Infrastructure Management Contract Job Trends in Central London

Infrastructure Management
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Infrastructure Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 126 118 129
Rank change year-on-year -8 +11 +58
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Management 8 8 8
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.40% 0.37% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% 0.40% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 6 6
10th Percentile £484 £495 £444
25th Percentile £569 £563 £572
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £581 £613
Median % change year-on-year +11.83% -5.10% +6.52%
75th Percentile £775 £667 £675
90th Percentile - £710 £738
London median daily rate £550 £560 £575
% change year-on-year -1.79% -2.61% +11.50%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Central London

Infrastructure Management 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 1,773 2,003 2,351
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 89.59% 92.35% 89.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,232 1,255 1,689
10th Percentile £350 £363 £352
25th Percentile £426 £463 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £570
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% +0.88% -0.87%
75th Percentile £669 £676 £688
90th Percentile £750 £778 £800
London median daily rate £525 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -5.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 25 19
10th Percentile £19.82 £19.36 £17.00
25th Percentile £21.98 £25.40 £20.72
Median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.40% +27.27% -21.43%
75th Percentile £40.19 £43.75 £42.38
90th Percentile £42.65 £112.00 £66.75
London median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -13.33%

Infrastructure Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Infrastructure Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Infrastructure Management job vacancy trend in Central London

Infrastructure Management
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Infrastructure Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Infrastructure Management

Infrastructure Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Management in Central London over the 6 months to 11 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Management in Central London

Infrastructure Management
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Infrastructure Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Infrastructure Management

Infrastructure Management
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 Management within the Central London region over the 6 months to 11 January 2026. 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 7 £700 +20.43% 4
Infrastructure Management
London

Infrastructure Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) AWS
3 1 (12.50%) Akamai
3 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) Cloudflare
3 1 (12.50%) GCP
3 1 (12.50%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) SSL
1 3 (37.50%) TCP/IP
2 2 (25.00%) HTTP
3 1 (12.50%) DHCP
3 1 (12.50%) DNS
3 1 (12.50%) Firewall
3 1 (12.50%) HTTPS
3 1 (12.50%) Internet
3 1 (12.50%) tcpdump
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Git
1 2 (25.00%) Robot Framework
2 1 (12.50%) GitLab
2 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (87.50%) Finance
2 6 (75.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (25.00%) Financial Institution
3 2 (25.00%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (12.50%) Back Office
4 1 (12.50%) Banking
4 1 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Network Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Lead
2 2 (25.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Python Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Developer
3 1 (12.50%) DevOps Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Firewall Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Lead DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) Lead DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Lead Solutions Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Network Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Firewall Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Transformation Director
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Private Cloud
2 1 (12.50%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (12.50%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
2 1 (12.50%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) Linux
2 2 (25.00%) Unix
2 2 (25.00%) Windows
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (37.50%) Configuration Management
2 3 (37.50%) DevOps
2 3 (37.50%) ITIL
2 3 (37.50%) Load Balancing
3 2 (25.00%) Agile
3 2 (25.00%) Business Continuity
3 2 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (25.00%) High Availability
3 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 2 (25.00%) ITSM
3 2 (25.00%) Low Latency
3 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (25.00%) SDLC
3 2 (25.00%) Service Delivery
3 2 (25.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (25.00%) Translating Business Requirements
3 2 (25.00%) Ultra-Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) Perl
2 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (12.50%) Bash
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Degree
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification
2 1 (12.50%) CCNA
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (12.50%) GDPR
2 1 (12.50%) ISO 9001
2 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (75.00%) Ansible
1 6 (75.00%) Terraform
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (12.50%) Packer
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) F5
2 2 (25.00%) VMware
3 1 (12.50%) CheckPoint
3 1 (12.50%) Dynatrace
3 1 (12.50%) Fortinet
3 1 (12.50%) Google
3 1 (12.50%) Infoblox
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle
3 1 (12.50%) Palo Alto