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

6 months to
5 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 97 90 72
Rank change year-on-year -7 -18 +54
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 34 31 57
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.55% 1.78% 2.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.78% 1.93% 2.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 22 44
10th Percentile £418 £408 £385
25th Percentile £458 £525 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £596 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.76% +13.57% -12.50%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £670
90th Percentile £675 £726 £707
Central London median daily rate £563 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -6.25% +14.29% -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 1,913 1,605 2,049
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 87.19% 92.29% 89.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,321 1,035 1,449
10th Percentile £363 £363 £350
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £570
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +0.88% -5.00%
75th Percentile £670 £679 £688
90th Percentile £775 £771 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £570 £550
% change year-on-year -3.51% +3.64% -7.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 9 11
10th Percentile - £22.00 £18.93
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £20.07
Median hourly rate £30.03 £31.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.12% +24.00% -38.27%
75th Percentile £48.67 £48.75 £40.92
90th Percentile £57.93 £71.00 £50.25
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £31.00 £27.81
% change year-on-year -15.77% +11.47% -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 April 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 3 (8.82%) CICS
2 1 (2.94%) IBM HTTP Server
2 1 (2.94%) WebSphere
2 1 (2.94%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 13 (38.24%) Azure
2 7 (20.59%) AWS
3 6 (17.65%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (11.76%) Serverless
5 3 (8.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (8.82%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (8.82%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (8.82%) Entra ID
6 2 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (5.88%) GCP
6 2 (5.88%) GitHub
6 2 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (5.88%) IaaS
6 2 (5.88%) PaaS
6 2 (5.88%) SaaS
7 1 (2.94%) Azure AKS
7 1 (2.94%) Azure Functions
7 1 (2.94%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (2.94%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (2.94%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.82%) DNS
2 2 (5.88%) Firewall
2 2 (5.88%) Network Security
3 1 (2.94%) SAN
3 1 (2.94%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.82%) DB2
1 3 (8.82%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (8.82%) GitLab
2 2 (5.88%) Git
3 1 (2.94%) Artifactory
3 1 (2.94%) Introscope
3 1 (2.94%) Jaeger
General
1 8 (23.53%) Finance
1 8 (23.53%) Social Skills
2 6 (17.65%) Banking
3 3 (8.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (5.88%) Legal
5 1 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.94%) Games
5 1 (2.94%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.94%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.94%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (47.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (14.71%) Cloud Engineer
3 4 (11.76%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (11.76%) Senior
4 3 (8.82%) Citrix Engineer
4 3 (8.82%) Consultant
4 3 (8.82%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Architect
5 2 (5.88%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) VMware Engineer
6 1 (2.94%) Azure Consultant
6 1 (2.94%) Data Protection Engineer
6 1 (2.94%) DevOps Consultant
6 1 (2.94%) Infrastructure Architect
6 1 (2.94%) IT Project Manager
6 1 (2.94%) Monitoring Engineer
6 1 (2.94%) Network Monitoring Engineer
6 1 (2.94%) Security Auditor
6 1 (2.94%) z/OS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.82%) JSON
1 3 (8.82%) RESTful
1 3 (8.82%) SOAP
1 3 (8.82%) Web Services
1 3 (8.82%) WSDL
2 2 (5.88%) REST
3 1 (2.94%) GraphQL
3 1 (2.94%) Loki
3 1 (2.94%) Middleware
3 1 (2.94%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (2.94%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.82%) DataPower
1 3 (8.82%) Mainframe
1 3 (8.82%) Online Banking
2 2 (5.88%) Cloud Native
2 2 (5.88%) Data Centre
2 2 (5.88%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.94%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.94%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.94%) Media Streaming
3 1 (2.94%) Online Games
3 1 (2.94%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 5 (14.71%) Windows
2 3 (8.82%) zOS
3 1 (2.94%) AIX
3 1 (2.94%) Linux
3 1 (2.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.94%) Unix
3 1 (2.94%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (35.29%) Infrastructure as Code
2 11 (32.35%) DevOps
3 8 (23.53%) CI/CD
4 5 (14.71%) AI
4 5 (14.71%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (11.76%) Cloud Security
5 4 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (11.76%) Customer Service
5 4 (11.76%) Cybersecurity
5 4 (11.76%) Disaster Recovery
5 4 (11.76%) Infrastructure Transformation
5 4 (11.76%) IT Audit
6 3 (8.82%) Batch Processing
6 3 (8.82%) DevSecOps
6 3 (8.82%) Infrastructure Automation
6 3 (8.82%) Integration Patterns
6 3 (8.82%) Observability
6 3 (8.82%) Performance Tuning
6 3 (8.82%) Platform Engineering
6 3 (8.82%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 10 (29.41%) Python
2 6 (17.65%) PowerShell
3 4 (11.76%) Shell Script
4 3 (8.82%) JCL
4 3 (8.82%) SQL
5 2 (5.88%) Bash
5 2 (5.88%) Bicep
5 2 (5.88%) Go
5 2 (5.88%) Java
6 1 (2.94%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.94%) Jython
Qualifications
1 5 (14.71%) SC Cleared
1 5 (14.71%) Security Cleared
2 3 (8.82%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.94%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (2.94%) CCNA
3 1 (2.94%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (2.94%) Degree
3 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.94%) PMI Certification
3 1 (2.94%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
3 1 (2.94%) TOGAF Certification
3 1 (2.94%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.76%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (2.94%) NCSC
2 1 (2.94%) PMO
2 1 (2.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (8.82%) Active Directory
1 3 (8.82%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (2.94%) Docker
2 1 (2.94%) Hyper-V
2 1 (2.94%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (26.47%) Terraform
2 6 (17.65%) Kubernetes
3 4 (11.76%) Ansible
3 4 (11.76%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (5.88%) vRealize
5 1 (2.94%) CA Wily
5 1 (2.94%) Grafana
5 1 (2.94%) Packer
5 1 (2.94%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.94%) Puppet
5 1 (2.94%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 6 (17.65%) Microsoft
2 3 (8.82%) Citrix
2 3 (8.82%) VMware
3 1 (2.94%) Oracle
3 1 (2.94%) Red Hat
3 1 (2.94%) Splunk