Infrastructure Engineer Contract Job Trends in London

Infrastructure Engineer
England > London

The median Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in London is £540, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 August 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 231 248 204
Rank change year-on-year +17 -44 +33
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 219 120 193
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.09% 0.88% 1.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.17% 0.95% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 88 156
10th Percentile £350 £329 £300
25th Percentile £422 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £650 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £638 £645
England median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £30.00 -
England median hourly rate £72.54 £77.00 £72.75
% change year-on-year -5.79% +5.84% +0.34%

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 18,752 12,672 15,401
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.05% 92.93% 94.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,269 8,586 10,953
10th Percentile £363 £326 £340
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% -0.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £653 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 353 201 213
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.98 £17.25
25th Percentile £21.93 £22.75 £22.00
Median hourly rate £39.00 £30.00 £32.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -6.25% -14.48%
75th Percentile £59.00 £50.50 £52.00
90th Percentile £78.71 £63.75 £71.75
England median hourly rate £45.00 £26.28 £43.90
% change year-on-year +71.23% -40.14% +2.09%

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 1 August 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 1 August 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 +6 33 £575 -4.17% 11
West London - 8 £675 - 1
South London -15 2 £419 -30.21% 2
Infrastructure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 August 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.

1 214 (97.72%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 97 (44.29%) Azure
3 95 (43.38%) Windows
4 83 (37.90%) Security Cleared
5 73 (33.33%) Microsoft
6 66 (30.14%) Infrastructure as Code
7 65 (29.68%) Terraform
8 61 (27.85%) Active Directory
9 60 (27.40%) Windows Server
10 58 (26.48%) PowerShell
11 57 (26.03%) VMware
12 56 (25.57%) DNS
13 53 (24.20%) SC Cleared
14 50 (22.83%) DHCP
15 49 (22.37%) DevOps
16 45 (20.55%) Kubernetes
17 44 (20.09%) CI/CD
18 42 (19.18%) VMware Infrastructure
19 40 (18.26%) Linux
20 37 (16.89%) Migration
21 36 (16.44%) Firewall
22 33 (15.07%) Python
23 32 (14.61%) DV Cleared
24 31 (14.16%) AWS
24 31 (14.16%) GitHub
25 29 (13.24%) Ansible
26 28 (12.79%) VPN
27 26 (11.87%) SQL Server
28 25 (11.42%) Entra ID
28 25 (11.42%) Microsoft 365

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 (6.85%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (6.39%) SharePoint
3 7 (3.20%) WebSphere
4 6 (2.74%) CICS
5 3 (1.37%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (0.46%) Confluence
6 1 (0.46%) Exchange Server 2013
6 1 (0.46%) IBM HTTP Server
6 1 (0.46%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.46%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 3 (1.37%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.46%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 97 (44.29%) Azure
2 31 (14.16%) AWS
2 31 (14.16%) GitHub
3 25 (11.42%) Entra ID
3 25 (11.42%) Microsoft 365
4 21 (9.59%) GCP
4 21 (9.59%) IaaS
5 20 (9.13%) PaaS
6 18 (8.22%) Azure DevOps
7 17 (7.76%) Azure AKS
8 16 (7.31%) GitHub Actions
8 16 (7.31%) SaaS
9 15 (6.85%) Azure Monitor
10 5 (2.28%) Datadog
10 5 (2.28%) OpenShift
11 4 (1.83%) Power Platform
11 4 (1.83%) Serverless
12 3 (1.37%) Amazon EKS
12 3 (1.37%) Azure Stack
12 3 (1.37%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 56 (25.57%) DNS
2 50 (22.83%) DHCP
3 36 (16.44%) Firewall
4 28 (12.79%) VPN
5 18 (8.22%) TCP/IP
6 14 (6.39%) Network Security
7 11 (5.02%) LAN
7 11 (5.02%) WAN
8 9 (4.11%) SAN
9 8 (3.65%) SMTP
9 8 (3.65%) VLAN
10 7 (3.20%) Wi-Fi
11 5 (2.28%) NAS
12 4 (1.83%) Remote Desktop
12 4 (1.83%) Wireless
13 3 (1.37%) 4G
14 2 (0.91%) Internet
14 2 (0.91%) Structured Cabling
14 2 (0.91%) VSAN
15 1 (0.46%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (11.87%) SQL Server
2 7 (3.20%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (3.20%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (1.37%) Big Data
3 3 (1.37%) Power BI
4 2 (0.91%) BigQuery
4 2 (0.91%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.46%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.46%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.46%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (0.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (2.28%) Git
1 5 (2.28%) Jenkins
2 4 (1.83%) Chocolatey
3 3 (1.37%) GitLab
4 1 (0.46%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.46%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.46%) CMake
4 1 (0.46%) Gradle
4 1 (0.46%) Introscope
4 1 (0.46%) JIRA
4 1 (0.46%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 32 (14.61%) Social Skills
2 25 (11.42%) Finance
3 16 (7.31%) Banking
4 15 (6.85%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (3.20%) Public Sector
6 6 (2.74%) Legal
6 6 (2.74%) Telecoms
7 5 (2.28%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.83%) Automotive
9 3 (1.37%) Law
10 2 (0.91%) Billing
10 2 (0.91%) Local Government
11 1 (0.46%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.46%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.46%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.46%) Mandarin Language
11 1 (0.46%) Publishing
11 1 (0.46%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.20%) Middleware
2 5 (2.28%) 802.1X
2 5 (2.28%) ARM Templates
3 3 (1.37%) .NET
3 3 (1.37%) OpenID
3 3 (1.37%) YAML
4 2 (0.91%) ADO
4 2 (0.91%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (0.91%) JSON
4 2 (0.91%) REST
4 2 (0.91%) SAML
5 1 (0.46%) Bazel
5 1 (0.46%) Kafka
5 1 (0.46%) LDAP
5 1 (0.46%) Node.js
5 1 (0.46%) OAuth
5 1 (0.46%) OAuth2
5 1 (0.46%) OpenGL
5 1 (0.46%) Qt
Miscellaneous
1 15 (6.85%) Hybrid Cloud
2 14 (6.39%) PKI
3 12 (5.48%) Data Centre
4 10 (4.57%) Clustering
5 7 (3.20%) Onboarding
6 6 (2.74%) Cloud Native
6 6 (2.74%) Enterprise Storage
6 6 (2.74%) Mainframe
7 5 (2.28%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (2.28%) Linux Command Line
8 4 (1.83%) Cyber Threat
8 4 (1.83%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.83%) Robotics
8 4 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.37%) Security Operations Centre
10 2 (0.91%) AI Agents
10 2 (0.91%) CCTV
10 2 (0.91%) Enterprise Cloud
10 2 (0.91%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 95 (43.38%) Windows
2 60 (27.40%) Windows Server
3 40 (18.26%) Linux
4 7 (3.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (3.20%) Windows Server 2019
5 6 (2.74%) zOS
6 5 (2.28%) Ubuntu
6 5 (2.28%) VMS
6 5 (2.28%) Windows 10
6 5 (2.28%) Windows Server 2003
6 5 (2.28%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (1.83%) Android
7 4 (1.83%) Apple iOS
8 3 (1.37%) Unix
8 3 (1.37%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.91%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.46%) AIX
10 1 (0.46%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.46%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.46%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 214 (97.72%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 66 (30.14%) Infrastructure as Code
3 49 (22.37%) DevOps
4 44 (20.09%) CI/CD
5 37 (16.89%) Migration
6 24 (10.96%) Problem-Solving
7 23 (10.50%) Infrastructure Automation
8 20 (9.13%) Disaster Recovery
9 19 (8.68%) Continuous Improvement
9 19 (8.68%) ITIL
10 18 (8.22%) Incident Management
11 16 (7.31%) AI
11 16 (7.31%) Root Cause Analysis
12 15 (6.85%) Containerisation
12 15 (6.85%) High Availability
13 13 (5.94%) Infrastructure Transformation
13 13 (5.94%) Validation
14 12 (5.48%) Change Management
14 12 (5.48%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 11 (5.02%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 58 (26.48%) PowerShell
2 33 (15.07%) Python
3 20 (9.13%) SQL
4 17 (7.76%) Bash
4 17 (7.76%) C#
5 11 (5.02%) Bicep
6 8 (3.65%) Java
7 6 (2.74%) Go
8 2 (0.91%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.91%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.46%) C
9 1 (0.46%) C++
9 1 (0.46%) Jython
9 1 (0.46%) Perl
9 1 (0.46%) VB
Qualifications
1 83 (37.90%) Security Cleared
2 53 (24.20%) SC Cleared
3 32 (14.61%) DV Cleared
4 14 (6.39%) Degree
5 10 (4.57%) Azure Certification
5 10 (4.57%) Cisco Certification
6 8 (3.65%) CCNP
7 6 (2.74%) CCNA
7 6 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (2.28%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.83%) JNCIP
9 4 (1.83%) JNCIS
10 2 (0.91%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.46%) CISA
11 1 (0.46%) CISM
11 1 (0.46%) CISSP
11 1 (0.46%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.46%) MCSE
11 1 (0.46%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.46%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.02%) SLA
2 8 (3.65%) QA
3 3 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.37%) NIST
4 2 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (0.91%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.46%) FedRAMP
5 1 (0.46%) GDPR
5 1 (0.46%) NCSC
5 1 (0.46%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 61 (27.85%) Active Directory
2 42 (19.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (9.59%) Hyper-V
4 17 (7.76%) VMware ESXi
5 13 (5.94%) Docker
6 12 (5.48%) vSphere
7 10 (4.57%) Virtual Desktop
8 9 (4.11%) Virtual Machines
9 8 (3.65%) BitLocker
9 8 (3.65%) Microsoft App-V
10 5 (2.28%) Virtual Servers
11 4 (1.83%) Firmware
11 4 (1.83%) Terminal Services
12 1 (0.46%) Ceph
12 1 (0.46%) VMware NSX
12 1 (0.46%) VMware Server
12 1 (0.46%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 65 (29.68%) Terraform
2 45 (20.55%) Kubernetes
3 29 (13.24%) Ansible
4 18 (8.22%) Microsoft Intune
5 13 (5.94%) vCenter Server
6 10 (4.57%) SCCM
7 9 (4.11%) Puppet
8 8 (3.65%) vMotion
9 5 (2.28%) FortiGate
9 5 (2.28%) Packer
9 5 (2.28%) Prometheus
9 5 (2.28%) systemd
10 3 (1.37%) Nagios
11 2 (0.91%) Argo
11 2 (0.91%) Grafana
11 2 (0.91%) Microsoft Clustering
12 1 (0.46%) Failover Clustering
12 1 (0.46%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.46%) Proxmox
12 1 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 73 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 57 (26.03%) VMware
3 16 (7.31%) Cisco
3 16 (7.31%) Citrix
3 16 (7.31%) Google
4 11 (5.02%) NetApp
5 7 (3.20%) Dynatrace
5 7 (3.20%) HP
6 6 (2.74%) IBM
6 6 (2.74%) Red Hat
7 5 (2.28%) Dell
7 5 (2.28%) Tenable
8 4 (1.83%) AppDynamics
8 4 (1.83%) Juniper
8 4 (1.83%) MikroTik
8 4 (1.83%) Symantec
8 4 (1.83%) Zscaler
9 3 (1.37%) Oracle
9 3 (1.37%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.91%) Meraki