Infrastructure Engineering Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Infrastructure Engineering
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Infrastructure Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 86 70
Rank change year-on-year -13 -16 +60
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 25 27 61
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.34% 1.46% 2.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.51% 1.59% 2.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 19 45
10th Percentile £406 £451 £385
25th Percentile £446 £488 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £515
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +11.65% -14.17%
75th Percentile £600 £632 £670
90th Percentile £650 £713 £700
Central London median daily rate £550 £593 £515
% change year-on-year -7.17% +15.05% -6.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £112.00 -
Central London median hourly rate - £112.00 -

All Process & 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 1,661 1,695 2,167
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 89.01% 91.82% 89.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,158 1,017 1,550
10th Percentile £356 £363 £350
25th Percentile £429 £463 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £575 £566
Median % change year-on-year -6.74% +1.59% -4.87%
75th Percentile £675 £679 £688
90th Percentile £775 £783 £800
Central London median daily rate £540 £575 £560
% change year-on-year -6.09% +2.68% -4.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 8 14
10th Percentile £19.98 £19.60 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.66 £22.00 £19.18
Median hourly rate £31.00 £35.50 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.68% +12.70% -10.00%
75th Percentile £42.65 £60.81 £45.06
90th Percentile £49.83 £112.00 £66.70
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.81
% change year-on-year -25.40% +25.85% -17.60%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Infrastructure Engineering job vacancy trend in the City of London

Infrastructure Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Infrastructure Engineering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Infrastructure Engineering

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 3 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in the City of London

Infrastructure Engineering
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Infrastructure Engineering.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Infrastructure Engineering

Infrastructure Engineering
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 (8.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 15 (60.00%) Azure
2 8 (32.00%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (16.00%) IaaS
4 3 (12.00%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (12.00%) GCP
4 3 (12.00%) PaaS
5 2 (8.00%) Entra ID
5 2 (8.00%) Mimecast
6 1 (4.00%) AWS
6 1 (4.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (4.00%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (4.00%) GitHub
6 1 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (4.00%) Nutanix
6 1 (4.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.00%) Firewall
2 2 (8.00%) DNS
2 2 (8.00%) Network Security
3 1 (4.00%) HTTP
3 1 (4.00%) MPLS
3 1 (4.00%) SAN
3 1 (4.00%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (4.00%) SSL
3 1 (4.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (4.00%) tcpdump
3 1 (4.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Git
2 1 (4.00%) Jaeger
2 1 (4.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.00%) Robot Framework
General
1 9 (36.00%) Finance
2 4 (16.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (8.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.00%) Banking
4 1 (4.00%) Financial Institution
4 1 (4.00%) Games
4 1 (4.00%) Investment Banking
4 1 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (4.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (52.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (16.00%) Senior
3 3 (12.00%) Consultant
3 3 (12.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Network Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Security Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Azure Consultant
5 1 (4.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Data Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) DevOps Consultant
5 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Python Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Security Auditor
5 1 (4.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.00%) Loki
1 1 (4.00%) OpenTelemetry
1 1 (4.00%) REST
1 1 (4.00%) RESTful
1 1 (4.00%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.00%) Public Cloud
1 2 (8.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (4.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (4.00%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (4.00%) Media Streaming
2 1 (4.00%) Online Games
2 1 (4.00%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (24.00%) Windows
2 3 (12.00%) Linux
3 2 (8.00%) Windows Server
4 1 (4.00%) Unix
4 1 (4.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (28.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (24.00%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 5 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
4 4 (16.00%) DevOps
4 4 (16.00%) Infrastructure Management
4 4 (16.00%) IT Audit
4 4 (16.00%) Migration
5 3 (12.00%) Agile
5 3 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (12.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (12.00%) High Availability
5 3 (12.00%) Infrastructure Automation
5 3 (12.00%) Project Delivery
5 3 (12.00%) Software Engineering
6 2 (8.00%) Cloud Security
6 2 (8.00%) Impact Assessments
6 2 (8.00%) Incident Response
6 2 (8.00%) Platform Engineering
6 2 (8.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 6 (24.00%) PowerShell
1 6 (24.00%) Python
2 1 (4.00%) Bash
2 1 (4.00%) Go
2 1 (4.00%) Java
2 1 (4.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 3 (12.00%) Degree
2 2 (8.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (4.00%) CCNA
3 1 (4.00%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.00%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 2 (8.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (8.00%) Virtual Desktop
1 2 (8.00%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (4.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 8 (32.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (24.00%) Terraform
3 5 (20.00%) Ansible
4 2 (8.00%) Kubernetes
5 1 (4.00%) AirWatch
5 1 (4.00%) Grafana
5 1 (4.00%) Packer
5 1 (4.00%) Prometheus
5 1 (4.00%) SCCM
5 1 (4.00%) vRealize
5 1 (4.00%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 9 (36.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (12.00%) Cisco
2 3 (12.00%) Palo Alto
2 3 (12.00%) VMware
3 2 (8.00%) Google
3 2 (8.00%) Tenable
4 1 (4.00%) Citrix
4 1 (4.00%) CyberArk
4 1 (4.00%) F5
4 1 (4.00%) Splunk