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 31 August 2026.

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

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 229 246 212
Rank change year-on-year +17 -34 -4
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 227 125 191
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.13% 0.93% 1.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.21% 1.00% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 152 90 156
10th Percentile £328 £348 £300
25th Percentile £414 £402 £387
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% - -8.68%
75th Percentile £641 £597 £575
90th Percentile £688 £638 £650
England median daily rate £528 £500 £488
% change year-on-year +5.50% +2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £30.00 -
England median hourly rate £72.54 £30.00 £67.50
% change year-on-year +141.80% -55.56% -6.90%

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 18,774 12,520 15,286
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.33% 92.97% 94.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,129 8,428 10,485
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £688
90th Percentile £773 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 370 208 194
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.05 £17.88
25th Percentile £21.93 £23.00 £22.28
Median hourly rate £38.25 £30.75 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +24.41% -12.16% -6.67%
75th Percentile £61.31 £50.88 £55.75
90th Percentile £78.88 £65.00 £71.88
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £45.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -44.11% +4.65%

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 31 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 31 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 -2 30 £625 +8.70% 10
West London - 8 £675 - 8
South London -12 4 £473 -21.25%
Infrastructure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 31 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.

1 221 (97.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 101 (44.49%) Azure
3 100 (44.05%) Windows
4 86 (37.89%) Microsoft
5 81 (35.68%) Security Cleared
6 72 (31.72%) Infrastructure as Code
7 66 (29.07%) Terraform
8 65 (28.63%) Windows Server
9 64 (28.19%) PowerShell
10 63 (27.75%) Active Directory
11 61 (26.87%) VMware
12 56 (24.67%) DNS
13 54 (23.79%) DevOps
14 53 (23.35%) SC Cleared
15 50 (22.03%) DHCP
16 45 (19.82%) VMware Infrastructure
17 44 (19.38%) CI/CD
18 43 (18.94%) Migration
19 41 (18.06%) Kubernetes
20 38 (16.74%) Firewall
21 36 (15.86%) Python
22 35 (15.42%) Linux
23 32 (14.10%) AWS
24 30 (13.22%) Ansible
24 30 (13.22%) DV Cleared
24 30 (13.22%) Microsoft 365
25 29 (12.78%) Entra ID
25 29 (12.78%) Problem-Solving
26 28 (12.33%) Infrastructure Automation
26 28 (12.33%) VPN

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 17 (7.49%) SharePoint
2 15 (6.61%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (3.08%) WebSphere
4 6 (2.64%) CICS
5 4 (1.76%) SharePoint Server
6 2 (0.88%) Confluence
7 1 (0.44%) Exchange Server 2013
7 1 (0.44%) IBM HTTP Server
7 1 (0.44%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.44%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 3 (1.32%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.88%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 101 (44.49%) Azure
2 32 (14.10%) AWS
3 30 (13.22%) Microsoft 365
4 29 (12.78%) Entra ID
5 26 (11.45%) GitHub
6 22 (9.69%) IaaS
7 20 (8.81%) Azure DevOps
7 20 (8.81%) PaaS
8 19 (8.37%) GCP
9 17 (7.49%) SaaS
10 16 (7.05%) GitHub Actions
11 15 (6.61%) Azure AKS
11 15 (6.61%) Azure Monitor
12 7 (3.08%) Power Platform
13 6 (2.64%) Datadog
14 5 (2.20%) Azure Functions
14 5 (2.20%) Nutanix
14 5 (2.20%) OpenShift
14 5 (2.20%) Serverless
15 3 (1.32%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 56 (24.67%) DNS
2 50 (22.03%) DHCP
3 38 (16.74%) Firewall
4 28 (12.33%) VPN
5 19 (8.37%) TCP/IP
6 15 (6.61%) Network Security
7 11 (4.85%) SAN
8 10 (4.41%) LAN
8 10 (4.41%) VLAN
8 10 (4.41%) WAN
9 8 (3.52%) Wi-Fi
10 7 (3.08%) SMTP
11 6 (2.64%) NAS
11 6 (2.64%) Wireless
12 4 (1.76%) 4G
12 4 (1.76%) Remote Desktop
13 2 (0.88%) Internet
13 2 (0.88%) SSL
13 2 (0.88%) Structured Cabling
13 2 (0.88%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (11.89%) SQL Server
2 6 (2.64%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (2.20%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (1.76%) Power BI
5 3 (1.32%) Big Data
6 2 (0.88%) BigQuery
6 2 (0.88%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 2 (0.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (0.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.44%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.44%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (2.64%) Git
2 5 (2.20%) Chocolatey
2 5 (2.20%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.76%) GitLab
4 2 (0.88%) JIRA
5 1 (0.44%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.44%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.44%) CMake
5 1 (0.44%) Gradle
5 1 (0.44%) Introscope
5 1 (0.44%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 34 (14.98%) Social Skills
2 28 (12.33%) Finance
3 18 (7.93%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (7.49%) Banking
5 7 (3.08%) Documentation Skills
5 7 (3.08%) Public Sector
6 6 (2.64%) Telecoms
7 5 (2.20%) Automotive
8 3 (1.32%) Law
9 2 (0.88%) Billing
9 2 (0.88%) Legal
9 2 (0.88%) Local Government
10 1 (0.44%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.44%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.44%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.44%) Mandarin Language
10 1 (0.44%) Publishing
10 1 (0.44%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (29.07%) Terraform
2 8 (3.52%) ARM Templates
3 7 (3.08%) Middleware
4 5 (2.20%) 802.1X
4 5 (2.20%) YAML
5 4 (1.76%) OpenID
6 3 (1.32%) .NET
6 3 (1.32%) SAML
7 2 (0.88%) ADO
7 2 (0.88%) JSON
7 2 (0.88%) OAuth
7 2 (0.88%) REST
8 1 (0.44%) Bazel
8 1 (0.44%) Elastic Stack
8 1 (0.44%) Kafka
8 1 (0.44%) OAuth2
8 1 (0.44%) OpenGL
8 1 (0.44%) Qt
Miscellaneous
1 19 (8.37%) Hybrid Cloud
2 14 (6.17%) Clustering
3 13 (5.73%) Data Centre
3 13 (5.73%) PKI
4 6 (2.64%) Cloud Native
4 6 (2.64%) Mainframe
4 6 (2.64%) Onboarding
5 5 (2.20%) Cyber Threat
5 5 (2.20%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (2.20%) Enterprise Storage
5 5 (2.20%) Linux Command Line
5 5 (2.20%) Robotics
6 4 (1.76%) Public Cloud
6 4 (1.76%) Security Operations Centre
7 3 (1.32%) CCTV
7 3 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.88%) IoT
8 2 (0.88%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 100 (44.05%) Windows
2 65 (28.63%) Windows Server
3 35 (15.42%) Linux
4 7 (3.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (2.64%) VMS
5 6 (2.64%) Windows Server 2016
5 6 (2.64%) Windows Server 2019
5 6 (2.64%) zOS
6 5 (2.20%) Ubuntu
6 5 (2.20%) Windows 10
7 4 (1.76%) Android
7 4 (1.76%) Apple iOS
7 4 (1.76%) Windows Server 2003
8 3 (1.32%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.88%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.44%) AIX
10 1 (0.44%) OpenVMS
10 1 (0.44%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.44%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.44%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 221 (97.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 72 (31.72%) Infrastructure as Code
3 54 (23.79%) DevOps
4 44 (19.38%) CI/CD
5 43 (18.94%) Migration
6 29 (12.78%) Problem-Solving
7 28 (12.33%) Infrastructure Automation
8 25 (11.01%) Disaster Recovery
9 22 (9.69%) ITIL
10 20 (8.81%) Continuous Improvement
10 20 (8.81%) High Availability
11 19 (8.37%) Incident Management
12 18 (7.93%) AI
13 17 (7.49%) Root Cause Analysis
14 15 (6.61%) Validation
15 14 (6.17%) Platform Engineering
15 14 (6.17%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 13 (5.73%) Infrastructure Transformation
17 12 (5.29%) Change Management
18 11 (4.85%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 64 (28.19%) PowerShell
2 36 (15.86%) Python
3 18 (7.93%) Bash
3 18 (7.93%) SQL
4 14 (6.17%) C#
5 13 (5.73%) Bicep
6 8 (3.52%) Java
7 6 (2.64%) Go
8 2 (0.88%) C++
9 1 (0.44%) C
9 1 (0.44%) Jython
9 1 (0.44%) Perl
9 1 (0.44%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.44%) VB
Qualifications
1 81 (35.68%) Security Cleared
2 53 (23.35%) SC Cleared
3 30 (13.22%) DV Cleared
4 17 (7.49%) Degree
5 12 (5.29%) Azure Certification
5 12 (5.29%) Cisco Certification
6 10 (4.41%) CCNP
7 8 (3.52%) CCNA
7 8 (3.52%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (2.20%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.76%) JNCIP
9 4 (1.76%) JNCIS
10 2 (0.88%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.44%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.44%) CISA
11 1 (0.44%) CISM
11 1 (0.44%) CISSP
11 1 (0.44%) MCSE
11 1 (0.44%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.44%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.29%) SLA
2 9 (3.96%) QA
3 4 (1.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.32%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (1.32%) NIST
5 2 (0.88%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.44%) FedRAMP
6 1 (0.44%) GDPR
6 1 (0.44%) NCSC
6 1 (0.44%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 63 (27.75%) Active Directory
2 45 (19.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (11.01%) Hyper-V
4 18 (7.93%) VMware ESXi
5 12 (5.29%) vSphere
6 11 (4.85%) Docker
6 11 (4.85%) Virtual Desktop
7 9 (3.96%) Virtual Machines
8 7 (3.08%) BitLocker
8 7 (3.08%) Microsoft App-V
9 6 (2.64%) Firmware
9 6 (2.64%) Virtual Servers
10 4 (1.76%) Terminal Services
11 1 (0.44%) Ceph
11 1 (0.44%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.44%) VMware Server
11 1 (0.44%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 41 (18.06%) Kubernetes
2 30 (13.22%) Ansible
3 22 (9.69%) Microsoft Intune
4 14 (6.17%) vCenter Server
5 11 (4.85%) SCCM
6 8 (3.52%) Puppet
7 7 (3.08%) vMotion
8 6 (2.64%) FortiGate
8 6 (2.64%) Prometheus
9 5 (2.20%) systemd
10 4 (1.76%) Packer
11 3 (1.32%) Failover Clustering
11 3 (1.32%) Grafana
11 3 (1.32%) Microsoft Clustering
11 3 (1.32%) Nagios
11 3 (1.32%) SCOM
12 2 (0.88%) Argo
12 2 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.44%) Cilium
13 1 (0.44%) Dell DRAC
Vendors
1 86 (37.89%) Microsoft
2 61 (26.87%) VMware
3 17 (7.49%) Cisco
4 15 (6.61%) Citrix
5 14 (6.17%) Google
6 9 (3.96%) NetApp
7 8 (3.52%) Dynatrace
8 7 (3.08%) HP
9 6 (2.64%) IBM
9 6 (2.64%) Tenable
10 5 (2.20%) AppDynamics
10 5 (2.20%) Red Hat
11 4 (1.76%) Juniper
11 4 (1.76%) MikroTik
11 4 (1.76%) Symantec
11 4 (1.76%) Zscaler
12 3 (1.32%) Dell
12 3 (1.32%) Oracle
12 3 (1.32%) ServiceNow
13 2 (0.88%) EMC