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

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 135 186 157
Rank change year-on-year +51 -29 -13
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 432 193 265
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.14% 1.44% 1.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.41% 1.55% 1.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 300 137 203
10th Percentile £380 £358 £325
25th Percentile £450 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £533 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.19% +1.52% -1.18%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £645
90th Percentile £700 £675 £700
England median daily rate £550 £500 £510
% change year-on-year +10.00% -1.96% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 2
10th Percentile £52.85 £24.40 -
25th Percentile £58.63 £26.50 -
Median hourly rate £69.50 £30.00 £112.00
Median % change year-on-year +131.67% -73.21% +24.44%
75th Percentile £81.63 £32.70 -
90th Percentile £88.15 £34.32 -
England median hourly rate £74.00 £32.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +131.25% -54.29% -

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 17,955 12,445 14,537
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.75% 92.54% 89.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,784 8,216 9,548
10th Percentile £358 £330 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £669 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 316 243 183
10th Percentile £16.18 £17.26 £17.30
25th Percentile £19.03 £25.01 £24.17
Median hourly rate £32.81 £30.50 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.58% -14.08% -5.33%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.25 £56.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £75.00
England median hourly rate £41.03 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +63.14% -41.51% -2.27%

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 27 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 27 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 27 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 -2 49 £620 +12.73% 53
West London -15 10 £675 - 12
South London -2 6 £473 -21.25% 3
East London +4 3 £500 +38.89% 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 23 (5.32%) SharePoint
2 22 (5.09%) Microsoft Exchange
3 15 (3.47%) Confluence
4 12 (2.78%) CICS
5 7 (1.62%) WebSphere
6 6 (1.39%) Apache
7 4 (0.93%) nginx
7 4 (0.93%) SharePoint Server
8 3 (0.69%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.46%) Exchange Server 2013
10 1 (0.23%) CloudStack
10 1 (0.23%) CMS
10 1 (0.23%) JBoss
10 1 (0.23%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.23%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.23%) WebLogic
Applications
1 5 (1.16%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.93%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.69%) AutoCAD
3 3 (0.69%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.23%) CPLEX
4 1 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (0.69%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 195 (45.14%) Azure
2 111 (25.69%) AWS
3 51 (11.81%) Entra ID
4 49 (11.34%) GCP
5 46 (10.65%) Microsoft 365
6 45 (10.42%) GitHub
7 41 (9.49%) Azure DevOps
8 35 (8.10%) GitHub Actions
9 25 (5.79%) Azure AKS
10 24 (5.56%) IaaS
11 21 (4.86%) Amazon EKS
12 18 (4.17%) SaaS
13 16 (3.70%) Amazon S3
14 15 (3.47%) Azure Monitor
14 15 (3.47%) OpenShift
14 15 (3.47%) PaaS
15 13 (3.01%) OCI
15 13 (3.01%) Serverless
16 12 (2.78%) Datadog
17 10 (2.31%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 77 (17.82%) DNS
2 58 (13.43%) DHCP
3 56 (12.96%) Firewall
4 37 (8.56%) VPN
5 33 (7.64%) Network Security
6 31 (7.18%) TCP/IP
7 18 (4.17%) SSL
8 16 (3.70%) WAN
9 15 (3.47%) Wi-Fi
10 13 (3.01%) SAN
11 12 (2.78%) LAN
12 11 (2.55%) HTTP
13 10 (2.31%) VLAN
14 9 (2.08%) BGP
15 7 (1.62%) NAS
15 7 (1.62%) Wireless
16 5 (1.16%) DMZ
16 5 (1.16%) MPLS
16 5 (1.16%) SMTP
16 5 (1.16%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (6.94%) SQL Server
2 8 (1.85%) Elasticsearch
3 6 (1.39%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (1.39%) BigQuery
3 6 (1.39%) Power BI
4 5 (1.16%) Oracle Database
5 4 (0.93%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (0.69%) Apache Iceberg
6 3 (0.69%) Big Data
6 3 (0.69%) ClickHouse
6 3 (0.69%) Db2
6 3 (0.69%) DynamoDB
6 3 (0.69%) Flink
6 3 (0.69%) Relational Database
6 3 (0.69%) Snowflake Schema
6 3 (0.69%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 3 (0.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (0.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (0.46%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.46%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 29 (6.71%) Git
2 22 (5.09%) Jenkins
3 19 (4.40%) GitLab
4 11 (2.55%) JIRA
5 4 (0.93%) Chocolatey
6 3 (0.69%) Artifactory
6 3 (0.69%) JUnit
6 3 (0.69%) Oracle Forms
6 3 (0.69%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.46%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.46%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.46%) HP UFT
7 2 (0.46%) IBM UrbanCode
7 2 (0.46%) Selenium
7 2 (0.46%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.46%) Subversion
8 1 (0.23%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.23%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.23%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.23%) Vagrant
General
1 101 (23.38%) Social Skills
2 93 (21.53%) Finance
3 43 (9.95%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (7.87%) Banking
5 21 (4.86%) Public Sector
6 17 (3.94%) Documentation Skills
7 12 (2.78%) Telecoms
8 9 (2.08%) Retail
9 8 (1.85%) Law
10 6 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (1.39%) Legal
11 5 (1.16%) Automotive
11 5 (1.16%) Billing
11 5 (1.16%) Publishing
12 4 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.69%) Local Government
13 3 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (0.69%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.46%) International Banking
14 2 (0.46%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 205 (47.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 52 (12.04%) Cloud Engineer
3 50 (11.57%) Senior
4 40 (9.26%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 36 (8.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 35 (8.10%) DevOps Engineer
7 33 (7.64%) Lead
8 32 (7.41%) Azure Engineer
9 26 (6.02%) Architect
10 22 (5.09%) Network Engineer
11 20 (4.63%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
12 17 (3.94%) Platform Engineer
13 15 (3.47%) Support Engineer
14 14 (3.24%) Security Engineer
15 12 (2.78%) Automation Engineer
15 12 (2.78%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 12 (2.78%) Infrastructure Specialist
15 12 (2.78%) Microsoft Engineer
16 11 (2.55%) Infrastructure Support
17 10 (2.31%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 144 (33.33%) Terraform
2 16 (3.70%) REST
3 12 (2.78%) ARM Templates
4 11 (2.55%) Middleware
4 11 (2.55%) YAML
5 9 (2.08%) Kafka
6 7 (1.62%) .NET
6 7 (1.62%) 802.1X
6 7 (1.62%) Loki
6 7 (1.62%) OpenID
6 7 (1.62%) SAML
6 7 (1.62%) Web Services
7 6 (1.39%) JSON
7 6 (1.39%) SOAP
8 5 (1.16%) OAuth
9 4 (0.93%) Elastic Stack
9 4 (0.93%) Model Context Protocol
10 3 (0.69%) LangGraph
10 3 (0.69%) ModSecurity
10 3 (0.69%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 39 (9.03%) Hybrid Cloud
2 32 (7.41%) Cloud Native
3 23 (5.32%) Data Centre
4 17 (3.94%) Public Cloud
5 15 (3.47%) Clustering
5 15 (3.47%) Onboarding
6 14 (3.24%) Enterprise Cloud
7 12 (2.78%) Mainframe
7 12 (2.78%) PKI
8 11 (2.55%) Distributed Systems
9 10 (2.31%) Data Protection Act
9 10 (2.31%) Replication
9 10 (2.31%) Security Posture
10 9 (2.08%) Linux Command Line
11 8 (1.85%) Private Cloud
12 7 (1.62%) AI Agents
12 7 (1.62%) CMDB
12 7 (1.62%) Cyber Threat
13 6 (1.39%) Enterprise Storage
13 6 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 129 (29.86%) Windows
2 84 (19.44%) Linux
3 82 (18.98%) Windows Server
4 22 (5.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 14 (3.24%) Unix
6 12 (2.78%) zOS
7 9 (2.08%) Windows Server 2019
8 8 (1.85%) Ubuntu
9 7 (1.62%) Mac OS
9 7 (1.62%) VMS
9 7 (1.62%) Windows Server 2016
10 6 (1.39%) Android
10 6 (1.39%) Apple iOS
11 5 (1.16%) Windows 10
11 5 (1.16%) Windows Server 2012
12 4 (0.93%) Windows Server 2008
13 2 (0.46%) Amazon Linux
13 2 (0.46%) OpenVMS
13 2 (0.46%) Windows 7
13 2 (0.46%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (36.34%) Infrastructure as Code
2 141 (32.64%) DevOps
3 134 (31.02%) CI/CD
4 73 (16.90%) Platform Engineering
5 71 (16.44%) Migration
6 68 (15.74%) Infrastructure Automation
7 67 (15.51%) AI
8 59 (13.66%) Problem-Solving
9 55 (12.73%) Stakeholder Management
10 46 (10.65%) Disaster Recovery
11 45 (10.42%) Continuous Improvement
12 44 (10.19%) Observability
13 43 (9.95%) Configuration Management
14 40 (9.26%) Containerisation
14 40 (9.26%) Incident Response
15 38 (8.80%) Cloud Security
16 37 (8.56%) Agile
17 36 (8.33%) ITIL
18 35 (8.10%) High Availability
19 34 (7.87%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 114 (26.39%) Python
2 101 (23.38%) PowerShell
3 48 (11.11%) Bash
4 33 (7.64%) SQL
5 25 (5.79%) Java
6 24 (5.56%) Bicep
7 15 (3.47%) C#
8 14 (3.24%) Shell Script
9 13 (3.01%) Go
10 9 (2.08%) C++
11 8 (1.85%) Perl
12 5 (1.16%) C
12 5 (1.16%) JCL
12 5 (1.16%) Kusto Query Language
12 5 (1.16%) TypeScript
13 4 (0.93%) JavaScript
14 2 (0.46%) COBOL
14 2 (0.46%) Korn
15 1 (0.23%) Groovy
15 1 (0.23%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 127 (29.40%) Security Cleared
2 85 (19.68%) SC Cleared
3 42 (9.72%) DV Cleared
4 25 (5.79%) Azure Certification
4 25 (5.79%) Degree
5 16 (3.70%) Cisco Certification
6 14 (3.24%) AWS Certification
7 12 (2.78%) CISSP
8 11 (2.55%) Computer Science Degree
9 10 (2.31%) CCNA
9 10 (2.31%) CCNP
10 6 (1.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 6 (1.39%) CISM
10 6 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (0.93%) JNCIP
11 4 (0.93%) JNCIS
12 3 (0.69%) PMI Certification
12 3 (0.69%) PMP
13 2 (0.46%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 12 (2.78%) QA
1 12 (2.78%) SLA
2 7 (1.62%) NIST
3 5 (1.16%) PCI DSS
4 4 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (0.93%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.69%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.46%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.23%) FedRAMP
7 1 (0.23%) GDPR
7 1 (0.23%) GRC
7 1 (0.23%) NCSC
7 1 (0.23%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.23%) PMO
System Software
1 89 (20.60%) Active Directory
2 72 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 36 (8.33%) Docker
4 25 (5.79%) Hyper-V
5 22 (5.09%) VMware ESXi
6 21 (4.86%) vSphere
7 18 (4.17%) Virtual Machines
8 16 (3.70%) Virtual Desktop
9 8 (1.85%) Virtual Servers
10 6 (1.39%) Firmware
11 4 (0.93%) BitLocker
11 4 (0.93%) Microsoft App-V
12 3 (0.69%) RACF
12 3 (0.69%) Terminal Services
12 3 (0.69%) VMware NSX
13 2 (0.46%) Ceph
13 2 (0.46%) IAG
13 2 (0.46%) NFS
13 2 (0.46%) Postfix
13 2 (0.46%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 87 (20.14%) Kubernetes
2 74 (17.13%) Ansible
3 35 (8.10%) Microsoft Intune
4 21 (4.86%) Grafana
5 18 (4.17%) Prometheus
6 17 (3.94%) Puppet
7 16 (3.70%) SCCM
8 15 (3.47%) vCenter Server
9 10 (2.31%) Packer
10 9 (2.08%) Argo
10 9 (2.08%) FortiGate
11 8 (1.85%) systemd
12 7 (1.62%) Single Sign-On
13 6 (1.39%) Nessus
14 5 (1.16%) Microsoft Clustering
14 5 (1.16%) Progress Chef
15 4 (0.93%) Nagios
15 4 (0.93%) SCOM
15 4 (0.93%) vMotion
16 3 (0.69%) WSUS
Vendors
1 135 (31.25%) Microsoft
2 96 (22.22%) VMware
3 29 (6.71%) Cisco
4 23 (5.32%) Google
5 19 (4.40%) Red Hat
6 18 (4.17%) Oracle
7 16 (3.70%) Citrix
8 14 (3.24%) ServiceNow
9 10 (2.31%) IBM
9 10 (2.31%) Tenable
9 10 (2.31%) Zscaler
10 9 (2.08%) HP
10 9 (2.08%) NetApp
11 8 (1.85%) Dynatrace
11 8 (1.85%) Splunk
12 7 (1.62%) CyberArk
13 6 (1.39%) Databricks
13 6 (1.39%) Juniper
14 5 (1.16%) Qualys
15 4 (0.93%) Veeam