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 16 January 2026.

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

 6 months to
16 Jan 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 264 221 177
Rank change year-on-year -43 -44 +78
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 111 150 228
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.77% 1.07% 1.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.83% 1.14% 1.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 118 160
10th Percentile £363 £293 £363
25th Percentile £425 £364 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £493
Median % change year-on-year - +6.60% -10.45%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £600
90th Percentile £640 £650 £650
England median daily rate £475 £501 £480
% change year-on-year -5.09% +4.27% +1.05%
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 £32.00 £24.18 £23.00
% change year-on-year +32.34% +5.13% -59.18%

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 13,325 13,125 16,763
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.56% 93.52% 93.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,850 8,468 12,069
10th Percentile £350 £338 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £560
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -1.79% -3.86%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 218 143 240
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £23.60 £23.80 £20.38
Median hourly rate £32.05 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.43% +7.69% -4.41%
75th Percentile £62.00 £52.25 £53.75
90th Percentile £76.58 £80.35 £70.20
England median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £43.75
% change year-on-year -21.43% -20.00% +25.00%

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 January 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 16 January 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 0 18 £550 -4.35% 6
East London - 3 £155 - 3
West London -19 2 £300 -25.00% 2
Infrastructure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 16 January 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.

1 101 (90.99%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 53 (47.75%) Azure
3 44 (39.64%) Microsoft
4 32 (28.83%) Windows
5 31 (27.93%) Terraform
6 28 (25.23%) Active Directory
6 28 (25.23%) Windows Server
7 27 (24.32%) Linux
8 26 (23.42%) Firewall
8 26 (23.42%) Microsoft 365
9 24 (21.62%) Infrastructure as Code
10 23 (20.72%) VMware
11 22 (19.82%) Ansible
11 22 (19.82%) Microsoft Intune
12 21 (18.92%) DevOps
12 21 (18.92%) VPN
13 18 (16.22%) Migration
13 18 (16.22%) PowerShell
13 18 (16.22%) Python
13 18 (16.22%) SCCM
14 17 (15.32%) Problem-Solving
14 17 (15.32%) WAN
15 16 (14.41%) VMware Infrastructure
16 15 (13.51%) CI/CD
16 15 (13.51%) DNS
16 15 (13.51%) Microsoft Exchange
17 14 (12.61%) AWS
17 14 (12.61%) Infrastructure Automation
17 14 (12.61%) Security Cleared
18 12 (10.81%) Docker

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 (13.51%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.70%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.80%) Confluence
4 1 (0.90%) Apache
4 1 (0.90%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.90%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.90%) Skype for Business
4 1 (0.90%) Traefik
Applications
1 3 (2.70%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 53 (47.75%) Azure
2 26 (23.42%) Microsoft 365
3 14 (12.61%) AWS
4 10 (9.01%) Entra ID
5 8 (7.21%) GitHub
5 8 (7.21%) IaaS
5 8 (7.21%) Nutanix
6 7 (6.31%) Amazon S3
6 7 (6.31%) GCP
7 6 (5.41%) Microsoft Purview
7 6 (5.41%) Mimecast
8 5 (4.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 5 (4.50%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (4.50%) Amazon ELB
8 5 (4.50%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (4.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 4 (3.60%) OCI
9 4 (3.60%) PaaS
9 4 (3.60%) Serverless
10 3 (2.70%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 26 (23.42%) Firewall
2 21 (18.92%) VPN
3 17 (15.32%) WAN
4 15 (13.51%) DNS
5 12 (10.81%) TCP/IP
6 11 (9.91%) SSL
7 9 (8.11%) LAN
8 8 (7.21%) Wi-Fi
9 6 (5.41%) DHCP
9 6 (5.41%) HTTP
9 6 (5.41%) Network Security
10 5 (4.50%) SD-WAN
11 4 (3.60%) MPLS
12 2 (1.80%) SAN
12 2 (1.80%) SMTP
13 1 (0.90%) 802.11
13 1 (0.90%) BGP
13 1 (0.90%) OSPF
13 1 (0.90%) Wireless
13 1 (0.90%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.70%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.80%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.90%) Apache Iceberg
3 1 (0.90%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.90%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.90%) Delta Lake
3 1 (0.90%) Parquet
3 1 (0.90%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.90%) Power BI
3 1 (0.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (6.31%) Jenkins
2 6 (5.41%) Git
3 5 (4.50%) GitLab
4 4 (3.60%) Artifactory
5 3 (2.70%) JIRA
5 3 (2.70%) Robot Framework
General
1 22 (19.82%) Finance
2 19 (17.12%) Social Skills
3 8 (7.21%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (5.41%) Banking
4 6 (5.41%) Spanish Language
5 5 (4.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (4.50%) Public Sector
6 4 (3.60%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.80%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.80%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.80%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.90%) Aviation
8 1 (0.90%) Billing
8 1 (0.90%) Front Office
8 1 (0.90%) International Banking
8 1 (0.90%) Italian Language
8 1 (0.90%) Legal
8 1 (0.90%) Marketing
8 1 (0.90%) Military
8 1 (0.90%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.80%) ARM Templates
1 2 (1.80%) YAML
2 1 (0.90%) 802.1X
2 1 (0.90%) ADO
2 1 (0.90%) Apache Avro
2 1 (0.90%) EDI
2 1 (0.90%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (0.90%) Middleware
2 1 (0.90%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (0.90%) PySpark
2 1 (0.90%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.21%) Data Centre
2 5 (4.50%) Data Protection Act
2 5 (4.50%) Private Cloud
3 4 (3.60%) PKI
4 3 (2.70%) Client/Server
4 3 (2.70%) Clustering
4 3 (2.70%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (2.70%) Replication
5 2 (1.80%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.80%) Enterprise Storage
5 2 (1.80%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (1.80%) Operational Technology
5 2 (1.80%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.80%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.90%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.90%) CCTV
6 1 (0.90%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.90%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (0.90%) Driving Licence
6 1 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 32 (28.83%) Windows
2 28 (25.23%) Windows Server
3 27 (24.32%) Linux
4 9 (8.11%) Unix
5 4 (3.60%) Windows 10
6 3 (2.70%) Ubuntu
6 3 (2.70%) VMS
6 3 (2.70%) Windows Server 2003
6 3 (2.70%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.90%) Android
7 1 (0.90%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.90%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.90%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (90.99%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 24 (21.62%) Infrastructure as Code
3 21 (18.92%) DevOps
4 18 (16.22%) Migration
5 17 (15.32%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (13.51%) CI/CD
7 14 (12.61%) Infrastructure Automation
8 11 (9.91%) Cloud Security
9 10 (9.01%) Cybersecurity
9 10 (9.01%) High Availability
9 10 (9.01%) Test Automation
10 9 (8.11%) Information Security
11 8 (7.21%) Incident Management
11 8 (7.21%) ITIL
11 8 (7.21%) Low Latency
12 7 (6.31%) Vulnerability Management
13 6 (5.41%) Agile
13 6 (5.41%) Configuration Management
13 6 (5.41%) Data Protection
13 6 (5.41%) ISMS
Programming Languages
1 18 (16.22%) PowerShell
1 18 (16.22%) Python
2 7 (6.31%) Perl
3 6 (5.41%) Bash
4 2 (1.80%) Go
4 2 (1.80%) Shell Script
4 2 (1.80%) SQL
5 1 (0.90%) Bicep
5 1 (0.90%) Java
5 1 (0.90%) Scala
Qualifications
1 14 (12.61%) Security Cleared
2 10 (9.01%) SC Cleared
3 7 (6.31%) Degree
4 4 (3.60%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.80%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.80%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (1.80%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.90%) CCIE
7 1 (0.90%) CCNA
7 1 (0.90%) CCNP
7 1 (0.90%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.90%) CISSP
7 1 (0.90%) CWNA
7 1 (0.90%) GIAC
7 1 (0.90%) GSEC
7 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.70%) Cyber Essentials
1 3 (2.70%) NIST
2 2 (1.80%) SLA
3 1 (0.90%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.90%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 28 (25.23%) Active Directory
2 16 (14.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (10.81%) Docker
4 7 (6.31%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (5.41%) Hyper-V
6 5 (4.50%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (2.70%) Virtual Servers
7 3 (2.70%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (1.80%) BitLocker
8 2 (1.80%) Microsoft App-V
8 2 (1.80%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.90%) etcd
9 1 (0.90%) vSphere
9 1 (0.90%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 31 (27.93%) Terraform
2 22 (19.82%) Ansible
2 22 (19.82%) Microsoft Intune
3 18 (16.22%) SCCM
4 6 (5.41%) CASB
4 6 (5.41%) Kubernetes
4 6 (5.41%) SCOrch
5 4 (3.60%) AirWatch
6 2 (1.80%) Grafana
6 2 (1.80%) Puppet
6 2 (1.80%) vCenter Server
6 2 (1.80%) vMotion
6 2 (1.80%) vRealize
7 1 (0.90%) Argo
7 1 (0.90%) Istio
7 1 (0.90%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.90%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.90%) SCOM
7 1 (0.90%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 44 (39.64%) Microsoft
2 23 (20.72%) VMware
3 12 (10.81%) F5
4 9 (8.11%) Cisco
4 9 (8.11%) Palo Alto
5 6 (5.41%) CyberArk
6 5 (4.50%) CheckPoint
6 5 (4.50%) NetApp
6 5 (4.50%) Veeam
6 5 (4.50%) Zscaler
7 4 (3.60%) Commvault
7 4 (3.60%) Dell
7 4 (3.60%) Fortinet
7 4 (3.60%) Google
7 4 (3.60%) Oracle
7 4 (3.60%) SolarWinds
8 3 (2.70%) Aruba
8 3 (2.70%) Citrix
8 3 (2.70%) Meraki
8 3 (2.70%) Tenable
43 Infrastructure Engineer jobs in London