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 16 May 2026.

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

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 260 237 198
Rank change year-on-year -23 -39 +73
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 160 119 201
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.89% 0.96% 1.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.96% 1.03% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 98 144
10th Percentile £363 £350 £274
25th Percentile £419 £403 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +16.67% -21.74%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £550
90th Percentile £675 £638 £638
England median daily rate £515 £525 £456
% change year-on-year -1.90% +15.07% -8.75%

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 16,704 11,571 16,311
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 93.31% 93.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,077 7,921 11,790
10th Percentile £350 £343 £325
25th Percentile £430 £427 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £676 £688
90th Percentile £755 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £524 £525
% change year-on-year -2.19% -0.19% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 269 143 317
10th Percentile £18.75 £20.24 £16.00
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.42 £20.02
Median hourly rate £37.50 £34.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.29% +23.64% -21.99%
75th Percentile £61.50 £50.75 £44.75
90th Percentile £76.58 £65.00 £65.01
England median hourly rate £45.56 £30.00 £37.18
% change year-on-year +51.85% -19.31% -17.38%

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 16 May 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 16 May 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 -10 20 £575 -4.17% 12
West London -21 4 £650 +62.50% 1
South London -15 2 £419 -21.73%
Infrastructure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 16 May 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.

1 152 (95.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 74 (46.25%) Azure
3 63 (39.38%) Security Cleared
4 57 (35.63%) Windows
5 47 (29.38%) Microsoft
6 44 (27.50%) Terraform
7 42 (26.25%) Infrastructure as Code
7 42 (26.25%) SC Cleared
8 41 (25.63%) PowerShell
9 38 (23.75%) VMware
10 35 (21.88%) Active Directory
10 35 (21.88%) Windows Server
11 29 (18.13%) DNS
12 28 (17.50%) GitHub
12 28 (17.50%) Kubernetes
12 28 (17.50%) VMware Infrastructure
13 27 (16.88%) CI/CD
14 26 (16.25%) DevOps
15 25 (15.63%) Linux
15 25 (15.63%) Migration
16 23 (14.38%) DHCP
16 23 (14.38%) DV Cleared
17 20 (12.50%) Firewall
17 20 (12.50%) Hyper-V
18 19 (11.88%) Microsoft 365
19 18 (11.25%) Ansible
20 17 (10.63%) VPN
21 16 (10.00%) AWS
21 16 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
22 15 (9.38%) IaaS

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 11 (6.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.25%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.63%) IBM HTTP Server
3 1 (0.63%) WebSphere
3 1 (0.63%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 2 (1.25%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 74 (46.25%) Azure
2 28 (17.50%) GitHub
3 19 (11.88%) Microsoft 365
4 16 (10.00%) AWS
5 15 (9.38%) IaaS
6 14 (8.75%) PaaS
7 12 (7.50%) Entra ID
7 12 (7.50%) GCP
8 11 (6.88%) Azure AKS
8 11 (6.88%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (6.88%) Azure Monitor
9 10 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
9 10 (6.25%) SaaS
10 7 (4.38%) Nutanix
11 5 (3.13%) Azure Stack
11 5 (3.13%) Microsoft Purview
12 3 (1.88%) OCI
12 3 (1.88%) Serverless
13 2 (1.25%) Amazon EKS
13 2 (1.25%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 29 (18.13%) DNS
2 23 (14.38%) DHCP
3 20 (12.50%) Firewall
4 17 (10.63%) VPN
5 12 (7.50%) LAN
5 12 (7.50%) WAN
6 7 (4.38%) SMTP
7 6 (3.75%) SAN
8 3 (1.88%) NAS
8 3 (1.88%) Network Security
8 3 (1.88%) Software-Defined Networking
8 3 (1.88%) TCP/IP
9 2 (1.25%) MPLS
9 2 (1.25%) Remote Desktop
9 2 (1.25%) VSAN
9 2 (1.25%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (0.63%) 4G
10 1 (0.63%) Multicast
10 1 (0.63%) VLAN
10 1 (0.63%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.63%) SQL Server
2 6 (3.75%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (2.50%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (1.25%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.63%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 8 (5.00%) Artifactory
2 2 (1.25%) GitLab
2 2 (1.25%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.63%) Chocolatey
3 1 (0.63%) Git
3 1 (0.63%) Introscope
General
1 31 (19.38%) Social Skills
2 24 (15.00%) Finance
3 11 (6.88%) Banking
4 7 (4.38%) Legal
5 5 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (3.13%) Public Sector
6 3 (1.88%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (1.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.25%) Billing
7 2 (1.25%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.25%) Law
7 2 (1.25%) Retail
7 2 (1.25%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.63%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.63%) Aviation
8 1 (0.63%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.63%) Local Government
8 1 (0.63%) Mandarin Language
8 1 (0.63%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.63%) Spanish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.88%) ARM Templates
2 2 (1.25%) ADO
2 2 (1.25%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (1.25%) OpenID
3 1 (0.63%) .NET
3 1 (0.63%) EDI
3 1 (0.63%) JSON
3 1 (0.63%) Kafka
3 1 (0.63%) LDAP
3 1 (0.63%) Middleware
3 1 (0.63%) Node.js
3 1 (0.63%) OAuth
3 1 (0.63%) OAuth2
3 1 (0.63%) OpenGL
3 1 (0.63%) Qt
3 1 (0.63%) REST
3 1 (0.63%) SAML
3 1 (0.63%) Software Packaging
3 1 (0.63%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (6.88%) Hybrid Cloud
2 9 (5.63%) Data Centre
3 8 (5.00%) PKI
4 7 (4.38%) Clustering
4 7 (4.38%) Enterprise Storage
5 6 (3.75%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.88%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.25%) CCTV
8 2 (1.25%) Client/Server
8 2 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.25%) Operational Technology
8 2 (1.25%) Replication
9 1 (0.63%) CUDA
9 1 (0.63%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (0.63%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.63%) Hedge funds
9 1 (0.63%) IoT
9 1 (0.63%) NHS
9 1 (0.63%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 57 (35.63%) Windows
2 35 (21.88%) Windows Server
3 25 (15.63%) Linux
4 6 (3.75%) Windows Server 2003
5 5 (3.13%) Unix
5 5 (3.13%) VMS
5 5 (3.13%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (2.50%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (1.88%) Android
7 3 (1.88%) Apple iOS
7 3 (1.88%) Ubuntu
8 2 (1.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (1.25%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.63%) AIX
9 1 (0.63%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.63%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 152 (95.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 42 (26.25%) Infrastructure as Code
3 27 (16.88%) CI/CD
4 26 (16.25%) DevOps
5 25 (15.63%) Migration
6 16 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
7 14 (8.75%) Cloud Security
7 14 (8.75%) Disaster Recovery
8 11 (6.88%) Continuous Improvement
8 11 (6.88%) Incident Management
8 11 (6.88%) Infrastructure Automation
9 10 (6.25%) Infrastructure Transformation
9 10 (6.25%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 8 (5.00%) Containerisation
10 8 (5.00%) ITIL
10 8 (5.00%) RBAC
10 8 (5.00%) Validation
11 7 (4.38%) Collaborative Working
11 7 (4.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 7 (4.38%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 41 (25.63%) PowerShell
2 14 (8.75%) Python
3 13 (8.13%) C#
4 12 (7.50%) SQL
5 8 (5.00%) Bicep
6 6 (3.75%) Bash
7 2 (1.25%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.25%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.63%) C++
8 1 (0.63%) Java
8 1 (0.63%) Jython
8 1 (0.63%) VB
Qualifications
1 63 (39.38%) Security Cleared
2 42 (26.25%) SC Cleared
3 23 (14.38%) DV Cleared
4 6 (3.75%) Degree
5 4 (2.50%) CCNA
5 4 (2.50%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (1.88%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.25%) CCNP
8 1 (0.63%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.63%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.63%) MCSE
8 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.63%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.13%) QA
2 4 (2.50%) SLA
3 2 (1.25%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.25%) NIST
4 1 (0.63%) GDPR
4 1 (0.63%) NCSC
4 1 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.63%) SOC 2
System Software
1 35 (21.88%) Active Directory
2 28 (17.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (12.50%) Hyper-V
4 11 (6.88%) Docker
5 9 (5.63%) VMware ESXi
5 9 (5.63%) vSphere
6 7 (4.38%) BitLocker
6 7 (4.38%) Microsoft App-V
7 6 (3.75%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (3.75%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (1.25%) Firmware
8 2 (1.25%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.63%) Terminal Services
9 1 (0.63%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.63%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 44 (27.50%) Terraform
2 28 (17.50%) Kubernetes
3 18 (11.25%) Ansible
4 15 (9.38%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (5.00%) vCenter Server
6 7 (4.38%) Puppet
6 7 (4.38%) vMotion
7 5 (3.13%) Packer
7 5 (3.13%) SCCM
8 4 (2.50%) AirWatch
9 2 (1.25%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.63%) CA Wily
10 1 (0.63%) CASB
10 1 (0.63%) Grafana
10 1 (0.63%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.63%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.63%) SCOrch
10 1 (0.63%) vRealize
10 1 (0.63%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 47 (29.38%) Microsoft
2 38 (23.75%) VMware
3 14 (8.75%) NetApp
4 12 (7.50%) Citrix
5 10 (6.25%) Google
6 6 (3.75%) Dell
7 5 (3.13%) Cisco
7 5 (3.13%) SolarWinds
8 4 (2.50%) CyberArk
8 4 (2.50%) Oracle
9 3 (1.88%) Fortinet
9 3 (1.88%) Red Hat
9 3 (1.88%) Veeam
10 2 (1.25%) EMC
10 2 (1.25%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.63%) AppDynamics
11 1 (0.63%) Equitrac
11 1 (0.63%) Meraki
11 1 (0.63%) Proofpoint
11 1 (0.63%) Zerto