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 27 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 201 162 125
Rank change year-on-year -39 -37 +68
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 210 214 351
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.32% 1.59% 1.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.46% 1.76% 2.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 160 243
10th Percentile £400 £345 £325
25th Percentile £447 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £629 £638 £639
90th Percentile £675 £688 £750
England median daily rate £500 £525 £493
% change year-on-year -4.76% +6.60% -1.50%
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 £34.00 £63.14 £46.18
% change year-on-year -46.15% +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 14,339 12,191 16,129
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.30% 90.76% 88.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,629 7,896 11,545
10th Percentile £350 £350 £340
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.56%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £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 218 158 346
10th Percentile £18.07 £20.93 £16.00
25th Percentile £23.40 £25.81 £19.40
Median hourly rate £35.00 £36.75 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +22.50% -15.49%
75th Percentile £56.99 £54.88 £49.97
90th Percentile £72.50 £78.51 £72.00
England median hourly rate £28.50 £35.00 £34.23
% change year-on-year -18.57% +2.25% -2.20%

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 27 February 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 27 February 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 -5 38 £550 -8.33% 28
South London -13 6 £463 -1.60% 1
West London -18 3 £300 -25.00% 1
East London - 1 - - 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 28 (13.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (2.38%) Apache
2 5 (2.38%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.90%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.90%) Confluence
4 2 (0.95%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.95%) CICS
4 2 (0.95%) nginx
4 2 (0.95%) Traefik
5 1 (0.48%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.48%) SAS
5 1 (0.48%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 3 (1.43%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.48%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 95 (45.24%) Azure
2 51 (24.29%) AWS
3 46 (21.90%) Microsoft 365
4 36 (17.14%) Entra ID
5 25 (11.90%) GCP
6 23 (10.95%) Serverless
7 19 (9.05%) GitHub
8 17 (8.10%) IaaS
9 16 (7.62%) AWS Lambda
10 14 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
11 12 (5.71%) Amazon EKS
11 12 (5.71%) Amazon S3
11 12 (5.71%) GitHub Actions
11 12 (5.71%) PaaS
12 11 (5.24%) Nutanix
13 10 (4.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 10 (4.76%) AWS CloudFormation
13 10 (4.76%) Microsoft Purview
14 9 (4.29%) Amazon ECS
15 7 (3.33%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 40 (19.05%) Firewall
2 27 (12.86%) DNS
2 27 (12.86%) WAN
3 22 (10.48%) VPN
4 20 (9.52%) LAN
5 13 (6.19%) Wi-Fi
6 12 (5.71%) Network Security
7 11 (5.24%) DHCP
8 9 (4.29%) MPLS
9 5 (2.38%) SD-WAN
9 5 (2.38%) TCP/IP
9 5 (2.38%) VLAN
10 4 (1.90%) Software-Defined Networking
10 4 (1.90%) Wireless
10 4 (1.90%) WLAN
11 3 (1.43%) BGP
11 3 (1.43%) Cisco Wireless
11 3 (1.43%) OSPF
11 3 (1.43%) SAN
11 3 (1.43%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.81%) DynamoDB
2 7 (3.33%) SQL Server
3 6 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (1.90%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (1.90%) Big Data
4 4 (1.90%) Relational Database
5 3 (1.43%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (1.43%) MongoDB
5 3 (1.43%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.43%) RDBMS
6 2 (0.95%) DB2
6 2 (0.95%) Hadoop
6 2 (0.95%) MariaDB
6 2 (0.95%) MySQL
6 2 (0.95%) Power BI
6 2 (0.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.48%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.48%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.48%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 14 (6.67%) GitLab
2 13 (6.19%) Jenkins
3 10 (4.76%) Git
4 6 (2.86%) JIRA
5 3 (1.43%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.48%) Jaeger
6 1 (0.48%) MLflow
General
1 48 (22.86%) Social Skills
2 46 (21.90%) Finance
3 19 (9.05%) Banking
4 17 (8.10%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (4.76%) Legal
6 9 (4.29%) Public Sector
7 6 (2.86%) Spanish Language
8 5 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.90%) Billing
9 4 (1.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.90%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (1.90%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.43%) Front Office
10 3 (1.43%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.95%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.95%) Military
12 1 (0.48%) Games
12 1 (0.48%) Italian Language
12 1 (0.48%) Local Government
12 1 (0.48%) Retail
Job Titles
1 104 (49.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 30 (14.29%) Senior
3 16 (7.62%) Network Engineer
3 16 (7.62%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 15 (7.14%) Azure Engineer
5 12 (5.71%) Cloud Engineer
5 12 (5.71%) Security Engineer
6 11 (5.24%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
7 10 (4.76%) Architect
7 10 (4.76%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
7 10 (4.76%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
8 8 (3.81%) Developer
9 7 (3.33%) Platform Engineer
10 6 (2.86%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 6 (2.86%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
10 6 (2.86%) Lead
10 6 (2.86%) NetApp Engineer
10 6 (2.86%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 6 (2.86%) Storage Engineer
10 6 (2.86%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.86%) Kafka
2 4 (1.90%) ARM Templates
2 4 (1.90%) NumPy
2 4 (1.90%) Pandas
3 3 (1.43%) AWS CDK
3 3 (1.43%) REST
3 3 (1.43%) RESTful
3 3 (1.43%) SciPy
3 3 (1.43%) Spring
3 3 (1.43%) Spring Boot
3 3 (1.43%) YAML
4 2 (0.95%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (0.95%) GraphQL
4 2 (0.95%) gRPC
4 2 (0.95%) JSON
4 2 (0.95%) Loki
4 2 (0.95%) OpenTelemetry
4 2 (0.95%) SOAP
4 2 (0.95%) Web Services
4 2 (0.95%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 16 (7.62%) Onboarding
2 15 (7.14%) Data Centre
3 11 (5.24%) Hybrid Cloud
4 10 (4.76%) Cloud Native
5 8 (3.81%) PKI
6 7 (3.33%) Public Cloud
7 6 (2.86%) DataPower
7 6 (2.86%) Mainframe
8 5 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (1.90%) Clustering
9 4 (1.90%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.90%) Replication
10 3 (1.43%) CCTV
10 3 (1.43%) Client/Server
10 3 (1.43%) Derivative
10 3 (1.43%) Enterprise Storage
10 3 (1.43%) Equities
10 3 (1.43%) Equity Derivative
10 3 (1.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 2 (0.95%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 57 (27.14%) Windows
2 37 (17.62%) Linux
3 35 (16.67%) Windows Server
4 8 (3.81%) Unix
5 5 (2.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (2.38%) VMS
6 4 (1.90%) Ubuntu
6 4 (1.90%) Windows Server 2003
6 4 (1.90%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (1.43%) Android
7 3 (1.43%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.95%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.95%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.95%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.95%) zOS
9 1 (0.48%) Amazon Linux
9 1 (0.48%) CentOS
9 1 (0.48%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.48%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.48%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (24.29%) Infrastructure as Code
2 47 (22.38%) CI/CD
3 44 (20.95%) DevOps
4 34 (16.19%) Problem-Solving
5 29 (13.81%) Migration
6 24 (11.43%) Containerisation
7 20 (9.52%) Agile
8 19 (9.05%) Platform Engineering
9 18 (8.57%) Observability
10 17 (8.10%) Cloud Security
10 17 (8.10%) Cybersecurity
10 17 (8.10%) Project Delivery
11 16 (7.62%) Analytics
12 14 (6.67%) ITIL
12 14 (6.67%) RBAC
13 12 (5.71%) Performance Tuning
14 11 (5.24%) Disaster Recovery
14 11 (5.24%) Incident Management
14 11 (5.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 10 (4.76%) AI
Programming Languages
1 45 (21.43%) Python
2 35 (16.67%) PowerShell
3 11 (5.24%) Shell Script
4 10 (4.76%) Bash
4 10 (4.76%) SQL
5 7 (3.33%) Java
6 5 (2.38%) Go
7 4 (1.90%) Bicep
7 4 (1.90%) Ruby
8 3 (1.43%) C#
8 3 (1.43%) C++
9 2 (0.95%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.95%) JCL
10 1 (0.48%) Perl
10 1 (0.48%) Scala
10 1 (0.48%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 34 (16.19%) Security Cleared
2 23 (10.95%) SC Cleared
3 15 (7.14%) Azure Certification
4 12 (5.71%) Degree
5 11 (5.24%) DV Cleared
6 10 (4.76%) Cisco Certification
7 7 (3.33%) CISSP
8 6 (2.86%) CCNP
8 6 (2.86%) CISM
9 5 (2.38%) CCNA
10 4 (1.90%) Master's Degree
11 3 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (1.43%) JNCIP
11 3 (1.43%) JNCIS
11 3 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (1.43%) PhD
11 3 (1.43%) PMI Certification
11 3 (1.43%) PMP
11 3 (1.43%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.86%) NIST
2 4 (1.90%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (0.95%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.95%) GDPR
3 2 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.95%) SOC 2
4 1 (0.48%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.48%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 1 (0.48%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.48%) PMO
4 1 (0.48%) QA
4 1 (0.48%) SLA
System Software
1 50 (23.81%) Active Directory
2 27 (12.86%) Docker
3 25 (11.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (5.71%) Hyper-V
5 9 (4.29%) Virtual Desktop
5 9 (4.29%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (2.86%) vSphere
7 5 (2.38%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (1.90%) BitLocker
9 3 (1.43%) Firmware
9 3 (1.43%) Microsoft App-V
10 2 (0.95%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.48%) etcd
11 1 (0.48%) NFS
11 1 (0.48%) Postfix
11 1 (0.48%) Sendmail
11 1 (0.48%) Varnish
11 1 (0.48%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 52 (24.76%) Terraform
2 40 (19.05%) Microsoft Intune
3 30 (14.29%) Kubernetes
4 23 (10.95%) Ansible
5 16 (7.62%) SCCM
6 13 (6.19%) Grafana
7 7 (3.33%) Prometheus
8 6 (2.86%) CASB
8 6 (2.86%) SCOrch
9 5 (2.38%) AirWatch
9 5 (2.38%) Puppet
9 5 (2.38%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (1.90%) FortiGate
10 4 (1.90%) vCenter Server
11 3 (1.43%) Argo
11 3 (1.43%) Istio
11 3 (1.43%) Jamf Pro
11 3 (1.43%) vMotion
12 2 (0.95%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.95%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 69 (32.86%) Microsoft
2 33 (15.71%) VMware
3 14 (6.67%) Google
4 11 (5.24%) Cisco
5 10 (4.76%) Citrix
5 10 (4.76%) CyberArk
6 9 (4.29%) Dell
7 7 (3.33%) Fortinet
7 7 (3.33%) NetApp
7 7 (3.33%) Palo Alto
8 6 (2.86%) Veeam
9 5 (2.38%) Juniper
9 5 (2.38%) SolarWinds
9 5 (2.38%) Zscaler
10 4 (1.90%) Aruba
10 4 (1.90%) Commvault
10 4 (1.90%) CrowdStrike
10 4 (1.90%) Databricks
10 4 (1.90%) IBM
10 4 (1.90%) Red Hat