Infrastructure Engineering Contracts in the City of London

Infrastructure Engineering
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 93 69 99
Rank change year-on-year -24 +30 +24
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 29 61 66
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.60% 2.85% 1.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.70% 3.13% 2.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 47 38
10th Percentile £420 £390 £431
25th Percentile £518 £450 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +15.27%
75th Percentile £631 £709 £678
90th Percentile £723 £715 £768
Central London median daily rate £563 £593 £588
% change year-on-year -5.06% +0.85% +17.50%
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 - - -
Central London median hourly rate - - £84.09

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,705 1,952 3,205
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.84% 91.26% 91.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,093 1,349 2,158
10th Percentile £350 £363 £350
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £825
Central London median daily rate £552 £560 £600
% change year-on-year -1.43% -6.67% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 16 24
10th Percentile £17.08 £19.21 £14.25
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.22 £16.33
Median hourly rate £31.00 £26.63 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.43% -23.93% -18.83%
75th Percentile £56.75 £40.46 £57.50
90th Percentile £63.75 £64.50 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £32.50 £27.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +20.37% -22.86% -18.13%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Infrastructure Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineering in the City of London

Infrastructure Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Engineering in the City of London

Infrastructure Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in the City of London over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in the City of London

Infrastructure Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Engineering in the City of London

Infrastructure Engineering
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 3 (10.34%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.45%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 14 (48.28%) Azure
2 9 (31.03%) Entra ID
3 8 (27.59%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (20.69%) AWS
5 4 (13.79%) IaaS
6 2 (6.90%) Amazon Cognito
6 2 (6.90%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (6.90%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (6.90%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 2 (6.90%) GitHub
6 2 (6.90%) Serverless
7 1 (3.45%) Azure AKS
7 1 (3.45%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 10 (34.48%) DNS
1 10 (34.48%) Firewall
2 5 (17.24%) DHCP
3 4 (13.79%) SD-WAN
3 4 (13.79%) WAN
4 3 (10.34%) MPLS
5 2 (6.90%) Network Security
5 2 (6.90%) TCP/IP
5 2 (6.90%) VPN
6 1 (3.45%) HTTP
6 1 (3.45%) SAN
6 1 (3.45%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.34%) SQL Server
2 2 (6.90%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (6.90%) DynamoDB
3 1 (3.45%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Git
1 1 (3.45%) Jenkins
1 1 (3.45%) JIRA
1 1 (3.45%) ScriptRunner
General
1 10 (34.48%) Finance
2 3 (10.34%) Social Skills
3 2 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (6.90%) Spanish Language
4 1 (3.45%) Front Office
4 1 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (58.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (17.24%) Azure Engineer
2 5 (17.24%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (13.79%) Active Directory Support
3 4 (13.79%) Infrastructure Support
4 3 (10.34%) VMware Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Active Directory Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Integration Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Lead
5 2 (6.90%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) QA Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Senior
5 2 (6.90%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Migration Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Release Manager
6 1 (3.45%) Security Architect
6 1 (3.45%) Server Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.90%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (6.90%) Node.js
2 1 (3.45%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.90%) Clustering
1 2 (6.90%) Product Ownership
1 2 (6.90%) Public Cloud
2 1 (3.45%) Data Centre
2 1 (3.45%) HP Storage
2 1 (3.45%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (3.45%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (3.45%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 11 (37.93%) Windows
2 8 (27.59%) Windows Server
3 4 (13.79%) Linux
4 2 (6.90%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (17.24%) Agile
2 4 (13.79%) CI/CD
2 4 (13.79%) Cloud Security
2 4 (13.79%) Electronic Trading
2 4 (13.79%) Infrastructure Management
2 4 (13.79%) Network Management
3 3 (10.34%) Data Loss Prevention
3 3 (10.34%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (10.34%) Patch Management
3 3 (10.34%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (10.34%) Product Requirements
3 3 (10.34%) Project Delivery
3 3 (10.34%) Security Patching
3 3 (10.34%) Time Management
4 2 (6.90%) Automated Trading
4 2 (6.90%) Conversational UI
4 2 (6.90%) Infrastructure Automation
4 2 (6.90%) Natural Language Processing
4 2 (6.90%) SDLC
4 2 (6.90%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 7 (24.14%) Python
2 6 (20.69%) PowerShell
3 4 (13.79%) SQL
4 2 (6.90%) C++
4 2 (6.90%) JavaScript
4 2 (6.90%) Perl
4 2 (6.90%) Shell Script
5 1 (3.45%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 3 (10.34%) Degree
2 2 (6.90%) SC Cleared
2 2 (6.90%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.90%) VCAP
2 2 (6.90%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (3.45%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.90%) QA
2 1 (3.45%) GDPR
2 1 (3.45%) NIST
System Software
1 15 (51.72%) Active Directory
2 3 (10.34%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (6.90%) Docker
4 1 (3.45%) Hyper-V
4 1 (3.45%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (17.24%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (6.90%) FortiGate
2 2 (6.90%) Kubernetes
2 2 (6.90%) Terraform
3 1 (3.45%) Ansible
3 1 (3.45%) SCCM
Vendors
1 7 (24.14%) Microsoft
2 6 (20.69%) Cisco
3 5 (17.24%) VMware
4 4 (13.79%) Palo Alto
5 2 (6.90%) Atempo
5 2 (6.90%) Databricks
5 2 (6.90%) F5
5 2 (6.90%) Fortinet
5 2 (6.90%) Mellanox
6 1 (3.45%) Atlassian
6 1 (3.45%) Commvault
6 1 (3.45%) CyberArk
6 1 (3.45%) Dell
6 1 (3.45%) HP
6 1 (3.45%) Meraki
6 1 (3.45%) NetApp
6 1 (3.45%) Oracle
6 1 (3.45%) Rapid7
6 1 (3.45%) Sun