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 22 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 190 164 123
Rank change year-on-year -26 -41 +65
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 211 214 355
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.36% 1.58% 1.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.50% 1.75% 2.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 157 244
10th Percentile £400 £341 £325
25th Percentile £448 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £626 £650 £638
90th Percentile £675 £688 £750
England median daily rate £500 £525 £493
% change year-on-year -4.76% +6.60% -1.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 3
10th Percentile £24.06 - £32.97
25th Percentile £25.65 - £34.42
Median hourly rate £28.75 £112.00 £36.84
Median % change year-on-year -74.33% +204.02% -53.25%
75th Percentile £32.30 - £38.04
90th Percentile £34.16 - £38.75
England median hourly rate £34.00 £63.14 £46.18
% change year-on-year -46.15% +36.73% -21.85%

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 14,060 12,254 16,339
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.32% 90.76% 88.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,407 7,894 11,682
10th Percentile £350 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.82%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 218 155 348
10th Percentile £17.85 £21.10 £16.00
25th Percentile £23.00 £26.13 £19.34
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +25.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £56.38 £55.25 £51.94
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.61 £72.50
England median hourly rate £27.21 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -22.26% - -

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 22 February 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 22 February 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 -2 37 £550 -8.33% 31
South London -11 6 £463 -1.60% 1
West London -22 3 £300 -25.00% 1
East London - 1 - - 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 28 (13.27%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (2.37%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.90%) Apache
3 4 (1.90%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.90%) Confluence
4 2 (0.95%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.95%) nginx
4 2 (0.95%) Traefik
5 1 (0.47%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.47%) SAS
5 1 (0.47%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 3 (1.42%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.47%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 96 (45.50%) Azure
2 49 (23.22%) AWS
3 47 (22.27%) Microsoft 365
4 36 (17.06%) Entra ID
5 26 (12.32%) GCP
6 21 (9.95%) Serverless
7 19 (9.00%) GitHub
8 16 (7.58%) IaaS
9 14 (6.64%) AWS Lambda
10 13 (6.16%) Azure DevOps
11 12 (5.69%) Amazon EKS
11 12 (5.69%) Amazon S3
11 12 (5.69%) GitHub Actions
12 11 (5.21%) Nutanix
13 10 (4.74%) AWS CloudFormation
13 10 (4.74%) Microsoft Purview
13 10 (4.74%) PaaS
14 9 (4.27%) Amazon ECS
15 8 (3.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 7 (3.32%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 41 (19.43%) Firewall
2 27 (12.80%) DNS
2 27 (12.80%) WAN
3 22 (10.43%) VPN
4 20 (9.48%) LAN
5 13 (6.16%) Network Security
5 13 (6.16%) Wi-Fi
6 11 (5.21%) DHCP
7 9 (4.27%) MPLS
8 5 (2.37%) SD-WAN
8 5 (2.37%) TCP/IP
8 5 (2.37%) VLAN
9 4 (1.90%) Software-Defined Networking
9 4 (1.90%) Wireless
9 4 (1.90%) WLAN
10 3 (1.42%) BGP
10 3 (1.42%) Cisco Wireless
10 3 (1.42%) OSPF
10 3 (1.42%) SAN
10 3 (1.42%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.79%) SQL Server
2 6 (2.84%) DynamoDB
2 6 (2.84%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (1.90%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (1.90%) Big Data
3 4 (1.90%) Relational Database
4 3 (1.42%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (1.42%) MongoDB
4 3 (1.42%) NoSQL
4 3 (1.42%) RDBMS
5 2 (0.95%) Hadoop
5 2 (0.95%) MariaDB
5 2 (0.95%) MySQL
5 2 (0.95%) Power BI
5 2 (0.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.47%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.47%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.47%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.47%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 12 (5.69%) GitLab
1 12 (5.69%) Jenkins
2 10 (4.74%) Git
3 6 (2.84%) JIRA
4 3 (1.42%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.47%) Jaeger
5 1 (0.47%) MLflow
General
1 47 (22.27%) Finance
1 47 (22.27%) Social Skills
2 19 (9.00%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (8.06%) Banking
4 10 (4.74%) Legal
5 9 (4.27%) Public Sector
6 6 (2.84%) Spanish Language
7 5 (2.37%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (2.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (2.37%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (1.90%) Billing
8 4 (1.90%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.42%) Front Office
9 3 (1.42%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.95%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.95%) Military
11 1 (0.47%) International Banking
11 1 (0.47%) Local Government
11 1 (0.47%) Marketing
11 1 (0.47%) Retail
Job Titles
1 107 (50.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 30 (14.22%) Senior
3 16 (7.58%) Network Engineer
3 16 (7.58%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 14 (6.64%) Azure Engineer
5 13 (6.16%) Security Engineer
6 11 (5.21%) Cloud Engineer
6 11 (5.21%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
7 10 (4.74%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
7 10 (4.74%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
8 9 (4.27%) Architect
9 8 (3.79%) Developer
10 7 (3.32%) Platform Engineer
11 6 (2.84%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 6 (2.84%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
11 6 (2.84%) Lead
11 6 (2.84%) NetApp Engineer
11 6 (2.84%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 6 (2.84%) Storage Engineer
11 6 (2.84%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.84%) Kafka
2 4 (1.90%) ARM Templates
2 4 (1.90%) NumPy
2 4 (1.90%) Pandas
3 3 (1.42%) AWS CDK
3 3 (1.42%) REST
3 3 (1.42%) SciPy
3 3 (1.42%) Spring
3 3 (1.42%) Spring Boot
3 3 (1.42%) YAML
4 2 (0.95%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (0.95%) GraphQL
4 2 (0.95%) gRPC
4 2 (0.95%) Loki
4 2 (0.95%) Microsoft Graph
4 2 (0.95%) OpenTelemetry
4 2 (0.95%) RESTful
5 1 (0.47%) Fluent Bit
5 1 (0.47%) ModSecurity
5 1 (0.47%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 16 (7.58%) Onboarding
2 15 (7.11%) Data Centre
3 11 (5.21%) Hybrid Cloud
4 10 (4.74%) Cloud Native
5 8 (3.79%) PKI
6 6 (2.84%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (2.84%) Public Cloud
7 4 (1.90%) Clustering
7 4 (1.90%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (1.90%) DataPower
7 4 (1.90%) Mainframe
7 4 (1.90%) Replication
8 3 (1.42%) CCTV
8 3 (1.42%) Client/Server
8 3 (1.42%) Derivative
8 3 (1.42%) Enterprise Storage
8 3 (1.42%) Equities
8 3 (1.42%) Equity Derivative
8 3 (1.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (0.95%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 61 (28.91%) Windows
2 38 (18.01%) Linux
2 38 (18.01%) Windows Server
3 7 (3.32%) Unix
4 5 (2.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (2.37%) VMS
5 4 (1.90%) Ubuntu
5 4 (1.90%) Windows Server 2003
5 4 (1.90%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (1.42%) Android
6 3 (1.42%) Windows 10
6 3 (1.42%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.95%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.95%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.47%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.47%) CentOS
8 1 (0.47%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (24.17%) Infrastructure as Code
2 50 (23.70%) CI/CD
3 44 (20.85%) DevOps
4 34 (16.11%) Problem-Solving
5 28 (13.27%) Migration
6 25 (11.85%) Containerisation
7 22 (10.43%) Agile
8 19 (9.00%) Platform Engineering
9 18 (8.53%) Cybersecurity
9 18 (8.53%) Observability
10 17 (8.06%) Cloud Security
10 17 (8.06%) Project Delivery
11 16 (7.58%) Analytics
11 16 (7.58%) ITIL
12 14 (6.64%) RBAC
13 11 (5.21%) Disaster Recovery
13 11 (5.21%) Incident Management
13 11 (5.21%) Information Security
13 11 (5.21%) Infrastructure Automation
13 11 (5.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 42 (19.91%) Python
2 36 (17.06%) PowerShell
3 9 (4.27%) Bash
4 8 (3.79%) Java
4 8 (3.79%) Shell Script
4 8 (3.79%) SQL
5 5 (2.37%) Go
6 4 (1.90%) Bicep
7 3 (1.42%) C#
7 3 (1.42%) C++
7 3 (1.42%) Ruby
8 2 (0.95%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.47%) Perl
9 1 (0.47%) Scala
9 1 (0.47%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 33 (15.64%) Security Cleared
2 22 (10.43%) SC Cleared
3 14 (6.64%) Azure Certification
3 14 (6.64%) Degree
4 11 (5.21%) DV Cleared
5 10 (4.74%) Cisco Certification
6 7 (3.32%) CISSP
7 6 (2.84%) CCNP
7 6 (2.84%) CISM
8 5 (2.37%) CCNA
8 5 (2.37%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.90%) Master's Degree
10 3 (1.42%) AWS Certification
10 3 (1.42%) JNCIP
10 3 (1.42%) JNCIS
10 3 (1.42%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (1.42%) PhD
10 3 (1.42%) PMI Certification
10 3 (1.42%) PMP
10 3 (1.42%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.84%) NIST
2 4 (1.90%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (0.95%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.95%) GDPR
3 2 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.95%) SLA
3 2 (0.95%) SOC 2
4 1 (0.47%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.47%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 1 (0.47%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.47%) PMO
4 1 (0.47%) QA
System Software
1 52 (24.64%) Active Directory
2 28 (13.27%) Docker
3 25 (11.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (5.69%) Hyper-V
5 9 (4.27%) Virtual Desktop
5 9 (4.27%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (2.84%) vSphere
7 5 (2.37%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (1.90%) BitLocker
9 3 (1.42%) Firmware
9 3 (1.42%) Microsoft App-V
10 2 (0.95%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.47%) etcd
11 1 (0.47%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.47%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 52 (24.64%) Terraform
2 41 (19.43%) Microsoft Intune
3 31 (14.69%) Kubernetes
4 23 (10.90%) Ansible
5 17 (8.06%) SCCM
6 13 (6.16%) Grafana
7 7 (3.32%) Prometheus
8 6 (2.84%) CASB
8 6 (2.84%) SCOrch
9 5 (2.37%) AirWatch
9 5 (2.37%) Puppet
9 5 (2.37%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (1.90%) FortiGate
10 4 (1.90%) vCenter Server
11 3 (1.42%) Argo
11 3 (1.42%) Istio
11 3 (1.42%) Jamf Pro
11 3 (1.42%) vMotion
12 2 (0.95%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.95%) vRealize
Vendors
1 70 (33.18%) Microsoft
2 34 (16.11%) VMware
3 15 (7.11%) Google
4 12 (5.69%) Cisco
5 11 (5.21%) CyberArk
6 10 (4.74%) Citrix
7 9 (4.27%) Dell
8 7 (3.32%) Fortinet
8 7 (3.32%) NetApp
8 7 (3.32%) Palo Alto
9 6 (2.84%) Veeam
10 5 (2.37%) Juniper
10 5 (2.37%) SolarWinds
10 5 (2.37%) Zscaler
11 4 (1.90%) Aruba
11 4 (1.90%) Commvault
11 4 (1.90%) CrowdStrike
11 4 (1.90%) Databricks
11 4 (1.90%) IBM
11 4 (1.90%) Red Hat