Infrastructure Engineer Contract Job Trends in London

Infrastructure Engineer
England > London

The median Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in London is £540, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 7 August 2026.

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

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 232 255 203
Rank change year-on-year +23 -52 +33
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 224 117 190
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.11% 0.86% 1.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.19% 0.93% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 84 154
10th Percentile £340 £337 £300
25th Percentile £419 £400 £387
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £650 £623 £575
90th Percentile £688 £646 £650
England median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £30.00 -
England median hourly rate £72.54 £53.50 £72.75
% change year-on-year +35.59% -26.46% +0.34%

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 18,802 12,610 15,273
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.08% 92.99% 94.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,272 8,525 10,790
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
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 £656 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 348 204 199
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.98 £17.45
25th Percentile £21.93 £22.98 £22.00
Median hourly rate £38.25 £30.00 £33.07
Median % change year-on-year +27.50% -9.28% -11.81%
75th Percentile £59.00 £50.13 £54.38
90th Percentile £78.75 £63.75 £71.88
England median hourly rate £43.56 £26.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +67.54% -42.22% +4.65%

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 7 August 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 7 August 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 +3 32 £625 +4.17% 15
West London - 8 £675 -
South London -18 2 £419 -30.21% 2
Infrastructure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 7 August 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.

1 219 (97.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 98 (43.75%) Azure
3 97 (43.30%) Windows
4 85 (37.95%) Security Cleared
5 76 (33.93%) Microsoft
6 67 (29.91%) Infrastructure as Code
7 66 (29.46%) Terraform
8 61 (27.23%) Active Directory
8 61 (27.23%) PowerShell
8 61 (27.23%) Windows Server
9 58 (25.89%) VMware
10 55 (24.55%) DNS
10 55 (24.55%) SC Cleared
11 49 (21.88%) DevOps
11 49 (21.88%) DHCP
12 45 (20.09%) Kubernetes
13 44 (19.64%) CI/CD
14 43 (19.20%) VMware Infrastructure
15 40 (17.86%) Linux
16 39 (17.41%) Migration
17 36 (16.07%) Firewall
18 33 (14.73%) Python
19 32 (14.29%) DV Cleared
20 31 (13.84%) AWS
20 31 (13.84%) GitHub
21 29 (12.95%) Ansible
22 28 (12.50%) VPN
23 27 (12.05%) SQL Server
24 26 (11.61%) Microsoft 365
25 25 (11.16%) Entra ID

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 16 (7.14%) SharePoint
2 15 (6.70%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (3.13%) WebSphere
4 6 (2.68%) CICS
5 4 (1.79%) SharePoint Server
6 2 (0.89%) Confluence
7 1 (0.45%) Exchange Server 2013
7 1 (0.45%) IBM HTTP Server
7 1 (0.45%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.45%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 3 (1.34%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.89%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 98 (43.75%) Azure
2 31 (13.84%) AWS
2 31 (13.84%) GitHub
3 26 (11.61%) Microsoft 365
4 25 (11.16%) Entra ID
5 21 (9.38%) GCP
5 21 (9.38%) IaaS
6 20 (8.93%) PaaS
7 18 (8.04%) Azure DevOps
8 17 (7.59%) Azure AKS
9 16 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
9 16 (7.14%) SaaS
10 15 (6.70%) Azure Monitor
11 5 (2.23%) Datadog
11 5 (2.23%) OpenShift
11 5 (2.23%) Power Platform
12 4 (1.79%) Nutanix
12 4 (1.79%) Serverless
13 3 (1.34%) Azure Stack
13 3 (1.34%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 55 (24.55%) DNS
2 49 (21.88%) DHCP
3 36 (16.07%) Firewall
4 28 (12.50%) VPN
5 18 (8.04%) TCP/IP
6 14 (6.25%) Network Security
7 10 (4.46%) LAN
7 10 (4.46%) WAN
8 9 (4.02%) SAN
9 8 (3.57%) SMTP
9 8 (3.57%) VLAN
10 7 (3.13%) Wi-Fi
11 5 (2.23%) NAS
12 4 (1.79%) Remote Desktop
12 4 (1.79%) Wireless
13 3 (1.34%) 4G
14 2 (0.89%) Internet
14 2 (0.89%) Structured Cabling
14 2 (0.89%) VSAN
15 1 (0.45%) Calico
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (12.05%) SQL Server
2 7 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (3.13%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (1.79%) Power BI
4 3 (1.34%) Big Data
5 2 (0.89%) BigQuery
5 2 (0.89%) DynamoDB
5 2 (0.89%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 2 (0.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (0.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.45%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.45%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (2.23%) Git
1 5 (2.23%) Jenkins
2 4 (1.79%) Chocolatey
3 3 (1.34%) GitLab
4 2 (0.89%) JIRA
5 1 (0.45%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.45%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.45%) CMake
5 1 (0.45%) Gradle
5 1 (0.45%) Introscope
5 1 (0.45%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 33 (14.73%) Social Skills
2 25 (11.16%) Finance
3 16 (7.14%) Banking
4 15 (6.70%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (3.57%) Public Sector
6 6 (2.68%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (2.68%) Telecoms
7 4 (1.79%) Automotive
8 3 (1.34%) Law
8 3 (1.34%) Legal
9 2 (0.89%) Billing
9 2 (0.89%) Local Government
10 1 (0.45%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.45%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.45%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.45%) Mandarin Language
10 1 (0.45%) Publishing
10 1 (0.45%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.13%) Middleware
2 6 (2.68%) ARM Templates
3 5 (2.23%) 802.1X
4 3 (1.34%) .NET
4 3 (1.34%) OpenID
4 3 (1.34%) YAML
5 2 (0.89%) ADO
5 2 (0.89%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (0.89%) JSON
5 2 (0.89%) REST
5 2 (0.89%) SAML
6 1 (0.45%) Bazel
6 1 (0.45%) Kafka
6 1 (0.45%) LDAP
6 1 (0.45%) Node.js
6 1 (0.45%) OAuth
6 1 (0.45%) OAuth2
6 1 (0.45%) OpenGL
6 1 (0.45%) Qt
Miscellaneous
1 15 (6.70%) Hybrid Cloud
2 14 (6.25%) PKI
3 13 (5.80%) Data Centre
4 12 (5.36%) Clustering
5 7 (3.13%) Onboarding
6 6 (2.68%) Cloud Native
6 6 (2.68%) Enterprise Storage
6 6 (2.68%) Mainframe
7 5 (2.23%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (2.23%) Linux Command Line
8 4 (1.79%) Cyber Threat
8 4 (1.79%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.79%) Robotics
8 4 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.34%) Security Operations Centre
10 2 (0.89%) CCTV
10 2 (0.89%) Enterprise Cloud
10 2 (0.89%) Hedge funds
10 2 (0.89%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 97 (43.30%) Windows
2 61 (27.23%) Windows Server
3 40 (17.86%) Linux
4 7 (3.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (2.68%) VMS
5 6 (2.68%) Windows Server 2019
5 6 (2.68%) zOS
6 5 (2.23%) Ubuntu
6 5 (2.23%) Windows 10
6 5 (2.23%) Windows Server 2003
6 5 (2.23%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (1.79%) Android
7 4 (1.79%) Apple iOS
8 3 (1.34%) Unix
8 3 (1.34%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.89%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.45%) AIX
10 1 (0.45%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.45%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 219 (97.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 67 (29.91%) Infrastructure as Code
3 49 (21.88%) DevOps
4 44 (19.64%) CI/CD
5 39 (17.41%) Migration
6 24 (10.71%) Problem-Solving
7 23 (10.27%) Infrastructure Automation
8 21 (9.38%) Disaster Recovery
9 20 (8.93%) Continuous Improvement
10 19 (8.48%) Incident Management
10 19 (8.48%) ITIL
11 16 (7.14%) AI
11 16 (7.14%) High Availability
11 16 (7.14%) Root Cause Analysis
12 15 (6.70%) Containerisation
13 13 (5.80%) Infrastructure Transformation
13 13 (5.80%) Validation
14 12 (5.36%) Change Management
14 12 (5.36%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 11 (4.91%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 61 (27.23%) PowerShell
2 33 (14.73%) Python
3 21 (9.38%) SQL
4 17 (7.59%) Bash
4 17 (7.59%) C#
5 12 (5.36%) Bicep
6 8 (3.57%) Java
7 6 (2.68%) Go
8 2 (0.89%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.89%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.45%) C
9 1 (0.45%) C++
9 1 (0.45%) Jython
9 1 (0.45%) Perl
9 1 (0.45%) VB
Qualifications
1 85 (37.95%) Security Cleared
2 55 (24.55%) SC Cleared
3 32 (14.29%) DV Cleared
4 14 (6.25%) Degree
5 10 (4.46%) Azure Certification
5 10 (4.46%) Cisco Certification
6 8 (3.57%) CCNP
7 6 (2.68%) CCNA
7 6 (2.68%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (2.23%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.79%) JNCIP
9 4 (1.79%) JNCIS
10 2 (0.89%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.45%) CISA
11 1 (0.45%) CISM
11 1 (0.45%) CISSP
11 1 (0.45%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.45%) MCSE
11 1 (0.45%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.45%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.91%) SLA
2 9 (4.02%) QA
3 3 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.34%) NIST
4 2 (0.89%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (0.89%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.45%) FedRAMP
5 1 (0.45%) GDPR
5 1 (0.45%) NCSC
5 1 (0.45%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 61 (27.23%) Active Directory
2 43 (19.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (9.82%) Hyper-V
4 18 (8.04%) VMware ESXi
5 13 (5.80%) Docker
6 12 (5.36%) vSphere
7 11 (4.91%) Virtual Desktop
8 9 (4.02%) Virtual Machines
9 8 (3.57%) BitLocker
9 8 (3.57%) Microsoft App-V
10 6 (2.68%) Virtual Servers
11 5 (2.23%) Firmware
12 4 (1.79%) Terminal Services
13 1 (0.45%) Ceph
13 1 (0.45%) VMware NSX
13 1 (0.45%) VMware Server
13 1 (0.45%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 66 (29.46%) Terraform
2 45 (20.09%) Kubernetes
3 29 (12.95%) Ansible
4 20 (8.93%) Microsoft Intune
5 14 (6.25%) vCenter Server
6 10 (4.46%) SCCM
7 9 (4.02%) Puppet
8 8 (3.57%) vMotion
9 5 (2.23%) FortiGate
9 5 (2.23%) Packer
9 5 (2.23%) Prometheus
9 5 (2.23%) systemd
10 3 (1.34%) Microsoft Clustering
10 3 (1.34%) Nagios
11 2 (0.89%) Argo
11 2 (0.89%) Grafana
11 2 (0.89%) SCOM
12 1 (0.45%) CA Wily
12 1 (0.45%) Nessus
12 1 (0.45%) WSUS
Vendors
1 76 (33.93%) Microsoft
2 58 (25.89%) VMware
3 16 (7.14%) Cisco
3 16 (7.14%) Citrix
3 16 (7.14%) Google
4 11 (4.91%) NetApp
5 7 (3.13%) Dynatrace
5 7 (3.13%) HP
6 6 (2.68%) IBM
6 6 (2.68%) Red Hat
7 5 (2.23%) Tenable
8 4 (1.79%) AppDynamics
8 4 (1.79%) Dell
8 4 (1.79%) Juniper
8 4 (1.79%) MikroTik
8 4 (1.79%) Symantec
8 4 (1.79%) Zscaler
9 3 (1.34%) Oracle
9 3 (1.34%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.89%) EMC