Infrastructure Engineer Contracts in Central London

Infrastructure Engineer
London > Central London

The median Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in Central London is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 108 139
Rank change year-on-year +1 +31 +4
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 19 29 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.00% 1.21% 1.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.07% 1.27% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 22 23
10th Percentile £525 £387 £438
25th Percentile £575 £418 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £450 £575
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -21.74% +15.00%
75th Percentile £638 £597 £666
90th Percentile £683 £638 £736
London median daily rate £525 £450 £550
% change year-on-year +16.67% -18.18% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £79.89
Median hourly rate - - £84.09
75th Percentile - - £88.30
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate - - £73.39
% change year-on-year - - +68.24%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Central London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Central 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 Central London with a recognized job title 1,781 2,281 3,512
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.39% 95.36% 95.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,159 1,606 2,395
10th Percentile £350 £340 £325
25th Percentile £450 £438 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £680 £675 £725
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 25 23
10th Percentile £18.10 £20.04 £15.50
25th Percentile £22.75 £21.25 £18.50
Median hourly rate £28.15 £27.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.26% -22.86% -8.50%
75th Percentile £34.68 £27.81 £61.25
90th Percentile £63.75 £40.00 £87.64
London median hourly rate £31.67 £27.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year +15.17% -23.61% +2.86%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in Central London

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in Central London

Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in Central London over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in Central London

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in Central London

Infrastructure Engineer
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 Engineer within the Central London region over the 6 months to 31 May 2025. 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 -2 16 £608 +21.50% 11
West End of London - 3 £600 - 5
Infrastructure Engineer
London

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

For the 6 months to 31 May 2025, 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 Central London region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 19 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 12 (63.16%) Windows
2 12 (63.16%) Active Directory
3 11 (57.89%) Azure
4 10 (52.63%) Windows Server
5 9 (47.37%) DNS
6 6 (31.58%) Microsoft
6 6 (31.58%) Firewall
6 6 (31.58%) Finance
7 5 (26.32%) Entra ID
7 5 (26.32%) PowerShell
7 5 (26.32%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (26.32%) Python
7 5 (26.32%) SQL Server
7 5 (26.32%) VMware
8 4 (21.05%) AWS
8 4 (21.05%) DHCP
8 4 (21.05%) IaaS
9 3 (15.79%) Cloud Security
9 3 (15.79%) Social Skills
9 3 (15.79%) Project Delivery
9 3 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
9 3 (15.79%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (15.79%) Hyper-V
9 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure Management
9 3 (15.79%) VMware Infrastructure
9 3 (15.79%) Data Loss Prevention
9 3 (15.79%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (15.79%) Linux
9 3 (15.79%) MPLS

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
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 3 (15.79%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (5.26%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 11 (57.89%) Azure
2 5 (26.32%) Entra ID
2 5 (26.32%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (21.05%) AWS
3 4 (21.05%) IaaS
4 2 (10.53%) Amazon Cognito
4 2 (10.53%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (10.53%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (10.53%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 2 (10.53%) GitHub
4 2 (10.53%) Serverless
5 1 (5.26%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 9 (47.37%) DNS
2 6 (31.58%) Firewall
3 4 (21.05%) DHCP
4 3 (15.79%) MPLS
5 2 (10.53%) Network Security
5 2 (10.53%) TCP/IP
5 2 (10.53%) VPN
6 1 (5.26%) HTTP
6 1 (5.26%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (26.32%) SQL Server
2 2 (10.53%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (10.53%) DynamoDB
3 1 (5.26%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 1 (5.26%) JIRA
1 1 (5.26%) ScriptRunner
General
1 6 (31.58%) Finance
2 3 (15.79%) Social Skills
3 2 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (10.53%) Banking
3 2 (10.53%) Investment Banking
3 2 (10.53%) Spanish Language
4 1 (5.26%) Front Office
4 1 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.53%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (10.53%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Clustering
2 1 (5.26%) HP Storage
2 1 (5.26%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 12 (63.16%) Windows
2 10 (52.63%) Windows Server
3 3 (15.79%) Linux
4 2 (10.53%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (15.79%) Agile
2 3 (15.79%) Cloud Security
2 3 (15.79%) Data Loss Prevention
2 3 (15.79%) Electronic Trading
2 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure Management
2 3 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (15.79%) Project Delivery
2 3 (15.79%) Time Management
3 2 (10.53%) Algorithmic Trading
3 2 (10.53%) CI/CD
3 2 (10.53%) Containerisation
3 2 (10.53%) DevOps
3 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (10.53%) Market Making
3 2 (10.53%) Migration
3 2 (10.53%) Protective Monitoring
3 2 (10.53%) SDLC
3 2 (10.53%) Server Management
3 2 (10.53%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 5 (26.32%) PowerShell
1 5 (26.32%) Python
2 2 (10.53%) C++
2 2 (10.53%) JavaScript
2 2 (10.53%) Perl
2 2 (10.53%) Shell Script
3 1 (5.26%) Groovy
3 1 (5.26%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (10.53%) Degree
1 2 (10.53%) SC Cleared
1 2 (10.53%) Security Cleared
1 2 (10.53%) VCAP
1 2 (10.53%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 1 (5.26%) ITIL Certification
System Software
1 12 (63.16%) Active Directory
2 3 (15.79%) Hyper-V
2 3 (15.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (10.53%) Docker
4 1 (5.26%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (15.79%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (10.53%) FortiGate
2 2 (10.53%) Kubernetes
2 2 (10.53%) Terraform
3 1 (5.26%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (31.58%) Microsoft
2 5 (26.32%) VMware
3 2 (10.53%) Atempo
3 2 (10.53%) Cisco
3 2 (10.53%) Databricks
3 2 (10.53%) F5
3 2 (10.53%) Fortinet
3 2 (10.53%) Mellanox
4 1 (5.26%) Atlassian
4 1 (5.26%) Commvault
4 1 (5.26%) CyberArk
4 1 (5.26%) Dell
4 1 (5.26%) HP
4 1 (5.26%) NetApp
4 1 (5.26%) Oracle
4 1 (5.26%) Sun