Senior Infrastructure Engineer Contracts in Central London

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
London > Central London

The median Senior Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in Central London is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 123 128 166
Rank change year-on-year +5 +38 +30
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 6 5 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.30% 0.20% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.32% 0.21% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 6
10th Percentile £585 - £481
25th Percentile - £613 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +13.64% -
75th Percentile £625 £675 £613
90th Percentile £700 £743 £725
London median daily rate £575 £606 £550
% change year-on-year -5.15% +10.23% -

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 1,852 2,329 3,676
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.74% 95.22% 95.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,192 1,658 2,523
10th Percentile £350 £350 £325
25th Percentile £454 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £585
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -5.98% +4.46%
75th Percentile £675 £682 £725
90th Percentile £775 £794 £813
London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 32 26
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.95 £15.50
25th Percentile £22.75 £21.81 £18.93
Median hourly rate £29.07 £25.78 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.76% -26.34% -6.04%
75th Percentile £35.00 £27.81 £58.75
90th Percentile £63.75 £43.38 £86.65
London median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Infrastructure Engineer in Central London

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Infrastructure Engineer in Central London

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

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

Daily rate histogram for Senior Infrastructure Engineer in Central London

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Infrastructure Engineer in Central London

Senior 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 Senior Infrastructure Engineer 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 +6 3 £675 +8.00% 5
West End of London - 3 £600 -
Senior Infrastructure Engineer
London

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Senior 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 Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (83.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (66.67%) Windows Server
2 4 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 4 (66.67%) Windows
2 4 (66.67%) Banking
2 4 (66.67%) Investment Banking
2 4 (66.67%) Azure
3 3 (50.00%) Finance
3 3 (50.00%) Migration
3 3 (50.00%) Active Directory
3 3 (50.00%) Server Management
3 3 (50.00%) Hyper-V
4 1 (16.67%) Agile
4 1 (16.67%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
4 1 (16.67%) Workload Management
4 1 (16.67%) ScriptRunner
4 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) NetApp
4 1 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (16.67%) Firewall
4 1 (16.67%) Risk Management
4 1 (16.67%) Python
4 1 (16.67%) Cisco
4 1 (16.67%) VMware
4 1 (16.67%) Java
4 1 (16.67%) SQL
4 1 (16.67%) Oracle
4 1 (16.67%) JIRA

Senior 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 1 (16.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
2 1 (16.67%) IaaS
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
1 1 (16.67%) ScriptRunner
General
1 4 (66.67%) Banking
1 4 (66.67%) Investment Banking
2 3 (50.00%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Windows
1 4 (66.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (50.00%) Migration
2 3 (50.00%) Server Management
3 1 (16.67%) Agile
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (16.67%) High Availability
3 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (16.67%) Risk Management
3 1 (16.67%) Security Hardening
3 1 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 1 (16.67%) Workload Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Groovy
1 1 (16.67%) Java
1 1 (16.67%) Python
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (50.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (16.67%) Docker
2 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Ansible
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Atlassian
1 1 (16.67%) Cisco
1 1 (16.67%) NetApp
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle
1 1 (16.67%) VMware