Infrastructure Engineer Contracts in London

Infrastructure Engineer
England > London

The median Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in London is £450 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 206 261 271
Rank change year-on-year +55 +10 -3
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 201 255 390
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.13% 0.94% 1.00%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.22% 0.99% 1.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 193 277
10th Percentile £275 £400 £346
25th Percentile £363 £463 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +10.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £550 £650 £575
90th Percentile £638 £683 £638
England median daily rate £463 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -7.50% +11.11% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
10th Percentile - £65.90 -
25th Percentile - £70.74 £39.75
Median hourly rate - £78.80 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year - +85.41% -
75th Percentile - £83.55 £45.25
90th Percentile - £86.40 -
England median hourly rate £22.50 £65.00 £62.99
% change year-on-year -65.38% +3.20% +62.55%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 16,503 25,805 37,110
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.18% 95.30% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,929 18,697 27,064
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £443 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £675
90th Percentile £788 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 337 292 447
10th Percentile £16.01 £17.98 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.50 £22.03
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.99% +0.71% +11.13%
75th Percentile £43.75 £60.50 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £77.83 £67.50
England median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.22%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Infrastructure Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in London

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in London.

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in London

Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in London

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in London.

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer 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 27 April 2024. 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 +33 30 £488 -18.75% 8
West London +16 2 £250 -50.00% 3
North London - 2 £250 -
South London +7 1 £425 -15.00%
Infrastructure Engineer
England

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, Infrastructure Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 189 (94.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 107 (53.23%) Windows
3 86 (42.79%) Active Directory
4 83 (41.29%) Azure
5 73 (36.32%) Windows Server
6 62 (30.85%) VMware
7 56 (27.86%) Microsoft
7 56 (27.86%) AWS
8 49 (24.38%) Security Cleared
9 47 (23.38%) Microsoft 365
10 42 (20.90%) Migration
11 38 (18.91%) Linux
12 36 (17.91%) Public Sector
13 35 (17.41%) PowerShell
14 34 (16.92%) Finance
14 34 (16.92%) Firewall
15 33 (16.42%) SQL Server
16 32 (15.92%) VMware Infrastructure
16 32 (15.92%) Entra ID
17 31 (15.42%) DevOps
17 31 (15.42%) Social Skills
18 30 (14.93%) DNS
19 27 (13.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
20 25 (12.44%) DV Cleared
21 24 (11.94%) Windows Server 2016
21 24 (11.94%) Terraform
22 23 (11.44%) Windows Server 2019
22 23 (11.44%) Python
22 23 (11.44%) Replication
23 22 (10.95%) Veeam

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 20 (9.95%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (7.46%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.99%) Apache
3 4 (1.99%) Tomcat
4 3 (1.49%) IIS
5 2 (1.00%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.50%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (0.50%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.50%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.50%) Eikon
1 1 (0.50%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.50%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 83 (41.29%) Azure
2 56 (27.86%) AWS
3 47 (23.38%) Microsoft 365
4 32 (15.92%) Entra ID
5 19 (9.45%) IaaS
6 9 (4.48%) PaaS
7 8 (3.98%) OneDrive
7 8 (3.98%) SaaS
8 7 (3.48%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (2.99%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (2.49%) Azure Storage
10 5 (2.49%) Mimecast
11 4 (1.99%) Amazon EventBridge
11 4 (1.99%) Amazon S3
11 4 (1.99%) AWS CodePipeline
11 4 (1.99%) Azure AKS
11 4 (1.99%) Cloudflare
11 4 (1.99%) GitHub
12 3 (1.49%) Amazon EC2
12 3 (1.49%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 34 (16.92%) Firewall
2 30 (14.93%) DNS
3 12 (5.97%) DHCP
4 10 (4.98%) WAN
5 9 (4.48%) MPLS
6 8 (3.98%) Network Security
7 7 (3.48%) LAN
7 7 (3.48%) SAN
7 7 (3.48%) VPN
8 5 (2.49%) SD-WAN
9 4 (1.99%) SMTP
10 3 (1.49%) BGP
10 3 (1.49%) NAS
10 3 (1.49%) OSPF
10 3 (1.49%) Wi-Fi
11 2 (1.00%) DMVPN
11 2 (1.00%) HSRP
11 2 (1.00%) SNMP
11 2 (1.00%) VLAN
11 2 (1.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (16.42%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.00%) MySQL
2 2 (1.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (1.00%) Sisense
3 1 (0.50%) Adabas
3 1 (0.50%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (0.50%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 11 (5.47%) Git
2 8 (3.98%) Jenkins
3 7 (3.48%) GitLab
4 2 (1.00%) JIRA
4 2 (1.00%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.50%) CA Gen
5 1 (0.50%) VisualWorks
General
1 36 (17.91%) Public Sector
2 34 (16.92%) Finance
3 31 (15.42%) Social Skills
4 13 (6.47%) Banking
5 8 (3.98%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (3.48%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (1.99%) Financial Institution
7 4 (1.99%) Legal
8 3 (1.49%) French Language
8 3 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.49%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.00%) Law
9 2 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.50%) Front Office
10 1 (0.50%) Retail
10 1 (0.50%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.99%) AWS CDK
1 4 (1.99%) YAML
2 2 (1.00%) Jinja
2 2 (1.00%) JSON
2 2 (1.00%) LDAP
2 2 (1.00%) NETCONF
2 2 (1.00%) RESTful
2 2 (1.00%) XML
2 2 (1.00%) YANG
3 1 (0.50%) .NET
3 1 (0.50%) LAMP
3 1 (0.50%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (11.44%) Replication
2 9 (4.48%) Data Centre
3 6 (2.99%) Management Information System
3 6 (2.99%) Onboarding
3 6 (2.99%) PKI
4 5 (2.49%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (1.99%) Clustering
5 4 (1.99%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.00%) Blackberry
6 2 (1.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 2 (1.00%) NHS
6 2 (1.00%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.00%) Video Conferencing
7 1 (0.50%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.50%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.50%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.50%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.50%) HP Storage
7 1 (0.50%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 107 (53.23%) Windows
2 73 (36.32%) Windows Server
3 38 (18.91%) Linux
4 24 (11.94%) Windows Server 2016
5 23 (11.44%) Windows Server 2019
6 19 (9.45%) Windows 10
7 7 (3.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (1.99%) Windows Server 2012
9 3 (1.49%) Ubuntu
9 3 (1.49%) Windows 7
10 2 (1.00%) VMS
11 1 (0.50%) Android
11 1 (0.50%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.50%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 189 (94.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 42 (20.90%) Migration
3 31 (15.42%) DevOps
4 18 (8.96%) CI/CD
5 17 (8.46%) Disaster Recovery
6 16 (7.96%) Infrastructure as Code
7 15 (7.46%) ITIL
8 11 (5.47%) Problem-Solving
9 9 (4.48%) Agile
9 9 (4.48%) Stakeholder Management
10 8 (3.98%) Project Delivery
10 8 (3.98%) Time Management
11 7 (3.48%) Containerisation
11 7 (3.48%) Cybersecurity
12 6 (2.99%) Data Loss Prevention
12 6 (2.99%) Information Security
12 6 (2.99%) Infrastructure Automation
12 6 (2.99%) Load Balancing
12 6 (2.99%) Microservices
13 5 (2.49%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 35 (17.41%) PowerShell
2 23 (11.44%) Python
3 8 (3.98%) Bash
4 6 (2.99%) SQL
5 4 (1.99%) Ruby
5 4 (1.99%) TypeScript
6 3 (1.49%) Korn
6 3 (1.49%) Perl
6 3 (1.49%) PHP
7 2 (1.00%) C
8 1 (0.50%) Bicep
8 1 (0.50%) C#
8 1 (0.50%) Go
8 1 (0.50%) Java
8 1 (0.50%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.50%) Natural
8 1 (0.50%) Smalltalk
Qualifications
1 49 (24.38%) Security Cleared
2 25 (12.44%) DV Cleared
3 21 (10.45%) SC Cleared
4 9 (4.48%) Azure Certification
5 7 (3.48%) Degree
5 7 (3.48%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (1.99%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (1.99%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.49%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (1.49%) CCNA
7 3 (1.49%) MCSE
8 2 (1.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (1.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 1 (0.50%) CCNP
9 1 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.50%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (1.49%) QA
3 2 (1.00%) NCSC
3 2 (1.00%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.50%) GDPR
System Software
1 86 (42.79%) Active Directory
2 32 (15.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (6.97%) Hyper-V
4 11 (5.47%) vSphere
5 8 (3.98%) Docker
6 5 (2.49%) VMware NSX
7 3 (1.49%) XenApp
8 2 (1.00%) Firmware
9 1 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.50%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 27 (13.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 24 (11.94%) Terraform
3 22 (10.95%) Ansible
4 19 (9.45%) Kubernetes
4 19 (9.45%) SCCM
5 18 (8.96%) Microsoft Intune
6 7 (3.48%) Puppet
7 3 (1.49%) Jamf Pro
7 3 (1.49%) Red Hat Satellite
7 3 (1.49%) SCOM
7 3 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (1.49%) WSUS
8 2 (1.00%) Backup Exec
8 2 (1.00%) FortiGate
8 2 (1.00%) Packer
8 2 (1.00%) vCenter Server
8 2 (1.00%) vRealize
8 2 (1.00%) VxRail
8 2 (1.00%) WhatsUp Gold
9 1 (0.50%) Nessus
Vendors
1 62 (30.85%) VMware
2 56 (27.86%) Microsoft
3 22 (10.95%) Veeam
4 12 (5.97%) Citrix
5 11 (5.47%) Cisco
5 11 (5.47%) Red Hat
6 8 (3.98%) HP
7 7 (3.48%) Bloomberg
7 7 (3.48%) Okta
8 6 (2.99%) CA
8 6 (2.99%) F5
8 6 (2.99%) Refinitiv
9 5 (2.49%) Juniper
9 5 (2.49%) Palo Alto
9 5 (2.49%) ServiceNow
10 4 (1.99%) Aruba
10 4 (1.99%) Dell
10 4 (1.99%) Sun
11 3 (1.49%) Google
11 3 (1.49%) SolarWinds