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 30 June 2026.

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

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 241 237 208
Rank change year-on-year -4 -29 +44
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 200 115 202
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.04% 0.90% 1.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.12% 0.96% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 87 160
10th Percentile £355 £343 £298
25th Percentile £425 £406 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £463
Median % change year-on-year - +13.51% -15.91%
75th Percentile £638 £594 £550
90th Percentile £685 £638 £638
England median daily rate £525 £525 £475
% change year-on-year - +10.53% -5.00%

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 17,889 11,985 16,412
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.87% 93.44% 93.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,782 8,101 11,761
10th Percentile £358 £336 £325
25th Percentile £439 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £763 £790 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 304 184 316
10th Percentile £18.07 £18.87 £16.00
25th Percentile £25.25 £23.34 £20.17
Median hourly rate £40.00 £32.70 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.34% +18.89% -26.51%
75th Percentile £63.10 £50.50 £45.18
90th Percentile £80.88 £63.75 £67.50
England median hourly rate £45.00 £28.50 £39.55
% change year-on-year +57.89% -27.94% -9.83%

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 June 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 June 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 -4 31 £575 -4.17% 9
West London - 8 £675 - 4
South London -5 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 30 June 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.

1 194 (97.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 86 (43.00%) Azure
3 76 (38.00%) Windows
4 75 (37.50%) Security Cleared
5 56 (28.00%) Microsoft
5 56 (28.00%) Terraform
6 55 (27.50%) Infrastructure as Code
7 53 (26.50%) PowerShell
8 49 (24.50%) VMware
8 49 (24.50%) Windows Server
9 47 (23.50%) Active Directory
10 46 (23.00%) SC Cleared
11 44 (22.00%) Kubernetes
12 42 (21.00%) DNS
13 40 (20.00%) CI/CD
14 39 (19.50%) DevOps
15 36 (18.00%) VMware Infrastructure
16 35 (17.50%) DHCP
17 33 (16.50%) Linux
18 31 (15.50%) GitHub
19 30 (15.00%) DV Cleared
20 29 (14.50%) AWS
21 27 (13.50%) Python
22 25 (12.50%) Migration
23 24 (12.00%) Ansible
23 24 (12.00%) Firewall
24 23 (11.50%) Hyper-V
25 21 (10.50%) GCP
26 20 (10.00%) VPN
27 19 (9.50%) 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 (5.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (2.50%) WebSphere
3 4 (2.00%) CICS
3 4 (2.00%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.50%) IBM HTTP Server
4 1 (0.50%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (0.50%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 86 (43.00%) Azure
2 31 (15.50%) GitHub
3 29 (14.50%) AWS
4 21 (10.50%) GCP
5 19 (9.50%) IaaS
6 18 (9.00%) Microsoft 365
6 18 (9.00%) PaaS
7 17 (8.50%) Azure AKS
8 15 (7.50%) Azure DevOps
8 15 (7.50%) GitHub Actions
9 14 (7.00%) Azure Monitor
9 14 (7.00%) Entra ID
10 12 (6.00%) SaaS
11 7 (3.50%) Nutanix
12 6 (3.00%) Azure Stack
13 5 (2.50%) OpenShift
14 4 (2.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 4 (2.00%) Microsoft Purview
15 3 (1.50%) Amazon EKS
15 3 (1.50%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 42 (21.00%) DNS
2 35 (17.50%) DHCP
3 24 (12.00%) Firewall
4 20 (10.00%) VPN
5 9 (4.50%) LAN
5 9 (4.50%) SMTP
5 9 (4.50%) WAN
6 7 (3.50%) Network Security
6 7 (3.50%) TCP/IP
7 6 (3.00%) SAN
8 4 (2.00%) NAS
9 3 (1.50%) Software-Defined Networking
9 3 (1.50%) Wireless
10 2 (1.00%) 4G
10 2 (1.00%) DKIM
10 2 (1.00%) DMARC
10 2 (1.00%) Internet
10 2 (1.00%) Remote Desktop
10 2 (1.00%) Structured Cabling
10 2 (1.00%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (9.00%) SQL Server
2 8 (4.00%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (3.50%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (1.50%) Big Data
5 2 (1.00%) BigQuery
5 2 (1.00%) DynamoDB
5 2 (1.00%) Power BI
6 1 (0.50%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.50%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (2.00%) Artifactory
1 4 (2.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.00%) GitLab
3 1 (0.50%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.50%) Chocolatey
3 1 (0.50%) CMake
3 1 (0.50%) Git
3 1 (0.50%) Gradle
3 1 (0.50%) Introscope
General
1 34 (17.00%) Social Skills
2 27 (13.50%) Finance
3 14 (7.00%) Banking
4 8 (4.00%) Legal
5 7 (3.50%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (3.00%) Public Sector
7 5 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.50%) Billing
9 2 (1.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.00%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.00%) Law
9 2 (1.00%) Local Government
9 2 (1.00%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.50%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.50%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.50%) Mandarin Language
10 1 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.50%) Publishing
10 1 (0.50%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.50%) Middleware
2 3 (1.50%) ARM Templates
2 3 (1.50%) OpenID
2 3 (1.50%) YAML
3 2 (1.00%) .NET
3 2 (1.00%) ADO
3 2 (1.00%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (1.00%) JSON
3 2 (1.00%) REST
3 2 (1.00%) SAML
4 1 (0.50%) 802.1X
4 1 (0.50%) Bazel
4 1 (0.50%) Kafka
4 1 (0.50%) LDAP
4 1 (0.50%) Node.js
4 1 (0.50%) OAuth
4 1 (0.50%) OAuth2
4 1 (0.50%) OpenGL
4 1 (0.50%) Qt
4 1 (0.50%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 13 (6.50%) Hybrid Cloud
2 12 (6.00%) Data Centre
3 11 (5.50%) PKI
4 9 (4.50%) Clustering
5 8 (4.00%) Onboarding
6 6 (3.00%) Cloud Native
6 6 (3.00%) Enterprise Storage
7 5 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (2.00%) Mainframe
8 4 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.00%) AI Agents
10 2 (1.00%) CCTV
10 2 (1.00%) Enterprise Cloud
10 2 (1.00%) IoT
10 2 (1.00%) Operational Technology
10 2 (1.00%) Security Operations Centre
11 1 (0.50%) BYOD
11 1 (0.50%) Cyber Threat
11 1 (0.50%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 76 (38.00%) Windows
2 49 (24.50%) Windows Server
3 33 (16.50%) Linux
4 6 (3.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (3.00%) Windows Server 2003
5 5 (2.50%) Unix
5 5 (2.50%) VMS
5 5 (2.50%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (2.00%) Windows 10
6 4 (2.00%) zOS
7 3 (1.50%) Android
7 3 (1.50%) Apple iOS
8 2 (1.00%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (1.00%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.50%) AIX
9 1 (0.50%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.50%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 194 (97.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 55 (27.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 40 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 39 (19.50%) DevOps
5 25 (12.50%) Migration
6 19 (9.50%) Infrastructure Automation
7 17 (8.50%) Problem-Solving
8 14 (7.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 14 (7.00%) Disaster Recovery
8 14 (7.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 13 (6.50%) Containerisation
10 12 (6.00%) Infrastructure Transformation
11 11 (5.50%) AI
11 11 (5.50%) Incident Management
12 10 (5.00%) Cloud Security
12 10 (5.00%) High Availability
12 10 (5.00%) Observability
12 10 (5.00%) Roadmaps
12 10 (5.00%) Root Cause Analysis
12 10 (5.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 53 (26.50%) PowerShell
2 27 (13.50%) Python
3 16 (8.00%) C#
4 15 (7.50%) SQL
5 12 (6.00%) Bash
6 11 (5.50%) Bicep
7 7 (3.50%) Java
8 5 (2.50%) Go
9 2 (1.00%) JavaScript
9 2 (1.00%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.50%) C
10 1 (0.50%) C++
10 1 (0.50%) Jython
10 1 (0.50%) Perl
10 1 (0.50%) VB
Qualifications
1 75 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 46 (23.00%) SC Cleared
3 30 (15.00%) DV Cleared
4 8 (4.00%) Degree
5 5 (2.50%) Azure Certification
5 5 (2.50%) CCNA
5 5 (2.50%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (1.50%) CCNP
6 3 (1.50%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.50%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.50%) CISA
7 1 (0.50%) CISM
7 1 (0.50%) CISSP
7 1 (0.50%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.50%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.50%) MCSE
7 1 (0.50%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.50%) QA
2 4 (2.00%) SLA
3 3 (1.50%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (1.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.50%) NIST
4 2 (1.00%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.50%) FedRAMP
5 1 (0.50%) GDPR
5 1 (0.50%) NCSC
5 1 (0.50%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 47 (23.50%) Active Directory
2 36 (18.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (11.50%) Hyper-V
4 14 (7.00%) Docker
4 14 (7.00%) VMware ESXi
5 11 (5.50%) vSphere
6 9 (4.50%) BitLocker
6 9 (4.50%) Microsoft App-V
7 8 (4.00%) Virtual Desktop
8 7 (3.50%) Virtual Machines
9 4 (2.00%) Terminal Services
10 3 (1.50%) Firmware
10 3 (1.50%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (1.00%) VMware NSX
12 1 (0.50%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 56 (28.00%) Terraform
2 44 (22.00%) Kubernetes
3 24 (12.00%) Ansible
4 12 (6.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 12 (6.00%) vCenter Server
5 10 (5.00%) Puppet
6 9 (4.50%) vMotion
7 5 (2.50%) Packer
8 4 (2.00%) AirWatch
8 4 (2.00%) FortiGate
8 4 (2.00%) Prometheus
9 3 (1.50%) Nagios
9 3 (1.50%) SCCM
10 2 (1.00%) Grafana
11 1 (0.50%) Argo
11 1 (0.50%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.50%) systemd
11 1 (0.50%) vRealize
11 1 (0.50%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 56 (28.00%) Microsoft
2 49 (24.50%) VMware
3 15 (7.50%) Citrix
3 15 (7.50%) Google
4 12 (6.00%) NetApp
5 7 (3.50%) Cisco
6 6 (3.00%) Dell
6 6 (3.00%) Red Hat
7 4 (2.00%) CyberArk
7 4 (2.00%) HP
7 4 (2.00%) IBM
7 4 (2.00%) ServiceNow
7 4 (2.00%) SolarWinds
7 4 (2.00%) Symantec
8 3 (1.50%) Dynatrace
9 2 (1.00%) EMC
9 2 (1.00%) Fortinet
9 2 (1.00%) Oracle
9 2 (1.00%) Proofpoint
9 2 (1.00%) Tenable