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

6 months to
6 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 204 162 125
Rank change year-on-year -42 -37 +76
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 189 228 342
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.32% 1.60% 1.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.44% 1.78% 2.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 174 236
10th Percentile £400 £321 £363
25th Percentile £450 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £508
Median % change year-on-year - +8.37% -7.73%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £627
90th Percentile £675 £688 £713
England median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
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% -41.23%
75th Percentile £32.30 - £38.04
90th Percentile £34.16 - £38.75
England median hourly rate £34.00 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -45.60% +13.64% +5.77%

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 13,120 12,835 16,038
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.46% 90.25% 89.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,679 8,213 11,461
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -4.66%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 223 159 243
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.08 £17.04
25th Percentile £24.61 £23.80 £20.00
Median hourly rate £32.45 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.29% +7.69% -13.33%
75th Percentile £53.44 £54.50 £54.56
90th Percentile £69.24 £80.75 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +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 6 January 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 6 January 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 37 £550 -7.17% 14
West London -17 3 £300 -25.00% 2
South London -8 1 - - 4
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 23 (12.17%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (3.70%) Confluence
3 5 (2.65%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.59%) Apache
5 2 (1.06%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.06%) nginx
5 2 (1.06%) Traefik
6 1 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.53%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.53%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.53%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 3 (1.59%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.53%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 85 (44.97%) Azure
2 51 (26.98%) AWS
3 41 (21.69%) Microsoft 365
4 30 (15.87%) Entra ID
5 19 (10.05%) GitHub
6 17 (8.99%) GCP
7 16 (8.47%) Serverless
8 15 (7.94%) GitHub Actions
9 14 (7.41%) Amazon S3
10 13 (6.88%) Azure DevOps
10 13 (6.88%) IaaS
11 10 (5.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 9 (4.76%) Amazon EKS
12 9 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
13 8 (4.23%) Amazon ECS
13 8 (4.23%) AWS CloudFormation
13 8 (4.23%) Nutanix
14 7 (3.70%) Amazon EC2
14 7 (3.70%) GitHub Copilot
14 7 (3.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 45 (23.81%) Firewall
2 28 (14.81%) VPN
3 25 (13.23%) DNS
4 24 (12.70%) WAN
5 17 (8.99%) LAN
6 16 (8.47%) Network Security
6 16 (8.47%) TCP/IP
7 13 (6.88%) Wi-Fi
8 10 (5.29%) SSL
9 9 (4.76%) MPLS
10 7 (3.70%) DHCP
11 6 (3.17%) SD-WAN
12 5 (2.65%) HTTP
12 5 (2.65%) VLAN
12 5 (2.65%) Wireless
13 4 (2.12%) WLAN
14 3 (1.59%) BGP
14 3 (1.59%) Cisco Wireless
14 3 (1.59%) OSPF
15 2 (1.06%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.17%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.12%) DynamoDB
3 3 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.06%) Big Data
4 2 (1.06%) MariaDB
4 2 (1.06%) MySQL
4 2 (1.06%) Power BI
4 2 (1.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.53%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (0.53%) Apache Iceberg
5 1 (0.53%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.53%) Data Hub
5 1 (0.53%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.53%) Delta Lake
5 1 (0.53%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.53%) Parquet
5 1 (0.53%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 20 (10.58%) Git
2 16 (8.47%) Jenkins
3 11 (5.82%) GitLab
4 8 (4.23%) JIRA
5 3 (1.59%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.53%) Jaeger
6 1 (0.53%) MLflow
General
1 46 (24.34%) Finance
2 45 (23.81%) Social Skills
3 24 (12.70%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (10.05%) Banking
5 11 (5.82%) Public Sector
6 6 (3.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (3.17%) Spanish Language
7 5 (2.65%) Front Office
8 4 (2.12%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (2.12%) Financial Institution
8 4 (2.12%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.59%) Billing
9 3 (1.59%) Military
9 3 (1.59%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.53%) International Banking
10 1 (0.53%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.53%) Italian Language
10 1 (0.53%) Local Government
10 1 (0.53%) Marketing
10 1 (0.53%) Retail
Job Titles
1 96 (50.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 30 (15.87%) Senior
3 19 (10.05%) Network Engineer
4 17 (8.99%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 14 (7.41%) Security Engineer
6 12 (6.35%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
6 12 (6.35%) Platform Engineer
7 11 (5.82%) Azure Engineer
7 11 (5.82%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
8 10 (5.29%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 9 (4.76%) Cloud Engineer
9 9 (4.76%) Developer
10 8 (4.23%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
10 8 (4.23%) DevOps Engineer
11 6 (3.17%) Windows Engineer
12 5 (2.65%) Automation Engineer
12 5 (2.65%) AWS Engineer
12 5 (2.65%) Integration Engineer
12 5 (2.65%) VMware Engineer
12 5 (2.65%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.23%) Kafka
2 6 (3.17%) GraphQL
2 6 (3.17%) REST
3 5 (2.65%) Middleware
4 4 (2.12%) ARM Templates
4 4 (2.12%) gRPC
4 4 (2.12%) NumPy
4 4 (2.12%) Pandas
4 4 (2.12%) RESTful
5 3 (1.59%) AWT
5 3 (1.59%) GWT
5 3 (1.59%) JMS
5 3 (1.59%) Rendezvous
5 3 (1.59%) SciPy
5 3 (1.59%) TIBCO EMS
5 3 (1.59%) YAML
6 2 (1.06%) FIX Protocol
6 2 (1.06%) Loki
6 2 (1.06%) Microsoft Graph
6 2 (1.06%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 11 (5.82%) Public Cloud
2 10 (5.29%) Cloud Native
2 10 (5.29%) Data Centre
2 10 (5.29%) Onboarding
3 7 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
3 7 (3.70%) Replication
4 6 (3.17%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (3.17%) Equities
4 6 (3.17%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (3.17%) PKI
4 6 (3.17%) Private Cloud
5 4 (2.12%) DataPower
5 4 (2.12%) Mainframe
6 3 (1.59%) Client/Server
6 3 (1.59%) Derivative
6 3 (1.59%) Equity Derivative
6 3 (1.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (1.59%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (1.59%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 53 (28.04%) Windows
2 40 (21.16%) Linux
3 36 (19.05%) Windows Server
4 13 (6.88%) Unix
5 4 (2.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (2.12%) Ubuntu
5 4 (2.12%) VMS
5 4 (2.12%) Windows 10
6 3 (1.59%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (1.06%) Android
7 2 (1.06%) Mac OS
7 2 (1.06%) Windows Server 2003
8 1 (0.53%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.53%) CentOS
8 1 (0.53%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.53%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.53%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (29.63%) Infrastructure as Code
2 50 (26.46%) DevOps
3 49 (25.93%) CI/CD
4 41 (21.69%) Problem-Solving
5 26 (13.76%) Containerisation
6 25 (13.23%) Agile
7 23 (12.17%) Migration
8 20 (10.58%) Observability
9 18 (9.52%) Platform Engineering
10 17 (8.99%) High Availability
11 16 (8.47%) Cybersecurity
11 16 (8.47%) ITIL
12 15 (7.94%) Infrastructure Automation
12 15 (7.94%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 13 (6.88%) Cloud Security
14 12 (6.35%) AI
14 12 (6.35%) Analytics
14 12 (6.35%) Low Latency
14 12 (6.35%) Project Delivery
14 12 (6.35%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 57 (30.16%) Python
2 31 (16.40%) PowerShell
3 17 (8.99%) Java
4 15 (7.94%) Bash
5 10 (5.29%) Go
6 8 (4.23%) SQL
7 6 (3.17%) Perl
8 5 (2.65%) Shell Script
9 3 (1.59%) Bicep
9 3 (1.59%) C#
9 3 (1.59%) C++
9 3 (1.59%) Ruby
10 1 (0.53%) Scala
10 1 (0.53%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 25 (13.23%) Security Cleared
2 18 (9.52%) Degree
3 16 (8.47%) SC Cleared
4 10 (5.29%) Cisco Certification
5 9 (4.76%) Azure Certification
6 7 (3.70%) CCNP
6 7 (3.70%) DV Cleared
7 6 (3.17%) CCNA
7 6 (3.17%) CISSP
7 6 (3.17%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (2.65%) CISM
9 4 (2.12%) Master's Degree
9 4 (2.12%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (1.59%) JNCIP
10 3 (1.59%) JNCIS
10 3 (1.59%) PhD
11 2 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (1.06%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (1.06%) PMI Certification
11 2 (1.06%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.59%) Cyber Essentials
1 3 (1.59%) NIST
2 2 (1.06%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.06%) SLA
3 1 (0.53%) GDPR
3 1 (0.53%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 1 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.53%) QA
3 1 (0.53%) SOC 2
System Software
1 43 (22.75%) Active Directory
2 30 (15.87%) Docker
3 18 (9.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (4.76%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (4.23%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (3.70%) Hyper-V
7 3 (1.59%) Virtual Servers
7 3 (1.59%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (1.06%) BitLocker
8 2 (1.06%) Firmware
8 2 (1.06%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.53%) etcd
9 1 (0.53%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (0.53%) vSphere
9 1 (0.53%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 64 (33.86%) Terraform
2 34 (17.99%) Microsoft Intune
3 32 (16.93%) Kubernetes
4 29 (15.34%) Ansible
5 20 (10.58%) SCCM
6 16 (8.47%) Grafana
7 9 (4.76%) Prometheus
8 6 (3.17%) CASB
8 6 (3.17%) SCOrch
9 5 (2.65%) FortiGate
9 5 (2.65%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (2.12%) Argo
11 3 (1.59%) Istio
11 3 (1.59%) Jamf Pro
12 2 (1.06%) AirWatch
12 2 (1.06%) Kibana
12 2 (1.06%) Puppet
12 2 (1.06%) Red Hat Satellite
12 2 (1.06%) SCOM
12 2 (1.06%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 63 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 23 (12.17%) VMware
3 17 (8.99%) Palo Alto
4 14 (7.41%) Cisco
4 14 (7.41%) Google
5 13 (6.88%) F5
6 8 (4.23%) CyberArk
6 8 (4.23%) Zscaler
7 7 (3.70%) CheckPoint
7 7 (3.70%) Fortinet
8 6 (3.17%) Veeam
9 5 (2.65%) Dell
9 5 (2.65%) Juniper
10 4 (2.12%) Aruba
10 4 (2.12%) Citrix
10 4 (2.12%) Commvault
10 4 (2.12%) IBM
10 4 (2.12%) Meraki
10 4 (2.12%) NetApp
10 4 (2.12%) SolarWinds