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 27 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 97 103 81
Rank change year-on-year +6 -22 +11
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 46 24 48
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.98% 1.33% 2.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.26% 1.41% 2.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 20 37
10th Percentile £408 £513 £443
25th Percentile £450 £518 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £563 £593
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -5.06% +0.85%
75th Percentile £675 £636 £710
90th Percentile £686 £775 £757
Central London median daily rate £623 £550 £579
% change year-on-year +13.18% -4.97% -1.49%

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 2,035 1,697 1,906
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 87.75% 94.28% 91.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,398 1,116 1,250
10th Percentile £381 £323 £375
25th Percentile £460 £424 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £774 £790
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 22 16
10th Percentile - £17.35 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £23.98 £19.79
Median hourly rate £20.25 £28.33 £26.63
Median % change year-on-year -28.51% +6.38% -3.18%
75th Percentile £31.52 £53.50 £82.19
90th Percentile £49.64 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £23.58 £29.07 £27.00
% change year-on-year -18.89% +7.67% -22.86%

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 27 August 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 5 (10.87%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (6.52%) Confluence
3 2 (4.35%) CICS
3 2 (4.35%) Exchange Server 2013
3 2 (4.35%) SharePoint
4 1 (2.17%) CMS
4 1 (2.17%) IBM HTTP Server
4 1 (2.17%) WebSphere
4 1 (2.17%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.17%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (4.35%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 15 (32.61%) Azure
2 12 (26.09%) AWS
3 7 (15.22%) GCP
4 5 (10.87%) Azure AKS
4 5 (10.87%) IaaS
4 5 (10.87%) PaaS
5 4 (8.70%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (8.70%) OpenShift
6 3 (6.52%) Azure Logic Apps
6 3 (6.52%) GitHub
6 3 (6.52%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (6.52%) SaaS
6 3 (6.52%) Serverless
7 2 (4.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (4.35%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (4.35%) Power Platform
8 1 (2.17%) Entra ID
8 1 (2.17%) Fastly
Communications & Networking
1 11 (23.91%) DNS
2 8 (17.39%) DHCP
2 8 (17.39%) Firewall
3 5 (10.87%) VPN
4 3 (6.52%) SMTP
5 2 (4.35%) DMZ
5 2 (4.35%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (2.17%) BGP
6 1 (2.17%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (2.17%) Internet
6 1 (2.17%) LAN
6 1 (2.17%) Multicast
6 1 (2.17%) Network Security
6 1 (2.17%) SAN
6 1 (2.17%) Wireless
6 1 (2.17%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (13.04%) SQL Server
2 3 (6.52%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (6.52%) Big Data
2 3 (6.52%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (4.35%) Db2
3 2 (4.35%) DynamoDB
3 2 (4.35%) Power BI
3 2 (4.35%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 2 (4.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (4.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (2.17%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 2 (4.35%) Git
1 2 (4.35%) GitLab
1 2 (4.35%) JIRA
2 1 (2.17%) Artifactory
2 1 (2.17%) Introscope
2 1 (2.17%) Subversion
General
1 11 (23.91%) Finance
1 11 (23.91%) Social Skills
2 5 (10.87%) Banking
3 2 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (4.35%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.17%) Financial Institution
4 1 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.17%) Investment Banking
4 1 (2.17%) Law
4 1 (2.17%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 28 (60.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 9 (19.57%) Cloud Engineer
2 9 (19.57%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (15.22%) Support Engineer
4 6 (13.04%) Infrastructure Support
4 6 (13.04%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 3 (6.52%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 3 (6.52%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (6.52%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
5 3 (6.52%) 3rd Line Support
5 3 (6.52%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 3 (6.52%) Architect
5 3 (6.52%) VMware Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) Cisco Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) Consultant
6 2 (4.35%) Infrastructure Specialist
6 2 (4.35%) Network Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (23.91%) Terraform
2 2 (4.35%) 802.1X
2 2 (4.35%) JSON
2 2 (4.35%) RESTful
2 2 (4.35%) SOAP
2 2 (4.35%) Web Services
2 2 (4.35%) WSDL
2 2 (4.35%) YAML
3 1 (2.17%) .NET
3 1 (2.17%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 7 (15.22%) Data Centre
2 5 (10.87%) Clustering
3 3 (6.52%) PKI
4 2 (4.35%) Cloud Native
4 2 (4.35%) DataPower
4 2 (4.35%) Enterprise Cloud
4 2 (4.35%) Mainframe
4 2 (4.35%) Online Banking
5 1 (2.17%) CCTV
5 1 (2.17%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (2.17%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.17%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 20 (43.48%) Windows
2 15 (32.61%) Windows Server
3 5 (10.87%) Linux
4 4 (8.70%) VMS
5 2 (4.35%) OpenVMS
5 2 (4.35%) Windows 7
5 2 (4.35%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (4.35%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (4.35%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (4.35%) zOS
6 1 (2.17%) AIX
6 1 (2.17%) Android
6 1 (2.17%) Apple iOS
6 1 (2.17%) Mac OS
6 1 (2.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (2.17%) Unix
6 1 (2.17%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (30.43%) DevOps
2 10 (21.74%) Infrastructure as Code
3 9 (19.57%) CI/CD
4 8 (17.39%) AI
5 6 (13.04%) Migration
5 6 (13.04%) Platform Engineering
6 5 (10.87%) High Availability
6 5 (10.87%) Machine Learning
6 5 (10.87%) Mentoring
7 4 (8.70%) Identity Access Management
7 4 (8.70%) Infrastructure Transformation
7 4 (8.70%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (8.70%) Service Delivery
8 3 (6.52%) Cloud Security
8 3 (6.52%) Containerisation
8 3 (6.52%) Roadmaps
8 3 (6.52%) Software Deployment
8 3 (6.52%) Vulnerability Remediation
9 2 (4.35%) Customer Service
9 2 (4.35%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 16 (34.78%) PowerShell
2 8 (17.39%) Python
2 8 (17.39%) SQL
3 3 (6.52%) C#
3 3 (6.52%) Shell Script
4 2 (4.35%) Bash
4 2 (4.35%) Bicep
4 2 (4.35%) Java
4 2 (4.35%) JCL
5 1 (2.17%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.17%) Jython
5 1 (2.17%) VB
Qualifications
1 22 (47.83%) Security Cleared
2 14 (30.43%) SC Cleared
3 7 (15.22%) DV Cleared
4 5 (10.87%) Degree
5 1 (2.17%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.17%) CCNA
5 1 (2.17%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.17%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (2.17%) MCSE
5 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.17%) PMI Certification
5 1 (2.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.52%) QA
2 2 (4.35%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (2.17%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.17%) NCSC
3 1 (2.17%) NIST
3 1 (2.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (2.17%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (28.26%) Active Directory
1 13 (28.26%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (17.39%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (8.70%) Hyper-V
4 3 (6.52%) BitLocker
4 3 (6.52%) Docker
4 3 (6.52%) Microsoft App-V
4 3 (6.52%) Terminal Services
5 2 (4.35%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (4.35%) vSphere
6 1 (2.17%) Firmware
6 1 (2.17%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 11 (23.91%) Kubernetes
2 10 (21.74%) Ansible
3 6 (13.04%) vCenter Server
4 5 (10.87%) Puppet
5 4 (8.70%) SCCM
6 3 (6.52%) FortiGate
6 3 (6.52%) Nagios
6 3 (6.52%) vMotion
7 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Clustering
7 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (4.35%) Nessus
7 2 (4.35%) NetBackup
7 2 (4.35%) SCOM
7 2 (4.35%) WSUS
8 1 (2.17%) CA Wily
8 1 (2.17%) vRealize
Vendors
1 17 (36.96%) VMware
2 13 (28.26%) Microsoft
3 6 (13.04%) Citrix
4 4 (8.70%) Cisco
4 4 (8.70%) Google
4 4 (8.70%) Oracle
5 3 (6.52%) HP
5 3 (6.52%) Symantec
6 2 (4.35%) BMC
6 2 (4.35%) Commvault
6 2 (4.35%) Databricks
6 2 (4.35%) EMC
6 2 (4.35%) Remedy
6 2 (4.35%) Tenable
6 2 (4.35%) Veeam
6 2 (4.35%) Veritas
6 2 (4.35%) Zscaler
7 1 (2.17%) NetApp
7 1 (2.17%) Pure Storage
7 1 (2.17%) Red Hat