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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 94 82 76
Rank change year-on-year -12 -6 +53
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 25 47 75
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.43% 2.23% 2.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.52% 2.42% 2.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 37 46
10th Percentile £451 £421 £431
25th Percentile £518 £475 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +10.00%
75th Percentile £625 £708 £647
90th Percentile £765 £757 £724
Central London median daily rate £550 £560 £550
% change year-on-year -1.79% +1.82% +18.41%

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 1,647 1,941 2,723
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.17% 91.90% 90.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,095 1,225 1,883
10th Percentile £321 £375 £363
25th Percentile £415 £470 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £701
90th Percentile £764 £788 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 16 16
10th Percentile £17.08 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £23.75 £20.00 £16.02
Median hourly rate £28.15 £27.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.26% +8.00% -41.52%
75th Percentile £56.75 £82.19 £44.87
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £60.88
Central London median hourly rate £28.33 £35.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -19.07% +34.62% -38.10%

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
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 20 September 2025.

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 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 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (4.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 15 (60.00%) Azure
2 6 (24.00%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (20.00%) Entra ID
4 4 (16.00%) AWS
4 4 (16.00%) IaaS
5 2 (8.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (8.00%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (8.00%) Amazon ELB
5 2 (8.00%) Amazon S3
5 2 (8.00%) GCP
5 2 (8.00%) Mimecast
5 2 (8.00%) PaaS
5 2 (8.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (4.00%) Azure AKS
6 1 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (4.00%) GitHub
6 1 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (4.00%) GitHub Copilot
6 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 9 (36.00%) Firewall
2 4 (16.00%) DNS
2 4 (16.00%) SD-WAN
2 4 (16.00%) SSL
2 4 (16.00%) TCP/IP
2 4 (16.00%) WAN
3 3 (12.00%) VPN
4 2 (8.00%) HTTP
4 2 (8.00%) tcpdump
5 1 (4.00%) DHCP
5 1 (4.00%) MPLS
5 1 (4.00%) Network Security
5 1 (4.00%) SAN
Development Applications
1 5 (20.00%) Git
2 4 (16.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (8.00%) Robot Framework
4 1 (4.00%) JIRA
4 1 (4.00%) ScriptRunner
General
1 14 (56.00%) Finance
2 3 (12.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (8.00%) Financial Institution
4 1 (4.00%) Banking
4 1 (4.00%) Front Office
4 1 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (4.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 14 (56.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (16.00%) Active Directory Support
2 4 (16.00%) Infrastructure Support
3 3 (12.00%) Senior
3 3 (12.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Developer
4 2 (8.00%) Network Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Python Developer
4 2 (8.00%) Python Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Security Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Hyper-V Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) VMware Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Windows Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.00%) RESTful
2 1 (4.00%) GraphQL
2 1 (4.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.00%) Linux Command Line
1 2 (8.00%) Private Cloud
1 2 (8.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (4.00%) HP Storage
2 1 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (4.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (24.00%) Linux
2 5 (20.00%) Windows
3 4 (16.00%) Windows Server
4 2 (8.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (24.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (20.00%) Agile
2 5 (20.00%) Infrastructure Management
3 4 (16.00%) DevOps
3 4 (16.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (16.00%) ITIL
3 4 (16.00%) Network Management
3 4 (16.00%) Patch Management
4 3 (12.00%) Containerisation
4 3 (12.00%) Electronic Trading
4 3 (12.00%) High Availability
4 3 (12.00%) Migration
4 3 (12.00%) Scrum
4 3 (12.00%) SDLC
4 3 (12.00%) Security Patching
4 3 (12.00%) Software Engineering
4 3 (12.00%) Task Automation
4 3 (12.00%) Vulnerability Management
5 2 (8.00%) Information Security
5 2 (8.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 7 (28.00%) Python
2 4 (16.00%) PowerShell
3 3 (12.00%) SQL
4 2 (8.00%) Perl
5 1 (4.00%) Bash
5 1 (4.00%) Go
5 1 (4.00%) Groovy
5 1 (4.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (12.00%) Degree
2 2 (8.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (8.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (8.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.00%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (4.00%) MCSA
3 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 7 (28.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (12.00%) Docker
3 2 (8.00%) Hyper-V
4 1 (4.00%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (4.00%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (32.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (24.00%) Ansible
2 6 (24.00%) Terraform
3 2 (8.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (8.00%) SCCM
4 1 (4.00%) AirWatch
Vendors
1 10 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 9 (36.00%) Palo Alto
3 7 (28.00%) Cisco
4 4 (16.00%) F5
5 3 (12.00%) VMware
6 2 (8.00%) CheckPoint
6 2 (8.00%) CyberArk
6 2 (8.00%) Google
6 2 (8.00%) Tenable
7 1 (4.00%) Atlassian
7 1 (4.00%) Dell
7 1 (4.00%) HP
7 1 (4.00%) Meraki