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

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 171 180 143
Rank change year-on-year +9 -37 +25
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 303 177 310
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.63% 1.45% 1.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.83% 1.57% 1.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 214 139 234
10th Percentile £403 £350 £313
25th Percentile £432 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £515
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +1.94% -6.36%
75th Percentile £644 £600 £638
90th Percentile £713 £650 £738
England median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -1.38%

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 16,527 11,302 15,611
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.72% 92.31% 88.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,014 7,563 11,181
10th Percentile £358 £347 £340
25th Percentile £435 £425 £446
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 248 199 318
10th Percentile £18.07 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.00 £32.89 £28.25
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +16.42% -28.34%
75th Percentile £58.75 £49.88 £48.75
90th Percentile £80.38 £63.75 £68.23
England median hourly rate £47.00 £28.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +67.86% -25.33% +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 10 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 10 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 -2 44 £575 - 27
West London -18 8 £675 +68.75% 5
South London -9 6 £425 -20.56% 3
East London -4 1 £775 +64.02% 1
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 (6.93%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (2.31%) CICS
2 7 (2.31%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.32%) Apache
4 3 (0.99%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.66%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.66%) 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 (0.99%) AutoCAD
2 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 141 (46.53%) Azure
2 75 (24.75%) AWS
3 39 (12.87%) GCP
4 35 (11.55%) GitHub
5 33 (10.89%) Microsoft 365
6 30 (9.90%) IaaS
7 29 (9.57%) Azure DevOps
7 29 (9.57%) Entra ID
8 23 (7.59%) GitHub Actions
8 23 (7.59%) PaaS
9 20 (6.60%) Azure AKS
10 19 (6.27%) Serverless
11 16 (5.28%) SaaS
12 15 (4.95%) AWS Lambda
13 14 (4.62%) Azure Monitor
14 12 (3.96%) Amazon EKS
15 11 (3.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 11 (3.63%) Nutanix
16 10 (3.30%) Amazon S3
17 8 (2.64%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 58 (19.14%) DNS
2 38 (12.54%) DHCP
3 35 (11.55%) Firewall
4 28 (9.24%) VPN
5 17 (5.61%) Network Security
6 15 (4.95%) WAN
7 12 (3.96%) TCP/IP
8 10 (3.30%) LAN
9 9 (2.97%) SMTP
10 6 (1.98%) MPLS
10 6 (1.98%) SSL
11 5 (1.65%) SAN
11 5 (1.65%) SD-WAN
12 4 (1.32%) HTTP
12 4 (1.32%) NAS
12 4 (1.32%) Structured Cabling
13 3 (0.99%) DMZ
13 3 (0.99%) Internet
13 3 (0.99%) Software-Defined Networking
13 3 (0.99%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (6.60%) SQL Server
2 8 (2.64%) DynamoDB
2 8 (2.64%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (2.31%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (1.98%) Db2
5 4 (1.32%) Big Data
5 4 (1.32%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (0.99%) MongoDB
6 3 (0.99%) NoSQL
6 3 (0.99%) RDBMS
6 3 (0.99%) Relational Database
6 3 (0.99%) Snowflake Schema
7 2 (0.66%) Hadoop
7 2 (0.66%) Power BI
7 2 (0.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.33%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.33%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.33%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.33%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.33%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 18 (5.94%) GitLab
2 11 (3.63%) Jenkins
3 10 (3.30%) Git
4 5 (1.65%) Bitbucket
5 4 (1.32%) JIRA
6 1 (0.33%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.33%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.33%) CMake
6 1 (0.33%) Gradle
6 1 (0.33%) Introscope
General
1 66 (21.78%) Social Skills
2 53 (17.49%) Finance
3 25 (8.25%) Banking
4 19 (6.27%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (4.62%) Documentation Skills
5 14 (4.62%) Public Sector
6 12 (3.96%) Legal
7 7 (2.31%) Retail
8 6 (1.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (1.65%) Law
9 5 (1.65%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (1.65%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (1.65%) Telecoms
10 4 (1.32%) Billing
11 3 (0.99%) Local Government
11 3 (0.99%) Military
11 3 (0.99%) Publishing
12 2 (0.66%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.66%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.33%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 180 (59.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 46 (15.18%) Cloud Engineer
3 31 (10.23%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 30 (9.90%) Senior
5 24 (7.92%) Azure Engineer
6 18 (5.94%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 15 (4.95%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 15 (4.95%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
7 15 (4.95%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 14 (4.62%) Architect
9 13 (4.29%) DevOps Engineer
10 12 (3.96%) NetApp Engineer
10 12 (3.96%) Network Engineer
10 12 (3.96%) Storage Engineer
11 10 (3.30%) Platform Engineer
11 10 (3.30%) Support Engineer
12 9 (2.97%) Infrastructure Support
12 9 (2.97%) Security Engineer
13 8 (2.64%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
13 8 (2.64%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (2.97%) REST
2 8 (2.64%) JSON
3 6 (1.98%) RESTful
3 6 (1.98%) SOAP
3 6 (1.98%) Web Services
3 6 (1.98%) WSDL
4 5 (1.65%) AWS CDK
5 4 (1.32%) Kafka
5 4 (1.32%) YAML
6 3 (0.99%) ARM Templates
6 3 (0.99%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (0.99%) OpenID
6 3 (0.99%) Spring
6 3 (0.99%) Spring Boot
7 2 (0.66%) .NET
7 2 (0.66%) ADO
7 2 (0.66%) GraphQL
7 2 (0.66%) HTML
7 2 (0.66%) Middleware
7 2 (0.66%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (5.94%) Data Centre
1 18 (5.94%) Hybrid Cloud
2 15 (4.95%) Onboarding
3 13 (4.29%) Cloud Native
4 11 (3.63%) PKI
5 9 (2.97%) Clustering
6 8 (2.64%) Enterprise Storage
7 7 (2.31%) Mainframe
8 6 (1.98%) DataPower
8 6 (1.98%) Distributed Systems
8 6 (1.98%) Online Banking
8 6 (1.98%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (1.65%) CMDB
9 5 (1.65%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.65%) Public Cloud
9 5 (1.65%) Replication
10 4 (1.32%) CCTV
10 4 (1.32%) Enterprise Cloud
10 4 (1.32%) Security Posture
11 3 (0.99%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 96 (31.68%) Windows
2 56 (18.48%) Windows Server
3 44 (14.52%) Linux
4 10 (3.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (2.97%) Unix
6 7 (2.31%) Windows Server 2003
6 7 (2.31%) zOS
7 6 (1.98%) Android
7 6 (1.98%) Apple iOS
7 6 (1.98%) Windows Server 2019
8 5 (1.65%) VMS
9 4 (1.32%) Windows 10
10 3 (0.99%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (0.99%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.66%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.33%) AIX
12 1 (0.33%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (0.33%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (23.76%) DevOps
1 72 (23.76%) Infrastructure as Code
2 66 (21.78%) CI/CD
3 38 (12.54%) Migration
3 38 (12.54%) Platform Engineering
4 36 (11.88%) AI
5 35 (11.55%) Problem-Solving
6 27 (8.91%) Containerisation
7 26 (8.58%) Infrastructure Automation
8 23 (7.59%) Continuous Improvement
9 22 (7.26%) Roadmaps
10 21 (6.93%) Agile
11 20 (6.60%) Disaster Recovery
12 19 (6.27%) Validation
13 18 (5.94%) Incident Response
14 16 (5.28%) ITIL
15 15 (4.95%) Cloud Security
15 15 (4.95%) Configuration Management
15 15 (4.95%) Mentoring
16 14 (4.62%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 67 (22.11%) PowerShell
2 54 (17.82%) Python
3 28 (9.24%) SQL
4 17 (5.61%) C#
5 16 (5.28%) Bash
6 14 (4.62%) Shell Script
7 12 (3.96%) Java
8 10 (3.30%) Bicep
9 6 (1.98%) JCL
10 5 (1.65%) JavaScript
11 4 (1.32%) Go
12 2 (0.66%) C++
12 2 (0.66%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.66%) 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 91 (30.03%) Security Cleared
2 57 (18.81%) SC Cleared
3 35 (11.55%) DV Cleared
4 10 (3.30%) Azure Certification
4 10 (3.30%) Cisco Certification
4 10 (3.30%) Degree
5 8 (2.64%) CCNA
5 8 (2.64%) CISSP
6 6 (1.98%) AWS Certification
7 3 (0.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (0.99%) CCNP
7 3 (0.99%) CISM
7 3 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (0.99%) PMI Certification
7 3 (0.99%) TOGAF Certification
8 2 (0.66%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (0.66%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (0.66%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.66%) CISA
8 2 (0.66%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.31%) NIST
1 7 (2.31%) QA
2 5 (1.65%) SLA
3 4 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.32%) PCI DSS
4 3 (0.99%) Data Quality
4 3 (0.99%) GDPR
4 3 (0.99%) NCSC
4 3 (0.99%) SOC 2
5 2 (0.66%) 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 (20.13%) Active Directory
2 42 (13.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (7.92%) Hyper-V
4 22 (7.26%) Docker
5 12 (3.96%) Virtual Desktop
5 12 (3.96%) VMware ESXi
6 11 (3.63%) vSphere
7 10 (3.30%) Virtual Machines
8 9 (2.97%) BitLocker
8 9 (2.97%) Microsoft App-V
9 4 (1.32%) Firmware
9 4 (1.32%) VMware NSX
10 3 (0.99%) Terminal Services
10 3 (0.99%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.66%) NFS
11 2 (0.66%) Postfix
11 2 (0.66%) Sendmail
11 2 (0.66%) Varnish
12 1 (0.33%) KVM
12 1 (0.33%) RACF
Systems Management
1 79 (26.07%) Terraform
2 55 (18.15%) Kubernetes
3 35 (11.55%) Ansible
4 22 (7.26%) Microsoft Intune
5 12 (3.96%) Puppet
6 10 (3.30%) vCenter Server
7 9 (2.97%) Packer
7 9 (2.97%) vMotion
8 6 (1.98%) Grafana
9 5 (1.65%) Prometheus
10 4 (1.32%) AirWatch
11 3 (0.99%) FortiGate
11 3 (0.99%) Nessus
11 3 (0.99%) SCCM
11 3 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.66%) HAProxy
12 2 (0.66%) Nagios
12 2 (0.66%) systemd
12 2 (0.66%) vRealize
12 2 (0.66%) yum
Vendors
1 81 (26.73%) Microsoft
2 57 (18.81%) VMware
3 21 (6.93%) Citrix
4 17 (5.61%) Google
5 15 (4.95%) NetApp
6 13 (4.29%) ServiceNow
7 7 (2.31%) Red Hat
8 6 (1.98%) CyberArk
8 6 (1.98%) Dell
8 6 (1.98%) Oracle
9 5 (1.65%) Cisco
9 5 (1.65%) Qualys
9 5 (1.65%) SolarWinds
10 4 (1.32%) Zscaler
11 3 (0.99%) Blue Coat
11 3 (0.99%) CrowdStrike
11 3 (0.99%) HP
11 3 (0.99%) Informatica
11 3 (0.99%) Netskope
11 3 (0.99%) Tenable