Infrastructure Engineering Contract Job Trends in London

Infrastructure Engineering
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Infrastructure Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 199 158 119
Rank change year-on-year -41 -39 +73
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 200 220 368
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.35% 1.62% 1.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.48% 1.79% 2.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 162 259
10th Percentile £400 £326 £325
25th Percentile £425 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £531 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.59% +6.25% -9.09%
75th Percentile £610 £647 £638
90th Percentile £650 £688 £746
England median daily rate £503 £525 £484
% change year-on-year -4.29% +8.53% -3.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 3
10th Percentile £24.06 - £32.97
25th Percentile £25.65 - £34.42
Median hourly rate £28.75 £112.00 £36.84
Median % change year-on-year -74.33% +204.02% -53.25%
75th Percentile £32.30 - £38.04
90th Percentile £34.16 - £38.75
England median hourly rate £34.00 £62.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year -45.60% +35.34% -21.85%

All Process & Methodology Skills
London

Infrastructure Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,484 12,268 16,490
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.74% 90.53% 88.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,972 7,787 11,832
10th Percentile £350 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 207 153 345
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.80 £16.01
25th Percentile £24.81 £25.00 £19.25
Median hourly rate £34.00 £37.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.11% +23.33% -14.29%
75th Percentile £56.73 £55.25 £50.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £79.75 £72.50
England median hourly rate £25.47 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -27.23% - -

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Infrastructure Engineering relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Infrastructure Engineering job vacancy trend in London

Infrastructure Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Infrastructure Engineering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Infrastructure Engineering

Infrastructure Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in London over the 6 months to 9 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in London

Infrastructure Engineering
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Infrastructure Engineering.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Infrastructure Engineering

Infrastructure Engineering
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 Engineering within the London region over the 6 months to 9 February 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 34 £550 -7.76% 25
South London -6 3 £425 -9.57% 3
West London -16 3 £300 -25.00% 1
East London - 1 - - 5
Infrastructure Engineering
England

Infrastructure Engineering
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 27 (13.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (2.50%) Apache
2 5 (2.50%) Apache Spark
2 5 (2.50%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.00%) Confluence
4 3 (1.50%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.00%) nginx
5 2 (1.00%) Traefik
6 1 (0.50%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.50%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.50%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 3 (1.50%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.50%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 90 (45.00%) Azure
2 45 (22.50%) Microsoft 365
3 41 (20.50%) AWS
4 33 (16.50%) Entra ID
5 26 (13.00%) GCP
6 17 (8.50%) Serverless
7 16 (8.00%) IaaS
8 12 (6.00%) Azure DevOps
8 12 (6.00%) GitHub
9 11 (5.50%) Nutanix
10 10 (5.00%) Amazon S3
10 10 (5.00%) Microsoft Purview
11 9 (4.50%) AWS Lambda
12 8 (4.00%) Amazon EKS
12 8 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
12 8 (4.00%) PaaS
13 7 (3.50%) Mimecast
14 6 (3.00%) Amazon ECS
14 6 (3.00%) AWS CloudFormation
14 6 (3.00%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 40 (20.00%) Firewall
2 26 (13.00%) DNS
2 26 (13.00%) WAN
3 22 (11.00%) VPN
4 19 (9.50%) LAN
5 15 (7.50%) Network Security
6 13 (6.50%) Wi-Fi
7 10 (5.00%) DHCP
8 9 (4.50%) MPLS
9 5 (2.50%) SD-WAN
9 5 (2.50%) TCP/IP
9 5 (2.50%) VLAN
10 4 (2.00%) Software-Defined Networking
10 4 (2.00%) Wireless
10 4 (2.00%) WLAN
11 3 (1.50%) BGP
11 3 (1.50%) Cisco Wireless
11 3 (1.50%) OSPF
11 3 (1.50%) SAN
11 3 (1.50%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.50%) SQL Server
2 6 (3.00%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (2.00%) Big Data
3 4 (2.00%) DynamoDB
3 4 (2.00%) Relational Database
4 3 (1.50%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (1.50%) MongoDB
4 3 (1.50%) NoSQL
4 3 (1.50%) RDBMS
5 2 (1.00%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.00%) Data Lake
5 2 (1.00%) Hadoop
5 2 (1.00%) MariaDB
5 2 (1.00%) MySQL
5 2 (1.00%) Power BI
5 2 (1.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.50%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.50%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.50%) Parquet
6 1 (0.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 9 (4.50%) Git
1 9 (4.50%) GitLab
1 9 (4.50%) Jenkins
2 5 (2.50%) JIRA
3 1 (0.50%) Jaeger
3 1 (0.50%) MLflow
General
1 49 (24.50%) Finance
2 45 (22.50%) Social Skills
3 19 (9.50%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (9.00%) Banking
5 8 (4.00%) Legal
5 8 (4.00%) Public Sector
6 7 (3.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (3.00%) Spanish Language
8 4 (2.00%) Billing
8 4 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.50%) Front Office
9 3 (1.50%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.00%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.00%) Military
10 2 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.50%) Aviation
11 1 (0.50%) International Banking
11 1 (0.50%) Local Government
11 1 (0.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 107 (53.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 28 (14.00%) Senior
3 16 (8.00%) Network Engineer
4 15 (7.50%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 14 (7.00%) Security Engineer
6 13 (6.50%) Azure Engineer
7 12 (6.00%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
8 11 (5.50%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
9 10 (5.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
10 8 (4.00%) Cloud Engineer
10 8 (4.00%) Developer
10 8 (4.00%) Platform Engineer
11 7 (3.50%) Architect
11 7 (3.50%) DevOps Engineer
12 6 (3.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 6 (3.00%) VMware Engineer
13 5 (2.50%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
13 5 (2.50%) Infrastructure Design Engineer
13 5 (2.50%) Lead
13 5 (2.50%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.00%) Kafka
2 4 (2.00%) ARM Templates
2 4 (2.00%) NumPy
2 4 (2.00%) Pandas
3 3 (1.50%) RESTful
3 3 (1.50%) SciPy
3 3 (1.50%) Spring
3 3 (1.50%) Spring Boot
3 3 (1.50%) YAML
4 2 (1.00%) gRPC
4 2 (1.00%) Loki
4 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Graph
4 2 (1.00%) OpenTelemetry
4 2 (1.00%) PySpark
4 2 (1.00%) REST
5 1 (0.50%) FastAPI
5 1 (0.50%) Fluent Bit
5 1 (0.50%) Hugging Face
5 1 (0.50%) ModSecurity
5 1 (0.50%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 14 (7.00%) Onboarding
2 13 (6.50%) Data Centre
3 11 (5.50%) Cloud Native
3 11 (5.50%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (4.00%) PKI
5 7 (3.50%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (3.00%) Public Cloud
7 4 (2.00%) Clustering
7 4 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (2.00%) DataPower
7 4 (2.00%) Mainframe
7 4 (2.00%) Replication
8 3 (1.50%) CCTV
8 3 (1.50%) Client/Server
8 3 (1.50%) Derivative
8 3 (1.50%) Enterprise Storage
8 3 (1.50%) Equities
8 3 (1.50%) Equity Derivative
8 3 (1.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.50%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 59 (29.50%) Windows
2 40 (20.00%) Windows Server
3 35 (17.50%) Linux
4 5 (2.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (2.50%) Unix
4 5 (2.50%) VMS
5 4 (2.00%) Ubuntu
5 4 (2.00%) Windows 10
5 4 (2.00%) Windows Server 2003
6 3 (1.50%) Android
6 3 (1.50%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (1.50%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (1.00%) Apple iOS
7 2 (1.00%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.50%) CentOS
8 1 (0.50%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.50%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.50%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (23.00%) CI/CD
2 43 (21.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 42 (21.00%) DevOps
4 38 (19.00%) Problem-Solving
5 26 (13.00%) Migration
6 21 (10.50%) Agile
7 20 (10.00%) Containerisation
8 17 (8.50%) Cybersecurity
8 17 (8.50%) Observability
8 17 (8.50%) Platform Engineering
9 16 (8.00%) ITIL
10 15 (7.50%) Analytics
10 15 (7.50%) Cloud Security
11 14 (7.00%) RBAC
12 13 (6.50%) Project Delivery
13 12 (6.00%) Infrastructure Automation
14 10 (5.00%) Architectural Design
14 10 (5.00%) Information Security
14 10 (5.00%) Vulnerability Management
14 10 (5.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 38 (19.00%) Python
2 36 (18.00%) PowerShell
3 11 (5.50%) Java
4 9 (4.50%) Bash
5 8 (4.00%) SQL
6 4 (2.00%) Bicep
6 4 (2.00%) Go
6 4 (2.00%) Shell Script
7 3 (1.50%) C#
7 3 (1.50%) C++
7 3 (1.50%) Ruby
8 2 (1.00%) Scala
9 1 (0.50%) Perl
9 1 (0.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 25 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 15 (7.50%) Degree
2 15 (7.50%) SC Cleared
3 10 (5.00%) Azure Certification
3 10 (5.00%) DV Cleared
4 9 (4.50%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (3.00%) CCNP
5 6 (3.00%) CISSP
5 6 (3.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.50%) CCNA
6 5 (2.50%) CISM
7 4 (2.00%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.50%) JNCIP
8 3 (1.50%) JNCIS
8 3 (1.50%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.50%) PhD
9 2 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.00%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (1.00%) PMI Certification
9 2 (1.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 4 (2.00%) NIST
2 2 (1.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.00%) SLA
3 1 (0.50%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.50%) GDPR
3 1 (0.50%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 1 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.50%) QA
3 1 (0.50%) SOC 2
System Software
1 49 (24.50%) Active Directory
2 24 (12.00%) Docker
2 24 (12.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (6.00%) Hyper-V
4 9 (4.50%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (3.50%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (2.50%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (2.50%) vSphere
7 4 (2.00%) BitLocker
8 3 (1.50%) Firmware
8 3 (1.50%) Microsoft App-V
8 3 (1.50%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (1.00%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.50%) etcd
10 1 (0.50%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 46 (23.00%) Terraform
2 41 (20.50%) Microsoft Intune
3 30 (15.00%) Kubernetes
4 22 (11.00%) Ansible
5 19 (9.50%) SCCM
6 12 (6.00%) Grafana
7 6 (3.00%) CASB
7 6 (3.00%) Prometheus
7 6 (3.00%) SCOrch
8 5 (2.50%) AirWatch
8 5 (2.50%) Puppet
8 5 (2.50%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (2.00%) Argo
9 4 (2.00%) FortiGate
9 4 (2.00%) vCenter Server
10 3 (1.50%) Istio
10 3 (1.50%) Jamf Pro
10 3 (1.50%) vMotion
11 2 (1.00%) Progress Chef
11 2 (1.00%) vRealize
Vendors
1 70 (35.00%) Microsoft
2 33 (16.50%) VMware
3 16 (8.00%) Google
4 13 (6.50%) Cisco
5 11 (5.50%) CyberArk
6 9 (4.50%) Palo Alto
7 8 (4.00%) Dell
8 7 (3.50%) Citrix
8 7 (3.50%) Fortinet
9 6 (3.00%) NetApp
9 6 (3.00%) Veeam
9 6 (3.00%) Zscaler
10 5 (2.50%) Juniper
10 5 (2.50%) SolarWinds
11 4 (2.00%) Aruba
11 4 (2.00%) Commvault
11 4 (2.00%) Databricks
11 4 (2.00%) IBM
11 4 (2.00%) Red Hat
11 4 (2.00%) Tenable