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 16 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 91 100 77
Rank change year-on-year +9 -23 +24
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 46 28 55
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.90% 1.50% 2.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.20% 1.60% 2.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 23 40
10th Percentile £380 £424 £406
25th Percentile £450 £518 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £593
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +1.27% -1.25%
75th Percentile £661 £631 £708
90th Percentile £675 £723 £711
Central London median daily rate £575 £575 £584
% change year-on-year - -1.50% -2.71%

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 2,095 1,747 1,961
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 86.46% 93.87% 91.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,423 1,125 1,344
10th Percentile £368 £338 £363
25th Percentile £453 £438 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £681 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £564
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -6.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 21 19
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.08 £19.63
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £20.36
Median hourly rate £20.25 £31.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.68% +14.81% -22.86%
75th Percentile £42.56 £56.75 £55.75
90th Percentile £60.25 £63.75 £101.50
Central London median hourly rate £23.16 £32.50 £27.81
% change year-on-year -28.74% +16.86% -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 16 July 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 (8.70%) CICS
2 3 (6.52%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (4.35%) SharePoint
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
Cloud Services
1 14 (30.43%) AWS
1 14 (30.43%) Azure
2 6 (13.04%) GCP
3 5 (10.87%) IaaS
3 5 (10.87%) PaaS
3 5 (10.87%) Serverless
4 4 (8.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 4 (8.70%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (8.70%) Azure AKS
4 4 (8.70%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (8.70%) OpenShift
5 3 (6.52%) GitHub
5 3 (6.52%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (4.35%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (4.35%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (4.35%) Entra ID
6 2 (4.35%) SaaS
7 1 (2.17%) Cloudflare
7 1 (2.17%) Fastly
Communications & Networking
1 10 (21.74%) DNS
2 8 (17.39%) Firewall
3 7 (15.22%) DHCP
4 5 (10.87%) VPN
5 3 (6.52%) SMTP
6 2 (4.35%) DMZ
6 2 (4.35%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (2.17%) Cisco ISE
7 1 (2.17%) LAN
7 1 (2.17%) Network Security
7 1 (2.17%) SAN
7 1 (2.17%) Wireless
7 1 (2.17%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.70%) Db2
1 4 (8.70%) DynamoDB
1 4 (8.70%) SQL Server
2 3 (6.52%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (6.52%) Big Data
2 3 (6.52%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (2.17%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 4 (8.70%) GitLab
2 2 (4.35%) Git
3 1 (2.17%) Artifactory
3 1 (2.17%) Introscope
3 1 (2.17%) Subversion
General
1 12 (26.09%) Social Skills
2 11 (23.91%) Finance
3 6 (13.04%) Banking
4 3 (6.52%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (4.35%) Legal
5 2 (4.35%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.17%) Law
6 1 (2.17%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 28 (60.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 8 (17.39%) Cloud Engineer
2 8 (17.39%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (10.87%) Infrastructure Support
3 5 (10.87%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 5 (10.87%) Support Engineer
4 3 (6.52%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 3 (6.52%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (6.52%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
4 3 (6.52%) 3rd Line Support
4 3 (6.52%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 3 (6.52%) VMware Engineer
5 2 (4.35%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (4.35%) Cisco Engineer
5 2 (4.35%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 2 (4.35%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
5 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Engineer
5 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (4.35%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (4.35%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.70%) JSON
1 4 (8.70%) RESTful
1 4 (8.70%) SOAP
1 4 (8.70%) Web Services
1 4 (8.70%) WSDL
2 2 (4.35%) 802.1X
3 1 (2.17%) GraphQL
3 1 (2.17%) Middleware
3 1 (2.17%) REST
3 1 (2.17%) Software Packaging
3 1 (2.17%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.70%) Data Centre
1 4 (8.70%) DataPower
1 4 (8.70%) Mainframe
1 4 (8.70%) Online Banking
2 3 (6.52%) Clustering
2 3 (6.52%) PKI
3 2 (4.35%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.17%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (2.17%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.17%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 16 (34.78%) Windows
2 10 (21.74%) Windows Server
3 5 (10.87%) Linux
4 4 (8.70%) zOS
5 2 (4.35%) VMS
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 13 (28.26%) DevOps
2 11 (23.91%) AI
3 9 (19.57%) CI/CD
3 9 (19.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (10.87%) Machine Learning
4 5 (10.87%) Platform Engineering
5 4 (8.70%) Batch Processing
5 4 (8.70%) Infrastructure Transformation
5 4 (8.70%) Integration Patterns
5 4 (8.70%) Mentoring
5 4 (8.70%) Performance Tuning
5 4 (8.70%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (8.70%) Project Delivery
5 4 (8.70%) Roadmaps
5 4 (8.70%) SOA
6 3 (6.52%) Containerisation
6 3 (6.52%) Customer Service
6 3 (6.52%) Disaster Recovery
6 3 (6.52%) Generative AI
6 3 (6.52%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 10 (21.74%) PowerShell
2 9 (19.57%) Python
3 5 (10.87%) Shell Script
3 5 (10.87%) SQL
4 4 (8.70%) JCL
5 2 (4.35%) Bash
5 2 (4.35%) Bicep
5 2 (4.35%) C#
5 2 (4.35%) Java
6 1 (2.17%) Go
6 1 (2.17%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.17%) Jython
6 1 (2.17%) VB
Qualifications
1 15 (32.61%) Security Cleared
2 11 (23.91%) SC Cleared
3 4 (8.70%) Degree
3 4 (8.70%) DV Cleared
4 2 (4.35%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.17%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.17%) CCNA
5 1 (2.17%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.17%) MCSE
5 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.17%) PMI Certification
5 1 (2.17%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 1 (2.17%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (2.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.52%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (2.17%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.17%) NCSC
2 1 (2.17%) PMO
2 1 (2.17%) QA
2 1 (2.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 10 (21.74%) Active Directory
2 8 (17.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (15.22%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (8.70%) Docker
4 4 (8.70%) Hyper-V
5 3 (6.52%) BitLocker
5 3 (6.52%) Microsoft App-V
5 3 (6.52%) Terminal Services
5 3 (6.52%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (4.35%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (2.17%) Firmware
7 1 (2.17%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (26.09%) Kubernetes
2 9 (19.57%) Terraform
3 6 (13.04%) Ansible
3 6 (13.04%) vCenter Server
4 5 (10.87%) Puppet
5 4 (8.70%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (6.52%) FortiGate
6 3 (6.52%) Nagios
6 3 (6.52%) SCCM
6 3 (6.52%) vMotion
7 2 (4.35%) Nessus
8 1 (2.17%) CA Wily
8 1 (2.17%) vRealize
Vendors
1 13 (28.26%) Microsoft
2 11 (23.91%) VMware
3 8 (17.39%) Citrix
4 3 (6.52%) Cisco
4 3 (6.52%) Google
4 3 (6.52%) HP
4 3 (6.52%) Symantec
5 2 (4.35%) Tenable
5 2 (4.35%) Zscaler
6 1 (2.17%) Databricks
6 1 (2.17%) EMC
6 1 (2.17%) Oracle
6 1 (2.17%) Red Hat