Infrastructure Engineering Contracts in the City of London

Infrastructure Engineering
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 70 121 116
Rank change year-on-year +51 -5 -23
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 57 56 79
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 2.59% 1.54% 1.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.86% 1.67% 2.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 35 61
10th Percentile £385 £455 £375
25th Percentile £415 £550 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £600 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.42% +20.00% +3.90%
75th Percentile £674 £700 £575
90th Percentile £707 £748 £675
Central London median daily rate £525 £600 £500
% change year-on-year -12.50% +20.00% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £84.09 -
Central London median hourly rate - £84.09 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,993 3,347 3,888
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.51% 91.82% 91.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,405 2,259 2,945
10th Percentile £359 £355 £385
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £730 £675
90th Percentile £800 £825 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £570
% change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 24 41
10th Percentile £19.13 £15.33 £18.50
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.03 £24.25
Median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -13.58% +125.31%
75th Percentile £40.00 £58.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £48.57 £88.30 £62.50
Central London median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year -20.54% -13.58% +102.50%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineering in the City of London

Infrastructure Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Engineering in the City of London

Infrastructure Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in the City of London over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in the City of London

Infrastructure Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Engineering in the City of London

Infrastructure Engineering
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 15 (26.32%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (5.26%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.75%) IIS
3 1 (1.75%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.75%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 24 (42.11%) Azure
2 19 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 16 (28.07%) Entra ID
4 11 (19.30%) IaaS
4 11 (19.30%) Mimecast
5 7 (12.28%) AWS
5 7 (12.28%) PaaS
6 6 (10.53%) Power Platform
7 3 (5.26%) OneDrive
7 3 (5.26%) SaaS
8 2 (3.51%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (3.51%) AWS CodePipeline
8 2 (3.51%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (3.51%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (1.75%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 19 (33.33%) Firewall
2 6 (10.53%) DNS
3 4 (7.02%) MPLS
3 4 (7.02%) Network Security
4 3 (5.26%) SAN
4 3 (5.26%) WAN
5 2 (3.51%) NAS
5 2 (3.51%) SD-WAN
6 1 (1.75%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (1.75%) iSCSI
6 1 (1.75%) Structured Cabling
6 1 (1.75%) VPN
6 1 (1.75%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (14.04%) MongoDB
2 3 (5.26%) Sybase ASE
3 2 (3.51%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.75%) Power BI
4 1 (1.75%) Sisense
Development Applications
1 6 (10.53%) Jenkins
2 5 (8.77%) Git
General
1 20 (35.09%) Social Skills
2 8 (14.04%) Documentation Skills
3 7 (12.28%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (12.28%) Finance
4 5 (8.77%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (7.02%) French Language
5 4 (7.02%) Public Sector
6 3 (5.26%) Banking
7 1 (1.75%) Front Office
7 1 (1.75%) Retail
7 1 (1.75%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 26 (45.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 8 (14.04%) Site Engineer
2 8 (14.04%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 5 (8.77%) AWS Engineer
3 5 (8.77%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (8.77%) Python Engineer
4 4 (7.02%) Architect
4 4 (7.02%) Azure Engineer
4 4 (7.02%) Senior
4 4 (7.02%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (5.26%) Applications Engineer
5 3 (5.26%) Integration Architect
5 3 (5.26%) IT Engineer
5 3 (5.26%) Java Engineer
5 3 (5.26%) Support Engineer
5 3 (5.26%) Windows Engineer
5 3 (5.26%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (3.51%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (3.51%) Sybase Consultant
6 2 (3.51%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (14.04%) Kafka
1 8 (14.04%) RabbitMQ
2 5 (8.77%) RESTful
3 2 (3.51%) AWS CDK
4 1 (1.75%) LAMP
4 1 (1.75%) OAuth
4 1 (1.75%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (15.79%) Data Centre
2 8 (14.04%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (8.77%) Algorithms
3 5 (8.77%) Data Structures
4 3 (5.26%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.75%) Clustering
5 1 (1.75%) CMDB
5 1 (1.75%) HP Storage
5 1 (1.75%) iPhone
5 1 (1.75%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.75%) PKI
5 1 (1.75%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.75%) Replication
5 1 (1.75%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 23 (40.35%) Windows
2 13 (22.81%) Linux
3 10 (17.54%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.75%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.75%) VMS
4 1 (1.75%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.75%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (1.75%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (28.07%) DevOps
2 14 (24.56%) CI/CD
3 12 (21.05%) ITIL
4 10 (17.54%) Disaster Recovery
4 10 (17.54%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (14.04%) Migration
5 8 (14.04%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 7 (12.28%) Microservices
6 7 (12.28%) Task Automation
7 6 (10.53%) Change Management
7 6 (10.53%) Data Migration
8 5 (8.77%) Analytical Thinking
8 5 (8.77%) B2B
8 5 (8.77%) Data Loss Prevention
8 5 (8.77%) Identity Management
8 5 (8.77%) Infrastructure as Code
9 4 (7.02%) IT Strategy
9 4 (7.02%) Project Delivery
9 4 (7.02%) SDLC
9 4 (7.02%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (22.81%) Python
2 9 (15.79%) PowerShell
2 9 (15.79%) Shell Script
3 5 (8.77%) Java
4 3 (5.26%) C++
4 3 (5.26%) Go
5 2 (3.51%) Bash
5 2 (3.51%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.75%) Bicep
6 1 (1.75%) Perl
Qualifications
1 6 (10.53%) Azure Certification
2 5 (8.77%) Security Cleared
3 4 (7.02%) SC Cleared
3 4 (7.02%) TOGAF Certification
4 3 (5.26%) Degree
4 3 (5.26%) DV Cleared
5 2 (3.51%) CCNA
5 2 (3.51%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (3.51%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.75%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 23 (40.35%) Active Directory
2 10 (17.54%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (14.04%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 4 (7.02%) Hyper-V
5 2 (3.51%) XenApp
6 1 (1.75%) Docker
6 1 (1.75%) KVM
6 1 (1.75%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (1.75%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (22.81%) Microsoft Intune
2 11 (19.30%) Kubernetes
3 8 (14.04%) Consul
3 8 (14.04%) Grafana
3 8 (14.04%) Prometheus
3 8 (14.04%) SCCM
4 4 (7.02%) Ansible
5 2 (3.51%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (3.51%) FortiGate
5 2 (3.51%) Terraform
6 1 (1.75%) CASB
6 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Clustering
6 1 (1.75%) Packer
6 1 (1.75%) Puppet
6 1 (1.75%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 28 (49.12%) Microsoft
2 15 (26.32%) VMware
3 11 (19.30%) Citrix
4 8 (14.04%) SaltStack
5 7 (12.28%) Okta
6 5 (8.77%) Bloomberg
6 5 (8.77%) Refinitiv
7 3 (5.26%) Ping Identity
7 3 (5.26%) Sybase
8 2 (3.51%) Dell
8 2 (3.51%) HP
9 1 (1.75%) BT
9 1 (1.75%) Cisco
9 1 (1.75%) Juniper
9 1 (1.75%) Kenna
9 1 (1.75%) NetApp
9 1 (1.75%) ProCurve
9 1 (1.75%) Red Hat
9 1 (1.75%) Sun
9 1 (1.75%) Veeam