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 21 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 137 186 157
Rank change year-on-year +49 -29 -7
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 425 185 270
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.11% 1.38% 1.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.38% 1.50% 1.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 290 134 210
10th Percentile £375 £360 £325
25th Percentile £450 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £535 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.90% +1.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £634 £625
90th Percentile £694 £675 £700
England median daily rate £550 £500 £508
% change year-on-year +10.00% -1.48% +1.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile £52.85 £23.70 -
25th Percentile £58.63 £24.75 -
Median hourly rate £69.50 £26.50 £112.00
Median % change year-on-year +162.26% -76.34% +24.44%
75th Percentile £81.63 £28.25 -
90th Percentile £88.15 £29.30 -
England median hourly rate £74.00 £30.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +146.67% -57.14% -

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 17,877 12,367 14,519
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.76% 92.52% 89.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,722 8,164 9,655
10th Percentile £359 £331 £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 £675
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 309 250 178
10th Percentile £16.50 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.83 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.00 £31.49 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.15% -10.03% -6.67%
75th Percentile £57.50 £48.44 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £75.00
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -2.27%

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 21 September 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in London over the 6 months to 21 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in London

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 21 September 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 50 £620 +12.73% 53
West London -15 10 £675 - 15
South London -5 6 £473 -21.25% 8
East London +6 3 £500 +38.89% 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 22 (5.18%) SharePoint
2 21 (4.94%) Microsoft Exchange
3 14 (3.29%) Confluence
4 13 (3.06%) CICS
5 7 (1.65%) WebSphere
6 6 (1.41%) Apache
7 4 (0.94%) 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%) JBoss
10 1 (0.24%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.24%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.24%) WebLogic
Applications
1 5 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.94%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.71%) AutoCAD
3 3 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.24%) CPLEX
4 1 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (0.71%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 190 (44.71%) Azure
2 109 (25.65%) AWS
3 47 (11.06%) Entra ID
3 47 (11.06%) GCP
4 45 (10.59%) GitHub
5 43 (10.12%) Azure DevOps
5 43 (10.12%) Microsoft 365
6 35 (8.24%) GitHub Actions
7 26 (6.12%) Azure AKS
8 24 (5.65%) IaaS
9 21 (4.94%) Amazon EKS
10 18 (4.24%) SaaS
11 16 (3.76%) Amazon S3
12 15 (3.53%) Azure Monitor
12 15 (3.53%) OpenShift
12 15 (3.53%) PaaS
13 14 (3.29%) Serverless
14 13 (3.06%) OCI
15 12 (2.82%) Datadog
16 10 (2.35%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 72 (16.94%) DNS
2 56 (13.18%) DHCP
3 54 (12.71%) Firewall
4 35 (8.24%) VPN
5 33 (7.76%) Network Security
6 29 (6.82%) TCP/IP
7 17 (4.00%) SSL
7 17 (4.00%) WAN
8 15 (3.53%) Wi-Fi
9 13 (3.06%) SAN
10 12 (2.82%) LAN
11 11 (2.59%) HTTP
12 10 (2.35%) VLAN
13 9 (2.12%) BGP
14 7 (1.65%) NAS
14 7 (1.65%) Wireless
15 6 (1.41%) SD-WAN
16 5 (1.18%) DMZ
16 5 (1.18%) MPLS
16 5 (1.18%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (7.06%) SQL Server
2 8 (1.88%) Elasticsearch
3 6 (1.41%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (1.41%) BigQuery
3 6 (1.41%) Power BI
4 5 (1.18%) Oracle Database
5 4 (0.94%) Db2
5 4 (0.94%) DynamoDB
5 4 (0.94%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (0.71%) Apache Iceberg
6 3 (0.71%) Big Data
6 3 (0.71%) ClickHouse
6 3 (0.71%) Flink
6 3 (0.71%) Relational Database
6 3 (0.71%) Snowflake Schema
6 3 (0.71%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 3 (0.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (0.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (0.47%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.47%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 28 (6.59%) Git
2 21 (4.94%) Jenkins
3 19 (4.47%) GitLab
4 10 (2.35%) JIRA
5 4 (0.94%) Chocolatey
6 3 (0.71%) Oracle Forms
7 2 (0.47%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.47%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.47%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.47%) HP UFT
7 2 (0.47%) IBM UrbanCode
7 2 (0.47%) JUnit
7 2 (0.47%) Selenium
7 2 (0.47%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.47%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.47%) Subversion
8 1 (0.24%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.24%) CMake
8 1 (0.24%) Gradle
8 1 (0.24%) Terragrunt
General
1 100 (23.53%) Social Skills
2 90 (21.18%) Finance
3 42 (9.88%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (8.00%) Banking
5 21 (4.94%) Public Sector
6 17 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
7 12 (2.82%) Telecoms
8 9 (2.12%) Retail
9 8 (1.88%) Law
10 6 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (1.18%) Automotive
11 5 (1.18%) Billing
11 5 (1.18%) Legal
11 5 (1.18%) Publishing
12 4 (0.94%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.71%) Local Government
13 3 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.47%) Aerospace
14 2 (0.47%) Military
14 2 (0.47%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 202 (47.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 51 (12.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 48 (11.29%) Senior
4 38 (8.94%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 35 (8.24%) DevOps Engineer
6 34 (8.00%) Azure Engineer
6 34 (8.00%) Lead
6 34 (8.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 25 (5.88%) Architect
8 22 (5.18%) Network Engineer
9 20 (4.71%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
10 17 (4.00%) Platform Engineer
11 14 (3.29%) Support Engineer
12 13 (3.06%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 13 (3.06%) Security Engineer
13 12 (2.82%) Infrastructure Specialist
14 11 (2.59%) AWS Engineer
14 11 (2.59%) Microsoft Engineer
15 10 (2.35%) Automation Engineer
15 10 (2.35%) Infrastructure Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 138 (32.47%) Terraform
2 15 (3.53%) REST
3 11 (2.59%) ARM Templates
3 11 (2.59%) Middleware
3 11 (2.59%) YAML
4 8 (1.88%) Kafka
4 8 (1.88%) Web Services
5 7 (1.65%) .NET
5 7 (1.65%) 802.1X
5 7 (1.65%) JSON
5 7 (1.65%) Loki
6 6 (1.41%) OpenID
6 6 (1.41%) SAML
6 6 (1.41%) SOAP
7 4 (0.94%) RESTful
7 4 (0.94%) WSDL
8 3 (0.71%) ADO
8 3 (0.71%) HTML
8 3 (0.71%) OAuth
8 3 (0.71%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 36 (8.47%) Hybrid Cloud
2 30 (7.06%) Cloud Native
3 21 (4.94%) Data Centre
4 17 (4.00%) Public Cloud
5 15 (3.53%) Clustering
5 15 (3.53%) Onboarding
6 13 (3.06%) Enterprise Cloud
6 13 (3.06%) Mainframe
7 11 (2.59%) Distributed Systems
7 11 (2.59%) PKI
8 10 (2.35%) Data Protection Act
8 10 (2.35%) Replication
9 9 (2.12%) Linux Command Line
9 9 (2.12%) Security Posture
10 8 (1.88%) Private Cloud
11 7 (1.65%) AI Agents
11 7 (1.65%) CMDB
11 7 (1.65%) Cyber Threat
12 6 (1.41%) Enterprise Storage
13 5 (1.18%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 127 (29.88%) Windows
2 81 (19.06%) Windows Server
3 79 (18.59%) Linux
4 21 (4.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (3.06%) Unix
5 13 (3.06%) zOS
6 9 (2.12%) Windows Server 2019
7 8 (1.88%) Ubuntu
8 7 (1.65%) VMS
8 7 (1.65%) Windows Server 2016
9 6 (1.41%) Android
9 6 (1.41%) Apple iOS
9 6 (1.41%) Mac OS
10 5 (1.18%) Windows 10
10 5 (1.18%) Windows Server 2012
11 4 (0.94%) Windows Server 2008
12 2 (0.47%) Amazon Linux
12 2 (0.47%) OpenVMS
12 2 (0.47%) Windows 7
12 2 (0.47%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (35.53%) Infrastructure as Code
2 138 (32.47%) DevOps
3 132 (31.06%) CI/CD
4 73 (17.18%) Platform Engineering
5 68 (16.00%) AI
6 67 (15.76%) Migration
7 66 (15.53%) Infrastructure Automation
8 61 (14.35%) Problem-Solving
9 51 (12.00%) Stakeholder Management
10 45 (10.59%) Continuous Improvement
11 43 (10.12%) Disaster Recovery
11 43 (10.12%) Observability
12 42 (9.88%) Configuration Management
13 40 (9.41%) Containerisation
14 37 (8.71%) Agile
14 37 (8.71%) Incident Response
15 36 (8.47%) Cloud Security
16 35 (8.24%) High Availability
16 35 (8.24%) ITIL
17 32 (7.53%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 112 (26.35%) Python
2 100 (23.53%) PowerShell
3 47 (11.06%) Bash
4 34 (8.00%) SQL
5 22 (5.18%) Bicep
5 22 (5.18%) Java
6 14 (3.29%) C#
6 14 (3.29%) Shell Script
7 11 (2.59%) Go
8 8 (1.88%) C++
8 8 (1.88%) Perl
9 6 (1.41%) JCL
10 5 (1.18%) C
10 5 (1.18%) TypeScript
11 4 (0.94%) Kusto Query Language
12 3 (0.71%) JavaScript
13 2 (0.47%) COBOL
13 2 (0.47%) Korn
14 1 (0.24%) Groovy
14 1 (0.24%) Scala
Qualifications
1 126 (29.65%) Security Cleared
2 85 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 41 (9.65%) DV Cleared
4 25 (5.88%) Degree
5 24 (5.65%) Azure Certification
6 16 (3.76%) Cisco Certification
7 14 (3.29%) AWS Certification
8 12 (2.82%) CISSP
9 11 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
10 10 (2.35%) CCNA
10 10 (2.35%) CCNP
11 6 (1.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 6 (1.41%) CISM
11 6 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (0.94%) JNCIP
12 4 (0.94%) JNCIS
13 3 (0.71%) PMI Certification
13 3 (0.71%) PMP
14 2 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (3.06%) QA
2 12 (2.82%) SLA
3 11 (2.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (1.65%) NIST
5 5 (1.18%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.94%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (0.94%) Data Quality
7 3 (0.71%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.47%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.47%) NCSC
9 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.24%) FedRAMP
9 1 (0.24%) GDPR
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%) PMO
System Software
1 86 (20.24%) Active Directory
2 71 (16.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 35 (8.24%) Docker
4 24 (5.65%) Hyper-V
5 22 (5.18%) VMware ESXi
6 20 (4.71%) vSphere
7 19 (4.47%) Virtual Machines
8 14 (3.29%) Virtual Desktop
9 8 (1.88%) Virtual Servers
10 6 (1.41%) Firmware
11 4 (0.94%) BitLocker
11 4 (0.94%) Microsoft App-V
11 4 (0.94%) VMware NSX
12 3 (0.71%) RACF
12 3 (0.71%) Terminal Services
13 2 (0.47%) Ceph
13 2 (0.47%) NFS
13 2 (0.47%) Postfix
13 2 (0.47%) Time Sharing Option
14 1 (0.24%) KVM
Systems Management
1 85 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 73 (17.18%) Ansible
3 33 (7.76%) Microsoft Intune
4 19 (4.47%) Grafana
5 16 (3.76%) Prometheus
5 16 (3.76%) Puppet
5 16 (3.76%) SCCM
6 15 (3.53%) vCenter Server
7 10 (2.35%) Packer
8 9 (2.12%) FortiGate
9 8 (1.88%) Argo
9 8 (1.88%) systemd
10 6 (1.41%) Nessus
10 6 (1.41%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (1.18%) Microsoft Clustering
12 4 (0.94%) Nagios
12 4 (0.94%) Progress Chef
12 4 (0.94%) SCOM
12 4 (0.94%) vMotion
13 3 (0.71%) WSUS
Vendors
1 130 (30.59%) Microsoft
2 95 (22.35%) VMware
3 29 (6.82%) Cisco
4 23 (5.41%) Google
5 18 (4.24%) Red Hat
6 17 (4.00%) Citrix
6 17 (4.00%) Oracle
7 14 (3.29%) ServiceNow
8 10 (2.35%) IBM
8 10 (2.35%) Tenable
8 10 (2.35%) Zscaler
9 9 (2.12%) HP
9 9 (2.12%) NetApp
10 8 (1.88%) Dynatrace
10 8 (1.88%) Splunk
11 7 (1.65%) CyberArk
12 6 (1.41%) Databricks
12 6 (1.41%) Juniper
13 5 (1.18%) Qualys
14 4 (0.94%) Veeam