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

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 192 159 123
Rank change year-on-year -33 -36 +70
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 196 220 349
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.34% 1.58% 1.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.47% 1.75% 2.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 165 245
10th Percentile £400 £321 £330
25th Percentile £450 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £675 £688 £741
England median daily rate £508 £525 £480
% change year-on-year -3.33% +9.38% -1.79%
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% -47.92%
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% -14.48%

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 13,291 12,555 16,175
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.17% 90.44% 88.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,813 8,005 11,559
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £558
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -1.43% -7.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 220 154 294
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.23 £16.25
25th Percentile £24.61 £24.66 £19.93
Median hourly rate £32.98 £35.00 £31.13
Median % change year-on-year -5.77% +12.45% -12.32%
75th Percentile £55.25 £53.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £80.53 £73.38
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £38.16
% change year-on-year -28.14% -8.27% +9.67%

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 21 January 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 21 January 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 0 37 £550 -7.17% 12
West London -19 3 £300 -25.00% 3
South London -9 1 - - 4
East London - 1 - - 3
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 26 (13.27%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (2.55%) Apache
2 5 (2.55%) Apache Spark
2 5 (2.55%) Confluence
2 5 (2.55%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.53%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.02%) nginx
4 2 (1.02%) Traefik
5 1 (0.51%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.51%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.51%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 3 (1.53%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.51%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 85 (43.37%) Azure
2 50 (25.51%) AWS
3 43 (21.94%) Microsoft 365
4 31 (15.82%) Entra ID
5 21 (10.71%) GCP
6 17 (8.67%) Serverless
7 15 (7.65%) GitHub
8 14 (7.14%) Amazon S3
8 14 (7.14%) IaaS
9 13 (6.63%) Azure DevOps
10 11 (5.61%) GitHub Actions
11 10 (5.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 10 (5.10%) Nutanix
12 9 (4.59%) AWS Lambda
12 9 (4.59%) Microsoft Purview
13 8 (4.08%) Amazon EKS
14 7 (3.57%) Amazon EC2
14 7 (3.57%) Amazon ECS
14 7 (3.57%) AWS CloudFormation
14 7 (3.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 46 (23.47%) Firewall
2 29 (14.80%) VPN
3 26 (13.27%) DNS
4 25 (12.76%) WAN
5 18 (9.18%) LAN
6 17 (8.67%) Network Security
7 15 (7.65%) TCP/IP
8 13 (6.63%) Wi-Fi
9 9 (4.59%) MPLS
9 9 (4.59%) SSL
10 8 (4.08%) DHCP
11 5 (2.55%) SD-WAN
11 5 (2.55%) VLAN
11 5 (2.55%) Wireless
12 4 (2.04%) HTTP
12 4 (2.04%) WLAN
13 3 (1.53%) BGP
13 3 (1.53%) Cisco Wireless
13 3 (1.53%) OSPF
14 2 (1.02%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.59%) SQL Server
2 6 (3.06%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (2.04%) Big Data
3 4 (2.04%) DynamoDB
3 4 (2.04%) Relational Database
4 3 (1.53%) MongoDB
4 3 (1.53%) NoSQL
4 3 (1.53%) RDBMS
5 2 (1.02%) Data Lake
5 2 (1.02%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (1.02%) Hadoop
5 2 (1.02%) MariaDB
5 2 (1.02%) MySQL
5 2 (1.02%) Power BI
5 2 (1.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.51%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.51%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.51%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.51%) Parquet
6 1 (0.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 17 (8.67%) Git
2 16 (8.16%) Jenkins
3 11 (5.61%) GitLab
4 6 (3.06%) JIRA
5 2 (1.02%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.51%) Jaeger
6 1 (0.51%) MLflow
General
1 49 (25.00%) Finance
2 44 (22.45%) Social Skills
3 22 (11.22%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (9.18%) Banking
5 11 (5.61%) Public Sector
6 7 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (3.06%) Spanish Language
8 4 (2.04%) Billing
8 4 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (2.04%) Front Office
8 4 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.53%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.53%) Legal
9 3 (1.53%) Military
9 3 (1.53%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.51%) Games
10 1 (0.51%) International Banking
10 1 (0.51%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.51%) Marketing
10 1 (0.51%) Retail
Job Titles
1 99 (50.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 31 (15.82%) Senior
3 20 (10.20%) Network Engineer
4 17 (8.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 14 (7.14%) Security Engineer
6 12 (6.12%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
6 12 (6.12%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
7 11 (5.61%) Azure Engineer
7 11 (5.61%) Platform Engineer
8 9 (4.59%) Developer
9 8 (4.08%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
9 8 (4.08%) DevOps Engineer
9 8 (4.08%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 6 (3.06%) Cloud Engineer
10 6 (3.06%) VMware Engineer
11 5 (2.55%) Architect
11 5 (2.55%) Data Engineer
11 5 (2.55%) Design Engineer
11 5 (2.55%) Infrastructure Design Engineer
11 5 (2.55%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (4.59%) Kafka
2 4 (2.04%) ARM Templates
2 4 (2.04%) gRPC
2 4 (2.04%) NumPy
2 4 (2.04%) Pandas
2 4 (2.04%) REST
2 4 (2.04%) RESTful
3 3 (1.53%) GraphQL
3 3 (1.53%) SciPy
3 3 (1.53%) Spring
3 3 (1.53%) Spring Boot
3 3 (1.53%) YAML
4 2 (1.02%) Loki
4 2 (1.02%) Microsoft Graph
4 2 (1.02%) Middleware
4 2 (1.02%) OpenTelemetry
4 2 (1.02%) PySpark
5 1 (0.51%) Fluent Bit
5 1 (0.51%) ModSecurity
5 1 (0.51%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 11 (5.61%) Cloud Native
1 11 (5.61%) Onboarding
2 10 (5.10%) Data Centre
3 8 (4.08%) Public Cloud
4 7 (3.57%) PKI
5 6 (3.06%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (3.06%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (3.06%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (2.55%) Private Cloud
6 5 (2.55%) Replication
7 4 (2.04%) DataPower
7 4 (2.04%) Equities
7 4 (2.04%) Mainframe
8 3 (1.53%) CCTV
8 3 (1.53%) Client/Server
8 3 (1.53%) Clustering
8 3 (1.53%) Derivative
8 3 (1.53%) Equity Derivative
8 3 (1.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.53%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 55 (28.06%) Windows
2 39 (19.90%) Linux
3 37 (18.88%) Windows Server
4 10 (5.10%) Unix
5 4 (2.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (2.04%) Ubuntu
5 4 (2.04%) VMS
5 4 (2.04%) Windows 10
6 3 (1.53%) Windows Server 2003
6 3 (1.53%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (1.02%) Android
7 2 (1.02%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.51%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.51%) CentOS
8 1 (0.51%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.51%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.51%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.51%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (26.53%) CI/CD
2 50 (25.51%) Infrastructure as Code
3 49 (25.00%) DevOps
4 39 (19.90%) Problem-Solving
5 25 (12.76%) Containerisation
6 24 (12.24%) Migration
7 23 (11.73%) Agile
8 20 (10.20%) Observability
9 18 (9.18%) Platform Engineering
10 17 (8.67%) Cybersecurity
11 16 (8.16%) High Availability
11 16 (8.16%) Infrastructure Automation
12 15 (7.65%) ITIL
13 14 (7.14%) Analytics
14 12 (6.12%) Cloud Security
14 12 (6.12%) Project Delivery
14 12 (6.12%) Test Automation
15 11 (5.61%) Architectural Design
15 11 (5.61%) RBAC
15 11 (5.61%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 53 (27.04%) Python
2 33 (16.84%) PowerShell
3 14 (7.14%) Bash
3 14 (7.14%) Java
4 9 (4.59%) SQL
5 6 (3.06%) Go
6 5 (2.55%) Perl
6 5 (2.55%) Shell Script
7 3 (1.53%) Bicep
7 3 (1.53%) C#
7 3 (1.53%) C++
7 3 (1.53%) Ruby
8 2 (1.02%) Scala
9 1 (0.51%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 25 (12.76%) Security Cleared
2 16 (8.16%) Degree
2 16 (8.16%) SC Cleared
3 10 (5.10%) Cisco Certification
4 9 (4.59%) Azure Certification
5 8 (4.08%) DV Cleared
6 7 (3.57%) CCNP
7 6 (3.06%) CCNA
7 6 (3.06%) CISSP
7 6 (3.06%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (2.55%) CISM
9 4 (2.04%) Master's Degree
10 3 (1.53%) JNCIP
10 3 (1.53%) JNCIS
10 3 (1.53%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (1.53%) PhD
11 2 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (1.02%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (1.02%) PMI Certification
11 2 (1.02%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.53%) Cyber Essentials
1 3 (1.53%) NIST
2 2 (1.02%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.02%) SLA
3 1 (0.51%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.51%) GDPR
3 1 (0.51%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 1 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.51%) QA
3 1 (0.51%) SOC 2
System Software
1 45 (22.96%) Active Directory
2 30 (15.31%) Docker
3 19 (9.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (4.59%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (4.08%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (3.57%) Hyper-V
7 4 (2.04%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (1.53%) BitLocker
8 3 (1.53%) Firmware
8 3 (1.53%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (1.02%) Microsoft App-V
9 2 (1.02%) VMware NSX
9 2 (1.02%) vSphere
10 1 (0.51%) etcd
10 1 (0.51%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 58 (29.59%) Terraform
2 35 (17.86%) Microsoft Intune
3 32 (16.33%) Kubernetes
4 31 (15.82%) Ansible
5 19 (9.69%) SCCM
6 14 (7.14%) Grafana
7 8 (4.08%) Prometheus
8 6 (3.06%) CASB
8 6 (3.06%) SCOrch
9 5 (2.55%) FortiGate
9 5 (2.55%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (2.04%) AirWatch
10 4 (2.04%) Argo
10 4 (2.04%) Puppet
11 3 (1.53%) Istio
11 3 (1.53%) Jamf Pro
11 3 (1.53%) vCenter Server
12 2 (1.02%) Kibana
12 2 (1.02%) Progress Chef
12 2 (1.02%) vMotion
Vendors
1 62 (31.63%) Microsoft
2 27 (13.78%) VMware
3 16 (8.16%) Palo Alto
4 13 (6.63%) Cisco
5 12 (6.12%) F5
5 12 (6.12%) Google
6 10 (5.10%) CyberArk
7 8 (4.08%) Zscaler
8 7 (3.57%) CheckPoint
8 7 (3.57%) Fortinet
9 6 (3.06%) Dell
9 6 (3.06%) Veeam
10 5 (2.55%) Citrix
10 5 (2.55%) Juniper
10 5 (2.55%) NetApp
11 4 (2.04%) Aruba
11 4 (2.04%) Commvault
11 4 (2.04%) Databricks
11 4 (2.04%) IBM
11 4 (2.04%) SolarWinds