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 6 November 2025.

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

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 264 216 181
Rank change year-on-year -48 -35 +64
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 116 165 272
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.84% 1.06% 1.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.91% 1.12% 1.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 130 193
10th Percentile £331 £324 £346
25th Percentile £405 £391 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £519 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.61% +3.75% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £625
90th Percentile £639 £650 £695
England median daily rate £459 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -8.25% - +6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £24.40 - -
25th Percentile £26.50 - -
Median hourly rate £30.00 - £35.00
75th Percentile £32.70 - -
90th Percentile £34.32 - -
England median hourly rate £34.00 £60.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -43.33% -14.29% -8.20%

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 12,746 14,684 18,857
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.50% 94.03% 93.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,467 9,481 13,720
10th Percentile £332 £338 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.36% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £798
England median daily rate £510 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -2.86% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 226 155 210
10th Percentile £17.29 £17.25 £18.15
25th Percentile £22.13 £24.15 £21.75
Median hourly rate £26.68 £37.50 £40.17
Median % change year-on-year -28.87% -6.64% +22.64%
75th Percentile £47.38 £59.38 £60.00
90th Percentile £66.54 £80.75 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £45.88
% change year-on-year -37.63% -12.11% +52.93%

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 6 November 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 6 November 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 -2 19 £550 +5.26% 58
East London - 5 £155 - 4
Infrastructure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 6 November 2025, 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.

1 107 (92.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 59 (50.86%) Azure
3 48 (41.38%) Microsoft
4 44 (37.93%) Windows
5 36 (31.03%) Windows Server
6 35 (30.17%) Active Directory
7 34 (29.31%) Terraform
8 32 (27.59%) Linux
9 28 (24.14%) Microsoft 365
10 27 (23.28%) Firewall
10 27 (23.28%) Python
11 24 (20.69%) Microsoft Intune
12 23 (19.83%) DevOps
12 23 (19.83%) Infrastructure as Code
13 22 (18.97%) PowerShell
14 21 (18.10%) VMware
15 20 (17.24%) VPN
16 19 (16.38%) Ansible
16 19 (16.38%) CI/CD
16 19 (16.38%) Problem-Solving
16 19 (16.38%) Security Cleared
17 18 (15.52%) DNS
17 18 (15.52%) SCCM
18 17 (14.66%) Entra ID
19 16 (13.79%) Microsoft Exchange
19 16 (13.79%) SC Cleared
19 16 (13.79%) TCP/IP
19 16 (13.79%) VMware Infrastructure
20 15 (12.93%) AWS
21 14 (12.07%) 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 16 (13.79%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (5.17%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (2.59%) Confluence
3 3 (2.59%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.86%) Apache
4 1 (0.86%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.86%) Skype for Business
4 1 (0.86%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 59 (50.86%) Azure
2 28 (24.14%) Microsoft 365
3 17 (14.66%) Entra ID
4 15 (12.93%) AWS
5 11 (9.48%) GitHub
6 8 (6.90%) GCP
6 8 (6.90%) IaaS
6 8 (6.90%) Mimecast
7 7 (6.03%) Amazon S3
8 6 (5.17%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (4.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 5 (4.31%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (4.31%) Amazon ELB
9 5 (4.31%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 4 (3.45%) Nutanix
10 4 (3.45%) PaaS
11 3 (2.59%) Azure Monitor
11 3 (2.59%) Azure Sentinel
11 3 (2.59%) OneDrive
11 3 (2.59%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 27 (23.28%) Firewall
2 20 (17.24%) VPN
3 18 (15.52%) DNS
4 16 (13.79%) TCP/IP
5 14 (12.07%) SSL
5 14 (12.07%) WAN
6 7 (6.03%) HTTP
6 7 (6.03%) SD-WAN
6 7 (6.03%) Wi-Fi
7 6 (5.17%) DHCP
7 6 (5.17%) Network Security
8 5 (4.31%) LAN
9 3 (2.59%) DMARC
10 2 (1.72%) MPLS
10 2 (1.72%) SAN
10 2 (1.72%) SMTP
10 2 (1.72%) tcpdump
10 2 (1.72%) Wireshark
11 1 (0.86%) 4G
11 1 (0.86%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.45%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.86%) Apache Iceberg
2 1 (0.86%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (0.86%) Data Lake
2 1 (0.86%) Delta Lake
2 1 (0.86%) Parquet
2 1 (0.86%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.86%) Power BI
2 1 (0.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (6.90%) Jenkins
2 7 (6.03%) GitLab
3 6 (5.17%) Git
4 4 (3.45%) JIRA
4 4 (3.45%) Robot Framework
General
1 27 (23.28%) Finance
2 21 (18.10%) Social Skills
3 9 (7.76%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (7.76%) Public Sector
4 7 (6.03%) Banking
4 7 (6.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (4.31%) Financial Institution
5 5 (4.31%) Spanish Language
6 3 (2.59%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (2.59%) Front Office
6 3 (2.59%) Law
6 3 (2.59%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.72%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.72%) Legal
7 2 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.72%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.86%) International Banking
8 1 (0.86%) Local Government
8 1 (0.86%) Marketing
8 1 (0.86%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.45%) Middleware
2 3 (2.59%) FIX Protocol
3 2 (1.72%) YAML
4 1 (0.86%) ADO
4 1 (0.86%) Apache Avro
4 1 (0.86%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.86%) AWT
4 1 (0.86%) GWT
4 1 (0.86%) JMS
4 1 (0.86%) Kafka
4 1 (0.86%) LDAP
4 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (0.86%) OAuth
4 1 (0.86%) OAuth2
4 1 (0.86%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.86%) Rendezvous
4 1 (0.86%) RESTful
4 1 (0.86%) SAML
4 1 (0.86%) TIBCO EMS
4 1 (0.86%) Ultra Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 11 (9.48%) Data Centre
2 6 (5.17%) Data Protection Act
2 6 (5.17%) Private Cloud
3 4 (3.45%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (3.45%) PKI
4 3 (2.59%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (2.59%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.72%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.72%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.72%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.72%) Replication
5 2 (1.72%) Security Posture
5 2 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.86%) CCTV
6 1 (0.86%) Client/Server
6 1 (0.86%) Equities
6 1 (0.86%) Fixed Income
6 1 (0.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (0.86%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 44 (37.93%) Windows
2 36 (31.03%) Windows Server
3 32 (27.59%) Linux
4 10 (8.62%) Unix
5 6 (5.17%) Windows 10
6 4 (3.45%) Ubuntu
7 3 (2.59%) VMS
8 1 (0.86%) Android
8 1 (0.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.86%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.86%) Windows Server 2003
8 1 (0.86%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.86%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (92.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 23 (19.83%) DevOps
2 23 (19.83%) Infrastructure as Code
3 19 (16.38%) CI/CD
3 19 (16.38%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (12.07%) Infrastructure Automation
5 12 (10.34%) High Availability
5 12 (10.34%) ITIL
5 12 (10.34%) Low Latency
6 11 (9.48%) Cybersecurity
6 11 (9.48%) Test Automation
7 10 (8.62%) Cloud Security
7 10 (8.62%) Information Security
7 10 (8.62%) Migration
8 9 (7.76%) Data Protection
8 9 (7.76%) Incident Management
8 9 (7.76%) Infrastructure Management
9 8 (6.90%) Agile
9 8 (6.90%) Containerisation
9 8 (6.90%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 27 (23.28%) Python
2 22 (18.97%) PowerShell
3 9 (7.76%) Bash
4 8 (6.90%) Perl
5 3 (2.59%) Go
5 3 (2.59%) SQL
6 2 (1.72%) Java
6 2 (1.72%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.86%) Scala
Qualifications
1 19 (16.38%) Security Cleared
2 16 (13.79%) SC Cleared
3 8 (6.90%) Degree
4 4 (3.45%) CCNA
4 4 (3.45%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.59%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 2 (1.72%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.72%) CCNP
6 2 (1.72%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.72%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (1.72%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.86%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.86%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.59%) NIST
1 3 (2.59%) SLA
2 2 (1.72%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.86%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.86%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 1 (0.86%) QA
System Software
1 35 (30.17%) Active Directory
2 16 (13.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (9.48%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (8.62%) Docker
5 6 (5.17%) Hyper-V
6 5 (4.31%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (2.59%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (2.59%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.86%) etcd
8 1 (0.86%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 34 (29.31%) Terraform
2 24 (20.69%) Microsoft Intune
3 19 (16.38%) Ansible
4 18 (15.52%) SCCM
5 7 (6.03%) Kubernetes
6 6 (5.17%) CASB
6 6 (5.17%) SCOrch
7 5 (4.31%) Grafana
8 4 (3.45%) Prometheus
9 3 (2.59%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (2.59%) vCenter Server
10 2 (1.72%) Argo
10 2 (1.72%) FortiGate
10 2 (1.72%) ITRS Geneos
10 2 (1.72%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (1.72%) McAfee ePO
11 1 (0.86%) Istio
11 1 (0.86%) SCOM
11 1 (0.86%) SELinux
11 1 (0.86%) vRealize
Vendors
1 48 (41.38%) Microsoft
2 21 (18.10%) VMware
3 13 (11.21%) Cisco
3 13 (11.21%) F5
4 11 (9.48%) Palo Alto
5 6 (5.17%) Google
6 5 (4.31%) CheckPoint
6 5 (4.31%) Dell
6 5 (4.31%) Zscaler
7 4 (3.45%) Citrix
7 4 (3.45%) Commvault
7 4 (3.45%) Fortinet
7 4 (3.45%) Tenable
7 4 (3.45%) Veeam
8 3 (2.59%) CyberArk
8 3 (2.59%) Meraki
8 3 (2.59%) Solace
9 2 (1.72%) Aruba
9 2 (1.72%) Canon
9 2 (1.72%) CrowdStrike