Infrastructure Engineer Contracts in Central London

Infrastructure Engineer
London > Central London

The median Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in Central London is £465 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 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
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 96 141 154
Rank change year-on-year +45 +13 -28
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 32 32 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.33% 0.84% 1.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.40% 0.89% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 20 44
10th Percentile £394 £428 £363
25th Percentile £425 £550 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £600 £438
Median % change year-on-year -22.50% +37.14% -2.78%
75th Percentile £588 £683 £533
90th Percentile £638 £746 £584
London median daily rate £450 £558 £500
% change year-on-year -19.32% +11.55% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £84.09 -
London median hourly rate - £73.39 £43.62
% change year-on-year - +68.24% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Central London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 2,287 3,601 4,266
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.29% 95.06% 94.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,618 2,468 3,243
10th Percentile £340 £325 £358
25th Percentile £438 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £560
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +7.14% +6.67%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £788 £813 £775
London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 26 56
10th Percentile £20.13 £15.50 £13.88
25th Percentile £21.81 £18.93 £19.46
Median hourly rate £26.41 £35.00 £37.25
Median % change year-on-year -24.56% -6.04% +112.86%
75th Percentile £27.81 £57.50 £51.75
90th Percentile £40.00 £86.65 £64.13
London median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -21.43% - +11.13%

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 19 May 2024.

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 19 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
City of London +37 29 £488 -18.75% 6
Infrastructure Engineer
London

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

For the 6 months to 19 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 Central London region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 31 (96.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 18 (56.25%) Azure
3 15 (46.88%) Microsoft
3 15 (46.88%) Active Directory
4 14 (43.75%) Windows
5 13 (40.63%) VMware
6 12 (37.50%) Firewall
7 11 (34.38%) VMware Infrastructure
7 11 (34.38%) Microsoft 365
8 10 (31.25%) AWS
9 9 (28.13%) Social Skills
10 8 (25.00%) Windows Server
11 7 (21.88%) Entra ID
11 7 (21.88%) Infrastructure as Code
11 7 (21.88%) SCCM
11 7 (21.88%) DevOps
11 7 (21.88%) Disaster Recovery
11 7 (21.88%) Microsoft Exchange
11 7 (21.88%) DNS
12 6 (18.75%) SharePoint
12 6 (18.75%) Linux
12 6 (18.75%) PowerShell
12 6 (18.75%) Hyper-V
13 5 (15.63%) IaaS
13 5 (15.63%) Cybersecurity
13 5 (15.63%) ITIL
13 5 (15.63%) WAN
13 5 (15.63%) Citrix
13 5 (15.63%) Identity Management
13 5 (15.63%) Data Centre

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 7 (21.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (18.75%) SharePoint
3 1 (3.13%) IIS
3 1 (3.13%) OpenStack
3 1 (3.13%) SharePoint Server
3 1 (3.13%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 18 (56.25%) Azure
2 11 (34.38%) Microsoft 365
3 10 (31.25%) AWS
4 7 (21.88%) Entra ID
5 5 (15.63%) IaaS
6 4 (12.50%) Mimecast
6 4 (12.50%) OneDrive
7 3 (9.38%) Azure Storage
8 2 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (6.25%) AWS CodePipeline
8 2 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (6.25%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (6.25%) PaaS
8 2 (6.25%) SaaS
9 1 (3.13%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 12 (37.50%) Firewall
2 7 (21.88%) DNS
3 5 (15.63%) WAN
4 3 (9.38%) DHCP
4 3 (9.38%) Network Security
4 3 (9.38%) SAN
4 3 (9.38%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (6.25%) Internet
5 2 (6.25%) MPLS
5 2 (6.25%) SD-WAN
5 2 (6.25%) VPN
6 1 (3.13%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (3.13%) iSCSI
6 1 (3.13%) LAN
6 1 (3.13%) NAS
6 1 (3.13%) Unified Communications
6 1 (3.13%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.25%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.13%) Sisense
Development Applications
1 3 (9.38%) Git
1 3 (9.38%) Jenkins
General
1 9 (28.13%) Social Skills
2 4 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
2 4 (12.50%) Finance
3 3 (9.38%) Public Sector
4 2 (6.25%) French Language
5 1 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.13%) Front Office
5 1 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (3.13%) Retail
5 1 (3.13%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.25%) AWS CDK
2 1 (3.13%) LAMP
2 1 (3.13%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.63%) Data Centre
2 4 (12.50%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.13%) Clustering
3 1 (3.13%) HP Storage
3 1 (3.13%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (3.13%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 14 (43.75%) Windows
2 8 (25.00%) Windows Server
3 6 (18.75%) Linux
4 3 (9.38%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (3.13%) Mac OS
5 1 (3.13%) Ubuntu
5 1 (3.13%) VMS
5 1 (3.13%) Windows 10
5 1 (3.13%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (3.13%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (96.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 7 (21.88%) DevOps
2 7 (21.88%) Disaster Recovery
2 7 (21.88%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (15.63%) Cybersecurity
3 5 (15.63%) Identity Management
3 5 (15.63%) ITIL
4 4 (12.50%) Cloud Security
4 4 (12.50%) Data Loss Prevention
4 4 (12.50%) Information Security
4 4 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (9.38%) Analytics
5 3 (9.38%) Anomaly Detection
5 3 (9.38%) Capacity Management
5 3 (9.38%) CI/CD
5 3 (9.38%) Incident Response
5 3 (9.38%) Knowledge Transfer
5 3 (9.38%) SDLC
5 3 (9.38%) Service Delivery
6 2 (6.25%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 6 (18.75%) PowerShell
2 4 (12.50%) Python
3 2 (6.25%) Bash
3 2 (6.25%) TypeScript
4 1 (3.13%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 3 (9.38%) Azure Certification
1 3 (9.38%) Degree
1 3 (9.38%) SC Cleared
1 3 (9.38%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.25%) CCNA
2 2 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (6.25%) DV Cleared
3 1 (3.13%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (3.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.13%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.25%) COBIT
1 2 (6.25%) GDPR
1 2 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (6.25%) NCSC
1 2 (6.25%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 15 (46.88%) Active Directory
2 11 (34.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (18.75%) Hyper-V
4 2 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (6.25%) XenApp
5 1 (3.13%) Docker
5 1 (3.13%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (21.88%) SCCM
2 4 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (9.38%) Kubernetes
4 2 (6.25%) Ansible
4 2 (6.25%) CASB
4 2 (6.25%) FortiGate
4 2 (6.25%) SCOrch
4 2 (6.25%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (6.25%) Terraform
5 1 (3.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Clustering
5 1 (3.13%) Packer
Vendors
1 15 (46.88%) Microsoft
2 13 (40.63%) VMware
3 5 (15.63%) Citrix
4 4 (12.50%) Okta
5 3 (9.38%) Palo Alto
6 2 (6.25%) Aruba
6 2 (6.25%) Bloomberg
6 2 (6.25%) CrowdStrike
6 2 (6.25%) Imperva
6 2 (6.25%) Juniper
6 2 (6.25%) Netskope
6 2 (6.25%) Ping Identity
6 2 (6.25%) Refinitiv
7 1 (3.13%) Cisco
7 1 (3.13%) Commvault
7 1 (3.13%) CyberArk
7 1 (3.13%) HP
7 1 (3.13%) ProCurve
7 1 (3.13%) ServiceNow
7 1 (3.13%) Veeam