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 17 September 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
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 240 216 204
Rank change year-on-year -24 -12 +50
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 123 181 278
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.92% 1.12% 1.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.99% 1.19% 1.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 148 202
10th Percentile £348 £300 £351
25th Percentile £402 £387 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +3.70%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £638
90th Percentile £650 £650 £683
England median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £30.00 - £35.00
England median hourly rate £30.00 £60.00 £71.25
% change year-on-year -50.00% -15.79% +56.66%

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 12,450 15,190 20,706
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.69% 94.06% 94.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,342 10,172 15,099
10th Percentile £331 £340 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £690
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 205 181 231
10th Percentile £17.00 £17.50 £18.16
25th Percentile £23.00 £23.80 £22.39
Median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £37.34
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -6.27% +14.89%
75th Percentile £50.75 £56.00 £63.13
90th Percentile £66.73 £71.88 £76.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £44.75
% change year-on-year -45.54% +3.20% +71.00%

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
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 17 September 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 17 September 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 -6 15 £550 +7.84% 4
South London -7 2 £525 +35.48%
East London - 2 £155 - 6
Infrastructure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 17 September 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.

1 114 (92.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 61 (49.59%) Azure
3 55 (44.72%) Windows
4 50 (40.65%) Microsoft
5 42 (34.15%) Active Directory
6 40 (32.52%) Terraform
6 40 (32.52%) Windows Server
7 31 (25.20%) Python
7 31 (25.20%) Firewall
7 31 (25.20%) Finance
7 31 (25.20%) Microsoft Intune
7 31 (25.20%) Security Cleared
8 29 (23.58%) Linux
9 28 (22.76%) PowerShell
10 26 (21.14%) VPN
10 26 (21.14%) DNS
10 26 (21.14%) Microsoft 365
11 25 (20.33%) SC Cleared
12 24 (19.51%) Entra ID
12 24 (19.51%) Social Skills
13 23 (18.70%) TCP/IP
14 22 (17.89%) VMware
14 22 (17.89%) Infrastructure as Code
14 22 (17.89%) DevOps
15 20 (16.26%) Ansible
15 20 (16.26%) High Availability
16 19 (15.45%) AWS
16 19 (15.45%) Problem-Solving
17 17 (13.82%) Public Sector
17 17 (13.82%) Infrastructure Management

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 10 (8.13%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (7.32%) Confluence
3 6 (4.88%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.63%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.81%) Apache
5 1 (0.81%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.81%) Traefik
Applications
1 3 (2.44%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.81%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.63%) Alphatax
Cloud Services
1 61 (49.59%) Azure
2 26 (21.14%) Microsoft 365
3 24 (19.51%) Entra ID
4 19 (15.45%) AWS
5 15 (12.20%) IaaS
6 9 (7.32%) GCP
7 8 (6.50%) GitHub
8 7 (5.69%) Amazon S3
9 6 (4.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 6 (4.88%) PaaS
9 6 (4.88%) SaaS
9 6 (4.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 5 (4.07%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (4.07%) Amazon ELB
10 5 (4.07%) Azure Monitor
11 4 (3.25%) Mimecast
12 3 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (2.44%) Microsoft Purview
12 3 (2.44%) Serverless
13 2 (1.63%) Tessian
Communications & Networking
1 31 (25.20%) Firewall
2 26 (21.14%) DNS
2 26 (21.14%) VPN
3 23 (18.70%) TCP/IP
4 15 (12.20%) SSL
5 13 (10.57%) DHCP
6 11 (8.94%) Network Security
6 11 (8.94%) WAN
7 7 (5.69%) HTTP
7 7 (5.69%) LAN
8 6 (4.88%) Wireless
9 5 (4.07%) 4G
10 4 (3.25%) SD-WAN
10 4 (3.25%) Wi-Fi
11 3 (2.44%) MPLS
11 3 (2.44%) SMTP
12 2 (1.63%) BGP
12 2 (1.63%) OSPF
12 2 (1.63%) SAN
12 2 (1.63%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.88%) SQL Server
2 4 (3.25%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.81%) Apache Iceberg
3 1 (0.81%) Big Data
3 1 (0.81%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.81%) Delta Lake
3 1 (0.81%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.81%) Parquet
3 1 (0.81%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (7.32%) JIRA
2 7 (5.69%) Jenkins
3 6 (4.88%) Git
3 6 (4.88%) ScriptRunner
4 5 (4.07%) GitLab
5 4 (3.25%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.81%) TeamCity
General
1 31 (25.20%) Finance
2 24 (19.51%) Social Skills
3 17 (13.82%) Public Sector
4 11 (8.94%) Banking
5 9 (7.32%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (5.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (4.07%) Financial Institution
8 4 (3.25%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (3.25%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (2.44%) Front Office
9 3 (2.44%) Law
9 3 (2.44%) Legal
9 3 (2.44%) Military
9 3 (2.44%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.63%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.81%) International Banking
11 1 (0.81%) Local Government
11 1 (0.81%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.81%) Retail
11 1 (0.81%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.25%) Middleware
2 3 (2.44%) FIX Protocol
3 2 (1.63%) OAuth
3 2 (1.63%) OAuth2
3 2 (1.63%) SAML
4 1 (0.81%) 802.1X
4 1 (0.81%) Apache Avro
4 1 (0.81%) AWT
4 1 (0.81%) JMS
4 1 (0.81%) Kafka
4 1 (0.81%) LDAP
4 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (0.81%) OpenID
4 1 (0.81%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.81%) PySpark
4 1 (0.81%) Rendezvous
4 1 (0.81%) RESTful
4 1 (0.81%) TIBCO EMS
4 1 (0.81%) Ultra Messaging
4 1 (0.81%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.13%) PKI
2 6 (4.88%) Data Centre
2 6 (4.88%) Private Cloud
2 6 (4.88%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (4.07%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (4.07%) Security Operations Centre
4 4 (3.25%) Legacy Applications
4 4 (3.25%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.44%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.63%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.81%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.81%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.81%) Cyber Defence
7 1 (0.81%) Cyber Security Posture
7 1 (0.81%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.81%) Distributed Applications
7 1 (0.81%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (0.81%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 55 (44.72%) Windows
2 40 (32.52%) Windows Server
3 29 (23.58%) Linux
4 9 (7.32%) Unix
4 9 (7.32%) Windows 10
5 4 (3.25%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.81%) VMS
6 1 (0.81%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (0.81%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (92.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 22 (17.89%) DevOps
2 22 (17.89%) Infrastructure as Code
3 20 (16.26%) High Availability
4 19 (15.45%) Problem-Solving
5 17 (13.82%) Infrastructure Management
6 16 (13.01%) CI/CD
7 15 (12.20%) Migration
8 14 (11.38%) Infrastructure Automation
9 13 (10.57%) Agile
9 13 (10.57%) Disaster Recovery
9 13 (10.57%) Incident Management
10 12 (9.76%) Low Latency
11 11 (8.94%) ITIL
11 11 (8.94%) Vulnerability Management
12 10 (8.13%) Business Continuity
12 10 (8.13%) Mentoring
12 10 (8.13%) Test Automation
13 9 (7.32%) Cloud Security
13 9 (7.32%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 31 (25.20%) Python
2 28 (22.76%) PowerShell
3 9 (7.32%) Perl
4 8 (6.50%) Bash
5 6 (4.88%) Groovy
6 3 (2.44%) Go
7 2 (1.63%) Java
7 2 (1.63%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.81%) Scala
8 1 (0.81%) SQL
Qualifications
1 31 (25.20%) Security Cleared
2 25 (20.33%) SC Cleared
3 9 (7.32%) Cisco Certification
3 9 (7.32%) Degree
4 7 (5.69%) CCNA
4 7 (5.69%) CCNP
5 5 (4.07%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (4.07%) DV Cleared
6 4 (3.25%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 3 (2.44%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.63%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.81%) CCIE
9 1 (0.81%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.81%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.81%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.25%) NCSC
1 4 (3.25%) NIST
1 4 (3.25%) SLA
2 1 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (0.81%) GDPR
2 1 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.81%) QA
System Software
1 42 (34.15%) Active Directory
2 15 (12.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (8.94%) Docker
3 11 (8.94%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (6.50%) Hyper-V
5 7 (5.69%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (2.44%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.81%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.81%) etcd
7 1 (0.81%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.81%) Terminal Services
7 1 (0.81%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 40 (32.52%) Terraform
2 31 (25.20%) Microsoft Intune
3 20 (16.26%) Ansible
4 13 (10.57%) SCCM
5 8 (6.50%) Kubernetes
6 6 (4.88%) FortiGate
7 5 (4.07%) vCenter Server
8 4 (3.25%) Grafana
8 4 (3.25%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (2.44%) Prometheus
10 2 (1.63%) Argo
10 2 (1.63%) CASB
10 2 (1.63%) ITRS Geneos
10 2 (1.63%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (1.63%) McAfee ePO
10 2 (1.63%) Puppet
10 2 (1.63%) SCOrch
11 1 (0.81%) Istio
11 1 (0.81%) Nagios
11 1 (0.81%) SELinux
Vendors
1 50 (40.65%) Microsoft
2 22 (17.89%) VMware
3 13 (10.57%) F5
4 12 (9.76%) Palo Alto
5 11 (8.94%) Cisco
6 8 (6.50%) Google
7 7 (5.69%) Atlassian
8 6 (4.88%) Citrix
8 6 (4.88%) Dell
9 5 (4.07%) CheckPoint
9 5 (4.07%) Tenable
10 4 (3.25%) Qualys
11 3 (2.44%) CyberArk
11 3 (2.44%) Fortinet
11 3 (2.44%) McAfee
11 3 (2.44%) Solace
12 2 (1.63%) Canon
12 2 (1.63%) CrowdStrike
12 2 (1.63%) Meraki
12 2 (1.63%) Netskope