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

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 197 156 125
Rank change year-on-year -41 -31 +64
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 194 244 345
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.35% 1.67% 1.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.47% 1.85% 2.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 184 238
10th Percentile £400 £321 £363
25th Percentile £453 £400 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £508
Median % change year-on-year - +8.37% -7.73%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £631
90th Percentile £675 £688 £713
England median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 3
10th Percentile £24.40 - £32.97
25th Percentile £26.50 - £34.42
Median hourly rate £30.00 £112.00 £36.84
Median % change year-on-year -73.21% +204.02% -41.23%
75th Percentile £32.70 - £38.04
90th Percentile £34.32 - £38.75
England median hourly rate £34.00 £62.50 £56.25
% change year-on-year -45.60% +11.11% +8.17%

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 13,193 13,182 16,214
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.50% 90.18% 89.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,713 8,439 11,605
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -4.66%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £756 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 225 163 243
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.13 £17.15
25th Percentile £24.61 £23.80 £20.00
Median hourly rate £31.50 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +7.69% -13.33%
75th Percentile £53.13 £54.50 £58.38
90th Percentile £69.12 £80.75 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% -22.22% +26.76%

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 1 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 1 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 +4 37 £550 -7.17% 54
West London -18 3 £300 -25.00% 4
South London -10 1 - - 3
East London - 1 - - 4
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 23 (11.86%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (3.61%) Confluence
3 6 (3.09%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.55%) Apache
5 2 (1.03%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.03%) nginx
5 2 (1.03%) Traefik
6 1 (0.52%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.52%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.52%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.52%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 3 (1.55%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.52%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 86 (44.33%) Azure
2 51 (26.29%) AWS
3 42 (21.65%) Microsoft 365
4 31 (15.98%) Entra ID
5 19 (9.79%) GCP
5 19 (9.79%) GitHub
6 16 (8.25%) Serverless
7 15 (7.73%) GitHub Actions
8 14 (7.22%) Amazon S3
8 14 (7.22%) IaaS
9 13 (6.70%) Azure DevOps
10 10 (5.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 9 (4.64%) Amazon EKS
11 9 (4.64%) AWS CloudFormation
11 9 (4.64%) AWS Lambda
12 8 (4.12%) Amazon ECS
13 7 (3.61%) GitHub Copilot
13 7 (3.61%) Microsoft Purview
13 7 (3.61%) Nutanix
13 7 (3.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 47 (24.23%) Firewall
2 30 (15.46%) VPN
3 26 (13.40%) DNS
4 24 (12.37%) WAN
5 19 (9.79%) TCP/IP
6 17 (8.76%) LAN
7 16 (8.25%) Network Security
8 13 (6.70%) Wi-Fi
9 11 (5.67%) SSL
10 9 (4.64%) MPLS
11 7 (3.61%) DHCP
12 6 (3.09%) HTTP
12 6 (3.09%) SD-WAN
13 5 (2.58%) VLAN
13 5 (2.58%) Wireless
14 4 (2.06%) WLAN
15 3 (1.55%) BGP
15 3 (1.55%) Cisco Wireless
15 3 (1.55%) OSPF
15 3 (1.55%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.09%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.06%) DynamoDB
3 3 (1.55%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.03%) Big Data
4 2 (1.03%) MariaDB
4 2 (1.03%) MySQL
4 2 (1.03%) Power BI
4 2 (1.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.52%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.52%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (0.52%) Apache Iceberg
5 1 (0.52%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.52%) Data Hub
5 1 (0.52%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.52%) Delta Lake
5 1 (0.52%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.52%) Parquet
5 1 (0.52%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 20 (10.31%) Git
2 17 (8.76%) Jenkins
3 11 (5.67%) GitLab
4 8 (4.12%) JIRA
5 4 (2.06%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.52%) Jaeger
6 1 (0.52%) MLflow
General
1 48 (24.74%) Finance
1 48 (24.74%) Social Skills
2 24 (12.37%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (10.31%) Banking
4 13 (6.70%) Public Sector
5 6 (3.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (3.09%) Spanish Language
6 5 (2.58%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (2.58%) Financial Institution
6 5 (2.58%) Front Office
7 4 (2.06%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.55%) Billing
8 3 (1.55%) Military
8 3 (1.55%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.03%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.03%) Local Government
9 2 (1.03%) Retail
10 1 (0.52%) International Banking
10 1 (0.52%) Italian Language
10 1 (0.52%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 99 (51.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 30 (15.46%) Senior
3 19 (9.79%) Network Engineer
4 17 (8.76%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 14 (7.22%) Security Engineer
6 12 (6.19%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
6 12 (6.19%) Platform Engineer
7 11 (5.67%) Azure Engineer
7 11 (5.67%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
8 10 (5.15%) Cloud Engineer
8 10 (5.15%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 9 (4.64%) Developer
10 8 (4.12%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
10 8 (4.12%) DevOps Engineer
11 6 (3.09%) Automation Engineer
11 6 (3.09%) Python Engineer
11 6 (3.09%) Windows Engineer
12 5 (2.58%) AWS Engineer
12 5 (2.58%) Infrastructure Support
12 5 (2.58%) Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.12%) Kafka
2 6 (3.09%) GraphQL
2 6 (3.09%) Middleware
2 6 (3.09%) REST
3 4 (2.06%) ARM Templates
3 4 (2.06%) gRPC
3 4 (2.06%) NumPy
3 4 (2.06%) Pandas
3 4 (2.06%) RESTful
4 3 (1.55%) AWT
4 3 (1.55%) FIX Protocol
4 3 (1.55%) GWT
4 3 (1.55%) JMS
4 3 (1.55%) Rendezvous
4 3 (1.55%) SciPy
4 3 (1.55%) TIBCO EMS
4 3 (1.55%) YAML
5 2 (1.03%) Loki
5 2 (1.03%) Microsoft Graph
5 2 (1.03%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 11 (5.67%) Onboarding
1 11 (5.67%) Public Cloud
2 10 (5.15%) Cloud Native
2 10 (5.15%) Data Centre
3 7 (3.61%) Data Protection Act
3 7 (3.61%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (3.61%) Private Cloud
3 7 (3.61%) Replication
4 6 (3.09%) Equities
4 6 (3.09%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (3.09%) PKI
5 4 (2.06%) DataPower
5 4 (2.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 4 (2.06%) Mainframe
6 3 (1.55%) Client/Server
6 3 (1.55%) Derivative
6 3 (1.55%) Equity Derivative
6 3 (1.55%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (1.55%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 55 (28.35%) Windows
2 41 (21.13%) Linux
3 38 (19.59%) Windows Server
4 13 (6.70%) Unix
5 4 (2.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (2.06%) Ubuntu
5 4 (2.06%) VMS
5 4 (2.06%) Windows 10
6 3 (1.55%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (1.03%) Android
7 2 (1.03%) Mac OS
7 2 (1.03%) Windows Server 2003
8 1 (0.52%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.52%) CentOS
8 1 (0.52%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.52%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.52%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (30.41%) Infrastructure as Code
2 52 (26.80%) DevOps
3 51 (26.29%) CI/CD
4 43 (22.16%) Problem-Solving
5 28 (14.43%) Containerisation
6 25 (12.89%) Agile
7 23 (11.86%) Migration
8 21 (10.82%) Observability
9 20 (10.31%) High Availability
10 18 (9.28%) Infrastructure Automation
10 18 (9.28%) Platform Engineering
11 17 (8.76%) Cybersecurity
11 17 (8.76%) ITIL
12 16 (8.25%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 14 (7.22%) Low Latency
14 13 (6.70%) Cloud Security
14 13 (6.70%) Test Automation
15 12 (6.19%) AI
15 12 (6.19%) Analytics
15 12 (6.19%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 60 (30.93%) Python
2 32 (16.49%) PowerShell
3 17 (8.76%) Bash
3 17 (8.76%) Java
4 11 (5.67%) Go
5 8 (4.12%) SQL
6 7 (3.61%) Perl
7 5 (2.58%) Shell Script
8 3 (1.55%) Bicep
8 3 (1.55%) C#
8 3 (1.55%) C++
8 3 (1.55%) Ruby
9 1 (0.52%) Scala
9 1 (0.52%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 26 (13.40%) Security Cleared
2 20 (10.31%) Degree
3 16 (8.25%) SC Cleared
4 11 (5.67%) Cisco Certification
5 9 (4.64%) Azure Certification
6 8 (4.12%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (4.12%) DV Cleared
7 7 (3.61%) CCNA
7 7 (3.61%) CCNP
8 6 (3.09%) CISSP
9 5 (2.58%) CISM
10 4 (2.06%) Master's Degree
10 4 (2.06%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (1.55%) JNCIP
11 3 (1.55%) JNCIS
11 3 (1.55%) PhD
12 2 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (1.03%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (1.03%) PMI Certification
12 2 (1.03%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.55%) Cyber Essentials
1 3 (1.55%) NIST
2 2 (1.03%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.03%) SLA
3 1 (0.52%) GDPR
3 1 (0.52%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 1 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.52%) QA
3 1 (0.52%) SOC 2
System Software
1 45 (23.20%) Active Directory
2 31 (15.98%) Docker
3 18 (9.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (4.64%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (4.12%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (3.61%) Hyper-V
7 3 (1.55%) Virtual Servers
7 3 (1.55%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (1.03%) BitLocker
8 2 (1.03%) Firmware
9 1 (0.52%) etcd
9 1 (0.52%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (0.52%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.52%) vSphere
9 1 (0.52%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 67 (34.54%) Terraform
2 35 (18.04%) Microsoft Intune
3 33 (17.01%) Kubernetes
4 31 (15.98%) Ansible
5 19 (9.79%) SCCM
6 18 (9.28%) Grafana
7 11 (5.67%) Prometheus
8 6 (3.09%) CASB
8 6 (3.09%) SCOrch
9 5 (2.58%) FortiGate
9 5 (2.58%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (2.06%) Argo
11 3 (1.55%) Istio
11 3 (1.55%) Jamf Pro
12 2 (1.03%) AirWatch
12 2 (1.03%) ITRS Geneos
12 2 (1.03%) Kibana
12 2 (1.03%) Puppet
12 2 (1.03%) Red Hat Satellite
12 2 (1.03%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 65 (33.51%) Microsoft
2 23 (11.86%) VMware
3 17 (8.76%) Palo Alto
4 16 (8.25%) Google
5 15 (7.73%) Cisco
6 14 (7.22%) F5
7 8 (4.12%) CyberArk
7 8 (4.12%) Fortinet
7 8 (4.12%) Zscaler
8 7 (3.61%) CheckPoint
9 6 (3.09%) Veeam
10 5 (2.58%) Citrix
10 5 (2.58%) Dell
10 5 (2.58%) Juniper
11 4 (2.06%) Aruba
11 4 (2.06%) Commvault
11 4 (2.06%) IBM
11 4 (2.06%) Meraki
11 4 (2.06%) NetApp
11 4 (2.06%) TIBCO