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

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 171 185 142
Rank change year-on-year +14 -43 +31
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 299 176 309
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.60% 1.44% 1.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.80% 1.56% 1.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 212 137 233
10th Percentile £402 £350 £313
25th Percentile £439 £400 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £515
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +1.94% -6.36%
75th Percentile £646 £600 £638
90th Percentile £717 £650 £738
England median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -0.99%

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 16,594 11,281 15,494
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.76% 92.27% 88.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,070 7,533 11,092
10th Percentile £358 £350 £340
25th Percentile £435 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £681 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £515 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 247 198 317
10th Percentile £18.48 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.17 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.00 £32.70 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.17% +14.72% -27.31%
75th Percentile £58.75 £49.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £79.25 £63.75 £68.30
England median hourly rate £47.25 £28.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year +65.79% -24.00% +4.17%

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 June 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 June 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 +3 44 £575 +4.55% 30
West London -10 8 £675 +68.75% 4
South London -8 6 £425 -20.56% 3
East London -7 1 £775 +64.02%
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 22 (7.36%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (2.34%) CICS
2 7 (2.34%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.34%) Apache
4 3 (1.00%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.67%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.67%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.33%) Confluence
6 1 (0.33%) IBM HTTP Server
6 1 (0.33%) SAS
6 1 (0.33%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 3 (1.00%) AutoCAD
2 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 138 (46.15%) Azure
2 72 (24.08%) AWS
3 39 (13.04%) GCP
4 34 (11.37%) Microsoft 365
5 33 (11.04%) GitHub
6 31 (10.37%) IaaS
7 30 (10.03%) Entra ID
8 26 (8.70%) Azure DevOps
9 23 (7.69%) PaaS
10 21 (7.02%) GitHub Actions
11 20 (6.69%) Azure AKS
12 17 (5.69%) Serverless
13 16 (5.35%) SaaS
14 14 (4.68%) Azure Monitor
15 13 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
16 11 (3.68%) Nutanix
17 9 (3.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 9 (3.01%) Amazon EKS
18 8 (2.68%) Amazon S3
18 8 (2.68%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 57 (19.06%) DNS
2 37 (12.37%) DHCP
3 35 (11.71%) Firewall
4 27 (9.03%) VPN
5 17 (5.69%) Network Security
6 15 (5.02%) WAN
7 11 (3.68%) TCP/IP
8 10 (3.34%) LAN
9 9 (3.01%) SMTP
10 7 (2.34%) MPLS
11 5 (1.67%) SAN
11 5 (1.67%) SD-WAN
11 5 (1.67%) SSL
12 4 (1.34%) HTTP
12 4 (1.34%) NAS
12 4 (1.34%) Structured Cabling
13 3 (1.00%) DMZ
13 3 (1.00%) Internet
13 3 (1.00%) OSPF
13 3 (1.00%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (6.69%) SQL Server
2 8 (2.68%) DynamoDB
2 8 (2.68%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (2.34%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (2.01%) Db2
5 4 (1.34%) Big Data
5 4 (1.34%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (1.00%) MongoDB
6 3 (1.00%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.00%) RDBMS
6 3 (1.00%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.00%) Snowflake Schema
7 2 (0.67%) Hadoop
7 2 (0.67%) Power BI
7 2 (0.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.33%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.33%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.33%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.33%) Metadata
8 1 (0.33%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 16 (5.35%) GitLab
2 9 (3.01%) Git
2 9 (3.01%) Jenkins
3 5 (1.67%) Bitbucket
4 4 (1.34%) JIRA
5 1 (0.33%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.33%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.33%) CMake
5 1 (0.33%) Gradle
5 1 (0.33%) Introscope
General
1 65 (21.74%) Social Skills
2 52 (17.39%) Finance
3 25 (8.36%) Banking
4 18 (6.02%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (4.68%) Documentation Skills
5 14 (4.68%) Public Sector
6 12 (4.01%) Legal
7 7 (2.34%) Retail
8 6 (2.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (1.67%) Telecoms
10 4 (1.34%) Billing
10 4 (1.34%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.00%) Law
11 3 (1.00%) Local Government
11 3 (1.00%) Military
12 2 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.67%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.67%) Publishing
13 1 (0.33%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 178 (59.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 44 (14.72%) Cloud Engineer
3 31 (10.37%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 28 (9.36%) Senior
5 23 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
6 18 (6.02%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 16 (5.35%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 16 (5.35%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
8 15 (5.02%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
9 14 (4.68%) Architect
10 13 (4.35%) NetApp Engineer
10 13 (4.35%) Storage Engineer
11 12 (4.01%) Network Engineer
12 10 (3.34%) Support Engineer
13 9 (3.01%) DevOps Engineer
13 9 (3.01%) Infrastructure Support
13 9 (3.01%) Security Engineer
14 8 (2.68%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
14 8 (2.68%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
14 8 (2.68%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (2.68%) JSON
2 7 (2.34%) REST
3 6 (2.01%) RESTful
3 6 (2.01%) SOAP
3 6 (2.01%) Web Services
3 6 (2.01%) WSDL
4 4 (1.34%) Kafka
4 4 (1.34%) YAML
5 3 (1.00%) ARM Templates
5 3 (1.00%) AWS CDK
5 3 (1.00%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (1.00%) OpenID
5 3 (1.00%) Spring
5 3 (1.00%) Spring Boot
6 2 (0.67%) .NET
6 2 (0.67%) ADO
6 2 (0.67%) GraphQL
6 2 (0.67%) HTML
6 2 (0.67%) Middleware
6 2 (0.67%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (6.02%) Data Centre
2 17 (5.69%) Hybrid Cloud
3 15 (5.02%) Onboarding
4 11 (3.68%) Cloud Native
4 11 (3.68%) PKI
5 9 (3.01%) Clustering
6 8 (2.68%) Enterprise Storage
7 7 (2.34%) Mainframe
8 6 (2.01%) DataPower
8 6 (2.01%) Online Banking
8 6 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (1.67%) CMDB
9 5 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.67%) Replication
10 4 (1.34%) CCTV
10 4 (1.34%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (1.34%) Enterprise Cloud
10 4 (1.34%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.34%) Security Posture
11 3 (1.00%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 95 (31.77%) Windows
2 56 (18.73%) Windows Server
3 43 (14.38%) Linux
4 9 (3.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (3.01%) Unix
5 7 (2.34%) Windows Server 2003
5 7 (2.34%) zOS
6 6 (2.01%) Android
6 6 (2.01%) Apple iOS
6 6 (2.01%) Windows Server 2019
7 5 (1.67%) VMS
8 3 (1.00%) Windows 10
8 3 (1.00%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (1.00%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.67%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.33%) AIX
10 1 (0.33%) Amazon Linux
10 1 (0.33%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (22.41%) DevOps
1 67 (22.41%) Infrastructure as Code
2 63 (21.07%) CI/CD
3 38 (12.71%) Migration
4 35 (11.71%) Platform Engineering
5 34 (11.37%) Problem-Solving
6 32 (10.70%) AI
7 24 (8.03%) Containerisation
7 24 (8.03%) Infrastructure Automation
8 23 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
9 22 (7.36%) Roadmaps
10 20 (6.69%) Agile
10 20 (6.69%) Disaster Recovery
11 17 (5.69%) Incident Response
11 17 (5.69%) Validation
12 16 (5.35%) ITIL
13 15 (5.02%) Cloud Security
13 15 (5.02%) Mentoring
14 14 (4.68%) High Availability
14 14 (4.68%) Infrastructure Transformation
Programming Languages
1 65 (21.74%) PowerShell
2 51 (17.06%) Python
3 28 (9.36%) SQL
4 17 (5.69%) C#
5 15 (5.02%) Bash
6 14 (4.68%) Shell Script
7 12 (4.01%) Java
8 10 (3.34%) Bicep
9 6 (2.01%) JCL
10 5 (1.67%) JavaScript
11 4 (1.34%) Go
12 2 (0.67%) C++
12 2 (0.67%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.67%) Ruby
13 1 (0.33%) C
13 1 (0.33%) Jython
13 1 (0.33%) Korn
13 1 (0.33%) Scala
13 1 (0.33%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.33%) VB
Qualifications
1 90 (30.10%) Security Cleared
2 55 (18.39%) SC Cleared
3 34 (11.37%) DV Cleared
4 9 (3.01%) Azure Certification
4 9 (3.01%) Cisco Certification
4 9 (3.01%) Degree
5 8 (2.68%) CISSP
6 7 (2.34%) CCNA
7 4 (1.34%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.00%) CCNP
8 3 (1.00%) CISM
8 3 (1.00%) PMI Certification
8 3 (1.00%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (0.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.67%) CISA
9 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.67%) PMP
10 1 (0.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.33%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.34%) NIST
1 7 (2.34%) QA
2 5 (1.67%) SLA
3 4 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.34%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.00%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.00%) GDPR
4 3 (1.00%) NCSC
4 3 (1.00%) SOC 2
5 2 (0.67%) PMO
6 1 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.33%) FedRAMP
6 1 (0.33%) GRC
6 1 (0.33%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 61 (20.40%) Active Directory
2 41 (13.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (8.03%) Hyper-V
4 20 (6.69%) Docker
5 12 (4.01%) VMware ESXi
6 11 (3.68%) Virtual Desktop
6 11 (3.68%) vSphere
7 10 (3.34%) Virtual Machines
8 9 (3.01%) BitLocker
8 9 (3.01%) Microsoft App-V
9 4 (1.34%) Firmware
9 4 (1.34%) VMware NSX
10 3 (1.00%) Terminal Services
10 3 (1.00%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.67%) NFS
11 2 (0.67%) Postfix
11 2 (0.67%) Sendmail
11 2 (0.67%) Varnish
12 1 (0.33%) RACF
12 1 (0.33%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 74 (24.75%) Terraform
2 51 (17.06%) Kubernetes
3 33 (11.04%) Ansible
4 23 (7.69%) Microsoft Intune
5 11 (3.68%) Puppet
6 10 (3.34%) vCenter Server
7 9 (3.01%) vMotion
8 8 (2.68%) Packer
9 5 (1.67%) Grafana
10 4 (1.34%) AirWatch
10 4 (1.34%) Prometheus
11 3 (1.00%) FortiGate
11 3 (1.00%) Nessus
11 3 (1.00%) SCCM
11 3 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.67%) HAProxy
12 2 (0.67%) Nagios
12 2 (0.67%) vRealize
13 1 (0.33%) Jamf Pro
13 1 (0.33%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 81 (27.09%) Microsoft
2 56 (18.73%) VMware
3 21 (7.02%) Citrix
4 17 (5.69%) Google
5 16 (5.35%) NetApp
6 13 (4.35%) ServiceNow
7 7 (2.34%) Red Hat
8 6 (2.01%) CyberArk
8 6 (2.01%) Dell
8 6 (2.01%) Oracle
9 5 (1.67%) Cisco
9 5 (1.67%) Qualys
9 5 (1.67%) SolarWinds
10 4 (1.34%) Zscaler
11 3 (1.00%) Blue Coat
11 3 (1.00%) CrowdStrike
11 3 (1.00%) HP
11 3 (1.00%) Palo Alto
11 3 (1.00%) Symantec
11 3 (1.00%) Tenable