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 17 June 2026.

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

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 239 246 209
Rank change year-on-year +7 -37 +44
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 191 112 204
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.01% 0.91% 1.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.09% 0.97% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 88 156
10th Percentile £364 £359 £288
25th Percentile £425 £425 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +16.67% -18.18%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £544
90th Percentile £686 £638 £631
England median daily rate £525 £525 £465
% change year-on-year - +12.91% -7.01%

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 17,565 11,566 16,515
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.87% 93.51% 93.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,581 7,842 11,869
10th Percentile £358 £341 £325
25th Percentile £433 £425 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.18% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £799 £800
England median daily rate £520 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +1.46% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 295 169 324
10th Percentile £18.75 £19.89 £16.00
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.00 £20.17
Median hourly rate £39.50 £32.89 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year +20.10% +18.27% -24.37%
75th Percentile £63.10 £50.75 £46.49
90th Percentile £78.67 £65.00 £66.85
England median hourly rate £45.00 £28.75 £39.55
% change year-on-year +56.52% -27.31% -12.11%

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 17 June 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 17 June 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 -12 28 £588 -2.08% 7
West London -12 8 £675 +68.75% 2
South London -11 2 £419 -21.73% 1
Infrastructure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 17 June 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.

1 186 (97.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 83 (43.46%) Azure
3 74 (38.74%) Windows
4 73 (38.22%) Security Cleared
5 54 (28.27%) Microsoft
6 53 (27.75%) Terraform
7 51 (26.70%) Infrastructure as Code
7 51 (26.70%) PowerShell
8 49 (25.65%) Windows Server
9 48 (25.13%) VMware
10 44 (23.04%) Active Directory
11 43 (22.51%) DNS
12 42 (21.99%) Kubernetes
12 42 (21.99%) SC Cleared
13 39 (20.42%) CI/CD
14 37 (19.37%) DevOps
15 35 (18.32%) DHCP
15 35 (18.32%) VMware Infrastructure
16 32 (16.75%) DV Cleared
16 32 (16.75%) Linux
17 31 (16.23%) GitHub
18 27 (14.14%) AWS
19 25 (13.09%) Migration
20 24 (12.57%) Ansible
20 24 (12.57%) Firewall
20 24 (12.57%) Hyper-V
20 24 (12.57%) Python
21 20 (10.47%) GCP
21 20 (10.47%) IaaS
21 20 (10.47%) VPN

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 10 (5.24%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.52%) IBM HTTP Server
2 1 (0.52%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.52%) WebSphere
2 1 (0.52%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 83 (43.46%) Azure
2 31 (16.23%) GitHub
3 27 (14.14%) AWS
4 20 (10.47%) GCP
4 20 (10.47%) IaaS
5 18 (9.42%) PaaS
6 17 (8.90%) Azure AKS
7 16 (8.38%) Microsoft 365
8 15 (7.85%) Azure DevOps
8 15 (7.85%) GitHub Actions
9 14 (7.33%) Azure Monitor
9 14 (7.33%) Entra ID
10 10 (5.24%) SaaS
11 9 (4.71%) Nutanix
12 6 (3.14%) Azure Stack
13 4 (2.09%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 4 (2.09%) Microsoft Purview
13 4 (2.09%) OpenShift
14 3 (1.57%) Amazon EKS
14 3 (1.57%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 43 (22.51%) DNS
2 35 (18.32%) DHCP
3 24 (12.57%) Firewall
4 20 (10.47%) VPN
5 10 (5.24%) LAN
5 10 (5.24%) SMTP
5 10 (5.24%) WAN
6 7 (3.66%) TCP/IP
7 6 (3.14%) Network Security
7 6 (3.14%) SAN
8 4 (2.09%) NAS
9 3 (1.57%) Software-Defined Networking
9 3 (1.57%) Wireless
10 2 (1.05%) 4G
10 2 (1.05%) Internet
10 2 (1.05%) Remote Desktop
10 2 (1.05%) Structured Cabling
10 2 (1.05%) VSAN
11 1 (0.52%) Cisco ASA
11 1 (0.52%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (8.90%) SQL Server
2 9 (4.71%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (3.66%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (1.57%) Big Data
5 2 (1.05%) DynamoDB
5 2 (1.05%) Power BI
6 1 (0.52%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.52%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.52%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (2.09%) Artifactory
1 4 (2.09%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.05%) GitLab
3 1 (0.52%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.52%) Chocolatey
3 1 (0.52%) CMake
3 1 (0.52%) Git
3 1 (0.52%) Gradle
3 1 (0.52%) Introscope
General
1 33 (17.28%) Social Skills
2 26 (13.61%) Finance
3 14 (7.33%) Banking
4 7 (3.66%) Legal
5 6 (3.14%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (2.62%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (2.62%) Public Sector
7 3 (1.57%) Billing
8 2 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.05%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.05%) Law
8 2 (1.05%) Local Government
8 2 (1.05%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.52%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.52%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.52%) Mandarin Language
9 1 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.52%) Publishing
9 1 (0.52%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.57%) ARM Templates
1 3 (1.57%) YAML
2 2 (1.05%) .NET
2 2 (1.05%) ADO
2 2 (1.05%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (1.05%) JSON
2 2 (1.05%) OpenID
2 2 (1.05%) REST
3 1 (0.52%) Bazel
3 1 (0.52%) Kafka
3 1 (0.52%) LDAP
3 1 (0.52%) Middleware
3 1 (0.52%) Node.js
3 1 (0.52%) OAuth
3 1 (0.52%) OAuth2
3 1 (0.52%) OpenGL
3 1 (0.52%) Qt
3 1 (0.52%) SAML
3 1 (0.52%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.28%) Data Centre
1 12 (6.28%) Hybrid Cloud
1 12 (6.28%) PKI
2 10 (5.24%) Clustering
3 8 (4.19%) Onboarding
4 7 (3.66%) Enterprise Storage
5 6 (3.14%) Cloud Native
6 5 (2.62%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (2.09%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.57%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.05%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.05%) CCTV
9 2 (1.05%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (1.05%) Operational Technology
9 2 (1.05%) Security Operations Centre
10 1 (0.52%) Cyber Threat
10 1 (0.52%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.52%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.52%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.52%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 74 (38.74%) Windows
2 49 (25.65%) Windows Server
3 32 (16.75%) Linux
4 7 (3.66%) Windows Server 2003
5 6 (3.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (2.62%) Unix
6 5 (2.62%) VMS
6 5 (2.62%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (2.09%) Windows 10
8 3 (1.57%) Android
8 3 (1.57%) Apple iOS
9 2 (1.05%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (1.05%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.52%) AIX
10 1 (0.52%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.52%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 186 (97.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 51 (26.70%) Infrastructure as Code
3 39 (20.42%) CI/CD
4 37 (19.37%) DevOps
5 25 (13.09%) Migration
6 18 (9.42%) Infrastructure Automation
7 17 (8.90%) Problem-Solving
8 14 (7.33%) Continuous Improvement
9 13 (6.81%) Containerisation
9 13 (6.81%) Disaster Recovery
9 13 (6.81%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 12 (6.28%) Incident Management
10 12 (6.28%) Infrastructure Transformation
11 11 (5.76%) AI
12 10 (5.24%) Observability
13 9 (4.71%) Cloud Security
13 9 (4.71%) High Availability
13 9 (4.71%) Platform Engineering
13 9 (4.71%) Roadmaps
13 9 (4.71%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 51 (26.70%) PowerShell
2 24 (12.57%) Python
3 16 (8.38%) C#
4 15 (7.85%) SQL
5 12 (6.28%) Bash
6 10 (5.24%) Bicep
7 6 (3.14%) Java
8 4 (2.09%) Go
9 2 (1.05%) JavaScript
9 2 (1.05%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.52%) C
10 1 (0.52%) C++
10 1 (0.52%) Jython
10 1 (0.52%) VB
Qualifications
1 73 (38.22%) Security Cleared
2 42 (21.99%) SC Cleared
3 32 (16.75%) DV Cleared
4 8 (4.19%) Degree
5 5 (2.62%) Azure Certification
5 5 (2.62%) CCNA
5 5 (2.62%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (1.57%) CCNP
6 3 (1.57%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.52%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.52%) CISA
7 1 (0.52%) CISM
7 1 (0.52%) CISSP
7 1 (0.52%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.52%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.52%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.52%) MCSE
7 1 (0.52%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.62%) QA
2 4 (2.09%) SLA
3 3 (1.57%) NIST
4 2 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.05%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.52%) FedRAMP
5 1 (0.52%) GDPR
5 1 (0.52%) NCSC
5 1 (0.52%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 44 (23.04%) Active Directory
2 35 (18.32%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (12.57%) Hyper-V
4 15 (7.85%) Docker
5 13 (6.81%) VMware ESXi
6 10 (5.24%) BitLocker
6 10 (5.24%) Microsoft App-V
6 10 (5.24%) vSphere
7 7 (3.66%) Virtual Machines
8 6 (3.14%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (2.09%) Terminal Services
10 3 (1.57%) Firmware
10 3 (1.57%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (1.05%) VMware NSX
12 1 (0.52%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 53 (27.75%) Terraform
2 42 (21.99%) Kubernetes
3 24 (12.57%) Ansible
4 11 (5.76%) Microsoft Intune
4 11 (5.76%) Puppet
4 11 (5.76%) vCenter Server
5 10 (5.24%) vMotion
6 5 (2.62%) Packer
7 4 (2.09%) AirWatch
7 4 (2.09%) Prometheus
8 3 (1.57%) FortiGate
8 3 (1.57%) Nagios
9 2 (1.05%) Grafana
9 2 (1.05%) SCCM
10 1 (0.52%) Argo
10 1 (0.52%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.52%) systemd
10 1 (0.52%) vRealize
10 1 (0.52%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 54 (28.27%) Microsoft
2 48 (25.13%) VMware
3 15 (7.85%) Citrix
3 15 (7.85%) Google
4 14 (7.33%) NetApp
5 6 (3.14%) Cisco
5 6 (3.14%) Dell
5 6 (3.14%) Red Hat
6 5 (2.62%) SolarWinds
7 4 (2.09%) CyberArk
7 4 (2.09%) HP
7 4 (2.09%) Oracle
7 4 (2.09%) ServiceNow
7 4 (2.09%) Symantec
8 3 (1.57%) Dynatrace
9 2 (1.05%) EMC
9 2 (1.05%) Fortinet
10 1 (0.52%) Proofpoint
10 1 (0.52%) Qualys
10 1 (0.52%) Veeam