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 21 July 2026.

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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 230 250 202
Rank change year-on-year +20 -48 +36
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 213 115 206
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.08% 0.85% 1.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.16% 0.91% 1.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 87 167
10th Percentile £335 £329 £300
25th Percentile £419 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £523 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% +4.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £650 £600 £550
90th Percentile £688 £638 £630
England median daily rate £525 £525 £478
% change year-on-year - +9.95% -4.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £30.00 -
England median hourly rate £72.54 £138.50 £72.75
% change year-on-year -47.62% +90.38% +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 18,383 12,634 15,924
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.93% 93.20% 94.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,023 8,540 11,361
10th Percentile £362 £331 £333
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £684
90th Percentile £763 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 323 197 257
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.98 £17.20
25th Percentile £22.00 £22.75 £22.00
Median hourly rate £39.00 £30.00 £31.71
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -5.39% -18.69%
75th Percentile £59.99 £50.00 £51.75
90th Percentile £78.71 £63.45 £71.25
England median hourly rate £45.56 £27.40 £42.50
% change year-on-year +66.26% -35.53% -3.53%

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 21 July 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 21 July 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 -2 31 £588 -2.08% 8
West London - 8 £675 - 2
South London -13 3 £425 -29.17% 1
Infrastructure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 21 July 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.

1 205 (96.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 93 (43.66%) Azure
3 83 (38.97%) Windows
4 80 (37.56%) Security Cleared
5 65 (30.52%) Microsoft
6 62 (29.11%) Terraform
7 61 (28.64%) Infrastructure as Code
8 54 (25.35%) PowerShell
9 53 (24.88%) Windows Server
10 51 (23.94%) Active Directory
11 50 (23.47%) SC Cleared
12 49 (23.00%) VMware
13 47 (22.07%) DNS
14 44 (20.66%) DevOps
14 44 (20.66%) Kubernetes
15 42 (19.72%) CI/CD
16 40 (18.78%) DHCP
17 37 (17.37%) VMware Infrastructure
18 36 (16.90%) Linux
19 32 (15.02%) AWS
20 31 (14.55%) DV Cleared
20 31 (14.55%) GitHub
21 30 (14.08%) Migration
22 29 (13.62%) Python
23 28 (13.15%) Firewall
24 25 (11.74%) Ansible
25 23 (10.80%) VPN
26 22 (10.33%) Hyper-V
27 21 (9.86%) GCP
28 20 (9.39%) Infrastructure Automation

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 12 (5.63%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (4.23%) SharePoint
3 7 (3.29%) WebSphere
4 6 (2.82%) CICS
5 2 (0.94%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (0.47%) IBM HTTP Server
6 1 (0.47%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.47%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 93 (43.66%) Azure
2 32 (15.02%) AWS
3 31 (14.55%) GitHub
4 21 (9.86%) GCP
5 20 (9.39%) Microsoft 365
6 19 (8.92%) IaaS
7 18 (8.45%) Entra ID
7 18 (8.45%) PaaS
8 17 (7.98%) Azure AKS
9 15 (7.04%) Azure DevOps
9 15 (7.04%) Azure Monitor
9 15 (7.04%) GitHub Actions
10 14 (6.57%) SaaS
11 6 (2.82%) Azure Stack
12 5 (2.35%) OpenShift
13 4 (1.88%) Nutanix
14 3 (1.41%) Amazon EKS
14 3 (1.41%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 3 (1.41%) Power Platform
14 3 (1.41%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 47 (22.07%) DNS
2 40 (18.78%) DHCP
3 28 (13.15%) Firewall
4 23 (10.80%) VPN
5 13 (6.10%) TCP/IP
6 10 (4.69%) Network Security
7 9 (4.23%) LAN
7 9 (4.23%) WAN
8 8 (3.76%) SAN
8 8 (3.76%) SMTP
9 5 (2.35%) NAS
10 4 (1.88%) Remote Desktop
10 4 (1.88%) VLAN
11 3 (1.41%) Software-Defined Networking
11 3 (1.41%) Wi-Fi
11 3 (1.41%) Wireless
12 2 (0.94%) 4G
12 2 (0.94%) Internet
12 2 (0.94%) Structured Cabling
12 2 (0.94%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (9.39%) SQL Server
2 7 (3.29%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (3.29%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (1.41%) Big Data
4 2 (0.94%) BigQuery
4 2 (0.94%) DynamoDB
4 2 (0.94%) Power BI
5 1 (0.47%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.47%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (1.88%) Artifactory
1 4 (1.88%) Jenkins
2 3 (1.41%) Git
2 3 (1.41%) GitLab
3 2 (0.94%) Chocolatey
4 1 (0.47%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.47%) CMake
4 1 (0.47%) Gradle
4 1 (0.47%) Introscope
4 1 (0.47%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 36 (16.90%) Social Skills
2 26 (12.21%) Finance
3 15 (7.04%) Banking
4 10 (4.69%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (3.29%) Legal
6 6 (2.82%) Public Sector
7 5 (2.35%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.88%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.41%) Law
10 2 (0.94%) Automotive
10 2 (0.94%) Billing
10 2 (0.94%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.94%) Local Government
11 1 (0.47%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.47%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.47%) Mandarin Language
11 1 (0.47%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.47%) Publishing
11 1 (0.47%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.29%) Middleware
2 4 (1.88%) ARM Templates
3 3 (1.41%) 802.1X
3 3 (1.41%) OpenID
3 3 (1.41%) YAML
4 2 (0.94%) .NET
4 2 (0.94%) ADO
4 2 (0.94%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (0.94%) JSON
4 2 (0.94%) REST
4 2 (0.94%) SAML
5 1 (0.47%) Bazel
5 1 (0.47%) Kafka
5 1 (0.47%) LDAP
5 1 (0.47%) Node.js
5 1 (0.47%) OAuth
5 1 (0.47%) OAuth2
5 1 (0.47%) OpenGL
5 1 (0.47%) Qt
5 1 (0.47%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 16 (7.51%) Hybrid Cloud
2 12 (5.63%) Data Centre
2 12 (5.63%) PKI
3 8 (3.76%) Clustering
3 8 (3.76%) Onboarding
4 6 (2.82%) Cloud Native
4 6 (2.82%) Enterprise Storage
4 6 (2.82%) Mainframe
5 5 (2.35%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (1.88%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.41%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (0.94%) CCTV
8 2 (0.94%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (0.94%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (0.94%) Hedge funds
8 2 (0.94%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.94%) Public Cloud
8 2 (0.94%) Robotics
8 2 (0.94%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 83 (38.97%) Windows
2 53 (24.88%) Windows Server
3 36 (16.90%) Linux
4 7 (3.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (2.82%) zOS
6 5 (2.35%) VMS
6 5 (2.35%) Windows Server 2003
6 5 (2.35%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (1.88%) Unix
7 4 (1.88%) Windows 10
8 3 (1.41%) Android
8 3 (1.41%) Apple iOS
8 3 (1.41%) Ubuntu
8 3 (1.41%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.94%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.47%) AIX
10 1 (0.47%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 205 (96.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 61 (28.64%) Infrastructure as Code
3 44 (20.66%) DevOps
4 42 (19.72%) CI/CD
5 30 (14.08%) Migration
6 20 (9.39%) Infrastructure Automation
7 19 (8.92%) Problem-Solving
8 17 (7.98%) Disaster Recovery
9 16 (7.51%) Continuous Improvement
10 14 (6.57%) Containerisation
10 14 (6.57%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 13 (6.10%) AI
11 13 (6.10%) Validation
12 12 (5.63%) Incident Management
12 12 (5.63%) Infrastructure Transformation
12 12 (5.63%) ITIL
13 11 (5.16%) Cloud Security
13 11 (5.16%) High Availability
13 11 (5.16%) Platform Engineering
13 11 (5.16%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 54 (25.35%) PowerShell
2 29 (13.62%) Python
3 16 (7.51%) C#
3 16 (7.51%) SQL
4 15 (7.04%) Bash
5 12 (5.63%) Bicep
6 7 (3.29%) Java
7 5 (2.35%) Go
8 2 (0.94%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.94%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.47%) C
9 1 (0.47%) C++
9 1 (0.47%) Jython
9 1 (0.47%) Perl
9 1 (0.47%) VB
Qualifications
1 80 (37.56%) Security Cleared
2 50 (23.47%) SC Cleared
3 31 (14.55%) DV Cleared
4 11 (5.16%) Degree
5 7 (3.29%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (2.82%) Azure Certification
7 5 (2.35%) CCNA
7 5 (2.35%) CCNP
8 3 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.94%) JNCIP
9 2 (0.94%) JNCIS
10 1 (0.47%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.47%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.47%) CISA
10 1 (0.47%) CISM
10 1 (0.47%) CISSP
10 1 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.47%) MCSE
10 1 (0.47%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.29%) QA
2 6 (2.82%) SLA
3 3 (1.41%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.41%) NIST
4 2 (0.94%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.47%) FedRAMP
5 1 (0.47%) GDPR
5 1 (0.47%) NCSC
5 1 (0.47%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 51 (23.94%) Active Directory
2 37 (17.37%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (10.33%) Hyper-V
4 16 (7.51%) VMware ESXi
5 13 (6.10%) Docker
6 12 (5.63%) vSphere
7 9 (4.23%) Virtual Desktop
7 9 (4.23%) Virtual Machines
8 8 (3.76%) BitLocker
8 8 (3.76%) Microsoft App-V
9 4 (1.88%) Terminal Services
10 3 (1.41%) Firmware
10 3 (1.41%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.47%) Ceph
11 1 (0.47%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.47%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 62 (29.11%) Terraform
2 44 (20.66%) Kubernetes
3 25 (11.74%) Ansible
4 13 (6.10%) Microsoft Intune
4 13 (6.10%) vCenter Server
5 9 (4.23%) Puppet
6 8 (3.76%) vMotion
7 5 (2.35%) Packer
7 5 (2.35%) SCCM
8 4 (1.88%) FortiGate
8 4 (1.88%) Prometheus
9 3 (1.41%) Nagios
9 3 (1.41%) systemd
10 2 (0.94%) Argo
10 2 (0.94%) Grafana
11 1 (0.47%) AirWatch
11 1 (0.47%) Cilium
11 1 (0.47%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.47%) Proxmox
11 1 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 65 (30.52%) Microsoft
2 49 (23.00%) VMware
3 16 (7.51%) Citrix
3 16 (7.51%) Google
4 11 (5.16%) Cisco
4 11 (5.16%) NetApp
5 6 (2.82%) IBM
5 6 (2.82%) Red Hat
6 5 (2.35%) Dell
6 5 (2.35%) HP
7 4 (1.88%) Dynatrace
7 4 (1.88%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.88%) Symantec
8 3 (1.41%) SolarWinds
8 3 (1.41%) Tenable
9 2 (0.94%) EMC
9 2 (0.94%) Fortinet
9 2 (0.94%) Juniper
9 2 (0.94%) Proofpoint
9 2 (0.94%) Zscaler