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

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 188 158
Rank change year-on-year +50 -30 -8
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 419 189 257
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.09% 1.40% 1.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.34% 1.52% 1.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 286 140 211
10th Percentile £397 £359 £325
25th Percentile £450 £417 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £539 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.09% +2.62% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £625
90th Percentile £692 £676 £700
England median daily rate £540 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +2.86% +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £30.00 -
England median hourly rate £73.27 £30.00 £67.50
% change year-on-year +144.23% -55.56% -6.90%

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 17,916 12,432 14,370
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.17% 92.34% 88.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,760 8,272 10,048
10th Percentile £360 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 287 253 197
10th Percentile £16.99 £16.50 £16.99
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.34% -15.71% -12.50%
75th Percentile £56.63 £48.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.50
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +5.94%

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 18 August 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 18 August 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 +16 54 £620 +7.83% 21
West London -13 9 £675 - 5
South London -9 5 £473 -21.25% 5
East London -1 3 £638 +34.92% 5
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 (4.77%) Microsoft Exchange
1 20 (4.77%) SharePoint
2 13 (3.10%) CICS
2 13 (3.10%) Confluence
3 8 (1.91%) WebSphere
4 7 (1.67%) Apache
5 4 (0.95%) SharePoint Server
6 3 (0.72%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.48%) Exchange Server 2013
7 2 (0.48%) nginx
8 1 (0.24%) CloudStack
8 1 (0.24%) CMS
8 1 (0.24%) IBM HTTP Server
8 1 (0.24%) JBoss
8 1 (0.24%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.24%) SAS
8 1 (0.24%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.24%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.24%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 5 (1.19%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.72%) AutoCAD
2 3 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.24%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.72%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 192 (45.82%) Azure
2 101 (24.11%) AWS
3 51 (12.17%) GitHub
4 49 (11.69%) Azure DevOps
5 44 (10.50%) GCP
6 43 (10.26%) Entra ID
7 40 (9.55%) Microsoft 365
8 37 (8.83%) GitHub Actions
9 31 (7.40%) IaaS
10 30 (7.16%) Azure AKS
11 23 (5.49%) PaaS
11 23 (5.49%) SaaS
12 21 (5.01%) Azure Monitor
13 19 (4.53%) Amazon EKS
14 17 (4.06%) Serverless
15 15 (3.58%) Amazon S3
16 11 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
16 11 (2.63%) Datadog
16 11 (2.63%) OCI
17 10 (2.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 79 (18.85%) DNS
2 59 (14.08%) Firewall
3 58 (13.84%) DHCP
4 42 (10.02%) VPN
5 33 (7.88%) Network Security
6 31 (7.40%) TCP/IP
7 19 (4.53%) WAN
8 17 (4.06%) SSL
9 15 (3.58%) Wi-Fi
10 13 (3.10%) LAN
11 12 (2.86%) SAN
12 10 (2.39%) HTTP
13 9 (2.15%) VLAN
14 7 (1.67%) NAS
14 7 (1.67%) SD-WAN
14 7 (1.67%) SMTP
15 6 (1.43%) BGP
15 6 (1.43%) Wireless
16 5 (1.19%) DMZ
16 5 (1.19%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (7.64%) SQL Server
2 10 (2.39%) Elasticsearch
3 6 (1.43%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (1.43%) BigQuery
3 6 (1.43%) Db2
3 6 (1.43%) DynamoDB
4 5 (1.19%) Power BI
5 3 (0.72%) Apache Iceberg
5 3 (0.72%) Big Data
5 3 (0.72%) ClickHouse
5 3 (0.72%) Flink
5 3 (0.72%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (0.72%) Snowflake Schema
5 3 (0.72%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 3 (0.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (0.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (0.48%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.48%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.24%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.24%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 26 (6.21%) Git
2 18 (4.30%) GitLab
2 18 (4.30%) Jenkins
3 8 (1.91%) JIRA
4 4 (0.95%) Chocolatey
5 2 (0.48%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.48%) Oracle Forms
5 2 (0.48%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.48%) Subversion
6 1 (0.24%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.24%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.24%) CMake
6 1 (0.24%) Gradle
6 1 (0.24%) Introscope
6 1 (0.24%) Maven
6 1 (0.24%) Terragrunt
General
1 94 (22.43%) Social Skills
2 73 (17.42%) Finance
3 37 (8.83%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (8.11%) Banking
5 22 (5.25%) Public Sector
6 17 (4.06%) Documentation Skills
7 12 (2.86%) Telecoms
8 11 (2.63%) Retail
9 8 (1.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (1.91%) Law
10 5 (1.19%) Automotive
10 5 (1.19%) Billing
10 5 (1.19%) Legal
10 5 (1.19%) Publishing
11 3 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.72%) Military
11 3 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.48%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.48%) Local Government
13 1 (0.24%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 221 (52.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 54 (12.89%) Cloud Engineer
3 50 (11.93%) Senior
4 41 (9.79%) Azure Engineer
4 41 (9.79%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 36 (8.59%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 32 (7.64%) DevOps Engineer
7 25 (5.97%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
7 25 (5.97%) Lead
8 22 (5.25%) Network Engineer
9 17 (4.06%) Architect
10 15 (3.58%) Platform Engineer
11 13 (3.10%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 12 (2.86%) Infrastructure Specialist
13 11 (2.63%) 3rd Line Engineer
13 11 (2.63%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
13 11 (2.63%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
13 11 (2.63%) Support Engineer
14 10 (2.39%) Infrastructure Support
15 9 (2.15%) Microsoft Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (2.63%) ARM Templates
1 11 (2.63%) YAML
2 10 (2.39%) Middleware
2 10 (2.39%) REST
3 9 (2.15%) JSON
4 7 (1.67%) 802.1X
4 7 (1.67%) Loki
5 6 (1.43%) OpenID
5 6 (1.43%) RESTful
5 6 (1.43%) SAML
5 6 (1.43%) SOAP
5 6 (1.43%) Web Services
5 6 (1.43%) WSDL
6 5 (1.19%) .NET
6 5 (1.19%) Kafka
7 4 (0.95%) ADO
7 4 (0.95%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (0.72%) Model Context Protocol
8 3 (0.72%) ModSecurity
8 3 (0.72%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 25 (5.97%) Cloud Native
1 25 (5.97%) Hybrid Cloud
2 21 (5.01%) Data Centre
3 16 (3.82%) Clustering
4 15 (3.58%) Onboarding
5 13 (3.10%) Mainframe
5 13 (3.10%) PKI
5 13 (3.10%) Public Cloud
6 10 (2.39%) Distributed Systems
7 9 (2.15%) Data Protection Act
8 8 (1.91%) CMDB
8 8 (1.91%) Enterprise Cloud
8 8 (1.91%) Enterprise Storage
8 8 (1.91%) Linux Command Line
8 8 (1.91%) Replication
9 7 (1.67%) Cyber Threat
10 6 (1.43%) AI Agents
10 6 (1.43%) Management Information System
10 6 (1.43%) Private Cloud
10 6 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 133 (31.74%) Windows
2 79 (18.85%) Windows Server
3 73 (17.42%) Linux
4 20 (4.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (3.10%) zOS
6 12 (2.86%) Unix
7 9 (2.15%) Windows Server 2019
8 8 (1.91%) Ubuntu
8 8 (1.91%) VMS
8 8 (1.91%) Windows Server 2016
9 6 (1.43%) Android
9 6 (1.43%) Apple iOS
10 5 (1.19%) Mac OS
10 5 (1.19%) Windows 10
10 5 (1.19%) Windows Server 2012
11 4 (0.95%) Windows Server 2003
11 4 (0.95%) Windows Server 2008
12 2 (0.48%) OpenVMS
12 2 (0.48%) Windows 7
13 1 (0.24%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (31.26%) Infrastructure as Code
2 125 (29.83%) DevOps
3 111 (26.49%) CI/CD
4 67 (15.99%) Migration
5 62 (14.80%) Platform Engineering
6 60 (14.32%) AI
7 55 (13.13%) Infrastructure Automation
8 54 (12.89%) Problem-Solving
9 40 (9.55%) Continuous Improvement
9 40 (9.55%) Disaster Recovery
10 39 (9.31%) Containerisation
11 38 (9.07%) Configuration Management
12 35 (8.35%) Incident Response
13 34 (8.11%) Observability
14 33 (7.88%) Agile
14 33 (7.88%) High Availability
14 33 (7.88%) Stakeholder Management
15 30 (7.16%) ITIL
16 29 (6.92%) Runbook
17 28 (6.68%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 104 (24.82%) PowerShell
2 103 (24.58%) Python
3 43 (10.26%) Bash
4 36 (8.59%) SQL
5 20 (4.77%) Bicep
6 19 (4.53%) C#
7 18 (4.30%) Java
8 15 (3.58%) Shell Script
9 7 (1.67%) Perl
10 6 (1.43%) C++
10 6 (1.43%) Go
10 6 (1.43%) JCL
11 4 (0.95%) C
11 4 (0.95%) JavaScript
11 4 (0.95%) TypeScript
12 3 (0.72%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.48%) Korn
13 2 (0.48%) Ruby
14 1 (0.24%) R
14 1 (0.24%) Scala
Qualifications
1 139 (33.17%) Security Cleared
2 93 (22.20%) SC Cleared
3 43 (10.26%) DV Cleared
4 21 (5.01%) Azure Certification
5 20 (4.77%) Degree
6 16 (3.82%) Cisco Certification
7 11 (2.63%) CISSP
8 10 (2.39%) CCNA
8 10 (2.39%) CCNP
9 8 (1.91%) AWS Certification
10 7 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
11 6 (1.43%) CISM
11 6 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (1.19%) PMI Certification
13 4 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
13 4 (0.95%) JNCIP
13 4 (0.95%) JNCIS
13 4 (0.95%) PMP
14 3 (0.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 3 (0.72%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.34%) SLA
2 13 (3.10%) QA
3 11 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (2.15%) NIST
5 6 (1.43%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.95%) SOC 2
7 3 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.72%) GDPR
7 3 (0.72%) NCSC
8 2 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.48%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.48%) PMO
9 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.24%) FedRAMP
9 1 (0.24%) GRC
9 1 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (0.24%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 82 (19.57%) Active Directory
2 67 (15.99%) VMware Infrastructure
3 32 (7.64%) Docker
4 27 (6.44%) Hyper-V
5 23 (5.49%) VMware ESXi
6 19 (4.53%) Virtual Machines
7 17 (4.06%) vSphere
8 14 (3.34%) Virtual Desktop
9 8 (1.91%) Virtual Servers
10 7 (1.67%) BitLocker
10 7 (1.67%) Microsoft App-V
11 5 (1.19%) Firmware
12 4 (0.95%) Terminal Services
12 4 (0.95%) VMware NSX
13 3 (0.72%) NFS
14 2 (0.48%) Ceph
14 2 (0.48%) Postfix
14 2 (0.48%) Sendmail
14 2 (0.48%) Varnish
15 1 (0.24%) KVM
Systems Management
1 131 (31.26%) Terraform
2 79 (18.85%) Kubernetes
3 63 (15.04%) Ansible
4 28 (6.68%) Microsoft Intune
5 18 (4.30%) Grafana
6 17 (4.06%) Puppet
6 17 (4.06%) vCenter Server
7 16 (3.82%) SCCM
8 15 (3.58%) Prometheus
9 12 (2.86%) Packer
10 10 (2.39%) FortiGate
11 8 (1.91%) Argo
11 8 (1.91%) systemd
12 7 (1.67%) vMotion
13 6 (1.43%) Single Sign-On
14 5 (1.19%) Microsoft Clustering
14 5 (1.19%) Nessus
15 4 (0.95%) Nagios
15 4 (0.95%) SCOM
16 3 (0.72%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 126 (30.07%) Microsoft
2 88 (21.00%) VMware
3 24 (5.73%) Cisco
4 23 (5.49%) Citrix
5 22 (5.25%) Google
6 15 (3.58%) Oracle
6 15 (3.58%) Red Hat
6 15 (3.58%) ServiceNow
7 13 (3.10%) NetApp
8 11 (2.63%) Tenable
9 10 (2.39%) Zscaler
10 8 (1.91%) Dynatrace
10 8 (1.91%) HP
10 8 (1.91%) IBM
11 6 (1.43%) Qualys
11 6 (1.43%) Splunk
12 5 (1.19%) Databricks
12 5 (1.19%) EMC
12 5 (1.19%) Juniper
13 4 (0.95%) MikroTik