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 13 September 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 252 237 221
Rank change year-on-year -15 -16 -18
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 208 124 184
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.03% 0.92% 1.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.10% 0.99% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 90 150
10th Percentile £324 £348 £300
25th Percentile £417 £402 £387
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £569
90th Percentile £688 £650 £650
England median daily rate £525 £483 £500
% change year-on-year +8.81% -3.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £30.00 -
England median hourly rate £72.54 £30.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +141.80% -50.00% -15.79%

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 18,862 12,471 15,322
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.22% 92.70% 94.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,159 8,349 10,331
10th Percentile £363 £326 £345
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £506 £525
% change year-on-year +3.75% -3.62% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 385 208 183
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.00 £17.58
25th Percentile £22.00 £23.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £39.00 £30.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.93% -13.57% -6.67%
75th Percentile £63.10 £50.00 £56.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £66.15 £74.38
England median hourly rate £43.50 £25.15 £47.50
% change year-on-year +72.96% -47.05% +5.56%

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 13 September 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 13 September 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 -13 27 £625 +13.64% 11
West London - 8 £675 - 5
South London -8 4 £473 -10.00% 1
Infrastructure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 13 September 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.

1 203 (97.60%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 93 (44.71%) Azure
2 93 (44.71%) Windows
3 82 (39.42%) Microsoft
4 71 (34.13%) Security Cleared
5 69 (33.17%) Infrastructure as Code
6 63 (30.29%) Active Directory
7 62 (29.81%) Terraform
8 61 (29.33%) Windows Server
9 59 (28.37%) VMware
10 58 (27.88%) PowerShell
11 52 (25.00%) DNS
12 47 (22.60%) DHCP
13 46 (22.12%) DevOps
13 46 (22.12%) SC Cleared
14 44 (21.15%) VMware Infrastructure
15 40 (19.23%) CI/CD
16 37 (17.79%) Migration
17 34 (16.35%) Kubernetes
18 33 (15.87%) Firewall
18 33 (15.87%) Linux
19 30 (14.42%) AWS
19 30 (14.42%) Entra ID
19 30 (14.42%) Python
20 29 (13.94%) Infrastructure Automation
20 29 (13.94%) Microsoft 365
21 28 (13.46%) Problem-Solving
22 27 (12.98%) Ansible
22 27 (12.98%) DV Cleared
23 24 (11.54%) SQL Server

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 (8.17%) SharePoint
2 16 (7.69%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (2.88%) CICS
3 6 (2.88%) WebSphere
4 4 (1.92%) SharePoint Server
5 2 (0.96%) Confluence
6 1 (0.48%) Exchange Server 2013
6 1 (0.48%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (1.44%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.96%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 93 (44.71%) Azure
2 30 (14.42%) AWS
2 30 (14.42%) Entra ID
3 29 (13.94%) Microsoft 365
4 21 (10.10%) GitHub
5 17 (8.17%) Azure DevOps
5 17 (8.17%) IaaS
6 16 (7.69%) GCP
7 15 (7.21%) PaaS
8 13 (6.25%) Azure AKS
8 13 (6.25%) SaaS
9 12 (5.77%) GitHub Actions
10 11 (5.29%) Azure Monitor
11 7 (3.37%) Power Platform
12 5 (2.40%) Azure Functions
12 5 (2.40%) Datadog
12 5 (2.40%) Nutanix
12 5 (2.40%) OpenShift
12 5 (2.40%) Serverless
13 3 (1.44%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 52 (25.00%) DNS
2 47 (22.60%) DHCP
3 33 (15.87%) Firewall
4 23 (11.06%) VPN
5 18 (8.65%) TCP/IP
6 15 (7.21%) Network Security
7 10 (4.81%) SAN
7 10 (4.81%) VLAN
8 8 (3.85%) LAN
8 8 (3.85%) WAN
8 8 (3.85%) Wi-Fi
9 6 (2.88%) NAS
9 6 (2.88%) Wireless
10 5 (2.40%) SMTP
11 4 (1.92%) 4G
11 4 (1.92%) Remote Desktop
12 2 (0.96%) Internet
12 2 (0.96%) SSL
12 2 (0.96%) Structured Cabling
12 2 (0.96%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (11.54%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.40%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (1.92%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (1.92%) Power BI
4 3 (1.44%) Big Data
5 2 (0.96%) BigQuery
5 2 (0.96%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 2 (0.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (0.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.48%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.48%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (2.40%) Git
2 4 (1.92%) Chocolatey
2 4 (1.92%) GitLab
2 4 (1.92%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.96%) JIRA
4 1 (0.48%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.48%) CMake
4 1 (0.48%) Gradle
4 1 (0.48%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 28 (13.46%) Social Skills
2 26 (12.50%) Finance
3 18 (8.65%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (6.25%) Banking
5 8 (3.85%) Public Sector
6 6 (2.88%) Telecoms
7 5 (2.40%) Automotive
7 5 (2.40%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.44%) Law
9 2 (0.96%) Billing
9 2 (0.96%) Legal
9 2 (0.96%) Local Government
10 1 (0.48%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.48%) Mandarin Language
10 1 (0.48%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.48%) Publishing
10 1 (0.48%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (29.81%) Terraform
2 7 (3.37%) ARM Templates
3 6 (2.88%) Middleware
4 5 (2.40%) 802.1X
4 5 (2.40%) YAML
5 4 (1.92%) OpenID
6 3 (1.44%) .NET
6 3 (1.44%) SAML
7 2 (0.96%) JSON
7 2 (0.96%) OAuth
7 2 (0.96%) REST
8 1 (0.48%) ADO
8 1 (0.48%) Bazel
8 1 (0.48%) Kafka
8 1 (0.48%) OAuth2
8 1 (0.48%) OpenGL
8 1 (0.48%) Qt
Miscellaneous
1 21 (10.10%) Hybrid Cloud
2 12 (5.77%) Clustering
3 11 (5.29%) PKI
4 9 (4.33%) Data Centre
5 6 (2.88%) Mainframe
5 6 (2.88%) Onboarding
6 5 (2.40%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (2.40%) Linux Command Line
6 5 (2.40%) Robotics
7 4 (1.92%) Cloud Native
7 4 (1.92%) Cyber Threat
7 4 (1.92%) Enterprise Storage
7 4 (1.92%) Public Cloud
7 4 (1.92%) Security Operations Centre
8 3 (1.44%) CCTV
8 3 (1.44%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.96%) AI Agents
9 2 (0.96%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (0.96%) IoT
9 2 (0.96%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 93 (44.71%) Windows
2 61 (29.33%) Windows Server
3 33 (15.87%) Linux
4 6 (2.88%) Windows Server 2019
4 6 (2.88%) zOS
5 5 (2.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (2.40%) VMS
5 5 (2.40%) Windows 10
5 5 (2.40%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (1.92%) Android
6 4 (1.92%) Apple iOS
6 4 (1.92%) Ubuntu
7 3 (1.44%) Windows Server 2003
7 3 (1.44%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.96%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.48%) OpenVMS
9 1 (0.48%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.48%) Unix
9 1 (0.48%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.48%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 203 (97.60%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 69 (33.17%) Infrastructure as Code
3 46 (22.12%) DevOps
4 40 (19.23%) CI/CD
5 37 (17.79%) Migration
6 29 (13.94%) Infrastructure Automation
7 28 (13.46%) Problem-Solving
8 23 (11.06%) Disaster Recovery
8 23 (11.06%) ITIL
9 19 (9.13%) High Availability
10 18 (8.65%) AI
10 18 (8.65%) Continuous Improvement
11 17 (8.17%) Root Cause Analysis
12 16 (7.69%) Incident Management
13 15 (7.21%) Platform Engineering
14 14 (6.73%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 12 (5.77%) Validation
16 11 (5.29%) Change Management
17 10 (4.81%) Agile
17 10 (4.81%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 58 (27.88%) PowerShell
2 30 (14.42%) Python
3 17 (8.17%) Bash
4 15 (7.21%) SQL
5 13 (6.25%) Bicep
6 12 (5.77%) C#
7 7 (3.37%) Java
8 6 (2.88%) Go
9 2 (0.96%) C++
10 1 (0.48%) C
10 1 (0.48%) Perl
10 1 (0.48%) VB
Qualifications
1 71 (34.13%) Security Cleared
2 46 (22.12%) SC Cleared
3 27 (12.98%) DV Cleared
4 16 (7.69%) Degree
5 11 (5.29%) Cisco Certification
6 10 (4.81%) Azure Certification
7 9 (4.33%) CCNP
8 8 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (3.37%) CCNA
10 5 (2.40%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (1.92%) JNCIP
11 4 (1.92%) JNCIS
12 2 (0.96%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.48%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (0.48%) CISA
13 1 (0.48%) CISM
13 1 (0.48%) CISSP
13 1 (0.48%) Master's Degree
13 1 (0.48%) MCSE
13 1 (0.48%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.81%) SLA
2 7 (3.37%) QA
3 3 (1.44%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (1.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.44%) NIST
4 2 (0.96%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.48%) FedRAMP
5 1 (0.48%) NCSC
5 1 (0.48%) NIST 800
System Software
1 63 (30.29%) Active Directory
2 44 (21.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (10.58%) Hyper-V
4 16 (7.69%) VMware ESXi
5 13 (6.25%) vSphere
6 11 (5.29%) Virtual Desktop
7 10 (4.81%) Docker
8 9 (4.33%) Virtual Machines
9 6 (2.88%) Firmware
9 6 (2.88%) Virtual Servers
10 5 (2.40%) BitLocker
10 5 (2.40%) Microsoft App-V
11 3 (1.44%) Terminal Services
12 1 (0.48%) Ceph
12 1 (0.48%) IAG
12 1 (0.48%) VMware NSX
12 1 (0.48%) VMware Server
12 1 (0.48%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 34 (16.35%) Kubernetes
2 27 (12.98%) Ansible
3 23 (11.06%) Microsoft Intune
4 12 (5.77%) vCenter Server
5 11 (5.29%) SCCM
6 6 (2.88%) Puppet
7 5 (2.40%) FortiGate
7 5 (2.40%) Prometheus
7 5 (2.40%) systemd
7 5 (2.40%) vMotion
8 4 (1.92%) Packer
9 3 (1.44%) Failover Clustering
9 3 (1.44%) Microsoft Clustering
9 3 (1.44%) Nagios
9 3 (1.44%) SCOM
10 2 (0.96%) Argo
10 2 (0.96%) Grafana
10 2 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.48%) Cilium
11 1 (0.48%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 82 (39.42%) Microsoft
2 59 (28.37%) VMware
3 16 (7.69%) Cisco
4 12 (5.77%) Citrix
4 12 (5.77%) Google
5 7 (3.37%) Dynatrace
6 6 (2.88%) HP
6 6 (2.88%) IBM
6 6 (2.88%) NetApp
7 5 (2.40%) Tenable
8 4 (1.92%) AppDynamics
8 4 (1.92%) Juniper
8 4 (1.92%) MikroTik
8 4 (1.92%) Red Hat
8 4 (1.92%) Zscaler
9 3 (1.44%) Symantec
10 2 (0.96%) BMC
10 2 (0.96%) Commvault
10 2 (0.96%) Oracle
10 2 (0.96%) Remedy