Infrastructure Engineer Contract Job Trends in London

Infrastructure Engineer
England > London

The median Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in London is £523, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 March 2026.

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

 6 months to
20 Mar 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 263 227 198
Rank change year-on-year -36 -29 +63
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 138 128 203
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.84% 1.00% 1.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.90% 1.07% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 101 134
10th Percentile £333 £313 £304
25th Percentile £413 £375 £377
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £525 £470
Median % change year-on-year -0.48% +11.70% -14.55%
75th Percentile £586 £600 £575
90th Percentile £638 £650 £638
England median daily rate £500 £525 £462
% change year-on-year -4.76% +13.68% -7.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £33.59 - -
Median hourly rate £34.50 - -
75th Percentile £35.40 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £47.00 £112.09 £23.00
% change year-on-year -58.07% +387.35% -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 15,265 11,951 16,907
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.54% 93.67% 93.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,232 8,093 12,205
10th Percentile £350 £338 £325
25th Percentile £425 £430 £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 240 145 337
10th Percentile £18.23 £21.08 £15.98
25th Percentile £21.87 £24.66 £19.57
Median hourly rate £34.75 £35.89 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.18% +25.93% -18.57%
75th Percentile £60.50 £53.75 £47.50
90th Percentile £76.58 £78.04 £65.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +7.14% +7.69% -23.53%

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 20 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 20 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 -26 17 £550 -8.33% 8
East London -1 3 £155 - 2
West London -18 2 £300 -25.00% 2
South London -18 1 £425 -7.61% 1
Infrastructure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 20 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.

1 127 (92.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 68 (49.28%) Azure
3 50 (36.23%) Microsoft
4 38 (27.54%) Windows
5 35 (25.36%) Security Cleared
5 35 (25.36%) Terraform
6 33 (23.91%) PowerShell
7 31 (22.46%) Active Directory
8 30 (21.74%) Infrastructure as Code
9 29 (21.01%) VMware
10 27 (19.57%) Windows Server
11 25 (18.12%) Firewall
11 25 (18.12%) Microsoft 365
11 25 (18.12%) Migration
12 23 (16.67%) GitHub
12 23 (16.67%) SC Cleared
12 23 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
12 23 (16.67%) VPN
13 22 (15.94%) DevOps
13 22 (15.94%) Linux
14 21 (15.22%) DNS
14 21 (15.22%) WAN
15 18 (13.04%) CI/CD
15 18 (13.04%) Microsoft Intune
16 17 (12.32%) Cloud Security
16 17 (12.32%) Kubernetes
17 16 (11.59%) Ansible
18 15 (10.87%) Microsoft Exchange
18 15 (10.87%) Problem-Solving
19 14 (10.14%) DHCP

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 (10.87%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.17%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.72%) Confluence
3 1 (0.72%) IBM HTTP Server
3 1 (0.72%) Skype for Business
3 1 (0.72%) WebSphere
3 1 (0.72%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 3 (2.17%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 68 (49.28%) Azure
2 25 (18.12%) Microsoft 365
3 23 (16.67%) GitHub
4 14 (10.14%) GCP
5 13 (9.42%) AWS
6 11 (7.97%) IaaS
7 10 (7.25%) PaaS
8 9 (6.52%) Nutanix
9 8 (5.80%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (5.80%) Azure Monitor
9 8 (5.80%) Entra ID
10 6 (4.35%) Microsoft Purview
11 5 (3.62%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (3.62%) SaaS
12 4 (2.90%) Azure AKS
13 3 (2.17%) Amazon EKS
13 3 (2.17%) Azure Stack
13 3 (2.17%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 3 (2.17%) OCI
13 3 (2.17%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 25 (18.12%) Firewall
2 23 (16.67%) VPN
3 21 (15.22%) DNS
3 21 (15.22%) WAN
4 14 (10.14%) DHCP
4 14 (10.14%) LAN
5 7 (5.07%) Wi-Fi
6 6 (4.35%) SMTP
7 5 (3.62%) SD-WAN
8 4 (2.90%) MPLS
8 4 (2.90%) SAN
9 3 (2.17%) Software-Defined Networking
10 2 (1.45%) DKIM
10 2 (1.45%) DMARC
10 2 (1.45%) Network Security
10 2 (1.45%) Structured Cabling
10 2 (1.45%) TCP/IP
11 1 (0.72%) Cisco Wireless
11 1 (0.72%) VXLAN
11 1 (0.72%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.62%) Elasticsearch
1 5 (3.62%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.17%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (1.45%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.72%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.72%) Power BI
4 1 (0.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (5.80%) Artifactory
2 3 (2.17%) GitLab
2 3 (2.17%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.45%) JIRA
4 1 (0.72%) Chocolatey
4 1 (0.72%) Git
4 1 (0.72%) Introscope
General
1 26 (18.84%) Social Skills
2 20 (14.49%) Finance
3 9 (6.52%) Banking
4 7 (5.07%) Legal
5 5 (3.62%) Spanish Language
6 4 (2.90%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.45%) Billing
8 2 (1.45%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.45%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.45%) Retail
9 1 (0.72%) Aviation
9 1 (0.72%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.72%) Italian Language
9 1 (0.72%) Local Government
9 1 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.72%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.17%) ARM Templates
2 2 (1.45%) ADO
2 2 (1.45%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.72%) 802.1X
3 1 (0.72%) EDI
3 1 (0.72%) LDAP
3 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (0.72%) Middleware
3 1 (0.72%) Node.js
3 1 (0.72%) REST
3 1 (0.72%) Software Packaging
3 1 (0.72%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (10.14%) Data Centre
2 9 (6.52%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (5.80%) PKI
4 7 (5.07%) Clustering
5 5 (3.62%) Enterprise Storage
6 4 (2.90%) Cloud Native
6 4 (2.90%) Onboarding
7 3 (2.17%) Client/Server
7 3 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (2.17%) Replication
7 3 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.45%) CCTV
8 2 (1.45%) Operational Technology
8 2 (1.45%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.72%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (0.72%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.72%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.72%) Hedge funds
9 1 (0.72%) NHS
9 1 (0.72%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 38 (27.54%) Windows
2 27 (19.57%) Windows Server
3 22 (15.94%) Linux
4 6 (4.35%) Unix
4 6 (4.35%) Windows Server 2003
5 4 (2.90%) Ubuntu
5 4 (2.90%) VMS
5 4 (2.90%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (2.90%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (1.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.45%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.72%) AIX
7 1 (0.72%) Android
7 1 (0.72%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.72%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (92.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 30 (21.74%) Infrastructure as Code
3 25 (18.12%) Migration
4 22 (15.94%) DevOps
5 18 (13.04%) CI/CD
6 17 (12.32%) Cloud Security
7 15 (10.87%) Problem-Solving
8 13 (9.42%) Disaster Recovery
8 13 (9.42%) Incident Management
9 12 (8.70%) Cybersecurity
10 8 (5.80%) Collaborative Working
10 8 (5.80%) Continuous Improvement
10 8 (5.80%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 8 (5.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 6 (4.35%) Containerisation
11 6 (4.35%) Information Security
11 6 (4.35%) Infrastructure Automation
11 6 (4.35%) Mentoring
11 6 (4.35%) RBAC
11 6 (4.35%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 33 (23.91%) PowerShell
2 12 (8.70%) Python
3 8 (5.80%) SQL
4 5 (3.62%) C#
5 4 (2.90%) Bash
5 4 (2.90%) Bicep
6 2 (1.45%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.45%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.72%) Java
7 1 (0.72%) Jython
7 1 (0.72%) Perl
Qualifications
1 35 (25.36%) Security Cleared
2 23 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 11 (7.97%) DV Cleared
4 5 (3.62%) Degree
5 4 (2.90%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.45%) CCNA
6 2 (1.45%) CCNP
6 2 (1.45%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.45%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.72%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.72%) CCIE
7 1 (0.72%) CISSP
7 1 (0.72%) CWNA
7 1 (0.72%) GIAC
7 1 (0.72%) GSEC
7 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.72%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.90%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (1.45%) NIST
2 2 (1.45%) QA
2 2 (1.45%) SLA
3 1 (0.72%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.72%) GDPR
3 1 (0.72%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 1 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 31 (22.46%) Active Directory
2 23 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (9.42%) Hyper-V
4 10 (7.25%) Docker
5 7 (5.07%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (5.07%) VMware ESXi
6 6 (4.35%) BitLocker
6 6 (4.35%) Microsoft App-V
7 5 (3.62%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (3.62%) vSphere
8 2 (1.45%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.72%) Terminal Services
9 1 (0.72%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 35 (25.36%) Terraform
2 18 (13.04%) Microsoft Intune
3 17 (12.32%) Kubernetes
4 16 (11.59%) Ansible
5 14 (10.14%) SCCM
6 6 (4.35%) Puppet
6 6 (4.35%) vCenter Server
6 6 (4.35%) vMotion
7 5 (3.62%) CASB
7 5 (3.62%) SCOrch
8 4 (2.90%) AirWatch
9 2 (1.45%) Grafana
9 2 (1.45%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.72%) CA Wily
10 1 (0.72%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.72%) Packer
10 1 (0.72%) SCOM
10 1 (0.72%) vRealize
10 1 (0.72%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 50 (36.23%) Microsoft
2 29 (21.01%) VMware
3 11 (7.97%) Google
4 10 (7.25%) NetApp
5 8 (5.80%) Cisco
5 8 (5.80%) Citrix
6 6 (4.35%) Dell
6 6 (4.35%) SolarWinds
7 5 (3.62%) CyberArk
7 5 (3.62%) Fortinet
7 5 (3.62%) Veeam
8 4 (2.90%) Oracle
9 3 (2.17%) Aruba
9 3 (2.17%) Commvault
9 3 (2.17%) Meraki
9 3 (2.17%) Red Hat
9 3 (2.17%) Zscaler
10 2 (1.45%) Databricks
10 2 (1.45%) HP
10 2 (1.45%) ServiceNow
36 Infrastructure Engineer jobs in London