Infrastructure Engineer Contract Job Trends in London

Infrastructure Engineer
England > London

The median Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in London is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 November 2025.

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

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 268 214 181
Rank change year-on-year -54 -33 +66
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 114 171 277
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.82% 1.09% 1.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.88% 1.16% 1.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 135 194
10th Percentile £329 £315 £347
25th Percentile £411 £382 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £623
90th Percentile £641 £650 £675
England median daily rate £463 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -7.50% - +6.38%
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 £42.09 £70.00
% change year-on-year -19.22% -39.87% -8.20%

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 12,898 14,766 19,057
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.49% 93.92% 93.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,553 9,559 13,828
10th Percentile £335 £338 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -2.65% -1.74%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £794
England median daily rate £508 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -3.33% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 238 156 232
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.25 £18.02
25th Percentile £21.46 £23.80 £21.69
Median hourly rate £26.68 £37.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.87% - +18.11%
75th Percentile £49.13 £58.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.15 £80.75 £73.74
England median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -37.13% -11.11% +50.00%

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 16 November 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 16 November 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 +5.26% 40
East London - 5 £155 - 3
West London -12 1 - - 5
Infrastructure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 16 November 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.

1 105 (92.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 56 (49.12%) Azure
3 44 (38.60%) Microsoft
4 39 (34.21%) Windows
5 34 (29.82%) Terraform
6 33 (28.95%) Active Directory
6 33 (28.95%) Windows Server
7 30 (26.32%) Linux
8 29 (25.44%) Firewall
9 26 (22.81%) Microsoft 365
9 26 (22.81%) Python
10 24 (21.05%) Infrastructure as Code
11 22 (19.30%) DevOps
12 21 (18.42%) Microsoft Intune
12 21 (18.42%) VMware
12 21 (18.42%) VPN
13 20 (17.54%) Ansible
14 19 (16.67%) CI/CD
14 19 (16.67%) PowerShell
14 19 (16.67%) Security Cleared
15 18 (15.79%) DNS
15 18 (15.79%) SCCM
16 17 (14.91%) VMware Infrastructure
17 16 (14.04%) Entra ID
17 16 (14.04%) Microsoft Exchange
17 16 (14.04%) SC Cleared
17 16 (14.04%) TCP/IP
18 15 (13.16%) AWS
18 15 (13.16%) Problem-Solving
18 15 (13.16%) WAN

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 (14.04%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (5.26%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (2.63%) Confluence
3 3 (2.63%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.88%) Apache
4 1 (0.88%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.88%) Skype for Business
4 1 (0.88%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 56 (49.12%) Azure
2 26 (22.81%) Microsoft 365
3 16 (14.04%) Entra ID
4 15 (13.16%) AWS
5 11 (9.65%) GitHub
6 8 (7.02%) GCP
6 8 (7.02%) Mimecast
7 7 (6.14%) Amazon S3
7 7 (6.14%) IaaS
8 6 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (4.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 5 (4.39%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (4.39%) Amazon ELB
9 5 (4.39%) Nutanix
9 5 (4.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 4 (3.51%) Azure Monitor
10 4 (3.51%) Serverless
11 3 (2.63%) Azure Sentinel
11 3 (2.63%) Microsoft Purview
11 3 (2.63%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 29 (25.44%) Firewall
2 21 (18.42%) VPN
3 18 (15.79%) DNS
4 16 (14.04%) TCP/IP
5 15 (13.16%) WAN
6 14 (12.28%) SSL
7 8 (7.02%) Wi-Fi
8 7 (6.14%) HTTP
8 7 (6.14%) Network Security
8 7 (6.14%) SD-WAN
9 6 (5.26%) DHCP
9 6 (5.26%) LAN
10 4 (3.51%) MPLS
11 3 (2.63%) DMARC
12 2 (1.75%) BGP
12 2 (1.75%) OSPF
12 2 (1.75%) SMTP
12 2 (1.75%) tcpdump
12 2 (1.75%) Wireless
12 2 (1.75%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.63%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.88%) Apache Iceberg
2 1 (0.88%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (0.88%) Data Lake
2 1 (0.88%) Delta Lake
2 1 (0.88%) Parquet
2 1 (0.88%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.88%) Power BI
2 1 (0.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (7.02%) Jenkins
2 7 (6.14%) GitLab
3 6 (5.26%) Git
4 4 (3.51%) JIRA
4 4 (3.51%) Robot Framework
General
1 24 (21.05%) Finance
2 22 (19.30%) Social Skills
3 10 (8.77%) Public Sector
4 7 (6.14%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (6.14%) Banking
4 7 (6.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (4.39%) Financial Institution
5 5 (4.39%) Spanish Language
6 4 (3.51%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.63%) Law
8 2 (1.75%) Front Office
8 2 (1.75%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.75%) Legal
8 2 (1.75%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.75%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.88%) International Banking
9 1 (0.88%) Local Government
9 1 (0.88%) Marketing
9 1 (0.88%) Military
9 1 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.51%) Middleware
2 3 (2.63%) FIX Protocol
3 2 (1.75%) ARM Templates
3 2 (1.75%) YAML
4 1 (0.88%) 802.1X
4 1 (0.88%) ADO
4 1 (0.88%) Apache Avro
4 1 (0.88%) AWT
4 1 (0.88%) GWT
4 1 (0.88%) Kafka
4 1 (0.88%) LDAP
4 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (0.88%) OAuth
4 1 (0.88%) OAuth2
4 1 (0.88%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.88%) PySpark
4 1 (0.88%) Rendezvous
4 1 (0.88%) RESTful
4 1 (0.88%) SAML
4 1 (0.88%) Ultra Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 11 (9.65%) Data Centre
2 6 (5.26%) Data Protection Act
2 6 (5.26%) Private Cloud
3 5 (4.39%) PKI
4 4 (3.51%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (2.63%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (2.63%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.75%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.75%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.75%) Replication
6 2 (1.75%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.88%) CCTV
7 1 (0.88%) Client/Server
7 1 (0.88%) Clustering
7 1 (0.88%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (0.88%) Equities
7 1 (0.88%) Fixed Income
7 1 (0.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.88%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 39 (34.21%) Windows
2 33 (28.95%) Windows Server
3 30 (26.32%) Linux
4 10 (8.77%) Unix
5 5 (4.39%) Windows 10
6 3 (2.63%) Ubuntu
6 3 (2.63%) VMS
7 1 (0.88%) Android
7 1 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.88%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.88%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (0.88%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.88%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (92.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 24 (21.05%) Infrastructure as Code
3 22 (19.30%) DevOps
4 19 (16.67%) CI/CD
5 15 (13.16%) Problem-Solving
6 14 (12.28%) High Availability
6 14 (12.28%) Infrastructure Automation
7 12 (10.53%) Low Latency
8 11 (9.65%) Cybersecurity
8 11 (9.65%) ITIL
8 11 (9.65%) Migration
8 11 (9.65%) Test Automation
9 10 (8.77%) Cloud Security
10 9 (7.89%) Data Protection
10 9 (7.89%) Incident Management
10 9 (7.89%) Information Security
11 8 (7.02%) Agile
11 8 (7.02%) Containerisation
11 8 (7.02%) Security Operations
12 7 (6.14%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 26 (22.81%) Python
2 19 (16.67%) PowerShell
3 9 (7.89%) Bash
4 8 (7.02%) Perl
5 3 (2.63%) Go
5 3 (2.63%) SQL
6 2 (1.75%) Java
6 2 (1.75%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.88%) Bicep
7 1 (0.88%) Scala
Qualifications
1 19 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 16 (14.04%) SC Cleared
3 7 (6.14%) Degree
4 5 (4.39%) CCNA
4 5 (4.39%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (2.63%) Azure Certification
5 3 (2.63%) CCNP
5 3 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.75%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.75%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 2 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.88%) CCIE
7 1 (0.88%) CISSP
7 1 (0.88%) CWNA
7 1 (0.88%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.88%) GIAC
7 1 (0.88%) GSEC
7 1 (0.88%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.88%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.63%) NIST
2 2 (1.75%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (1.75%) SLA
3 1 (0.88%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.88%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 1 (0.88%) QA
System Software
1 33 (28.95%) Active Directory
2 17 (14.91%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (8.77%) Docker
3 10 (8.77%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (5.26%) Hyper-V
5 5 (4.39%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (2.63%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (2.63%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.88%) etcd
7 1 (0.88%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.88%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 34 (29.82%) Terraform
2 21 (18.42%) Microsoft Intune
3 20 (17.54%) Ansible
4 18 (15.79%) SCCM
5 7 (6.14%) Kubernetes
6 6 (5.26%) CASB
6 6 (5.26%) SCOrch
7 5 (4.39%) Grafana
8 4 (3.51%) Prometheus
9 3 (2.63%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (1.75%) Argo
10 2 (1.75%) FortiGate
10 2 (1.75%) ITRS Geneos
10 2 (1.75%) McAfee ePO
10 2 (1.75%) vCenter Server
11 1 (0.88%) AirWatch
11 1 (0.88%) Istio
11 1 (0.88%) SCOM
11 1 (0.88%) SELinux
11 1 (0.88%) vRealize
Vendors
1 44 (38.60%) Microsoft
2 21 (18.42%) VMware
3 14 (12.28%) Cisco
4 13 (11.40%) F5
5 11 (9.65%) Palo Alto
6 6 (5.26%) Google
7 5 (4.39%) CheckPoint
7 5 (4.39%) Fortinet
7 5 (4.39%) Zscaler
8 4 (3.51%) Citrix
8 4 (3.51%) Commvault
8 4 (3.51%) Dell
8 4 (3.51%) Meraki
8 4 (3.51%) Veeam
9 3 (2.63%) Aruba
9 3 (2.63%) CyberArk
9 3 (2.63%) Solace
9 3 (2.63%) Tenable
10 2 (1.75%) Canon
10 2 (1.75%) CrowdStrike