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 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 193 162 131
Rank change year-on-year -31 -31 +57
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 206 258 365
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.43% 1.63% 1.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.56% 1.82% 2.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 201 262
10th Percentile £361 £325 £354
25th Percentile £425 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% +4.76% -3.45%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £638
90th Percentile £705 £688 £745
England median daily rate £487 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -7.24% +5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 3
10th Percentile £24.40 - £32.97
25th Percentile £26.50 - £34.42
Median hourly rate £30.00 £112.00 £36.84
Median % change year-on-year -73.21% +204.02% -51.84%
75th Percentile £32.70 - £38.04
90th Percentile £34.32 - £38.75
England median hourly rate £34.00 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -47.69% +8.33% +8.11%

All Process and 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 13,188 14,190 17,310
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.79% 89.85% 89.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,704 9,175 12,401
10th Percentile £338 £350 £356
25th Percentile £425 £450 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £526 £550 £568
Median % change year-on-year -4.45% -3.08% -3.81%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 247 166 233
10th Percentile £18.25 £17.25 £18.81
25th Percentile £24.56 £23.80 £21.75
Median hourly rate £29.50 £37.25 £35.63
Median % change year-on-year -20.81% +4.55% -9.80%
75th Percentile £47.63 £53.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £66.50 £80.75 £76.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +18.67%

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 5 December 2025.

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 December 2025. 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 36 £550 -7.17% 13
West London -12 5 £300 -25.00% 3
South London -6 3 - - 5
East London - 1 - - 3
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 21 (10.19%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (3.40%) Confluence
3 6 (2.91%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.46%) Apache
4 3 (1.46%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.97%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.97%) nginx
5 2 (0.97%) Traefik
6 1 (0.49%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.49%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.49%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 3 (1.46%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.49%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 91 (44.17%) Azure
2 52 (25.24%) AWS
3 38 (18.45%) Microsoft 365
4 29 (14.08%) Entra ID
5 24 (11.65%) GitHub
6 20 (9.71%) GCP
7 17 (8.25%) Azure DevOps
8 15 (7.28%) Serverless
9 14 (6.80%) Amazon S3
9 14 (6.80%) GitHub Actions
10 11 (5.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 11 (5.34%) IaaS
11 9 (4.37%) Amazon EKS
11 9 (4.37%) AWS CloudFormation
11 9 (4.37%) Azure Monitor
12 8 (3.88%) AWS Lambda
13 7 (3.40%) Amazon EC2
13 7 (3.40%) Amazon ECS
13 7 (3.40%) Mimecast
13 7 (3.40%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 47 (22.82%) Firewall
2 30 (14.56%) VPN
3 26 (12.62%) WAN
4 25 (12.14%) DNS
5 20 (9.71%) TCP/IP
6 17 (8.25%) Network Security
7 16 (7.77%) LAN
8 13 (6.31%) SSL
8 13 (6.31%) Wi-Fi
9 9 (4.37%) SD-WAN
10 7 (3.40%) DHCP
10 7 (3.40%) MPLS
11 6 (2.91%) HTTP
12 5 (2.43%) VLAN
12 5 (2.43%) Wireless
13 4 (1.94%) BGP
13 4 (1.94%) OSPF
13 4 (1.94%) tcpdump
13 4 (1.94%) WLAN
14 3 (1.46%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.94%) DynamoDB
1 4 (1.94%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.46%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (0.97%) Big Data
3 2 (0.97%) MariaDB
3 2 (0.97%) MySQL
3 2 (0.97%) Power BI
4 1 (0.49%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.49%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (0.49%) Apache Iceberg
4 1 (0.49%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.49%) Data Hub
4 1 (0.49%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.49%) Delta Lake
4 1 (0.49%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.49%) Oracle Database 11g
4 1 (0.49%) Oracle Database 12c
4 1 (0.49%) Parquet
4 1 (0.49%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 20 (9.71%) Git
2 17 (8.25%) Jenkins
3 11 (5.34%) GitLab
4 9 (4.37%) JIRA
5 4 (1.94%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.49%) Jaeger
6 1 (0.49%) MLflow
6 1 (0.49%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.49%) SonarQube
General
1 54 (26.21%) Finance
2 50 (24.27%) Social Skills
3 22 (10.68%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (9.71%) Banking
5 15 (7.28%) Public Sector
6 8 (3.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (2.91%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (2.91%) Financial Institution
7 6 (2.91%) Spanish Language
8 4 (1.94%) Front Office
8 4 (1.94%) Law
8 4 (1.94%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.46%) Military
9 3 (1.46%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.97%) Billing
10 2 (0.97%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.97%) Retail
11 1 (0.49%) International Banking
11 1 (0.49%) Local Government
11 1 (0.49%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 106 (51.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 29 (14.08%) Senior
3 17 (8.25%) Network Engineer
3 17 (8.25%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 15 (7.28%) Security Engineer
5 14 (6.80%) Cloud Engineer
6 13 (6.31%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
7 12 (5.83%) Azure Engineer
7 12 (5.83%) Platform Engineer
8 11 (5.34%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
8 11 (5.34%) Python Engineer
9 10 (4.85%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 9 (4.37%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
10 9 (4.37%) DevOps Engineer
11 8 (3.88%) Developer
12 7 (3.40%) Architect
13 6 (2.91%) Automation Engineer
13 6 (2.91%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
13 6 (2.91%) Infrastructure Support
13 6 (2.91%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.88%) Kafka
2 6 (2.91%) ARM Templates
2 6 (2.91%) Middleware
2 6 (2.91%) RESTful
3 5 (2.43%) GraphQL
3 5 (2.43%) REST
3 5 (2.43%) YAML
4 4 (1.94%) gRPC
5 3 (1.46%) ADO
5 3 (1.46%) AWT
5 3 (1.46%) FIX Protocol
5 3 (1.46%) GWT
5 3 (1.46%) JMS
5 3 (1.46%) NumPy
5 3 (1.46%) Pandas
5 3 (1.46%) Rendezvous
5 3 (1.46%) TIBCO EMS
6 2 (0.97%) Microsoft Graph
6 2 (0.97%) PySpark
6 2 (0.97%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 12 (5.83%) Data Centre
2 11 (5.34%) Onboarding
3 10 (4.85%) Cloud Native
3 10 (4.85%) Public Cloud
4 8 (3.88%) Replication
5 7 (3.40%) Data Protection Act
5 7 (3.40%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (3.40%) PKI
5 7 (3.40%) Private Cloud
6 5 (2.43%) Equities
6 5 (2.43%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (1.94%) DataPower
7 4 (1.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (1.94%) Linux Command Line
7 4 (1.94%) Mainframe
8 3 (1.46%) Client/Server
8 3 (1.46%) Security Posture
9 2 (0.97%) Derivative
9 2 (0.97%) Equity Derivative
9 2 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 58 (28.16%) Windows
2 48 (23.30%) Linux
3 40 (19.42%) Windows Server
4 14 (6.80%) Unix
5 6 (2.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (2.91%) Ubuntu
6 5 (2.43%) Windows 10
7 4 (1.94%) VMS
8 3 (1.46%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.97%) Android
9 2 (0.97%) CentOS
9 2 (0.97%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.49%) AIX
10 1 (0.49%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.49%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.49%) Windows Server 2003
10 1 (0.49%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.49%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (31.55%) Infrastructure as Code
2 57 (27.67%) DevOps
3 55 (26.70%) CI/CD
4 42 (20.39%) Problem-Solving
5 29 (14.08%) Containerisation
6 28 (13.59%) Agile
7 25 (12.14%) Migration
8 22 (10.68%) Observability
9 21 (10.19%) High Availability
9 21 (10.19%) Infrastructure Automation
10 19 (9.22%) Platform Engineering
11 17 (8.25%) Cybersecurity
12 16 (7.77%) ITIL
13 15 (7.28%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 14 (6.80%) Analytics
14 14 (6.80%) Low Latency
15 13 (6.31%) Task Automation
15 13 (6.31%) Test Automation
16 12 (5.83%) AI
16 12 (5.83%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 68 (33.01%) Python
2 33 (16.02%) PowerShell
3 21 (10.19%) Bash
4 16 (7.77%) Java
5 11 (5.34%) Go
6 9 (4.37%) SQL
7 7 (3.40%) Perl
8 6 (2.91%) Shell Script
9 5 (2.43%) Bicep
10 3 (1.46%) Ruby
11 2 (0.97%) C#
11 2 (0.97%) C++
12 1 (0.49%) Scala
12 1 (0.49%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 34 (16.50%) Security Cleared
2 26 (12.62%) SC Cleared
3 20 (9.71%) Degree
4 12 (5.83%) Cisco Certification
5 10 (4.85%) Azure Certification
6 8 (3.88%) CCNA
6 8 (3.88%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (3.40%) CCNP
8 6 (2.91%) CISSP
8 6 (2.91%) DV Cleared
9 5 (2.43%) CISM
10 4 (1.94%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (1.46%) JNCIP
11 3 (1.46%) JNCIS
11 3 (1.46%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.97%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.97%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 2 (0.97%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.97%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.46%) Cyber Essentials
1 3 (1.46%) NIST
2 2 (0.97%) Accessibility
2 2 (0.97%) SLA
3 1 (0.49%) GDPR
3 1 (0.49%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 1 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.49%) QA
3 1 (0.49%) SOC 2
System Software
1 46 (22.33%) Active Directory
2 29 (14.08%) Docker
3 22 (10.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (6.80%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (3.88%) Hyper-V
6 5 (2.43%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (2.43%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (1.46%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.97%) Firmware
9 1 (0.49%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.49%) etcd
9 1 (0.49%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.49%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.49%) vSphere
9 1 (0.49%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 74 (35.92%) Terraform
2 31 (15.05%) Ansible
2 31 (15.05%) Kubernetes
2 31 (15.05%) Microsoft Intune
3 22 (10.68%) SCCM
4 19 (9.22%) Grafana
5 12 (5.83%) Prometheus
6 7 (3.40%) CASB
6 7 (3.40%) SCOrch
6 7 (3.40%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (2.43%) FortiGate
8 4 (1.94%) Argo
9 3 (1.46%) Istio
9 3 (1.46%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (0.97%) ITRS Geneos
10 2 (0.97%) Kibana
10 2 (0.97%) McAfee ePO
10 2 (0.97%) Red Hat Satellite
10 2 (0.97%) SCOM
10 2 (0.97%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 62 (30.10%) Microsoft
2 27 (13.11%) VMware
3 20 (9.71%) Cisco
4 19 (9.22%) Palo Alto
5 17 (8.25%) Google
6 14 (6.80%) F5
7 11 (5.34%) Fortinet
8 8 (3.88%) Zscaler
9 7 (3.40%) CheckPoint
9 7 (3.40%) CyberArk
9 7 (3.40%) Juniper
10 6 (2.91%) Dell
10 6 (2.91%) Veeam
11 5 (2.43%) Meraki
11 5 (2.43%) Red Hat
12 4 (1.94%) Aruba
12 4 (1.94%) Citrix
12 4 (1.94%) Commvault
12 4 (1.94%) IBM
12 4 (1.94%) TIBCO