Infrastructure Engineering Contracts in London

Infrastructure Engineering
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 134 181 205
Rank change year-on-year +47 +24 -32
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 322 392 567
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.82% 1.45% 1.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.05% 1.59% 1.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 226 297 424
10th Percentile £300 £400 £350
25th Percentile £407 £463 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £553 £510
Median % change year-on-year -4.98% +8.33% +10.27%
75th Percentile £645 £650 £613
90th Percentile £750 £721 £675
England median daily rate £475 £505 £475
% change year-on-year -5.94% +6.32% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 2
10th Percentile £32.97 £65.90 £28.88
25th Percentile £34.42 £70.74 £30.69
Median hourly rate £36.84 £78.80 £35.09
Median % change year-on-year -53.25% +124.60% -
75th Percentile £38.04 £83.55 £40.86
90th Percentile £38.75 £86.40 £43.49
England median hourly rate £46.18 £63.84 £50.00
% change year-on-year -27.66% +27.68% +25.00%

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,674 24,676 35,915
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.50% 91.13% 92.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,226 17,739 26,174
10th Percentile £338 £375 £390
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 325 281 423
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.63 £17.25
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.63 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.50 £39.00 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +8.33% +10.77%
75th Percentile £46.86 £63.75 £50.68
90th Percentile £66.30 £78.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineering in London

Infrastructure Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Engineering in London

Infrastructure Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in London

Infrastructure Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Engineering in London

Infrastructure Engineering
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 Engineering within the London region over the 6 months to 27 April 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 +36 61 £525 -12.50% 16
West London +13 3 £250 -51.22% 2
South London +5 2 £425 -15.00% 1
North London - 2 £250 -
Infrastructure Engineering
England

Infrastructure Engineering
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 35 (10.87%) Microsoft Exchange
2 18 (5.59%) SharePoint
3 10 (3.11%) Apache
4 7 (2.17%) Tomcat
5 4 (1.24%) IIS
6 3 (0.93%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.62%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.31%) Exchange Server 2007
8 1 (0.31%) Exchange Server 2010
8 1 (0.31%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.31%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.62%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.31%) Eikon
1 1 (0.31%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.31%) Shopify
1 1 (0.31%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 116 (36.02%) Azure
2 92 (28.57%) AWS
3 65 (20.19%) Microsoft 365
4 45 (13.98%) Entra ID
5 30 (9.32%) IaaS
6 16 (4.97%) PaaS
7 15 (4.66%) Azure DevOps
8 13 (4.04%) AWS CloudFormation
8 13 (4.04%) Mimecast
9 11 (3.42%) Cloud Computing
9 11 (3.42%) Serverless
10 10 (3.11%) AWS Lambda
10 10 (3.11%) OneDrive
10 10 (3.11%) Power Platform
10 10 (3.11%) SaaS
11 8 (2.48%) Amazon S3
11 8 (2.48%) GitHub
11 8 (2.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 7 (2.17%) Amazon EC2
12 7 (2.17%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 62 (19.25%) Firewall
2 43 (13.35%) DNS
3 26 (8.07%) WAN
4 21 (6.52%) LAN
5 18 (5.59%) DHCP
6 17 (5.28%) BGP
6 17 (5.28%) OSPF
6 17 (5.28%) VPN
7 16 (4.97%) Wireless
8 15 (4.66%) SAN
9 13 (4.04%) Network Security
10 12 (3.73%) MPLS
10 12 (3.73%) WLAN
11 11 (3.42%) NAS
12 8 (2.48%) Cisco ASA
13 7 (2.17%) IPsec
13 7 (2.17%) SMTP
13 7 (2.17%) TCP/IP
13 7 (2.17%) VLAN
14 6 (1.86%) SNA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (10.25%) SQL Server
2 9 (2.80%) MongoDB
3 7 (2.17%) Sybase ASE
4 4 (1.24%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (0.93%) Big Data
5 3 (0.93%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.62%) MySQL
6 2 (0.62%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.62%) Power BI
6 2 (0.62%) Sisense
7 1 (0.31%) Adabas
7 1 (0.31%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 28 (8.70%) Jenkins
2 23 (7.14%) Git
3 20 (6.21%) GitLab
4 6 (1.86%) Postman
4 6 (1.86%) SoapUI
5 4 (1.24%) TeamCity
6 2 (0.62%) JIRA
6 2 (0.62%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.31%) CA Gen
7 1 (0.31%) Selenium
7 1 (0.31%) VisualWorks
General
1 53 (16.46%) Social Skills
2 44 (13.66%) Public Sector
3 42 (13.04%) Finance
4 23 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (5.28%) Banking
6 14 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (1.86%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (1.86%) Telecoms
8 5 (1.55%) French Language
8 5 (1.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (1.55%) Legal
8 5 (1.55%) Mandarin Language
9 4 (1.24%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.24%) Retail
10 3 (0.93%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.62%) Billing
11 2 (0.62%) Law
11 2 (0.62%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.31%) Advertising
12 1 (0.31%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 189 (58.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 28 (8.70%) Senior
3 27 (8.39%) Cloud Engineer
4 26 (8.07%) AWS Engineer
5 24 (7.45%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
6 22 (6.83%) Azure Engineer
6 22 (6.83%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 22 (6.83%) DevOps Engineer
7 20 (6.21%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 19 (5.90%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
9 14 (4.35%) Python Engineer
10 12 (3.73%) Lead
10 12 (3.73%) Wintel Engineer
11 11 (3.42%) Linux Engineer
11 11 (3.42%) Support Engineer
11 11 (3.42%) Wintel Infrastructure Engineer
12 10 (3.11%) Architect
12 10 (3.11%) Infrastructure Support
12 10 (3.11%) Windows Engineer
12 10 (3.11%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (4.04%) Kafka
2 10 (3.11%) RabbitMQ
3 8 (2.48%) RESTful
3 8 (2.48%) YAML
4 6 (1.86%) SOAP
5 5 (1.55%) Software Packaging
6 4 (1.24%) AWS CDK
7 3 (0.93%) Lambda Expressions
7 3 (0.93%) NumPy
7 3 (0.93%) Pandas
7 3 (0.93%) PySpark
8 2 (0.62%) Jinja
8 2 (0.62%) JSON
8 2 (0.62%) LDAP
8 2 (0.62%) NETCONF
8 2 (0.62%) XML
8 2 (0.62%) YANG
9 1 (0.31%) LAMP
9 1 (0.31%) SAML
9 1 (0.31%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (7.14%) Replication
2 20 (6.21%) Data Centre
3 18 (5.59%) Management Information System
4 14 (4.35%) PKI
5 10 (3.11%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (2.17%) NHS
6 7 (2.17%) Video Conferencing
7 6 (1.86%) Algorithms
7 6 (1.86%) Data Structures
7 6 (1.86%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (1.86%) Mobile App
7 6 (1.86%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.55%) CCTV
8 5 (1.55%) Clustering
9 4 (1.24%) Public Cloud
10 3 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (0.93%) Linux Command Line
11 2 (0.62%) Blackberry
11 2 (0.62%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 2 (0.62%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 146 (45.34%) Windows
2 90 (27.95%) Windows Server
3 70 (21.74%) Linux
4 25 (7.76%) Windows Server 2016
5 24 (7.45%) Windows Server 2019
6 21 (6.52%) Windows 10
7 11 (3.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 8 (2.48%) Windows Server 2012
9 5 (1.55%) Ubuntu
10 4 (1.24%) Mac OS
10 4 (1.24%) Unix
11 3 (0.93%) Apple iOS
12 2 (0.62%) CentOS
13 1 (0.31%) Android
13 1 (0.31%) VMS
13 1 (0.31%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (23.29%) DevOps
2 72 (22.36%) Migration
3 62 (19.25%) CI/CD
4 38 (11.80%) Infrastructure as Code
5 34 (10.56%) Agile
6 32 (9.94%) ITIL
7 31 (9.63%) Problem-Solving
8 28 (8.70%) Configuration Management
9 23 (7.14%) Cybersecurity
10 21 (6.52%) Change Management
10 21 (6.52%) Disaster Recovery
10 21 (6.52%) Microservices
11 19 (5.90%) Platform Engineering
12 16 (4.97%) Stakeholder Management
13 15 (4.66%) Project Delivery
14 14 (4.35%) Network Architecture
15 13 (4.04%) Containerisation
15 13 (4.04%) Scrum
15 13 (4.04%) SDLC
16 12 (3.73%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 52 (16.15%) PowerShell
2 51 (15.84%) Python
3 16 (4.97%) JavaScript
4 14 (4.35%) Shell Script
5 13 (4.04%) C#
5 13 (4.04%) SQL
6 9 (2.80%) Bash
7 8 (2.48%) Java
7 8 (2.48%) Perl
8 6 (1.86%) Go
9 5 (1.55%) TypeScript
10 4 (1.24%) C++
10 4 (1.24%) Ruby
11 3 (0.93%) Bicep
11 3 (0.93%) Korn
11 3 (0.93%) PHP
12 1 (0.31%) Natural
12 1 (0.31%) Smalltalk
Qualifications
1 76 (23.60%) Security Cleared
2 46 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 42 (13.04%) DV Cleared
4 20 (6.21%) Azure Certification
5 16 (4.97%) Degree
6 7 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (1.55%) MCSE
7 5 (1.55%) TOGAF Certification
8 4 (1.24%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (1.24%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (0.93%) AWS Certification
9 3 (0.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (0.93%) CCNA
10 2 (0.62%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (0.62%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.31%) A+ Certification
11 1 (0.31%) CCNP
11 1 (0.31%) JNCIP
11 1 (0.31%) MCSA
11 1 (0.31%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (1.24%) SLA
3 3 (0.93%) NCSC
3 3 (0.93%) QA
4 2 (0.62%) GDPR
4 2 (0.62%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 110 (34.16%) Active Directory
2 40 (12.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (6.21%) Hyper-V
4 11 (3.42%) Docker
5 9 (2.80%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 9 (2.80%) vSphere
6 8 (2.48%) VMware NSX
7 5 (1.55%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.93%) KVM
8 3 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.93%) XenApp
9 1 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.31%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 53 (16.46%) Terraform
2 50 (15.53%) Ansible
3 35 (10.87%) Microsoft Intune
4 32 (9.94%) Kubernetes
5 28 (8.70%) SCCM
6 27 (8.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 22 (6.83%) Puppet
8 12 (3.73%) Grafana
8 12 (3.73%) Prometheus
9 10 (3.11%) WSUS
10 9 (2.80%) Consul
10 9 (2.80%) FortiGate
11 7 (2.17%) vRealize
12 5 (1.55%) Jamf Pro
12 5 (1.55%) Single Sign-On
12 5 (1.55%) vCenter Server
13 4 (1.24%) Progress Chef
14 3 (0.93%) Red Hat Satellite
15 2 (0.62%) Salt
15 2 (0.62%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 88 (27.33%) Microsoft
2 75 (23.29%) VMware
3 22 (6.83%) Veeam
4 18 (5.59%) Citrix
5 17 (5.28%) Cisco
6 15 (4.66%) Palo Alto
7 14 (4.35%) Red Hat
8 13 (4.04%) Juniper
9 11 (3.42%) HP
9 11 (3.42%) SaltStack
10 10 (3.11%) Bloomberg
10 10 (3.11%) Dell
11 9 (2.80%) Okta
11 9 (2.80%) Refinitiv
11 9 (2.80%) ServiceNow
12 8 (2.48%) Fortinet
13 7 (2.17%) Extreme Networks
13 7 (2.17%) F5
13 7 (2.17%) Sybase
14 6 (1.86%) CA