Infrastructure Engineering Contracts in Central London

Infrastructure Engineering
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring Infrastructure Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Infrastructure Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 95 74 112
Rank change year-on-year -21 +38 +4
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 34 62 60
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.70% 2.53% 1.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.83% 2.80% 1.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 48 39
10th Percentile £370 £385 £448
25th Percentile £494 £423 £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £596 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year +13.57% -12.50% +20.00%
75th Percentile £614 £670 £700
90th Percentile £654 £703 £820
London median daily rate £525 £523 £558
% change year-on-year +0.48% -6.32% +8.09%
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 - £36.84 £78.80
% change year-on-year - -53.25% +124.60%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

Infrastructure Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,856 2,215 3,533
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 92.94% 90.56% 91.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,197 1,573 2,397
10th Percentile £363 £350 £325
25th Percentile £456 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +5.26%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £725
90th Percentile £774 £800 £825
London median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 25 28
10th Percentile £22.00 £20.04 £15.43
25th Percentile £22.75 £22.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%
75th Percentile £43.97 £33.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £50.75 £46.89 £88.30
London median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
% change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineering in Central London

Infrastructure Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Engineering in Central London

Infrastructure Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in Central London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in Central London

Infrastructure Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Engineering in Central London

Infrastructure Engineering
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 Engineering within the Central London region over the 6 months to 1 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 -22 27 £593 +7.73% 17
West End of London - 7 £600 - 2
Infrastructure Engineering
London

Infrastructure Engineering
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 (8.82%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.94%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (5.88%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 19 (55.88%) Azure
2 10 (29.41%) Entra ID
3 8 (23.53%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (17.65%) AWS
5 4 (11.76%) IaaS
6 3 (8.82%) Nutanix
7 2 (5.88%) Amazon Cognito
7 2 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (5.88%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 2 (5.88%) GitHub
7 2 (5.88%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 12 (35.29%) DNS
2 9 (26.47%) Firewall
3 7 (20.59%) DHCP
4 3 (8.82%) MPLS
4 3 (8.82%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (5.88%) Network Security
5 2 (5.88%) SD-WAN
5 2 (5.88%) Structured Cabling
5 2 (5.88%) TCP/IP
5 2 (5.88%) VPN
5 2 (5.88%) WAN
6 1 (2.94%) HTTP
6 1 (2.94%) VLAN
6 1 (2.94%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (17.65%) SQL Server
2 2 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (5.88%) DynamoDB
3 1 (2.94%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 1 (2.94%) JIRA
1 1 (2.94%) ScriptRunner
General
1 14 (41.18%) Finance
2 5 (14.71%) Social Skills
3 4 (11.76%) Banking
3 4 (11.76%) Investment Banking
4 2 (5.88%) Retail
4 2 (5.88%) Spanish Language
5 1 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (61.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (17.65%) Azure Engineer
2 6 (17.65%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (17.65%) Senior
3 5 (14.71%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (8.82%) Cloud Engineer
4 3 (8.82%) VMware Engineer
4 3 (8.82%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Active Directory Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Active Directory Support
5 2 (5.88%) Automation Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Cabling Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Data Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Infrastructure Support
5 2 (5.88%) Integration Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Lead
5 2 (5.88%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.88%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (5.88%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.82%) Public Cloud
2 2 (5.88%) Clustering
2 2 (5.88%) Data Centre
2 2 (5.88%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (5.88%) Product Ownership
2 2 (5.88%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 18 (52.94%) Windows
2 14 (41.18%) Windows Server
3 2 (5.88%) Linux
3 2 (5.88%) Unix
4 1 (2.94%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (2.94%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (17.65%) Migration
2 4 (11.76%) CI/CD
2 4 (11.76%) Cloud Security
2 4 (11.76%) Server Management
3 3 (8.82%) Agile
3 3 (8.82%) Configuration Management
3 3 (8.82%) Data Loss Prevention
3 3 (8.82%) Product Requirements
3 3 (8.82%) Project Delivery
3 3 (8.82%) Time Management
4 2 (5.88%) Algorithmic Trading
4 2 (5.88%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (5.88%) DevOps
4 2 (5.88%) Electronic Trading
4 2 (5.88%) Natural Language Processing
4 2 (5.88%) Network Management
4 2 (5.88%) Protective Monitoring
4 2 (5.88%) Test Automation
4 2 (5.88%) Test Strategy
4 2 (5.88%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (26.47%) PowerShell
2 6 (17.65%) Python
3 2 (5.88%) C++
3 2 (5.88%) JavaScript
3 2 (5.88%) Perl
3 2 (5.88%) Shell Script
3 2 (5.88%) SQL
4 1 (2.94%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 2 (5.88%) Degree
1 2 (5.88%) SC Cleared
1 2 (5.88%) Security Cleared
1 2 (5.88%) VCAP
1 2 (5.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.88%) QA
2 1 (2.94%) GDPR
2 1 (2.94%) NIST
System Software
1 19 (55.88%) Active Directory
2 5 (14.71%) Hyper-V
3 3 (8.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (5.88%) Docker
4 2 (5.88%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (2.94%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (14.71%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (8.82%) SCCM
3 2 (5.88%) FortiGate
3 2 (5.88%) Kubernetes
3 2 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (17.65%) Microsoft
1 6 (17.65%) VMware
2 4 (11.76%) Cisco
3 3 (8.82%) Palo Alto
4 2 (5.88%) Atempo
4 2 (5.88%) Commvault
4 2 (5.88%) Databricks
4 2 (5.88%) F5
4 2 (5.88%) Fortinet
4 2 (5.88%) Mellanox
5 1 (2.94%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.94%) NetApp
5 1 (2.94%) Oracle
5 1 (2.94%) Rapid7
5 1 (2.94%) Veeam