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 1 February 2026.

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

 6 months to
1 Feb 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 271 221 186
Rank change year-on-year -50 -35 +75
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 117 141 234
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.79% 1.02% 1.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.86% 1.09% 1.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 108 165
10th Percentile £360 £293 £338
25th Percentile £425 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £480
Median % change year-on-year - +9.38% -12.73%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £632 £650 £646
England median daily rate £483 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -3.50% +5.26% -
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 £24.18 £23.00
% change year-on-year +40.61% +5.13% -64.62%

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 13,645 12,924 17,313
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.67% 93.63% 93.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,056 8,253 12,514
10th Percentile £350 £338 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -5.17%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £780
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 213 139 327
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.95 £16.02
25th Percentile £23.75 £24.66 £19.15
Median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £29.72
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +17.77% -15.09%
75th Percentile £63.10 £53.75 £50.13
90th Percentile £76.58 £79.15 £65.85
England median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £36.05
% change year-on-year -14.29% -2.90% +2.99%

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 1 February 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 1 February 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 -13 17 £550 -4.35% 10
East London - 3 £155 - 2
West London -23 2 £300 -25.00% 3
South London -6 1 £425 -9.57% 2
Infrastructure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 February 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.

1 106 (90.60%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 63 (53.85%) Azure
3 51 (43.59%) Microsoft
4 34 (29.06%) Windows
5 30 (25.64%) Active Directory
6 29 (24.79%) Windows Server
7 28 (23.93%) Microsoft 365
7 28 (23.93%) Terraform
8 27 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
9 26 (22.22%) Microsoft Intune
9 26 (22.22%) VMware
10 22 (18.80%) Linux
11 21 (17.95%) Firewall
11 21 (17.95%) Migration
11 21 (17.95%) PowerShell
11 21 (17.95%) Problem-Solving
12 18 (15.38%) DevOps
12 18 (15.38%) SCCM
12 18 (15.38%) VMware Infrastructure
12 18 (15.38%) WAN
13 16 (13.68%) Cloud Security
13 16 (13.68%) Microsoft Exchange
13 16 (13.68%) Security Cleared
14 15 (12.82%) CI/CD
14 15 (12.82%) VPN
15 13 (11.11%) Ansible
15 13 (11.11%) DNS
16 11 (9.40%) Entra ID
16 11 (9.40%) GitHub
16 11 (9.40%) SC Cleared

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 (13.68%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.56%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.71%) Confluence
4 1 (0.85%) Apache
4 1 (0.85%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.85%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.85%) Skype for Business
4 1 (0.85%) Traefik
Applications
1 3 (2.56%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 63 (53.85%) Azure
2 28 (23.93%) Microsoft 365
3 11 (9.40%) Entra ID
3 11 (9.40%) GitHub
4 10 (8.55%) AWS
4 10 (8.55%) GCP
5 9 (7.69%) Nutanix
6 8 (6.84%) IaaS
7 7 (5.98%) Microsoft Purview
8 6 (5.13%) Mimecast
9 5 (4.27%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (3.42%) PaaS
10 4 (3.42%) Serverless
11 3 (2.56%) Azure Monitor
11 3 (2.56%) Azure Sentinel
11 3 (2.56%) Azure Stack
11 3 (2.56%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 3 (2.56%) OCI
12 2 (1.71%) Amazon EKS
12 2 (1.71%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 21 (17.95%) Firewall
2 18 (15.38%) WAN
3 15 (12.82%) VPN
4 13 (11.11%) DNS
5 10 (8.55%) LAN
6 8 (6.84%) Wi-Fi
7 7 (5.98%) DHCP
8 5 (4.27%) Network Security
8 5 (4.27%) SD-WAN
9 4 (3.42%) MPLS
10 3 (2.56%) SAN
10 3 (2.56%) Software-Defined Networking
10 3 (2.56%) TCP/IP
11 2 (1.71%) DKIM
11 2 (1.71%) DMARC
11 2 (1.71%) HTTP
11 2 (1.71%) SMTP
11 2 (1.71%) SSL
12 1 (0.85%) Cisco Wireless
12 1 (0.85%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.56%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.71%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.85%) Apache Iceberg
3 1 (0.85%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.85%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.85%) Delta Lake
3 1 (0.85%) Parquet
3 1 (0.85%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.85%) Power BI
3 1 (0.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (5.98%) Artifactory
2 3 (2.56%) GitLab
2 3 (2.56%) JIRA
3 2 (1.71%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.85%) Git
4 1 (0.85%) Robot Framework
General
1 22 (18.80%) Finance
1 22 (18.80%) Social Skills
2 7 (5.98%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (5.13%) Spanish Language
4 5 (4.27%) Banking
4 5 (4.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (1.71%) Billing
5 2 (1.71%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (1.71%) Financial Institution
5 2 (1.71%) Legal
5 2 (1.71%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (1.71%) Telecoms
6 1 (0.85%) Front Office
6 1 (0.85%) International Banking
6 1 (0.85%) Investment Banking
6 1 (0.85%) Italian Language
6 1 (0.85%) Local Government
6 1 (0.85%) Marketing
6 1 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (0.85%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.71%) ARM Templates
1 2 (1.71%) YAML
2 1 (0.85%) 802.1X
2 1 (0.85%) ADO
2 1 (0.85%) Apache Avro
2 1 (0.85%) EDI
2 1 (0.85%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (0.85%) Middleware
2 1 (0.85%) PySpark
2 1 (0.85%) REST
2 1 (0.85%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.55%) Data Centre
2 7 (5.98%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (4.27%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (3.42%) PKI
5 3 (2.56%) Client/Server
5 3 (2.56%) Clustering
5 3 (2.56%) Replication
6 2 (1.71%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.71%) Enterprise Storage
6 2 (1.71%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.71%) Operational Technology
6 2 (1.71%) Private Cloud
6 2 (1.71%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.71%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.85%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.85%) CCTV
7 1 (0.85%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.85%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.85%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.85%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 34 (29.06%) Windows
2 29 (24.79%) Windows Server
3 22 (18.80%) Linux
4 6 (5.13%) Unix
5 4 (3.42%) VMS
5 4 (3.42%) Windows 10
6 3 (2.56%) Ubuntu
6 3 (2.56%) Windows Server 2003
6 3 (2.56%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (1.71%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.85%) Android
8 1 (0.85%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.85%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (90.60%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 27 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
3 21 (17.95%) Migration
3 21 (17.95%) Problem-Solving
4 18 (15.38%) DevOps
5 16 (13.68%) Cloud Security
6 15 (12.82%) CI/CD
7 10 (8.55%) Cybersecurity
7 10 (8.55%) Infrastructure Automation
8 9 (7.69%) Information Security
9 8 (6.84%) Collaborative Working
9 8 (6.84%) Incident Management
9 8 (6.84%) ITIL
9 8 (6.84%) Vulnerability Management
10 7 (5.98%) Disaster Recovery
10 7 (5.98%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 7 (5.98%) Test Automation
11 6 (5.13%) Agile
11 6 (5.13%) Information Security Management
11 6 (5.13%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (17.95%) PowerShell
2 9 (7.69%) Python
3 3 (2.56%) Bash
3 3 (2.56%) Bicep
3 3 (2.56%) Perl
4 2 (1.71%) SQL
5 1 (0.85%) Go
5 1 (0.85%) Java
5 1 (0.85%) Scala
5 1 (0.85%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 16 (13.68%) Security Cleared
2 11 (9.40%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.98%) Degree
4 4 (3.42%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.71%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.71%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (1.71%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.85%) CCIE
7 1 (0.85%) CCNA
7 1 (0.85%) CCNP
7 1 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.85%) CISSP
7 1 (0.85%) CWNA
7 1 (0.85%) GIAC
7 1 (0.85%) GSEC
7 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.42%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (2.56%) NIST
3 2 (1.71%) SLA
4 1 (0.85%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.85%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 30 (25.64%) Active Directory
2 18 (15.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (8.55%) Hyper-V
4 8 (6.84%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (5.98%) Docker
6 5 (4.27%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (2.56%) Virtual Servers
7 3 (2.56%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (2.56%) vSphere
8 2 (1.71%) BitLocker
8 2 (1.71%) Microsoft App-V
8 2 (1.71%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.85%) etcd
9 1 (0.85%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 28 (23.93%) Terraform
2 26 (22.22%) Microsoft Intune
3 18 (15.38%) SCCM
4 13 (11.11%) Ansible
5 6 (5.13%) CASB
5 6 (5.13%) Kubernetes
5 6 (5.13%) SCOrch
6 5 (4.27%) AirWatch
7 2 (1.71%) Grafana
7 2 (1.71%) Puppet
7 2 (1.71%) vCenter Server
7 2 (1.71%) vMotion
7 2 (1.71%) vRealize
8 1 (0.85%) Argo
8 1 (0.85%) Istio
8 1 (0.85%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.85%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.85%) SCOM
8 1 (0.85%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 51 (43.59%) Microsoft
2 26 (22.22%) VMware
3 9 (7.69%) Cisco
4 7 (5.98%) CyberArk
4 7 (5.98%) Google
5 5 (4.27%) Dell
5 5 (4.27%) NetApp
5 5 (4.27%) SolarWinds
5 5 (4.27%) Veeam
6 4 (3.42%) Commvault
6 4 (3.42%) Fortinet
6 4 (3.42%) Palo Alto
6 4 (3.42%) Zscaler
7 3 (2.56%) Aruba
7 3 (2.56%) Citrix
7 3 (2.56%) F5
7 3 (2.56%) Meraki
7 3 (2.56%) Oracle
7 3 (2.56%) Tenable
8 2 (1.71%) Proofpoint
54 Infrastructure Engineer jobs in London