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 24 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 191 161 142
Rank change year-on-year -30 -19 +52
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 192 254 383
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.43% 1.60% 1.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.55% 1.79% 2.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 194 283
10th Percentile £352 £331 £345
25th Percentile £425 £450 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.82% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £603 £650 £650
90th Percentile £675 £700 £745
England median daily rate £500 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 2
10th Percentile £24.40 - -
25th Percentile £26.50 - -
Median hourly rate £30.00 £112.00 £90.00
Median % change year-on-year -73.21% +24.44% +97.89%
75th Percentile £32.70 - -
90th Percentile £34.32 - -
England median hourly rate £34.00 £70.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -51.43% - +33.33%

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 12,381 14,157 18,700
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.42% 89.30% 89.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,145 9,143 13,529
10th Percentile £331 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -2.13%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 173 233
10th Percentile £17.98 £17.60 £18.36
25th Percentile £25.00 £25.00 £21.50
Median hourly rate £30.50 £38.50 £39.83
Median % change year-on-year -20.78% -3.34% +2.30%
75th Percentile £47.50 £57.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £64.90 £78.75 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £44.50
% change year-on-year -37.63% -9.38% +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 24 October 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 24 October 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 -18 30 £550 -4.35% 67
West London -3 2 - - 1
South London -4 2 - - 3
East London - 1 - -
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 14 (7.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (3.65%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (3.65%) Confluence
3 3 (1.56%) Apache
3 3 (1.56%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.04%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.04%) nginx
4 2 (1.04%) Traefik
5 1 (0.52%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.52%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.52%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.52%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 89 (46.35%) Azure
2 41 (21.35%) AWS
3 33 (17.19%) Microsoft 365
4 30 (15.63%) Entra ID
5 25 (13.02%) GitHub
6 20 (10.42%) GCP
7 19 (9.90%) Azure DevOps
8 12 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
9 11 (5.73%) Amazon S3
9 11 (5.73%) IaaS
10 10 (5.21%) Azure Monitor
11 8 (4.17%) Mimecast
11 8 (4.17%) Serverless
12 7 (3.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 7 (3.65%) Amazon EKS
12 7 (3.65%) AWS CloudFormation
12 7 (3.65%) Azure Logic Apps
12 7 (3.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 6 (3.13%) Azure Key Vault
13 6 (3.13%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 49 (25.52%) Firewall
2 30 (15.63%) VPN
3 27 (14.06%) DNS
4 25 (13.02%) WAN
5 23 (11.98%) TCP/IP
6 21 (10.94%) Network Security
7 15 (7.81%) LAN
8 14 (7.29%) SSL
9 10 (5.21%) DHCP
9 10 (5.21%) Wi-Fi
10 9 (4.69%) SD-WAN
11 7 (3.65%) Wireless
12 6 (3.13%) HTTP
13 5 (2.60%) VLAN
14 4 (2.08%) 4G
14 4 (2.08%) tcpdump
15 3 (1.56%) BGP
15 3 (1.56%) DMARC
15 3 (1.56%) MPLS
15 3 (1.56%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.60%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.04%) Big Data
2 2 (1.04%) MariaDB
2 2 (1.04%) MySQL
2 2 (1.04%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (1.04%) Power BI
3 1 (0.52%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (0.52%) Apache Iceberg
3 1 (0.52%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.52%) BigQuery
3 1 (0.52%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.52%) Delta Lake
3 1 (0.52%) Looker
3 1 (0.52%) Oracle Database
3 1 (0.52%) Oracle Database 11g
3 1 (0.52%) Oracle Database 12c
3 1 (0.52%) Oracle Exadata
3 1 (0.52%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 19 (9.90%) Jenkins
2 14 (7.29%) Git
3 11 (5.73%) JIRA
4 8 (4.17%) GitLab
5 4 (2.08%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.52%) Log4j
6 1 (0.52%) MLflow
6 1 (0.52%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.52%) SonarQube
General
1 54 (28.13%) Finance
2 44 (22.92%) Social Skills
3 22 (11.46%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (8.33%) Public Sector
5 11 (5.73%) Banking
6 8 (4.17%) Law
7 7 (3.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (3.13%) Financial Institution
9 4 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (2.08%) Marketing
9 4 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (2.08%) Spanish Language
10 3 (1.56%) Front Office
10 3 (1.56%) Military
10 3 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.04%) Billing
11 2 (1.04%) Legal
11 2 (1.04%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.52%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.52%) Retail
Job Titles
1 104 (54.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 25 (13.02%) Senior
3 17 (8.85%) Cloud Engineer
4 16 (8.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 15 (7.81%) Security Engineer
6 14 (7.29%) Network Engineer
7 13 (6.77%) Azure Engineer
7 13 (6.77%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
8 11 (5.73%) Platform Engineer
9 10 (5.21%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
9 10 (5.21%) Python Engineer
10 9 (4.69%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
10 9 (4.69%) DevOps Engineer
11 8 (4.17%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
12 7 (3.65%) Architect
12 7 (3.65%) Infrastructure Support
13 6 (3.13%) Automation Engineer
14 5 (2.60%) Linux Engineer
14 5 (2.60%) Network Security Engineer
14 5 (2.60%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (5.21%) ARM Templates
2 9 (4.69%) Kafka
3 8 (4.17%) YAML
4 6 (3.13%) ADO
4 6 (3.13%) Middleware
4 6 (3.13%) RESTful
5 5 (2.60%) GraphQL
5 5 (2.60%) REST
6 4 (2.08%) gRPC
6 4 (2.08%) JMS
7 3 (1.56%) AWT
7 3 (1.56%) FIX Protocol
7 3 (1.56%) GWT
7 3 (1.56%) LDAP
7 3 (1.56%) Rendezvous
7 3 (1.56%) TIBCO EMS
8 2 (1.04%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (1.04%) OAuth
8 2 (1.04%) PySpark
8 2 (1.04%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (5.73%) Onboarding
2 9 (4.69%) Data Centre
2 9 (4.69%) Public Cloud
3 7 (3.65%) Cloud Native
3 7 (3.65%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (3.65%) PKI
3 7 (3.65%) Private Cloud
4 5 (2.60%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (2.60%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (2.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 4 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (2.08%) Linux Command Line
5 4 (2.08%) Replication
5 4 (2.08%) Security Operations Centre
5 4 (2.08%) Security Posture
6 3 (1.56%) Equities
6 3 (1.56%) Legacy Applications
6 3 (1.56%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.52%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 58 (30.21%) Windows
2 42 (21.88%) Linux
3 40 (20.83%) Windows Server
4 13 (6.77%) Unix
5 6 (3.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (2.60%) Ubuntu
6 5 (2.60%) Windows 10
7 4 (2.08%) VMS
8 2 (1.04%) Android
8 2 (1.04%) CentOS
8 2 (1.04%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.52%) AIX
9 1 (0.52%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (30.73%) DevOps
1 59 (30.73%) Infrastructure as Code
2 50 (26.04%) CI/CD
3 46 (23.96%) Problem-Solving
4 30 (15.63%) Agile
5 28 (14.58%) Containerisation
6 23 (11.98%) Migration
7 22 (11.46%) Infrastructure Automation
8 20 (10.42%) High Availability
9 17 (8.85%) Platform Engineering
9 17 (8.85%) RBAC
10 16 (8.33%) Test Automation
11 15 (7.81%) Analytics
11 15 (7.81%) Cybersecurity
11 15 (7.81%) Infrastructure Management
11 15 (7.81%) ITIL
11 15 (7.81%) Observability
11 15 (7.81%) Task Automation
12 14 (7.29%) Identity Access Management
13 13 (6.77%) Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 60 (31.25%) Python
2 30 (15.63%) PowerShell
3 22 (11.46%) Bash
4 14 (7.29%) Java
5 11 (5.73%) Go
6 9 (4.69%) Bicep
6 9 (4.69%) SQL
7 6 (3.13%) Perl
8 2 (1.04%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.52%) Scala
9 1 (0.52%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 35 (18.23%) Security Cleared
2 25 (13.02%) SC Cleared
3 16 (8.33%) Degree
4 11 (5.73%) Cisco Certification
5 9 (4.69%) Azure Certification
5 9 (4.69%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (3.65%) CCNA
6 7 (3.65%) CCNP
7 6 (3.13%) DV Cleared
8 5 (2.60%) CISM
8 5 (2.60%) CISSP
9 4 (2.08%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 3 (1.56%) JNCIP
10 3 (1.56%) JNCIS
10 3 (1.56%) PMI Certification
10 3 (1.56%) PMP
11 2 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.52%) A+ Certification
12 1 (0.52%) CCDP
12 1 (0.52%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.08%) SLA
2 3 (1.56%) NIST
3 2 (1.04%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (1.04%) GDPR
3 2 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.04%) QA
4 1 (0.52%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.52%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 1 (0.52%) SOC 2
System Software
1 44 (22.92%) Active Directory
2 28 (14.58%) Docker
3 16 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
4 15 (7.81%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (3.65%) Hyper-V
6 5 (2.60%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (1.56%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.52%) etcd
8 1 (0.52%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 67 (34.90%) Terraform
2 32 (16.67%) Kubernetes
3 28 (14.58%) Ansible
3 28 (14.58%) Microsoft Intune
4 16 (8.33%) Grafana
5 15 (7.81%) SCCM
6 11 (5.73%) Prometheus
6 11 (5.73%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (4.17%) FortiGate
8 5 (2.60%) Argo
8 5 (2.60%) CASB
8 5 (2.60%) Jamf Pro
8 5 (2.60%) SCOrch
9 3 (1.56%) Istio
9 3 (1.56%) vCenter Server
10 2 (1.04%) ITRS Geneos
10 2 (1.04%) Kibana
10 2 (1.04%) McAfee ePO
10 2 (1.04%) Red Hat Satellite
10 2 (1.04%) SELinux
Vendors
1 59 (30.73%) Microsoft
2 21 (10.94%) VMware
3 20 (10.42%) Palo Alto
4 18 (9.38%) Cisco
5 16 (8.33%) Google
6 14 (7.29%) F5
7 8 (4.17%) Fortinet
7 8 (4.17%) Zscaler
8 7 (3.65%) CheckPoint
8 7 (3.65%) CyberArk
8 7 (3.65%) Juniper
9 6 (3.13%) Red Hat
9 6 (3.13%) Tenable
10 5 (2.60%) Citrix
10 5 (2.60%) Dell
10 5 (2.60%) TIBCO
11 4 (2.08%) Commvault
11 4 (2.08%) CrowdStrike
12 3 (1.56%) Solace
12 3 (1.56%) Splunk