Infrastructure Engineering Contracts in the City of London

Infrastructure Engineering
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for Infrastructure Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Infrastructure Engineering over the 6 months to 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 68 114 114
Rank change year-on-year +46 0 -13
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 60 52 73
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 2.77% 1.48% 1.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.07% 1.62% 1.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 30 56
10th Percentile £385 £450 £378
25th Percentile £409 £550 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £514
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +16.67% +8.26%
75th Percentile £683 £700 £578
90th Percentile £710 £757 £675
Central London median daily rate £525 £600 £500
% change year-on-year -12.50% +20.00% +9.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £84.09 -
Central London median hourly rate - £84.09 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

Infrastructure Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,957 3,208 3,871
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.39% 91.55% 92.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,377 2,170 2,934
10th Percentile £350 £356 £385
25th Percentile £450 £481 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £730 £688
90th Percentile £813 £825 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 26 43
10th Percentile £19.95 £14.75 £18.50
25th Percentile £20.22 £17.08 £22.63
Median hourly rate £25.63 £35.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.79% -13.58% +125.31%
75th Percentile £40.00 £57.50 £55.50
90th Percentile £41.65 £88.30 £65.10
Central London median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £41.00
% change year-on-year -20.54% -14.63% +105.00%

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 17 May 2024.

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 16 (26.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (6.67%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.67%) IIS
3 1 (1.67%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.67%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 26 (43.33%) Azure
2 17 (28.33%) Microsoft 365
3 16 (26.67%) Entra ID
4 10 (16.67%) IaaS
4 10 (16.67%) Mimecast
5 8 (13.33%) AWS
6 5 (8.33%) PaaS
6 5 (8.33%) Power Platform
7 3 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (5.00%) OneDrive
8 2 (3.33%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (3.33%) AWS CodePipeline
8 2 (3.33%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (3.33%) SaaS
9 1 (1.67%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (1.67%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (1.67%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 22 (36.67%) Firewall
2 6 (10.00%) DNS
2 6 (10.00%) WAN
3 4 (6.67%) MPLS
3 4 (6.67%) Network Security
3 4 (6.67%) SAN
4 3 (5.00%) VPN
4 3 (5.00%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (3.33%) Internet
5 2 (3.33%) NAS
5 2 (3.33%) SD-WAN
5 2 (3.33%) Wireless
6 1 (1.67%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (1.67%) iSCSI
6 1 (1.67%) LAN
6 1 (1.67%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (1.67%) Structured Cabling
6 1 (1.67%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (15.00%) MongoDB
2 3 (5.00%) Sybase ASE
3 2 (3.33%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.67%) Power BI
4 1 (1.67%) Sisense
Development Applications
1 6 (10.00%) Jenkins
2 5 (8.33%) Git
3 1 (1.67%) JIRA
General
1 19 (31.67%) Social Skills
2 9 (15.00%) Finance
3 8 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (11.67%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (6.67%) French Language
5 4 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (5.00%) Banking
6 3 (5.00%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.67%) Front Office
7 1 (1.67%) Retail
7 1 (1.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 28 (46.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 10 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 9 (15.00%) Site Engineer
4 6 (10.00%) Python Engineer
5 5 (8.33%) AWS Engineer
5 5 (8.33%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (6.67%) Azure Engineer
6 4 (6.67%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
6 4 (6.67%) Java Engineer
6 4 (6.67%) Security Engineer
6 4 (6.67%) Senior
6 4 (6.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (5.00%) Applications Engineer
7 3 (5.00%) Architect
7 3 (5.00%) Desktop Engineer
7 3 (5.00%) IT Engineer
7 3 (5.00%) Network Engineer
7 3 (5.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (5.00%) Support Engineer
8 2 (3.33%) Sybase Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (15.00%) Kafka
1 9 (15.00%) RabbitMQ
2 6 (10.00%) RESTful
3 2 (3.33%) AWS CDK
4 1 (1.67%) LAMP
4 1 (1.67%) OAuth
4 1 (1.67%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (18.33%) Data Centre
2 9 (15.00%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (10.00%) Algorithms
3 6 (10.00%) Data Structures
4 5 (8.33%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.67%) Clustering
5 1 (1.67%) CMDB
5 1 (1.67%) HP Storage
5 1 (1.67%) iPhone
5 1 (1.67%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.67%) PKI
5 1 (1.67%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.67%) Replication
5 1 (1.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 24 (40.00%) Windows
2 17 (28.33%) Linux
3 13 (21.67%) Windows Server
4 3 (5.00%) Windows 10
4 3 (5.00%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (1.67%) Mac OS
5 1 (1.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.67%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.67%) VMS
5 1 (1.67%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (1.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (31.67%) DevOps
2 15 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 12 (20.00%) ITIL
4 11 (18.33%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
5 10 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 8 (13.33%) Microservices
6 8 (13.33%) Task Automation
7 7 (11.67%) Data Loss Prevention
7 7 (11.67%) Identity Management
7 7 (11.67%) Infrastructure as Code
8 6 (10.00%) Analytical Thinking
8 6 (10.00%) Change Management
8 6 (10.00%) Migration
9 5 (8.33%) Cloud Security
9 5 (8.33%) Cybersecurity
9 5 (8.33%) Data Migration
9 5 (8.33%) Information Security
10 4 (6.67%) Project Delivery
10 4 (6.67%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (25.00%) Python
2 11 (18.33%) Shell Script
3 9 (15.00%) PowerShell
4 6 (10.00%) Java
5 3 (5.00%) C++
5 3 (5.00%) Go
6 2 (3.33%) Bash
6 2 (3.33%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.67%) Bicep
7 1 (1.67%) Perl
Qualifications
1 5 (8.33%) Azure Certification
2 3 (5.00%) Degree
2 3 (5.00%) SC Cleared
2 3 (5.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (5.00%) TOGAF Certification
3 2 (3.33%) CCNA
3 2 (3.33%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (3.33%) DV Cleared
3 2 (3.33%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (1.67%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (1.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.33%) COBIT
1 2 (3.33%) GDPR
1 2 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (3.33%) NCSC
1 2 (3.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 24 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 12 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (15.00%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 4 (6.67%) Hyper-V
5 2 (3.33%) Docker
5 2 (3.33%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (3.33%) XenApp
6 1 (1.67%) KVM
6 1 (1.67%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (1.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (21.67%) Kubernetes
2 12 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 11 (18.33%) SCCM
4 9 (15.00%) Consul
4 9 (15.00%) Grafana
4 9 (15.00%) Prometheus
5 3 (5.00%) Ansible
5 3 (5.00%) CASB
5 3 (5.00%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (3.33%) FortiGate
6 2 (3.33%) SCOrch
6 2 (3.33%) Terraform
7 1 (1.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (1.67%) ITRS Geneos
7 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Clustering
7 1 (1.67%) Packer
7 1 (1.67%) Puppet
7 1 (1.67%) WSUS
Vendors
1 31 (51.67%) Microsoft
2 15 (25.00%) VMware
3 10 (16.67%) Citrix
4 9 (15.00%) SaltStack
5 6 (10.00%) Okta
6 5 (8.33%) Bloomberg
6 5 (8.33%) Refinitiv
7 3 (5.00%) Dell
7 3 (5.00%) Palo Alto
7 3 (5.00%) Sybase
8 2 (3.33%) Aruba
8 2 (3.33%) Cisco
8 2 (3.33%) CrowdStrike
8 2 (3.33%) HP
8 2 (3.33%) Imperva
8 2 (3.33%) Juniper
8 2 (3.33%) Netskope
8 2 (3.33%) Ping Identity
8 2 (3.33%) Red Hat
8 2 (3.33%) ServiceNow