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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 188 157 143
Rank change year-on-year -31 -14 +47
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 183 266 391
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.36% 1.63% 1.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.47% 1.83% 1.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 212 290
10th Percentile £357 £325 £363
25th Percentile £425 £424 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.81% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £634 £625 £650
90th Percentile £675 £700 £753
England median daily rate £500 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -0.99% +1.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
Median hourly rate £30.00 - £90.00
England median hourly rate £30.00 £70.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -57.14% - +47.87%

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 12,450 14,539 19,681
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.59% 89.26% 90.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,239 9,698 14,258
10th Percentile £325 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -0.86%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £695
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 252 180 225
10th Percentile £17.01 £17.25 £18.07
25th Percentile £25.00 £23.80 £21.50
Median hourly rate £31.75 £35.00 £39.42
Median % change year-on-year -9.29% -11.21% +8.00%
75th Percentile £48.94 £55.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £63.75 £72.19 £77.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.90
% change year-on-year -41.51% -2.05% +51.38%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Infrastructure Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineering 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 -21 29 £543 -3.47% 21
South London -7 3 £600 +54.84%
West London -3 2 - - 5
East London - 1 £360 - 4
Infrastructure Engineering
England

Infrastructure Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 12 (6.56%) Confluence
2 11 (6.01%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (3.83%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.09%) Apache
4 2 (1.09%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.09%) Traefik
5 1 (0.55%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.55%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.55%) nginx
5 1 (0.55%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.55%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.55%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 85 (46.45%) Azure
2 42 (22.95%) AWS
3 30 (16.39%) Entra ID
4 25 (13.66%) Microsoft 365
5 21 (11.48%) GitHub
6 19 (10.38%) GCP
7 18 (9.84%) IaaS
8 17 (9.29%) Azure DevOps
9 11 (6.01%) GitHub Actions
10 10 (5.46%) Azure Monitor
11 9 (4.92%) Amazon S3
11 9 (4.92%) SaaS
12 8 (4.37%) PaaS
13 7 (3.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 7 (3.83%) AWS CloudFormation
14 6 (3.28%) Amazon EKS
14 6 (3.28%) GitHub Copilot
14 6 (3.28%) Serverless
14 6 (3.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 5 (2.73%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 46 (25.14%) Firewall
2 33 (18.03%) VPN
3 32 (17.49%) DNS
4 24 (13.11%) TCP/IP
5 20 (10.93%) Network Security
6 18 (9.84%) WAN
7 15 (8.20%) DHCP
7 15 (8.20%) SSL
8 12 (6.56%) LAN
9 8 (4.37%) SD-WAN
9 8 (4.37%) Wireless
10 7 (3.83%) Wi-Fi
11 6 (3.28%) 4G
11 6 (3.28%) HTTP
12 4 (2.19%) tcpdump
13 3 (1.64%) BGP
13 3 (1.64%) MPLS
13 3 (1.64%) OSPF
13 3 (1.64%) SMTP
14 2 (1.09%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.19%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (2.19%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.09%) Power BI
3 1 (0.55%) Apache Iceberg
3 1 (0.55%) Big Data
3 1 (0.55%) BigQuery
3 1 (0.55%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.55%) Delta Lake
3 1 (0.55%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.55%) Looker
3 1 (0.55%) MariaDB
3 1 (0.55%) MySQL
3 1 (0.55%) Oracle Database
3 1 (0.55%) Oracle Database 11g
3 1 (0.55%) Oracle Database 12c
3 1 (0.55%) Oracle Exadata
3 1 (0.55%) Parquet
3 1 (0.55%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 16 (8.74%) Jenkins
1 16 (8.74%) JIRA
2 14 (7.65%) Git
3 6 (3.28%) ScriptRunner
4 5 (2.73%) GitLab
5 4 (2.19%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.55%) eggPlant
6 1 (0.55%) JIRA Agile
6 1 (0.55%) Log4j
6 1 (0.55%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.55%) Postman
6 1 (0.55%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.55%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.55%) TeamCity
General
1 50 (27.32%) Finance
2 42 (22.95%) Social Skills
3 22 (12.02%) Public Sector
4 21 (11.48%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (5.46%) Banking
6 8 (4.37%) Law
7 7 (3.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (3.28%) Financial Institution
9 5 (2.73%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (2.73%) Marketing
10 4 (2.19%) Military
10 4 (2.19%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (2.19%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.64%) Front Office
12 2 (1.09%) Legal
12 2 (1.09%) Retail
13 1 (0.55%) Billing
13 1 (0.55%) International Banking
13 1 (0.55%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.55%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 113 (61.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 32 (17.49%) Senior
3 25 (13.66%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 16 (8.74%) Cloud Engineer
5 12 (6.56%) Azure Engineer
5 12 (6.56%) Security Engineer
6 10 (5.46%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
6 10 (5.46%) Platform Engineer
6 10 (5.46%) Python Engineer
7 9 (4.92%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
7 9 (4.92%) Network Engineer
7 9 (4.92%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
8 7 (3.83%) Architect
8 7 (3.83%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 7 (3.83%) DevOps Engineer
8 7 (3.83%) Infrastructure Support
9 5 (2.73%) Windows Engineer
9 5 (2.73%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (2.19%) Java Engineer
10 4 (2.19%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (4.92%) ARM Templates
2 7 (3.83%) Kafka
2 7 (3.83%) YAML
3 6 (3.28%) ADO
3 6 (3.28%) Middleware
3 6 (3.28%) RESTful
4 5 (2.73%) GraphQL
4 5 (2.73%) REST
5 4 (2.19%) JMS
6 3 (1.64%) AWT
6 3 (1.64%) FIX Protocol
6 3 (1.64%) gRPC
6 3 (1.64%) GWT
6 3 (1.64%) LDAP
6 3 (1.64%) OAuth
6 3 (1.64%) Rendezvous
6 3 (1.64%) SAML
6 3 (1.64%) TIBCO EMS
7 2 (1.09%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (1.09%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.46%) PKI
2 7 (3.83%) Private Cloud
2 7 (3.83%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (3.28%) Data Centre
3 6 (3.28%) Security Operations Centre
4 5 (2.73%) Cloud Native
4 5 (2.73%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (2.73%) Public Cloud
5 4 (2.19%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (2.19%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (2.19%) Legacy Applications
5 4 (2.19%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (2.19%) Linux Command Line
5 4 (2.19%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.19%) Replication
5 4 (2.19%) Security Posture
6 3 (1.64%) Equities
6 3 (1.64%) Legacy Code
7 2 (1.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.55%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 57 (31.15%) Windows
2 41 (22.40%) Windows Server
3 37 (20.22%) Linux
4 11 (6.01%) Unix
5 6 (3.28%) Windows 10
6 5 (2.73%) Ubuntu
7 3 (1.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.55%) AIX
8 1 (0.55%) CentOS
8 1 (0.55%) VMS
8 1 (0.55%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (28.96%) DevOps
2 50 (27.32%) Infrastructure as Code
3 41 (22.40%) CI/CD
4 40 (21.86%) Problem-Solving
5 34 (18.58%) Agile
6 28 (15.30%) Migration
7 25 (13.66%) Containerisation
8 23 (12.57%) High Availability
9 21 (11.48%) Infrastructure Automation
10 20 (10.93%) Infrastructure Management
11 17 (9.29%) Platform Engineering
12 16 (8.74%) Mentoring
13 14 (7.65%) Incident Management
13 14 (7.65%) Task Automation
13 14 (7.65%) Test Automation
14 13 (7.10%) Disaster Recovery
14 13 (7.10%) Low Latency
14 13 (7.10%) Vulnerability Management
15 12 (6.56%) Analytics
15 12 (6.56%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 53 (28.96%) Python
2 36 (19.67%) PowerShell
3 19 (10.38%) Bash
4 14 (7.65%) Java
5 11 (6.01%) Go
6 10 (5.46%) Bicep
7 8 (4.37%) Perl
7 8 (4.37%) SQL
8 6 (3.28%) Groovy
9 2 (1.09%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.55%) Scala
10 1 (0.55%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 40 (21.86%) Security Cleared
2 32 (17.49%) SC Cleared
3 15 (8.20%) Degree
4 9 (4.92%) Cisco Certification
5 8 (4.37%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (3.83%) CCNA
6 7 (3.83%) CCNP
7 6 (3.28%) Azure Certification
8 5 (2.73%) DV Cleared
9 4 (2.19%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.55%) CCIE
10 1 (0.55%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.55%) IBM Certification
10 1 (0.55%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.55%) MCSA
10 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.55%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.55%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.19%) NCSC
1 4 (2.19%) SLA
2 3 (1.64%) NIST
3 1 (0.55%) GDPR
3 1 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.55%) QA
System Software
1 49 (26.78%) Active Directory
2 28 (15.30%) Docker
3 16 (8.74%) Virtual Machines
3 16 (8.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (4.37%) Hyper-V
5 7 (3.83%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (1.64%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.55%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.55%) etcd
7 1 (0.55%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.55%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.55%) Terminal Services
7 1 (0.55%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 63 (34.43%) Terraform
2 29 (15.85%) Kubernetes
3 28 (15.30%) Microsoft Intune
4 24 (13.11%) Ansible
5 11 (6.01%) Grafana
5 11 (6.01%) SCCM
6 8 (4.37%) FortiGate
6 8 (4.37%) Prometheus
6 8 (4.37%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (2.73%) vCenter Server
8 4 (2.19%) Argo
9 2 (1.09%) CASB
9 2 (1.09%) Istio
9 2 (1.09%) ITRS Geneos
9 2 (1.09%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (1.09%) McAfee ePO
9 2 (1.09%) Puppet
9 2 (1.09%) SCOrch
9 2 (1.09%) SELinux
10 1 (0.55%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 55 (30.05%) Microsoft
2 23 (12.57%) VMware
3 20 (10.93%) Palo Alto
4 17 (9.29%) Cisco
5 15 (8.20%) Google
6 14 (7.65%) F5
7 7 (3.83%) Atlassian
7 7 (3.83%) CheckPoint
8 6 (3.28%) Citrix
8 6 (3.28%) Fortinet
8 6 (3.28%) Tenable
9 5 (2.73%) Dell
9 5 (2.73%) TIBCO
10 4 (2.19%) Qualys
10 4 (2.19%) Red Hat
10 4 (2.19%) Zscaler
11 3 (1.64%) CyberArk
11 3 (1.64%) Juniper
11 3 (1.64%) Solace
11 3 (1.64%) Splunk