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 12 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 184 163 130
Rank change year-on-year -21 -33 +62
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 228 214 337
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.41% 1.66% 1.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.57% 1.82% 2.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 165 164 232
10th Percentile £400 £347 £313
25th Percentile £449 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £545 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% +3.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £646
90th Percentile £675 £688 £750
England median daily rate £509 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -7.50% +10.00% -
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 £34.50 £63.14 £46.18
% change year-on-year -45.37% +36.73% -16.79%

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 14,548 11,757 16,125
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.83% 91.07% 88.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,771 7,824 11,523
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% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £680 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 221 159 352
10th Percentile £18.07 £20.36 £16.00
25th Percentile £21.46 £24.66 £19.54
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year - +18.33% -16.67%
75th Percentile £56.96 £53.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.68 £69.95
England median hourly rate £30.00 £34.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -13.04% +6.15% -9.72%

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 12 March 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 12 March 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 -15 40 £550 -8.33% 28
South London -8 6 £463 -1.60% 2
West London -17 3 £300 -25.00%
East London +1 2 £775 +32.48% 6
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 (12.28%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (2.19%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.75%) Apache
3 4 (1.75%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.88%) CICS
4 2 (0.88%) Confluence
5 1 (0.44%) IBM HTTP Server
5 1 (0.44%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.44%) nginx
5 1 (0.44%) SAS
5 1 (0.44%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.44%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.44%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 3 (1.32%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.44%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 105 (46.05%) Azure
2 50 (21.93%) AWS
3 46 (20.18%) Microsoft 365
4 32 (14.04%) Entra ID
5 26 (11.40%) GCP
5 26 (11.40%) GitHub
6 23 (10.09%) Serverless
7 20 (8.77%) IaaS
8 18 (7.89%) Azure DevOps
9 16 (7.02%) AWS Lambda
10 15 (6.58%) GitHub Actions
10 15 (6.58%) PaaS
11 11 (4.82%) Azure Monitor
11 11 (4.82%) Nutanix
12 10 (4.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 10 (4.39%) Amazon EKS
12 10 (4.39%) Amazon S3
12 10 (4.39%) AWS CloudFormation
13 9 (3.95%) Amazon ECS
13 9 (3.95%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 43 (18.86%) Firewall
2 31 (13.60%) DNS
3 29 (12.72%) WAN
4 26 (11.40%) VPN
5 21 (9.21%) LAN
6 13 (5.70%) DHCP
6 13 (5.70%) Network Security
6 13 (5.70%) Wi-Fi
7 9 (3.95%) MPLS
8 6 (2.63%) SD-WAN
8 6 (2.63%) TCP/IP
9 5 (2.19%) VLAN
10 4 (1.75%) SMTP
10 4 (1.75%) Software-Defined Networking
11 3 (1.32%) SAN
11 3 (1.32%) Wireless
11 3 (1.32%) WLAN
12 2 (0.88%) BGP
12 2 (0.88%) Cisco ASA
12 2 (0.88%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (4.82%) SQL Server
2 8 (3.51%) DynamoDB
3 5 (2.19%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (1.75%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (1.75%) Big Data
4 4 (1.75%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (1.75%) Relational Database
5 3 (1.32%) MongoDB
5 3 (1.32%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.32%) RDBMS
6 2 (0.88%) DB2
6 2 (0.88%) Hadoop
6 2 (0.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.44%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.44%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.44%) Data Hub
7 1 (0.44%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.44%) Metadata
7 1 (0.44%) Power BI
7 1 (0.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 14 (6.14%) GitLab
1 14 (6.14%) Jenkins
2 11 (4.82%) Git
3 4 (1.75%) JIRA
4 3 (1.32%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.44%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.44%) Introscope
5 1 (0.44%) Jaeger
5 1 (0.44%) MLflow
General
1 53 (23.25%) Social Skills
2 47 (20.61%) Finance
3 23 (10.09%) Banking
4 18 (7.89%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (4.82%) Legal
6 10 (4.39%) Public Sector
7 7 (3.07%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (2.63%) Spanish Language
9 4 (1.75%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.32%) Billing
10 3 (1.32%) Front Office
10 3 (1.32%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.88%) Military
11 2 (0.88%) Retail
11 2 (0.88%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.44%) Games
12 1 (0.44%) Italian Language
12 1 (0.44%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 123 (53.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 33 (14.47%) Senior
3 21 (9.21%) Azure Engineer
3 21 (9.21%) Cloud Engineer
4 19 (8.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 18 (7.89%) Network Engineer
6 16 (7.02%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
7 13 (5.70%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
7 13 (5.70%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
8 11 (4.82%) Architect
9 10 (4.39%) Security Engineer
10 8 (3.51%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 8 (3.51%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
10 8 (3.51%) Developer
10 8 (3.51%) NetApp Engineer
10 8 (3.51%) Storage Engineer
11 7 (3.07%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
11 7 (3.07%) Lead
12 6 (2.63%) Platform Engineer
12 6 (2.63%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.19%) Kafka
2 4 (1.75%) ARM Templates
2 4 (1.75%) NumPy
2 4 (1.75%) Pandas
3 3 (1.32%) AWS CDK
3 3 (1.32%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (1.32%) REST
3 3 (1.32%) SciPy
3 3 (1.32%) Spring
3 3 (1.32%) Spring Boot
4 2 (0.88%) ADO
4 2 (0.88%) GraphQL
4 2 (0.88%) JSON
4 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Graph
4 2 (0.88%) OpenTelemetry
4 2 (0.88%) RESTful
4 2 (0.88%) SOAP
4 2 (0.88%) Web Services
4 2 (0.88%) WSDL
5 1 (0.44%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 18 (7.89%) Data Centre
2 16 (7.02%) Onboarding
3 13 (5.70%) Hybrid Cloud
4 12 (5.26%) Cloud Native
5 8 (3.51%) PKI
6 7 (3.07%) Public Cloud
7 6 (2.63%) DataPower
7 6 (2.63%) Mainframe
8 5 (2.19%) Clustering
9 4 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.75%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (1.75%) Enterprise Storage
9 4 (1.75%) Replication
9 4 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.32%) CCTV
10 3 (1.32%) Client/Server
10 3 (1.32%) Derivative
10 3 (1.32%) Equities
10 3 (1.32%) Equity Derivative
10 3 (1.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 64 (28.07%) Windows
2 39 (17.11%) Linux
3 36 (15.79%) Windows Server
4 9 (3.95%) Unix
5 6 (2.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (2.19%) Ubuntu
6 5 (2.19%) VMS
6 5 (2.19%) Windows Server 2003
7 4 (1.75%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (1.75%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (1.32%) Android
9 2 (0.88%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.88%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.88%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.88%) zOS
10 1 (0.44%) Amazon Linux
10 1 (0.44%) CentOS
10 1 (0.44%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.44%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.44%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (22.81%) Infrastructure as Code
2 51 (22.37%) DevOps
3 50 (21.93%) CI/CD
4 31 (13.60%) Problem-Solving
5 30 (13.16%) Migration
6 23 (10.09%) Containerisation
7 19 (8.33%) Agile
7 19 (8.33%) Cloud Security
7 19 (8.33%) Platform Engineering
8 18 (7.89%) Cybersecurity
9 17 (7.46%) Project Delivery
10 16 (7.02%) Observability
11 15 (6.58%) Analytics
11 15 (6.58%) Disaster Recovery
12 14 (6.14%) Incident Management
12 14 (6.14%) ITIL
13 13 (5.70%) Continuous Improvement
13 13 (5.70%) RBAC
13 13 (5.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 12 (5.26%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 48 (21.05%) Python
2 44 (19.30%) PowerShell
3 17 (7.46%) SQL
4 12 (5.26%) Shell Script
5 10 (4.39%) Bash
5 10 (4.39%) C#
6 7 (3.07%) Java
7 4 (1.75%) Bicep
7 4 (1.75%) Ruby
8 3 (1.32%) C++
8 3 (1.32%) Go
9 2 (0.88%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.88%) JCL
10 1 (0.44%) Jython
10 1 (0.44%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.44%) Perl
10 1 (0.44%) Scala
Qualifications
1 46 (20.18%) Security Cleared
2 31 (13.60%) SC Cleared
3 15 (6.58%) Azure Certification
4 14 (6.14%) DV Cleared
5 12 (5.26%) Degree
6 11 (4.82%) Cisco Certification
7 8 (3.51%) CISSP
8 7 (3.07%) CCNP
9 6 (2.63%) CCNA
9 6 (2.63%) CISM
10 4 (1.75%) Master's Degree
10 4 (1.75%) PMI Certification
11 3 (1.32%) AWS Certification
11 3 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (1.32%) JNCIP
11 3 (1.32%) JNCIS
11 3 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (1.32%) PMP
11 3 (1.32%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.75%) Cyber Essentials
1 4 (1.75%) NIST
2 3 (1.32%) GDPR
2 3 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.88%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.88%) SLA
3 2 (0.88%) SOC 2
4 1 (0.44%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.44%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 1 (0.44%) NCSC
4 1 (0.44%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.44%) PMO
4 1 (0.44%) QA
4 1 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 50 (21.93%) Active Directory
2 26 (11.40%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (10.53%) Docker
4 11 (4.82%) Hyper-V
5 10 (4.39%) Virtual Desktop
5 10 (4.39%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (2.63%) VMware ESXi
6 6 (2.63%) vSphere
7 5 (2.19%) BitLocker
8 4 (1.75%) Microsoft App-V
9 3 (1.32%) Firmware
10 2 (0.88%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.44%) NFS
11 1 (0.44%) Postfix
11 1 (0.44%) Sendmail
11 1 (0.44%) Varnish
11 1 (0.44%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 59 (25.88%) Terraform
2 37 (16.23%) Microsoft Intune
3 35 (15.35%) Kubernetes
4 26 (11.40%) Ansible
5 15 (6.58%) SCCM
6 11 (4.82%) Grafana
7 7 (3.07%) Prometheus
7 7 (3.07%) Puppet
8 6 (2.63%) CASB
8 6 (2.63%) SCOrch
9 5 (2.19%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (2.19%) vCenter Server
10 4 (1.75%) AirWatch
10 4 (1.75%) FortiGate
10 4 (1.75%) vMotion
11 3 (1.32%) Jamf Pro
11 3 (1.32%) Packer
12 2 (0.88%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.88%) SCOM
13 1 (0.44%) CA Wily
Vendors
1 71 (31.14%) Microsoft
2 33 (14.47%) VMware
3 14 (6.14%) Google
4 11 (4.82%) Citrix
5 10 (4.39%) Cisco
6 9 (3.95%) CyberArk
7 8 (3.51%) NetApp
8 7 (3.07%) Dell
8 7 (3.07%) Fortinet
9 6 (2.63%) SolarWinds
9 6 (2.63%) Veeam
10 5 (2.19%) Oracle
10 5 (2.19%) Palo Alto
10 5 (2.19%) Red Hat
10 5 (2.19%) ServiceNow
10 5 (2.19%) Zscaler
11 4 (1.75%) Commvault
11 4 (1.75%) CrowdStrike
11 4 (1.75%) Databricks
11 4 (1.75%) Juniper