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 9 March 2026.

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

 6 months to
9 Mar 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 265 224 206
Rank change year-on-year -41 -18 +65
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 129 134 207
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.80% 1.03% 1.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.87% 1.10% 1.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 105 137
10th Percentile £343 £321 £313
25th Percentile £425 £381 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +15.79% -13.64%
75th Percentile £584 £600 £588
90th Percentile £639 £650 £639
England median daily rate £500 £544 £465
% change year-on-year -8.05% +16.94% -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 14,847 12,234 17,041
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.56% 93.71% 93.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,976 8,184 12,295
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 229 145 345
10th Percentile £18.07 £21.08 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.41 £24.66 £19.38
Median hourly rate £34.50 £35.00 £28.75
Median % change year-on-year -1.44% +21.74% -17.86%
75th Percentile £59.72 £53.75 £48.56
90th Percentile £76.58 £78.04 £65.00
England median hourly rate £36.00 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +2.86% +7.69% -22.27%

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 9 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 9 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 -19 19 £550 -8.33% 10
East London +3 3 £155 - 4
West London -17 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 9 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.

1 118 (91.47%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 63 (48.84%) Azure
3 46 (35.66%) Microsoft
4 36 (27.91%) Windows
5 32 (24.81%) Security Cleared
6 29 (22.48%) Active Directory
6 29 (22.48%) Terraform
6 29 (22.48%) VMware
7 27 (20.93%) Infrastructure as Code
7 27 (20.93%) PowerShell
8 26 (20.16%) Windows Server
9 25 (19.38%) Microsoft 365
10 23 (17.83%) Migration
11 22 (17.05%) Firewall
11 22 (17.05%) SC Cleared
11 22 (17.05%) VMware Infrastructure
12 21 (16.28%) DevOps
12 21 (16.28%) Linux
12 21 (16.28%) WAN
13 20 (15.50%) GitHub
13 20 (15.50%) Microsoft Intune
14 17 (13.18%) CI/CD
14 17 (13.18%) Cloud Security
15 16 (12.40%) DNS
15 16 (12.40%) Problem-Solving
15 16 (12.40%) VPN
16 15 (11.63%) Microsoft Exchange
16 15 (11.63%) SCCM
17 14 (10.85%) Kubernetes
18 13 (10.08%) 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 (11.63%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.33%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.78%) Confluence
3 1 (0.78%) IBM HTTP Server
3 1 (0.78%) Skype for Business
3 1 (0.78%) WebSphere
3 1 (0.78%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 3 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 63 (48.84%) Azure
2 25 (19.38%) Microsoft 365
3 20 (15.50%) GitHub
4 11 (8.53%) AWS
5 10 (7.75%) GCP
6 9 (6.98%) Nutanix
7 8 (6.20%) Entra ID
8 7 (5.43%) IaaS
8 7 (5.43%) Microsoft Purview
9 6 (4.65%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (4.65%) Azure Monitor
9 6 (4.65%) PaaS
10 4 (3.10%) Azure AKS
10 4 (3.10%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (3.10%) Mimecast
11 3 (2.33%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (2.33%) Azure Stack
11 3 (2.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 3 (2.33%) OCI
11 3 (2.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 22 (17.05%) Firewall
2 21 (16.28%) WAN
3 16 (12.40%) DNS
3 16 (12.40%) VPN
4 13 (10.08%) LAN
5 11 (8.53%) DHCP
6 8 (6.20%) Wi-Fi
7 5 (3.88%) SD-WAN
8 4 (3.10%) MPLS
8 4 (3.10%) SAN
8 4 (3.10%) SMTP
9 3 (2.33%) Software-Defined Networking
10 2 (1.55%) DKIM
10 2 (1.55%) DMARC
10 2 (1.55%) Network Security
11 1 (0.78%) Cisco ASA
11 1 (0.78%) Cisco Wireless
11 1 (0.78%) Structured Cabling
11 1 (0.78%) Unified Communications
11 1 (0.78%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.88%) SQL Server
2 4 (3.10%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (1.55%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (1.55%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.78%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.78%) Power BI
4 1 (0.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (6.20%) Artifactory
2 3 (2.33%) GitLab
3 2 (1.55%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.55%) JIRA
4 1 (0.78%) Chocolatey
4 1 (0.78%) Git
4 1 (0.78%) Introscope
General
1 24 (18.60%) Social Skills
2 20 (15.50%) Finance
3 7 (5.43%) Banking
3 7 (5.43%) Legal
4 6 (4.65%) Spanish Language
5 4 (3.10%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.55%) Billing
7 2 (1.55%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.78%) Aviation
8 1 (0.78%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.78%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.78%) Italian Language
8 1 (0.78%) Local Government
8 1 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.78%) Retail
8 1 (0.78%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.55%) ADO
1 2 (1.55%) ARM Templates
2 1 (0.78%) 802.1X
2 1 (0.78%) EDI
2 1 (0.78%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (0.78%) LDAP
2 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (0.78%) Middleware
2 1 (0.78%) Node.js
2 1 (0.78%) REST
2 1 (0.78%) Software Packaging
2 1 (0.78%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (9.30%) Data Centre
2 7 (5.43%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (4.65%) PKI
4 5 (3.88%) Clustering
5 4 (3.10%) Enterprise Storage
5 4 (3.10%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.33%) Client/Server
6 3 (2.33%) Cloud Native
6 3 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.33%) Replication
6 3 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.55%) Operational Technology
7 2 (1.55%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.78%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.78%) Driving Licence
8 1 (0.78%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.78%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.78%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.78%) NHS
8 1 (0.78%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 36 (27.91%) Windows
2 26 (20.16%) Windows Server
3 21 (16.28%) Linux
4 6 (4.65%) Unix
5 5 (3.88%) Windows Server 2003
6 4 (3.10%) VMS
6 4 (3.10%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (3.10%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (2.33%) Ubuntu
8 2 (1.55%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.78%) AIX
9 1 (0.78%) Android
9 1 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.78%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.78%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (91.47%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 27 (20.93%) Infrastructure as Code
3 23 (17.83%) Migration
4 21 (16.28%) DevOps
5 17 (13.18%) CI/CD
5 17 (13.18%) Cloud Security
6 16 (12.40%) Problem-Solving
7 11 (8.53%) Cybersecurity
7 11 (8.53%) Incident Management
8 9 (6.98%) Disaster Recovery
9 8 (6.20%) Collaborative Working
9 8 (6.20%) Information Security
9 8 (6.20%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 7 (5.43%) Continuous Improvement
11 6 (4.65%) Information Security Management
11 6 (4.65%) ISMS
11 6 (4.65%) Security Management
11 6 (4.65%) Security Monitoring
11 6 (4.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 6 (4.65%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 27 (20.93%) PowerShell
2 9 (6.98%) Python
3 8 (6.20%) SQL
4 5 (3.88%) C#
5 3 (2.33%) Bash
5 3 (2.33%) Bicep
6 2 (1.55%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.55%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.78%) Java
7 1 (0.78%) Jython
7 1 (0.78%) Perl
Qualifications
1 32 (24.81%) Security Cleared
2 22 (17.05%) SC Cleared
3 9 (6.98%) DV Cleared
4 4 (3.10%) Degree
5 3 (2.33%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.55%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.78%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.78%) CCIE
7 1 (0.78%) CCNA
7 1 (0.78%) CCNP
7 1 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.78%) CISSP
7 1 (0.78%) CWNA
7 1 (0.78%) GIAC
7 1 (0.78%) GSEC
7 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.78%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.10%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (0.78%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.78%) HMG Security Policy Framework
2 1 (0.78%) NIST
2 1 (0.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (0.78%) SLA
System Software
1 29 (22.48%) Active Directory
2 22 (17.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (6.98%) Docker
3 9 (6.98%) Hyper-V
4 8 (6.20%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (3.88%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (3.88%) vSphere
6 4 (3.10%) BitLocker
6 4 (3.10%) Microsoft App-V
6 4 (3.10%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (1.55%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.78%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 29 (22.48%) Terraform
2 20 (15.50%) Microsoft Intune
3 15 (11.63%) SCCM
4 14 (10.85%) Kubernetes
5 13 (10.08%) Ansible
6 6 (4.65%) CASB
6 6 (4.65%) SCOrch
7 5 (3.88%) AirWatch
7 5 (3.88%) Puppet
8 4 (3.10%) vCenter Server
8 4 (3.10%) vMotion
9 1 (0.78%) CA Wily
9 1 (0.78%) Grafana
9 1 (0.78%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.78%) Packer
9 1 (0.78%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.78%) SCOM
9 1 (0.78%) vRealize
9 1 (0.78%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 46 (35.66%) Microsoft
2 29 (22.48%) VMware
3 9 (6.98%) Cisco
3 9 (6.98%) NetApp
4 8 (6.20%) Google
5 6 (4.65%) CyberArk
6 5 (3.88%) Citrix
6 5 (3.88%) Dell
6 5 (3.88%) Fortinet
6 5 (3.88%) SolarWinds
6 5 (3.88%) Veeam
7 4 (3.10%) Commvault
7 4 (3.10%) Oracle
7 4 (3.10%) Zscaler
8 3 (2.33%) Aruba
8 3 (2.33%) Meraki
9 2 (1.55%) Databricks
9 2 (1.55%) Red Hat
9 2 (1.55%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.78%) LogicMonitor
42 Infrastructure Engineer jobs in London