Infrastructure Engineer Contract Job Trends in London

Infrastructure Engineer
England > London

The median Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in London is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 October 2026.

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

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 251 233 229
Rank change year-on-year -18 -4 -27
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 209 131 170
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.03% 0.97% 1.05%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.11% 1.05% 1.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 95 136
10th Percentile £333 £339 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £510 £513
Median % change year-on-year +7.84% -0.49% -0.24%
75th Percentile £638 £588 £575
90th Percentile £688 £645 £650
England median daily rate £538 £483 £500
% change year-on-year +11.40% -3.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
10th Percentile - £24.40 -
25th Percentile £65.75 £26.50 -
Median hourly rate £66.50 £30.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +121.67% - -
75th Percentile £67.25 £32.70 -
90th Percentile - £34.32 -
England median hourly rate £74.00 £32.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +131.25% -46.67% -15.79%

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 18,867 12,514 15,213
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.12% 92.70% 94.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,183 8,360 9,987
10th Percentile £363 £333 £340
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% -0.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £663 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 411 206 177
10th Percentile £17.00 £17.00 £17.40
25th Percentile £21.93 £22.75 £24.15
Median hourly rate £40.00 £28.14 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +42.16% -22.91% -3.31%
75th Percentile £64.25 £50.50 £58.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £68.75 £78.75
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.90
% change year-on-year +68.99% -42.71% -4.32%

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 4 October 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 4 October 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 -11 28 £613 +11.36% 18
West London - 8 £675 - 3
South London -5 3 £520 -13.33%
Infrastructure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 4 October 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.

1 202 (96.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 100 (47.85%) Azure
3 91 (43.54%) Windows
4 85 (40.67%) Microsoft
5 76 (36.36%) Infrastructure as Code
6 67 (32.06%) Terraform
7 63 (30.14%) Active Directory
8 61 (29.19%) PowerShell
8 61 (29.19%) Security Cleared
8 61 (29.19%) Windows Server
9 58 (27.75%) VMware
10 53 (25.36%) DNS
11 47 (22.49%) DevOps
12 45 (21.53%) DHCP
12 45 (21.53%) VMware Infrastructure
13 40 (19.14%) CI/CD
13 40 (19.14%) SC Cleared
14 38 (18.18%) Migration
15 37 (17.70%) Entra ID
15 37 (17.70%) Microsoft 365
16 35 (16.75%) Infrastructure Automation
16 35 (16.75%) Linux
17 34 (16.27%) Kubernetes
17 34 (16.27%) Python
18 33 (15.79%) Firewall
19 32 (15.31%) AWS
20 28 (13.40%) Problem-Solving
21 27 (12.92%) Ansible
21 27 (12.92%) Microsoft Intune
22 26 (12.44%) Disaster Recovery

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 21 (10.05%) SharePoint
2 18 (8.61%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (2.87%) CICS
3 6 (2.87%) WebSphere
4 4 (1.91%) Confluence
4 4 (1.91%) SharePoint Server
5 2 (0.96%) nginx
6 1 (0.48%) Apache
6 1 (0.48%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.48%) Exchange Server 2013
6 1 (0.48%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (1.44%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.96%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 100 (47.85%) Azure
2 37 (17.70%) Entra ID
2 37 (17.70%) Microsoft 365
3 32 (15.31%) AWS
4 20 (9.57%) GitHub
5 17 (8.13%) GCP
6 16 (7.66%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (6.22%) Azure AKS
8 12 (5.74%) Azure Monitor
8 12 (5.74%) GitHub Actions
8 12 (5.74%) IaaS
9 10 (4.78%) PaaS
10 9 (4.31%) SaaS
11 8 (3.83%) Power Platform
12 5 (2.39%) Azure Functions
12 5 (2.39%) Datadog
12 5 (2.39%) Nutanix
12 5 (2.39%) OpenShift
12 5 (2.39%) Serverless
13 4 (1.91%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 53 (25.36%) DNS
2 45 (21.53%) DHCP
3 33 (15.79%) Firewall
4 24 (11.48%) VPN
5 19 (9.09%) TCP/IP
6 15 (7.18%) Network Security
7 10 (4.78%) SAN
8 9 (4.31%) VLAN
9 8 (3.83%) LAN
9 8 (3.83%) WAN
9 8 (3.83%) Wi-Fi
10 6 (2.87%) NAS
10 6 (2.87%) Wireless
11 4 (1.91%) 4G
12 3 (1.44%) SMTP
12 3 (1.44%) SSL
13 2 (0.96%) Cisco ISE
13 2 (0.96%) Internet
13 2 (0.96%) Remote Desktop
14 1 (0.48%) Telepresence
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (11.96%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.39%) Power BI
3 4 (1.91%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (1.91%) Big Data
3 4 (1.91%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (0.96%) BigQuery
4 2 (0.96%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 2 (0.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (0.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (0.48%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.48%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.48%) MariaDB
5 1 (0.48%) MySQL
5 1 (0.48%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (2.87%) Git
2 5 (2.39%) GitLab
2 5 (2.39%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.91%) Chocolatey
3 4 (1.91%) JIRA
4 2 (0.96%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.48%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.48%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.48%) CMake
5 1 (0.48%) Gradle
General
1 33 (15.79%) Finance
2 27 (12.92%) Social Skills
3 20 (9.57%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (6.70%) Banking
5 8 (3.83%) Public Sector
6 5 (2.39%) Automotive
6 5 (2.39%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (2.39%) Telecoms
7 3 (1.44%) Legal
8 2 (0.96%) Billing
8 2 (0.96%) Local Government
8 2 (0.96%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.48%) Front Office
9 1 (0.48%) Law
9 1 (0.48%) Mandarin Language
9 1 (0.48%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (32.06%) Terraform
2 8 (3.83%) ARM Templates
3 6 (2.87%) Middleware
4 5 (2.39%) 802.1X
4 5 (2.39%) YAML
5 4 (1.91%) OpenID
6 3 (1.44%) .NET
6 3 (1.44%) Kafka
6 3 (1.44%) OAuth
7 2 (0.96%) JSON
7 2 (0.96%) REST
7 2 (0.96%) SAML
8 1 (0.48%) Apache NiFi
8 1 (0.48%) Elastic Stack
8 1 (0.48%) LEMP Stack
8 1 (0.48%) OAuth2
8 1 (0.48%) OpenGL
8 1 (0.48%) Qt
8 1 (0.48%) SailPoint
8 1 (0.48%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 22 (10.53%) Hybrid Cloud
2 11 (5.26%) PKI
3 10 (4.78%) Clustering
3 10 (4.78%) Data Centre
4 8 (3.83%) Cloud Native
5 6 (2.87%) Linux Command Line
5 6 (2.87%) Mainframe
5 6 (2.87%) Onboarding
6 5 (2.39%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (2.39%) Robotics
7 4 (1.91%) Cyber Threat
7 4 (1.91%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (1.91%) Public Cloud
7 4 (1.91%) Security Operations Centre
8 2 (0.96%) AI Agents
8 2 (0.96%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (0.96%) Enterprise Storage
8 2 (0.96%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.48%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.48%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 91 (43.54%) Windows
2 61 (29.19%) Windows Server
3 35 (16.75%) Linux
4 7 (3.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (2.87%) Windows Server 2019
5 6 (2.87%) zOS
6 5 (2.39%) VMS
6 5 (2.39%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (1.91%) Android
7 4 (1.91%) Apple iOS
7 4 (1.91%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.91%) Windows 10
8 3 (1.44%) Unix
9 2 (0.96%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.96%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.48%) OpenVMS
10 1 (0.48%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.48%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.48%) Windows Server 2003
10 1 (0.48%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 202 (96.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 76 (36.36%) Infrastructure as Code
3 47 (22.49%) DevOps
4 40 (19.14%) CI/CD
5 38 (18.18%) Migration
6 35 (16.75%) Infrastructure Automation
7 28 (13.40%) Problem-Solving
8 26 (12.44%) Disaster Recovery
9 25 (11.96%) ITIL
10 19 (9.09%) AI
10 19 (9.09%) High Availability
11 17 (8.13%) Continuous Improvement
12 16 (7.66%) Platform Engineering
12 16 (7.66%) Root Cause Analysis
13 15 (7.18%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 14 (6.70%) Incident Management
15 13 (6.22%) Cloud Security
15 13 (6.22%) Identity Access Management
16 12 (5.74%) Agile
16 12 (5.74%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 61 (29.19%) PowerShell
2 34 (16.27%) Python
3 20 (9.57%) Bash
4 16 (7.66%) SQL
5 13 (6.22%) Bicep
5 13 (6.22%) C#
6 9 (4.31%) Java
7 6 (2.87%) Go
8 3 (1.44%) C++
9 1 (0.48%) C
9 1 (0.48%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.48%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.48%) Perl
9 1 (0.48%) VB
Qualifications
1 61 (29.19%) Security Cleared
2 40 (19.14%) SC Cleared
3 22 (10.53%) DV Cleared
4 18 (8.61%) Degree
5 10 (4.78%) Cisco Certification
5 10 (4.78%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (4.31%) Azure Certification
6 9 (4.31%) CCNP
7 6 (2.87%) CCNA
8 5 (2.39%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.91%) JNCIP
9 4 (1.91%) JNCIS
10 2 (0.96%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.48%) CISA
11 1 (0.48%) CISM
11 1 (0.48%) CISSP
11 1 (0.48%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.48%) MCSE
11 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 1 (0.48%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.78%) SLA
2 6 (2.87%) QA
3 3 (1.44%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (1.44%) NIST
4 2 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.96%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.48%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.48%) FedRAMP
5 1 (0.48%) GLBA
5 1 (0.48%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.48%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 63 (30.14%) Active Directory
2 45 (21.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (9.09%) Hyper-V
4 15 (7.18%) Virtual Desktop
5 14 (6.70%) VMware ESXi
6 13 (6.22%) vSphere
7 9 (4.31%) Virtual Machines
8 7 (3.35%) Docker
9 6 (2.87%) Virtual Servers
10 5 (2.39%) Firmware
11 3 (1.44%) BitLocker
11 3 (1.44%) Microsoft App-V
11 3 (1.44%) Terminal Services
12 2 (0.96%) IAG
13 1 (0.48%) Ceph
13 1 (0.48%) VMware NSX
13 1 (0.48%) VMware Server
13 1 (0.48%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 34 (16.27%) Kubernetes
2 27 (12.92%) Ansible
2 27 (12.92%) Microsoft Intune
3 11 (5.26%) SCCM
4 10 (4.78%) vCenter Server
5 7 (3.35%) Prometheus
6 5 (2.39%) FortiGate
6 5 (2.39%) Puppet
6 5 (2.39%) systemd
7 4 (1.91%) Grafana
8 3 (1.44%) Argo
8 3 (1.44%) Failover Clustering
8 3 (1.44%) Microsoft Clustering
8 3 (1.44%) Nagios
8 3 (1.44%) Packer
8 3 (1.44%) SCOM
8 3 (1.44%) vMotion
9 2 (0.96%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.48%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 85 (40.67%) Microsoft
2 58 (27.75%) VMware
3 15 (7.18%) Cisco
4 12 (5.74%) Google
5 9 (4.31%) Citrix
6 7 (3.35%) Dynatrace
6 7 (3.35%) Red Hat
7 6 (2.87%) HP
7 6 (2.87%) IBM
8 5 (2.39%) Tenable
9 4 (1.91%) AppDynamics
9 4 (1.91%) Juniper
9 4 (1.91%) MikroTik
9 4 (1.91%) Oracle
9 4 (1.91%) Zscaler
10 3 (1.44%) NetApp
10 3 (1.44%) Symantec
11 2 (0.96%) BMC
11 2 (0.96%) Commvault
11 2 (0.96%) Remedy