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 11 March 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 260 222 205
Rank change year-on-year -38 -17 +67
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 134 133 207
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.83% 1.03% 1.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.90% 1.10% 1.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 104 137
10th Percentile £353 £321 £313
25th Percentile £413 £380 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +13.16% -13.64%
75th Percentile £579 £600 £588
90th Percentile £638 £650 £639
England median daily rate £500 £525 £465
% change year-on-year -4.76% +12.91% -7.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £24.06 - -
25th Percentile £25.65 - -
Median hourly rate £28.75 - -
75th Percentile £32.30 - -
90th Percentile £34.16 - -
England median hourly rate £34.00 £60.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -43.33% +160.87% -63.97%

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 14,956 12,129 17,048
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.62% 93.70% 93.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,041 8,120 12,298
10th Percentile £350 £338 £325
25th Percentile £425 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 229 141 345
10th Percentile £18.21 £21.00 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.41 £24.66 £19.38
Median hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £28.75
Median % change year-on-year - +21.74% -17.86%
75th Percentile £60.25 £53.75 £48.56
90th Percentile £76.58 £78.40 £65.00
England median hourly rate £36.32 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +3.77% +7.69% -23.29%

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 11 March 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 11 March 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 -23 19 £550 -8.33% 7
East London +4 3 £155 - 4
West London -18 2 £300 -25.00%
South London -17 1 £425 -18.66% 1
Infrastructure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 11 March 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.

1 123 (91.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 67 (50.00%) Azure
3 49 (36.57%) Microsoft
4 37 (27.61%) Windows
5 32 (23.88%) Security Cleared
5 32 (23.88%) Terraform
6 30 (22.39%) Active Directory
7 29 (21.64%) Infrastructure as Code
7 29 (21.64%) PowerShell
7 29 (21.64%) VMware
8 27 (20.15%) Windows Server
9 26 (19.40%) Microsoft 365
10 25 (18.66%) Migration
11 23 (17.16%) Firewall
12 22 (16.42%) DevOps
12 22 (16.42%) GitHub
12 22 (16.42%) Linux
12 22 (16.42%) SC Cleared
12 22 (16.42%) VMware Infrastructure
12 22 (16.42%) WAN
13 20 (14.93%) Microsoft Intune
14 19 (14.18%) VPN
15 18 (13.43%) CI/CD
15 18 (13.43%) DNS
16 17 (12.69%) Cloud Security
16 17 (12.69%) Problem-Solving
17 15 (11.19%) Kubernetes
17 15 (11.19%) Microsoft Exchange
17 15 (11.19%) SCCM
18 14 (10.45%) Ansible

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 (11.19%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.24%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.75%) Confluence
3 1 (0.75%) IBM HTTP Server
3 1 (0.75%) Skype for Business
3 1 (0.75%) WebSphere
3 1 (0.75%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 3 (2.24%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 67 (50.00%) Azure
2 26 (19.40%) Microsoft 365
3 22 (16.42%) GitHub
4 13 (9.70%) AWS
5 12 (8.96%) GCP
6 9 (6.72%) IaaS
6 9 (6.72%) Nutanix
7 8 (5.97%) Azure Monitor
7 8 (5.97%) Entra ID
7 8 (5.97%) PaaS
8 7 (5.22%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (5.22%) Microsoft Purview
9 5 (3.73%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (3.73%) SaaS
10 4 (2.99%) Azure AKS
10 4 (2.99%) Mimecast
11 3 (2.24%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (2.24%) Azure Stack
11 3 (2.24%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 3 (2.24%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 23 (17.16%) Firewall
2 22 (16.42%) WAN
3 19 (14.18%) VPN
4 18 (13.43%) DNS
5 14 (10.45%) LAN
6 12 (8.96%) DHCP
7 8 (5.97%) Wi-Fi
8 5 (3.73%) SD-WAN
9 4 (2.99%) MPLS
9 4 (2.99%) SAN
9 4 (2.99%) SMTP
10 3 (2.24%) Software-Defined Networking
11 2 (1.49%) DKIM
11 2 (1.49%) DMARC
11 2 (1.49%) Network Security
11 2 (1.49%) TCP/IP
12 1 (0.75%) Cisco Wireless
12 1 (0.75%) OSPF
12 1 (0.75%) VXLAN
12 1 (0.75%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.73%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.99%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (1.49%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (1.49%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.75%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.75%) Power BI
4 1 (0.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (5.97%) Artifactory
2 3 (2.24%) GitLab
2 3 (2.24%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.49%) JIRA
4 1 (0.75%) Chocolatey
4 1 (0.75%) Git
4 1 (0.75%) Introscope
General
1 26 (19.40%) Social Skills
2 20 (14.93%) Finance
3 8 (5.97%) Banking
4 7 (5.22%) Legal
5 6 (4.48%) Spanish Language
6 4 (2.99%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.24%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.49%) Billing
8 2 (1.49%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.49%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.75%) Aviation
9 1 (0.75%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.75%) Italian Language
9 1 (0.75%) Local Government
9 1 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.75%) Retail
9 1 (0.75%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.24%) ARM Templates
2 2 (1.49%) ADO
2 2 (1.49%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.75%) 802.1X
3 1 (0.75%) EDI
3 1 (0.75%) LDAP
3 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (0.75%) Middleware
3 1 (0.75%) Node.js
3 1 (0.75%) REST
3 1 (0.75%) Software Packaging
3 1 (0.75%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (9.70%) Data Centre
2 8 (5.97%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (4.48%) PKI
4 5 (3.73%) Clustering
5 4 (2.99%) Cloud Native
5 4 (2.99%) Enterprise Storage
5 4 (2.99%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.24%) Client/Server
6 3 (2.24%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.24%) Replication
6 3 (2.24%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.49%) Operational Technology
7 2 (1.49%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.75%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.75%) Driving Licence
8 1 (0.75%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.75%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.75%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.75%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.75%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 37 (27.61%) Windows
2 27 (20.15%) Windows Server
3 22 (16.42%) Linux
4 6 (4.48%) Unix
5 5 (3.73%) Windows Server 2003
6 4 (2.99%) Ubuntu
6 4 (2.99%) VMS
6 4 (2.99%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (2.99%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (1.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (1.49%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.75%) AIX
8 1 (0.75%) Android
8 1 (0.75%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.75%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (91.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 29 (21.64%) Infrastructure as Code
3 25 (18.66%) Migration
4 22 (16.42%) DevOps
5 18 (13.43%) CI/CD
6 17 (12.69%) Cloud Security
6 17 (12.69%) Problem-Solving
7 13 (9.70%) Incident Management
8 12 (8.96%) Cybersecurity
9 11 (8.21%) Disaster Recovery
10 8 (5.97%) Collaborative Working
10 8 (5.97%) Continuous Improvement
10 8 (5.97%) Information Security
10 8 (5.97%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 8 (5.97%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 6 (4.48%) Architectural Design
11 6 (4.48%) Containerisation
11 6 (4.48%) Infrastructure Automation
11 6 (4.48%) RBAC
11 6 (4.48%) Security Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 29 (21.64%) PowerShell
2 11 (8.21%) Python
3 8 (5.97%) SQL
4 5 (3.73%) C#
5 4 (2.99%) Bash
6 3 (2.24%) Bicep
7 2 (1.49%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.49%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.75%) Java
8 1 (0.75%) Jython
8 1 (0.75%) Perl
Qualifications
1 32 (23.88%) Security Cleared
2 22 (16.42%) SC Cleared
3 9 (6.72%) DV Cleared
4 4 (2.99%) Degree
5 3 (2.24%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.49%) CCNA
6 2 (1.49%) CCNP
6 2 (1.49%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.49%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.75%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.75%) CCIE
7 1 (0.75%) CISSP
7 1 (0.75%) CWNA
7 1 (0.75%) GIAC
7 1 (0.75%) GSEC
7 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.75%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.99%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (1.49%) SLA
3 1 (0.75%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.75%) GDPR
3 1 (0.75%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 1 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.75%) NIST
3 1 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 30 (22.39%) Active Directory
2 22 (16.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (7.46%) Hyper-V
4 9 (6.72%) Docker
5 8 (5.97%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (3.73%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (3.73%) vSphere
7 4 (2.99%) BitLocker
7 4 (2.99%) Microsoft App-V
7 4 (2.99%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (1.49%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.75%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 32 (23.88%) Terraform
2 20 (14.93%) Microsoft Intune
3 15 (11.19%) Kubernetes
3 15 (11.19%) SCCM
4 14 (10.45%) Ansible
5 6 (4.48%) CASB
5 6 (4.48%) SCOrch
6 5 (3.73%) AirWatch
6 5 (3.73%) Puppet
7 4 (2.99%) vCenter Server
7 4 (2.99%) vMotion
8 2 (1.49%) Grafana
8 2 (1.49%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.75%) CA Wily
9 1 (0.75%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.75%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.75%) Packer
9 1 (0.75%) SCOM
9 1 (0.75%) vRealize
9 1 (0.75%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 49 (36.57%) Microsoft
2 29 (21.64%) VMware
3 9 (6.72%) Google
4 8 (5.97%) Cisco
4 8 (5.97%) NetApp
5 6 (4.48%) CyberArk
5 6 (4.48%) SolarWinds
6 5 (3.73%) Citrix
6 5 (3.73%) Dell
6 5 (3.73%) Fortinet
6 5 (3.73%) Veeam
7 4 (2.99%) Commvault
7 4 (2.99%) Oracle
7 4 (2.99%) Zscaler
8 3 (2.24%) Aruba
8 3 (2.24%) Meraki
9 2 (1.49%) Databricks
9 2 (1.49%) Red Hat
9 2 (1.49%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.75%) LogicMonitor