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

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 200 151
Rank change year-on-year +56 -49 +11
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 399 183 272
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.98% 1.35% 1.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.22% 1.46% 1.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 265 136 218
10th Percentile £400 £350 £325
25th Percentile £449 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £536 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.61% +2.10% -4.55%
75th Percentile £645 £638 £625
90th Percentile £692 £675 £700
England median daily rate £537 £525 £501
% change year-on-year +2.19% +4.90% -2.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £30.00 -
England median hourly rate £72.54 £54.88 £68.75
% change year-on-year +32.19% -20.18% -5.17%

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 17,950 12,547 14,456
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.04% 92.29% 88.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,820 8,389 10,191
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 297 247 197
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.99
25th Percentile £19.85 £24.58 £22.00
Median hourly rate £36.00 £29.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.03% -15.71% -15.19%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.13 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £62.70 £71.50
England median hourly rate £44.23 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +75.86% -40.82% -

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 6 August 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 6 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 +12 53 £600 +4.35% 41
West London -9 8 £675 - 3
South London -15 5 £425 -29.17% 8
East London +2 2 £775 +64.02% 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 21 (5.26%) Microsoft Exchange
2 20 (5.01%) SharePoint
3 13 (3.26%) CICS
4 12 (3.01%) Confluence
5 8 (2.01%) WebSphere
6 5 (1.25%) Apache
7 4 (1.00%) SharePoint Server
8 2 (0.50%) Exchange Server 2013
9 1 (0.25%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.25%) CloudStack
9 1 (0.25%) IBM HTTP Server
9 1 (0.25%) JBoss
9 1 (0.25%) nginx
9 1 (0.25%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.25%) SAS
9 1 (0.25%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 5 (1.25%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.75%) AutoCAD
2 3 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (0.75%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 188 (47.12%) Azure
2 98 (24.56%) AWS
3 57 (14.29%) GitHub
4 45 (11.28%) Azure DevOps
5 44 (11.03%) GCP
6 40 (10.03%) GitHub Actions
7 39 (9.77%) Entra ID
8 38 (9.52%) Microsoft 365
9 32 (8.02%) IaaS
10 29 (7.27%) Azure AKS
11 26 (6.52%) PaaS
12 23 (5.76%) SaaS
13 22 (5.51%) Amazon EKS
14 20 (5.01%) Azure Monitor
14 20 (5.01%) Serverless
15 18 (4.51%) Amazon S3
16 16 (4.01%) AWS Lambda
17 13 (3.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 9 (2.26%) AWS CloudFormation
18 9 (2.26%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 78 (19.55%) DNS
2 57 (14.29%) DHCP
3 56 (14.04%) Firewall
4 39 (9.77%) VPN
5 30 (7.52%) Network Security
6 29 (7.27%) TCP/IP
7 17 (4.26%) WAN
8 14 (3.51%) SSL
9 12 (3.01%) LAN
10 11 (2.76%) Wi-Fi
11 10 (2.51%) SAN
12 8 (2.01%) HTTP
12 8 (2.01%) SMTP
12 8 (2.01%) VLAN
13 6 (1.50%) NAS
14 5 (1.25%) BGP
14 5 (1.25%) DMZ
14 5 (1.25%) SD-WAN
14 5 (1.25%) Structured Cabling
15 4 (1.00%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (7.77%) SQL Server
2 8 (2.01%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (2.01%) DynamoDB
2 8 (2.01%) Elasticsearch
3 6 (1.50%) Db2
4 5 (1.25%) Power BI
5 4 (1.00%) BigQuery
6 3 (0.75%) Big Data
6 3 (0.75%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (0.75%) Snowflake Schema
6 3 (0.75%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 3 (0.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (0.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (0.50%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.25%) Apache Iceberg
8 1 (0.25%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.25%) ClickHouse
8 1 (0.25%) Delta Lake
8 1 (0.25%) Flink
8 1 (0.25%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 23 (5.76%) Git
2 20 (5.01%) GitLab
3 18 (4.51%) Jenkins
4 8 (2.01%) JIRA
5 5 (1.25%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.75%) Chocolatey
7 2 (0.50%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.50%) Subversion
8 1 (0.25%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.25%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.25%) CMake
8 1 (0.25%) Gradle
8 1 (0.25%) Introscope
8 1 (0.25%) Maven
8 1 (0.25%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.25%) Terragrunt
General
1 90 (22.56%) Social Skills
2 67 (16.79%) Finance
3 33 (8.27%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (8.02%) Banking
5 22 (5.51%) Public Sector
6 19 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
7 10 (2.51%) Telecoms
8 9 (2.26%) Retail
9 8 (2.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (2.01%) Law
10 7 (1.75%) Legal
11 5 (1.25%) Billing
11 5 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (1.25%) Publishing
12 4 (1.00%) Automotive
13 3 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.75%) Military
13 3 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.50%) Aerospace
14 2 (0.50%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 218 (54.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 55 (13.78%) Cloud Engineer
3 46 (11.53%) Senior
4 39 (9.77%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 38 (9.52%) Azure Engineer
6 34 (8.52%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 24 (6.02%) DevOps Engineer
8 22 (5.51%) Lead
9 21 (5.26%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
10 20 (5.01%) Network Engineer
11 17 (4.26%) Architect
12 13 (3.26%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 13 (3.26%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
12 13 (3.26%) Platform Engineer
13 11 (2.76%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
14 10 (2.51%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 10 (2.51%) Infrastructure Specialist
14 10 (2.51%) Infrastructure Support
14 10 (2.51%) Security Engineer
14 10 (2.51%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (2.51%) REST
2 9 (2.26%) JSON
2 9 (2.26%) Middleware
3 8 (2.01%) YAML
4 7 (1.75%) ARM Templates
4 7 (1.75%) Loki
5 6 (1.50%) 802.1X
5 6 (1.50%) RESTful
5 6 (1.50%) SOAP
5 6 (1.50%) Web Services
5 6 (1.50%) WSDL
6 5 (1.25%) .NET
6 5 (1.25%) AWS CDK
6 5 (1.25%) Elastic Stack
6 5 (1.25%) OpenID
6 5 (1.25%) SAML
7 3 (0.75%) ADO
7 3 (0.75%) HTML
7 3 (0.75%) LDAP
7 3 (0.75%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 22 (5.51%) Data Centre
1 22 (5.51%) Hybrid Cloud
2 21 (5.26%) Cloud Native
3 16 (4.01%) Clustering
3 16 (4.01%) Onboarding
4 14 (3.51%) PKI
5 13 (3.26%) Mainframe
5 13 (3.26%) Public Cloud
6 9 (2.26%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (2.26%) Enterprise Storage
7 8 (2.01%) CMDB
7 8 (2.01%) Linux Command Line
8 7 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
8 7 (1.75%) Enterprise Cloud
8 7 (1.75%) Replication
9 6 (1.50%) Cyber Threat
9 6 (1.50%) DataPower
9 6 (1.50%) Online Banking
9 6 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (1.25%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 130 (32.58%) Windows
2 78 (19.55%) Windows Server
3 70 (17.54%) Linux
4 16 (4.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (3.26%) zOS
6 11 (2.76%) Unix
7 8 (2.01%) Ubuntu
7 8 (2.01%) VMS
7 8 (2.01%) Windows Server 2019
8 6 (1.50%) Android
8 6 (1.50%) Apple iOS
8 6 (1.50%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (1.25%) Windows 10
9 5 (1.25%) Windows Server 2003
9 5 (1.25%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (0.75%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.75%) Windows Server 2008
11 2 (0.50%) Amazon Linux
11 2 (0.50%) OpenVMS
11 2 (0.50%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (31.08%) Infrastructure as Code
2 117 (29.32%) DevOps
3 105 (26.32%) CI/CD
4 65 (16.29%) Migration
5 55 (13.78%) Platform Engineering
6 53 (13.28%) AI
7 47 (11.78%) Infrastructure Automation
7 47 (11.78%) Problem-Solving
8 40 (10.03%) Containerisation
9 37 (9.27%) Continuous Improvement
9 37 (9.27%) Disaster Recovery
10 36 (9.02%) Agile
11 35 (8.77%) Incident Response
12 33 (8.27%) Stakeholder Management
13 32 (8.02%) Observability
14 30 (7.52%) Configuration Management
15 28 (7.02%) High Availability
15 28 (7.02%) ITIL
16 27 (6.77%) Roadmaps
17 25 (6.27%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 95 (23.81%) PowerShell
2 92 (23.06%) Python
3 41 (10.28%) Bash
4 34 (8.52%) SQL
5 19 (4.76%) C#
6 18 (4.51%) Shell Script
7 17 (4.26%) Bicep
7 17 (4.26%) Java
8 7 (1.75%) Go
9 6 (1.50%) JavaScript
9 6 (1.50%) JCL
10 4 (1.00%) Perl
11 3 (0.75%) C++
11 3 (0.75%) Kusto Query Language
11 3 (0.75%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.50%) C
12 2 (0.50%) Korn
12 2 (0.50%) Ruby
13 1 (0.25%) Jython
13 1 (0.25%) Scala
Qualifications
1 135 (33.83%) Security Cleared
2 92 (23.06%) SC Cleared
3 41 (10.28%) DV Cleared
4 24 (6.02%) Azure Certification
5 19 (4.76%) Degree
6 16 (4.01%) Cisco Certification
7 12 (3.01%) CISSP
8 10 (2.51%) AWS Certification
9 9 (2.26%) CCNA
9 9 (2.26%) CCNP
10 7 (1.75%) CISM
10 7 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
11 6 (1.50%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (1.25%) PMI Certification
13 4 (1.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
13 4 (1.00%) JNCIP
13 4 (1.00%) JNCIS
13 4 (1.00%) PMP
14 3 (0.75%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (3.26%) QA
1 13 (3.26%) SLA
2 11 (2.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (2.26%) NIST
4 6 (1.50%) PCI DSS
5 4 (1.00%) SOC 2
6 3 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.75%) GDPR
6 3 (0.75%) NCSC
7 2 (0.50%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.50%) PMO
8 1 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.25%) FedRAMP
8 1 (0.25%) GRC
8 1 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (0.25%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 82 (20.55%) Active Directory
2 66 (16.54%) VMware Infrastructure
3 36 (9.02%) Docker
4 26 (6.52%) Hyper-V
5 23 (5.76%) VMware ESXi
6 17 (4.26%) vSphere
7 16 (4.01%) Virtual Machines
8 13 (3.26%) Virtual Desktop
9 8 (2.01%) BitLocker
9 8 (2.01%) Microsoft App-V
10 7 (1.75%) Virtual Servers
11 5 (1.25%) Firmware
12 4 (1.00%) Terminal Services
12 4 (1.00%) VMware NSX
13 3 (0.75%) NFS
14 2 (0.50%) Ceph
14 2 (0.50%) Postfix
14 2 (0.50%) Sendmail
14 2 (0.50%) Varnish
15 1 (0.25%) Citrix Hypervisor
Systems Management
1 129 (32.33%) Terraform
2 76 (19.05%) Kubernetes
3 59 (14.79%) Ansible
4 25 (6.27%) Microsoft Intune
5 18 (4.51%) vCenter Server
6 17 (4.26%) Grafana
7 16 (4.01%) Puppet
8 14 (3.51%) Prometheus
8 14 (3.51%) SCCM
9 12 (3.01%) Packer
10 9 (2.26%) FortiGate
11 8 (2.01%) Argo
11 8 (2.01%) systemd
11 8 (2.01%) vMotion
12 5 (1.25%) Microsoft Clustering
12 5 (1.25%) Nessus
13 4 (1.00%) Nagios
14 3 (0.75%) SCOM
14 3 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
14 3 (0.75%) yum
Vendors
1 118 (29.57%) Microsoft
2 86 (21.55%) VMware
3 26 (6.52%) Citrix
4 23 (5.76%) Cisco
5 21 (5.26%) Google
6 15 (3.76%) NetApp
6 15 (3.76%) ServiceNow
7 13 (3.26%) Oracle
8 11 (2.76%) Red Hat
9 10 (2.51%) Tenable
9 10 (2.51%) Zscaler
10 8 (2.01%) HP
11 7 (1.75%) Dynatrace
11 7 (1.75%) IBM
12 6 (1.50%) Qualys
13 5 (1.25%) Dell
13 5 (1.25%) EMC
13 5 (1.25%) Splunk
14 4 (1.00%) CyberArk
14 4 (1.00%) MikroTik