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 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 159 190 148
Rank change year-on-year +31 -42 +11
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 348 187 317
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.77% 1.39% 1.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.98% 1.50% 2.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 240 142 246
10th Percentile £406 £350 £325
25th Percentile £448 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +0.96% -5.45%
75th Percentile £650 £600 £640
90th Percentile £719 £650 £731
England median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -1.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £30.00 -
England median hourly rate £72.54 £57.75 £54.88
% change year-on-year +25.61% +5.24% -24.31%

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 17,532 12,440 15,649
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.99% 92.14% 88.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,643 8,309 11,135
10th Percentile £360 £331 £340
25th Percentile £440 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - -5.58%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £680
90th Percentile £769 £798 £800
England median daily rate £525 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +1.94% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 274 234 293
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £15.96
25th Percentile £22.87 £24.66 £20.02
Median hourly rate £36.75 £32.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.84% +6.67% -27.31%
75th Percentile £58.98 £50.38 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.60 £68.75
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -6.07%

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 July 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 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 +12 50 £575 +4.55% 23
West London -12 8 £675 - 13
South London -6 7 £425 -29.17%
East London -2 1 £775 +64.02% 4
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 19 (5.46%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (3.45%) CICS
3 8 (2.30%) SharePoint
4 7 (2.01%) Confluence
4 7 (2.01%) WebSphere
5 5 (1.44%) Apache
6 3 (0.86%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.57%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.29%) CloudStack
8 1 (0.29%) IBM HTTP Server
8 1 (0.29%) SAS
8 1 (0.29%) SharePoint Server
8 1 (0.29%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 3 (0.86%) AutoCAD
2 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 162 (46.55%) Azure
2 91 (26.15%) AWS
3 48 (13.79%) GitHub
4 46 (13.22%) GCP
5 35 (10.06%) Azure DevOps
6 34 (9.77%) GitHub Actions
7 30 (8.62%) IaaS
8 28 (8.05%) Microsoft 365
9 27 (7.76%) Entra ID
10 25 (7.18%) Azure AKS
10 25 (7.18%) PaaS
11 19 (5.46%) Amazon EKS
11 19 (5.46%) SaaS
11 19 (5.46%) Serverless
12 16 (4.60%) Azure Monitor
13 15 (4.31%) Amazon S3
13 15 (4.31%) AWS Lambda
14 12 (3.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 8 (2.30%) AWS CloudFormation
15 8 (2.30%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 59 (16.95%) DNS
2 41 (11.78%) DHCP
3 38 (10.92%) Firewall
4 31 (8.91%) VPN
5 22 (6.32%) Network Security
6 15 (4.31%) WAN
7 13 (3.74%) TCP/IP
8 10 (2.87%) LAN
9 9 (2.59%) SMTP
10 7 (2.01%) SSL
11 6 (1.72%) SAN
12 5 (1.44%) DMZ
12 5 (1.44%) NAS
12 5 (1.44%) SD-WAN
12 5 (1.44%) Structured Cabling
13 4 (1.15%) HTTP
13 4 (1.15%) MPLS
13 4 (1.15%) Remote Desktop
14 3 (0.86%) Internet
14 3 (0.86%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (6.61%) SQL Server
2 8 (2.30%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (2.30%) DynamoDB
2 8 (2.30%) Elasticsearch
3 6 (1.72%) Db2
3 6 (1.72%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (1.44%) Big Data
5 3 (0.86%) BigQuery
5 3 (0.86%) MongoDB
5 3 (0.86%) NoSQL
5 3 (0.86%) RDBMS
5 3 (0.86%) Relational Database
5 3 (0.86%) Snowflake Schema
6 2 (0.57%) Hadoop
6 2 (0.57%) Power BI
7 1 (0.29%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.29%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.29%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.29%) Metadata
7 1 (0.29%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 19 (5.46%) GitLab
2 14 (4.02%) Jenkins
3 13 (3.74%) Git
4 5 (1.44%) Bitbucket
4 5 (1.44%) JIRA
5 2 (0.57%) Subversion
6 1 (0.29%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.29%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.29%) CMake
6 1 (0.29%) Gradle
6 1 (0.29%) Introscope
General
1 80 (22.99%) Social Skills
2 65 (18.68%) Finance
3 28 (8.05%) Banking
4 19 (5.46%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (5.46%) Public Sector
5 17 (4.89%) Documentation Skills
6 13 (3.74%) Legal
7 8 (2.30%) Law
7 8 (2.30%) Retail
8 7 (2.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (1.44%) Billing
9 5 (1.44%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (1.44%) Telecoms
10 4 (1.15%) Publishing
11 3 (0.86%) Military
12 2 (0.57%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.57%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.57%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.57%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 197 (56.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 53 (15.23%) Cloud Engineer
3 38 (10.92%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 31 (8.91%) Senior
5 30 (8.62%) Azure Engineer
6 21 (6.03%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 20 (5.75%) DevOps Engineer
8 17 (4.89%) Architect
8 17 (4.89%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
9 16 (4.60%) Lead
10 14 (4.02%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 14 (4.02%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
11 11 (3.16%) Network Engineer
11 11 (3.16%) Platform Engineer
12 10 (2.87%) Infrastructure Support
12 10 (2.87%) NetApp Engineer
12 10 (2.87%) Storage Engineer
12 10 (2.87%) Support Engineer
13 9 (2.59%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
13 9 (2.59%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (2.87%) REST
2 9 (2.59%) JSON
3 7 (2.01%) Middleware
4 6 (1.72%) RESTful
4 6 (1.72%) SOAP
4 6 (1.72%) Web Services
4 6 (1.72%) WSDL
4 6 (1.72%) YAML
5 5 (1.44%) AWS CDK
5 5 (1.44%) Elastic Stack
5 5 (1.44%) Loki
5 5 (1.44%) OpenID
6 4 (1.15%) .NET
6 4 (1.15%) Kafka
6 4 (1.15%) SAML
7 3 (0.86%) ADO
7 3 (0.86%) HTML
7 3 (0.86%) ModSecurity
7 3 (0.86%) Spring
7 3 (0.86%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 21 (6.03%) Cloud Native
1 21 (6.03%) Data Centre
2 20 (5.75%) Hybrid Cloud
3 15 (4.31%) Onboarding
4 12 (3.45%) Mainframe
5 11 (3.16%) PKI
6 10 (2.87%) Distributed Systems
7 9 (2.59%) Clustering
8 8 (2.30%) Enterprise Storage
9 7 (2.01%) CMDB
9 7 (2.01%) Public Cloud
10 6 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (1.72%) DataPower
10 6 (1.72%) Online Banking
10 6 (1.72%) Replication
10 6 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (1.44%) AI Agents
11 5 (1.44%) CCTV
11 5 (1.44%) Enterprise Cloud
11 5 (1.44%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 108 (31.03%) Windows
2 63 (18.10%) Windows Server
3 52 (14.94%) Linux
4 12 (3.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 12 (3.45%) zOS
5 9 (2.59%) Unix
6 6 (1.72%) Android
6 6 (1.72%) Apple iOS
6 6 (1.72%) Windows Server 2003
6 6 (1.72%) Windows Server 2019
7 5 (1.44%) VMS
8 4 (1.15%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.86%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.86%) Windows Server 2012
9 3 (0.86%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.57%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.29%) AIX
11 1 (0.29%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.29%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (27.87%) Infrastructure as Code
2 93 (26.72%) DevOps
3 88 (25.29%) CI/CD
4 50 (14.37%) Platform Engineering
5 44 (12.64%) AI
6 43 (12.36%) Migration
7 38 (10.92%) Containerisation
8 36 (10.34%) Problem-Solving
9 31 (8.91%) Infrastructure Automation
10 28 (8.05%) Agile
10 28 (8.05%) Incident Response
11 27 (7.76%) Continuous Improvement
11 27 (7.76%) Observability
11 27 (7.76%) Roadmaps
12 25 (7.18%) Disaster Recovery
13 22 (6.32%) Runbook
14 21 (6.03%) Validation
15 20 (5.75%) Configuration Management
15 20 (5.75%) Stakeholder Management
16 19 (5.46%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 80 (22.99%) PowerShell
2 76 (21.84%) Python
3 30 (8.62%) Bash
3 30 (8.62%) SQL
4 19 (5.46%) Java
5 18 (5.17%) C#
6 15 (4.31%) Shell Script
7 13 (3.74%) Bicep
8 6 (1.72%) Go
8 6 (1.72%) JavaScript
8 6 (1.72%) JCL
9 3 (0.86%) Kusto Query Language
9 3 (0.86%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.57%) C++
10 2 (0.57%) Korn
10 2 (0.57%) Ruby
10 2 (0.57%) Scala
11 1 (0.29%) C
11 1 (0.29%) Jython
11 1 (0.29%) Perl
Qualifications
1 108 (31.03%) Security Cleared
2 71 (20.40%) SC Cleared
3 38 (10.92%) DV Cleared
4 13 (3.74%) Azure Certification
4 13 (3.74%) Degree
5 11 (3.16%) Cisco Certification
6 9 (2.59%) AWS Certification
6 9 (2.59%) CISSP
7 8 (2.30%) CCNA
8 4 (1.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (1.15%) CCNP
8 4 (1.15%) CISM
9 3 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.86%) PMI Certification
9 3 (0.86%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (0.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (0.57%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (0.57%) CRISC
10 2 (0.57%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (2.59%) QA
2 8 (2.30%) NIST
3 6 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (1.72%) PCI DSS
4 5 (1.44%) SLA
5 4 (1.15%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (1.15%) SOC 2
6 3 (0.86%) Data Quality
6 3 (0.86%) GDPR
6 3 (0.86%) NCSC
7 2 (0.57%) PMO
8 1 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.29%) FedRAMP
8 1 (0.29%) GRC
8 1 (0.29%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 63 (18.10%) Active Directory
2 51 (14.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 33 (9.48%) Docker
4 24 (6.90%) Hyper-V
5 18 (5.17%) VMware ESXi
6 14 (4.02%) vSphere
7 12 (3.45%) Virtual Machines
8 11 (3.16%) Virtual Desktop
9 9 (2.59%) BitLocker
9 9 (2.59%) Microsoft App-V
10 4 (1.15%) Firmware
10 4 (1.15%) Terminal Services
10 4 (1.15%) VMware NSX
11 3 (0.86%) NFS
11 3 (0.86%) Virtual Servers
12 2 (0.57%) Postfix
12 2 (0.57%) Sendmail
12 2 (0.57%) Varnish
13 1 (0.29%) KVM
13 1 (0.29%) RACF
Systems Management
1 105 (30.17%) Terraform
2 71 (20.40%) Kubernetes
3 43 (12.36%) Ansible
4 18 (5.17%) Microsoft Intune
5 16 (4.60%) Puppet
5 16 (4.60%) vCenter Server
6 14 (4.02%) Grafana
7 11 (3.16%) Prometheus
8 10 (2.87%) Packer
9 9 (2.59%) vMotion
10 6 (1.72%) Argo
10 6 (1.72%) FortiGate
11 5 (1.44%) Nessus
11 5 (1.44%) SCCM
12 4 (1.15%) Nagios
13 3 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
13 3 (0.86%) systemd
13 3 (0.86%) yum
14 2 (0.57%) HAProxy
14 2 (0.57%) vRealize
Vendors
1 91 (26.15%) Microsoft
2 65 (18.68%) VMware
3 25 (7.18%) Citrix
4 22 (6.32%) Google
5 16 (4.60%) ServiceNow
6 15 (4.31%) NetApp
7 10 (2.87%) Cisco
8 7 (2.01%) Dell
8 7 (2.01%) Oracle
8 7 (2.01%) Red Hat
8 7 (2.01%) Tenable
9 6 (1.72%) CyberArk
9 6 (1.72%) IBM
9 6 (1.72%) Zscaler
10 5 (1.44%) Qualys
11 4 (1.15%) EMC
11 4 (1.15%) HP
11 4 (1.15%) SolarWinds
11 4 (1.15%) Splunk
11 4 (1.15%) Symantec