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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 200 167
Rank change year-on-year +56 -33 -22
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 422 186 258
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.08% 1.38% 1.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.33% 1.49% 1.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 284 138 207
10th Percentile £375 £354 £325
25th Percentile £450 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £535 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.90% +1.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £614
90th Percentile £698 £690 £700
England median daily rate £545 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +8.97% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £52.85 - -
25th Percentile £58.63 - -
Median hourly rate £69.50 £30.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +131.67% - -
75th Percentile £81.63 - -
90th Percentile £88.15 - -
England median hourly rate £74.00 £30.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +146.67% -57.14% -3.45%

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 18,076 12,495 14,390
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.96% 92.53% 89.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,807 8,257 9,705
10th Percentile £360 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £680
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.95% -2.87% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 295 255 182
10th Percentile £16.75 £17.03 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.01 £23.29
Median hourly rate £35.50 £32.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.94% -8.57% -12.50%
75th Percentile £57.25 £49.63 £55.00
90th Percentile £85.84 £63.75 £71.88
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% +1.18%

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 10 September 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in London over the 6 months to 10 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in London

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 10 September 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 50 £620 +15.67% 39
West London -9 10 £675 - 9
South London -8 6 £473 -10.00% 4
East London +5 4 £638 +77.08% 2
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 (5.21%) Microsoft Exchange
2 21 (4.98%) SharePoint
3 14 (3.32%) Confluence
4 12 (2.84%) CICS
5 7 (1.66%) WebSphere
6 6 (1.42%) Apache
7 4 (0.95%) SharePoint Server
8 3 (0.71%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.71%) nginx
9 2 (0.47%) Exchange Server 2013
10 1 (0.24%) CloudStack
10 1 (0.24%) CMS
10 1 (0.24%) JBoss
10 1 (0.24%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.24%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.24%) WebLogic
Applications
1 5 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.71%) AutoCAD
2 3 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.24%) CPLEX
3 1 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.24%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.71%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 185 (43.84%) Azure
2 103 (24.41%) AWS
3 45 (10.66%) GitHub
4 44 (10.43%) Entra ID
4 44 (10.43%) GCP
5 43 (10.19%) Azure DevOps
5 43 (10.19%) Microsoft 365
6 33 (7.82%) GitHub Actions
7 26 (6.16%) IaaS
8 25 (5.92%) Azure AKS
9 20 (4.74%) Amazon EKS
10 19 (4.50%) SaaS
11 17 (4.03%) PaaS
12 16 (3.79%) Amazon S3
12 16 (3.79%) Azure Monitor
13 14 (3.32%) Serverless
14 13 (3.08%) OCI
15 12 (2.84%) Datadog
16 10 (2.37%) OpenShift
17 9 (2.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 77 (18.25%) DNS
2 59 (13.98%) DHCP
2 59 (13.98%) Firewall
3 42 (9.95%) VPN
4 33 (7.82%) Network Security
5 31 (7.35%) TCP/IP
6 18 (4.27%) WAN
7 17 (4.03%) SSL
8 15 (3.55%) Wi-Fi
9 13 (3.08%) LAN
9 13 (3.08%) SAN
10 11 (2.61%) HTTP
11 10 (2.37%) VLAN
12 9 (2.13%) BGP
13 7 (1.66%) NAS
13 7 (1.66%) SMTP
13 7 (1.66%) Wireless
14 6 (1.42%) SD-WAN
15 5 (1.18%) SSH
15 5 (1.18%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (6.87%) SQL Server
2 9 (2.13%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (1.66%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (1.42%) BigQuery
5 5 (1.18%) Power BI
6 4 (0.95%) Db2
6 4 (0.95%) DynamoDB
6 4 (0.95%) Oracle Database
6 4 (0.95%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (0.71%) Apache Iceberg
7 3 (0.71%) Big Data
7 3 (0.71%) ClickHouse
7 3 (0.71%) Flink
7 3 (0.71%) Snowflake Schema
7 3 (0.71%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 3 (0.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (0.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (0.47%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.47%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.47%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 27 (6.40%) Git
2 18 (4.27%) Jenkins
3 17 (4.03%) GitLab
4 9 (2.13%) JIRA
5 4 (0.95%) Chocolatey
6 3 (0.71%) Oracle Forms
7 2 (0.47%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.47%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.47%) Subversion
8 1 (0.24%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.24%) CMake
8 1 (0.24%) Gradle
8 1 (0.24%) IBM UrbanCode
8 1 (0.24%) Maven
8 1 (0.24%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.24%) Vagrant
General
1 94 (22.27%) Social Skills
2 79 (18.72%) Finance
3 38 (9.00%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (7.35%) Banking
5 22 (5.21%) Public Sector
6 17 (4.03%) Documentation Skills
7 12 (2.84%) Telecoms
8 11 (2.61%) Retail
9 8 (1.90%) Law
10 7 (1.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (1.18%) Automotive
11 5 (1.18%) Billing
11 5 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (1.18%) Legal
11 5 (1.18%) Publishing
12 3 (0.71%) Local Government
12 3 (0.71%) Military
12 3 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.47%) Aviation
13 2 (0.47%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 209 (49.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 50 (11.85%) Cloud Engineer
2 50 (11.85%) Senior
3 37 (8.77%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 36 (8.53%) Azure Engineer
5 35 (8.29%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 34 (8.06%) DevOps Engineer
7 32 (7.58%) Lead
8 24 (5.69%) Network Engineer
9 22 (5.21%) Architect
9 22 (5.21%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
10 16 (3.79%) Platform Engineer
11 14 (3.32%) Support Engineer
12 13 (3.08%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 12 (2.84%) Infrastructure Specialist
14 11 (2.61%) AWS Engineer
15 10 (2.37%) Infrastructure Support
15 10 (2.37%) Microsoft Engineer
15 10 (2.37%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
15 10 (2.37%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 133 (31.52%) Terraform
2 12 (2.84%) REST
3 11 (2.61%) ARM Templates
3 11 (2.61%) YAML
4 9 (2.13%) Middleware
5 7 (1.66%) 802.1X
5 7 (1.66%) JSON
5 7 (1.66%) Loki
6 6 (1.42%) .NET
6 6 (1.42%) Kafka
6 6 (1.42%) OpenID
6 6 (1.42%) SAML
7 5 (1.18%) Web Services
8 4 (0.95%) RESTful
8 4 (0.95%) SOAP
8 4 (0.95%) WSDL
9 3 (0.71%) ADO
9 3 (0.71%) Elastic Stack
9 3 (0.71%) HTML
9 3 (0.71%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 32 (7.58%) Hybrid Cloud
2 28 (6.64%) Cloud Native
3 21 (4.98%) Data Centre
4 17 (4.03%) Clustering
5 16 (3.79%) Onboarding
6 12 (2.84%) Mainframe
6 12 (2.84%) PKI
6 12 (2.84%) Public Cloud
7 11 (2.61%) Distributed Systems
8 10 (2.37%) Data Protection Act
8 10 (2.37%) Replication
9 9 (2.13%) Enterprise Cloud
9 9 (2.13%) Linux Command Line
10 8 (1.90%) Private Cloud
11 7 (1.66%) CMDB
11 7 (1.66%) Cyber Threat
11 7 (1.66%) Enterprise Storage
12 6 (1.42%) AI Agents
13 5 (1.18%) Distributed Applications
13 5 (1.18%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 130 (30.81%) Windows
2 83 (19.67%) Windows Server
3 75 (17.77%) Linux
4 20 (4.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (2.84%) Unix
5 12 (2.84%) zOS
6 9 (2.13%) Windows Server 2019
7 8 (1.90%) Ubuntu
8 7 (1.66%) VMS
8 7 (1.66%) Windows Server 2016
9 6 (1.42%) Android
9 6 (1.42%) Apple iOS
9 6 (1.42%) Mac OS
10 5 (1.18%) Windows 10
10 5 (1.18%) Windows Server 2012
11 4 (0.95%) Windows Server 2008
12 3 (0.71%) Windows Server 2003
13 2 (0.47%) Amazon Linux
13 2 (0.47%) OpenVMS
13 2 (0.47%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 140 (33.18%) Infrastructure as Code
2 128 (30.33%) DevOps
3 119 (28.20%) CI/CD
4 69 (16.35%) Platform Engineering
5 66 (15.64%) AI
5 66 (15.64%) Migration
6 63 (14.93%) Infrastructure Automation
7 56 (13.27%) Problem-Solving
8 44 (10.43%) Stakeholder Management
9 43 (10.19%) Disaster Recovery
10 42 (9.95%) Continuous Improvement
11 40 (9.48%) Configuration Management
11 40 (9.48%) Observability
12 39 (9.24%) Containerisation
13 36 (8.53%) High Availability
13 36 (8.53%) Incident Response
14 33 (7.82%) Agile
14 33 (7.82%) ITIL
15 31 (7.35%) Cloud Security
16 29 (6.87%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 109 (25.83%) Python
2 103 (24.41%) PowerShell
3 44 (10.43%) Bash
4 32 (7.58%) SQL
5 22 (5.21%) Bicep
6 18 (4.27%) Java
7 14 (3.32%) C#
8 12 (2.84%) Shell Script
9 8 (1.90%) C++
9 8 (1.90%) Go
9 8 (1.90%) Perl
10 5 (1.18%) C
10 5 (1.18%) JCL
10 5 (1.18%) TypeScript
11 4 (0.95%) JavaScript
12 3 (0.71%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.47%) Korn
14 1 (0.24%) Groovy
14 1 (0.24%) Ruby
14 1 (0.24%) Scala
Qualifications
1 129 (30.57%) Security Cleared
2 85 (20.14%) SC Cleared
3 43 (10.19%) DV Cleared
4 24 (5.69%) Degree
5 22 (5.21%) Azure Certification
6 17 (4.03%) Cisco Certification
7 11 (2.61%) CCNA
7 11 (2.61%) CCNP
7 11 (2.61%) CISSP
8 10 (2.37%) Computer Science Degree
9 9 (2.13%) AWS Certification
10 6 (1.42%) CISM
10 6 (1.42%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (0.95%) JNCIP
11 4 (0.95%) JNCIS
12 3 (0.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (0.71%) PMI Certification
12 3 (0.71%) PMP
12 3 (0.71%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (3.08%) QA
2 12 (2.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 12 (2.84%) SLA
3 8 (1.90%) NIST
4 5 (1.18%) PCI DSS
5 4 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.71%) Data Quality
6 3 (0.71%) NCSC
6 3 (0.71%) SOC 2
7 2 (0.47%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.47%) GDPR
8 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.24%) FedRAMP
8 1 (0.24%) GRC
8 1 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (0.24%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.24%) PMO
System Software
1 84 (19.91%) Active Directory
2 71 (16.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 34 (8.06%) Docker
4 28 (6.64%) Hyper-V
5 24 (5.69%) VMware ESXi
6 20 (4.74%) vSphere
7 19 (4.50%) Virtual Machines
8 14 (3.32%) Virtual Desktop
9 8 (1.90%) Virtual Servers
10 6 (1.42%) BitLocker
10 6 (1.42%) Firmware
10 6 (1.42%) Microsoft App-V
11 4 (0.95%) Terminal Services
11 4 (0.95%) VMware NSX
12 2 (0.47%) Ceph
12 2 (0.47%) NFS
12 2 (0.47%) Postfix
12 2 (0.47%) RACF
13 1 (0.24%) Samba
13 1 (0.24%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 79 (18.72%) Kubernetes
2 66 (15.64%) Ansible
3 30 (7.11%) Microsoft Intune
4 17 (4.03%) Grafana
4 17 (4.03%) Puppet
4 17 (4.03%) SCCM
4 17 (4.03%) vCenter Server
5 14 (3.32%) Prometheus
6 10 (2.37%) FortiGate
6 10 (2.37%) Packer
7 8 (1.90%) Argo
7 8 (1.90%) systemd
8 6 (1.42%) Nessus
8 6 (1.42%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (1.42%) vMotion
9 5 (1.18%) Microsoft Clustering
10 4 (0.95%) Nagios
10 4 (0.95%) Progress Chef
10 4 (0.95%) SCOM
11 3 (0.71%) WSUS
Vendors
1 131 (31.04%) Microsoft
2 97 (22.99%) VMware
3 29 (6.87%) Cisco
4 22 (5.21%) Google
5 21 (4.98%) Citrix
6 18 (4.27%) Red Hat
7 16 (3.79%) Oracle
8 14 (3.32%) ServiceNow
9 11 (2.61%) NetApp
10 10 (2.37%) Tenable
10 10 (2.37%) Zscaler
11 9 (2.13%) IBM
12 8 (1.90%) Dynatrace
12 8 (1.90%) HP
13 6 (1.42%) Juniper
13 6 (1.42%) Splunk
14 5 (1.18%) Databricks
14 5 (1.18%) Qualys
15 4 (0.95%) AppDynamics
15 4 (0.95%) F5