Infrastructure Engineer Contract Job Trends in London

Infrastructure Engineer
England > London

The median Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in London is £533, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 29 July 2026.

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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 229 260 208
Rank change year-on-year +31 -52 +23
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 215 111 196
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.08% 0.82% 1.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.16% 0.88% 1.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 84 159
10th Percentile £350 £327 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £511 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.16% +2.25% -9.09%
75th Percentile £650 £600 £563
90th Percentile £688 £638 £642
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 £138.50 £72.75
% change year-on-year -47.62% +90.38% +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 18,473 12,646 15,469
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.04% 93.01% 94.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,088 8,560 11,001
10th Percentile £363 £328 £343
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £543 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.34% -1.32% -4.35%
75th Percentile £651 £675 £688
90th Percentile £763 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 341 198 220
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.98 £17.25
25th Percentile £21.93 £22.75 £22.00
Median hourly rate £39.00 £29.54 £32.15
Median % change year-on-year +32.05% -8.12% -14.28%
75th Percentile £59.72 £50.38 £52.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £63.75 £71.31
England median hourly rate £45.56 £26.02 £43.00
% change year-on-year +75.08% -39.49% -1.58%

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 29 July 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 29 July 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 +6 33 £575 -4.17% 10
West London - 8 £675 - 2
South London -19 2 £419 -30.21% 2
Infrastructure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 29 July 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.

1 210 (97.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 93 (43.26%) Azure
3 91 (42.33%) Windows
4 83 (38.60%) Security Cleared
5 69 (32.09%) Microsoft
6 65 (30.23%) Infrastructure as Code
7 64 (29.77%) Terraform
8 58 (26.98%) Active Directory
8 58 (26.98%) Windows Server
9 57 (26.51%) PowerShell
10 55 (25.58%) VMware
11 53 (24.65%) SC Cleared
12 52 (24.19%) DNS
13 47 (21.86%) DevOps
14 46 (21.40%) DHCP
15 45 (20.93%) Kubernetes
16 44 (20.47%) CI/CD
17 40 (18.60%) VMware Infrastructure
18 38 (17.67%) Linux
19 34 (15.81%) Migration
20 32 (14.88%) DV Cleared
20 32 (14.88%) Firewall
20 32 (14.88%) Python
21 31 (14.42%) AWS
21 31 (14.42%) GitHub
22 28 (13.02%) Ansible
23 25 (11.63%) SQL Server
23 25 (11.63%) VPN
24 22 (10.23%) Entra ID
24 22 (10.23%) GCP

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 14 (6.51%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (6.05%) SharePoint
3 7 (3.26%) WebSphere
4 6 (2.79%) CICS
5 3 (1.40%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (0.47%) Confluence
6 1 (0.47%) Exchange Server 2013
6 1 (0.47%) IBM HTTP Server
6 1 (0.47%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.47%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 3 (1.40%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.47%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 93 (43.26%) Azure
2 31 (14.42%) AWS
2 31 (14.42%) GitHub
3 22 (10.23%) Entra ID
3 22 (10.23%) GCP
3 22 (10.23%) Microsoft 365
4 20 (9.30%) IaaS
5 19 (8.84%) PaaS
6 17 (7.91%) Azure AKS
6 17 (7.91%) Azure DevOps
7 16 (7.44%) GitHub Actions
8 15 (6.98%) Azure Monitor
8 15 (6.98%) SaaS
9 5 (2.33%) OpenShift
10 4 (1.86%) Datadog
10 4 (1.86%) Power Platform
11 3 (1.40%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (1.40%) Azure Stack
11 3 (1.40%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 3 (1.40%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 52 (24.19%) DNS
2 46 (21.40%) DHCP
3 32 (14.88%) Firewall
4 25 (11.63%) VPN
5 16 (7.44%) TCP/IP
6 12 (5.58%) Network Security
7 10 (4.65%) LAN
7 10 (4.65%) WAN
8 8 (3.72%) SAN
8 8 (3.72%) SMTP
9 6 (2.79%) VLAN
9 6 (2.79%) Wi-Fi
10 5 (2.33%) NAS
11 4 (1.86%) Remote Desktop
12 3 (1.40%) Wireless
13 2 (0.93%) 4G
13 2 (0.93%) Internet
13 2 (0.93%) Structured Cabling
13 2 (0.93%) VSAN
14 1 (0.47%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (11.63%) SQL Server
2 7 (3.26%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (3.26%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (1.40%) Big Data
3 3 (1.40%) Power BI
4 2 (0.93%) BigQuery
4 2 (0.93%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.47%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.47%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.47%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (0.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (2.33%) Jenkins
2 4 (1.86%) Git
3 3 (1.40%) Chocolatey
3 3 (1.40%) GitLab
4 1 (0.47%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.47%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.47%) CMake
4 1 (0.47%) Gradle
4 1 (0.47%) Introscope
4 1 (0.47%) JIRA
4 1 (0.47%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 31 (14.42%) Social Skills
2 24 (11.16%) Finance
3 15 (6.98%) Banking
4 13 (6.05%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (3.26%) Public Sector
6 6 (2.79%) Legal
6 6 (2.79%) Telecoms
7 5 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.40%) Automotive
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%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.47%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.47%) Mandarin Language
10 1 (0.47%) Publishing
10 1 (0.47%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.26%) Middleware
2 5 (2.33%) ARM Templates
3 4 (1.86%) 802.1X
4 3 (1.40%) .NET
4 3 (1.40%) OpenID
4 3 (1.40%) YAML
5 2 (0.93%) ADO
5 2 (0.93%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (0.93%) JSON
5 2 (0.93%) REST
5 2 (0.93%) SAML
6 1 (0.47%) Bazel
6 1 (0.47%) Kafka
6 1 (0.47%) LDAP
6 1 (0.47%) Node.js
6 1 (0.47%) OAuth
6 1 (0.47%) OAuth2
6 1 (0.47%) OpenGL
6 1 (0.47%) Qt
Miscellaneous
1 14 (6.51%) Hybrid Cloud
2 13 (6.05%) PKI
3 12 (5.58%) Data Centre
4 10 (4.65%) Clustering
5 7 (3.26%) Onboarding
6 6 (2.79%) Cloud Native
6 6 (2.79%) Enterprise Storage
6 6 (2.79%) Mainframe
7 5 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.86%) Linux Command Line
8 4 (1.86%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.40%) Cyber Threat
9 3 (1.40%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.40%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.40%) Robotics
10 2 (0.93%) CCTV
10 2 (0.93%) Enterprise Cloud
10 2 (0.93%) Hedge funds
10 2 (0.93%) IoT
10 2 (0.93%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 91 (42.33%) Windows
2 58 (26.98%) Windows Server
3 38 (17.67%) Linux
4 7 (3.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (2.79%) Windows Server 2019
5 6 (2.79%) zOS
6 5 (2.33%) VMS
6 5 (2.33%) Windows Server 2003
7 4 (1.86%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.86%) Windows 10
7 4 (1.86%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (1.40%) Android
8 3 (1.40%) Apple iOS
8 3 (1.40%) Unix
8 3 (1.40%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.47%) AIX
9 1 (0.47%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.47%) OpenVMS
9 1 (0.47%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 210 (97.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 65 (30.23%) Infrastructure as Code
3 47 (21.86%) DevOps
4 44 (20.47%) CI/CD
5 34 (15.81%) Migration
6 21 (9.77%) Infrastructure Automation
6 21 (9.77%) Problem-Solving
7 19 (8.84%) Continuous Improvement
8 18 (8.37%) Disaster Recovery
8 18 (8.37%) ITIL
9 17 (7.91%) Incident Management
10 16 (7.44%) Root Cause Analysis
11 15 (6.98%) AI
11 15 (6.98%) Containerisation
12 14 (6.51%) High Availability
13 13 (6.05%) Infrastructure Transformation
14 12 (5.58%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 12 (5.58%) Validation
15 11 (5.12%) Agile
15 11 (5.12%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 57 (26.51%) PowerShell
2 32 (14.88%) Python
3 20 (9.30%) SQL
4 17 (7.91%) C#
5 16 (7.44%) Bash
6 11 (5.12%) Bicep
7 8 (3.72%) Java
8 6 (2.79%) Go
9 2 (0.93%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.93%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.47%) C
10 1 (0.47%) C++
10 1 (0.47%) Jython
10 1 (0.47%) Perl
10 1 (0.47%) VB
Qualifications
1 83 (38.60%) Security Cleared
2 53 (24.65%) SC Cleared
3 32 (14.88%) DV Cleared
4 13 (6.05%) Degree
5 8 (3.72%) Azure Certification
5 8 (3.72%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (2.79%) CCNP
7 5 (2.33%) CCNA
7 5 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.86%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (1.40%) JNCIP
9 3 (1.40%) JNCIS
10 2 (0.93%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.47%) CISA
11 1 (0.47%) CISM
11 1 (0.47%) CISSP
11 1 (0.47%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.47%) MCSE
11 1 (0.47%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.47%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.65%) SLA
2 8 (3.72%) QA
3 3 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.40%) NIST
4 2 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (0.93%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.47%) FedRAMP
5 1 (0.47%) GDPR
5 1 (0.47%) NCSC
5 1 (0.47%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 58 (26.98%) Active Directory
2 40 (18.60%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (9.77%) Hyper-V
4 16 (7.44%) VMware ESXi
5 13 (6.05%) Docker
6 12 (5.58%) vSphere
7 10 (4.65%) Virtual Desktop
8 9 (4.19%) Virtual Machines
9 8 (3.72%) BitLocker
9 8 (3.72%) Microsoft App-V
10 5 (2.33%) Virtual Servers
11 4 (1.86%) Terminal Services
12 3 (1.40%) Firmware
13 1 (0.47%) Ceph
13 1 (0.47%) VMware NSX
13 1 (0.47%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 64 (29.77%) Terraform
2 45 (20.93%) Kubernetes
3 28 (13.02%) Ansible
4 16 (7.44%) Microsoft Intune
5 13 (6.05%) vCenter Server
6 9 (4.19%) Puppet
6 9 (4.19%) SCCM
7 8 (3.72%) vMotion
8 5 (2.33%) Packer
8 5 (2.33%) Prometheus
9 4 (1.86%) FortiGate
9 4 (1.86%) systemd
10 3 (1.40%) Nagios
11 2 (0.93%) Argo
11 2 (0.93%) Grafana
11 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Clustering
12 1 (0.47%) Cilium
12 1 (0.47%) Failover Clustering
12 1 (0.47%) Proxmox
12 1 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 69 (32.09%) Microsoft
2 55 (25.58%) VMware
3 17 (7.91%) Google
4 16 (7.44%) Citrix
5 14 (6.51%) Cisco
6 11 (5.12%) NetApp
7 7 (3.26%) HP
8 6 (2.79%) Dynatrace
8 6 (2.79%) IBM
8 6 (2.79%) Red Hat
9 4 (1.86%) Dell
9 4 (1.86%) Symantec
9 4 (1.86%) Tenable
9 4 (1.86%) Zscaler
10 3 (1.40%) AppDynamics
10 3 (1.40%) Juniper
10 3 (1.40%) MikroTik
10 3 (1.40%) ServiceNow
11 2 (0.93%) EMC
11 2 (0.93%) Oracle