Infrastructure Engineer Contract Job Trends in London

Infrastructure Engineer
England > London

The median Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in London is £520, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 February 2026.

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

 6 months to
12 Feb 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 275 222 185
Rank change year-on-year -53 -37 +73
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 120 137 227
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.79% 1.01% 1.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.85% 1.08% 1.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 105 159
10th Percentile £363 £315 £325
25th Percentile £425 £378 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% +10.53% -13.64%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £581
90th Percentile £638 £650 £650
England median daily rate £483 £523 £475
% change year-on-year -7.66% +10.00% -
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 £24.18 £23.00
% change year-on-year +40.61% +5.13% -64.62%

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 14,054 12,729 17,018
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.63% 93.63% 93.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,347 8,186 12,292
10th Percentile £350 £334 £325
25th Percentile £425 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -5.17%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £775
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 223 141 331
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.21 £16.00
25th Percentile £23.88 £24.66 £19.03
Median hourly rate £32.50 £38.11 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.72% +33.72% -15.95%
75th Percentile £60.13 £55.25 £48.92
90th Percentile £76.58 £78.75 £65.75
England median hourly rate £31.36 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -10.41% - -6.67%

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 12 February 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 12 February 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 -9 17 £550 -5.78% 10
East London - 3 £155 - 4
West London -17 2 £300 -25.00% 1
South London -11 1 £425 -9.57% 1
Infrastructure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 12 February 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.

1 110 (91.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 64 (53.33%) Azure
3 51 (42.50%) Microsoft
4 36 (30.00%) Windows
5 32 (26.67%) Active Directory
6 31 (25.83%) Windows Server
7 28 (23.33%) Infrastructure as Code
7 28 (23.33%) Terraform
7 28 (23.33%) VMware
8 27 (22.50%) Microsoft 365
9 25 (20.83%) Microsoft Intune
10 22 (18.33%) Linux
11 21 (17.50%) Firewall
11 21 (17.50%) Migration
11 21 (17.50%) PowerShell
11 21 (17.50%) Problem-Solving
12 20 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
13 19 (15.83%) Security Cleared
13 19 (15.83%) WAN
14 18 (15.00%) DevOps
14 18 (15.00%) SCCM
15 17 (14.17%) CI/CD
15 17 (14.17%) Cloud Security
16 15 (12.50%) DNS
16 15 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
16 15 (12.50%) VPN
17 14 (11.67%) GitHub
18 13 (10.83%) AWS
18 13 (10.83%) SC Cleared
19 11 (9.17%) 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 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.50%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.67%) Confluence
4 1 (0.83%) Apache
4 1 (0.83%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.83%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.83%) Skype for Business
4 1 (0.83%) Traefik
Applications
1 3 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 64 (53.33%) Azure
2 27 (22.50%) Microsoft 365
3 14 (11.67%) GitHub
4 13 (10.83%) AWS
5 11 (9.17%) Entra ID
5 11 (9.17%) GCP
6 9 (7.50%) IaaS
6 9 (7.50%) Nutanix
7 7 (5.83%) Microsoft Purview
8 6 (5.00%) Mimecast
8 6 (5.00%) Serverless
9 5 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (4.17%) PaaS
10 4 (3.33%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (2.50%) Azure Monitor
11 3 (2.50%) Azure Sentinel
11 3 (2.50%) Azure Stack
11 3 (2.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 3 (2.50%) OCI
12 2 (1.67%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 21 (17.50%) Firewall
2 19 (15.83%) WAN
3 15 (12.50%) DNS
3 15 (12.50%) VPN
4 11 (9.17%) LAN
5 9 (7.50%) DHCP
6 8 (6.67%) Wi-Fi
7 5 (4.17%) Network Security
7 5 (4.17%) SD-WAN
8 4 (3.33%) MPLS
9 3 (2.50%) SAN
9 3 (2.50%) SMTP
9 3 (2.50%) Software-Defined Networking
10 2 (1.67%) DKIM
10 2 (1.67%) DMARC
11 1 (0.83%) Calico
11 1 (0.83%) Cisco Wireless
11 1 (0.83%) NetScaler
11 1 (0.83%) Skype
11 1 (0.83%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.50%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (2.50%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.67%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (1.67%) DynamoDB
3 1 (0.83%) Apache Iceberg
3 1 (0.83%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.83%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.83%) Delta Lake
3 1 (0.83%) Parquet
3 1 (0.83%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.83%) Power BI
3 1 (0.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (5.83%) Artifactory
2 3 (2.50%) GitLab
2 3 (2.50%) JIRA
3 2 (1.67%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.83%) Git
General
1 21 (17.50%) Finance
1 21 (17.50%) Social Skills
2 7 (5.83%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (5.00%) Spanish Language
4 5 (4.17%) Banking
4 5 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (4.17%) Legal
5 2 (1.67%) Billing
5 2 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (1.67%) Telecoms
6 1 (0.83%) Aviation
6 1 (0.83%) Financial Institution
6 1 (0.83%) International Banking
6 1 (0.83%) Investment Banking
6 1 (0.83%) Italian Language
6 1 (0.83%) Local Government
6 1 (0.83%) Marketing
6 1 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (0.83%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.67%) ARM Templates
1 2 (1.67%) YAML
2 1 (0.83%) 802.1X
2 1 (0.83%) ADO
2 1 (0.83%) Apache Avro
2 1 (0.83%) EDI
2 1 (0.83%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (0.83%) LDAP
2 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (0.83%) Node.js
2 1 (0.83%) PySpark
2 1 (0.83%) REST
2 1 (0.83%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.33%) Data Centre
2 7 (5.83%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (4.17%) PKI
4 4 (3.33%) Clustering
5 3 (2.50%) Client/Server
5 3 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.50%) Enterprise Storage
5 3 (2.50%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.50%) Replication
6 2 (1.67%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.67%) Operational Technology
6 2 (1.67%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.67%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.83%) CCTV
7 1 (0.83%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.83%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.83%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.83%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 36 (30.00%) Windows
2 31 (25.83%) Windows Server
3 22 (18.33%) Linux
4 5 (4.17%) Unix
5 4 (3.33%) VMS
5 4 (3.33%) Windows 10
5 4 (3.33%) Windows Server 2003
6 3 (2.50%) Ubuntu
6 3 (2.50%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (2.50%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.83%) Android
7 1 (0.83%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.83%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (91.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 28 (23.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 21 (17.50%) Migration
3 21 (17.50%) Problem-Solving
4 18 (15.00%) DevOps
5 17 (14.17%) CI/CD
5 17 (14.17%) Cloud Security
6 10 (8.33%) Cybersecurity
7 9 (7.50%) Incident Management
7 9 (7.50%) Information Security
7 9 (7.50%) Infrastructure Automation
8 8 (6.67%) Collaborative Working
8 8 (6.67%) ITIL
8 8 (6.67%) Vulnerability Management
9 7 (5.83%) Agile
9 7 (5.83%) Disaster Recovery
9 7 (5.83%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 6 (5.00%) Architectural Design
10 6 (5.00%) Security Monitoring
10 6 (5.00%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 21 (17.50%) PowerShell
2 7 (5.83%) Python
3 3 (2.50%) Bash
3 3 (2.50%) Bicep
4 2 (1.67%) JavaScript
4 2 (1.67%) SQL
5 1 (0.83%) Go
5 1 (0.83%) Java
5 1 (0.83%) Perl
5 1 (0.83%) Scala
5 1 (0.83%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 19 (15.83%) Security Cleared
2 13 (10.83%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.83%) Degree
4 5 (4.17%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.67%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.67%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (1.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.83%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.83%) CCIE
7 1 (0.83%) CCNA
7 1 (0.83%) CCNP
7 1 (0.83%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.83%) CISSP
7 1 (0.83%) CWNA
7 1 (0.83%) GIAC
7 1 (0.83%) GSEC
7 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.33%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (2.50%) NIST
3 2 (1.67%) SLA
4 1 (0.83%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.83%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 32 (26.67%) Active Directory
2 20 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (9.17%) Hyper-V
4 10 (8.33%) Docker
5 7 (5.83%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (3.33%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (3.33%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (3.33%) vSphere
7 3 (2.50%) BitLocker
7 3 (2.50%) Microsoft App-V
7 3 (2.50%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (1.67%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.83%) etcd
9 1 (0.83%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 28 (23.33%) Terraform
2 25 (20.83%) Microsoft Intune
3 18 (15.00%) SCCM
4 11 (9.17%) Ansible
5 9 (7.50%) Kubernetes
6 6 (5.00%) CASB
6 6 (5.00%) SCOrch
7 5 (4.17%) AirWatch
8 3 (2.50%) Puppet
8 3 (2.50%) vCenter Server
8 3 (2.50%) vMotion
9 2 (1.67%) Grafana
9 2 (1.67%) vRealize
10 1 (0.83%) Argo
10 1 (0.83%) Istio
10 1 (0.83%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.83%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.83%) SCOM
10 1 (0.83%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 51 (42.50%) Microsoft
2 28 (23.33%) VMware
3 9 (7.50%) Cisco
4 8 (6.67%) Google
5 7 (5.83%) CyberArk
6 6 (5.00%) Dell
6 6 (5.00%) NetApp
7 5 (4.17%) SolarWinds
7 5 (4.17%) Veeam
8 4 (3.33%) Citrix
8 4 (3.33%) Commvault
8 4 (3.33%) Fortinet
8 4 (3.33%) Zscaler
9 3 (2.50%) Aruba
9 3 (2.50%) Meraki
9 3 (2.50%) Oracle
9 3 (2.50%) Palo Alto
9 3 (2.50%) Tenable
10 2 (1.67%) Databricks
10 2 (1.67%) Proofpoint
48 Infrastructure Engineer jobs in London