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

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 179 184 155
Rank change year-on-year +5 -29 +36
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 276 174 302
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.51% 1.44% 1.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.71% 1.56% 1.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 199 138 221
10th Percentile £400 £362 £300
25th Percentile £425 £425 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £515
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +1.94% -6.79%
75th Percentile £650 £617 £641
90th Percentile £719 £658 £743
England median daily rate £525 £525 £475
% change year-on-year - +10.53% -6.86%

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 16,181 11,140 15,429
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.43% 92.20% 88.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,808 7,503 11,081
10th Percentile £358 £350 £338
25th Percentile £435 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £762 £800 £800
England median daily rate £514 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 240 182 312
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.50 £15.95
25th Percentile £25.25 £23.76 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.25 £30.90 £27.92
Median % change year-on-year +20.54% +10.68% -29.54%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £76.68 £63.23 £66.98
England median hourly rate £45.00 £28.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year +60.71% -23.29% -2.67%

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 May 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 May 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 45 £600 - 23
South London -11 6 £425 -20.56% 2
West London -28 5 £675 +68.75% 3
East London -7 1 £775 +64.02% 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 20 (7.25%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (2.54%) CICS
2 7 (2.54%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.45%) Apache
4 3 (1.09%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.72%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.72%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.36%) IBM HTTP Server
6 1 (0.36%) SAS
6 1 (0.36%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.36%) AutoCAD
2 1 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 123 (44.57%) Azure
2 62 (22.46%) AWS
3 33 (11.96%) GCP
3 33 (11.96%) Microsoft 365
4 32 (11.59%) GitHub
5 27 (9.78%) Entra ID
5 27 (9.78%) IaaS
6 26 (9.42%) Azure DevOps
7 21 (7.61%) PaaS
8 20 (7.25%) GitHub Actions
8 20 (7.25%) Serverless
9 19 (6.88%) Azure AKS
10 16 (5.80%) AWS Lambda
11 15 (5.43%) SaaS
12 12 (4.35%) Azure Monitor
13 10 (3.62%) Amazon S3
13 10 (3.62%) Nutanix
14 9 (3.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 7 (2.54%) AWS CloudFormation
15 7 (2.54%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 48 (17.39%) DNS
2 30 (10.87%) DHCP
2 30 (10.87%) Firewall
3 20 (7.25%) VPN
4 15 (5.43%) Network Security
5 13 (4.71%) WAN
6 11 (3.99%) LAN
7 8 (2.90%) TCP/IP
8 7 (2.54%) SMTP
9 5 (1.81%) MPLS
9 5 (1.81%) SAN
10 4 (1.45%) NAS
10 4 (1.45%) Software-Defined Networking
11 3 (1.09%) HTTP
11 3 (1.09%) Internet
11 3 (1.09%) SD-WAN
12 2 (0.72%) DMZ
12 2 (0.72%) SSL
12 2 (0.72%) VSAN
12 2 (0.72%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (6.16%) SQL Server
2 8 (2.90%) DynamoDB
3 6 (2.17%) DB2
3 6 (2.17%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (1.81%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (1.45%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (1.09%) MongoDB
6 3 (1.09%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.09%) RDBMS
6 3 (1.09%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.09%) Snowflake Schema
7 2 (0.72%) Big Data
7 2 (0.72%) Hadoop
7 2 (0.72%) Power BI
7 2 (0.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.36%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.36%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.36%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.36%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.36%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 15 (5.43%) GitLab
2 12 (4.35%) Git
3 10 (3.62%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.81%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.09%) JIRA
6 1 (0.36%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.36%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.36%) CMake
6 1 (0.36%) Gradle
6 1 (0.36%) Introscope
6 1 (0.36%) Jaeger
General
1 59 (21.38%) Social Skills
2 47 (17.03%) Finance
3 27 (9.78%) Banking
4 15 (5.43%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (5.43%) Public Sector
5 12 (4.35%) Legal
6 8 (2.90%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (1.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (1.81%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (1.81%) Retail
8 4 (1.45%) Billing
8 4 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.09%) Front Office
9 3 (1.09%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.09%) Law
9 3 (1.09%) Military
9 3 (1.09%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.72%) Local Government
11 1 (0.36%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 165 (59.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 41 (14.86%) Cloud Engineer
3 29 (10.51%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 28 (10.14%) Senior
5 22 (7.97%) Azure Engineer
6 18 (6.52%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 15 (5.43%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 14 (5.07%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 14 (5.07%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
9 13 (4.71%) Architect
9 13 (4.71%) NetApp Engineer
9 13 (4.71%) Storage Engineer
10 12 (4.35%) Network Engineer
11 8 (2.90%) Lead
11 8 (2.90%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
11 8 (2.90%) Security Engineer
12 7 (2.54%) Data Engineer
13 6 (2.17%) DevOps Engineer
13 6 (2.17%) Platform Engineer
14 5 (1.81%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (2.90%) JSON
2 6 (2.17%) REST
2 6 (2.17%) RESTful
2 6 (2.17%) SOAP
2 6 (2.17%) Web Services
2 6 (2.17%) WSDL
3 4 (1.45%) Kafka
3 4 (1.45%) YAML
4 3 (1.09%) ARM Templates
4 3 (1.09%) AWS CDK
4 3 (1.09%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (1.09%) OpenID
4 3 (1.09%) Spring
4 3 (1.09%) Spring Boot
5 2 (0.72%) .NET
5 2 (0.72%) ADO
5 2 (0.72%) GraphQL
5 2 (0.72%) Middleware
5 2 (0.72%) Pandas
5 2 (0.72%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (5.80%) Data Centre
1 16 (5.80%) Hybrid Cloud
2 13 (4.71%) Onboarding
3 10 (3.62%) Cloud Native
4 8 (2.90%) Enterprise Storage
4 8 (2.90%) PKI
5 7 (2.54%) Clustering
5 7 (2.54%) Mainframe
6 6 (2.17%) DataPower
6 6 (2.17%) Online Banking
7 5 (1.81%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (1.81%) Public Cloud
7 5 (1.81%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.45%) CCTV
8 4 (1.45%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.45%) Enterprise Cloud
8 4 (1.45%) Replication
8 4 (1.45%) Security Posture
8 4 (1.45%) Virtual Team
9 3 (1.09%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 85 (30.80%) Windows
2 46 (16.67%) Windows Server
3 40 (14.49%) Linux
4 8 (2.90%) Unix
5 7 (2.54%) zOS
6 6 (2.17%) Android
6 6 (2.17%) Apple iOS
6 6 (2.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (2.17%) Windows Server 2003
6 6 (2.17%) Windows Server 2019
7 5 (1.81%) VMS
8 4 (1.45%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.72%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.72%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.72%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.36%) AIX
10 1 (0.36%) Amazon Linux
10 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (24.28%) Infrastructure as Code
2 65 (23.55%) CI/CD
3 62 (22.46%) DevOps
4 33 (11.96%) Migration
4 33 (11.96%) Platform Engineering
5 30 (10.87%) Problem-Solving
6 23 (8.33%) AI
6 23 (8.33%) Containerisation
7 21 (7.61%) Continuous Improvement
7 21 (7.61%) Infrastructure Automation
8 19 (6.88%) Disaster Recovery
8 19 (6.88%) Roadmaps
9 17 (6.16%) Agile
10 14 (5.07%) Cloud Security
10 14 (5.07%) High Availability
10 14 (5.07%) Infrastructure Transformation
10 14 (5.07%) ITIL
10 14 (5.07%) Mentoring
10 14 (5.07%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 13 (4.71%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 57 (20.65%) PowerShell
2 49 (17.75%) Python
3 29 (10.51%) SQL
4 18 (6.52%) C#
5 13 (4.71%) Bash
5 13 (4.71%) Java
5 13 (4.71%) Shell Script
6 10 (3.62%) Bicep
7 6 (2.17%) JCL
8 5 (1.81%) Go
9 4 (1.45%) C++
9 4 (1.45%) JavaScript
9 4 (1.45%) Ruby
10 1 (0.36%) C
10 1 (0.36%) Jython
10 1 (0.36%) Korn
10 1 (0.36%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.36%) Scala
10 1 (0.36%) VB
Qualifications
1 81 (29.35%) Security Cleared
2 54 (19.57%) SC Cleared
3 28 (10.14%) DV Cleared
4 10 (3.62%) Degree
5 8 (2.90%) Azure Certification
5 8 (2.90%) Cisco Certification
6 7 (2.54%) CCNA
7 6 (2.17%) CISSP
8 3 (1.09%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.09%) CCNP
8 3 (1.09%) PMI Certification
8 3 (1.09%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (0.72%) CISA
9 2 (0.72%) CISM
9 2 (0.72%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.72%) PhD
9 2 (0.72%) PMP
10 1 (0.36%) MCSE
10 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.54%) NIST
1 7 (2.54%) QA
2 5 (1.81%) SLA
3 4 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.09%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.09%) GDPR
4 3 (1.09%) NCSC
4 3 (1.09%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.09%) SOC 2
5 2 (0.72%) PMO
6 1 (0.36%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.36%) FedRAMP
6 1 (0.36%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 52 (18.84%) Active Directory
2 37 (13.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (7.61%) Docker
3 21 (7.61%) Hyper-V
4 11 (3.99%) vSphere
5 10 (3.62%) Virtual Desktop
5 10 (3.62%) VMware ESXi
6 7 (2.54%) BitLocker
6 7 (2.54%) Microsoft App-V
6 7 (2.54%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (1.81%) Firmware
8 4 (1.45%) VMware NSX
9 3 (1.09%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.72%) NFS
10 2 (0.72%) Postfix
10 2 (0.72%) Sendmail
10 2 (0.72%) Varnish
11 1 (0.36%) KVM
11 1 (0.36%) RACF
11 1 (0.36%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 72 (26.09%) Terraform
2 50 (18.12%) Kubernetes
3 28 (10.14%) Ansible
4 24 (8.70%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (2.90%) Packer
5 8 (2.90%) Puppet
5 8 (2.90%) vCenter Server
6 7 (2.54%) vMotion
7 5 (1.81%) Grafana
8 4 (1.45%) AirWatch
8 4 (1.45%) Prometheus
9 3 (1.09%) FortiGate
9 3 (1.09%) SCCM
10 2 (0.72%) HAProxy
10 2 (0.72%) vRealize
11 1 (0.36%) CA Wily
11 1 (0.36%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.36%) Nessus
11 1 (0.36%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 71 (25.72%) Microsoft
2 51 (18.48%) VMware
3 19 (6.88%) Citrix
4 16 (5.80%) NetApp
5 15 (5.43%) Google
6 8 (2.90%) ServiceNow
7 7 (2.54%) Dell
8 6 (2.17%) Oracle
8 6 (2.17%) Red Hat
9 5 (1.81%) Cisco
9 5 (1.81%) SolarWinds
10 4 (1.45%) CyberArk
11 3 (1.09%) CrowdStrike
11 3 (1.09%) Informatica
11 3 (1.09%) Palo Alto
11 3 (1.09%) Splunk
12 2 (0.72%) Adyen
12 2 (0.72%) Netskope
12 2 (0.72%) Tenable
12 2 (0.72%) Zscaler