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

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 200 160 120
Rank change year-on-year -40 -40 +69
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 210 212 358
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.35% 1.57% 1.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.49% 1.73% 2.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 156 247
10th Percentile £400 £330 £325
25th Percentile £425 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% +7.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £625 £628 £638
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% -21.85%

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 14,107 12,276 16,138
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.50% 90.65% 88.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,418 7,891 11,536
10th Percentile £350 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 221 153 342
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.05 £16.02
25th Percentile £25.15 £26.00 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £30.08
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +24.67% -16.44%
75th Percentile £56.50 £55.25 £52.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.68 £72.50
England median hourly rate £26.78 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -23.49% - -

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 19 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 19 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 -8 37 £550 -8.33% 30
South London -10 6 £463 -1.60% 2
West London -23 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 29 (13.81%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (2.38%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.90%) Apache
3 4 (1.90%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.90%) Confluence
4 2 (0.95%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.95%) nginx
4 2 (0.95%) Traefik
5 1 (0.48%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.48%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 3 (1.43%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.48%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 96 (45.71%) Azure
2 48 (22.86%) Microsoft 365
3 47 (22.38%) AWS
4 37 (17.62%) Entra ID
5 26 (12.38%) GCP
6 23 (10.95%) Serverless
7 20 (9.52%) IaaS
8 19 (9.05%) GitHub
9 14 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
10 12 (5.71%) Amazon EKS
10 12 (5.71%) Amazon S3
10 12 (5.71%) Azure DevOps
10 12 (5.71%) GitHub Actions
11 11 (5.24%) Nutanix
11 11 (5.24%) PaaS
12 10 (4.76%) AWS CloudFormation
12 10 (4.76%) Microsoft Purview
13 9 (4.29%) Amazon ECS
14 8 (3.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 8 (3.81%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 42 (20.00%) Firewall
2 28 (13.33%) DNS
3 27 (12.86%) WAN
4 22 (10.48%) VPN
5 20 (9.52%) LAN
6 15 (7.14%) Network Security
7 13 (6.19%) Wi-Fi
8 11 (5.24%) DHCP
9 10 (4.76%) MPLS
10 5 (2.38%) SD-WAN
10 5 (2.38%) TCP/IP
10 5 (2.38%) VLAN
11 4 (1.90%) Software-Defined Networking
11 4 (1.90%) Wireless
11 4 (1.90%) WLAN
12 3 (1.43%) BGP
12 3 (1.43%) Cisco Wireless
12 3 (1.43%) OSPF
12 3 (1.43%) SAN
12 3 (1.43%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.81%) SQL Server
2 6 (2.86%) DynamoDB
2 6 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (1.90%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (1.90%) Big Data
3 4 (1.90%) Relational Database
4 3 (1.43%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (1.43%) MongoDB
4 3 (1.43%) NoSQL
4 3 (1.43%) RDBMS
5 2 (0.95%) Hadoop
5 2 (0.95%) MariaDB
5 2 (0.95%) MySQL
5 2 (0.95%) Power BI
5 2 (0.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.48%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.48%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.48%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.48%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 12 (5.71%) GitLab
2 11 (5.24%) Jenkins
3 9 (4.29%) Git
4 5 (2.38%) JIRA
5 3 (1.43%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.48%) Jaeger
6 1 (0.48%) MLflow
General
1 47 (22.38%) Social Skills
2 46 (21.90%) Finance
3 18 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (8.10%) Banking
5 10 (4.76%) Legal
6 9 (4.29%) Public Sector
7 7 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (2.86%) Spanish Language
9 5 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.90%) Billing
10 4 (1.90%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.43%) Front Office
11 3 (1.43%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.95%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.95%) Military
13 1 (0.48%) International Banking
13 1 (0.48%) Local Government
13 1 (0.48%) Marketing
13 1 (0.48%) Retail
Job Titles
1 109 (51.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 30 (14.29%) Senior
3 16 (7.62%) Network Engineer
3 16 (7.62%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 14 (6.67%) Azure Engineer
5 13 (6.19%) Security Engineer
6 11 (5.24%) Cloud Engineer
6 11 (5.24%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
7 10 (4.76%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
7 10 (4.76%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
8 9 (4.29%) Architect
9 8 (3.81%) Developer
10 6 (2.86%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 6 (2.86%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
10 6 (2.86%) Integration Engineer
10 6 (2.86%) NetApp Engineer
10 6 (2.86%) Platform 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%) 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%) Loki
4 2 (0.95%) Microsoft Graph
4 2 (0.95%) OpenTelemetry
4 2 (0.95%) RESTful
5 1 (0.48%) Fluent Bit
5 1 (0.48%) ModSecurity
5 1 (0.48%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 15 (7.14%) Onboarding
2 14 (6.67%) Data Centre
3 11 (5.24%) Hybrid Cloud
4 10 (4.76%) Cloud Native
5 8 (3.81%) PKI
6 6 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (2.86%) Public Cloud
7 4 (1.90%) Clustering
7 4 (1.90%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (1.90%) DataPower
7 4 (1.90%) Mainframe
7 4 (1.90%) Replication
8 3 (1.43%) CCTV
8 3 (1.43%) Client/Server
8 3 (1.43%) Derivative
8 3 (1.43%) Enterprise Storage
8 3 (1.43%) Equities
8 3 (1.43%) Equity Derivative
8 3 (1.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (0.95%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 63 (30.00%) Windows
2 41 (19.52%) Windows Server
3 39 (18.57%) Linux
4 7 (3.33%) 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 10
7 3 (1.43%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.95%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.95%) Mac OS
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 52 (24.76%) Infrastructure as Code
2 51 (24.29%) CI/CD
3 45 (21.43%) DevOps
4 35 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 27 (12.86%) Migration
6 24 (11.43%) Containerisation
7 23 (10.95%) Agile
8 18 (8.57%) Observability
8 18 (8.57%) Platform Engineering
9 17 (8.10%) Cloud Security
9 17 (8.10%) Cybersecurity
9 17 (8.10%) Project Delivery
10 15 (7.14%) Analytics
10 15 (7.14%) ITIL
11 14 (6.67%) RBAC
12 13 (6.19%) Infrastructure Automation
13 11 (5.24%) Disaster Recovery
13 11 (5.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 10 (4.76%) Continuous Improvement
14 10 (4.76%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 42 (20.00%) Python
2 36 (17.14%) PowerShell
3 9 (4.29%) Bash
4 8 (3.81%) Java
4 8 (3.81%) Shell Script
4 8 (3.81%) SQL
5 5 (2.38%) Go
6 4 (1.90%) Bicep
7 3 (1.43%) C#
7 3 (1.43%) C++
7 3 (1.43%) Ruby
8 2 (0.95%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.48%) Perl
9 1 (0.48%) Scala
9 1 (0.48%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 32 (15.24%) Security Cleared
2 21 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 14 (6.67%) Azure Certification
3 14 (6.67%) Degree
4 11 (5.24%) DV Cleared
5 10 (4.76%) Cisco Certification
6 7 (3.33%) CISSP
7 6 (2.86%) CCNP
7 6 (2.86%) CISM
8 5 (2.38%) CCNA
8 5 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.90%) Master's Degree
10 3 (1.43%) AWS Certification
10 3 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (1.43%) JNCIP
10 3 (1.43%) JNCIS
10 3 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (1.43%) PhD
10 3 (1.43%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (0.95%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.38%) NIST
2 4 (1.90%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (0.95%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.48%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.48%) GDPR
4 1 (0.48%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 1 (0.48%) QA
4 1 (0.48%) SLA
4 1 (0.48%) SOC 2
System Software
1 53 (25.24%) Active Directory
2 28 (13.33%) 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
9 3 (1.43%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.95%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.48%) etcd
11 1 (0.48%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 53 (25.24%) Terraform
2 43 (20.48%) Microsoft Intune
3 30 (14.29%) Kubernetes
4 22 (10.48%) Ansible
5 17 (8.10%) SCCM
6 12 (5.71%) Grafana
7 6 (2.86%) CASB
7 6 (2.86%) Prometheus
7 6 (2.86%) SCOrch
8 5 (2.38%) AirWatch
8 5 (2.38%) Puppet
8 5 (2.38%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (1.90%) FortiGate
9 4 (1.90%) vCenter Server
10 3 (1.43%) Argo
10 3 (1.43%) Istio
10 3 (1.43%) Jamf Pro
10 3 (1.43%) vMotion
11 2 (0.95%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.95%) vRealize
Vendors
1 72 (34.29%) Microsoft
2 33 (15.71%) VMware
3 16 (7.62%) Google
4 13 (6.19%) Cisco
5 11 (5.24%) CyberArk
6 10 (4.76%) Citrix
7 9 (4.29%) Dell
8 8 (3.81%) Palo Alto
9 7 (3.33%) Fortinet
9 7 (3.33%) NetApp
10 6 (2.86%) Veeam
11 5 (2.38%) Juniper
11 5 (2.38%) SolarWinds
11 5 (2.38%) Zscaler
12 4 (1.90%) Aruba
12 4 (1.90%) Commvault
12 4 (1.90%) Databricks
12 4 (1.90%) IBM
12 4 (1.90%) Red Hat
13 3 (1.43%) Splunk