Infrastructure Engineer Contract Job Trends in London

Infrastructure Engineer
England > London

The median Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in London is £545, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 August 2026.

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

6 months to
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 239 249 214
Rank change year-on-year +10 -35 0
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 231 125 190
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.14% 0.93% 1.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.22% 1.00% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 90 156
10th Percentile £333 £348 £300
25th Percentile £416 £402 £387
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.00% - -8.26%
75th Percentile £647 £597 £575
90th Percentile £688 £638 £650
England median daily rate £525 £500 £486
% change year-on-year +5.00% +2.93% -2.85%
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 18,896 12,518 15,218
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.36% 92.97% 94.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,217 8,426 10,484
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 £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 370 208 192
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.05 £17.88
25th Percentile £21.93 £23.00 £22.00
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 £55.00
90th Percentile £78.88 £65.00 £71.25
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £45.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -44.11% +2.60%

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 30 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 30 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% 11
West London - 8 £675 - 8
South London -12 4 £473 -21.25% 1
Infrastructure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 30 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.

1 225 (97.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 104 (45.02%) Azure
3 103 (44.59%) Windows
4 86 (37.23%) Microsoft
5 85 (36.80%) Security Cleared
6 74 (32.03%) Infrastructure as Code
7 69 (29.87%) Terraform
8 67 (29.00%) PowerShell
9 65 (28.14%) Windows Server
10 64 (27.71%) Active Directory
11 61 (26.41%) VMware
12 56 (24.24%) DNS
12 56 (24.24%) SC Cleared
13 55 (23.81%) DevOps
14 50 (21.65%) DHCP
15 46 (19.91%) CI/CD
16 45 (19.48%) VMware Infrastructure
17 43 (18.61%) Kubernetes
17 43 (18.61%) Migration
18 38 (16.45%) Firewall
19 36 (15.58%) Linux
19 36 (15.58%) Python
20 32 (13.85%) AWS
21 31 (13.42%) DV Cleared
22 30 (12.99%) Ansible
22 30 (12.99%) Microsoft 365
23 29 (12.55%) Entra ID
23 29 (12.55%) GitHub
23 29 (12.55%) Problem-Solving
24 28 (12.12%) 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 17 (7.36%) SharePoint
2 15 (6.49%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (3.03%) WebSphere
4 6 (2.60%) CICS
5 4 (1.73%) SharePoint Server
6 2 (0.87%) Confluence
7 1 (0.43%) Exchange Server 2013
7 1 (0.43%) IBM HTTP Server
7 1 (0.43%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.43%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 3 (1.30%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.87%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 104 (45.02%) Azure
2 32 (13.85%) AWS
3 30 (12.99%) Microsoft 365
4 29 (12.55%) Entra ID
4 29 (12.55%) GitHub
5 22 (9.52%) IaaS
6 21 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
7 20 (8.66%) PaaS
8 19 (8.23%) GCP
9 17 (7.36%) Azure AKS
9 17 (7.36%) GitHub Actions
9 17 (7.36%) SaaS
10 16 (6.93%) Azure Monitor
11 7 (3.03%) Power Platform
12 6 (2.60%) Datadog
13 5 (2.16%) Azure Functions
13 5 (2.16%) Nutanix
13 5 (2.16%) OpenShift
13 5 (2.16%) Serverless
14 3 (1.30%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 56 (24.24%) DNS
2 50 (21.65%) DHCP
3 38 (16.45%) Firewall
4 28 (12.12%) VPN
5 19 (8.23%) TCP/IP
6 15 (6.49%) Network Security
7 11 (4.76%) SAN
8 10 (4.33%) LAN
8 10 (4.33%) VLAN
8 10 (4.33%) WAN
9 8 (3.46%) Wi-Fi
10 7 (3.03%) SMTP
11 6 (2.60%) NAS
11 6 (2.60%) Wireless
12 4 (1.73%) 4G
12 4 (1.73%) Remote Desktop
13 2 (0.87%) Internet
13 2 (0.87%) SSL
13 2 (0.87%) Structured Cabling
13 2 (0.87%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (12.12%) SQL Server
2 6 (2.60%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (2.16%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (1.73%) Power BI
5 3 (1.30%) Big Data
6 2 (0.87%) BigQuery
6 2 (0.87%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 2 (0.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (0.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.43%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.43%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (2.60%) Git
2 5 (2.16%) Chocolatey
2 5 (2.16%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.73%) GitLab
4 2 (0.87%) JIRA
5 1 (0.43%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.43%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.43%) CMake
5 1 (0.43%) Gradle
5 1 (0.43%) Introscope
5 1 (0.43%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 35 (15.15%) Social Skills
2 28 (12.12%) Finance
3 18 (7.79%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (7.36%) Banking
5 8 (3.46%) Public Sector
6 7 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (2.60%) Telecoms
8 5 (2.16%) Automotive
9 3 (1.30%) Law
10 2 (0.87%) Billing
10 2 (0.87%) Legal
10 2 (0.87%) Local Government
11 1 (0.43%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.43%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.43%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.43%) Mandarin Language
11 1 (0.43%) Publishing
11 1 (0.43%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (29.87%) Terraform
2 8 (3.46%) ARM Templates
3 7 (3.03%) Middleware
4 5 (2.16%) 802.1X
4 5 (2.16%) YAML
5 4 (1.73%) OpenID
6 3 (1.30%) .NET
6 3 (1.30%) SAML
7 2 (0.87%) ADO
7 2 (0.87%) JSON
7 2 (0.87%) OAuth
7 2 (0.87%) REST
8 1 (0.43%) Bazel
8 1 (0.43%) Elastic Stack
8 1 (0.43%) Kafka
8 1 (0.43%) OAuth2
8 1 (0.43%) OpenGL
8 1 (0.43%) Qt
Miscellaneous
1 19 (8.23%) Hybrid Cloud
2 14 (6.06%) Clustering
3 13 (5.63%) Data Centre
3 13 (5.63%) PKI
4 6 (2.60%) Cloud Native
4 6 (2.60%) Mainframe
4 6 (2.60%) Onboarding
5 5 (2.16%) Cyber Threat
5 5 (2.16%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (2.16%) Enterprise Storage
5 5 (2.16%) Linux Command Line
5 5 (2.16%) Robotics
6 4 (1.73%) Public Cloud
6 4 (1.73%) Security Operations Centre
6 4 (1.73%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.30%) CCTV
7 3 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (0.87%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (0.87%) Hedge funds
8 2 (0.87%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 103 (44.59%) Windows
2 65 (28.14%) Windows Server
3 36 (15.58%) Linux
4 7 (3.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (2.60%) VMS
5 6 (2.60%) Windows Server 2016
5 6 (2.60%) Windows Server 2019
5 6 (2.60%) zOS
6 5 (2.16%) Ubuntu
6 5 (2.16%) Windows 10
7 4 (1.73%) Android
7 4 (1.73%) Apple iOS
7 4 (1.73%) Windows Server 2003
8 3 (1.30%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.87%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.43%) AIX
10 1 (0.43%) OpenVMS
10 1 (0.43%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.43%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 225 (97.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 74 (32.03%) Infrastructure as Code
3 55 (23.81%) DevOps
4 46 (19.91%) CI/CD
5 43 (18.61%) Migration
6 29 (12.55%) Problem-Solving
7 28 (12.12%) Infrastructure Automation
8 25 (10.82%) Disaster Recovery
9 22 (9.52%) ITIL
10 21 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
11 20 (8.66%) High Availability
12 19 (8.23%) Incident Management
13 18 (7.79%) AI
14 17 (7.36%) Root Cause Analysis
15 15 (6.49%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 15 (6.49%) Validation
16 14 (6.06%) Infrastructure Transformation
16 14 (6.06%) Platform Engineering
17 12 (5.19%) Change Management
18 11 (4.76%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 67 (29.00%) PowerShell
2 36 (15.58%) Python
3 21 (9.09%) SQL
4 18 (7.79%) Bash
5 17 (7.36%) C#
6 13 (5.63%) Bicep
7 8 (3.46%) Java
8 6 (2.60%) Go
9 2 (0.87%) C++
10 1 (0.43%) C
10 1 (0.43%) Jython
10 1 (0.43%) Perl
10 1 (0.43%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.43%) VB
Qualifications
1 85 (36.80%) Security Cleared
2 56 (24.24%) SC Cleared
3 31 (13.42%) DV Cleared
4 17 (7.36%) Degree
5 12 (5.19%) Azure Certification
5 12 (5.19%) Cisco Certification
6 10 (4.33%) CCNP
7 8 (3.46%) CCNA
7 8 (3.46%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (2.16%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.73%) JNCIP
9 4 (1.73%) JNCIS
10 2 (0.87%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.43%) CISA
11 1 (0.43%) CISM
11 1 (0.43%) CISSP
11 1 (0.43%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.43%) MCSE
11 1 (0.43%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.43%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.19%) SLA
2 9 (3.90%) QA
3 4 (1.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.73%) NIST
4 3 (1.30%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.87%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.43%) FedRAMP
6 1 (0.43%) GDPR
6 1 (0.43%) NCSC
6 1 (0.43%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 64 (27.71%) Active Directory
2 45 (19.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (10.82%) Hyper-V
4 18 (7.79%) VMware ESXi
5 12 (5.19%) vSphere
6 11 (4.76%) Docker
6 11 (4.76%) Virtual Desktop
7 10 (4.33%) Virtual Machines
8 7 (3.03%) BitLocker
8 7 (3.03%) Microsoft App-V
9 6 (2.60%) Firmware
9 6 (2.60%) Virtual Servers
10 4 (1.73%) Terminal Services
11 1 (0.43%) Ceph
11 1 (0.43%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.43%) VMware Server
11 1 (0.43%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 43 (18.61%) Kubernetes
2 30 (12.99%) Ansible
3 22 (9.52%) Microsoft Intune
4 14 (6.06%) vCenter Server
5 11 (4.76%) SCCM
6 8 (3.46%) Puppet
7 7 (3.03%) vMotion
8 6 (2.60%) FortiGate
8 6 (2.60%) Prometheus
9 5 (2.16%) Packer
9 5 (2.16%) systemd
10 3 (1.30%) Failover Clustering
10 3 (1.30%) Grafana
10 3 (1.30%) Microsoft Clustering
10 3 (1.30%) Nagios
10 3 (1.30%) SCOM
11 2 (0.87%) Argo
11 2 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.43%) Cilium
12 1 (0.43%) Dell DRAC
Vendors
1 86 (37.23%) Microsoft
2 61 (26.41%) VMware
3 17 (7.36%) Cisco
4 15 (6.49%) Citrix
5 14 (6.06%) Google
6 9 (3.90%) NetApp
7 8 (3.46%) Dynatrace
8 7 (3.03%) HP
9 6 (2.60%) IBM
9 6 (2.60%) Red Hat
9 6 (2.60%) Tenable
10 5 (2.16%) AppDynamics
11 4 (1.73%) Juniper
11 4 (1.73%) MikroTik
11 4 (1.73%) Symantec
11 4 (1.73%) Zscaler
12 3 (1.30%) Dell
12 3 (1.30%) Oracle
12 3 (1.30%) ServiceNow
13 2 (0.87%) Meraki