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

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 134 192 164
Rank change year-on-year +58 -28 -19
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 422 190 263
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.10% 1.41% 1.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.36% 1.53% 1.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 285 141 212
10th Percentile £375 £360 £325
25th Percentile £449 £425 £424
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £536 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.61% +2.10% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £614
90th Percentile £698 £675 £700
England median daily rate £549 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +4.57% +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £49.00 £30.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +63.33% - -
England median hourly rate £73.27 £30.00 £68.75
% change year-on-year +144.23% -56.36% -5.17%

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 17,907 12,452 14,448
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.02% 92.46% 88.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,698 8,284 9,876
10th Percentile £360 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 291 255 193
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.00 £17.30
25th Percentile £19.94 £24.89 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £32.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.94% -12.33% -8.75%
75th Percentile £56.63 £49.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.75
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +2.63%

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 31 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 31 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 +7 52 £620 +14.18% 32
West London -11 10 £675 - 16
South London -12 6 £473 -21.25% 7
East London +4 4 £638 +34.92% 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 21 (4.98%) SharePoint
2 20 (4.74%) Microsoft Exchange
3 14 (3.32%) Confluence
4 11 (2.61%) CICS
5 8 (1.90%) WebSphere
6 6 (1.42%) Apache
7 4 (0.95%) SharePoint Server
8 3 (0.71%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.71%) nginx
9 2 (0.47%) Exchange Server 2013
10 1 (0.24%) CloudStack
10 1 (0.24%) CMS
10 1 (0.24%) IBM HTTP Server
10 1 (0.24%) JBoss
10 1 (0.24%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.24%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.24%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.24%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 5 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.71%) AutoCAD
2 3 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.24%) CPLEX
3 1 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.24%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.71%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 188 (44.55%) Azure
2 100 (23.70%) AWS
3 49 (11.61%) GitHub
4 46 (10.90%) Azure DevOps
5 44 (10.43%) GCP
6 42 (9.95%) Entra ID
6 42 (9.95%) Microsoft 365
7 37 (8.77%) GitHub Actions
8 30 (7.11%) IaaS
9 27 (6.40%) Azure AKS
10 23 (5.45%) SaaS
11 21 (4.98%) PaaS
12 20 (4.74%) Azure Monitor
13 19 (4.50%) Amazon EKS
14 16 (3.79%) Amazon S3
15 14 (3.32%) Serverless
16 13 (3.08%) OCI
17 11 (2.61%) Datadog
18 9 (2.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 9 (2.13%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 78 (18.48%) DNS
2 60 (14.22%) DHCP
2 60 (14.22%) Firewall
3 41 (9.72%) VPN
4 33 (7.82%) Network Security
5 31 (7.35%) TCP/IP
6 20 (4.74%) WAN
7 17 (4.03%) SSL
8 15 (3.55%) Wi-Fi
9 14 (3.32%) LAN
10 12 (2.84%) SAN
11 11 (2.61%) HTTP
12 10 (2.37%) VLAN
13 8 (1.90%) BGP
13 8 (1.90%) SMTP
14 7 (1.66%) NAS
14 7 (1.66%) SD-WAN
14 7 (1.66%) Wireless
15 5 (1.18%) DMZ
15 5 (1.18%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (7.35%) SQL Server
2 10 (2.37%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (1.66%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (1.42%) BigQuery
5 5 (1.18%) Power BI
6 4 (0.95%) Db2
6 4 (0.95%) DynamoDB
6 4 (0.95%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (0.71%) Apache Iceberg
7 3 (0.71%) Big Data
7 3 (0.71%) ClickHouse
7 3 (0.71%) Flink
7 3 (0.71%) Oracle Database
7 3 (0.71%) Snowflake Schema
7 3 (0.71%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 3 (0.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (0.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (0.47%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.24%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.24%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 27 (6.40%) Git
2 18 (4.27%) Jenkins
3 17 (4.03%) GitLab
4 8 (1.90%) JIRA
5 4 (0.95%) Chocolatey
6 3 (0.71%) Oracle Forms
7 2 (0.47%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.47%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.47%) Subversion
8 1 (0.24%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.24%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.24%) CMake
8 1 (0.24%) Gradle
8 1 (0.24%) Introscope
8 1 (0.24%) Maven
8 1 (0.24%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.24%) Vagrant
General
1 96 (22.75%) Social Skills
2 74 (17.54%) Finance
3 38 (9.00%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (7.35%) Banking
5 21 (4.98%) Public Sector
6 18 (4.27%) Documentation Skills
7 12 (2.84%) Telecoms
8 11 (2.61%) Retail
9 8 (1.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (1.90%) Law
10 5 (1.18%) Automotive
10 5 (1.18%) Billing
10 5 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (1.18%) Legal
10 5 (1.18%) Publishing
11 3 (0.71%) Local Government
11 3 (0.71%) Military
11 3 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.47%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.47%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 221 (52.37%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 53 (12.56%) Cloud Engineer
3 52 (12.32%) Senior
4 40 (9.48%) Azure Engineer
4 40 (9.48%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 37 (8.77%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 33 (7.82%) DevOps Engineer
7 29 (6.87%) Lead
8 25 (5.92%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
9 22 (5.21%) Network Engineer
10 19 (4.50%) Architect
11 15 (3.55%) Platform Engineer
12 13 (3.08%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 12 (2.84%) Infrastructure Specialist
13 12 (2.84%) Support Engineer
14 11 (2.61%) 3rd Line Engineer
14 11 (2.61%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
15 10 (2.37%) AWS Engineer
15 10 (2.37%) Infrastructure Support
15 10 (2.37%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 129 (30.57%) Terraform
2 11 (2.61%) ARM Templates
2 11 (2.61%) YAML
3 10 (2.37%) Middleware
3 10 (2.37%) REST
4 7 (1.66%) 802.1X
4 7 (1.66%) JSON
4 7 (1.66%) Loki
5 6 (1.42%) Kafka
5 6 (1.42%) OpenID
5 6 (1.42%) SAML
6 5 (1.18%) .NET
7 4 (0.95%) ADO
7 4 (0.95%) Elastic Stack
7 4 (0.95%) RESTful
7 4 (0.95%) SOAP
7 4 (0.95%) Web Services
7 4 (0.95%) WSDL
8 3 (0.71%) LangGraph
8 3 (0.71%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 28 (6.64%) Hybrid Cloud
2 26 (6.16%) Cloud Native
3 22 (5.21%) Data Centre
4 18 (4.27%) Clustering
5 15 (3.55%) Onboarding
6 13 (3.08%) PKI
7 12 (2.84%) Public Cloud
8 11 (2.61%) Distributed Systems
8 11 (2.61%) Mainframe
9 10 (2.37%) Replication
10 9 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
10 9 (2.13%) Linux Command Line
11 8 (1.90%) Enterprise Cloud
11 8 (1.90%) Enterprise Storage
11 8 (1.90%) Private Cloud
12 7 (1.66%) CMDB
12 7 (1.66%) Cyber Threat
13 6 (1.42%) AI Agents
14 5 (1.18%) Distributed Applications
14 5 (1.18%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 135 (31.99%) Windows
2 85 (20.14%) Windows Server
3 74 (17.54%) Linux
4 21 (4.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (2.84%) Unix
6 11 (2.61%) zOS
7 9 (2.13%) Ubuntu
7 9 (2.13%) Windows Server 2019
8 8 (1.90%) VMS
8 8 (1.90%) Windows Server 2016
9 6 (1.42%) Android
9 6 (1.42%) Apple iOS
9 6 (1.42%) Mac OS
10 5 (1.18%) Windows 10
10 5 (1.18%) Windows Server 2012
11 4 (0.95%) Windows Server 2003
11 4 (0.95%) Windows Server 2008
12 2 (0.47%) Amazon Linux
12 2 (0.47%) OpenVMS
12 2 (0.47%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (32.23%) Infrastructure as Code
2 128 (30.33%) DevOps
3 116 (27.49%) CI/CD
4 68 (16.11%) Migration
5 66 (15.64%) Platform Engineering
6 64 (15.17%) AI
7 58 (13.74%) Infrastructure Automation
8 53 (12.56%) Problem-Solving
9 42 (9.95%) Disaster Recovery
10 40 (9.48%) Configuration Management
10 40 (9.48%) Continuous Improvement
11 39 (9.24%) Stakeholder Management
12 38 (9.00%) Containerisation
12 38 (9.00%) Observability
13 35 (8.29%) High Availability
13 35 (8.29%) Incident Response
14 32 (7.58%) Agile
15 31 (7.35%) ITIL
16 30 (7.11%) Cloud Security
16 30 (7.11%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 107 (25.36%) Python
2 105 (24.88%) PowerShell
3 44 (10.43%) Bash
4 34 (8.06%) SQL
5 20 (4.74%) Bicep
6 19 (4.50%) Java
7 16 (3.79%) C#
8 12 (2.84%) Shell Script
9 8 (1.90%) C++
9 8 (1.90%) Go
9 8 (1.90%) Perl
10 5 (1.18%) C
10 5 (1.18%) TypeScript
11 4 (0.95%) JavaScript
11 4 (0.95%) JCL
12 3 (0.71%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.47%) Korn
14 1 (0.24%) Groovy
14 1 (0.24%) R
14 1 (0.24%) Scala
Qualifications
1 136 (32.23%) Security Cleared
2 91 (21.56%) SC Cleared
3 43 (10.19%) DV Cleared
4 23 (5.45%) Degree
5 22 (5.21%) Azure Certification
6 17 (4.03%) Cisco Certification
7 11 (2.61%) CCNA
7 11 (2.61%) CCNP
7 11 (2.61%) CISSP
8 9 (2.13%) AWS Certification
8 9 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (1.42%) CISM
9 6 (1.42%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (0.95%) JNCIP
10 4 (0.95%) JNCIS
10 4 (0.95%) PMI Certification
11 3 (0.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.71%) PMP
11 3 (0.71%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (3.08%) QA
1 13 (3.08%) SLA
2 12 (2.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (1.90%) NIST
4 5 (1.18%) PCI DSS
5 4 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.71%) NCSC
6 3 (0.71%) SOC 2
7 2 (0.47%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.47%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.47%) GDPR
8 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.24%) FedRAMP
8 1 (0.24%) GRC
8 1 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (0.24%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.24%) PMO
8 1 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 82 (19.43%) Active Directory
2 71 (16.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 34 (8.06%) Docker
4 29 (6.87%) Hyper-V
5 25 (5.92%) VMware ESXi
6 19 (4.50%) Virtual Machines
6 19 (4.50%) vSphere
7 13 (3.08%) Virtual Desktop
8 8 (1.90%) Virtual Servers
9 7 (1.66%) BitLocker
9 7 (1.66%) Microsoft App-V
10 6 (1.42%) Firmware
11 4 (0.95%) Terminal Services
11 4 (0.95%) VMware NSX
12 2 (0.47%) Ceph
12 2 (0.47%) NFS
12 2 (0.47%) Postfix
13 1 (0.24%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 1 (0.24%) DFS Replication
13 1 (0.24%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 80 (18.96%) Kubernetes
2 64 (15.17%) Ansible
3 27 (6.40%) Microsoft Intune
4 19 (4.50%) Puppet
5 18 (4.27%) Grafana
5 18 (4.27%) vCenter Server
6 16 (3.79%) SCCM
7 15 (3.55%) Prometheus
8 11 (2.61%) Packer
9 10 (2.37%) FortiGate
10 8 (1.90%) Argo
10 8 (1.90%) systemd
11 7 (1.66%) vMotion
12 6 (1.42%) Nessus
12 6 (1.42%) Single Sign-On
13 5 (1.18%) Microsoft Clustering
14 4 (0.95%) Nagios
14 4 (0.95%) Progress Chef
14 4 (0.95%) SCOM
15 3 (0.71%) WSUS
Vendors
1 131 (31.04%) Microsoft
2 94 (22.27%) VMware
3 28 (6.64%) Cisco
4 22 (5.21%) Citrix
4 22 (5.21%) Google
5 16 (3.79%) Oracle
5 16 (3.79%) Red Hat
6 15 (3.55%) ServiceNow
7 13 (3.08%) NetApp
8 10 (2.37%) Tenable
8 10 (2.37%) Zscaler
9 8 (1.90%) Dynatrace
9 8 (1.90%) HP
9 8 (1.90%) IBM
10 6 (1.42%) Juniper
10 6 (1.42%) Splunk
11 5 (1.18%) Databricks
11 5 (1.18%) Dell
11 5 (1.18%) EMC
11 5 (1.18%) Qualys