Infrastructure Engineering Contracts in the City of London

Infrastructure Engineering
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Infrastructure Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Infrastructure Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 92 68 117
Rank change year-on-year -24 +49 -4
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 27 58 56
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.54% 2.64% 1.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.65% 2.92% 1.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 45 35
10th Percentile £400 £385 £455
25th Percentile £518 £416 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £593 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +7.73% -8.33% +17.07%
75th Percentile £625 £670 £700
90th Percentile £694 £706 £748
Central London median daily rate £596 £525 £600
% change year-on-year +13.57% -12.50% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £79.89
Median hourly rate - - £84.09
75th Percentile - - £88.30
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate - - £84.09

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 1,637 1,989 3,335
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.17% 90.53% 91.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,034 1,408 2,250
10th Percentile £363 £363 £356
25th Percentile £463 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -5.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £684 £688 £730
90th Percentile £775 £813 £825
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 24
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.92 £15.33
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.22 £18.03
Median hourly rate £29.58 £25.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.30% -28.57% -14.63%
75th Percentile £45.00 £40.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £62.25 £41.84 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Infrastructure Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineering in the City of London

Infrastructure Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Engineering in the City of London

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 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in the City of London

Infrastructure Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Engineering in the City of London

Infrastructure Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.70%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (7.41%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 14 (51.85%) Azure
2 8 (29.63%) Entra ID
2 8 (29.63%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (22.22%) AWS
4 4 (14.81%) IaaS
5 3 (11.11%) Nutanix
6 2 (7.41%) Amazon Cognito
6 2 (7.41%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (7.41%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (7.41%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 2 (7.41%) GitHub
6 2 (7.41%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 12 (44.44%) DNS
2 9 (33.33%) Firewall
3 7 (25.93%) DHCP
4 3 (11.11%) MPLS
5 2 (7.41%) Network Security
5 2 (7.41%) SD-WAN
5 2 (7.41%) TCP/IP
5 2 (7.41%) VPN
5 2 (7.41%) WAN
6 1 (3.70%) HTTP
6 1 (3.70%) VLAN
6 1 (3.70%) VRRP
6 1 (3.70%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.11%) SQL Server
2 2 (7.41%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (7.41%) DynamoDB
3 1 (3.70%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 1 (3.70%) JIRA
1 1 (3.70%) ScriptRunner
General
1 9 (33.33%) Finance
2 3 (11.11%) Social Skills
3 2 (7.41%) Spanish Language
4 1 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (62.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (18.52%) Azure Engineer
2 5 (18.52%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (11.11%) Senior
3 3 (11.11%) VMware Engineer
3 3 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Active Directory Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Active Directory Support
4 2 (7.41%) Analyst
4 2 (7.41%) Automation Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Infrastructure Support
4 2 (7.41%) Integration Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Lead
4 2 (7.41%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) QA Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.41%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (7.41%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.11%) Public Cloud
2 2 (7.41%) Clustering
2 2 (7.41%) Data Centre
2 2 (7.41%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (7.41%) Product Ownership
2 2 (7.41%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 14 (51.85%) Windows
2 10 (37.04%) Windows Server
3 2 (7.41%) Linux
3 2 (7.41%) Unix
4 1 (3.70%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (3.70%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (14.81%) CI/CD
1 4 (14.81%) Cloud Security
2 3 (11.11%) Agile
2 3 (11.11%) Configuration Management
2 3 (11.11%) Data Loss Prevention
2 3 (11.11%) Product Requirements
2 3 (11.11%) Project Delivery
2 3 (11.11%) Time Management
3 2 (7.41%) Continuous Delivery
3 2 (7.41%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (7.41%) DevOps
3 2 (7.41%) Market Making
3 2 (7.41%) Natural Language Processing
3 2 (7.41%) Network Management
3 2 (7.41%) Patch Management
3 2 (7.41%) Protective Monitoring
3 2 (7.41%) SDLC
3 2 (7.41%) Security Patching
3 2 (7.41%) Test Automation
3 2 (7.41%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 8 (29.63%) PowerShell
2 6 (22.22%) Python
3 2 (7.41%) C++
3 2 (7.41%) JavaScript
3 2 (7.41%) Perl
3 2 (7.41%) Shell Script
3 2 (7.41%) SQL
4 1 (3.70%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 2 (7.41%) Degree
1 2 (7.41%) SC Cleared
1 2 (7.41%) Security Cleared
1 2 (7.41%) VCAP
1 2 (7.41%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.41%) QA
2 1 (3.70%) GDPR
2 1 (3.70%) NIST
System Software
1 15 (55.56%) Active Directory
2 3 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (7.41%) Docker
3 2 (7.41%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (3.70%) Firmware
4 1 (3.70%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 5 (18.52%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (11.11%) SCCM
3 2 (7.41%) FortiGate
3 2 (7.41%) Kubernetes
3 2 (7.41%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (22.22%) VMware
2 5 (18.52%) Microsoft
3 4 (14.81%) Cisco
4 3 (11.11%) Palo Alto
5 2 (7.41%) Atempo
5 2 (7.41%) Commvault
5 2 (7.41%) Databricks
5 2 (7.41%) F5
5 2 (7.41%) Fortinet
5 2 (7.41%) Mellanox
6 1 (3.70%) Atlassian
6 1 (3.70%) NetApp
6 1 (3.70%) Oracle
6 1 (3.70%) Rapid7
6 1 (3.70%) Veeam