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 24 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 195 152 133
Rank change year-on-year -43 -19 +51
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 203 262 393
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.45% 1.66% 1.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.57% 1.85% 2.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 204 282
10th Percentile £350 £325 £325
25th Percentile £425 £411 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £532 £550 £515
Median % change year-on-year -3.36% +6.80% -2.09%
75th Percentile £606 £650 £638
90th Percentile £680 £688 £745
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% -51.84%
75th Percentile £32.70 - £38.04
90th Percentile £34.32 - £38.75
England median hourly rate £34.00 £70.00 £63.63
% change year-on-year -51.43% +10.01% +15.17%

All Process and 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 12,890 14,145 17,905
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.23% 89.50% 89.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,461 9,134 12,846
10th Percentile £335 £350 £356
25th Percentile £425 £450 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £568
Median % change year-on-year -3.09% -3.21% -3.69%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 254 170 241
10th Percentile £18.06 £17.25 £18.57
25th Percentile £24.50 £23.98 £21.50
Median hourly rate £28.75 £37.50 £36.28
Median % change year-on-year -23.33% +3.36% -6.97%
75th Percentile £47.38 £56.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £68.80 £80.75 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £36.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -30.14% -20.00% +25.00%

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 24 November 2025.

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 24 November 2025. 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 33 £550 -7.17% 20
West London -7 4 - - 3
South London -6 3 - - 3
East London - 1 - - 7
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 (9.85%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (3.45%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (3.45%) Confluence
3 3 (1.48%) Apache
3 3 (1.48%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.99%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.99%) nginx
4 2 (0.99%) Traefik
5 1 (0.49%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.49%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.49%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.49%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.49%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 2 (0.99%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.49%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 91 (44.83%) Azure
2 49 (24.14%) AWS
3 37 (18.23%) Microsoft 365
4 29 (14.29%) Entra ID
5 24 (11.82%) GitHub
6 21 (10.34%) GCP
7 19 (9.36%) Azure DevOps
8 13 (6.40%) Amazon S3
8 13 (6.40%) GitHub Actions
8 13 (6.40%) Serverless
9 12 (5.91%) Azure Monitor
10 11 (5.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 10 (4.93%) IaaS
12 9 (4.43%) Amazon EKS
13 8 (3.94%) Azure Logic Apps
13 8 (3.94%) Mimecast
14 7 (3.45%) Amazon EC2
14 7 (3.45%) AWS CloudFormation
14 7 (3.45%) Azure Service Bus
14 7 (3.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 45 (22.17%) Firewall
2 30 (14.78%) VPN
3 25 (12.32%) WAN
4 24 (11.82%) DNS
5 20 (9.85%) Network Security
5 20 (9.85%) TCP/IP
6 17 (8.37%) LAN
7 14 (6.90%) SSL
8 13 (6.40%) Wi-Fi
9 8 (3.94%) DHCP
9 8 (3.94%) SD-WAN
10 6 (2.96%) HTTP
10 6 (2.96%) MPLS
11 5 (2.46%) VLAN
11 5 (2.46%) Wireless
12 4 (1.97%) BGP
12 4 (1.97%) OSPF
12 4 (1.97%) tcpdump
12 4 (1.97%) WLAN
13 3 (1.48%) Cisco Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.97%) DynamoDB
1 4 (1.97%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.48%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (0.99%) Big Data
3 2 (0.99%) MariaDB
3 2 (0.99%) MySQL
3 2 (0.99%) Power BI
4 1 (0.49%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.49%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (0.49%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.49%) BigQuery
4 1 (0.49%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.49%) Looker
4 1 (0.49%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.49%) Oracle Database 11g
4 1 (0.49%) Oracle Database 12c
4 1 (0.49%) Oracle Exadata
4 1 (0.49%) Parquet
4 1 (0.49%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 17 (8.37%) Git
1 17 (8.37%) Jenkins
2 12 (5.91%) GitLab
3 9 (4.43%) JIRA
4 4 (1.97%) Robot Framework
5 1 (0.49%) Log4j
5 1 (0.49%) MLflow
5 1 (0.49%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.49%) SonarQube
General
1 53 (26.11%) Finance
2 50 (24.63%) Social Skills
3 22 (10.84%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (8.87%) Public Sector
5 17 (8.37%) Banking
6 9 (4.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (3.94%) Law
8 6 (2.96%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (2.96%) Financial Institution
9 5 (2.46%) Spanish Language
10 3 (1.48%) Front Office
10 3 (1.48%) Military
10 3 (1.48%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.99%) Billing
11 2 (0.99%) Legal
11 2 (0.99%) Marketing
11 2 (0.99%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.99%) Retail
12 1 (0.49%) Aviation
12 1 (0.49%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 105 (51.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 28 (13.79%) Senior
3 17 (8.37%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 16 (7.88%) Cloud Engineer
4 16 (7.88%) Network Engineer
5 15 (7.39%) Security Engineer
6 13 (6.40%) Azure Engineer
6 13 (6.40%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
7 12 (5.91%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
7 12 (5.91%) Platform Engineer
8 11 (5.42%) DevOps Engineer
9 10 (4.93%) Python Engineer
10 8 (3.94%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
10 8 (3.94%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 7 (3.45%) Architect
11 7 (3.45%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
11 7 (3.45%) Developer
11 7 (3.45%) Infrastructure Support
12 6 (2.96%) Automation Engineer
13 5 (2.46%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (4.43%) ARM Templates
1 9 (4.43%) Kafka
2 8 (3.94%) YAML
3 6 (2.96%) ADO
3 6 (2.96%) Middleware
3 6 (2.96%) RESTful
4 5 (2.46%) GraphQL
4 5 (2.46%) REST
5 4 (1.97%) gRPC
5 4 (1.97%) JMS
6 3 (1.48%) AWT
6 3 (1.48%) FIX Protocol
6 3 (1.48%) GWT
6 3 (1.48%) Rendezvous
6 3 (1.48%) TIBCO EMS
7 2 (0.99%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (0.99%) NumPy
7 2 (0.99%) OAuth
7 2 (0.99%) Pandas
7 2 (0.99%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (5.42%) Onboarding
2 10 (4.93%) Cloud Native
2 10 (4.93%) Data Centre
3 9 (4.43%) Public Cloud
4 8 (3.94%) PKI
5 7 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
5 7 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (3.45%) Private Cloud
5 7 (3.45%) Replication
6 6 (2.96%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (1.97%) DataPower
7 4 (1.97%) Equities
7 4 (1.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (1.97%) Linux Command Line
7 4 (1.97%) Mainframe
7 4 (1.97%) Security Posture
8 3 (1.48%) Legacy Code
8 3 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.99%) Client/Server
9 2 (0.99%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 56 (27.59%) Windows
2 44 (21.67%) Linux
3 39 (19.21%) Windows Server
4 14 (6.90%) Unix
5 6 (2.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (2.46%) Ubuntu
6 5 (2.46%) Windows 10
7 4 (1.97%) VMS
8 2 (0.99%) Android
8 2 (0.99%) CentOS
8 2 (0.99%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.99%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.49%) AIX
9 1 (0.49%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.49%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.49%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (0.49%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.49%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (32.02%) Infrastructure as Code
2 57 (28.08%) DevOps
3 55 (27.09%) CI/CD
4 47 (23.15%) Problem-Solving
5 29 (14.29%) Agile
5 29 (14.29%) Containerisation
6 26 (12.81%) Migration
7 23 (11.33%) Infrastructure Automation
8 20 (9.85%) High Availability
9 18 (8.87%) Observability
10 17 (8.37%) Analytics
10 17 (8.37%) Cybersecurity
10 17 (8.37%) Platform Engineering
11 16 (7.88%) Task Automation
11 16 (7.88%) Test Automation
12 15 (7.39%) ITIL
13 13 (6.40%) Cloud Security
13 13 (6.40%) Low Latency
13 13 (6.40%) RBAC
14 12 (5.91%) Log Analytics
Programming Languages
1 69 (33.99%) Python
2 34 (16.75%) PowerShell
3 25 (12.32%) Bash
4 14 (6.90%) Java
5 11 (5.42%) Go
6 8 (3.94%) Bicep
6 8 (3.94%) SQL
7 7 (3.45%) Perl
8 6 (2.96%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.49%) C#
9 1 (0.49%) C++
9 1 (0.49%) Ruby
9 1 (0.49%) Scala
9 1 (0.49%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 35 (17.24%) Security Cleared
2 27 (13.30%) SC Cleared
3 17 (8.37%) Degree
4 12 (5.91%) Cisco Certification
5 10 (4.93%) Azure Certification
6 8 (3.94%) CCNA
6 8 (3.94%) CCNP
6 8 (3.94%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (2.96%) CISSP
7 6 (2.96%) DV Cleared
8 5 (2.46%) CISM
9 4 (1.97%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (1.48%) JNCIP
10 3 (1.48%) JNCIS
11 2 (0.99%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 2 (0.99%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.99%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.99%) PMP
12 1 (0.49%) AWS Certification
12 1 (0.49%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.48%) Cyber Essentials
1 3 (1.48%) NIST
2 2 (0.99%) GDPR
2 2 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (0.99%) SLA
3 1 (0.49%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.49%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 1 (0.49%) QA
3 1 (0.49%) SOC 2
System Software
1 44 (21.67%) Active Directory
2 30 (14.78%) Docker
3 22 (10.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (7.39%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (3.94%) Hyper-V
6 5 (2.46%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (1.97%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (1.48%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.49%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.49%) etcd
9 1 (0.49%) Firmware
9 1 (0.49%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.49%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.49%) vSphere
9 1 (0.49%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 72 (35.47%) Terraform
2 31 (15.27%) Kubernetes
3 30 (14.78%) Microsoft Intune
4 29 (14.29%) Ansible
5 20 (9.85%) SCCM
6 17 (8.37%) Grafana
7 11 (5.42%) Prometheus
8 8 (3.94%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (2.96%) CASB
9 6 (2.96%) FortiGate
9 6 (2.96%) SCOrch
10 4 (1.97%) Argo
11 3 (1.48%) Istio
11 3 (1.48%) Jamf Pro
12 2 (0.99%) ITRS Geneos
12 2 (0.99%) Kibana
12 2 (0.99%) McAfee ePO
12 2 (0.99%) Red Hat Satellite
12 2 (0.99%) SCOM
12 2 (0.99%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 61 (30.05%) Microsoft
2 26 (12.81%) VMware
3 19 (9.36%) Cisco
3 19 (9.36%) Palo Alto
4 17 (8.37%) Google
5 14 (6.90%) F5
6 10 (4.93%) Fortinet
7 8 (3.94%) Zscaler
8 7 (3.45%) CheckPoint
8 7 (3.45%) CyberArk
8 7 (3.45%) Juniper
9 6 (2.96%) Red Hat
9 6 (2.96%) Veeam
10 5 (2.46%) Dell
10 5 (2.46%) IBM
10 5 (2.46%) TIBCO
11 4 (1.97%) Aruba
11 4 (1.97%) Citrix
11 4 (1.97%) Commvault
11 4 (1.97%) Meraki