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 28 December 2025.

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

 6 months to
28 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 268 217 179
Rank change year-on-year -51 -38 +71
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 112 163 237
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.78% 1.10% 1.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.85% 1.18% 1.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 128 161
10th Percentile £359 £300 £363
25th Percentile £425 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £600
90th Percentile £642 £650 £650
England median daily rate £472 £500 £493
% change year-on-year -5.70% +1.52% +3.68%
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 £34.00 £24.18 £23.00
% change year-on-year +40.61% +5.13% -54.00%

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 13,243 13,839 17,255
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.35% 93.46% 93.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,772 8,936 12,466
10th Percentile £350 £335 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £560
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -1.79% -3.45%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £793 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -3.81% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 226 152 218
10th Percentile £17.50 £19.95 £17.00
25th Percentile £22.63 £23.80 £21.50
Median hourly rate £29.82 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.79% - -
75th Percentile £57.50 £55.06 £58.75
90th Percentile £76.58 £80.75 £72.15
England median hourly rate £27.00 £35.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -22.86% -22.22% +38.46%

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 28 December 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 28 December 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 -4 18 £550 - 26
East London - 4 £155 - 1
West London -18 2 £300 -25.00% 3
Infrastructure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 28 December 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.

1 100 (89.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 54 (48.21%) Azure
3 43 (38.39%) Microsoft
4 34 (30.36%) Terraform
5 33 (29.46%) Windows
6 29 (25.89%) Active Directory
6 29 (25.89%) Windows Server
7 28 (25.00%) Linux
8 26 (23.21%) Firewall
9 25 (22.32%) Infrastructure as Code
9 25 (22.32%) Microsoft 365
10 22 (19.64%) Microsoft Intune
10 22 (19.64%) Python
11 21 (18.75%) Ansible
11 21 (18.75%) DevOps
11 21 (18.75%) VPN
12 18 (16.07%) PowerShell
12 18 (16.07%) SCCM
12 18 (16.07%) VMware
13 17 (15.18%) Problem-Solving
13 17 (15.18%) Security Cleared
14 16 (14.29%) CI/CD
14 16 (14.29%) WAN
15 15 (13.39%) Microsoft Exchange
15 15 (13.39%) Migration
15 15 (13.39%) VMware Infrastructure
16 14 (12.50%) DNS
16 14 (12.50%) Infrastructure Automation
16 14 (12.50%) TCP/IP
17 13 (11.61%) AWS

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 15 (13.39%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (3.57%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.68%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (2.68%) Confluence
4 1 (0.89%) Apache
4 1 (0.89%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.89%) Skype for Business
4 1 (0.89%) Traefik
Applications
1 3 (2.68%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 54 (48.21%) Azure
2 25 (22.32%) Microsoft 365
3 13 (11.61%) AWS
4 11 (9.82%) Entra ID
5 10 (8.93%) GitHub
6 8 (7.14%) IaaS
7 7 (6.25%) Amazon S3
7 7 (6.25%) GCP
8 6 (5.36%) Mimecast
9 5 (4.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 5 (4.46%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (4.46%) Amazon ELB
9 5 (4.46%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (4.46%) Nutanix
9 5 (4.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 4 (3.57%) PaaS
10 4 (3.57%) Serverless
11 3 (2.68%) Azure Monitor
11 3 (2.68%) Azure Sentinel
11 3 (2.68%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 26 (23.21%) Firewall
2 21 (18.75%) VPN
3 16 (14.29%) WAN
4 14 (12.50%) DNS
4 14 (12.50%) TCP/IP
5 12 (10.71%) SSL
6 8 (7.14%) LAN
6 8 (7.14%) Wi-Fi
7 7 (6.25%) HTTP
8 6 (5.36%) Network Security
8 6 (5.36%) SD-WAN
9 5 (4.46%) DHCP
9 5 (4.46%) MPLS
10 2 (1.79%) SAN
10 2 (1.79%) tcpdump
10 2 (1.79%) Wireshark
11 1 (0.89%) Multicast
11 1 (0.89%) NetScaler
11 1 (0.89%) Structured Cabling
11 1 (0.89%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.68%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.89%) Apache Iceberg
2 1 (0.89%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (0.89%) Data Lake
2 1 (0.89%) Delta Lake
2 1 (0.89%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (0.89%) Parquet
2 1 (0.89%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.89%) Power BI
2 1 (0.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (6.25%) Jenkins
2 6 (5.36%) Git
3 5 (4.46%) GitLab
4 4 (3.57%) Artifactory
4 4 (3.57%) JIRA
4 4 (3.57%) Robot Framework
General
1 22 (19.64%) Finance
2 21 (18.75%) Social Skills
3 8 (7.14%) Banking
4 7 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (6.25%) Public Sector
5 6 (5.36%) Spanish Language
6 5 (4.46%) Financial Institution
7 4 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.68%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.79%) Front Office
9 2 (1.79%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.79%) Local Government
9 2 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.79%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.89%) Billing
10 1 (0.89%) International Banking
10 1 (0.89%) Italian Language
10 1 (0.89%) Marketing
10 1 (0.89%) Military
10 1 (0.89%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.57%) Middleware
2 3 (2.68%) FIX Protocol
3 2 (1.79%) ARM Templates
3 2 (1.79%) YAML
4 1 (0.89%) 802.1X
4 1 (0.89%) ADO
4 1 (0.89%) Apache Avro
4 1 (0.89%) AWT
4 1 (0.89%) EDI
4 1 (0.89%) GWT
4 1 (0.89%) JMS
4 1 (0.89%) Kafka
4 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (0.89%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.89%) PySpark
4 1 (0.89%) Rendezvous
4 1 (0.89%) TIBCO EMS
4 1 (0.89%) Ultra Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.04%) Data Centre
2 6 (5.36%) Data Protection Act
2 6 (5.36%) Private Cloud
3 4 (3.57%) Replication
4 3 (2.68%) Client/Server
4 3 (2.68%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (2.68%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (2.68%) PKI
5 2 (1.79%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.79%) Clustering
5 2 (1.79%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.79%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.89%) CCTV
6 1 (0.89%) Cyber Security Posture
6 1 (0.89%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.89%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (0.89%) Equities
6 1 (0.89%) Fixed Income
6 1 (0.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (0.89%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 33 (29.46%) Windows
2 29 (25.89%) Windows Server
3 28 (25.00%) Linux
4 10 (8.93%) Unix
5 4 (3.57%) Windows 10
6 3 (2.68%) Ubuntu
6 3 (2.68%) VMS
6 3 (2.68%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (1.79%) Windows Server 2003
8 1 (0.89%) Android
8 1 (0.89%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.89%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (89.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 25 (22.32%) Infrastructure as Code
3 21 (18.75%) DevOps
4 17 (15.18%) Problem-Solving
5 16 (14.29%) CI/CD
6 15 (13.39%) Migration
7 14 (12.50%) Infrastructure Automation
8 12 (10.71%) High Availability
8 12 (10.71%) ITIL
8 12 (10.71%) Low Latency
9 11 (9.82%) Cloud Security
9 11 (9.82%) Cybersecurity
9 11 (9.82%) Test Automation
10 9 (8.04%) Information Security
11 8 (7.14%) Disaster Recovery
12 7 (6.25%) Agile
12 7 (6.25%) Configuration Management
12 7 (6.25%) Data Protection
12 7 (6.25%) Incident Management
12 7 (6.25%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 22 (19.64%) Python
2 18 (16.07%) PowerShell
3 8 (7.14%) Bash
3 8 (7.14%) Perl
4 3 (2.68%) SQL
5 2 (1.79%) Go
5 2 (1.79%) Java
5 2 (1.79%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.89%) Bicep
6 1 (0.89%) Scala
Qualifications
1 17 (15.18%) Security Cleared
2 13 (11.61%) SC Cleared
3 9 (8.04%) Degree
4 4 (3.57%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.68%) CCNA
5 3 (2.68%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (2.68%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.79%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.79%) CCNP
6 2 (1.79%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (1.79%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 2 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.89%) CCIE
7 1 (0.89%) CISSP
7 1 (0.89%) CWNA
7 1 (0.89%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.89%) GIAC
7 1 (0.89%) GSEC
7 1 (0.89%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.68%) Cyber Essentials
1 3 (2.68%) NIST
2 2 (1.79%) SLA
3 1 (0.89%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.89%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 29 (25.89%) Active Directory
2 15 (13.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (9.82%) Docker
4 7 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (5.36%) Hyper-V
6 5 (4.46%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (2.68%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (1.79%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.89%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.89%) etcd
9 1 (0.89%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (0.89%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.89%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 34 (30.36%) Terraform
2 22 (19.64%) Microsoft Intune
3 21 (18.75%) Ansible
4 18 (16.07%) SCCM
5 6 (5.36%) CASB
5 6 (5.36%) SCOrch
6 4 (3.57%) Grafana
6 4 (3.57%) Kubernetes
7 3 (2.68%) Prometheus
8 2 (1.79%) ITRS Geneos
9 1 (0.89%) AirWatch
9 1 (0.89%) Argo
9 1 (0.89%) Istio
9 1 (0.89%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.89%) Puppet
9 1 (0.89%) SCOM
9 1 (0.89%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.89%) vMotion
9 1 (0.89%) vRealize
Vendors
1 43 (38.39%) Microsoft
2 18 (16.07%) VMware
3 13 (11.61%) F5
4 11 (9.82%) Cisco
5 10 (8.93%) Palo Alto
6 5 (4.46%) CheckPoint
6 5 (4.46%) Fortinet
6 5 (4.46%) Google
6 5 (4.46%) Veeam
6 5 (4.46%) Zscaler
7 4 (3.57%) Commvault
7 4 (3.57%) Meraki
7 4 (3.57%) NetApp
8 3 (2.68%) Aruba
8 3 (2.68%) Citrix
8 3 (2.68%) CyberArk
8 3 (2.68%) Dell
8 3 (2.68%) Oracle
8 3 (2.68%) Solace
8 3 (2.68%) SolarWinds
76 Infrastructure Engineer jobs in London