Infrastructure Engineer Contracts 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 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 228 197 261
Rank change year-on-year -31 +64 +16
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 125 204 253
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.00% 1.14% 0.94%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.07% 1.23% 0.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 143 191
10th Percentile £314 £275 £400
25th Percentile £400 £363 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -18.18% +10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £550 £650
90th Percentile £649 £635 £683
England median daily rate £525 £463 £500
% change year-on-year +13.51% -7.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £65.90
25th Percentile - - £70.74
Median hourly rate - - £78.80
75th Percentile - - £83.55
90th Percentile - - £86.40
England median hourly rate £112.09 £22.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +398.18% -65.38% +3.20%

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 11,726 16,625 25,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 93.24% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 12,022 18,663
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 336 290
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £76.03
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Infrastructure Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in London

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in London.

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer 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 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in London

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in London.

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer 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 May 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 -5 22 £600 +20.00% 16
South London +11 5 £470 +10.59% 3
West London +13 3 £400 +60.00% 4
North London -4 2 £270 +8.00%
East London - 1 - - 1
Infrastructure Engineer
England

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Infrastructure Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 121 (96.80%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 77 (61.60%) Windows
3 66 (52.80%) Azure
4 57 (45.60%) Active Directory
5 54 (43.20%) Microsoft
6 44 (35.20%) Windows Server
7 43 (34.40%) VMware
8 42 (33.60%) Firewall
9 38 (30.40%) Microsoft 365
10 37 (29.60%) Finance
11 33 (26.40%) PowerShell
12 31 (24.80%) DNS
13 30 (24.00%) VMware Infrastructure
14 29 (23.20%) Social Skills
15 28 (22.40%) Security Cleared
16 27 (21.60%) Entra ID
17 25 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
18 24 (19.20%) Cisco
19 23 (18.40%) SC Cleared
20 22 (17.60%) Migration
20 22 (17.60%) Windows 10
20 22 (17.60%) Problem-Solving
21 21 (16.80%) Terraform
22 20 (16.00%) DHCP
22 20 (16.00%) Linux
23 19 (15.20%) Wi-Fi
23 19 (15.20%) AWS
24 18 (14.40%) Infrastructure Management
25 17 (13.60%) DevOps
26 16 (12.80%) IaaS

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 15 (12.00%) SharePoint
2 13 (10.40%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (5.60%) Confluence
4 1 (0.80%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.80%) WebSphere
Applications
1 8 (6.40%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.60%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.60%) Alphatax
Cloud Services
1 66 (52.80%) Azure
2 38 (30.40%) Microsoft 365
3 27 (21.60%) Entra ID
4 19 (15.20%) AWS
5 16 (12.80%) IaaS
6 7 (5.60%) GCP
7 5 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (4.00%) OneDrive
8 4 (3.20%) Azure Monitor
8 4 (3.20%) GitHub
8 4 (3.20%) Nutanix
8 4 (3.20%) PaaS
8 4 (3.20%) SaaS
9 3 (2.40%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (1.60%) Amazon Cognito
10 2 (1.60%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (1.60%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 2 (1.60%) Azure Stack
10 2 (1.60%) Mimecast
10 2 (1.60%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 42 (33.60%) Firewall
2 31 (24.80%) DNS
3 20 (16.00%) DHCP
4 19 (15.20%) Wi-Fi
5 16 (12.80%) VPN
6 15 (12.00%) Network Security
7 12 (9.60%) TCP/IP
8 10 (8.00%) WAN
9 8 (6.40%) MPLS
10 7 (5.60%) Wireless
11 6 (4.80%) Cisco IOS
11 6 (4.80%) Internet
11 6 (4.80%) LAN
12 5 (4.00%) NAS
12 5 (4.00%) SAN
13 4 (3.20%) BGP
13 4 (3.20%) OSPF
13 4 (3.20%) VLAN
14 3 (2.40%) 4G
14 3 (2.40%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.20%) SQL Server
2 6 (4.80%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (1.60%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.80%) Big Data
4 1 (0.80%) DB2
4 1 (0.80%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.80%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 8 (6.40%) JIRA
2 6 (4.80%) ScriptRunner
3 5 (4.00%) GitLab
3 5 (4.00%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.80%) TeamCity
General
1 37 (29.60%) Finance
2 29 (23.20%) Social Skills
3 14 (11.20%) Public Sector
4 11 (8.80%) Banking
5 5 (4.00%) Manufacturing
6 4 (3.20%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (3.20%) Electronics
6 4 (3.20%) Investment Banking
6 4 (3.20%) Marketing
6 4 (3.20%) Telecoms
7 3 (2.40%) Legal
7 3 (2.40%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (2.40%) Retail
8 2 (1.60%) Law
8 2 (1.60%) Military
8 2 (1.60%) Spanish Language
9 1 (0.80%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.80%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.60%) 802.1X
1 2 (1.60%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (1.60%) LDAP
1 2 (1.60%) Node.js
2 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (0.80%) OAuth
2 1 (0.80%) OAuth2
2 1 (0.80%) OpenID
2 1 (0.80%) SAML
2 1 (0.80%) Spring
2 1 (0.80%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.80%) Video Conferencing
2 8 (6.40%) Data Centre
2 8 (6.40%) PKI
3 4 (3.20%) Clustering
4 3 (2.40%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (2.40%) Security Operations Centre
4 3 (2.40%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.60%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.60%) NHS
5 2 (1.60%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.60%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (0.80%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.80%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.80%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.80%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.80%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 77 (61.60%) Windows
2 44 (35.20%) Windows Server
3 22 (17.60%) Windows 10
4 20 (16.00%) Linux
5 4 (3.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (2.40%) Unix
7 2 (1.60%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.80%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.80%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.80%) Windows Server 2003
8 1 (0.80%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (96.80%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 22 (17.60%) Migration
2 22 (17.60%) Problem-Solving
3 18 (14.40%) Infrastructure Management
4 17 (13.60%) DevOps
5 14 (11.20%) Disaster Recovery
6 11 (8.80%) Cloud Security
6 11 (8.80%) Server Management
7 10 (8.00%) CI/CD
7 10 (8.00%) ITSM
8 9 (7.20%) Agile
8 9 (7.20%) Business Continuity
8 9 (7.20%) Incident Management
8 9 (7.20%) Service Delivery
8 9 (7.20%) Task Automation
9 8 (6.40%) Cybersecurity
9 8 (6.40%) Data Loss Prevention
9 8 (6.40%) ITIL
9 8 (6.40%) Mentoring
9 8 (6.40%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 33 (26.40%) PowerShell
2 16 (12.80%) Python
3 6 (4.80%) Groovy
4 5 (4.00%) Perl
4 5 (4.00%) SQL
5 3 (2.40%) Bash
6 2 (1.60%) C++
6 2 (1.60%) Java
6 2 (1.60%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.60%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.80%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 28 (22.40%) Security Cleared
2 23 (18.40%) SC Cleared
3 10 (8.00%) Cisco Certification
4 8 (6.40%) DV Cleared
5 7 (5.60%) CCNA
5 7 (5.60%) Degree
6 6 (4.80%) CCNP
7 5 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.60%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.60%) CCIE
8 2 (1.60%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (1.60%) VCAP
8 2 (1.60%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 1 (0.80%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.80%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.80%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.80%) MCSE
9 1 (0.80%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.20%) NCSC
2 2 (1.60%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.60%) DICOM
2 2 (1.60%) HL7
3 1 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (0.80%) GDPR
3 1 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.80%) NIST
System Software
1 57 (45.60%) Active Directory
2 30 (24.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (12.00%) Hyper-V
4 11 (8.80%) Docker
5 9 (7.20%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (4.80%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (1.60%) vSphere
8 1 (0.80%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.80%) Firmware
8 1 (0.80%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.80%) Terminal Services
8 1 (0.80%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.80%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.80%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 25 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 21 (16.80%) Terraform
3 16 (12.80%) SCCM
4 11 (8.80%) Ansible
4 11 (8.80%) Kubernetes
5 5 (4.00%) FortiGate
6 2 (1.60%) CASB
6 2 (1.60%) Dell DRAC
6 2 (1.60%) NetBackup
6 2 (1.60%) Puppet
6 2 (1.60%) SCOrch
6 2 (1.60%) SELinux
6 2 (1.60%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (1.60%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.80%) McAfee ePO
7 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Clustering
7 1 (0.80%) Nagios
7 1 (0.80%) Opsgenie
7 1 (0.80%) PowerCLI
7 1 (0.80%) vMotion
Vendors
1 54 (43.20%) Microsoft
2 43 (34.40%) VMware
3 24 (19.20%) Cisco
4 9 (7.20%) Meraki
5 7 (5.60%) Atlassian
5 7 (5.60%) Splunk
6 6 (4.80%) Fortinet
7 5 (4.00%) Google
8 4 (3.20%) Dell
8 4 (3.20%) NetApp
8 4 (3.20%) Palo Alto
8 4 (3.20%) SAP
9 3 (2.40%) Citrix
9 3 (2.40%) McAfee
9 3 (2.40%) Oracle
9 3 (2.40%) ServiceNow
10 2 (1.60%) Atempo
10 2 (1.60%) F5
10 2 (1.60%) Proofpoint
10 2 (1.60%) Qualys