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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 94 76 116
Rank change year-on-year -18 +40 +1
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 32 61 65
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.68% 2.55% 1.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.80% 2.80% 1.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 46 37
10th Percentile £350 £385 £443
25th Percentile £505 £409 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% +20.00%
75th Percentile £617 £688 £700
90th Percentile £666 £710 £820
London median daily rate £525 £518 £553
% change year-on-year +1.45% -6.33% +5.99%
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 - - £87.05
% change year-on-year - - +102.15%

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 1,782 2,175 3,367
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 93.45% 90.93% 91.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,157 1,539 2,277
10th Percentile £356 £350 £325
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +6.57%
75th Percentile £679 £675 £725
90th Percentile £775 £798 £813
London median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 21 26
10th Percentile £19.04 £20.22 £14.75
25th Percentile £22.75 £23.00 £17.08
Median hourly rate £28.33 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -20.54% -14.63%
75th Percentile £43.97 £29.38 £53.50
90th Percentile £50.75 £40.00 £88.30
London median hourly rate £32.00 £28.00 £39.63
% change year-on-year +14.29% -29.34% +11.62%

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 31 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 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 -22 26 £600 +6.19% 15
West End of London - 6 £513 - 7
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 (9.38%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.13%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (6.25%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 16 (50.00%) Azure
2 11 (34.38%) Entra ID
3 8 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (18.75%) AWS
5 4 (12.50%) IaaS
6 2 (6.25%) Amazon Cognito
6 2 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (6.25%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 2 (6.25%) GitHub
6 2 (6.25%) Serverless
7 1 (3.13%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 11 (34.38%) DNS
2 9 (28.13%) Firewall
3 6 (18.75%) DHCP
4 3 (9.38%) MPLS
4 3 (9.38%) SD-WAN
4 3 (9.38%) WAN
5 2 (6.25%) Network Security
5 2 (6.25%) Structured Cabling
5 2 (6.25%) TCP/IP
5 2 (6.25%) VPN
5 2 (6.25%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (3.13%) HTTP
6 1 (3.13%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (15.63%) SQL Server
2 2 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (6.25%) DynamoDB
3 1 (3.13%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 1 (3.13%) JIRA
1 1 (3.13%) ScriptRunner
General
1 12 (37.50%) Finance
2 5 (15.63%) Social Skills
3 3 (9.38%) Banking
3 3 (9.38%) Investment Banking
4 2 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.25%) Spanish Language
5 1 (3.13%) Front Office
5 1 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (3.13%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (59.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (18.75%) Azure Engineer
2 6 (18.75%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (12.50%) Senior
3 4 (12.50%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) Active Directory Support
4 3 (9.38%) Infrastructure Support
4 3 (9.38%) VMware Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Active Directory Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Automation Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Cabling Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Data Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Integration Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Lead
5 2 (6.25%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) QA Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Data Centre Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.25%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (6.25%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.38%) Public Cloud
2 2 (6.25%) Clustering
2 2 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (6.25%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.13%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.13%) HP Storage
3 1 (3.13%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 15 (46.88%) Windows
2 11 (34.38%) Windows Server
3 3 (9.38%) Linux
4 2 (6.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (12.50%) CI/CD
1 4 (12.50%) Cloud Security
1 4 (12.50%) Migration
2 3 (9.38%) Agile
2 3 (9.38%) Data Loss Prevention
2 3 (9.38%) Electronic Trading
2 3 (9.38%) Infrastructure Management
2 3 (9.38%) Network Management
2 3 (9.38%) Patch Management
2 3 (9.38%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (9.38%) Product Requirements
2 3 (9.38%) Project Delivery
2 3 (9.38%) Security Patching
2 3 (9.38%) Server Management
2 3 (9.38%) Time Management
3 2 (6.25%) Algorithmic Trading
3 2 (6.25%) Automated Trading
3 2 (6.25%) Conversational UI
3 2 (6.25%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (6.25%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 8 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 7 (21.88%) Python
3 3 (9.38%) SQL
4 2 (6.25%) C++
4 2 (6.25%) JavaScript
4 2 (6.25%) Perl
4 2 (6.25%) Shell Script
5 1 (3.13%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 2 (6.25%) Degree
1 2 (6.25%) SC Cleared
1 2 (6.25%) Security Cleared
1 2 (6.25%) VCAP
1 2 (6.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 1 (3.13%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.25%) QA
2 1 (3.13%) GDPR
2 1 (3.13%) NIST
System Software
1 18 (56.25%) Active Directory
2 4 (12.50%) Hyper-V
3 3 (9.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (6.25%) Docker
5 1 (3.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (15.63%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (6.25%) FortiGate
2 2 (6.25%) Kubernetes
2 2 (6.25%) Terraform
3 1 (3.13%) SCCM
Vendors
1 7 (21.88%) Microsoft
2 5 (15.63%) Cisco
2 5 (15.63%) VMware
3 3 (9.38%) Palo Alto
4 2 (6.25%) Atempo
4 2 (6.25%) Databricks
4 2 (6.25%) F5
4 2 (6.25%) Fortinet
4 2 (6.25%) Mellanox
5 1 (3.13%) Atlassian
5 1 (3.13%) Commvault
5 1 (3.13%) CyberArk
5 1 (3.13%) Dell
5 1 (3.13%) HP
5 1 (3.13%) NetApp
5 1 (3.13%) Oracle
5 1 (3.13%) Rapid7
5 1 (3.13%) Sun