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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 140 187 159
Rank change year-on-year +47 -28 -2
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 412 184 268
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.04% 1.36% 1.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.29% 1.47% 1.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 277 136 214
10th Percentile £397 £355 £325
25th Percentile £450 £413 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £539 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.09% +2.62% -4.55%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £622
90th Percentile £703 £675 £699
England median daily rate £538 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +2.38% +5.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £30.00 -
England median hourly rate £72.54 £54.88 £67.50
% change year-on-year +32.19% -18.70% -6.90%

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 17,959 12,532 14,428
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.08% 92.33% 88.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,817 8,377 10,112
10th Percentile £363 £325 £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 £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 296 248 200
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £17.05
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.50 £35.61
Median % change year-on-year +20.34% -17.15% -13.73%
75th Percentile £56.25 £47.81 £54.06
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.08 £71.31
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +4.78%

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 11 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 11 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 0 55 £600 - 40
West London -11 8 £675 - 3
South London -8 7 £500 -16.67% 6
East London +3 2 £775 +64.02% 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 (5.10%) Microsoft Exchange
2 20 (4.85%) SharePoint
3 13 (3.16%) CICS
3 13 (3.16%) Confluence
4 8 (1.94%) WebSphere
5 6 (1.46%) Apache
6 4 (0.97%) SharePoint Server
7 2 (0.49%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.49%) Exchange Server 2013
8 1 (0.24%) CloudStack
8 1 (0.24%) IBM HTTP Server
8 1 (0.24%) JBoss
8 1 (0.24%) nginx
8 1 (0.24%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.24%) SAS
8 1 (0.24%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 5 (1.21%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.73%) AutoCAD
2 3 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.24%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.73%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 193 (46.84%) Azure
2 103 (25.00%) AWS
3 57 (13.83%) GitHub
4 48 (11.65%) Azure DevOps
5 44 (10.68%) GCP
6 43 (10.44%) Entra ID
7 41 (9.95%) Microsoft 365
8 40 (9.71%) GitHub Actions
9 33 (8.01%) IaaS
10 30 (7.28%) Azure AKS
11 25 (6.07%) PaaS
12 23 (5.58%) Amazon EKS
12 23 (5.58%) SaaS
13 22 (5.34%) Serverless
14 20 (4.85%) Azure Monitor
15 18 (4.37%) Amazon S3
16 16 (3.88%) AWS Lambda
17 13 (3.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 10 (2.43%) OCI
19 9 (2.18%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 78 (18.93%) DNS
2 58 (14.08%) Firewall
3 57 (13.83%) DHCP
4 41 (9.95%) VPN
5 32 (7.77%) Network Security
6 30 (7.28%) TCP/IP
7 20 (4.85%) WAN
8 14 (3.40%) SSL
9 13 (3.16%) LAN
9 13 (3.16%) Wi-Fi
10 10 (2.43%) SAN
11 8 (1.94%) HTTP
11 8 (1.94%) VLAN
12 7 (1.70%) SD-WAN
12 7 (1.70%) SMTP
13 6 (1.46%) BGP
13 6 (1.46%) NAS
14 5 (1.21%) DMZ
14 5 (1.21%) Structured Cabling
14 5 (1.21%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (7.52%) SQL Server
2 8 (1.94%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (1.94%) DynamoDB
2 8 (1.94%) Elasticsearch
3 6 (1.46%) Db2
4 5 (1.21%) BigQuery
4 5 (1.21%) Power BI
5 3 (0.73%) Big Data
5 3 (0.73%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (0.73%) Snowflake Schema
5 3 (0.73%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 3 (0.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (0.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (0.49%) Apache Iceberg
6 2 (0.49%) ClickHouse
6 2 (0.49%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.49%) Flink
6 2 (0.49%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.24%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.24%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 25 (6.07%) Git
2 20 (4.85%) GitLab
2 20 (4.85%) Jenkins
3 8 (1.94%) JIRA
4 5 (1.21%) Bitbucket
5 3 (0.73%) Chocolatey
6 2 (0.49%) Oracle Forms
6 2 (0.49%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.49%) Subversion
7 1 (0.24%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.24%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.24%) CMake
7 1 (0.24%) Gradle
7 1 (0.24%) Introscope
7 1 (0.24%) Maven
7 1 (0.24%) Terragrunt
General
1 91 (22.09%) Social Skills
2 67 (16.26%) Finance
3 33 (8.01%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (7.77%) Banking
5 23 (5.58%) Public Sector
6 18 (4.37%) Documentation Skills
7 11 (2.67%) Retail
7 11 (2.67%) Telecoms
8 8 (1.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (1.94%) Law
9 7 (1.70%) Legal
10 5 (1.21%) Automotive
10 5 (1.21%) Billing
10 5 (1.21%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (1.21%) Publishing
11 3 (0.73%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.73%) Military
11 3 (0.73%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.49%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.49%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 222 (53.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 57 (13.83%) Cloud Engineer
3 49 (11.89%) Senior
4 42 (10.19%) Azure Engineer
5 41 (9.95%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 36 (8.74%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 27 (6.55%) DevOps Engineer
8 24 (5.83%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
9 23 (5.58%) Lead
10 21 (5.10%) Network Engineer
11 18 (4.37%) Architect
12 13 (3.16%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 13 (3.16%) Platform Engineer
13 12 (2.91%) 3rd Line Engineer
13 12 (2.91%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
14 11 (2.67%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
15 10 (2.43%) Infrastructure Specialist
15 10 (2.43%) Infrastructure Support
15 10 (2.43%) Security Engineer
15 10 (2.43%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (2.43%) ARM Templates
1 10 (2.43%) REST
1 10 (2.43%) YAML
2 9 (2.18%) JSON
2 9 (2.18%) Middleware
3 7 (1.70%) Loki
4 6 (1.46%) 802.1X
4 6 (1.46%) RESTful
4 6 (1.46%) SOAP
4 6 (1.46%) Web Services
4 6 (1.46%) WSDL
5 5 (1.21%) .NET
5 5 (1.21%) AWS CDK
5 5 (1.21%) Elastic Stack
5 5 (1.21%) OpenID
5 5 (1.21%) SAML
6 4 (0.97%) ADO
7 3 (0.73%) HTML
7 3 (0.73%) Kafka
7 3 (0.73%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 24 (5.83%) Hybrid Cloud
2 22 (5.34%) Cloud Native
2 22 (5.34%) Data Centre
3 16 (3.88%) Onboarding
4 15 (3.64%) Clustering
5 13 (3.16%) Mainframe
5 13 (3.16%) PKI
5 13 (3.16%) Public Cloud
6 9 (2.18%) Distributed Systems
7 8 (1.94%) CMDB
7 8 (1.94%) Data Protection Act
7 8 (1.94%) Enterprise Storage
7 8 (1.94%) Linux Command Line
7 8 (1.94%) Replication
8 7 (1.70%) Enterprise Cloud
8 7 (1.70%) Management Information System
9 6 (1.46%) Cyber Threat
9 6 (1.46%) DataPower
9 6 (1.46%) Online Banking
9 6 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 132 (32.04%) Windows
2 77 (18.69%) Windows Server
3 72 (17.48%) Linux
4 18 (4.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (3.16%) Unix
5 13 (3.16%) zOS
6 8 (1.94%) Ubuntu
6 8 (1.94%) VMS
6 8 (1.94%) Windows Server 2019
7 6 (1.46%) Android
7 6 (1.46%) Apple iOS
7 6 (1.46%) Windows Server 2016
8 5 (1.21%) Mac OS
8 5 (1.21%) Windows 10
8 5 (1.21%) Windows Server 2012
9 4 (0.97%) Windows Server 2003
10 3 (0.73%) Windows Server 2008
11 2 (0.49%) Amazon Linux
11 2 (0.49%) OpenVMS
11 2 (0.49%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (31.07%) Infrastructure as Code
2 122 (29.61%) DevOps
3 109 (26.46%) CI/CD
4 67 (16.26%) Migration
5 58 (14.08%) Platform Engineering
6 56 (13.59%) AI
7 51 (12.38%) Problem-Solving
8 49 (11.89%) Infrastructure Automation
9 42 (10.19%) Containerisation
10 40 (9.71%) Continuous Improvement
11 38 (9.22%) Disaster Recovery
12 37 (8.98%) Agile
13 35 (8.50%) Incident Response
14 33 (8.01%) Configuration Management
14 33 (8.01%) Stakeholder Management
15 32 (7.77%) Observability
16 29 (7.04%) Cloud Security
17 28 (6.80%) High Availability
17 28 (6.80%) ITIL
18 27 (6.55%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 100 (24.27%) PowerShell
1 100 (24.27%) Python
2 44 (10.68%) Bash
3 34 (8.25%) SQL
4 19 (4.61%) Bicep
4 19 (4.61%) C#
5 18 (4.37%) Shell Script
6 17 (4.13%) Java
7 7 (1.70%) Go
8 6 (1.46%) C++
8 6 (1.46%) JavaScript
8 6 (1.46%) JCL
8 6 (1.46%) Perl
9 4 (0.97%) C
10 3 (0.73%) Kusto Query Language
10 3 (0.73%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.49%) Korn
11 2 (0.49%) Ruby
12 1 (0.24%) Jython
12 1 (0.24%) VB
Qualifications
1 139 (33.74%) Security Cleared
2 95 (23.06%) SC Cleared
3 41 (9.95%) DV Cleared
4 23 (5.58%) Azure Certification
5 20 (4.85%) Degree
6 17 (4.13%) Cisco Certification
7 12 (2.91%) CISSP
8 10 (2.43%) CCNA
8 10 (2.43%) CCNP
9 9 (2.18%) AWS Certification
10 7 (1.70%) CISM
10 7 (1.70%) Computer Science Degree
11 6 (1.46%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (1.21%) BPSS Clearance
12 5 (1.21%) PMI Certification
13 4 (0.97%) JNCIP
13 4 (0.97%) JNCIS
13 4 (0.97%) PMP
14 3 (0.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 3 (0.73%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (3.16%) QA
1 13 (3.16%) SLA
2 12 (2.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (2.43%) NIST
4 6 (1.46%) PCI DSS
5 4 (0.97%) SOC 2
6 3 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.73%) GDPR
6 3 (0.73%) NCSC
7 2 (0.49%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.49%) PMO
8 1 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
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%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 82 (19.90%) Active Directory
2 65 (15.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 34 (8.25%) Docker
4 25 (6.07%) Hyper-V
5 22 (5.34%) VMware ESXi
6 17 (4.13%) Virtual Machines
6 17 (4.13%) vSphere
7 15 (3.64%) Virtual Desktop
8 7 (1.70%) BitLocker
8 7 (1.70%) Microsoft App-V
8 7 (1.70%) Virtual Servers
9 5 (1.21%) Firmware
10 4 (0.97%) Terminal Services
10 4 (0.97%) VMware NSX
11 3 (0.73%) NFS
12 2 (0.49%) Ceph
12 2 (0.49%) Postfix
12 2 (0.49%) Sendmail
12 2 (0.49%) Varnish
13 1 (0.24%) KVM
Systems Management
1 133 (32.28%) Terraform
2 77 (18.69%) Kubernetes
3 58 (14.08%) Ansible
4 28 (6.80%) Microsoft Intune
5 17 (4.13%) Grafana
5 17 (4.13%) Puppet
5 17 (4.13%) vCenter Server
6 14 (3.40%) Prometheus
6 14 (3.40%) SCCM
7 12 (2.91%) Packer
8 10 (2.43%) FortiGate
9 8 (1.94%) Argo
9 8 (1.94%) systemd
10 7 (1.70%) vMotion
11 5 (1.21%) Microsoft Clustering
11 5 (1.21%) Nessus
11 5 (1.21%) Single Sign-On
12 4 (0.97%) Nagios
13 3 (0.73%) Jamf Pro
13 3 (0.73%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 124 (30.10%) Microsoft
2 85 (20.63%) VMware
3 25 (6.07%) Citrix
4 23 (5.58%) Cisco
4 23 (5.58%) Google
5 15 (3.64%) ServiceNow
6 14 (3.40%) NetApp
6 14 (3.40%) Oracle
7 13 (3.16%) Red Hat
8 10 (2.43%) Tenable
8 10 (2.43%) Zscaler
9 8 (1.94%) HP
10 7 (1.70%) Dynatrace
10 7 (1.70%) IBM
11 6 (1.46%) Qualys
12 5 (1.21%) Dell
12 5 (1.21%) EMC
12 5 (1.21%) Splunk
13 4 (0.97%) Commvault
13 4 (0.97%) Juniper