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

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 92 67
Rank change year-on-year -1 -25 +37
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 47 29 59
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.92% 1.63% 2.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.23% 1.74% 3.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 23 46
10th Percentile £380 £420 £389
25th Percentile £450 £518 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £596
Median % change year-on-year - -3.56% -0.63%
75th Percentile £661 £631 £706
90th Percentile £675 £723 £713
Central London median daily rate £575 £563 £584
% change year-on-year +2.22% -3.64% -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 2,108 1,669 1,940
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 85.90% 93.82% 91.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,425 1,068 1,350
10th Percentile £366 £350 £363
25th Percentile £453 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £554 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.63% -3.74% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £560
% change year-on-year - -1.79% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 20 15
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.02 £20.04
25th Percentile £18.46 £24.43 £20.36
Median hourly rate £20.25 £29.75 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.93% +10.19% -22.86%
75th Percentile £42.74 £50.75 £40.92
90th Percentile £59.72 £66.25 £67.35
Central London median hourly rate £25.77 £31.00 £27.81
% change year-on-year -16.87% +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 2 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 (8.51%) CICS
2 3 (6.38%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (4.26%) SharePoint
4 1 (2.13%) IBM HTTP Server
4 1 (2.13%) WebSphere
4 1 (2.13%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 14 (29.79%) AWS
1 14 (29.79%) Azure
2 6 (12.77%) GCP
3 5 (10.64%) IaaS
3 5 (10.64%) PaaS
3 5 (10.64%) Serverless
4 4 (8.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 4 (8.51%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (8.51%) Azure AKS
4 4 (8.51%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (8.51%) OpenShift
5 3 (6.38%) GitHub
5 3 (6.38%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (4.26%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (4.26%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (4.26%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (4.26%) Entra ID
6 2 (4.26%) SaaS
7 1 (2.13%) Akamai
7 1 (2.13%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 10 (21.28%) DNS
2 8 (17.02%) Firewall
3 7 (14.89%) DHCP
4 5 (10.64%) VPN
5 3 (6.38%) SMTP
6 2 (4.26%) DMZ
6 2 (4.26%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (2.13%) Cisco ISE
7 1 (2.13%) LAN
7 1 (2.13%) Network Security
7 1 (2.13%) SAN
7 1 (2.13%) Wireless
7 1 (2.13%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.51%) Db2
1 4 (8.51%) DynamoDB
1 4 (8.51%) SQL Server
2 3 (6.38%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (6.38%) Big Data
2 3 (6.38%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (2.13%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 4 (8.51%) GitLab
2 2 (4.26%) Git
3 1 (2.13%) Artifactory
3 1 (2.13%) Introscope
3 1 (2.13%) Subversion
General
1 13 (27.66%) Social Skills
2 12 (25.53%) Finance
3 6 (12.77%) Banking
4 3 (6.38%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (4.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (4.26%) Legal
5 2 (4.26%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.13%) Law
6 1 (2.13%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 29 (61.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 8 (17.02%) Cloud Engineer
2 8 (17.02%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (10.64%) Infrastructure Support
3 5 (10.64%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 5 (10.64%) Support Engineer
4 4 (8.51%) VMware Engineer
5 3 (6.38%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 3 (6.38%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (6.38%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
5 3 (6.38%) 3rd Line Support
5 3 (6.38%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 2 (4.26%) Architect
6 2 (4.26%) Cisco Engineer
6 2 (4.26%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 2 (4.26%) Citrix Engineer
6 2 (4.26%) Consultant
6 2 (4.26%) Network Engineer
6 2 (4.26%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (4.26%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.51%) JSON
1 4 (8.51%) RESTful
1 4 (8.51%) SOAP
1 4 (8.51%) Web Services
1 4 (8.51%) WSDL
2 2 (4.26%) 802.1X
2 2 (4.26%) REST
3 1 (2.13%) GraphQL
3 1 (2.13%) Middleware
3 1 (2.13%) Software Packaging
3 1 (2.13%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.51%) Data Centre
1 4 (8.51%) DataPower
1 4 (8.51%) Mainframe
1 4 (8.51%) Online Banking
2 3 (6.38%) Clustering
2 3 (6.38%) PKI
3 2 (4.26%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.13%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (2.13%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.13%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 16 (34.04%) Windows
2 10 (21.28%) Windows Server
3 5 (10.64%) Linux
4 4 (8.51%) zOS
5 2 (4.26%) VMS
6 1 (2.13%) AIX
6 1 (2.13%) Android
6 1 (2.13%) Apple iOS
6 1 (2.13%) Mac OS
6 1 (2.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (2.13%) Unix
6 1 (2.13%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (27.66%) DevOps
2 11 (23.40%) AI
3 10 (21.28%) Infrastructure as Code
4 9 (19.15%) CI/CD
5 5 (10.64%) Machine Learning
5 5 (10.64%) Platform Engineering
5 5 (10.64%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (8.51%) Batch Processing
6 4 (8.51%) Infrastructure Transformation
6 4 (8.51%) Integration Patterns
6 4 (8.51%) Mentoring
6 4 (8.51%) Performance Tuning
6 4 (8.51%) Project Delivery
6 4 (8.51%) Roadmaps
6 4 (8.51%) SOA
7 3 (6.38%) Containerisation
7 3 (6.38%) Customer Service
7 3 (6.38%) Disaster Recovery
7 3 (6.38%) Generative AI
7 3 (6.38%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 11 (23.40%) PowerShell
2 10 (21.28%) Python
3 5 (10.64%) Shell Script
3 5 (10.64%) SQL
4 4 (8.51%) JCL
5 2 (4.26%) Bash
5 2 (4.26%) Bicep
5 2 (4.26%) C#
5 2 (4.26%) Java
6 1 (2.13%) Go
6 1 (2.13%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.13%) Jython
6 1 (2.13%) VB
Qualifications
1 15 (31.91%) Security Cleared
2 11 (23.40%) SC Cleared
3 4 (8.51%) Degree
3 4 (8.51%) DV Cleared
4 2 (4.26%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.13%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.13%) CCNA
5 1 (2.13%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.13%) MCSE
5 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.13%) PMI Certification
5 1 (2.13%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 1 (2.13%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (2.13%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.38%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (2.13%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.13%) NCSC
2 1 (2.13%) PMO
2 1 (2.13%) QA
2 1 (2.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 10 (21.28%) Active Directory
2 8 (17.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (14.89%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (8.51%) Docker
4 4 (8.51%) Hyper-V
5 3 (6.38%) BitLocker
5 3 (6.38%) Microsoft App-V
5 3 (6.38%) Terminal Services
5 3 (6.38%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (4.26%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (2.13%) Firmware
7 1 (2.13%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (25.53%) Kubernetes
2 9 (19.15%) Terraform
3 7 (14.89%) Ansible
4 6 (12.77%) vCenter Server
5 5 (10.64%) Puppet
6 4 (8.51%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (6.38%) FortiGate
7 3 (6.38%) Nagios
7 3 (6.38%) SCCM
7 3 (6.38%) vMotion
8 2 (4.26%) Nessus
8 2 (4.26%) vRealize
9 1 (2.13%) CA Wily
9 1 (2.13%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 13 (27.66%) Microsoft
2 12 (25.53%) VMware
3 8 (17.02%) Citrix
4 3 (6.38%) Cisco
4 3 (6.38%) Google
4 3 (6.38%) HP
4 3 (6.38%) Symantec
5 2 (4.26%) Tenable
5 2 (4.26%) Zscaler
6 1 (2.13%) Databricks
6 1 (2.13%) EMC
6 1 (2.13%) Oracle
6 1 (2.13%) Red Hat