Infrastructure Engineer Contract Job Trends in London

Infrastructure Engineer
England > London

The median Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in London is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 11 July 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 235 255 191
Rank change year-on-year +20 -64 +59
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 206 118 214
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.04% 0.87% 1.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.12% 0.94% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 89 171
10th Percentile £350 £330 £300
25th Percentile £417 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +10.53% -13.64%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £550
90th Percentile £685 £638 £638
England median daily rate £525 £525 £475
% change year-on-year - +10.53% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £30.00 -
England median hourly rate £72.54 £138.50 £67.50
% change year-on-year -47.62% +105.19% -6.90%

All Contract IT Job Roles
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in London with a recognized job title 18,447 12,616 16,468
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.90% 93.29% 93.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,135 8,524 11,753
10th Percentile £358 £332 £325
25th Percentile £440 £425 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £680
90th Percentile £763 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 319 194 294
10th Percentile £17.98 £18.83 £16.25
25th Percentile £23.33 £23.00 £20.50
Median hourly rate £39.00 £31.75 £27.83
Median % change year-on-year +22.83% +14.11% -28.65%
75th Percentile £62.13 £50.50 £46.77
90th Percentile £80.25 £63.75 £68.53
England median hourly rate £45.00 £28.18 £40.00
% change year-on-year +59.69% -29.55% -9.09%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Infrastructure Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Infrastructure Engineer job vacancy trend in London

Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in London

Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in London over the 6 months to 11 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in London

Infrastructure Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in London

Infrastructure Engineer
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 11 July 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London +2 31 £588 -2.08% 8
West London - 8 £675 - 1
South London -9 3 £425 -29.17%
Infrastructure Engineer
England

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 11 July 2026, Infrastructure Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 198 (96.12%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 89 (43.20%) Azure
3 80 (38.83%) Windows
4 76 (36.89%) Security Cleared
5 59 (28.64%) Microsoft
6 58 (28.16%) Infrastructure as Code
6 58 (28.16%) Terraform
7 53 (25.73%) PowerShell
8 50 (24.27%) Windows Server
9 49 (23.79%) Active Directory
10 48 (23.30%) SC Cleared
10 48 (23.30%) VMware
11 45 (21.84%) Kubernetes
12 43 (20.87%) DNS
13 42 (20.39%) CI/CD
14 41 (19.90%) DevOps
15 36 (17.48%) DHCP
15 36 (17.48%) VMware Infrastructure
16 33 (16.02%) Linux
17 31 (15.05%) AWS
17 31 (15.05%) GitHub
18 29 (14.08%) DV Cleared
19 27 (13.11%) Migration
19 27 (13.11%) Python
20 24 (11.65%) Firewall
21 22 (10.68%) Ansible
21 22 (10.68%) Hyper-V
22 21 (10.19%) GCP
23 20 (9.71%) VPN
24 19 (9.22%) IaaS

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 11 (5.34%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (2.91%) WebSphere
3 5 (2.43%) CICS
3 5 (2.43%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.49%) IBM HTTP Server
4 1 (0.49%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.49%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (0.49%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 89 (43.20%) Azure
2 31 (15.05%) AWS
2 31 (15.05%) GitHub
3 21 (10.19%) GCP
4 19 (9.22%) IaaS
5 18 (8.74%) Microsoft 365
5 18 (8.74%) PaaS
6 17 (8.25%) Azure AKS
7 16 (7.77%) Entra ID
8 15 (7.28%) Azure DevOps
8 15 (7.28%) GitHub Actions
9 14 (6.80%) Azure Monitor
10 13 (6.31%) SaaS
11 6 (2.91%) Azure Stack
12 5 (2.43%) OpenShift
13 4 (1.94%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 4 (1.94%) Nutanix
14 3 (1.46%) Amazon EKS
14 3 (1.46%) Power Platform
14 3 (1.46%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 43 (20.87%) DNS
2 36 (17.48%) DHCP
3 24 (11.65%) Firewall
4 20 (9.71%) VPN
5 9 (4.37%) LAN
5 9 (4.37%) WAN
6 8 (3.88%) SAN
6 8 (3.88%) SMTP
6 8 (3.88%) TCP/IP
7 7 (3.40%) Network Security
8 5 (2.43%) NAS
9 4 (1.94%) Remote Desktop
10 3 (1.46%) Software-Defined Networking
10 3 (1.46%) Wireless
11 2 (0.97%) 4G
11 2 (0.97%) DKIM
11 2 (0.97%) Internet
11 2 (0.97%) Structured Cabling
11 2 (0.97%) VLAN
11 2 (0.97%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (9.22%) SQL Server
2 7 (3.40%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (3.40%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (1.46%) Big Data
4 2 (0.97%) BigQuery
4 2 (0.97%) DynamoDB
4 2 (0.97%) Power BI
5 1 (0.49%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.49%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (1.94%) Artifactory
1 4 (1.94%) Jenkins
2 3 (1.46%) GitLab
3 2 (0.97%) Chocolatey
4 1 (0.49%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.49%) CMake
4 1 (0.49%) Git
4 1 (0.49%) Gradle
4 1 (0.49%) Introscope
4 1 (0.49%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 35 (16.99%) Social Skills
2 27 (13.11%) Finance
3 15 (7.28%) Banking
4 8 (3.88%) Legal
5 7 (3.40%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (2.91%) Public Sector
7 5 (2.43%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.46%) Billing
8 3 (1.46%) Law
8 3 (1.46%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.97%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.97%) Local Government
10 1 (0.49%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.49%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.49%) Mandarin Language
10 1 (0.49%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.49%) Publishing
10 1 (0.49%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.91%) Middleware
2 3 (1.46%) ARM Templates
2 3 (1.46%) OpenID
2 3 (1.46%) YAML
3 2 (0.97%) .NET
3 2 (0.97%) ADO
3 2 (0.97%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (0.97%) JSON
3 2 (0.97%) REST
3 2 (0.97%) SAML
4 1 (0.49%) 802.1X
4 1 (0.49%) Bazel
4 1 (0.49%) Kafka
4 1 (0.49%) LDAP
4 1 (0.49%) Node.js
4 1 (0.49%) OAuth
4 1 (0.49%) OAuth2
4 1 (0.49%) OpenGL
4 1 (0.49%) Qt
4 1 (0.49%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 14 (6.80%) Hybrid Cloud
2 12 (5.83%) Data Centre
3 10 (4.85%) PKI
4 8 (3.88%) Clustering
4 8 (3.88%) Onboarding
5 6 (2.91%) Cloud Native
5 6 (2.91%) Enterprise Storage
6 5 (2.43%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (2.43%) Mainframe
7 4 (1.94%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.97%) AI Agents
9 2 (0.97%) CCTV
9 2 (0.97%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (0.97%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (0.97%) Hedge funds
9 2 (0.97%) IoT
9 2 (0.97%) Security Operations Centre
10 1 (0.49%) BYOD
10 1 (0.49%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 80 (38.83%) Windows
2 50 (24.27%) Windows Server
3 33 (16.02%) Linux
4 7 (3.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (2.43%) VMS
5 5 (2.43%) Windows Server 2003
5 5 (2.43%) Windows Server 2019
5 5 (2.43%) zOS
6 4 (1.94%) Unix
6 4 (1.94%) Windows 10
7 3 (1.46%) Android
7 3 (1.46%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.97%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.97%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.49%) AIX
9 1 (0.49%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.49%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 198 (96.12%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 58 (28.16%) Infrastructure as Code
3 42 (20.39%) CI/CD
4 41 (19.90%) DevOps
5 27 (13.11%) Migration
6 19 (9.22%) Infrastructure Automation
7 18 (8.74%) Problem-Solving
8 16 (7.77%) Disaster Recovery
9 14 (6.80%) Containerisation
9 14 (6.80%) Continuous Improvement
9 14 (6.80%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 12 (5.83%) Infrastructure Transformation
11 11 (5.34%) AI
11 11 (5.34%) Cloud Security
11 11 (5.34%) High Availability
11 11 (5.34%) Incident Management
11 11 (5.34%) Validation
12 10 (4.85%) ITIL
12 10 (4.85%) Roadmaps
12 10 (4.85%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 53 (25.73%) PowerShell
2 27 (13.11%) Python
3 16 (7.77%) C#
4 15 (7.28%) SQL
5 12 (5.83%) Bash
6 11 (5.34%) Bicep
7 7 (3.40%) Java
8 5 (2.43%) Go
9 2 (0.97%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.97%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.49%) C
10 1 (0.49%) C++
10 1 (0.49%) Jython
10 1 (0.49%) Perl
10 1 (0.49%) VB
Qualifications
1 76 (36.89%) Security Cleared
2 48 (23.30%) SC Cleared
3 29 (14.08%) DV Cleared
4 10 (4.85%) Degree
5 6 (2.91%) Azure Certification
6 5 (2.43%) CCNA
6 5 (2.43%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.46%) CCNP
7 3 (1.46%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.46%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.49%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.49%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.49%) CISA
8 1 (0.49%) CISM
8 1 (0.49%) CISSP
8 1 (0.49%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.49%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.49%) MCSE
8 1 (0.49%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.40%) QA
2 5 (2.43%) SLA
3 3 (1.46%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (1.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.46%) NIST
4 2 (0.97%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.49%) FedRAMP
5 1 (0.49%) GDPR
5 1 (0.49%) NCSC
5 1 (0.49%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 49 (23.79%) Active Directory
2 36 (17.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (10.68%) Hyper-V
4 14 (6.80%) VMware ESXi
5 13 (6.31%) Docker
6 12 (5.83%) vSphere
7 8 (3.88%) BitLocker
7 8 (3.88%) Microsoft App-V
7 8 (3.88%) Virtual Desktop
7 8 (3.88%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (1.94%) Terminal Services
9 3 (1.46%) Firmware
9 3 (1.46%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.49%) Ceph
10 1 (0.49%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.49%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 58 (28.16%) Terraform
2 45 (21.84%) Kubernetes
3 22 (10.68%) Ansible
4 12 (5.83%) Microsoft Intune
5 11 (5.34%) vCenter Server
6 9 (4.37%) Puppet
7 8 (3.88%) vMotion
8 5 (2.43%) Packer
9 4 (1.94%) FortiGate
9 4 (1.94%) Prometheus
9 4 (1.94%) SCCM
10 3 (1.46%) Nagios
11 2 (0.97%) AirWatch
11 2 (0.97%) Argo
11 2 (0.97%) Grafana
12 1 (0.49%) Cilium
12 1 (0.49%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.49%) Proxmox
12 1 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.49%) systemd
Vendors
1 59 (28.64%) Microsoft
2 48 (23.30%) VMware
3 16 (7.77%) Citrix
3 16 (7.77%) Google
4 11 (5.34%) NetApp
5 8 (3.88%) Cisco
6 6 (2.91%) Dell
6 6 (2.91%) Red Hat
7 5 (2.43%) IBM
8 4 (1.94%) Dynatrace
8 4 (1.94%) HP
8 4 (1.94%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.94%) Symantec
9 3 (1.46%) SolarWinds
9 3 (1.46%) Tenable
10 2 (0.97%) AppDynamics
10 2 (0.97%) CyberArk
10 2 (0.97%) EMC
10 2 (0.97%) Fortinet
10 2 (0.97%) Proofpoint