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 4 September 2026.

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

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 250 238 211
Rank change year-on-year -12 -27 +2
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 214 122 189
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.07% 0.92% 1.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.14% 0.99% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 88 154
10th Percentile £335 £344 £300
25th Percentile £415 £400 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £638 £650
England median daily rate £525 £483 £486
% change year-on-year +8.81% -0.67% -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 18,724 12,266 15,102
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.32% 92.83% 94.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,111 8,233 10,330
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
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 £685
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 368 206 188
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.04 £17.76
25th Percentile £21.93 £23.00 £22.00
Median hourly rate £39.00 £31.00 £34.25
Median % change year-on-year +25.83% -9.50% -8.47%
75th Percentile £62.84 £50.56 £55.25
90th Percentile £80.38 £66.54 £72.81
England median hourly rate £42.58 £25.15 £46.18
% change year-on-year +69.28% -45.54% +5.29%

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 4 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 4 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 -10 26 £625 +4.17% 9
West London - 8 £675 - 7
South London -9 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 4 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.

1 209 (97.66%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 96 (44.86%) Azure
3 95 (44.39%) Windows
4 84 (39.25%) Microsoft
5 73 (34.11%) Security Cleared
6 69 (32.24%) Infrastructure as Code
7 64 (29.91%) Active Directory
7 64 (29.91%) Terraform
8 62 (28.97%) Windows Server
9 61 (28.50%) PowerShell
10 59 (27.57%) VMware
11 55 (25.70%) DNS
12 49 (22.90%) DHCP
13 48 (22.43%) DevOps
14 47 (21.96%) SC Cleared
15 44 (20.56%) VMware Infrastructure
16 40 (18.69%) CI/CD
17 39 (18.22%) Migration
18 36 (16.82%) Firewall
18 36 (16.82%) Kubernetes
19 33 (15.42%) Linux
19 33 (15.42%) Python
20 32 (14.95%) AWS
21 30 (14.02%) Entra ID
21 30 (14.02%) Microsoft 365
22 28 (13.08%) DV Cleared
22 28 (13.08%) Infrastructure Automation
22 28 (13.08%) Problem-Solving
23 27 (12.62%) Ansible
23 27 (12.62%) VPN

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 (7.94%) SharePoint
2 16 (7.48%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (2.80%) CICS
3 6 (2.80%) WebSphere
4 4 (1.87%) SharePoint Server
5 2 (0.93%) Confluence
6 1 (0.47%) Exchange Server 2013
6 1 (0.47%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (1.40%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.93%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 96 (44.86%) Azure
2 32 (14.95%) AWS
3 30 (14.02%) Entra ID
3 30 (14.02%) Microsoft 365
4 23 (10.75%) GitHub
5 19 (8.88%) Azure DevOps
5 19 (8.88%) GCP
5 19 (8.88%) IaaS
6 17 (7.94%) PaaS
7 15 (7.01%) SaaS
8 13 (6.07%) Azure AKS
8 13 (6.07%) Azure Monitor
8 13 (6.07%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (3.27%) Power Platform
10 5 (2.34%) Azure Functions
10 5 (2.34%) Datadog
10 5 (2.34%) Nutanix
10 5 (2.34%) OpenShift
10 5 (2.34%) Serverless
11 3 (1.40%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 55 (25.70%) DNS
2 49 (22.90%) DHCP
3 36 (16.82%) Firewall
4 27 (12.62%) VPN
5 19 (8.88%) TCP/IP
6 15 (7.01%) Network Security
7 10 (4.67%) SAN
7 10 (4.67%) VLAN
8 9 (4.21%) LAN
8 9 (4.21%) WAN
9 8 (3.74%) Wi-Fi
10 6 (2.80%) NAS
10 6 (2.80%) SMTP
10 6 (2.80%) Wireless
11 4 (1.87%) 4G
11 4 (1.87%) Remote Desktop
12 2 (0.93%) Internet
12 2 (0.93%) SSL
12 2 (0.93%) Structured Cabling
12 2 (0.93%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (11.21%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.34%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (2.34%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (1.87%) Power BI
4 3 (1.40%) Big Data
5 2 (0.93%) BigQuery
5 2 (0.93%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 2 (0.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (0.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.47%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.47%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (2.34%) Git
1 5 (2.34%) Jenkins
2 4 (1.87%) Chocolatey
2 4 (1.87%) GitLab
3 2 (0.93%) JIRA
4 1 (0.47%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.47%) CMake
4 1 (0.47%) Gradle
4 1 (0.47%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 30 (14.02%) Social Skills
2 26 (12.15%) Finance
3 18 (8.41%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (7.01%) Banking
5 8 (3.74%) Public Sector
6 6 (2.80%) Telecoms
7 5 (2.34%) Automotive
7 5 (2.34%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.40%) Law
9 2 (0.93%) Billing
9 2 (0.93%) Local Government
10 1 (0.47%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.47%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.47%) Legal
10 1 (0.47%) Mandarin Language
10 1 (0.47%) Publishing
10 1 (0.47%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (29.91%) Terraform
2 8 (3.74%) ARM Templates
3 6 (2.80%) Middleware
4 5 (2.34%) 802.1X
4 5 (2.34%) YAML
5 4 (1.87%) OpenID
6 3 (1.40%) .NET
6 3 (1.40%) SAML
7 2 (0.93%) JSON
7 2 (0.93%) OAuth
7 2 (0.93%) REST
8 1 (0.47%) ADO
8 1 (0.47%) Bazel
8 1 (0.47%) Elastic Stack
8 1 (0.47%) Kafka
8 1 (0.47%) OAuth2
8 1 (0.47%) OpenGL
8 1 (0.47%) Qt
Miscellaneous
1 20 (9.35%) Hybrid Cloud
2 13 (6.07%) Clustering
3 12 (5.61%) PKI
4 11 (5.14%) Data Centre
5 6 (2.80%) Mainframe
5 6 (2.80%) Onboarding
6 5 (2.34%) Cloud Native
6 5 (2.34%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (2.34%) Linux Command Line
6 5 (2.34%) Robotics
7 4 (1.87%) Cyber Threat
7 4 (1.87%) Enterprise Storage
7 4 (1.87%) Public Cloud
7 4 (1.87%) Security Operations Centre
8 3 (1.40%) CCTV
8 3 (1.40%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.93%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.93%) Hedge funds
9 2 (0.93%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 95 (44.39%) Windows
2 62 (28.97%) Windows Server
3 33 (15.42%) Linux
4 6 (2.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (2.80%) Windows Server 2019
4 6 (2.80%) zOS
5 5 (2.34%) Ubuntu
5 5 (2.34%) VMS
5 5 (2.34%) Windows 10
5 5 (2.34%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (1.87%) Android
6 4 (1.87%) Apple iOS
7 3 (1.40%) Windows Server 2003
7 3 (1.40%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.93%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.47%) OpenVMS
9 1 (0.47%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.47%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 209 (97.66%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 69 (32.24%) Infrastructure as Code
3 48 (22.43%) DevOps
4 40 (18.69%) CI/CD
5 39 (18.22%) Migration
6 28 (13.08%) Infrastructure Automation
6 28 (13.08%) Problem-Solving
7 25 (11.68%) Disaster Recovery
8 23 (10.75%) ITIL
9 20 (9.35%) High Availability
10 19 (8.88%) Continuous Improvement
11 18 (8.41%) AI
11 18 (8.41%) Incident Management
12 16 (7.48%) Root Cause Analysis
13 14 (6.54%) Platform Engineering
13 14 (6.54%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 14 (6.54%) Validation
14 12 (5.61%) Change Management
15 11 (5.14%) Containerisation
15 11 (5.14%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 61 (28.50%) PowerShell
2 33 (15.42%) Python
3 18 (8.41%) Bash
4 15 (7.01%) SQL
5 14 (6.54%) Bicep
6 12 (5.61%) C#
7 7 (3.27%) Java
8 6 (2.80%) Go
9 2 (0.93%) C++
10 1 (0.47%) C
10 1 (0.47%) Perl
10 1 (0.47%) VB
Qualifications
1 73 (34.11%) Security Cleared
2 47 (21.96%) SC Cleared
3 28 (13.08%) DV Cleared
4 17 (7.94%) Degree
5 12 (5.61%) Cisco Certification
6 11 (5.14%) Azure Certification
7 10 (4.67%) CCNP
8 8 (3.74%) CCNA
8 8 (3.74%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (2.34%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (1.87%) JNCIP
10 4 (1.87%) JNCIS
11 2 (0.93%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.47%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.47%) CISA
12 1 (0.47%) CISM
12 1 (0.47%) CISSP
12 1 (0.47%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.47%) MCSE
12 1 (0.47%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.14%) SLA
2 9 (4.21%) QA
3 4 (1.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.40%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (1.40%) NIST
5 2 (0.93%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.47%) FedRAMP
6 1 (0.47%) GDPR
6 1 (0.47%) NCSC
6 1 (0.47%) NIST 800
System Software
1 64 (29.91%) Active Directory
2 44 (20.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (11.21%) Hyper-V
4 17 (7.94%) VMware ESXi
5 12 (5.61%) Virtual Desktop
5 12 (5.61%) vSphere
6 10 (4.67%) Docker
7 9 (4.21%) Virtual Machines
8 6 (2.80%) BitLocker
8 6 (2.80%) Firmware
8 6 (2.80%) Microsoft App-V
8 6 (2.80%) Virtual Servers
9 4 (1.87%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.47%) Ceph
10 1 (0.47%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.47%) VMware Server
10 1 (0.47%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 36 (16.82%) Kubernetes
2 27 (12.62%) Ansible
3 22 (10.28%) Microsoft Intune
4 13 (6.07%) vCenter Server
5 10 (4.67%) SCCM
6 6 (2.80%) FortiGate
6 6 (2.80%) Prometheus
6 6 (2.80%) Puppet
6 6 (2.80%) vMotion
7 5 (2.34%) systemd
8 4 (1.87%) Packer
9 3 (1.40%) Failover Clustering
9 3 (1.40%) Grafana
9 3 (1.40%) Microsoft Clustering
9 3 (1.40%) Nagios
9 3 (1.40%) SCOM
10 2 (0.93%) Argo
10 2 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.47%) Cilium
11 1 (0.47%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 84 (39.25%) Microsoft
2 59 (27.57%) VMware
3 15 (7.01%) Cisco
4 14 (6.54%) Citrix
4 14 (6.54%) Google
5 7 (3.27%) Dynatrace
5 7 (3.27%) HP
5 7 (3.27%) NetApp
6 6 (2.80%) IBM
7 5 (2.34%) Red Hat
7 5 (2.34%) Tenable
8 4 (1.87%) AppDynamics
8 4 (1.87%) Juniper
8 4 (1.87%) MikroTik
8 4 (1.87%) Symantec
8 4 (1.87%) Zscaler
9 2 (0.93%) BMC
9 2 (0.93%) Commvault
9 2 (0.93%) Dell
9 2 (0.93%) Remedy