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

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 173 185 136
Rank change year-on-year +12 -49 +43
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 291 172 309
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.58% 1.42% 1.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.78% 1.54% 2.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 207 134 230
10th Percentile £401 £350 £313
25th Percentile £436 £413 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £515
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +1.94% -6.58%
75th Percentile £650 £600 £640
90th Percentile £719 £650 £738
England median daily rate £525 £525 £494
% change year-on-year - +6.33% -1.25%

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 16,370 11,170 15,406
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.70% 92.31% 88.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,917 7,467 11,030
10th Percentile £358 £350 £340
25th Percentile £435 £429 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £515 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 194 318
10th Percentile £18.34 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.19 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.00 £32.25 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.73% +15.18% -28.21%
75th Percentile £59.00 £49.69 £48.75
90th Percentile £79.50 £63.18 £68.23
England median hourly rate £47.50 £28.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year +66.67% -24.00% +1.35%

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 5 June 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 5 June 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 +4 44 £588 +2.17% 44
South London -10 6 £425 -20.56% 3
West London -18 6 £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 22 (7.56%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (2.41%) CICS
2 7 (2.41%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.37%) Apache
4 3 (1.03%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.69%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.69%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.34%) Confluence
6 1 (0.34%) IBM HTTP Server
6 1 (0.34%) SAS
6 1 (0.34%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 2 (0.69%) AutoCAD
1 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 133 (45.70%) Azure
2 70 (24.05%) AWS
3 38 (13.06%) GCP
4 33 (11.34%) Microsoft 365
5 32 (11.00%) GitHub
6 29 (9.97%) Entra ID
6 29 (9.97%) IaaS
7 26 (8.93%) Azure DevOps
8 23 (7.90%) PaaS
9 20 (6.87%) GitHub Actions
10 19 (6.53%) Azure AKS
11 17 (5.84%) Serverless
12 16 (5.50%) SaaS
13 13 (4.47%) AWS Lambda
13 13 (4.47%) Azure Monitor
14 9 (3.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 9 (3.09%) Nutanix
15 8 (2.75%) Amazon EKS
15 8 (2.75%) Amazon S3
15 8 (2.75%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 54 (18.56%) DNS
2 35 (12.03%) DHCP
2 35 (12.03%) Firewall
3 25 (8.59%) VPN
4 17 (5.84%) Network Security
5 14 (4.81%) WAN
6 11 (3.78%) TCP/IP
7 10 (3.44%) LAN
8 9 (3.09%) SMTP
9 6 (2.06%) MPLS
10 5 (1.72%) SAN
11 4 (1.37%) HTTP
11 4 (1.37%) NAS
11 4 (1.37%) SD-WAN
11 4 (1.37%) SSL
12 3 (1.03%) DMZ
12 3 (1.03%) Internet
12 3 (1.03%) Software-Defined Networking
12 3 (1.03%) Structured Cabling
13 2 (0.69%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (6.53%) SQL Server
2 8 (2.75%) DynamoDB
2 8 (2.75%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (2.41%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (2.06%) Db2
5 4 (1.37%) Big Data
5 4 (1.37%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (1.03%) MongoDB
6 3 (1.03%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.03%) RDBMS
6 3 (1.03%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.03%) Snowflake Schema
7 2 (0.69%) Hadoop
7 2 (0.69%) Power BI
7 2 (0.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.34%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.34%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.34%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.34%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.34%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 16 (5.50%) GitLab
2 9 (3.09%) Git
2 9 (3.09%) Jenkins
3 5 (1.72%) Bitbucket
4 4 (1.37%) JIRA
5 1 (0.34%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.34%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.34%) CMake
5 1 (0.34%) Gradle
5 1 (0.34%) Introscope
General
1 63 (21.65%) Social Skills
2 50 (17.18%) Finance
3 24 (8.25%) Banking
4 17 (5.84%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (4.81%) Public Sector
6 12 (4.12%) Documentation Skills
6 12 (4.12%) Legal
7 7 (2.41%) Retail
8 6 (2.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.37%) Billing
10 4 (1.37%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.37%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.03%) Law
11 3 (1.03%) Military
12 2 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.69%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.69%) Local Government
13 1 (0.34%) Mandarin Language
13 1 (0.34%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 173 (59.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 42 (14.43%) Cloud Engineer
3 29 (9.97%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 28 (9.62%) Senior
5 23 (7.90%) Azure Engineer
6 18 (6.19%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 16 (5.50%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 16 (5.50%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
8 15 (5.15%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
9 14 (4.81%) Architect
10 13 (4.47%) NetApp Engineer
10 13 (4.47%) Storage Engineer
11 12 (4.12%) Network Engineer
12 10 (3.44%) Support Engineer
13 9 (3.09%) Security Engineer
14 8 (2.75%) DevOps Engineer
14 8 (2.75%) Infrastructure Support
14 8 (2.75%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
14 8 (2.75%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
14 8 (2.75%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (2.75%) JSON
2 7 (2.41%) REST
3 6 (2.06%) RESTful
3 6 (2.06%) SOAP
3 6 (2.06%) Web Services
3 6 (2.06%) WSDL
4 4 (1.37%) Kafka
4 4 (1.37%) YAML
5 3 (1.03%) ARM Templates
5 3 (1.03%) AWS CDK
5 3 (1.03%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (1.03%) OpenID
5 3 (1.03%) Spring
5 3 (1.03%) Spring Boot
6 2 (0.69%) .NET
6 2 (0.69%) ADO
6 2 (0.69%) GraphQL
6 2 (0.69%) HTML
6 2 (0.69%) Middleware
6 2 (0.69%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (6.19%) Data Centre
2 16 (5.50%) Hybrid Cloud
3 14 (4.81%) Onboarding
4 10 (3.44%) Cloud Native
4 10 (3.44%) PKI
5 9 (3.09%) Clustering
6 8 (2.75%) Enterprise Storage
7 7 (2.41%) Mainframe
8 6 (2.06%) DataPower
8 6 (2.06%) Online Banking
8 6 (2.06%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (1.72%) CMDB
9 5 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.72%) Public Cloud
9 5 (1.72%) Replication
10 4 (1.37%) CCTV
10 4 (1.37%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (1.37%) Enterprise Cloud
10 4 (1.37%) Security Posture
11 3 (1.03%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 92 (31.62%) Windows
2 53 (18.21%) Windows Server
3 42 (14.43%) Linux
4 9 (3.09%) Unix
5 8 (2.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (2.41%) Windows Server 2003
6 7 (2.41%) zOS
7 6 (2.06%) Android
7 6 (2.06%) Apple iOS
7 6 (2.06%) Windows Server 2019
8 5 (1.72%) VMS
9 3 (1.03%) Windows 10
9 3 (1.03%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.69%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.34%) AIX
11 1 (0.34%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.34%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (22.34%) DevOps
2 64 (21.99%) Infrastructure as Code
3 62 (21.31%) CI/CD
4 36 (12.37%) Migration
5 34 (11.68%) Platform Engineering
6 33 (11.34%) Problem-Solving
7 30 (10.31%) AI
8 23 (7.90%) Containerisation
8 23 (7.90%) Continuous Improvement
9 22 (7.56%) Infrastructure Automation
10 21 (7.22%) Roadmaps
11 20 (6.87%) Agile
11 20 (6.87%) Disaster Recovery
12 16 (5.50%) Cloud Security
12 16 (5.50%) Incident Response
12 16 (5.50%) ITIL
13 14 (4.81%) High Availability
13 14 (4.81%) Incident Management
13 14 (4.81%) Mentoring
13 14 (4.81%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 60 (20.62%) PowerShell
2 48 (16.49%) Python
3 28 (9.62%) SQL
4 16 (5.50%) C#
5 14 (4.81%) Bash
5 14 (4.81%) Shell Script
6 12 (4.12%) Java
7 10 (3.44%) Bicep
8 6 (2.06%) JCL
9 5 (1.72%) JavaScript
10 4 (1.37%) Go
11 2 (0.69%) C++
11 2 (0.69%) Ruby
12 1 (0.34%) C
12 1 (0.34%) Jython
12 1 (0.34%) Korn
12 1 (0.34%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.34%) Scala
12 1 (0.34%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.34%) VB
Qualifications
1 88 (30.24%) Security Cleared
2 54 (18.56%) SC Cleared
3 33 (11.34%) DV Cleared
4 9 (3.09%) Azure Certification
4 9 (3.09%) Cisco Certification
4 9 (3.09%) Degree
5 8 (2.75%) CISSP
6 7 (2.41%) CCNA
7 4 (1.37%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.03%) CCNP
8 3 (1.03%) CISM
8 3 (1.03%) PMI Certification
8 3 (1.03%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (0.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.69%) CISA
9 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.69%) PMP
10 1 (0.34%) CRISC
10 1 (0.34%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.41%) NIST
1 7 (2.41%) QA
2 5 (1.72%) SLA
3 4 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.37%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.03%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.03%) GDPR
4 3 (1.03%) NCSC
4 3 (1.03%) SOC 2
5 2 (0.69%) PMO
6 1 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.34%) FedRAMP
6 1 (0.34%) GRC
6 1 (0.34%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 58 (19.93%) Active Directory
2 41 (14.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (8.25%) Hyper-V
4 20 (6.87%) Docker
5 12 (4.12%) VMware ESXi
6 11 (3.78%) Virtual Desktop
6 11 (3.78%) vSphere
7 9 (3.09%) BitLocker
7 9 (3.09%) Microsoft App-V
8 8 (2.75%) Virtual Machines
9 4 (1.37%) Firmware
9 4 (1.37%) VMware NSX
10 3 (1.03%) Terminal Services
10 3 (1.03%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.69%) NFS
11 2 (0.69%) Postfix
11 2 (0.69%) Sendmail
11 2 (0.69%) Varnish
12 1 (0.34%) KVM
12 1 (0.34%) RACF
Systems Management
1 70 (24.05%) Terraform
2 49 (16.84%) Kubernetes
3 31 (10.65%) Ansible
4 23 (7.90%) Microsoft Intune
5 10 (3.44%) Puppet
5 10 (3.44%) vCenter Server
6 9 (3.09%) vMotion
7 8 (2.75%) Packer
8 4 (1.37%) AirWatch
8 4 (1.37%) Grafana
9 3 (1.03%) FortiGate
9 3 (1.03%) Nessus
9 3 (1.03%) Prometheus
9 3 (1.03%) SCCM
10 2 (0.69%) HAProxy
10 2 (0.69%) Nagios
10 2 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.69%) vRealize
11 1 (0.34%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.34%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 80 (27.49%) Microsoft
2 54 (18.56%) VMware
3 21 (7.22%) Citrix
4 17 (5.84%) Google
5 16 (5.50%) NetApp
6 13 (4.47%) ServiceNow
7 7 (2.41%) Red Hat
8 6 (2.06%) CyberArk
8 6 (2.06%) Dell
8 6 (2.06%) Oracle
9 5 (1.72%) Cisco
9 5 (1.72%) Qualys
9 5 (1.72%) SolarWinds
10 4 (1.37%) Zscaler
11 3 (1.03%) Blue Coat
11 3 (1.03%) CrowdStrike
11 3 (1.03%) HP
11 3 (1.03%) Informatica
11 3 (1.03%) Netskope
11 3 (1.03%) Tenable