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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 98 80
Rank change year-on-year +3 -18 +5
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 44 25 47
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.93% 1.39% 2.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.18% 1.48% 2.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 21 36
10th Percentile £408 £444 £441
25th Percentile £456 £518 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £550 £593
Median % change year-on-year +11.36% -7.17% +7.73%
75th Percentile £675 £625 £708
90th Percentile £775 £775 £768
Central London median daily rate £620 £536 £579
% change year-on-year +15.67% -7.39% +5.23%

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 2,017 1,694 1,905
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 88.46% 94.22% 92.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,388 1,117 1,234
10th Percentile £368 £325 £386
25th Percentile £459 £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 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 22 16
10th Percentile - £17.35 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £23.98 £19.79
Median hourly rate £21.00 £28.33 £26.63
Median % change year-on-year -25.86% +6.38% -3.18%
75th Percentile £32.05 £53.50 £82.19
90th Percentile £50.59 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £25.07 £29.07 £33.00
% change year-on-year -13.78% -11.91% +20.00%

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 10 September 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 6 (13.64%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (6.82%) Confluence
3 2 (4.55%) CICS
3 2 (4.55%) Exchange Server 2013
3 2 (4.55%) SharePoint
4 1 (2.27%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.27%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (4.55%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 16 (36.36%) Azure
2 13 (29.55%) AWS
3 7 (15.91%) GCP
4 5 (11.36%) Azure AKS
4 5 (11.36%) IaaS
4 5 (11.36%) PaaS
5 4 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (6.82%) Azure Logic Apps
6 3 (6.82%) GitHub
6 3 (6.82%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (6.82%) OpenShift
6 3 (6.82%) SaaS
6 3 (6.82%) Serverless
7 2 (4.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (4.55%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (4.55%) Power Platform
8 1 (2.27%) Entra ID
8 1 (2.27%) Fastly
Communications & Networking
1 11 (25.00%) DNS
2 10 (22.73%) Firewall
3 8 (18.18%) DHCP
4 7 (15.91%) VPN
5 3 (6.82%) SMTP
6 2 (4.55%) BGP
6 2 (4.55%) DMZ
6 2 (4.55%) Multicast
6 2 (4.55%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (2.27%) Cisco ISE
7 1 (2.27%) HSRP
7 1 (2.27%) Internet
7 1 (2.27%) LAN
7 1 (2.27%) MPLS
7 1 (2.27%) Network Security
7 1 (2.27%) SAN
7 1 (2.27%) tcpdump
7 1 (2.27%) Wireless
7 1 (2.27%) Wireshark
7 1 (2.27%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (13.64%) SQL Server
2 3 (6.82%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (6.82%) Big Data
2 3 (6.82%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (4.55%) Db2
3 2 (4.55%) DynamoDB
3 2 (4.55%) Power BI
3 2 (4.55%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 2 (4.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (4.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (2.27%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 2 (4.55%) GitLab
1 2 (4.55%) JIRA
2 1 (2.27%) Git
2 1 (2.27%) Subversion
General
1 12 (27.27%) Finance
1 12 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 3 (6.82%) Banking
3 2 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (4.55%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.27%) Financial Institution
4 1 (2.27%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (2.27%) Investment Banking
4 1 (2.27%) Law
4 1 (2.27%) Local Government
4 1 (2.27%) Mandarin Language
4 1 (2.27%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 24 (54.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 8 (18.18%) Cloud Engineer
2 8 (18.18%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (15.91%) Support Engineer
4 6 (13.64%) Infrastructure Support
4 6 (13.64%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 3 (6.82%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 3 (6.82%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (6.82%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
5 3 (6.82%) 3rd Line Support
5 3 (6.82%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 3 (6.82%) Architect
5 3 (6.82%) Cisco Engineer
5 3 (6.82%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 3 (6.82%) Consultant
5 3 (6.82%) Network Engineer
5 3 (6.82%) VMware Engineer
6 2 (4.55%) Infrastructure Specialist
6 2 (4.55%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (4.55%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (27.27%) Terraform
2 2 (4.55%) 802.1X
2 2 (4.55%) JSON
2 2 (4.55%) RESTful
2 2 (4.55%) SOAP
2 2 (4.55%) Web Services
2 2 (4.55%) WSDL
2 2 (4.55%) YAML
3 1 (2.27%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.64%) Data Centre
2 5 (11.36%) Clustering
3 3 (6.82%) PKI
4 2 (4.55%) DataPower
4 2 (4.55%) Enterprise Cloud
4 2 (4.55%) Mainframe
4 2 (4.55%) Online Banking
5 1 (2.27%) CCTV
5 1 (2.27%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.27%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (2.27%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.27%) Life Science
5 1 (2.27%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 21 (47.73%) Windows
2 16 (36.36%) Windows Server
3 5 (11.36%) Linux
4 4 (9.09%) VMS
5 2 (4.55%) OpenVMS
5 2 (4.55%) Windows 7
5 2 (4.55%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (4.55%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (4.55%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (4.55%) zOS
6 1 (2.27%) Android
6 1 (2.27%) Apple iOS
6 1 (2.27%) Mac OS
6 1 (2.27%) Unix
6 1 (2.27%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (22.73%) DevOps
2 9 (20.45%) CI/CD
2 9 (20.45%) Infrastructure as Code
3 8 (18.18%) AI
3 8 (18.18%) Platform Engineering
4 6 (13.64%) Migration
5 5 (11.36%) High Availability
5 5 (11.36%) Machine Learning
6 4 (9.09%) Identity Access Management
6 4 (9.09%) Mentoring
6 4 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (9.09%) Service Delivery
6 4 (9.09%) Vulnerability Remediation
7 3 (6.82%) Cloud Security
7 3 (6.82%) Enterprise Architecture
7 3 (6.82%) Roadmaps
7 3 (6.82%) Software Deployment
8 2 (4.55%) Batch Processing
8 2 (4.55%) Generative AI
8 2 (4.55%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 17 (38.64%) PowerShell
2 8 (18.18%) SQL
3 7 (15.91%) Python
4 3 (6.82%) C#
5 2 (4.55%) Bash
5 2 (4.55%) Bicep
5 2 (4.55%) JCL
5 2 (4.55%) Shell Script
6 1 (2.27%) Java
6 1 (2.27%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.27%) VB
Qualifications
1 20 (45.45%) Security Cleared
2 12 (27.27%) SC Cleared
3 7 (15.91%) DV Cleared
4 5 (11.36%) Degree
5 1 (2.27%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.27%) CCNA
5 1 (2.27%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.27%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (2.27%) MCSE
5 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.27%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.82%) QA
2 2 (4.55%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (2.27%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.27%) NCSC
3 1 (2.27%) NIST
3 1 (2.27%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (29.55%) Active Directory
1 13 (29.55%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (18.18%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (9.09%) Hyper-V
4 3 (6.82%) BitLocker
4 3 (6.82%) Docker
4 3 (6.82%) Microsoft App-V
4 3 (6.82%) Terminal Services
5 2 (4.55%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (4.55%) vSphere
6 1 (2.27%) Firmware
6 1 (2.27%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 10 (22.73%) Ansible
1 10 (22.73%) Kubernetes
2 6 (13.64%) vCenter Server
3 5 (11.36%) SCCM
4 4 (9.09%) Puppet
5 3 (6.82%) FortiGate
5 3 (6.82%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (6.82%) Nagios
5 3 (6.82%) vMotion
6 2 (4.55%) Microsoft Clustering
6 2 (4.55%) Nessus
6 2 (4.55%) NetBackup
6 2 (4.55%) SCOM
6 2 (4.55%) WSUS
7 1 (2.27%) vRealize
Vendors
1 17 (38.64%) VMware
2 14 (31.82%) Microsoft
3 6 (13.64%) Citrix
4 5 (11.36%) Cisco
5 4 (9.09%) Google
6 3 (6.82%) HP
6 3 (6.82%) Oracle
6 3 (6.82%) Symantec
7 2 (4.55%) BMC
7 2 (4.55%) Commvault
7 2 (4.55%) Databricks
7 2 (4.55%) EMC
7 2 (4.55%) Remedy
7 2 (4.55%) Tenable
7 2 (4.55%) Veeam
7 2 (4.55%) Veritas
7 2 (4.55%) Zscaler
8 1 (2.27%) Arista
8 1 (2.27%) Palo Alto
8 1 (2.27%) Pure Storage