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

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 205 153 130
Rank change year-on-year -52 -23 +69
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 192 224 346
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.35% 1.62% 1.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.48% 1.79% 2.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 171 242
10th Percentile £400 £319 £354
25th Percentile £453 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £630
90th Percentile £675 £688 £712
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 £56.25
% change year-on-year -45.60% +11.11% +8.17%

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 12,937 12,504 16,120
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.29% 90.26% 88.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,531 7,979 11,519
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 222 152 259
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.44 £16.25
25th Percentile £24.61 £23.80 £19.99
Median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -13.33%
75th Percentile £53.75 £53.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £69.30 £80.68 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -26.03% -20.00% +21.43%

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 13 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 13 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 +3 37 £550 -7.17% 8
West London -16 3 £300 -25.00% 4
South London -6 1 - - 5
East London - 1 - - 4
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 24 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (3.65%) Confluence
3 5 (2.60%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.56%) Apache
4 3 (1.56%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.04%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.04%) nginx
5 2 (1.04%) Traefik
6 1 (0.52%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.52%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.52%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 3 (1.56%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.52%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 82 (42.71%) Azure
2 49 (25.52%) AWS
3 41 (21.35%) Microsoft 365
4 30 (15.63%) Entra ID
5 18 (9.38%) GCP
6 16 (8.33%) GitHub
6 16 (8.33%) Serverless
7 14 (7.29%) Amazon S3
7 14 (7.29%) IaaS
8 13 (6.77%) Azure DevOps
9 12 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
10 10 (5.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 10 (5.21%) Nutanix
11 9 (4.69%) Amazon EKS
11 9 (4.69%) AWS Lambda
12 8 (4.17%) Amazon ECS
12 8 (4.17%) AWS CloudFormation
12 8 (4.17%) Microsoft Purview
13 7 (3.65%) Amazon EC2
13 7 (3.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 46 (23.96%) Firewall
2 29 (15.10%) VPN
3 25 (13.02%) DNS
4 24 (12.50%) WAN
5 17 (8.85%) LAN
6 16 (8.33%) Network Security
6 16 (8.33%) TCP/IP
7 13 (6.77%) Wi-Fi
8 10 (5.21%) SSL
9 9 (4.69%) MPLS
10 7 (3.65%) DHCP
11 6 (3.13%) SD-WAN
12 5 (2.60%) HTTP
12 5 (2.60%) VLAN
12 5 (2.60%) Wireless
13 4 (2.08%) WLAN
14 3 (1.56%) BGP
14 3 (1.56%) Cisco Wireless
14 3 (1.56%) OSPF
15 2 (1.04%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.65%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.08%) DynamoDB
2 4 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (1.04%) Big Data
3 2 (1.04%) Data Lake
3 2 (1.04%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (1.04%) MariaDB
3 2 (1.04%) MySQL
3 2 (1.04%) Power BI
3 2 (1.04%) Relational Database
3 2 (1.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (0.52%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.52%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (0.52%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.52%) Delta Lake
4 1 (0.52%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.52%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.52%) Parquet
4 1 (0.52%) RDBMS
4 1 (0.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 18 (9.38%) Git
2 16 (8.33%) Jenkins
3 11 (5.73%) GitLab
4 8 (4.17%) JIRA
5 3 (1.56%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.52%) Jaeger
6 1 (0.52%) MLflow
General
1 48 (25.00%) Finance
2 46 (23.96%) Social Skills
3 22 (11.46%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (9.38%) Banking
5 11 (5.73%) Public Sector
6 7 (3.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (3.13%) Spanish Language
8 4 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (2.08%) Financial Institution
8 4 (2.08%) Front Office
8 4 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.56%) Billing
9 3 (1.56%) Military
9 3 (1.56%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.52%) International Banking
10 1 (0.52%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.52%) Italian Language
10 1 (0.52%) Local Government
10 1 (0.52%) Marketing
10 1 (0.52%) Retail
Job Titles
1 100 (52.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 29 (15.10%) Senior
3 19 (9.90%) Network Engineer
4 17 (8.85%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 14 (7.29%) Security Engineer
6 12 (6.25%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
6 12 (6.25%) Platform Engineer
7 11 (5.73%) Azure Engineer
7 11 (5.73%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
8 9 (4.69%) Developer
8 9 (4.69%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 8 (4.17%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
9 8 (4.17%) Cloud Engineer
9 8 (4.17%) DevOps Engineer
10 6 (3.13%) VMware Engineer
11 5 (2.60%) Automation Engineer
11 5 (2.60%) AWS Engineer
11 5 (2.60%) Design Engineer
11 5 (2.60%) Infrastructure Design Engineer
11 5 (2.60%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (4.69%) Kafka
2 5 (2.60%) REST
3 4 (2.08%) ARM Templates
3 4 (2.08%) GraphQL
3 4 (2.08%) gRPC
3 4 (2.08%) Middleware
3 4 (2.08%) NumPy
3 4 (2.08%) Pandas
3 4 (2.08%) RESTful
4 3 (1.56%) AWT
4 3 (1.56%) GWT
4 3 (1.56%) JMS
4 3 (1.56%) Rendezvous
4 3 (1.56%) SciPy
4 3 (1.56%) TIBCO EMS
4 3 (1.56%) YAML
5 2 (1.04%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (1.04%) Loki
5 2 (1.04%) Microsoft Graph
5 2 (1.04%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 11 (5.73%) Onboarding
2 10 (5.21%) Cloud Native
2 10 (5.21%) Data Centre
3 9 (4.69%) Public Cloud
4 7 (3.65%) PKI
4 7 (3.65%) Replication
5 6 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (3.13%) Equities
5 6 (3.13%) Private Cloud
6 5 (2.60%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (2.08%) DataPower
7 4 (2.08%) Mainframe
8 3 (1.56%) Client/Server
8 3 (1.56%) Clustering
8 3 (1.56%) Derivative
8 3 (1.56%) Equity Derivative
8 3 (1.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.56%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (1.56%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 53 (27.60%) Windows
2 41 (21.35%) Linux
3 36 (18.75%) Windows Server
4 13 (6.77%) Unix
5 4 (2.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (2.08%) Ubuntu
5 4 (2.08%) VMS
5 4 (2.08%) Windows 10
6 3 (1.56%) Windows Server 2003
6 3 (1.56%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (1.04%) Android
7 2 (1.04%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.52%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.52%) CentOS
8 1 (0.52%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.52%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.52%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (27.60%) Infrastructure as Code
2 50 (26.04%) CI/CD
3 47 (24.48%) DevOps
4 40 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
5 25 (13.02%) Agile
5 25 (13.02%) Containerisation
6 24 (12.50%) Migration
7 20 (10.42%) Observability
8 18 (9.38%) Platform Engineering
9 17 (8.85%) High Availability
10 16 (8.33%) Cybersecurity
10 16 (8.33%) Infrastructure Automation
11 15 (7.81%) ITIL
12 13 (6.77%) Cloud Security
12 13 (6.77%) Test Automation
13 12 (6.25%) Analytics
13 12 (6.25%) Project Delivery
13 12 (6.25%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 11 (5.73%) Low Latency
14 11 (5.73%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 55 (28.65%) Python
2 31 (16.15%) PowerShell
3 15 (7.81%) Java
4 14 (7.29%) Bash
5 9 (4.69%) SQL
6 7 (3.65%) Go
7 6 (3.13%) Perl
8 5 (2.60%) Shell Script
9 3 (1.56%) Bicep
9 3 (1.56%) C#
9 3 (1.56%) C++
9 3 (1.56%) Ruby
10 2 (1.04%) Scala
11 1 (0.52%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 26 (13.54%) Security Cleared
2 18 (9.38%) Degree
3 16 (8.33%) SC Cleared
4 10 (5.21%) Cisco Certification
5 9 (4.69%) Azure Certification
6 8 (4.17%) DV Cleared
7 7 (3.65%) CCNP
8 6 (3.13%) CCNA
8 6 (3.13%) CISSP
8 6 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (2.60%) CISM
10 4 (2.08%) Master's Degree
11 3 (1.56%) JNCIP
11 3 (1.56%) JNCIS
11 3 (1.56%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (1.56%) PhD
12 2 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (1.04%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (1.04%) PMI Certification
12 2 (1.04%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.56%) Cyber Essentials
1 3 (1.56%) NIST
2 2 (1.04%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.04%) SLA
3 1 (0.52%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.52%) GDPR
3 1 (0.52%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 1 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.52%) QA
3 1 (0.52%) SOC 2
System Software
1 43 (22.40%) Active Directory
2 29 (15.10%) Docker
3 18 (9.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (4.69%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (4.17%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (3.65%) Hyper-V
7 4 (2.08%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (1.56%) BitLocker
8 3 (1.56%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (1.04%) Firmware
9 2 (1.04%) Microsoft App-V
9 2 (1.04%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.52%) etcd
10 1 (0.52%) vSphere
10 1 (0.52%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 62 (32.29%) Terraform
2 34 (17.71%) Microsoft Intune
3 31 (16.15%) Ansible
3 31 (16.15%) Kubernetes
4 19 (9.90%) SCCM
5 15 (7.81%) Grafana
6 8 (4.17%) Prometheus
7 6 (3.13%) CASB
7 6 (3.13%) SCOrch
8 5 (2.60%) FortiGate
8 5 (2.60%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (2.08%) Argo
10 3 (1.56%) AirWatch
10 3 (1.56%) Istio
10 3 (1.56%) Jamf Pro
10 3 (1.56%) Puppet
10 3 (1.56%) vCenter Server
11 2 (1.04%) Red Hat Satellite
11 2 (1.04%) vMotion
11 2 (1.04%) vRealize
Vendors
1 62 (32.29%) Microsoft
2 25 (13.02%) VMware
3 17 (8.85%) Palo Alto
4 14 (7.29%) Cisco
4 14 (7.29%) Google
5 13 (6.77%) F5
6 9 (4.69%) CyberArk
7 8 (4.17%) Zscaler
8 7 (3.65%) CheckPoint
8 7 (3.65%) Fortinet
9 6 (3.13%) Veeam
10 5 (2.60%) Citrix
10 5 (2.60%) Dell
10 5 (2.60%) Juniper
10 5 (2.60%) NetApp
11 4 (2.08%) Aruba
11 4 (2.08%) Commvault
11 4 (2.08%) IBM
11 4 (2.08%) Oracle
11 4 (2.08%) SolarWinds