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 14 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 190 162 133
Rank change year-on-year -28 -29 +55
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 202 261 389
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.44% 1.66% 1.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.55% 1.86% 2.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 201 279
10th Percentile £350 £325 £325
25th Percentile £425 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £508
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +8.37% -3.33%
75th Percentile £603 £650 £638
90th Percentile £675 £700 £745
England median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 4
10th Percentile £24.40 - £33.45
25th Percentile £26.50 - £35.63
Median hourly rate £30.00 £112.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -73.21% +198.69% -50.98%
75th Percentile £32.70 - £51.92
90th Percentile £34.32 - £74.77
England median hourly rate £34.00 £70.00 £63.63
% change year-on-year -51.43% +10.01% +15.70%

All Process and 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 13,002 14,024 18,004
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.38% 89.18% 89.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,556 9,051 12,959
10th Percentile £332 £350 £356
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -4.35% -2.54%
75th Percentile £661 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £507 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.43% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 262 168 246
10th Percentile £17.98 £17.43 £18.54
25th Percentile £24.77 £23.80 £21.31
Median hourly rate £29.50 £37.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.33% - -
75th Percentile £47.00 £55.19 £61.31
90th Percentile £67.25 £80.23 £76.88
England median hourly rate £25.15 £36.17 £44.50
% change year-on-year -30.46% -18.73% +27.14%

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 14 November 2025.

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 14 November 2025. 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 -8 31 £550 -4.35% 86
West London -7 4 - - 6
South London -5 2 - - 4
East London - 1 - - 9
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 18 (8.91%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (3.47%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (3.47%) Confluence
3 3 (1.49%) Apache
4 2 (0.99%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.99%) nginx
4 2 (0.99%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.99%) Traefik
5 1 (0.50%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.50%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.50%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.50%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.50%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (0.50%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 93 (46.04%) Azure
2 47 (23.27%) AWS
3 35 (17.33%) Microsoft 365
4 30 (14.85%) Entra ID
5 26 (12.87%) GitHub
6 22 (10.89%) GCP
7 19 (9.41%) Azure DevOps
8 14 (6.93%) GitHub Actions
9 11 (5.45%) Amazon S3
9 11 (5.45%) Azure Monitor
10 10 (4.95%) IaaS
11 9 (4.46%) Serverless
12 8 (3.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 8 (3.96%) Amazon EKS
12 8 (3.96%) Mimecast
13 7 (3.47%) AWS CloudFormation
13 7 (3.47%) Azure Key Vault
13 7 (3.47%) Azure Logic Apps
13 7 (3.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 6 (2.97%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 50 (24.75%) Firewall
2 31 (15.35%) VPN
3 25 (12.38%) DNS
3 25 (12.38%) WAN
4 21 (10.40%) Network Security
4 21 (10.40%) TCP/IP
5 16 (7.92%) LAN
6 14 (6.93%) SSL
7 13 (6.44%) Wi-Fi
8 9 (4.46%) SD-WAN
9 8 (3.96%) DHCP
10 6 (2.97%) HTTP
10 6 (2.97%) Wireless
11 5 (2.48%) VLAN
12 4 (1.98%) BGP
12 4 (1.98%) MPLS
12 4 (1.98%) OSPF
12 4 (1.98%) tcpdump
13 3 (1.49%) Cisco Wireless
13 3 (1.49%) DMARC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.98%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.49%) Power BI
3 2 (0.99%) Big Data
3 2 (0.99%) MariaDB
3 2 (0.99%) MySQL
3 2 (0.99%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.50%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (0.50%) Apache Iceberg
4 1 (0.50%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.50%) BigQuery
4 1 (0.50%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.50%) Delta Lake
4 1 (0.50%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.50%) Looker
4 1 (0.50%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.50%) Oracle Database 11g
4 1 (0.50%) Oracle Database 12c
4 1 (0.50%) Oracle Exadata
4 1 (0.50%) Parquet
4 1 (0.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 18 (8.91%) Jenkins
2 15 (7.43%) Git
3 11 (5.45%) JIRA
4 10 (4.95%) GitLab
5 4 (1.98%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.50%) Log4j
6 1 (0.50%) MLflow
6 1 (0.50%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.50%) SonarQube
General
1 53 (26.24%) Finance
2 49 (24.26%) Social Skills
3 22 (10.89%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (8.91%) Public Sector
5 15 (7.43%) Banking
6 8 (3.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (3.96%) Law
7 6 (2.97%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (2.97%) Financial Institution
8 5 (2.48%) Spanish Language
9 3 (1.49%) Marketing
9 3 (1.49%) Military
9 3 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.49%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.99%) Billing
10 2 (0.99%) Front Office
10 2 (0.99%) Legal
10 2 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.50%) International Banking
11 1 (0.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 105 (51.98%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 26 (12.87%) Senior
3 17 (8.42%) Cloud Engineer
4 16 (7.92%) Security Engineer
5 15 (7.43%) Network Engineer
5 15 (7.43%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 14 (6.93%) Azure Engineer
6 14 (6.93%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
7 12 (5.94%) Platform Engineer
8 11 (5.45%) DevOps Engineer
8 11 (5.45%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
9 10 (4.95%) Python Engineer
10 9 (4.46%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
11 8 (3.96%) Architect
11 8 (3.96%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
12 7 (3.47%) Infrastructure Support
12 7 (3.47%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 6 (2.97%) Automation Engineer
14 5 (2.48%) AWS Engineer
14 5 (2.48%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (4.46%) ARM Templates
1 9 (4.46%) Kafka
2 8 (3.96%) YAML
3 6 (2.97%) ADO
3 6 (2.97%) Middleware
3 6 (2.97%) RESTful
4 5 (2.48%) GraphQL
4 5 (2.48%) REST
5 4 (1.98%) gRPC
5 4 (1.98%) JMS
6 3 (1.49%) AWT
6 3 (1.49%) FIX Protocol
6 3 (1.49%) GWT
6 3 (1.49%) LDAP
6 3 (1.49%) Rendezvous
6 3 (1.49%) TIBCO EMS
7 2 (0.99%) Microsoft Graph
7 2 (0.99%) OAuth
7 2 (0.99%) PySpark
7 2 (0.99%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (5.45%) Onboarding
2 10 (4.95%) Data Centre
3 9 (4.46%) Cloud Native
3 9 (4.46%) Public Cloud
4 7 (3.47%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (3.47%) PKI
4 7 (3.47%) Private Cloud
5 6 (2.97%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (2.97%) Replication
6 5 (2.48%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (1.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (1.98%) Linux Command Line
7 4 (1.98%) Security Posture
7 4 (1.98%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.49%) Equities
8 3 (1.49%) Legacy Code
8 3 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.99%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (0.99%) Security Operations Centre
10 1 (0.50%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 58 (28.71%) Windows
2 45 (22.28%) Linux
3 40 (19.80%) Windows Server
4 14 (6.93%) Unix
5 6 (2.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (2.97%) Windows 10
6 5 (2.48%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.98%) VMS
8 2 (0.99%) Android
8 2 (0.99%) CentOS
8 2 (0.99%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.50%) AIX
9 1 (0.50%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.50%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.50%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (0.50%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.50%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.50%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (31.68%) Infrastructure as Code
2 60 (29.70%) DevOps
3 54 (26.73%) CI/CD
4 44 (21.78%) Problem-Solving
5 30 (14.85%) Agile
5 30 (14.85%) Containerisation
6 27 (13.37%) Migration
7 23 (11.39%) Infrastructure Automation
8 19 (9.41%) High Availability
9 17 (8.42%) Observability
9 17 (8.42%) Platform Engineering
10 16 (7.92%) Analytics
10 16 (7.92%) Cybersecurity
10 16 (7.92%) RBAC
10 16 (7.92%) Test Automation
11 15 (7.43%) ITIL
11 15 (7.43%) Task Automation
12 14 (6.93%) Cloud Security
13 13 (6.44%) Identity Access Management
13 13 (6.44%) Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 64 (31.68%) Python
2 35 (17.33%) PowerShell
3 24 (11.88%) Bash
4 14 (6.93%) Java
5 11 (5.45%) Go
6 8 (3.96%) Bicep
6 8 (3.96%) SQL
7 7 (3.47%) Perl
8 3 (1.49%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.50%) Ruby
9 1 (0.50%) Scala
9 1 (0.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 37 (18.32%) Security Cleared
2 28 (13.86%) SC Cleared
3 16 (7.92%) Degree
4 12 (5.94%) Cisco Certification
5 10 (4.95%) Azure Certification
6 8 (3.96%) CCNA
6 8 (3.96%) CCNP
6 8 (3.96%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (2.97%) CISSP
7 6 (2.97%) DV Cleared
8 5 (2.48%) CISM
9 4 (1.98%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (1.49%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 3 (1.49%) JNCIP
10 3 (1.49%) JNCIS
10 3 (1.49%) PMI Certification
10 3 (1.49%) PMP
11 1 (0.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (0.50%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.50%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.49%) NIST
1 3 (1.49%) SLA
2 2 (0.99%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (0.99%) GDPR
2 2 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (0.99%) QA
3 1 (0.50%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.50%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 1 (0.50%) SOC 2
System Software
1 44 (21.78%) Active Directory
2 29 (14.36%) Docker
3 20 (9.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (7.92%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (3.96%) Hyper-V
6 5 (2.48%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (1.49%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (1.49%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.50%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.50%) etcd
8 1 (0.50%) Firmware
8 1 (0.50%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.50%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.50%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 71 (35.15%) Terraform
2 33 (16.34%) Kubernetes
3 30 (14.85%) Ansible
3 30 (14.85%) Microsoft Intune
4 19 (9.41%) SCCM
5 16 (7.92%) Grafana
6 11 (5.45%) Prometheus
7 10 (4.95%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (3.47%) FortiGate
9 6 (2.97%) CASB
9 6 (2.97%) SCOrch
10 5 (2.48%) Argo
11 4 (1.98%) Jamf Pro
12 3 (1.49%) Istio
12 3 (1.49%) vCenter Server
13 2 (0.99%) ITRS Geneos
13 2 (0.99%) Kibana
13 2 (0.99%) McAfee ePO
13 2 (0.99%) Red Hat Satellite
13 2 (0.99%) SELinux
Vendors
1 61 (30.20%) Microsoft
2 24 (11.88%) VMware
3 19 (9.41%) Cisco
3 19 (9.41%) Palo Alto
4 17 (8.42%) Google
5 14 (6.93%) F5
6 10 (4.95%) Fortinet
7 8 (3.96%) Zscaler
8 7 (3.47%) CheckPoint
8 7 (3.47%) Juniper
9 6 (2.97%) CyberArk
9 6 (2.97%) Red Hat
10 5 (2.48%) Dell
10 5 (2.48%) Tenable
10 5 (2.48%) TIBCO
10 5 (2.48%) Veeam
11 4 (1.98%) Aruba
11 4 (1.98%) Citrix
11 4 (1.98%) Commvault
11 4 (1.98%) CrowdStrike