3rd Line Infrastructure Support Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Third Line Infrastructure Support
Central London > City of London

The median Third Line Infrastructure Support daily rate in the City of London is £625, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 5 June 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 131 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a 3rd Line Infrastructure Support 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.085% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.090% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £613 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - -
75th Percentile £638 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median daily rate £625 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the City of 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 the City of London with a recognized job title 2,224 1,583 2,049
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.44% 93.72% 95.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,493 995 1,428
10th Percentile £355 £352 £348
25th Percentile £450 £450 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £673 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 15 15
10th Percentile £17.42 £18.70 £15.62
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.21 £20.22
Median hourly rate £26.64 £28.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +26.67% -35.71%
75th Percentile £52.41 £46.25 £34.69
90th Percentile £65.00 £85.50 £46.15
Central London median hourly rate £26.56 £28.15 £27.00
% change year-on-year -5.67% +4.26% -22.86%

3rd Line Infrastructure Support
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring '3rd Line Infrastructure Support' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

3rd Line Infrastructure Support job vacancy trend in the City of London

3rd Line Infrastructure Support
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for 3rd Line Infrastructure Support job vacancies in the City of London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for 3rd Line Infrastructure Support job vacancies in the City of London

3rd Line Infrastructure Support
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for 3rd Line Infrastructure Support job vacancies in the City of London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for 3rd Line Infrastructure Support job vacancies in the City of London

3rd Line Infrastructure Support Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 5 June 2026, 3rd Line Infrastructure Support contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the City of London region featuring 3rd Line Infrastructure Support in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Big Data
1 2 (100.00%) BitLocker
1 2 (100.00%) Citrix
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) DHCP
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
1 2 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
1 2 (100.00%) Google
1 2 (100.00%) HP
1 2 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 2 (100.00%) IaaS
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft App-V
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (100.00%) Nagios
1 2 (100.00%) OpenShift

3rd Line Infrastructure Support Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
1 2 (100.00%) IaaS
1 2 (100.00%) OpenShift
1 2 (100.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DHCP
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) SMTP
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (100.00%) Big Data
1 2 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Clustering
1 2 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (100.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
1 2 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) BitLocker
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
1 2 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft App-V
1 2 (100.00%) Terminal Services
1 2 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Nagios
1 2 (100.00%) Puppet
1 2 (100.00%) vCenter Server
1 2 (100.00%) vMotion
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Citrix
1 2 (100.00%) Google
1 2 (100.00%) HP
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Symantec
1 2 (100.00%) VMware