Infrastructure Engineer Contracts in London

Infrastructure Engineer
England > London

The median Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in London is £456 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 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
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 200 278 269
Rank change year-on-year +78 -9 -8
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 206 248 387
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.16% 0.93% 0.99%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.24% 0.97% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 146 187 275
10th Percentile £275 £400 £350
25th Percentile £363 £463 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £553 £500
Median % change year-on-year -17.42% +10.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £550 £650 £575
90th Percentile £638 £688 £638
England median daily rate £463 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -7.50% +11.11% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 3
10th Percentile - £64.40 £39.90
25th Percentile - £66.98 £40.12
Median hourly rate - £73.39 £43.62
Median % change year-on-year - +68.24% -
75th Percentile - £81.89 £47.67
90th Percentile - £85.73 £48.22
England median hourly rate £22.50 £63.84 £53.91
% change year-on-year -64.76% +18.43% +39.12%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in 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 London with a recognized job title 16,617 25,468 37,159
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.23% 95.25% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,021 18,449 27,170
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £443 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £676 £700 £681
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 338 290 447
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.40
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.53 £22.21
Median hourly rate £27.66 £35.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.55% +0.71% +10.62%
75th Percentile £43.75 £61.50 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £78.20 £67.75
England median hourly rate £36.50 £44.32 £22.50
% change year-on-year -17.64% +96.98% +2.27%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in London

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in London

Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in London

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in London

Infrastructure Engineer
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 6 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
Central London +40 32 £488 -18.75% 7
West London +22 2 £250 -50.00% 3
North London - 2 £250 -
South London +5 1 £425 -15.00%
Infrastructure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 6 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 London region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 193 (93.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 109 (52.91%) Windows
3 88 (42.72%) Active Directory
4 83 (40.29%) Azure
5 74 (35.92%) Windows Server
6 65 (31.55%) VMware
7 58 (28.16%) Microsoft
7 58 (28.16%) AWS
8 49 (23.79%) Microsoft 365
9 48 (23.30%) Security Cleared
10 42 (20.39%) Migration
11 38 (18.45%) Linux
12 35 (16.99%) Firewall
12 35 (16.99%) PowerShell
12 35 (16.99%) Public Sector
13 34 (16.50%) DevOps
13 34 (16.50%) VMware Infrastructure
14 33 (16.02%) Finance
14 33 (16.02%) SQL Server
15 32 (15.53%) Social Skills
16 31 (15.05%) Entra ID
17 30 (14.56%) DNS
18 27 (13.11%) Terraform
19 26 (12.62%) Active Directory Federation Services
20 25 (12.14%) DV Cleared
21 24 (11.65%) Windows Server 2016
22 23 (11.17%) Ansible
23 22 (10.68%) Windows Server 2019
23 22 (10.68%) Python
23 22 (10.68%) Replication

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 21 (10.19%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (8.25%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.94%) Apache
3 4 (1.94%) Tomcat
4 3 (1.46%) IIS
5 2 (0.97%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.49%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (0.49%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.49%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.97%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.49%) Eikon
1 1 (0.49%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.49%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 83 (40.29%) Azure
2 58 (28.16%) AWS
3 49 (23.79%) Microsoft 365
4 31 (15.05%) Entra ID
5 18 (8.74%) IaaS
6 8 (3.88%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (3.88%) OneDrive
6 8 (3.88%) PaaS
7 7 (3.40%) SaaS
8 6 (2.91%) Amazon S3
8 6 (2.91%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (2.43%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (2.43%) Azure Storage
9 5 (2.43%) Mimecast
10 4 (1.94%) Amazon EventBridge
10 4 (1.94%) AWS CodePipeline
10 4 (1.94%) Azure AKS
10 4 (1.94%) Cloudflare
11 3 (1.46%) GCP
11 3 (1.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 35 (16.99%) Firewall
2 30 (14.56%) DNS
3 13 (6.31%) DHCP
4 10 (4.85%) WAN
5 9 (4.37%) MPLS
5 9 (4.37%) Network Security
6 8 (3.88%) SAN
6 8 (3.88%) VPN
7 7 (3.40%) LAN
8 5 (2.43%) SD-WAN
9 4 (1.94%) BGP
9 4 (1.94%) OSPF
9 4 (1.94%) SMTP
10 3 (1.46%) NAS
10 3 (1.46%) Wi-Fi
11 2 (0.97%) DMVPN
11 2 (0.97%) HSRP
11 2 (0.97%) SNMP
11 2 (0.97%) VLAN
11 2 (0.97%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (16.02%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.97%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (0.97%) MySQL
2 2 (0.97%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (0.97%) Sisense
3 1 (0.49%) Adabas
3 1 (0.49%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (0.49%) DB2
3 1 (0.49%) Power BI
3 1 (0.49%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 10 (4.85%) Git
2 9 (4.37%) Jenkins
3 7 (3.40%) GitLab
4 2 (0.97%) JIRA
4 2 (0.97%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.49%) CA Gen
5 1 (0.49%) VisualWorks
General
1 35 (16.99%) Public Sector
2 33 (16.02%) Finance
3 32 (15.53%) Social Skills
4 14 (6.80%) Banking
5 8 (3.88%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (3.40%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (1.94%) Financial Institution
7 4 (1.94%) Legal
8 3 (1.46%) French Language
8 3 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.46%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (0.97%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.97%) Law
9 2 (0.97%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.49%) Front Office
10 1 (0.49%) Retail
10 1 (0.49%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.94%) AWS CDK
1 4 (1.94%) YAML
2 2 (0.97%) Jinja
2 2 (0.97%) JSON
2 2 (0.97%) LDAP
2 2 (0.97%) NETCONF
2 2 (0.97%) RESTful
2 2 (0.97%) XML
2 2 (0.97%) YANG
3 1 (0.49%) .NET
3 1 (0.49%) LAMP
3 1 (0.49%) SAML
3 1 (0.49%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 22 (10.68%) Replication
2 10 (4.85%) Data Centre
3 7 (3.40%) PKI
4 6 (2.91%) Management Information System
4 6 (2.91%) Onboarding
5 5 (2.43%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (1.94%) Clustering
6 4 (1.94%) Public Cloud
7 2 (0.97%) Blackberry
7 2 (0.97%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 2 (0.97%) NHS
7 2 (0.97%) Security Posture
7 2 (0.97%) Video Conferencing
8 1 (0.49%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.49%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.49%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.49%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.49%) HP Storage
8 1 (0.49%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.49%) LPAR
Operating Systems
1 109 (52.91%) Windows
2 74 (35.92%) Windows Server
3 38 (18.45%) Linux
4 24 (11.65%) Windows Server 2016
5 22 (10.68%) Windows Server 2019
6 19 (9.22%) Windows 10
7 8 (3.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (1.94%) Windows Server 2012
9 3 (1.46%) Ubuntu
9 3 (1.46%) Windows 7
10 2 (0.97%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.97%) VMS
11 1 (0.49%) Android
11 1 (0.49%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.49%) Unix
11 1 (0.49%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 193 (93.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 42 (20.39%) Migration
3 34 (16.50%) DevOps
4 19 (9.22%) Infrastructure as Code
5 18 (8.74%) CI/CD
6 17 (8.25%) Disaster Recovery
7 15 (7.28%) ITIL
8 11 (5.34%) Problem-Solving
9 10 (4.85%) Stakeholder Management
10 9 (4.37%) Agile
11 8 (3.88%) Containerisation
11 8 (3.88%) Project Delivery
11 8 (3.88%) Time Management
12 7 (3.40%) Cybersecurity
12 7 (3.40%) Microservices
13 6 (2.91%) Data Loss Prevention
13 6 (2.91%) Information Security
13 6 (2.91%) Infrastructure Automation
13 6 (2.91%) Load Balancing
14 5 (2.43%) Identity Management
Programming Languages
1 35 (16.99%) PowerShell
2 22 (10.68%) Python
3 7 (3.40%) Bash
4 6 (2.91%) SQL
5 4 (1.94%) TypeScript
6 3 (1.46%) PHP
6 3 (1.46%) Ruby
7 2 (0.97%) C
7 2 (0.97%) Korn
7 2 (0.97%) Perl
8 1 (0.49%) Bicep
8 1 (0.49%) C#
8 1 (0.49%) Go
8 1 (0.49%) Java
8 1 (0.49%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.49%) Natural
8 1 (0.49%) Smalltalk
Qualifications
1 48 (23.30%) Security Cleared
2 25 (12.14%) DV Cleared
3 21 (10.19%) SC Cleared
4 9 (4.37%) Azure Certification
5 8 (3.88%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (3.40%) Degree
7 4 (1.94%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (1.94%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.46%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (1.46%) CCNA
8 3 (1.46%) MCSE
9 2 (0.97%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (0.97%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 1 (0.49%) CCNP
10 1 (0.49%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.49%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (1.46%) QA
3 2 (0.97%) NCSC
3 2 (0.97%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.49%) GDPR
System Software
1 88 (42.72%) Active Directory
2 34 (16.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (7.28%) Hyper-V
4 12 (5.83%) vSphere
5 9 (4.37%) Docker
6 5 (2.43%) VMware NSX
7 3 (1.46%) XenApp
8 2 (0.97%) Firmware
9 1 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.49%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.49%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 27 (13.11%) Terraform
2 26 (12.62%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 23 (11.17%) Ansible
4 20 (9.71%) Kubernetes
5 19 (9.22%) SCCM
6 18 (8.74%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (2.91%) Puppet
8 4 (1.94%) SCOM
9 3 (1.46%) Jamf Pro
9 3 (1.46%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (1.46%) WSUS
10 2 (0.97%) Backup Exec
10 2 (0.97%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.97%) Packer
10 2 (0.97%) Red Hat Satellite
10 2 (0.97%) vCenter Server
10 2 (0.97%) vRealize
10 2 (0.97%) VxRail
10 2 (0.97%) WhatsUp Gold
11 1 (0.49%) Nessus
Vendors
1 65 (31.55%) VMware
2 58 (28.16%) Microsoft
3 21 (10.19%) Veeam
4 13 (6.31%) Citrix
5 12 (5.83%) Cisco
6 10 (4.85%) Red Hat
7 8 (3.88%) HP
8 7 (3.40%) Bloomberg
8 7 (3.40%) Okta
9 6 (2.91%) F5
9 6 (2.91%) Refinitiv
10 5 (2.43%) CA
10 5 (2.43%) Dell
10 5 (2.43%) Juniper
10 5 (2.43%) Palo Alto
10 5 (2.43%) ServiceNow
11 4 (1.94%) Aruba
12 3 (1.46%) Google
12 3 (1.46%) SolarWinds
12 3 (1.46%) Sun