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

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 96 69
Rank change year-on-year +4 -27 +37
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 38 25 57
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.62% 1.49% 2.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.90% 1.59% 2.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 19 43
10th Percentile £331 £400 £385
25th Percentile £450 £518 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £565
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +6.19% -5.83%
75th Percentile £675 £631 £691
90th Percentile - £701 £710
Central London median daily rate £575 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -8.33%

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 2,001 1,574 1,946
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 85.37% 93.63% 90.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,359 992 1,364
10th Percentile £363 £356 £350
25th Percentile £450 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £551 £563
Median % change year-on-year -0.18% -2.04% -6.25%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 14 12
10th Percentile £17.38 £18.15 £19.95
25th Percentile £18.75 £23.98 £20.22
Median hourly rate £25.77 £28.33 £26.63
Median % change year-on-year -9.02% +6.38% -23.93%
75th Percentile £52.16 £41.48 £40.46
90th Percentile £62.89 £59.25 £49.41
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £28.33 £27.81
% change year-on-year -7.82% +1.85% -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 4 June 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 (10.53%) CICS
2 1 (2.63%) IBM HTTP Server
2 1 (2.63%) WebSphere
2 1 (2.63%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 14 (36.84%) Azure
2 11 (28.95%) AWS
3 5 (13.16%) Serverless
4 4 (10.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 4 (10.53%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (7.89%) Azure AKS
5 3 (7.89%) Entra ID
5 3 (7.89%) GCP
5 3 (7.89%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (5.26%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (5.26%) GitHub
6 2 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (5.26%) IaaS
6 2 (5.26%) PaaS
6 2 (5.26%) SaaS
7 1 (2.63%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (2.63%) Cloudflare
7 1 (2.63%) Fastly
7 1 (2.63%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 6 (15.79%) DNS
2 3 (7.89%) Firewall
3 2 (5.26%) DHCP
3 2 (5.26%) Network Security
4 1 (2.63%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.53%) DB2
1 4 (10.53%) DynamoDB
2 3 (7.89%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.63%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 4 (10.53%) GitLab
2 1 (2.63%) Artifactory
2 1 (2.63%) Git
2 1 (2.63%) Introscope
General
1 12 (31.58%) Finance
2 9 (23.68%) Social Skills
3 6 (15.79%) Banking
4 3 (7.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (5.26%) Legal
5 2 (5.26%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.63%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 21 (55.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (18.42%) Cloud Engineer
2 7 (18.42%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (7.89%) Citrix Engineer
4 2 (5.26%) Architect
4 2 (5.26%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (5.26%) Consultant
4 2 (5.26%) Infrastructure Support
4 2 (5.26%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 2 (5.26%) Senior
4 2 (5.26%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (5.26%) Support Engineer
4 2 (5.26%) VMware Engineer
5 1 (2.63%) Azure Consultant
5 1 (2.63%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (2.63%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 1 (2.63%) Security Auditor
5 1 (2.63%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
5 1 (2.63%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 1 (2.63%) z/OS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.53%) JSON
1 4 (10.53%) RESTful
1 4 (10.53%) SOAP
1 4 (10.53%) Web Services
1 4 (10.53%) WSDL
2 2 (5.26%) REST
3 1 (2.63%) GraphQL
3 1 (2.63%) Middleware
3 1 (2.63%) Software Packaging
3 1 (2.63%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.53%) DataPower
1 4 (10.53%) Mainframe
1 4 (10.53%) Online Banking
2 2 (5.26%) Cloud Native
2 2 (5.26%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.63%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (2.63%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.63%) PMI
3 1 (2.63%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (23.68%) Windows
2 4 (10.53%) Windows Server
2 4 (10.53%) zOS
3 2 (5.26%) VMS
4 1 (2.63%) AIX
4 1 (2.63%) Android
4 1 (2.63%) Apple iOS
4 1 (2.63%) Linux
4 1 (2.63%) Mac OS
4 1 (2.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.63%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (26.32%) DevOps
2 9 (23.68%) Infrastructure as Code
3 8 (21.05%) AI
3 8 (21.05%) CI/CD
4 5 (13.16%) Platform Engineering
4 5 (13.16%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (10.53%) Batch Processing
5 4 (10.53%) Customer Service
5 4 (10.53%) Infrastructure Transformation
5 4 (10.53%) Integration Patterns
5 4 (10.53%) Performance Tuning
5 4 (10.53%) SOA
6 3 (7.89%) Application Packaging
6 3 (7.89%) Cloud Security
6 3 (7.89%) Containerisation
6 3 (7.89%) Disaster Recovery
6 3 (7.89%) Generative AI
6 3 (7.89%) High Availability
6 3 (7.89%) Project Delivery
6 3 (7.89%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 9 (23.68%) Python
2 5 (13.16%) PowerShell
2 5 (13.16%) Shell Script
2 5 (13.16%) SQL
3 4 (10.53%) JCL
4 2 (5.26%) Bicep
5 1 (2.63%) Bash
5 1 (2.63%) C#
5 1 (2.63%) Go
5 1 (2.63%) Java
5 1 (2.63%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.63%) Jython
5 1 (2.63%) VB
Qualifications
1 8 (21.05%) SC Cleared
1 8 (21.05%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.26%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.63%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (2.63%) CCNA
3 1 (2.63%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (2.63%) Degree
3 1 (2.63%) MCSE
3 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.63%) PMI Certification
3 1 (2.63%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
3 1 (2.63%) TOGAF Certification
3 1 (2.63%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.63%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (2.63%) Data Quality
1 1 (2.63%) NCSC
1 1 (2.63%) PMO
1 1 (2.63%) QA
1 1 (2.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (15.79%) Active Directory
2 3 (7.89%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (5.26%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (2.63%) Docker
4 1 (2.63%) Firmware
4 1 (2.63%) Hyper-V
4 1 (2.63%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (2.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (2.63%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (18.42%) Kubernetes
1 7 (18.42%) Terraform
2 4 (10.53%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (7.89%) Ansible
4 2 (5.26%) vRealize
5 1 (2.63%) CA Wily
5 1 (2.63%) Puppet
5 1 (2.63%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 8 (21.05%) Microsoft
2 4 (10.53%) VMware
3 3 (7.89%) Citrix
4 1 (2.63%) Databricks
4 1 (2.63%) EMC
4 1 (2.63%) Oracle
4 1 (2.63%) Red Hat