Infrastructure Management Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Infrastructure Management
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Infrastructure Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 114 124
Rank change year-on-year -1 +10 +53
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Management 7 8 8
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.39% 0.42% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.44% 0.46% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 6 6
10th Percentile £517 £495 £444
25th Percentile £616 £563 £572
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £581 £613
Median % change year-on-year +20.43% -5.10% +6.52%
75th Percentile £775 £667 £675
90th Percentile - £710 £738
Central London median daily rate £650 £581 £613
% change year-on-year +11.83% -5.10% +6.52%

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of London

Infrastructure Management 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 1,608 1,738 2,170
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 89.53% 92.01% 89.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,128 1,056 1,550
10th Percentile £350 £367 £363
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -2.13%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £761 £791 £800
Central London median daily rate £540 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -6.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 11 10
10th Percentile £19.94 £14.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.50 £22.00 £17.48
Median hourly rate £28.00 £38.50 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +46.67% -35.19%
75th Percentile £42.30 £112.00 £44.56
90th Percentile £45.56 £137.50 £74.13
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -25.40% +27.27% -27.15%

Infrastructure Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Infrastructure Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Infrastructure Management job vacancy trend in the City of London

Infrastructure Management
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Infrastructure Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Infrastructure Management

Infrastructure Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Management in the City of London over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Management in the City of London

Infrastructure Management
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Infrastructure Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Infrastructure Management

Infrastructure Management
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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) AWS
3 1 (14.29%) Akamai
3 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Cloudflare
3 1 (14.29%) GCP
3 1 (14.29%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) SSL
1 3 (42.86%) TCP/IP
2 2 (28.57%) HTTP
3 1 (14.29%) DHCP
3 1 (14.29%) DNS
3 1 (14.29%) Firewall
3 1 (14.29%) HTTPS
3 1 (14.29%) Internet
3 1 (14.29%) tcpdump
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Git
1 2 (28.57%) Robot Framework
2 1 (14.29%) GitLab
2 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (85.71%) Finance
1 6 (85.71%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Financial Institution
2 2 (28.57%) Influencing Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Back Office
3 1 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Network Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Python Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Firewall Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Firewall Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Lead
3 1 (14.29%) Lead Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Lead Solutions Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Network Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Python Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Firewall Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Network Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Transformation Director
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Private Cloud
2 1 (14.29%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (14.29%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
2 1 (14.29%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Linux
2 2 (28.57%) Unix
2 2 (28.57%) Windows
3 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (42.86%) Configuration Management
2 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (42.86%) Load Balancing
3 2 (28.57%) Agile
3 2 (28.57%) Collaborative Culture
3 2 (28.57%) Containerisation
3 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (28.57%) DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) High Availability
3 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Automation
3 2 (28.57%) ITIL
3 2 (28.57%) Low Latency
3 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (28.57%) Roadmaps
3 2 (28.57%) SDLC
3 2 (28.57%) Service Delivery
3 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
3 2 (28.57%) Translating Business Requirements
3 2 (28.57%) Ultra-Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Python
2 2 (28.57%) Perl
2 2 (28.57%) PowerShell
3 1 (14.29%) Bash
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Certification
2 1 (14.29%) CCNA
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (14.29%) GDPR
2 1 (14.29%) ISO 9001
2 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 20000
Systems Management
1 6 (85.71%) Ansible
2 5 (71.43%) Terraform
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (14.29%) Packer
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) F5
2 1 (14.29%) CheckPoint
2 1 (14.29%) Fortinet
2 1 (14.29%) Google
2 1 (14.29%) Infoblox
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle
2 1 (14.29%) Palo Alto
2 1 (14.29%) VMware