Infrastructure Engineer Contract Job Trends in London

Infrastructure Engineer
England > London

The median Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in London is £523, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 22 October 2025.

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

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 248 228 192
Rank change year-on-year -20 -36 +54
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 122 164 276
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.91% 1.03% 1.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.99% 1.09% 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 130 199
10th Percentile £353 £324 £350
25th Percentile £403 £407 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £515 £508
Median % change year-on-year +1.46% +1.48% -3.33%
75th Percentile £588 £587 £628
90th Percentile £650 £650 £700
England median daily rate £465 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -7.00% - +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £24.40 - -
25th Percentile £26.50 - -
Median hourly rate £30.00 - £35.00
75th Percentile £32.70 - -
90th Percentile £34.32 - -
England median hourly rate £32.00 £60.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -46.67% -14.29% +43.83%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 12,380 14,992 19,412
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.50% 94.05% 94.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,241 9,739 14,154
10th Percentile £335 £345 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -2.38% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 213 167 210
10th Percentile £17.00 £17.25 £18.31
25th Percentile £22.00 £23.80 £22.26
Median hourly rate £26.50 £37.50 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.33% -7.41% +24.62%
75th Percentile £48.00 £58.75 £61.15
90th Percentile £67.11 £79.55 £76.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £46.00
% change year-on-year -40.82% -7.61% +59.17%

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 22 October 2025.

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 22 October 2025. 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 +9 18 £550 +5.26% 21
East London - 4 £155 - 2
Infrastructure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 22 October 2025, 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.

1 112 (91.80%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 59 (48.36%) Azure
3 50 (40.98%) Microsoft
4 47 (38.52%) Windows
5 36 (29.51%) Terraform
5 36 (29.51%) Windows Server
6 35 (28.69%) Active Directory
7 30 (24.59%) Linux
8 29 (23.77%) Firewall
9 28 (22.95%) Python
10 26 (21.31%) Microsoft 365
11 25 (20.49%) DevOps
11 25 (20.49%) Microsoft Intune
11 25 (20.49%) Security Cleared
12 23 (18.85%) Infrastructure as Code
13 21 (17.21%) DNS
13 21 (17.21%) Problem-Solving
13 21 (17.21%) SC Cleared
13 21 (17.21%) VPN
14 20 (16.39%) Ansible
14 20 (16.39%) VMware
15 19 (15.57%) PowerShell
15 19 (15.57%) TCP/IP
16 18 (14.75%) CI/CD
17 17 (13.93%) Entra ID
18 16 (13.11%) High Availability
18 16 (13.11%) SCCM
19 15 (12.30%) AWS
20 14 (11.48%) Incident Management
20 14 (11.48%) Infrastructure Automation

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 13 (10.66%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (7.38%) Confluence
3 6 (4.92%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (2.46%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.82%) Apache
5 1 (0.82%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.82%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.82%) Alphatax
Cloud Services
1 59 (48.36%) Azure
2 26 (21.31%) Microsoft 365
3 17 (13.93%) Entra ID
4 15 (12.30%) AWS
5 12 (9.84%) IaaS
6 11 (9.02%) GitHub
7 8 (6.56%) Mimecast
8 7 (5.74%) Amazon S3
8 7 (5.74%) GCP
9 6 (4.92%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (4.92%) SaaS
10 5 (4.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 5 (4.10%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (4.10%) Amazon ELB
10 5 (4.10%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 4 (3.28%) PaaS
12 3 (2.46%) Azure Monitor
12 3 (2.46%) Nutanix
12 3 (2.46%) OneDrive
12 3 (2.46%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 29 (23.77%) Firewall
2 21 (17.21%) DNS
2 21 (17.21%) VPN
3 19 (15.57%) TCP/IP
4 14 (11.48%) SSL
4 14 (11.48%) WAN
5 9 (7.38%) DHCP
5 9 (7.38%) Network Security
6 7 (5.74%) HTTP
7 6 (4.92%) LAN
7 6 (4.92%) SD-WAN
7 6 (4.92%) Wi-Fi
8 4 (3.28%) 4G
8 4 (3.28%) Wireless
9 3 (2.46%) DMARC
10 2 (1.64%) MPLS
10 2 (1.64%) SMTP
10 2 (1.64%) tcpdump
10 2 (1.64%) Wireshark
11 1 (0.82%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.92%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.82%) Apache Iceberg
2 1 (0.82%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (0.82%) Data Lake
2 1 (0.82%) Delta Lake
2 1 (0.82%) Parquet
2 1 (0.82%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (8.20%) JIRA
2 8 (6.56%) Jenkins
3 6 (4.92%) Git
3 6 (4.92%) GitLab
4 5 (4.10%) ScriptRunner
5 4 (3.28%) Robot Framework
General
1 27 (22.13%) Finance
2 22 (18.03%) Social Skills
3 10 (8.20%) Public Sector
4 9 (7.38%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (6.56%) Banking
6 7 (5.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (4.10%) Financial Institution
8 4 (3.28%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (3.28%) Spanish Language
9 3 (2.46%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (2.46%) Front Office
9 3 (2.46%) Law
10 2 (1.64%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.64%) Legal
10 2 (1.64%) Military
10 2 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.64%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.82%) International Banking
11 1 (0.82%) Local Government
11 1 (0.82%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.28%) Middleware
2 3 (2.46%) FIX Protocol
3 2 (1.64%) YAML
4 1 (0.82%) ADO
4 1 (0.82%) Apache Avro
4 1 (0.82%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.82%) AWT
4 1 (0.82%) GWT
4 1 (0.82%) JMS
4 1 (0.82%) Kafka
4 1 (0.82%) LDAP
4 1 (0.82%) OAuth
4 1 (0.82%) OAuth2
4 1 (0.82%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.82%) PySpark
4 1 (0.82%) Rendezvous
4 1 (0.82%) RESTful
4 1 (0.82%) SAML
4 1 (0.82%) TIBCO EMS
4 1 (0.82%) Ultra Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.38%) Data Centre
2 6 (4.92%) Private Cloud
3 5 (4.10%) Data Protection Act
3 5 (4.10%) PKI
3 5 (4.10%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (3.28%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (3.28%) Legacy Applications
4 4 (3.28%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (3.28%) Onboarding
4 4 (3.28%) Security Operations Centre
5 3 (2.46%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.64%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.64%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.82%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.82%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.82%) Cyber Defence
7 1 (0.82%) Cyber Security Posture
7 1 (0.82%) Distributed Applications
7 1 (0.82%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (0.82%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 47 (38.52%) Windows
2 36 (29.51%) Windows Server
3 30 (24.59%) Linux
4 9 (7.38%) Unix
5 6 (4.92%) Windows 10
6 3 (2.46%) Ubuntu
6 3 (2.46%) VMS
7 1 (0.82%) Android
7 1 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (91.80%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 25 (20.49%) DevOps
3 23 (18.85%) Infrastructure as Code
4 21 (17.21%) Problem-Solving
5 18 (14.75%) CI/CD
6 16 (13.11%) High Availability
7 14 (11.48%) Incident Management
7 14 (11.48%) Infrastructure Automation
7 14 (11.48%) Migration
8 13 (10.66%) Agile
8 13 (10.66%) Infrastructure Management
9 12 (9.84%) ITIL
9 12 (9.84%) Low Latency
10 11 (9.02%) Information Security
10 11 (9.02%) Test Automation
11 10 (8.20%) Security Operations
12 9 (7.38%) Cloud Security
12 9 (7.38%) Configuration Management
13 8 (6.56%) Data Protection
13 8 (6.56%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 28 (22.95%) Python
2 19 (15.57%) PowerShell
3 8 (6.56%) Bash
3 8 (6.56%) Perl
4 5 (4.10%) Groovy
5 3 (2.46%) Go
5 3 (2.46%) SQL
6 2 (1.64%) Java
6 2 (1.64%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.82%) Scala
Qualifications
1 25 (20.49%) Security Cleared
2 21 (17.21%) SC Cleared
3 8 (6.56%) Degree
4 6 (4.92%) CCNA
4 6 (4.92%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (4.10%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (3.28%) CCNP
6 4 (3.28%) DV Cleared
6 4 (3.28%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 3 (2.46%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.64%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.82%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.82%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.82%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.28%) SLA
2 3 (2.46%) NIST
3 1 (0.82%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.82%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 1 (0.82%) QA
System Software
1 35 (28.69%) Active Directory
2 14 (11.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (8.20%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (7.38%) Docker
5 6 (4.92%) Hyper-V
6 5 (4.10%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (2.46%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.82%) etcd
8 1 (0.82%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 36 (29.51%) Terraform
2 25 (20.49%) Microsoft Intune
3 20 (16.39%) Ansible
4 16 (13.11%) SCCM
5 6 (4.92%) Kubernetes
6 5 (4.10%) CASB
6 5 (4.10%) FortiGate
6 5 (4.10%) Grafana
6 5 (4.10%) SCOrch
7 4 (3.28%) Prometheus
8 3 (2.46%) Jamf Pro
8 3 (2.46%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (2.46%) vCenter Server
9 2 (1.64%) Argo
9 2 (1.64%) ITRS Geneos
9 2 (1.64%) McAfee ePO
10 1 (0.82%) AirWatch
10 1 (0.82%) Istio
10 1 (0.82%) SELinux
10 1 (0.82%) vRealize
Vendors
1 50 (40.98%) Microsoft
2 20 (16.39%) VMware
3 13 (10.66%) F5
4 12 (9.84%) Cisco
5 11 (9.02%) Palo Alto
6 6 (4.92%) Atlassian
6 6 (4.92%) Google
7 5 (4.10%) CheckPoint
7 5 (4.10%) Dell
7 5 (4.10%) Tenable
7 5 (4.10%) Zscaler
8 4 (3.28%) Citrix
8 4 (3.28%) Commvault
9 3 (2.46%) CyberArk
9 3 (2.46%) Fortinet
9 3 (2.46%) Solace
10 2 (1.64%) Canon
10 2 (1.64%) CrowdStrike
10 2 (1.64%) Meraki
10 2 (1.64%) Qualys