Infrastructure Engineer Contract Job Trends in London

Infrastructure Engineer
England > London

The median Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in London is £545, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 11 August 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 231 243 206
Rank change year-on-year +12 -37 +23
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 228 118 190
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.13% 0.87% 1.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.21% 0.94% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 152 84 154
10th Percentile £350 £337 £300
25th Percentile £419 £400 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.81% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £650 £623 £575
90th Percentile £688 £646 £647
England median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £30.00 -
England median hourly rate £72.54 £53.50 £72.75
% change year-on-year +35.59% -26.46% +0.34%

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 18,769 12,620 15,280
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.10% 92.98% 94.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,234 8,539 10,760
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% -0.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £512 £525
% change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 349 200 201
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.89 £17.25
25th Percentile £21.93 £22.98 £22.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £29.54 £33.07
Median % change year-on-year +26.97% -10.69% -12.97%
75th Percentile £58.75 £49.56 £53.75
90th Percentile £79.00 £63.88 £71.88
England median hourly rate £43.10 £25.15 £45.00
% change year-on-year +71.38% -44.11% +8.43%

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 11 August 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 11 August 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 -9 32 £625 +4.17% 19
West London - 8 £675 -
South London -9 4 £473 -21.25% 2
Infrastructure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 11 August 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.

1 222 (97.37%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 101 (44.30%) Azure
3 98 (42.98%) Windows
4 86 (37.72%) Security Cleared
5 79 (34.65%) Microsoft
6 69 (30.26%) Infrastructure as Code
6 69 (30.26%) Terraform
7 64 (28.07%) PowerShell
8 61 (26.75%) Active Directory
8 61 (26.75%) Windows Server
9 57 (25.00%) SC Cleared
9 57 (25.00%) VMware
10 55 (24.12%) DNS
11 52 (22.81%) DevOps
12 49 (21.49%) DHCP
13 46 (20.18%) CI/CD
14 44 (19.30%) Kubernetes
15 42 (18.42%) VMware Infrastructure
16 39 (17.11%) Linux
16 39 (17.11%) Migration
17 36 (15.79%) Firewall
17 36 (15.79%) Python
18 34 (14.91%) AWS
19 31 (13.60%) DV Cleared
19 31 (13.60%) GitHub
20 28 (12.28%) Ansible
20 28 (12.28%) VPN
21 27 (11.84%) Microsoft 365
21 27 (11.84%) Problem-Solving
21 27 (11.84%) 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 16 (7.02%) SharePoint
2 15 (6.58%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (3.07%) WebSphere
4 6 (2.63%) CICS
5 4 (1.75%) SharePoint Server
6 2 (0.88%) Confluence
7 1 (0.44%) Exchange Server 2013
7 1 (0.44%) IBM HTTP Server
7 1 (0.44%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.44%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 3 (1.32%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.88%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 101 (44.30%) Azure
2 34 (14.91%) AWS
3 31 (13.60%) GitHub
4 27 (11.84%) Microsoft 365
5 26 (11.40%) Entra ID
6 20 (8.77%) Azure DevOps
6 20 (8.77%) GCP
6 20 (8.77%) IaaS
7 19 (8.33%) PaaS
8 17 (7.46%) Azure AKS
9 16 (7.02%) GitHub Actions
9 16 (7.02%) SaaS
10 15 (6.58%) Azure Monitor
11 7 (3.07%) Power Platform
12 6 (2.63%) Serverless
13 5 (2.19%) Datadog
13 5 (2.19%) OpenShift
14 4 (1.75%) Azure Functions
14 4 (1.75%) Nutanix
15 3 (1.32%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 55 (24.12%) DNS
2 49 (21.49%) DHCP
3 36 (15.79%) Firewall
4 28 (12.28%) VPN
5 19 (8.33%) TCP/IP
6 15 (6.58%) Network Security
7 11 (4.82%) LAN
7 11 (4.82%) WAN
8 9 (3.95%) SAN
9 8 (3.51%) VLAN
10 7 (3.07%) SMTP
10 7 (3.07%) Wi-Fi
11 5 (2.19%) NAS
11 5 (2.19%) Wireless
12 4 (1.75%) 4G
12 4 (1.75%) Remote Desktop
13 2 (0.88%) Internet
13 2 (0.88%) Structured Cabling
13 2 (0.88%) VSAN
14 1 (0.44%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (11.84%) SQL Server
2 7 (3.07%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (2.63%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (1.75%) Power BI
5 3 (1.32%) Big Data
6 2 (0.88%) BigQuery
6 2 (0.88%) DynamoDB
6 2 (0.88%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 2 (0.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (0.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.44%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.44%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (2.19%) Git
1 5 (2.19%) Jenkins
2 4 (1.75%) Chocolatey
3 3 (1.32%) GitLab
4 2 (0.88%) JIRA
5 1 (0.44%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.44%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.44%) CMake
5 1 (0.44%) Gradle
5 1 (0.44%) Introscope
5 1 (0.44%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 33 (14.47%) Social Skills
2 25 (10.96%) Finance
3 16 (7.02%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (7.02%) Banking
4 8 (3.51%) Public Sector
5 6 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (2.63%) Telecoms
6 5 (2.19%) Automotive
7 3 (1.32%) Law
7 3 (1.32%) Legal
8 2 (0.88%) Billing
8 2 (0.88%) Local Government
9 1 (0.44%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.44%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.44%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.44%) Mandarin Language
9 1 (0.44%) Publishing
9 1 (0.44%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.51%) ARM Templates
2 7 (3.07%) Middleware
3 5 (2.19%) 802.1X
3 5 (2.19%) YAML
4 3 (1.32%) .NET
4 3 (1.32%) OpenID
5 2 (0.88%) ADO
5 2 (0.88%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (0.88%) JSON
5 2 (0.88%) REST
5 2 (0.88%) SAML
6 1 (0.44%) Bazel
6 1 (0.44%) Kafka
6 1 (0.44%) LDAP
6 1 (0.44%) Node.js
6 1 (0.44%) OAuth
6 1 (0.44%) OAuth2
6 1 (0.44%) OpenGL
6 1 (0.44%) Qt
Miscellaneous
1 15 (6.58%) Hybrid Cloud
2 13 (5.70%) Data Centre
2 13 (5.70%) PKI
3 11 (4.82%) Clustering
4 7 (3.07%) Onboarding
5 6 (2.63%) Cloud Native
5 6 (2.63%) Mainframe
6 5 (2.19%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (2.19%) Enterprise Storage
6 5 (2.19%) Linux Command Line
6 5 (2.19%) Robotics
7 4 (1.75%) Cyber Threat
7 4 (1.75%) Public Cloud
7 4 (1.75%) Security Operations Centre
7 4 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.88%) CCTV
9 2 (0.88%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (0.88%) Hedge funds
9 2 (0.88%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 98 (42.98%) Windows
2 61 (26.75%) Windows Server
3 39 (17.11%) Linux
4 7 (3.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (2.63%) VMS
5 6 (2.63%) Windows Server 2019
5 6 (2.63%) zOS
6 5 (2.19%) Ubuntu
6 5 (2.19%) Windows 10
6 5 (2.19%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (1.75%) Android
7 4 (1.75%) Apple iOS
7 4 (1.75%) Windows Server 2003
8 3 (1.32%) Unix
8 3 (1.32%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.88%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.44%) AIX
10 1 (0.44%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.44%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.44%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 222 (97.37%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 69 (30.26%) Infrastructure as Code
3 52 (22.81%) DevOps
4 46 (20.18%) CI/CD
5 39 (17.11%) Migration
6 27 (11.84%) Problem-Solving
7 24 (10.53%) Infrastructure Automation
8 21 (9.21%) Disaster Recovery
9 20 (8.77%) Continuous Improvement
10 19 (8.33%) Incident Management
10 19 (8.33%) ITIL
11 17 (7.46%) AI
11 17 (7.46%) High Availability
12 16 (7.02%) Root Cause Analysis
13 15 (6.58%) Containerisation
14 14 (6.14%) Validation
15 13 (5.70%) Infrastructure Transformation
15 13 (5.70%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 12 (5.26%) Agile
16 12 (5.26%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 64 (28.07%) PowerShell
2 36 (15.79%) Python
3 21 (9.21%) SQL
4 18 (7.89%) Bash
5 17 (7.46%) C#
6 13 (5.70%) Bicep
7 8 (3.51%) Java
8 6 (2.63%) Go
9 2 (0.88%) C++
9 2 (0.88%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.88%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.44%) C
10 1 (0.44%) Jython
10 1 (0.44%) Perl
10 1 (0.44%) VB
Qualifications
1 86 (37.72%) Security Cleared
2 57 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 31 (13.60%) DV Cleared
4 14 (6.14%) Degree
5 11 (4.82%) Cisco Certification
6 10 (4.39%) Azure Certification
7 9 (3.95%) CCNP
8 7 (3.07%) CCNA
9 6 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (2.19%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (1.75%) JNCIP
11 4 (1.75%) JNCIS
12 2 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.88%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.44%) AWS Certification
13 1 (0.44%) CISA
13 1 (0.44%) CISSP
13 1 (0.44%) Master's Degree
13 1 (0.44%) MCSE
13 1 (0.44%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.82%) SLA
2 9 (3.95%) QA
3 3 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.32%) NIST
4 2 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (0.88%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.44%) FedRAMP
5 1 (0.44%) GDPR
5 1 (0.44%) NCSC
5 1 (0.44%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 61 (26.75%) Active Directory
2 42 (18.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (9.65%) Hyper-V
4 17 (7.46%) VMware ESXi
5 12 (5.26%) Docker
5 12 (5.26%) vSphere
6 11 (4.82%) Virtual Desktop
7 9 (3.95%) Virtual Machines
8 7 (3.07%) BitLocker
8 7 (3.07%) Microsoft App-V
9 6 (2.63%) Virtual Servers
10 5 (2.19%) Firmware
11 4 (1.75%) Terminal Services
12 1 (0.44%) Ceph
12 1 (0.44%) VMware NSX
12 1 (0.44%) VMware Server
12 1 (0.44%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 69 (30.26%) Terraform
2 44 (19.30%) Kubernetes
3 28 (12.28%) Ansible
4 20 (8.77%) Microsoft Intune
5 13 (5.70%) vCenter Server
6 10 (4.39%) SCCM
7 8 (3.51%) Puppet
8 7 (3.07%) vMotion
9 6 (2.63%) FortiGate
10 5 (2.19%) Packer
10 5 (2.19%) Prometheus
10 5 (2.19%) systemd
11 3 (1.32%) Microsoft Clustering
11 3 (1.32%) Nagios
12 2 (0.88%) Argo
12 2 (0.88%) Grafana
12 2 (0.88%) SCOM
13 1 (0.44%) Cilium
13 1 (0.44%) Dell DRAC
13 1 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 79 (34.65%) Microsoft
2 57 (25.00%) VMware
3 16 (7.02%) Cisco
4 15 (6.58%) Citrix
4 15 (6.58%) Google
5 10 (4.39%) NetApp
6 7 (3.07%) Dynatrace
6 7 (3.07%) HP
7 6 (2.63%) IBM
7 6 (2.63%) Red Hat
8 5 (2.19%) Tenable
9 4 (1.75%) AppDynamics
9 4 (1.75%) Dell
9 4 (1.75%) Juniper
9 4 (1.75%) MikroTik
9 4 (1.75%) Symantec
9 4 (1.75%) Zscaler
10 3 (1.32%) Oracle
10 3 (1.32%) ServiceNow
11 2 (0.88%) EMC