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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 154 193 141
Rank change year-on-year +39 -52 +21
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 349 185 306
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.77% 1.37% 1.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.99% 1.48% 1.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 240 141 237
10th Percentile £399 £350 £325
25th Percentile £448 £400 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £650 £600 £638
90th Percentile £702 £650 £715
England median daily rate £528 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +0.50% +5.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £30.00 -
England median hourly rate £72.54 £77.00 £54.88
% change year-on-year -5.79% +40.32% -24.31%

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 17,566 12,468 15,436
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.96% 92.16% 88.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,659 8,340 10,970
10th Percentile £360 £331 £350
25th Percentile £444 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.18% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 272 235 285
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.24
25th Percentile £22.16 £24.66 £20.22
Median hourly rate £36.25 £32.50 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% +7.76% -27.33%
75th Percentile £58.75 £50.50 £50.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.55 £69.20
England median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +88.87% -34.02% -6.09%

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 15 July 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 15 July 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 +8 49 £575 +2.22% 31
West London -8 8 £675 - 7
South London -10 7 £425 -29.17%
East London +1 1 £775 +64.02% 3
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 17 (4.87%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (3.44%) CICS
3 9 (2.58%) SharePoint
4 7 (2.01%) Confluence
4 7 (2.01%) WebSphere
5 4 (1.15%) Apache
6 1 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.29%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.29%) CloudStack
6 1 (0.29%) IBM HTTP Server
6 1 (0.29%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.29%) SAS
6 1 (0.29%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (0.29%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 3 (0.86%) AutoCAD
1 3 (0.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 165 (47.28%) Azure
2 92 (26.36%) AWS
3 48 (13.75%) GitHub
4 44 (12.61%) GCP
5 36 (10.32%) Azure DevOps
6 34 (9.74%) GitHub Actions
7 30 (8.60%) IaaS
8 29 (8.31%) Microsoft 365
9 28 (8.02%) Entra ID
10 25 (7.16%) Azure AKS
10 25 (7.16%) PaaS
11 20 (5.73%) SaaS
12 19 (5.44%) Amazon EKS
12 19 (5.44%) Serverless
13 16 (4.58%) Azure Monitor
14 15 (4.30%) Amazon S3
14 15 (4.30%) AWS Lambda
15 12 (3.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 8 (2.29%) AWS CloudFormation
16 8 (2.29%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 63 (18.05%) DNS
2 43 (12.32%) DHCP
3 42 (12.03%) Firewall
4 33 (9.46%) VPN
5 22 (6.30%) Network Security
6 17 (4.87%) TCP/IP
7 15 (4.30%) WAN
8 10 (2.87%) LAN
9 8 (2.29%) SAN
9 8 (2.29%) SMTP
9 8 (2.29%) SSL
10 6 (1.72%) NAS
11 5 (1.43%) DMZ
11 5 (1.43%) HTTP
11 5 (1.43%) SD-WAN
11 5 (1.43%) Structured Cabling
12 4 (1.15%) BGP
12 4 (1.15%) MPLS
12 4 (1.15%) Remote Desktop
12 4 (1.15%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (6.30%) SQL Server
2 8 (2.29%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (2.29%) DynamoDB
3 7 (2.01%) Elasticsearch
4 6 (1.72%) Db2
5 4 (1.15%) Big Data
5 4 (1.15%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (0.86%) BigQuery
6 3 (0.86%) Snowflake Schema
7 2 (0.57%) Power BI
8 1 (0.29%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.29%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.29%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.29%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.29%) Metadata
8 1 (0.29%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.29%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.29%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.29%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.29%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 19 (5.44%) GitLab
2 16 (4.58%) Git
3 14 (4.01%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.43%) Bitbucket
4 5 (1.43%) JIRA
5 2 (0.57%) Subversion
6 1 (0.29%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.29%) Chocolatey
6 1 (0.29%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.29%) CMake
6 1 (0.29%) Gradle
6 1 (0.29%) Introscope
6 1 (0.29%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 81 (23.21%) Social Skills
2 63 (18.05%) Finance
3 30 (8.60%) Banking
4 23 (6.59%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (5.44%) Public Sector
6 17 (4.87%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (3.72%) Legal
8 8 (2.29%) Law
8 8 (2.29%) Retail
9 6 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (1.72%) Telecoms
10 5 (1.43%) Billing
10 5 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.15%) Publishing
12 3 (0.86%) Military
13 2 (0.57%) Aerospace
13 2 (0.57%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.57%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.57%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 199 (57.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 54 (15.47%) Cloud Engineer
3 39 (11.17%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 32 (9.17%) Azure Engineer
4 32 (9.17%) Senior
5 23 (6.59%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 22 (6.30%) DevOps Engineer
7 18 (5.16%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 16 (4.58%) Architect
8 16 (4.58%) Lead
9 13 (3.72%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 13 (3.72%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
9 13 (3.72%) Network Engineer
10 11 (3.15%) Platform Engineer
11 10 (2.87%) Infrastructure Support
11 10 (2.87%) Support Engineer
12 9 (2.58%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
12 9 (2.58%) NetApp Engineer
12 9 (2.58%) Security Engineer
12 9 (2.58%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (2.87%) REST
2 9 (2.58%) JSON
3 7 (2.01%) Middleware
4 6 (1.72%) RESTful
4 6 (1.72%) SOAP
4 6 (1.72%) Web Services
4 6 (1.72%) WSDL
4 6 (1.72%) YAML
5 5 (1.43%) AWS CDK
5 5 (1.43%) Elastic Stack
5 5 (1.43%) Loki
5 5 (1.43%) OpenID
6 4 (1.15%) .NET
6 4 (1.15%) SAML
7 3 (0.86%) 802.1X
7 3 (0.86%) ADO
7 3 (0.86%) ARM Templates
7 3 (0.86%) HTML
7 3 (0.86%) ModSecurity
8 2 (0.57%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 22 (6.30%) Hybrid Cloud
2 21 (6.02%) Cloud Native
2 21 (6.02%) Data Centre
3 15 (4.30%) Onboarding
4 12 (3.44%) Mainframe
5 11 (3.15%) PKI
6 10 (2.87%) Distributed Systems
7 9 (2.58%) Public Cloud
8 8 (2.29%) Clustering
8 8 (2.29%) CMDB
8 8 (2.29%) Enterprise Storage
9 6 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (1.72%) DataPower
9 6 (1.72%) Online Banking
9 6 (1.72%) Replication
9 6 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (1.43%) AI Agents
10 5 (1.43%) Enterprise Cloud
10 5 (1.43%) IoT
11 4 (1.15%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 110 (31.52%) Windows
2 63 (18.05%) Windows Server
3 54 (15.47%) Linux
4 13 (3.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (3.44%) zOS
6 9 (2.58%) Unix
7 7 (2.01%) Windows Server 2019
8 6 (1.72%) Android
8 6 (1.72%) Apple iOS
9 5 (1.43%) VMS
9 5 (1.43%) Windows Server 2003
10 4 (1.15%) Ubuntu
10 4 (1.15%) Windows 10
10 4 (1.15%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (0.86%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.57%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.29%) AIX
13 1 (0.29%) Amazon Linux
13 1 (0.29%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (28.37%) Infrastructure as Code
2 95 (27.22%) DevOps
3 87 (24.93%) CI/CD
4 49 (14.04%) Platform Engineering
5 45 (12.89%) Migration
6 44 (12.61%) AI
7 37 (10.60%) Problem-Solving
8 36 (10.32%) Containerisation
9 33 (9.46%) Infrastructure Automation
10 29 (8.31%) Agile
11 28 (8.02%) Incident Response
12 27 (7.74%) Continuous Improvement
12 27 (7.74%) Disaster Recovery
12 27 (7.74%) Observability
13 24 (6.88%) Roadmaps
13 24 (6.88%) Runbook
14 22 (6.30%) Stakeholder Management
14 22 (6.30%) Validation
15 21 (6.02%) Configuration Management
16 19 (5.44%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 82 (23.50%) PowerShell
2 78 (22.35%) Python
3 31 (8.88%) Bash
4 28 (8.02%) SQL
5 18 (5.16%) C#
6 17 (4.87%) Java
7 16 (4.58%) Shell Script
8 13 (3.72%) Bicep
9 6 (1.72%) Go
9 6 (1.72%) JavaScript
9 6 (1.72%) JCL
10 3 (0.86%) Kusto Query Language
10 3 (0.86%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.57%) C++
11 2 (0.57%) Korn
11 2 (0.57%) Ruby
12 1 (0.29%) C
12 1 (0.29%) Jython
12 1 (0.29%) Perl
12 1 (0.29%) VB
Qualifications
1 109 (31.23%) Security Cleared
2 72 (20.63%) SC Cleared
3 38 (10.89%) DV Cleared
4 14 (4.01%) Azure Certification
4 14 (4.01%) Degree
5 12 (3.44%) Cisco Certification
6 10 (2.87%) CISSP
7 9 (2.58%) AWS Certification
8 8 (2.29%) CCNA
9 5 (1.43%) CCNP
9 5 (1.43%) CISM
10 4 (1.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.86%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.86%) PMI Certification
11 3 (0.86%) TOGAF Certification
12 2 (0.57%) CISA
12 2 (0.57%) CRISC
12 2 (0.57%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (2.58%) QA
2 8 (2.29%) NIST
3 6 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (1.72%) PCI DSS
3 6 (1.72%) SLA
4 4 (1.15%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (1.15%) SOC 2
5 3 (0.86%) GDPR
5 3 (0.86%) NCSC
6 2 (0.57%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.57%) PMO
7 1 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.29%) FedRAMP
7 1 (0.29%) GRC
7 1 (0.29%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 64 (18.34%) Active Directory
2 53 (15.19%) VMware Infrastructure
3 31 (8.88%) Docker
4 23 (6.59%) Hyper-V
5 19 (5.44%) VMware ESXi
6 15 (4.30%) vSphere
7 13 (3.72%) Virtual Machines
8 11 (3.15%) Virtual Desktop
9 8 (2.29%) BitLocker
9 8 (2.29%) Microsoft App-V
10 4 (1.15%) Terminal Services
10 4 (1.15%) VMware NSX
11 3 (0.86%) Firmware
11 3 (0.86%) NFS
11 3 (0.86%) Virtual Servers
12 2 (0.57%) Postfix
12 2 (0.57%) Sendmail
12 2 (0.57%) Varnish
13 1 (0.29%) Ceph
13 1 (0.29%) KVM
Systems Management
1 106 (30.37%) Terraform
2 69 (19.77%) Kubernetes
3 44 (12.61%) Ansible
4 18 (5.16%) Microsoft Intune
5 16 (4.58%) vCenter Server
6 15 (4.30%) Puppet
7 14 (4.01%) Grafana
8 11 (3.15%) Packer
8 11 (3.15%) Prometheus
9 8 (2.29%) vMotion
10 6 (1.72%) Argo
10 6 (1.72%) FortiGate
10 6 (1.72%) SCCM
11 5 (1.43%) Nessus
12 4 (1.15%) Nagios
12 4 (1.15%) systemd
13 3 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
13 3 (0.86%) yum
14 2 (0.57%) Check_MK
14 2 (0.57%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 95 (27.22%) Microsoft
2 66 (18.91%) VMware
3 24 (6.88%) Citrix
4 22 (6.30%) Google
5 16 (4.58%) ServiceNow
6 14 (4.01%) NetApp
7 12 (3.44%) Cisco
8 8 (2.29%) Tenable
9 7 (2.01%) Dell
9 7 (2.01%) Oracle
9 7 (2.01%) Red Hat
10 6 (1.72%) IBM
10 6 (1.72%) Qualys
10 6 (1.72%) Zscaler
11 5 (1.43%) CyberArk
12 4 (1.15%) Dynatrace
12 4 (1.15%) EMC
12 4 (1.15%) HP
12 4 (1.15%) SolarWinds
12 4 (1.15%) Splunk