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

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 136 190 163
Rank change year-on-year +54 -27 -14
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 418 185 261
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.08% 1.38% 1.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.34% 1.50% 1.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 284 138 211
10th Percentile £395 £357 £325
25th Percentile £450 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £537 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.47% +2.24% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £614
90th Percentile £700 £675 £700
England median daily rate £545 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +3.75% +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £49.00 £30.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +63.33% - -
England median hourly rate £73.27 £30.00 £67.50
% change year-on-year +144.23% -55.56% -6.90%

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 17,874 12,372 14,467
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.11% 92.51% 88.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,706 8,225 9,980
10th Percentile £360 £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 £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £511 £525
% change year-on-year +2.74% -2.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 291 254 190
10th Percentile £17.25 £16.50 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.85 £24.77 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £30.75 £35.25
Median % change year-on-year +15.47% -12.78% -11.88%
75th Percentile £56.63 £48.44 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.31
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +1.18%

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 25 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 25 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 +4 51 £623 +10.67% 18
West London -12 9 £675 - 17
South London -12 6 £473 -21.25% 5
East London +4 3 £638 +34.92% 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 20 (4.78%) SharePoint
2 19 (4.55%) Microsoft Exchange
3 14 (3.35%) Confluence
4 12 (2.87%) CICS
5 8 (1.91%) WebSphere
6 7 (1.67%) Apache
7 4 (0.96%) SharePoint Server
8 3 (0.72%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.72%) nginx
9 2 (0.48%) Exchange Server 2013
10 1 (0.24%) CloudStack
10 1 (0.24%) CMS
10 1 (0.24%) IBM HTTP Server
10 1 (0.24%) JBoss
10 1 (0.24%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.24%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.24%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.24%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 5 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.72%) AutoCAD
2 3 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.24%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.72%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 190 (45.45%) Azure
2 100 (23.92%) AWS
3 51 (12.20%) GitHub
4 48 (11.48%) Azure DevOps
5 44 (10.53%) GCP
6 41 (9.81%) Entra ID
7 39 (9.33%) Microsoft 365
8 37 (8.85%) GitHub Actions
9 30 (7.18%) Azure AKS
9 30 (7.18%) IaaS
10 24 (5.74%) SaaS
11 23 (5.50%) PaaS
12 21 (5.02%) Azure Monitor
13 19 (4.55%) Amazon EKS
14 16 (3.83%) Amazon S3
14 16 (3.83%) Serverless
15 12 (2.87%) OCI
16 11 (2.63%) Datadog
17 10 (2.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 10 (2.39%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 79 (18.90%) DNS
2 59 (14.11%) DHCP
2 59 (14.11%) Firewall
3 42 (10.05%) VPN
4 34 (8.13%) Network Security
5 31 (7.42%) TCP/IP
6 19 (4.55%) WAN
7 17 (4.07%) SSL
8 15 (3.59%) Wi-Fi
9 13 (3.11%) LAN
10 12 (2.87%) SAN
11 11 (2.63%) HTTP
12 9 (2.15%) VLAN
13 8 (1.91%) BGP
13 8 (1.91%) SMTP
14 7 (1.67%) NAS
14 7 (1.67%) SD-WAN
15 6 (1.44%) Wireless
16 5 (1.20%) DMZ
16 5 (1.20%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (7.66%) SQL Server
2 10 (2.39%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (1.67%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (1.44%) BigQuery
5 5 (1.20%) Db2
5 5 (1.20%) DynamoDB
5 5 (1.20%) Power BI
6 4 (0.96%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (0.72%) Apache Iceberg
7 3 (0.72%) Big Data
7 3 (0.72%) ClickHouse
7 3 (0.72%) Flink
7 3 (0.72%) Snowflake Schema
7 3 (0.72%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 3 (0.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (0.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (0.48%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.48%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.24%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.24%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 26 (6.22%) Git
2 18 (4.31%) Jenkins
3 17 (4.07%) GitLab
4 8 (1.91%) JIRA
5 4 (0.96%) Chocolatey
6 2 (0.48%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.48%) Oracle Forms
6 2 (0.48%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.48%) Subversion
7 1 (0.24%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.24%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.24%) CMake
7 1 (0.24%) Gradle
7 1 (0.24%) Introscope
7 1 (0.24%) Maven
7 1 (0.24%) Terragrunt
7 1 (0.24%) Vagrant
General
1 94 (22.49%) Social Skills
2 73 (17.46%) Finance
3 36 (8.61%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (8.13%) Banking
5 22 (5.26%) Public Sector
6 18 (4.31%) Documentation Skills
7 12 (2.87%) Telecoms
8 11 (2.63%) Retail
9 8 (1.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (1.91%) Law
10 5 (1.20%) Automotive
10 5 (1.20%) Billing
10 5 (1.20%) Legal
10 5 (1.20%) Publishing
11 3 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.72%) Military
11 3 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.48%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.48%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.48%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 222 (53.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 54 (12.92%) Cloud Engineer
3 50 (11.96%) Senior
4 41 (9.81%) Azure Engineer
4 41 (9.81%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 36 (8.61%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 33 (7.89%) DevOps Engineer
7 27 (6.46%) Lead
8 25 (5.98%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
9 23 (5.50%) Network Engineer
10 18 (4.31%) Architect
11 15 (3.59%) Platform Engineer
12 13 (3.11%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 12 (2.87%) Infrastructure Specialist
14 11 (2.63%) 3rd Line Engineer
14 11 (2.63%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
14 11 (2.63%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
14 11 (2.63%) Support Engineer
15 10 (2.39%) AWS Engineer
15 10 (2.39%) Infrastructure Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 131 (31.34%) Terraform
2 11 (2.63%) ARM Templates
2 11 (2.63%) YAML
3 10 (2.39%) Middleware
3 10 (2.39%) REST
4 8 (1.91%) JSON
5 7 (1.67%) 802.1X
5 7 (1.67%) Loki
6 6 (1.44%) OpenID
6 6 (1.44%) SAML
7 5 (1.20%) .NET
7 5 (1.20%) Kafka
7 5 (1.20%) RESTful
7 5 (1.20%) SOAP
7 5 (1.20%) Web Services
7 5 (1.20%) WSDL
8 4 (0.96%) ADO
8 4 (0.96%) Elastic Stack
9 3 (0.72%) ModSecurity
9 3 (0.72%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 26 (6.22%) Cloud Native
2 25 (5.98%) Hybrid Cloud
3 21 (5.02%) Data Centre
4 17 (4.07%) Clustering
5 14 (3.35%) Onboarding
6 13 (3.11%) PKI
6 13 (3.11%) Public Cloud
7 12 (2.87%) Mainframe
8 10 (2.39%) Distributed Systems
9 9 (2.15%) Data Protection Act
9 9 (2.15%) Replication
10 8 (1.91%) Enterprise Cloud
10 8 (1.91%) Enterprise Storage
10 8 (1.91%) Linux Command Line
11 7 (1.67%) CMDB
11 7 (1.67%) Cyber Threat
12 6 (1.44%) AI Agents
12 6 (1.44%) Private Cloud
12 6 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
13 5 (1.20%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 132 (31.58%) Windows
2 80 (19.14%) Windows Server
3 74 (17.70%) Linux
4 20 (4.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (2.87%) Unix
5 12 (2.87%) zOS
6 9 (2.15%) Ubuntu
6 9 (2.15%) Windows Server 2019
7 8 (1.91%) VMS
7 8 (1.91%) Windows Server 2016
8 6 (1.44%) Android
8 6 (1.44%) Apple iOS
9 5 (1.20%) Mac OS
9 5 (1.20%) Windows 10
9 5 (1.20%) Windows Server 2012
10 4 (0.96%) Windows Server 2003
10 4 (0.96%) Windows Server 2008
11 2 (0.48%) Amazon Linux
11 2 (0.48%) OpenVMS
11 2 (0.48%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 134 (32.06%) Infrastructure as Code
2 127 (30.38%) DevOps
3 112 (26.79%) CI/CD
4 66 (15.79%) Migration
5 62 (14.83%) Platform Engineering
6 61 (14.59%) AI
7 56 (13.40%) Infrastructure Automation
8 53 (12.68%) Problem-Solving
9 41 (9.81%) Disaster Recovery
10 40 (9.57%) Continuous Improvement
11 39 (9.33%) Configuration Management
11 39 (9.33%) Containerisation
12 36 (8.61%) Observability
13 35 (8.37%) High Availability
13 35 (8.37%) Incident Response
13 35 (8.37%) Stakeholder Management
14 32 (7.66%) Agile
15 29 (6.94%) Cloud Security
15 29 (6.94%) ITIL
15 29 (6.94%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 105 (25.12%) PowerShell
2 104 (24.88%) Python
3 43 (10.29%) Bash
4 37 (8.85%) SQL
5 20 (4.78%) Bicep
6 19 (4.55%) C#
6 19 (4.55%) Java
7 14 (3.35%) Shell Script
8 7 (1.67%) C++
8 7 (1.67%) Go
8 7 (1.67%) Perl
9 5 (1.20%) JCL
10 4 (0.96%) C
10 4 (0.96%) JavaScript
10 4 (0.96%) TypeScript
11 3 (0.72%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.48%) Korn
12 2 (0.48%) Ruby
13 1 (0.24%) Jython
13 1 (0.24%) VB
Qualifications
1 138 (33.01%) Security Cleared
2 92 (22.01%) SC Cleared
3 43 (10.29%) DV Cleared
4 22 (5.26%) Azure Certification
5 21 (5.02%) Degree
6 16 (3.83%) Cisco Certification
7 11 (2.63%) CISSP
8 10 (2.39%) CCNA
8 10 (2.39%) CCNP
9 9 (2.15%) AWS Certification
10 8 (1.91%) Computer Science Degree
11 6 (1.44%) CISM
11 6 (1.44%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (0.96%) JNCIP
12 4 (0.96%) JNCIS
12 4 (0.96%) PMI Certification
13 3 (0.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 3 (0.72%) PMP
13 3 (0.72%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (3.11%) QA
1 13 (3.11%) SLA
2 11 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (1.91%) NIST
4 5 (1.20%) PCI DSS
5 3 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (0.72%) NCSC
5 3 (0.72%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.48%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.48%) GDPR
7 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.24%) FedRAMP
7 1 (0.24%) GRC
7 1 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 1 (0.24%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.24%) PMO
7 1 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 80 (19.14%) Active Directory
2 68 (16.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 33 (7.89%) Docker
4 27 (6.46%) Hyper-V
5 24 (5.74%) VMware ESXi
6 20 (4.78%) Virtual Machines
7 18 (4.31%) vSphere
8 13 (3.11%) Virtual Desktop
9 8 (1.91%) Virtual Servers
10 7 (1.67%) BitLocker
10 7 (1.67%) Microsoft App-V
11 6 (1.44%) Firmware
12 4 (0.96%) Terminal Services
12 4 (0.96%) VMware NSX
13 3 (0.72%) NFS
13 3 (0.72%) Postfix
14 2 (0.48%) Ceph
14 2 (0.48%) Sendmail
14 2 (0.48%) Varnish
15 1 (0.24%) Dovecot
Systems Management
1 79 (18.90%) Kubernetes
2 64 (15.31%) Ansible
3 26 (6.22%) Microsoft Intune
4 18 (4.31%) Grafana
4 18 (4.31%) Puppet
4 18 (4.31%) vCenter Server
5 16 (3.83%) SCCM
6 15 (3.59%) Prometheus
7 12 (2.87%) Packer
8 10 (2.39%) FortiGate
9 8 (1.91%) Argo
9 8 (1.91%) systemd
10 7 (1.67%) vMotion
11 6 (1.44%) Nessus
11 6 (1.44%) Single Sign-On
12 5 (1.20%) Microsoft Clustering
13 4 (0.96%) Nagios
13 4 (0.96%) SCOM
14 3 (0.72%) Progress Chef
14 3 (0.72%) WSUS
Vendors
1 127 (30.38%) Microsoft
2 88 (21.05%) VMware
3 26 (6.22%) Cisco
4 22 (5.26%) Citrix
4 22 (5.26%) Google
5 16 (3.83%) Oracle
6 15 (3.59%) Red Hat
6 15 (3.59%) ServiceNow
7 13 (3.11%) NetApp
8 10 (2.39%) Tenable
8 10 (2.39%) Zscaler
9 8 (1.91%) Dynatrace
9 8 (1.91%) HP
9 8 (1.91%) IBM
10 6 (1.44%) Juniper
10 6 (1.44%) Splunk
11 5 (1.20%) Databricks
11 5 (1.20%) EMC
11 5 (1.20%) Qualys
12 4 (0.96%) MikroTik