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 18 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 100 81 85
Rank change year-on-year -19 +4 +39
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 26 40 64
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.48% 1.92% 2.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.58% 2.09% 2.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 28 41
10th Percentile £419 £463 £413
25th Percentile £512 £512 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £593 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.17% +12.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £710 £625
90th Percentile £755 £849 £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 1,644 1,914 2,471
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.36% 91.67% 89.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,152 1,173 1,733
10th Percentile £329 £375 £363
25th Percentile £417 £470 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £690
90th Percentile £760 £782 £812
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 16 14
10th Percentile £16.90 £16.25 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.18 £25.38 £17.48
Median hourly rate £27.75 £50.00 £32.75
Median % change year-on-year -44.50% +52.67% -30.13%
75th Percentile £44.63 £112.00 £52.88
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £72.25
Central London median hourly rate £27.04 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -22.76% +27.27% -36.22%

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 18 November 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 (7.69%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 16 (61.54%) Azure
2 8 (30.77%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (15.38%) AWS
3 4 (15.38%) IaaS
4 3 (11.54%) GCP
4 3 (11.54%) PaaS
5 2 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (7.69%) Amazon ELB
5 2 (7.69%) Amazon S3
5 2 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (7.69%) Entra ID
5 2 (7.69%) GitHub
5 2 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (7.69%) Mimecast
5 2 (7.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (3.85%) Azure AKS
6 1 (3.85%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (3.85%) GitHub Copilot
6 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 6 (23.08%) Firewall
2 4 (15.38%) DNS
2 4 (15.38%) SSL
2 4 (15.38%) TCP/IP
3 3 (11.54%) VPN
4 2 (7.69%) HTTP
4 2 (7.69%) tcpdump
5 1 (3.85%) DHCP
5 1 (3.85%) MPLS
5 1 (3.85%) Network Security
5 1 (3.85%) SD-WAN
5 1 (3.85%) WAN
Development Applications
1 5 (19.23%) Git
2 4 (15.38%) Jenkins
3 2 (7.69%) Robot Framework
General
1 12 (46.15%) Finance
2 3 (11.54%) Social Skills
3 2 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (7.69%) Financial Institution
4 1 (3.85%) Banking
4 1 (3.85%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (53.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (19.23%) Senior
3 4 (15.38%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Developer
4 2 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Network Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Python Developer
4 2 (7.69%) Python Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Security Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Active Directory Support
5 1 (3.85%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Backend Developer
5 1 (3.85%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) DevSecOps Consultant
5 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Release Train Manager
5 1 (3.85%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.69%) RESTful
2 1 (3.85%) GraphQL
2 1 (3.85%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (7.69%) Linux Command Line
1 2 (7.69%) Private Cloud
1 2 (7.69%) Security Posture
2 1 (3.85%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (19.23%) Linux
2 4 (15.38%) Windows
3 3 (11.54%) Windows Server
4 2 (7.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (23.08%) DevOps
1 6 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
1 6 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (15.38%) Agile
2 4 (15.38%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (15.38%) High Availability
2 4 (15.38%) Infrastructure Management
2 4 (15.38%) Migration
3 3 (11.54%) CI/CD
3 3 (11.54%) Containerisation
3 3 (11.54%) ITIL
3 3 (11.54%) Scrum
3 3 (11.54%) SDLC
3 3 (11.54%) Software Engineering
3 3 (11.54%) Task Automation
4 2 (7.69%) Impact Assessments
4 2 (7.69%) Incident Response
4 2 (7.69%) Infrastructure Automation
4 2 (7.69%) Remediation Plan
4 2 (7.69%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 8 (30.77%) Python
2 5 (19.23%) PowerShell
3 2 (7.69%) Bash
3 2 (7.69%) Perl
4 1 (3.85%) Go
4 1 (3.85%) Java
4 1 (3.85%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (11.54%) Degree
2 2 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (7.69%) SC Cleared
2 2 (7.69%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.85%) Azure Certification
3 1 (3.85%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.69%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 3 (11.54%) Active Directory
1 3 (11.54%) Docker
2 1 (3.85%) Hyper-V
2 1 (3.85%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (3.85%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (30.77%) Microsoft Intune
1 8 (30.77%) Terraform
2 7 (26.92%) Ansible
3 2 (7.69%) Kubernetes
3 2 (7.69%) SCCM
4 1 (3.85%) AirWatch
Vendors
1 10 (38.46%) Microsoft
2 6 (23.08%) Palo Alto
3 4 (15.38%) Cisco
3 4 (15.38%) F5
4 2 (7.69%) CheckPoint
4 2 (7.69%) Google
4 2 (7.69%) Tenable
4 2 (7.69%) VMware
5 1 (3.85%) CyberArk
5 1 (3.85%) Meraki