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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 72 114
Rank change year-on-year -18 +42 -1
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 26 56 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.55% 2.59% 1.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.66% 2.86% 1.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 42 33
10th Percentile £400 £385 £453
25th Percentile £518 £406 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £558 £600
Median % change year-on-year +7.62% -7.08% +15.27%
75th Percentile £628 £688 £700
90th Percentile £697 £710 £749
Central London median daily rate £600 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% +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 1,566 1,961 3,167
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.49% 90.83% 91.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 987 1,374 2,130
10th Percentile £355 £350 £363
25th Percentile £450 £450 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% -6.25% +5.22%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £821
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +6.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 12 24
10th Percentile £18.70 £19.95 £14.55
25th Percentile £22.88 £20.22 £16.33
Median hourly rate £28.15 £25.63 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.85% -26.79% -13.58%
75th Percentile £39.21 £40.00 £55.00
90th Percentile £57.75 £41.65 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £28.15 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +1.22% -20.54% -13.58%

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 29 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 (11.54%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.85%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 12 (46.15%) Azure
2 9 (34.62%) Entra ID
3 8 (30.77%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (23.08%) AWS
5 4 (15.38%) IaaS
6 2 (7.69%) Amazon Cognito
6 2 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (7.69%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 2 (7.69%) GitHub
6 2 (7.69%) Serverless
7 1 (3.85%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 11 (42.31%) DNS
2 9 (34.62%) Firewall
3 6 (23.08%) DHCP
4 3 (11.54%) MPLS
4 3 (11.54%) SD-WAN
4 3 (11.54%) WAN
5 2 (7.69%) Network Security
5 2 (7.69%) TCP/IP
5 2 (7.69%) VPN
6 1 (3.85%) HTTP
6 1 (3.85%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.54%) SQL Server
2 2 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (7.69%) DynamoDB
3 1 (3.85%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 1 (3.85%) JIRA
1 1 (3.85%) ScriptRunner
General
1 8 (30.77%) Finance
2 3 (11.54%) Social Skills
3 2 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (7.69%) Spanish Language
4 1 (3.85%) Front Office
4 1 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (61.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (19.23%) Azure Engineer
2 5 (19.23%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) Active Directory Support
3 3 (11.54%) Infrastructure Support
3 3 (11.54%) VMware Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Active Directory Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Automation Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Integration Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Lead
4 2 (7.69%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) QA Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Senior
4 2 (7.69%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Data Centre Manager
5 1 (3.85%) Migration Project Manager
5 1 (3.85%) Storage Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Voice Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (7.69%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.54%) Public Cloud
2 2 (7.69%) Clustering
2 2 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (7.69%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.85%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.85%) HP Storage
3 1 (3.85%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 12 (46.15%) Windows
2 8 (30.77%) Windows Server
3 3 (11.54%) Linux
4 2 (7.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (15.38%) CI/CD
1 4 (15.38%) Cloud Security
2 3 (11.54%) Agile
2 3 (11.54%) Data Loss Prevention
2 3 (11.54%) Electronic Trading
2 3 (11.54%) Infrastructure Management
2 3 (11.54%) Network Management
2 3 (11.54%) Patch Management
2 3 (11.54%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (11.54%) Product Requirements
2 3 (11.54%) Project Delivery
2 3 (11.54%) Security Patching
2 3 (11.54%) Time Management
3 2 (7.69%) Automated Trading
3 2 (7.69%) Conversational UI
3 2 (7.69%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (7.69%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (7.69%) Infrastructure Automation
3 2 (7.69%) Protective Monitoring
3 2 (7.69%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 7 (26.92%) PowerShell
1 7 (26.92%) Python
2 3 (11.54%) SQL
3 2 (7.69%) C++
3 2 (7.69%) JavaScript
3 2 (7.69%) Perl
3 2 (7.69%) Shell Script
4 1 (3.85%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 2 (7.69%) Degree
1 2 (7.69%) SC Cleared
1 2 (7.69%) Security Cleared
1 2 (7.69%) VCAP
1 2 (7.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 1 (3.85%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.69%) QA
2 1 (3.85%) GDPR
2 1 (3.85%) NIST
System Software
1 15 (57.69%) Active Directory
2 3 (11.54%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (7.69%) Docker
4 1 (3.85%) Hyper-V
4 1 (3.85%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (19.23%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (7.69%) FortiGate
2 2 (7.69%) Kubernetes
2 2 (7.69%) Terraform
3 1 (3.85%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (23.08%) Microsoft
2 5 (19.23%) Cisco
2 5 (19.23%) VMware
3 3 (11.54%) Palo Alto
4 2 (7.69%) Atempo
4 2 (7.69%) Databricks
4 2 (7.69%) F5
4 2 (7.69%) Fortinet
4 2 (7.69%) Mellanox
5 1 (3.85%) Atlassian
5 1 (3.85%) Commvault
5 1 (3.85%) CyberArk
5 1 (3.85%) Dell
5 1 (3.85%) HP
5 1 (3.85%) NetApp
5 1 (3.85%) Oracle
5 1 (3.85%) Rapid7
5 1 (3.85%) Sun