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 5 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 100 95 67
Rank change year-on-year -5 -28 +52
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 36 27 57
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.56% 1.54% 2.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.83% 1.65% 2.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 21 44
10th Percentile £425 £400 £385
25th Percentile £519 £518 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £593 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.84% +7.73% -8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £625 £674
90th Percentile - £694 £707
Central London median daily rate £600 £596 £525
% change year-on-year +0.63% +13.57% -12.50%

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 1,965 1,639 1,967
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 85.10% 93.28% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,336 1,037 1,395
10th Percentile £363 £361 £363
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £568
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +1.32% -5.42%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 12 11
10th Percentile £18.14 £22.00 £19.92
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.00 £20.22
Median hourly rate £27.50 £29.58 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.02% +18.30% -28.57%
75th Percentile £47.41 £45.00 £40.00
90th Percentile £59.72 £62.25 £41.84
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £29.07 £27.81
% change year-on-year -10.18% +4.53% -20.54%

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 5 May 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 4 (11.11%) CICS
2 1 (2.78%) IBM HTTP Server
2 1 (2.78%) WebSphere
2 1 (2.78%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 13 (36.11%) Azure
2 10 (27.78%) AWS
3 5 (13.89%) Serverless
4 4 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 4 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (11.11%) GCP
4 4 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (8.33%) Entra ID
6 2 (5.56%) Azure AKS
6 2 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (5.56%) GitHub
6 2 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (5.56%) IaaS
6 2 (5.56%) PaaS
6 2 (5.56%) SaaS
7 1 (2.78%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (2.78%) Azure Functions
7 1 (2.78%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (2.78%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (2.78%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.33%) DNS
1 3 (8.33%) Firewall
2 2 (5.56%) Network Security
3 1 (2.78%) SAN
3 1 (2.78%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (11.11%) DB2
1 4 (11.11%) DynamoDB
2 1 (2.78%) Data Mining
2 1 (2.78%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (11.11%) GitLab
2 2 (5.56%) Git
3 1 (2.78%) Artifactory
3 1 (2.78%) Introscope
3 1 (2.78%) Jaeger
General
1 11 (30.56%) Finance
2 10 (27.78%) Social Skills
3 7 (19.44%) Banking
4 3 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (5.56%) Legal
5 2 (5.56%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.78%) Games
6 1 (2.78%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.78%) Mandarin Language
6 1 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (52.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (19.44%) Cloud Engineer
2 7 (19.44%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (8.33%) Architect
3 3 (8.33%) Citrix Engineer
3 3 (8.33%) Senior
4 2 (5.56%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (5.56%) Consultant
4 2 (5.56%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (5.56%) VMware Engineer
5 1 (2.78%) Azure Consultant
5 1 (2.78%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 1 (2.78%) Data Engineer
5 1 (2.78%) Data Protection Engineer
5 1 (2.78%) DevOps Consultant
5 1 (2.78%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (2.78%) Monitoring Engineer
5 1 (2.78%) Security Auditor
5 1 (2.78%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (2.78%) z/OS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.11%) JSON
1 4 (11.11%) RESTful
1 4 (11.11%) SOAP
1 4 (11.11%) Web Services
1 4 (11.11%) WSDL
2 2 (5.56%) REST
3 1 (2.78%) GraphQL
3 1 (2.78%) Loki
3 1 (2.78%) Middleware
3 1 (2.78%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (2.78%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.11%) DataPower
1 4 (11.11%) Mainframe
1 4 (11.11%) Online Banking
2 3 (8.33%) Cloud Native
3 2 (5.56%) Data Centre
3 2 (5.56%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.78%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.78%) Media Streaming
4 1 (2.78%) Online Games
4 1 (2.78%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 8 (22.22%) Windows
2 4 (11.11%) zOS
3 2 (5.56%) VMS
3 2 (5.56%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.78%) AIX
4 1 (2.78%) Android
4 1 (2.78%) Apple iOS
4 1 (2.78%) Linux
4 1 (2.78%) Mac OS
4 1 (2.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.78%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (30.56%) Infrastructure as Code
2 9 (25.00%) DevOps
3 8 (22.22%) CI/CD
4 7 (19.44%) AI
5 5 (13.89%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (11.11%) Batch Processing
6 4 (11.11%) Customer Service
6 4 (11.11%) Infrastructure Transformation
6 4 (11.11%) Integration Patterns
6 4 (11.11%) Performance Tuning
6 4 (11.11%) Platform Engineering
6 4 (11.11%) SOA
7 3 (8.33%) Application Packaging
7 3 (8.33%) Cloud Security
7 3 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (8.33%) Disaster Recovery
7 3 (8.33%) High Availability
7 3 (8.33%) Infrastructure Automation
7 3 (8.33%) Observability
7 3 (8.33%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 9 (25.00%) Python
2 5 (13.89%) PowerShell
2 5 (13.89%) Shell Script
3 4 (11.11%) JCL
3 4 (11.11%) SQL
4 2 (5.56%) Bicep
4 2 (5.56%) Go
4 2 (5.56%) Java
5 1 (2.78%) Bash
5 1 (2.78%) C#
5 1 (2.78%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.78%) Jython
5 1 (2.78%) VB
Qualifications
1 8 (22.22%) SC Cleared
1 8 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.56%) Azure Certification
2 2 (5.56%) CCNA
2 2 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (5.56%) Degree
3 1 (2.78%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (2.78%) MCSE
3 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.78%) PMI Certification
3 1 (2.78%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
3 1 (2.78%) TOGAF Certification
3 1 (2.78%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.56%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (2.78%) NCSC
2 1 (2.78%) PMO
2 1 (2.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (11.11%) Active Directory
2 3 (8.33%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (5.56%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (2.78%) Docker
4 1 (2.78%) Firmware
4 1 (2.78%) Hyper-V
4 1 (2.78%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (2.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (2.78%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (22.22%) Terraform
2 7 (19.44%) Kubernetes
3 4 (11.11%) Ansible
3 4 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (5.56%) vRealize
5 1 (2.78%) CA Wily
5 1 (2.78%) Grafana
5 1 (2.78%) Packer
5 1 (2.78%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.78%) Puppet
5 1 (2.78%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 5 (13.89%) Microsoft
1 5 (13.89%) VMware
2 3 (8.33%) Citrix
3 1 (2.78%) EMC
3 1 (2.78%) Oracle
3 1 (2.78%) Red Hat
3 1 (2.78%) Splunk