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

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 142 196 156
Rank change year-on-year +54 -40 +5
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 402 183 268
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.99% 1.35% 1.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.23% 1.46% 1.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 268 136 215
10th Percentile £400 £350 £325
25th Percentile £450 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £537 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.47% +2.24% -4.55%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £625
90th Percentile £710 £675 £700
England median daily rate £538 £530 £501
% change year-on-year +1.42% +5.79% -2.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £30.00 -
England median hourly rate £72.54 £54.88 £68.75
% change year-on-year +32.19% -20.18% -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 18,001 12,519 14,410
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.11% 92.32% 88.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,856 8,363 10,133
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £543 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.38% -1.36% -4.35%
75th Percentile £662 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 297 250 198
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £17.01
25th Percentile £19.85 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.71 £30.00 £35.25
Median % change year-on-year +19.03% -14.89% -14.11%
75th Percentile £57.00 £49.31 £54.69
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.03 £71.44
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -40.82% -

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 7 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 7 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 +10 53 £600 +2.13% 41
West London -12 8 £675 - 3
South London -17 5 £425 -29.17% 7
East London 0 2 £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 21 (5.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 20 (4.98%) SharePoint
3 13 (3.23%) CICS
4 12 (2.99%) Confluence
5 8 (1.99%) WebSphere
6 5 (1.24%) Apache
7 4 (1.00%) SharePoint Server
8 2 (0.50%) Exchange Server 2013
9 1 (0.25%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.25%) CloudStack
9 1 (0.25%) IBM HTTP Server
9 1 (0.25%) JBoss
9 1 (0.25%) nginx
9 1 (0.25%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.25%) SAS
9 1 (0.25%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 5 (1.24%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.75%) AutoCAD
2 3 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (0.75%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 189 (47.01%) Azure
2 98 (24.38%) AWS
3 57 (14.18%) GitHub
4 45 (11.19%) Azure DevOps
5 44 (10.95%) GCP
6 41 (10.20%) Entra ID
7 40 (9.95%) GitHub Actions
7 40 (9.95%) Microsoft 365
8 32 (7.96%) IaaS
9 29 (7.21%) Azure AKS
10 26 (6.47%) PaaS
11 23 (5.72%) SaaS
12 22 (5.47%) Amazon EKS
13 20 (4.98%) Azure Monitor
13 20 (4.98%) Serverless
14 18 (4.48%) Amazon S3
15 16 (3.98%) AWS Lambda
16 13 (3.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 9 (2.24%) AWS CloudFormation
17 9 (2.24%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 78 (19.40%) DNS
2 58 (14.43%) Firewall
3 57 (14.18%) DHCP
4 41 (10.20%) VPN
5 31 (7.71%) Network Security
6 29 (7.21%) TCP/IP
7 19 (4.73%) WAN
8 14 (3.48%) SSL
9 13 (3.23%) Wi-Fi
10 12 (2.99%) LAN
11 10 (2.49%) SAN
12 8 (1.99%) HTTP
12 8 (1.99%) SMTP
12 8 (1.99%) VLAN
13 7 (1.74%) SD-WAN
14 6 (1.49%) NAS
15 5 (1.24%) BGP
15 5 (1.24%) DMZ
15 5 (1.24%) Structured Cabling
16 4 (1.00%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (7.71%) SQL Server
2 8 (1.99%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (1.99%) DynamoDB
2 8 (1.99%) Elasticsearch
3 6 (1.49%) Db2
4 5 (1.24%) Power BI
5 4 (1.00%) BigQuery
6 3 (0.75%) Big Data
6 3 (0.75%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (0.75%) Snowflake Schema
6 3 (0.75%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 3 (0.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (0.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (0.50%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.25%) Apache Iceberg
8 1 (0.25%) ClickHouse
8 1 (0.25%) Delta Lake
8 1 (0.25%) Flink
8 1 (0.25%) Metadata
8 1 (0.25%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 23 (5.72%) Git
2 20 (4.98%) GitLab
3 18 (4.48%) Jenkins
4 8 (1.99%) JIRA
5 5 (1.24%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.75%) Chocolatey
7 2 (0.50%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.50%) Subversion
8 1 (0.25%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.25%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.25%) CMake
8 1 (0.25%) Gradle
8 1 (0.25%) Introscope
8 1 (0.25%) Maven
8 1 (0.25%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.25%) Terragrunt
General
1 90 (22.39%) Social Skills
2 67 (16.67%) Finance
3 33 (8.21%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (7.96%) Banking
5 23 (5.72%) Public Sector
6 19 (4.73%) Documentation Skills
7 11 (2.74%) Retail
8 10 (2.49%) Telecoms
9 8 (1.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (1.99%) Law
10 7 (1.74%) Legal
11 5 (1.24%) Billing
11 5 (1.24%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (1.24%) Publishing
12 4 (1.00%) Automotive
13 3 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.75%) Military
13 3 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.50%) Aerospace
14 2 (0.50%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 219 (54.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 56 (13.93%) Cloud Engineer
3 46 (11.44%) Senior
4 40 (9.95%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 39 (9.70%) Azure Engineer
6 34 (8.46%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 24 (5.97%) DevOps Engineer
8 22 (5.47%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 22 (5.47%) Lead
9 20 (4.98%) Network Engineer
10 17 (4.23%) Architect
11 13 (3.23%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 13 (3.23%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
11 13 (3.23%) Platform Engineer
12 11 (2.74%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
13 10 (2.49%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 10 (2.49%) Infrastructure Specialist
13 10 (2.49%) Infrastructure Support
13 10 (2.49%) Security Engineer
13 10 (2.49%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (2.49%) REST
2 9 (2.24%) JSON
2 9 (2.24%) Middleware
3 8 (1.99%) ARM Templates
3 8 (1.99%) YAML
4 7 (1.74%) Loki
5 6 (1.49%) 802.1X
5 6 (1.49%) RESTful
5 6 (1.49%) SOAP
5 6 (1.49%) Web Services
5 6 (1.49%) WSDL
6 5 (1.24%) .NET
6 5 (1.24%) AWS CDK
6 5 (1.24%) Elastic Stack
6 5 (1.24%) OpenID
6 5 (1.24%) SAML
7 3 (0.75%) ADO
7 3 (0.75%) HTML
7 3 (0.75%) LDAP
7 3 (0.75%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 24 (5.97%) Hybrid Cloud
2 22 (5.47%) Data Centre
3 21 (5.22%) Cloud Native
4 16 (3.98%) Clustering
4 16 (3.98%) Onboarding
5 14 (3.48%) PKI
6 13 (3.23%) Mainframe
6 13 (3.23%) Public Cloud
7 9 (2.24%) Distributed Systems
7 9 (2.24%) Enterprise Storage
8 8 (1.99%) CMDB
8 8 (1.99%) Linux Command Line
9 7 (1.74%) Data Protection Act
9 7 (1.74%) Enterprise Cloud
9 7 (1.74%) Management Information System
9 7 (1.74%) Replication
10 6 (1.49%) Cyber Threat
10 6 (1.49%) DataPower
10 6 (1.49%) Online Banking
10 6 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 132 (32.84%) Windows
2 78 (19.40%) Windows Server
3 70 (17.41%) Linux
4 16 (3.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (3.23%) zOS
6 11 (2.74%) Unix
7 8 (1.99%) Ubuntu
7 8 (1.99%) VMS
7 8 (1.99%) Windows Server 2019
8 6 (1.49%) Android
8 6 (1.49%) Apple iOS
8 6 (1.49%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (1.24%) Mac OS
9 5 (1.24%) Windows 10
9 5 (1.24%) Windows Server 2003
9 5 (1.24%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (0.75%) Windows Server 2008
11 2 (0.50%) Amazon Linux
11 2 (0.50%) OpenVMS
11 2 (0.50%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (31.09%) Infrastructure as Code
2 117 (29.10%) DevOps
3 105 (26.12%) CI/CD
4 65 (16.17%) Migration
5 55 (13.68%) Platform Engineering
6 53 (13.18%) AI
7 49 (12.19%) Problem-Solving
8 47 (11.69%) Infrastructure Automation
9 40 (9.95%) Containerisation
9 40 (9.95%) Continuous Improvement
10 39 (9.70%) Disaster Recovery
11 36 (8.96%) Agile
12 35 (8.71%) Incident Response
13 33 (8.21%) Stakeholder Management
14 32 (7.96%) Observability
15 30 (7.46%) Configuration Management
16 28 (6.97%) High Availability
16 28 (6.97%) ITIL
17 27 (6.72%) Cloud Security
17 27 (6.72%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 98 (24.38%) PowerShell
2 94 (23.38%) Python
3 43 (10.70%) Bash
4 34 (8.46%) SQL
5 19 (4.73%) C#
6 18 (4.48%) Bicep
6 18 (4.48%) Shell Script
7 17 (4.23%) Java
8 7 (1.74%) Go
9 6 (1.49%) JavaScript
9 6 (1.49%) JCL
10 4 (1.00%) Perl
11 3 (0.75%) C++
11 3 (0.75%) Kusto Query Language
11 3 (0.75%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.50%) C
12 2 (0.50%) Korn
12 2 (0.50%) Ruby
13 1 (0.25%) Jython
13 1 (0.25%) VB
Qualifications
1 135 (33.58%) Security Cleared
2 92 (22.89%) SC Cleared
3 41 (10.20%) DV Cleared
4 24 (5.97%) Azure Certification
5 19 (4.73%) Degree
6 16 (3.98%) Cisco Certification
7 12 (2.99%) CISSP
8 10 (2.49%) AWS Certification
9 9 (2.24%) CCNA
9 9 (2.24%) CCNP
10 7 (1.74%) CISM
10 7 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
11 6 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (1.24%) PMI Certification
13 4 (1.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
13 4 (1.00%) JNCIP
13 4 (1.00%) JNCIS
13 4 (1.00%) PMP
14 3 (0.75%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (3.23%) QA
1 13 (3.23%) SLA
2 11 (2.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (2.24%) NIST
4 6 (1.49%) PCI DSS
5 4 (1.00%) SOC 2
6 3 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.75%) GDPR
6 3 (0.75%) NCSC
7 2 (0.50%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.50%) PMO
8 1 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.25%) FedRAMP
8 1 (0.25%) GRC
8 1 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (0.25%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 82 (20.40%) Active Directory
2 66 (16.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 36 (8.96%) Docker
4 26 (6.47%) Hyper-V
5 23 (5.72%) VMware ESXi
6 17 (4.23%) vSphere
7 16 (3.98%) Virtual Machines
8 14 (3.48%) Virtual Desktop
9 8 (1.99%) BitLocker
9 8 (1.99%) Microsoft App-V
10 7 (1.74%) Virtual Servers
11 5 (1.24%) Firmware
12 4 (1.00%) Terminal Services
12 4 (1.00%) VMware NSX
13 3 (0.75%) NFS
14 2 (0.50%) Ceph
14 2 (0.50%) Postfix
14 2 (0.50%) Sendmail
14 2 (0.50%) Varnish
15 1 (0.25%) KVM
Systems Management
1 130 (32.34%) Terraform
2 76 (18.91%) Kubernetes
3 59 (14.68%) Ansible
4 28 (6.97%) Microsoft Intune
5 18 (4.48%) vCenter Server
6 17 (4.23%) Grafana
7 16 (3.98%) Puppet
8 14 (3.48%) Prometheus
8 14 (3.48%) SCCM
9 12 (2.99%) Packer
10 9 (2.24%) FortiGate
11 8 (1.99%) Argo
11 8 (1.99%) systemd
11 8 (1.99%) vMotion
12 5 (1.24%) Microsoft Clustering
12 5 (1.24%) Nessus
12 5 (1.24%) Single Sign-On
13 4 (1.00%) Nagios
14 3 (0.75%) Jamf Pro
14 3 (0.75%) SCOM
Vendors
1 121 (30.10%) Microsoft
2 86 (21.39%) VMware
3 26 (6.47%) Citrix
4 23 (5.72%) Cisco
4 23 (5.72%) Google
5 15 (3.73%) NetApp
5 15 (3.73%) ServiceNow
6 13 (3.23%) Oracle
7 11 (2.74%) Red Hat
8 10 (2.49%) Tenable
8 10 (2.49%) Zscaler
9 8 (1.99%) HP
10 7 (1.74%) Dynatrace
10 7 (1.74%) IBM
11 6 (1.49%) Qualys
12 5 (1.24%) Dell
12 5 (1.24%) EMC
12 5 (1.24%) Splunk
13 4 (1.00%) Juniper
13 4 (1.00%) Symantec