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 2 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 96 82 84
Rank change year-on-year -14 +2 +49
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 29 39 61
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.63% 1.83% 2.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.76% 2.00% 2.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 30 42
10th Percentile £428 £463 £414
25th Percentile £513 £511 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £593 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.17% +12.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £708 £647
90th Percentile £725 £841 £700
Central London median daily rate £550 £593 £525
% change year-on-year -7.17% +12.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £112.00 -
Central London median hourly rate - £112.00 -

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 1,646 1,948 2,387
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 92.32% 91.50% 89.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,151 1,199 1,690
10th Percentile £339 £370 £363
25th Percentile £421 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £690
90th Percentile £756 £788 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 17 13
10th Percentile £20.06 £16.70 -
25th Percentile £25.88 £22.00 £17.00
Median hourly rate £34.00 £38.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.69% +54.00% -51.92%
75th Percentile £52.19 £92.50 £46.75
90th Percentile £63.75 £122.20 £69.60
Central London median hourly rate £31.00 £35.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year -11.43% +37.25% -50.00%

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 2 December 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 & 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 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 18 (62.07%) Azure
2 9 (31.03%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (13.79%) AWS
3 4 (13.79%) IaaS
4 3 (10.34%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (10.34%) GCP
4 3 (10.34%) PaaS
5 2 (6.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (6.90%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (6.90%) Amazon ELB
5 2 (6.90%) Amazon S3
5 2 (6.90%) Entra ID
5 2 (6.90%) GitHub
5 2 (6.90%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (6.90%) Mimecast
5 2 (6.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (3.45%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (3.45%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (3.45%) Nutanix
6 1 (3.45%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (20.69%) Firewall
2 4 (13.79%) DNS
2 4 (13.79%) SSL
2 4 (13.79%) TCP/IP
3 3 (10.34%) VPN
4 2 (6.90%) HTTP
4 2 (6.90%) tcpdump
5 1 (3.45%) DHCP
5 1 (3.45%) MPLS
5 1 (3.45%) Network Security
5 1 (3.45%) SD-WAN
5 1 (3.45%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (3.45%) WAN
Development Applications
1 6 (20.69%) Git
2 4 (13.79%) Jenkins
3 2 (6.90%) Robot Framework
4 1 (3.45%) Jaeger
General
1 12 (41.38%) Finance
2 4 (13.79%) Social Skills
3 2 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (6.90%) Banking
3 2 (6.90%) Financial Institution
4 1 (3.45%) Games
4 1 (3.45%) Investment Banking
4 1 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (3.45%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (51.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (20.69%) Senior
3 5 (17.24%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) Network Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Consultant
5 2 (6.90%) Developer
5 2 (6.90%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Python Developer
5 2 (6.90%) Python Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Security Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Backend Developer
6 1 (3.45%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) DevSecOps Consultant
6 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Release Train Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.90%) RESTful
2 1 (3.45%) GraphQL
2 1 (3.45%) Loki
2 1 (3.45%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (3.45%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.90%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (6.90%) Linux Command Line
1 2 (6.90%) Private Cloud
1 2 (6.90%) Public Cloud
1 2 (6.90%) Security Posture
2 1 (3.45%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.45%) Media Streaming
2 1 (3.45%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 5 (17.24%) Linux
1 5 (17.24%) Windows
2 3 (10.34%) Windows Server
3 2 (6.90%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (27.59%) Infrastructure as Code
2 7 (24.14%) DevOps
3 6 (20.69%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (17.24%) Agile
4 5 (17.24%) CI/CD
4 5 (17.24%) Cybersecurity
4 5 (17.24%) High Availability
4 5 (17.24%) Infrastructure Management
5 4 (13.79%) Migration
5 4 (13.79%) SDLC
5 4 (13.79%) Software Engineering
6 3 (10.34%) Configuration Management
6 3 (10.34%) Containerisation
6 3 (10.34%) Infrastructure Automation
6 3 (10.34%) IT Audit
6 3 (10.34%) ITIL
6 3 (10.34%) Low Latency
6 3 (10.34%) Scrum
6 3 (10.34%) Task Automation
7 2 (6.90%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 9 (31.03%) Python
2 6 (20.69%) PowerShell
3 2 (6.90%) Bash
3 2 (6.90%) Go
3 2 (6.90%) Java
3 2 (6.90%) Perl
4 1 (3.45%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (13.79%) Degree
2 2 (6.90%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (6.90%) SC Cleared
2 2 (6.90%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.45%) Azure Certification
3 1 (3.45%) CCNA
3 1 (3.45%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (3.45%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.34%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 3 (10.34%) Active Directory
1 3 (10.34%) Docker
2 1 (3.45%) Hyper-V
2 1 (3.45%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (3.45%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (34.48%) Terraform
2 8 (27.59%) Ansible
2 8 (27.59%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (10.34%) Kubernetes
4 2 (6.90%) SCCM
5 1 (3.45%) AirWatch
5 1 (3.45%) Grafana
5 1 (3.45%) Packer
5 1 (3.45%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (34.48%) Microsoft
2 6 (20.69%) Palo Alto
3 4 (13.79%) Cisco
3 4 (13.79%) F5
4 3 (10.34%) VMware
5 2 (6.90%) CheckPoint
5 2 (6.90%) Google
5 2 (6.90%) Tenable
6 1 (3.45%) CyberArk
6 1 (3.45%) Meraki
6 1 (3.45%) Splunk