4.69%) Windows 10
5 2 (3.13%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.56%) Mac OS
6 1 (1.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.56%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.56%) VMS
6 1 (1.56%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (28.13%) DevOps
2 17 (26.56%) CI/CD
3 12 (18.75%) ITIL
4 11 (17.19%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (15.63%) Disaster Recovery
6 9 (14.06%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 8 (12.50%) Microservices
7 8 (12.50%) Migration
7 8 (12.50%) Task Automation
8 6 (9.38%) Analytical Thinking
8 6 (9.38%) Change Management
8 6 (9.38%) Data Migration
8 6 (9.38%) Infrastructure as Code
9 5 (7.81%) B2B
9 5 (7.81%) Data Loss Prevention
9 5 (7.81%) Identity Management
10 4 (6.25%) Agile
10 4 (6.25%) Time Management
10 4 (6.25%) TOGAF
10 4 (6.25%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 14 (21.88%) Python
2 10 (15.63%) Shell Script
3 9 (14.06%) PowerShell
4 6 (9.38%) Java
5 3 (4.69%) C++
5 3 (4.69%) Go
6 2 (3.13%) Bash
6 2 (3.13%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.56%) Bicep
7 1 (1.56%) Perl
Qualifications
1 9 (14.06%) Azure Certification
2 4 (6.25%) TOGAF Certification
3 3 (4.69%) Degree
3 3 (4.69%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.69%) Security Cleared
4 2 (3.13%) CCNA
4 2 (3.13%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (3.13%) DV Cleared
4 2 (3.13%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (1.56%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (1.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 26 (40.63%) Active Directory
2 15 (23.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (14.06%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 7 (10.94%) Hyper-V
5 2 (3.13%) XenApp
6 1 (1.56%) Docker
6 1 (1.56%) KVM
6 1 (1.56%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (1.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (20.31%) Microsoft Intune
2 12 (18.75%) Kubernetes
3 9 (14.06%) Consul
3 9 (14.06%) Grafana
3 9 (14.06%) Prometheus
3 9 (14.06%) SCCM
4 3 (4.69%) Ansible
5 2 (3.13%) FortiGate
5 2 (3.13%) Terraform
6 1 (1.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (1.56%) CASB
6 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Clustering
6 1 (1.56%) Packer
6 1 (1.56%) Puppet
6 1 (1.56%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.56%) WSUS
Vendors
1 32 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 18 (28.13%) VMware
3 12 (18.75%) Citrix
4 9 (14.06%) SaltStack
5 7 (10.94%) Okta
6 5 (7.81%) Bloomberg
6 5 (7.81%) Refinitiv
7 3 (4.69%) Dell
7 3 (4.69%) Ping Identity
7 3 (4.69%) Sybase
8 2 (3.13%) Cisco
8 2 (3.13%) HP
8 2 (3.13%) Red Hat
9 1 (1.56%) Apple
9 1 (1.56%) BT
9 1 (1.56%) Juniper
9 1 (1.56%) NetApp
9 1 (1.56%) ProCurve
9 1 (1.56%) Sun
9 1 (1.56%) Veeam