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 2 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 140 189 164
Rank change year-on-year +49 -25 -17
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 436 197 257
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.14% 1.46% 1.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.41% 1.58% 1.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 305 140 197
10th Percentile £386 £350 £325
25th Percentile £450 £411 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -1.87% +1.90%
75th Percentile £638 £623 £650
90th Percentile £700 £675 £700
England median daily rate £550 £500 £510
% change year-on-year +10.00% -1.96% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 2
10th Percentile £52.85 £24.40 -
25th Percentile £58.63 £26.50 -
Median hourly rate £69.50 £30.00 £112.00
Median % change year-on-year +131.67% -73.21% +24.44%
75th Percentile £81.63 £32.70 -
90th Percentile £88.15 £34.32 -
England median hourly rate £73.27 £32.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +128.97% -54.29% -

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 18,082 12,478 14,464
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.84% 92.59% 89.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,837 8,221 9,471
10th Percentile £358 £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 £669 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £512 £525
% change year-on-year +2.64% -2.57% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 330 246 179
10th Percentile £16.04 £17.98 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.03 £25.00 £24.17
Median hourly rate £32.50 £30.25 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.44% -14.79% -5.33%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £56.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £75.25
England median hourly rate £40.08 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.36% -41.51% -3.37%

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 2 October 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 2 October 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 2 October 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 -10 49 £620 +12.73% 52
West London -15 10 £675 - 10
South London -6 6 £473 -21.25% 2
East London +4 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 26 (5.96%) SharePoint
2 24 (5.50%) Microsoft Exchange
3 17 (3.90%) Confluence
4 12 (2.75%) CICS
5 7 (1.61%) WebSphere
6 5 (1.15%) Apache
7 4 (0.92%) nginx
7 4 (0.92%) SharePoint Server
8 3 (0.69%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.46%) Exchange Server 2013
10 1 (0.23%) CloudStack
10 1 (0.23%) CMS
10 1 (0.23%) JBoss
10 1 (0.23%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.23%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.23%) WebLogic
Applications
1 5 (1.15%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.92%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.69%) AutoCAD
3 3 (0.69%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.23%) CPLEX
4 1 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (0.69%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 200 (45.87%) Azure
2 113 (25.92%) AWS
3 55 (12.61%) Entra ID
4 50 (11.47%) GCP
4 50 (11.47%) Microsoft 365
5 47 (10.78%) GitHub
6 41 (9.40%) Azure DevOps
7 36 (8.26%) GitHub Actions
8 26 (5.96%) Azure AKS
9 23 (5.28%) Amazon EKS
10 21 (4.82%) IaaS
11 17 (3.90%) Amazon S3
11 17 (3.90%) OpenShift
12 15 (3.44%) Azure Monitor
12 15 (3.44%) SaaS
13 14 (3.21%) OCI
14 12 (2.75%) Datadog
14 12 (2.75%) PaaS
14 12 (2.75%) Serverless
15 10 (2.29%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 75 (17.20%) DNS
2 55 (12.61%) DHCP
3 54 (12.39%) Firewall
4 38 (8.72%) VPN
5 32 (7.34%) TCP/IP
6 31 (7.11%) Network Security
7 19 (4.36%) SSL
8 16 (3.67%) WAN
9 15 (3.44%) Wi-Fi
10 13 (2.98%) SAN
11 12 (2.75%) LAN
12 11 (2.52%) HTTP
13 9 (2.06%) BGP
13 9 (2.06%) VLAN
14 7 (1.61%) NAS
14 7 (1.61%) Wireless
15 5 (1.15%) DMZ
15 5 (1.15%) MPLS
15 5 (1.15%) SD-WAN
15 5 (1.15%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (7.34%) SQL Server
2 7 (1.61%) Elasticsearch
3 6 (1.38%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (1.38%) BigQuery
3 6 (1.38%) Oracle Database
3 6 (1.38%) Power BI
4 4 (0.92%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (0.69%) Apache Iceberg
5 3 (0.69%) Big Data
5 3 (0.69%) ClickHouse
5 3 (0.69%) Db2
5 3 (0.69%) DynamoDB
5 3 (0.69%) Flink
5 3 (0.69%) Relational Database
5 3 (0.69%) Snowflake Schema
5 3 (0.69%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 3 (0.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (0.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (0.46%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.46%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 29 (6.65%) Git
2 22 (5.05%) Jenkins
3 20 (4.59%) GitLab
4 13 (2.98%) JIRA
5 4 (0.92%) Artifactory
5 4 (0.92%) Chocolatey
5 4 (0.92%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (0.69%) JUnit
6 3 (0.69%) Oracle Forms
7 2 (0.46%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.46%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.46%) HP UFT
7 2 (0.46%) IBM UrbanCode
7 2 (0.46%) Selenium
7 2 (0.46%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.46%) Subversion
8 1 (0.23%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.23%) Gradle
8 1 (0.23%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.23%) Vagrant
General
1 105 (24.08%) Social Skills
2 96 (22.02%) Finance
3 43 (9.86%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (8.03%) Banking
5 21 (4.82%) Public Sector
6 17 (3.90%) Documentation Skills
7 12 (2.75%) Telecoms
8 9 (2.06%) Retail
9 7 (1.61%) Law
10 6 (1.38%) Billing
10 6 (1.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (1.38%) Legal
11 5 (1.15%) Automotive
11 5 (1.15%) Publishing
12 4 (0.92%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.69%) International Banking
13 3 (0.69%) Local Government
13 3 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (0.69%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.46%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 205 (47.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 53 (12.16%) Cloud Engineer
3 51 (11.70%) Senior
4 41 (9.40%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 37 (8.49%) DevOps Engineer
5 37 (8.49%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 33 (7.57%) Lead
7 31 (7.11%) Azure Engineer
8 25 (5.73%) Architect
9 22 (5.05%) Network Engineer
10 19 (4.36%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
11 17 (3.90%) Platform Engineer
12 16 (3.67%) Support Engineer
13 14 (3.21%) Security Engineer
14 13 (2.98%) Automation Engineer
15 12 (2.75%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 12 (2.75%) Infrastructure Specialist
15 12 (2.75%) Infrastructure Support
15 12 (2.75%) Microsoft Engineer
16 11 (2.52%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 148 (33.94%) Terraform
2 17 (3.90%) REST
3 12 (2.75%) ARM Templates
4 11 (2.52%) Middleware
4 11 (2.52%) YAML
5 10 (2.29%) Kafka
6 8 (1.83%) .NET
6 8 (1.83%) Loki
6 8 (1.83%) Web Services
7 7 (1.61%) 802.1X
8 6 (1.38%) JSON
8 6 (1.38%) OAuth
8 6 (1.38%) OpenID
8 6 (1.38%) SOAP
9 5 (1.15%) Elastic Stack
9 5 (1.15%) SAML
10 4 (0.92%) Model Context Protocol
11 3 (0.69%) ModSecurity
11 3 (0.69%) pytest
11 3 (0.69%) React
Miscellaneous
1 38 (8.72%) Hybrid Cloud
2 36 (8.26%) Cloud Native
3 24 (5.50%) Data Centre
4 16 (3.67%) Public Cloud
5 15 (3.44%) Onboarding
6 14 (3.21%) Clustering
6 14 (3.21%) Enterprise Cloud
7 12 (2.75%) Mainframe
7 12 (2.75%) PKI
8 11 (2.52%) Distributed Systems
9 10 (2.29%) Data Protection Act
9 10 (2.29%) Replication
9 10 (2.29%) Security Posture
10 9 (2.06%) Linux Command Line
11 8 (1.83%) Private Cloud
12 7 (1.61%) AI Agents
12 7 (1.61%) CMDB
12 7 (1.61%) Cyber Threat
12 7 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
13 5 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 129 (29.59%) Windows
2 83 (19.04%) Windows Server
3 80 (18.35%) Linux
4 22 (5.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (2.98%) Unix
6 12 (2.75%) zOS
7 9 (2.06%) Windows Server 2019
8 8 (1.83%) Ubuntu
9 7 (1.61%) Mac OS
9 7 (1.61%) VMS
9 7 (1.61%) Windows Server 2016
10 6 (1.38%) Android
10 6 (1.38%) Apple iOS
11 4 (0.92%) Windows 10
11 4 (0.92%) Windows Server 2008
11 4 (0.92%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.46%) Amazon Linux
12 2 (0.46%) OpenVMS
12 2 (0.46%) Windows 7
13 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (37.16%) Infrastructure as Code
2 144 (33.03%) DevOps
3 137 (31.42%) CI/CD
4 74 (16.97%) Platform Engineering
5 71 (16.28%) Infrastructure Automation
5 71 (16.28%) Migration
6 68 (15.60%) AI
7 61 (13.99%) Problem-Solving
8 58 (13.30%) Stakeholder Management
9 48 (11.01%) Disaster Recovery
10 46 (10.55%) Observability
11 45 (10.32%) Continuous Improvement
12 43 (9.86%) Configuration Management
13 42 (9.63%) Containerisation
14 41 (9.40%) Agile
15 40 (9.17%) Incident Response
16 38 (8.72%) Cloud Security
17 36 (8.26%) High Availability
17 36 (8.26%) ITIL
18 35 (8.03%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 116 (26.61%) Python
2 104 (23.85%) PowerShell
3 49 (11.24%) Bash
4 36 (8.26%) SQL
5 26 (5.96%) Java
6 23 (5.28%) Bicep
7 17 (3.90%) C#
8 13 (2.98%) Go
8 13 (2.98%) Shell Script
9 10 (2.29%) C++
10 8 (1.83%) Perl
11 5 (1.15%) C
11 5 (1.15%) JavaScript
11 5 (1.15%) JCL
11 5 (1.15%) Kusto Query Language
11 5 (1.15%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.46%) COBOL
12 2 (0.46%) Korn
13 1 (0.23%) Groovy
13 1 (0.23%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 124 (28.44%) Security Cleared
2 84 (19.27%) SC Cleared
3 41 (9.40%) DV Cleared
4 26 (5.96%) Degree
5 24 (5.50%) Azure Certification
6 15 (3.44%) Cisco Certification
7 14 (3.21%) AWS Certification
8 12 (2.75%) CISSP
8 12 (2.75%) Computer Science Degree
9 10 (2.29%) CCNP
10 9 (2.06%) CCNA
11 6 (1.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 6 (1.38%) CISM
11 6 (1.38%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
13 4 (0.92%) JNCIP
13 4 (0.92%) JNCIS
14 3 (0.69%) PMI Certification
14 3 (0.69%) PMP
15 2 (0.46%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (2.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 12 (2.75%) QA
2 12 (2.75%) SLA
3 7 (1.61%) NIST
4 5 (1.15%) PCI DSS
5 4 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (0.92%) Data Quality
6 3 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 3 (0.69%) SOC 2
7 2 (0.46%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.23%) FedRAMP
8 1 (0.23%) GDPR
8 1 (0.23%) GRC
8 1 (0.23%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.23%) PMO
System Software
1 89 (20.41%) Active Directory
2 73 (16.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 37 (8.49%) Docker
4 25 (5.73%) Hyper-V
5 21 (4.82%) VMware ESXi
5 21 (4.82%) vSphere
6 18 (4.13%) Virtual Machines
7 17 (3.90%) Virtual Desktop
8 8 (1.83%) Virtual Servers
9 5 (1.15%) Firmware
10 3 (0.69%) BitLocker
10 3 (0.69%) Microsoft App-V
10 3 (0.69%) RACF
10 3 (0.69%) Terminal Services
10 3 (0.69%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.46%) Ceph
11 2 (0.46%) IAG
11 2 (0.46%) Time Sharing Option
12 1 (0.23%) Dovecot
12 1 (0.23%) KVM
Systems Management
1 89 (20.41%) Kubernetes
2 73 (16.74%) Ansible
3 37 (8.49%) Microsoft Intune
4 23 (5.28%) Grafana
5 19 (4.36%) Prometheus
6 17 (3.90%) Puppet
7 16 (3.67%) SCCM
8 14 (3.21%) vCenter Server
9 11 (2.52%) Argo
10 10 (2.29%) Packer
11 9 (2.06%) FortiGate
12 8 (1.83%) systemd
13 7 (1.61%) Single Sign-On
14 6 (1.38%) Nessus
14 6 (1.38%) Progress Chef
15 5 (1.15%) Microsoft Clustering
16 4 (0.92%) Nagios
16 4 (0.92%) SCOM
17 3 (0.69%) WSUS
17 3 (0.69%) yum
Vendors
1 139 (31.88%) Microsoft
2 97 (22.25%) VMware
3 28 (6.42%) Cisco
4 23 (5.28%) Google
5 20 (4.59%) Oracle
6 19 (4.36%) Red Hat
7 15 (3.44%) Citrix
8 14 (3.21%) ServiceNow
9 10 (2.29%) IBM
9 10 (2.29%) Tenable
9 10 (2.29%) Zscaler
10 9 (2.06%) HP
11 8 (1.83%) Dynatrace
11 8 (1.83%) NetApp
11 8 (1.83%) Splunk
12 7 (1.61%) CyberArk
12 7 (1.61%) Databricks
13 6 (1.38%) Juniper
14 5 (1.15%) Qualys
15 4 (0.92%) Veeam