Infrastructure Engineer Contracts in the City of London

Infrastructure Engineer
Central London > City of London

The median Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in the City of London is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 100 131 137
Rank change year-on-year +31 +6 -16
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 28 36 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.29% 1.03% 1.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.36% 1.09% 1.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 21 41
10th Percentile £385 £475 £375
25th Percentile £416 £550 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +20.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £683 £538
90th Percentile £638 £745 £588
Central London median daily rate £463 £575 £463
% change year-on-year -19.57% +24.32% +2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £84.09 -
Central London median hourly rate - £84.09 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the City of London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the City of London with a recognized job title 2,055 3,314 3,975
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.88% 94.96% 94.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,438 2,248 2,987
10th Percentile £350 £363 £363
25th Percentile £446 £475 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £563
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +6.67% +6.53%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £688
90th Percentile £788 £813 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 21 51
10th Percentile £15.62 £15.50 £13.88
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.50 £19.94
Median hourly rate £23.00 £35.00 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.29% -1.41% +100.14%
75th Percentile £28.44 £58.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £40.00 £88.30 £62.50
Central London median hourly rate £26.56 £35.00 £36.25
% change year-on-year -24.11% -3.45% +104.37%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings that featured Infrastructure Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the City of London

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the City of London

Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in the City of London over the 6 months to 26 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in the City of London

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the City of London

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 26 May 2024, Infrastructure Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the City of London region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 27 (96.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 14 (50.00%) Azure
3 12 (42.86%) Active Directory
3 12 (42.86%) Firewall
4 11 (39.29%) Microsoft
5 10 (35.71%) Windows
5 10 (35.71%) VMware
6 9 (32.14%) Social Skills
7 8 (28.57%) Windows Server
7 8 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
8 7 (25.00%) AWS
8 7 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
8 7 (25.00%) DevOps
8 7 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
8 7 (25.00%) SCCM
8 7 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
8 7 (25.00%) Entra ID
9 6 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
10 5 (17.86%) Data Centre
10 5 (17.86%) Linux
10 5 (17.86%) WAN
10 5 (17.86%) ITIL
10 5 (17.86%) Citrix
10 5 (17.86%) Identity Management
10 5 (17.86%) IaaS
10 5 (17.86%) PowerShell
11 4 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
11 4 (14.29%) Mimecast
11 4 (14.29%) Management Information System
11 4 (14.29%) Finance

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 7 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (10.71%) SharePoint
3 1 (3.57%) IIS
3 1 (3.57%) OpenStack
3 1 (3.57%) SharePoint Server
3 1 (3.57%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 14 (50.00%) Azure
2 7 (25.00%) AWS
2 7 (25.00%) Entra ID
2 7 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (17.86%) IaaS
4 4 (14.29%) Mimecast
5 2 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (7.14%) AWS CodePipeline
5 2 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (7.14%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (7.14%) PaaS
5 2 (7.14%) SaaS
6 1 (3.57%) OneDrive
6 1 (3.57%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 12 (42.86%) Firewall
2 5 (17.86%) WAN
3 4 (14.29%) DNS
4 3 (10.71%) Network Security
4 3 (10.71%) SAN
4 3 (10.71%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (7.14%) Internet
5 2 (7.14%) MPLS
5 2 (7.14%) SD-WAN
5 2 (7.14%) VPN
6 1 (3.57%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (3.57%) iSCSI
6 1 (3.57%) LAN
6 1 (3.57%) NAS
6 1 (3.57%) Unified Communications
6 1 (3.57%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.14%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.57%) Sisense
Development Applications
1 3 (10.71%) Git
1 3 (10.71%) Jenkins
General
1 9 (32.14%) Social Skills
2 4 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
2 4 (14.29%) Finance
3 3 (10.71%) Public Sector
4 2 (7.14%) French Language
5 1 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.57%) Front Office
5 1 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (3.57%) Retail
5 1 (3.57%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.14%) AWS CDK
2 1 (3.57%) LAMP
2 1 (3.57%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.86%) Data Centre
2 4 (14.29%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.57%) Clustering
3 1 (3.57%) HP Storage
3 1 (3.57%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (3.57%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 10 (35.71%) Windows
2 8 (28.57%) Windows Server
3 5 (17.86%) Linux
4 3 (10.71%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (3.57%) Mac OS
5 1 (3.57%) Ubuntu
5 1 (3.57%) VMS
5 1 (3.57%) Windows 10
5 1 (3.57%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (3.57%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (96.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 7 (25.00%) DevOps
2 7 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 6 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (17.86%) Identity Management
4 5 (17.86%) ITIL
5 4 (14.29%) Cloud Security
5 4 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
5 4 (14.29%) Data Loss Prevention
5 4 (14.29%) Information Security
5 4 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (10.71%) CI/CD
6 3 (10.71%) Incident Response
6 3 (10.71%) SDLC
7 2 (7.14%) IT Strategy
7 2 (7.14%) Microservices
7 2 (7.14%) Patch Management
7 2 (7.14%) Security Monitoring
7 2 (7.14%) Security Operations
7 2 (7.14%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 5 (17.86%) PowerShell
2 4 (14.29%) Python
3 2 (7.14%) TypeScript
4 1 (3.57%) Bash
4 1 (3.57%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 3 (10.71%) Degree
1 3 (10.71%) SC Cleared
1 3 (10.71%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.14%) CCNA
2 2 (7.14%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (7.14%) DV Cleared
3 1 (3.57%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (3.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.57%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.14%) COBIT
1 2 (7.14%) GDPR
1 2 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (7.14%) NCSC
1 2 (7.14%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 12 (42.86%) Active Directory
2 8 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (10.71%) Hyper-V
4 2 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (7.14%) XenApp
5 1 (3.57%) Docker
5 1 (3.57%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (25.00%) SCCM
2 3 (10.71%) Kubernetes
2 3 (10.71%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (7.14%) CASB
3 2 (7.14%) FortiGate
3 2 (7.14%) SCOrch
3 2 (7.14%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (3.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (3.57%) Ansible
4 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Clustering
4 1 (3.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (39.29%) Microsoft
2 10 (35.71%) VMware
3 5 (17.86%) Citrix
4 4 (14.29%) Okta
5 3 (10.71%) Palo Alto
6 2 (7.14%) Aruba
6 2 (7.14%) Bloomberg
6 2 (7.14%) CrowdStrike
6 2 (7.14%) Imperva
6 2 (7.14%) Juniper
6 2 (7.14%) Netskope
6 2 (7.14%) Ping Identity
6 2 (7.14%) Refinitiv
7 1 (3.57%) CyberArk
7 1 (3.57%) Fortinet
7 1 (3.57%) ProCurve
7 1 (3.57%) ServiceNow
7 1 (3.57%) Synology
7 1 (3.57%) Veeam
7 1 (3.57%) Zerto