Infrastructure Engineer Contracts in the City of London

Infrastructure Engineer
Central London > City of London

The median Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in the City of London is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 23 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 100 125 140
Rank change year-on-year +25 +15 -23
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 27 41 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.24% 1.20% 1.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.30% 1.26% 1.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 20 43
10th Percentile £385 £474 £375
25th Percentile £411 £541 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £588 £500
Median % change year-on-year -14.89% +17.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £619 £658 £538
90th Percentile £638 £746 £620
Central London median daily rate £450 £550 £475
% change year-on-year -18.18% +15.79% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £84.09 -
Central London median hourly rate - £84.09 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 2,076 3,249 3,945
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.14% 94.83% 95.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,437 2,191 2,948
10th Percentile £350 £363 £363
25th Percentile £450 £475 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £600 £565
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +6.19% +3.20%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £688
90th Percentile £788 £815 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £555
% change year-on-year -8.33% +8.11% +3.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 20 50
10th Percentile £15.62 £15.37 £15.56
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.03 £21.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £35.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.71% -12.50% +122.53%
75th Percentile £34.69 £72.50 £54.88
90th Percentile £46.15 £88.30 £62.83
Central London median hourly rate £27.00 £35.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year -22.86% -13.58% +113.30%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the City of London

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the City of London

Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in the City of London over the 6 months to 23 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in the City of London

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the City of London

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 23 June 2024, 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 City of London region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 26 (96.30%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 13 (48.15%) Active Directory
3 12 (44.44%) Firewall
3 12 (44.44%) Azure
4 11 (40.74%) Microsoft
4 11 (40.74%) Windows
4 11 (40.74%) VMware
5 10 (37.04%) VMware Infrastructure
6 8 (29.63%) Windows Server
6 8 (29.63%) SCCM
7 7 (25.93%) Disaster Recovery
7 7 (25.93%) Microsoft Exchange
7 7 (25.93%) Citrix
7 7 (25.93%) DevOps
7 7 (25.93%) AWS
7 7 (25.93%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (25.93%) Social Skills
8 6 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
8 6 (22.22%) Entra ID
8 6 (22.22%) Data Centre
8 6 (22.22%) Identity Management
9 5 (18.52%) ITIL
9 5 (18.52%) WAN
9 5 (18.52%) Finance
9 5 (18.52%) Mimecast
10 4 (14.81%) Cloud Security
10 4 (14.81%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (14.81%) Data Loss Prevention
10 4 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
10 4 (14.81%) IaaS

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 7 (25.93%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (11.11%) SharePoint
3 1 (3.70%) OpenStack
3 1 (3.70%) SharePoint Server
Cloud Services
1 12 (44.44%) Azure
2 7 (25.93%) AWS
2 7 (25.93%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (22.22%) Entra ID
4 5 (18.52%) Mimecast
5 4 (14.81%) IaaS
6 2 (7.41%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (7.41%) AWS CodePipeline
6 2 (7.41%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (7.41%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (3.70%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 12 (44.44%) Firewall
2 5 (18.52%) WAN
3 4 (14.81%) DNS
4 3 (11.11%) Network Security
4 3 (11.11%) SAN
4 3 (11.11%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (7.41%) Internet
5 2 (7.41%) MPLS
5 2 (7.41%) SD-WAN
5 2 (7.41%) VPN
6 1 (3.70%) LAN
6 1 (3.70%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.70%) Sisense
1 1 (3.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (11.11%) Git
1 3 (11.11%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (25.93%) Social Skills
2 5 (18.52%) Finance
3 4 (14.81%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (11.11%) Public Sector
5 2 (7.41%) French Language
6 1 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (3.70%) Front Office
6 1 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (3.70%) Retail
6 1 (3.70%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.41%) AWS CDK
2 1 (3.70%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (22.22%) Data Centre
2 4 (14.81%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.70%) Clustering
3 1 (3.70%) HP Storage
Operating Systems
1 11 (40.74%) Windows
2 8 (29.63%) Windows Server
3 4 (14.81%) Linux
4 3 (11.11%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (7.41%) Mac OS
5 2 (7.41%) Windows 10
6 1 (3.70%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (96.30%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 7 (25.93%) DevOps
2 7 (25.93%) Disaster Recovery
3 6 (22.22%) Identity Management
3 6 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (18.52%) ITIL
5 4 (14.81%) Cloud Security
5 4 (14.81%) Cybersecurity
5 4 (14.81%) Data Loss Prevention
5 4 (14.81%) Information Security
5 4 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (11.11%) CI/CD
6 3 (11.11%) Incident Response
6 3 (11.11%) Project Delivery
6 3 (11.11%) SDLC
6 3 (11.11%) Time Management
7 2 (7.41%) ISMS
7 2 (7.41%) OWASP
7 2 (7.41%) Problem Management
7 2 (7.41%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (14.81%) PowerShell
1 4 (14.81%) Python
2 2 (7.41%) TypeScript
3 1 (3.70%) Bash
3 1 (3.70%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 3 (11.11%) Degree
1 3 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 3 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.41%) CCNA
2 2 (7.41%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (7.41%) DV Cleared
3 1 (3.70%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (3.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.70%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.41%) COBIT
1 2 (7.41%) GDPR
1 2 (7.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (7.41%) NCSC
1 2 (7.41%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 13 (48.15%) Active Directory
2 10 (37.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (14.81%) Hyper-V
4 2 (7.41%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (7.41%) XenApp
5 1 (3.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (29.63%) SCCM
2 3 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 3 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (7.41%) CASB
3 2 (7.41%) FortiGate
3 2 (7.41%) SCOrch
3 2 (7.41%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (3.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (3.70%) Ansible
4 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Clustering
4 1 (3.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (40.74%) Microsoft
1 11 (40.74%) VMware
2 7 (25.93%) Citrix
3 3 (11.11%) Okta
4 2 (7.41%) Bloomberg
4 2 (7.41%) CrowdStrike
4 2 (7.41%) Imperva
4 2 (7.41%) Juniper
4 2 (7.41%) Netskope
4 2 (7.41%) Palo Alto
4 2 (7.41%) Refinitiv
5 1 (3.70%) Aruba
5 1 (3.70%) Cisco
5 1 (3.70%) Commvault
5 1 (3.70%) CyberArk
5 1 (3.70%) Dell
5 1 (3.70%) Fortinet
5 1 (3.70%) HP
5 1 (3.70%) ServiceNow
5 1 (3.70%) Sun