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 1 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 146 192 155
Rank change year-on-year +46 -37 +6
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 385 187 275
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.91% 1.37% 1.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.14% 1.49% 1.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 261 140 220
10th Percentile £402 £350 £325
25th Percentile £449 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £536 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.61% +2.10% -4.55%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £625
90th Percentile £694 £675 £700
England median daily rate £536 £525 £508
% change year-on-year +2.17% +3.45% -0.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £30.00 -
England median hourly rate £72.54 £65.94 £68.75
% change year-on-year +10.01% -4.09% -5.17%

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 17,949 12,571 14,518
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.06% 92.19% 88.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,845 8,422 10,287
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £544 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.12% -1.11% -4.35%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 299 246 207
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.24
25th Percentile £19.94 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.75 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.33% -12.50% -17.62%
75th Percentile £56.63 £49.31 £54.38
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.25 £71.50
England median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £42.03
% change year-on-year +78.93% -40.16% -1.11%

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 1 August 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 1 August 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 +11 52 £575 -2.13% 38
West London -10 8 £675 - 2
South London -14 5 £425 -29.17% 8
East London 0 1 £775 +64.02% 6
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 20 (5.19%) Microsoft Exchange
2 18 (4.68%) SharePoint
3 13 (3.38%) CICS
4 11 (2.86%) Confluence
5 8 (2.08%) WebSphere
6 5 (1.30%) Apache
7 3 (0.78%) SharePoint Server
8 1 (0.26%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.26%) CloudStack
8 1 (0.26%) Exchange Server 2013
8 1 (0.26%) IBM HTTP Server
8 1 (0.26%) JBoss
8 1 (0.26%) nginx
8 1 (0.26%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.26%) SAS
8 1 (0.26%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 5 (1.30%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.78%) AutoCAD
2 3 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.52%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 186 (48.31%) Azure
2 97 (25.19%) AWS
3 57 (14.81%) GitHub
4 45 (11.69%) Azure DevOps
5 43 (11.17%) GCP
6 40 (10.39%) GitHub Actions
7 39 (10.13%) Entra ID
8 37 (9.61%) Microsoft 365
9 31 (8.05%) IaaS
10 29 (7.53%) Azure AKS
11 26 (6.75%) PaaS
12 23 (5.97%) SaaS
13 22 (5.71%) Amazon EKS
14 20 (5.19%) Azure Monitor
14 20 (5.19%) Serverless
15 18 (4.68%) Amazon S3
16 16 (4.16%) AWS Lambda
17 13 (3.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 9 (2.34%) AWS CloudFormation
18 9 (2.34%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 78 (20.26%) DNS
2 57 (14.81%) DHCP
3 56 (14.55%) Firewall
4 39 (10.13%) VPN
5 30 (7.79%) Network Security
6 27 (7.01%) TCP/IP
7 18 (4.68%) WAN
8 13 (3.38%) LAN
9 12 (3.12%) SSL
10 11 (2.86%) Wi-Fi
11 10 (2.60%) SAN
12 8 (2.08%) SMTP
12 8 (2.08%) VLAN
13 6 (1.56%) HTTP
13 6 (1.56%) NAS
14 5 (1.30%) DMZ
14 5 (1.30%) SD-WAN
14 5 (1.30%) Structured Cabling
15 4 (1.04%) MPLS
15 4 (1.04%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (7.79%) SQL Server
2 8 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (2.08%) DynamoDB
2 8 (2.08%) Elasticsearch
3 6 (1.56%) Db2
4 4 (1.04%) BigQuery
4 4 (1.04%) Power BI
5 3 (0.78%) Big Data
5 3 (0.78%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (0.78%) Snowflake Schema
6 2 (0.52%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 2 (0.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (0.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.26%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.26%) ClickHouse
7 1 (0.26%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.26%) Data Mining
7 1 (0.26%) Flink
7 1 (0.26%) Metadata
7 1 (0.26%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 22 (5.71%) Git
2 20 (5.19%) GitLab
3 17 (4.42%) Jenkins
4 7 (1.82%) JIRA
5 5 (1.30%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.78%) Chocolatey
7 2 (0.52%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.52%) Subversion
8 1 (0.26%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.26%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.26%) CMake
8 1 (0.26%) Gradle
8 1 (0.26%) Introscope
8 1 (0.26%) Maven
8 1 (0.26%) Terragrunt
General
1 85 (22.08%) Social Skills
2 63 (16.36%) Finance
3 31 (8.05%) Analytical Skills
3 31 (8.05%) Banking
4 22 (5.71%) Public Sector
5 17 (4.42%) Documentation Skills
6 10 (2.60%) Legal
6 10 (2.60%) Telecoms
7 9 (2.34%) Retail
8 8 (2.08%) Law
9 7 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.30%) Billing
10 5 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (1.30%) Publishing
11 4 (1.04%) Automotive
12 3 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.78%) Military
12 3 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.52%) Aerospace
13 2 (0.52%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 214 (55.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 55 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
3 44 (11.43%) Senior
4 39 (10.13%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 37 (9.61%) Azure Engineer
6 34 (8.83%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 24 (6.23%) DevOps Engineer
8 22 (5.71%) Lead
9 20 (5.19%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
9 20 (5.19%) Network Engineer
10 15 (3.90%) Architect
11 13 (3.38%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 13 (3.38%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
11 13 (3.38%) Platform Engineer
12 11 (2.86%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
13 10 (2.60%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 10 (2.60%) Infrastructure Support
14 9 (2.34%) AWS Engineer
14 9 (2.34%) GCP Engineer
14 9 (2.34%) NetApp Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (2.60%) REST
2 9 (2.34%) JSON
2 9 (2.34%) Middleware
3 8 (2.08%) YAML
4 7 (1.82%) ARM Templates
4 7 (1.82%) Loki
5 6 (1.56%) 802.1X
5 6 (1.56%) RESTful
5 6 (1.56%) SOAP
5 6 (1.56%) Web Services
5 6 (1.56%) WSDL
6 5 (1.30%) .NET
6 5 (1.30%) AWS CDK
6 5 (1.30%) Elastic Stack
6 5 (1.30%) OpenID
6 5 (1.30%) SAML
7 3 (0.78%) ADO
7 3 (0.78%) HTML
7 3 (0.78%) LDAP
7 3 (0.78%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 22 (5.71%) Hybrid Cloud
2 21 (5.45%) Cloud Native
2 21 (5.45%) Data Centre
3 16 (4.16%) Onboarding
4 14 (3.64%) Clustering
4 14 (3.64%) PKI
5 13 (3.38%) Mainframe
5 13 (3.38%) Public Cloud
6 9 (2.34%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (2.34%) Enterprise Storage
7 8 (2.08%) CMDB
8 7 (1.82%) Enterprise Cloud
8 7 (1.82%) Linux Command Line
9 6 (1.56%) Cyber Threat
9 6 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (1.56%) DataPower
9 6 (1.56%) Online Banking
9 6 (1.56%) Replication
9 6 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (1.30%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 127 (32.99%) Windows
2 76 (19.74%) Windows Server
3 65 (16.88%) Linux
4 16 (4.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (3.38%) zOS
6 9 (2.34%) Unix
7 8 (2.08%) Ubuntu
7 8 (2.08%) Windows Server 2019
8 6 (1.56%) Android
8 6 (1.56%) Apple iOS
8 6 (1.56%) VMS
8 6 (1.56%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (1.30%) Windows 10
9 5 (1.30%) Windows Server 2003
10 4 (1.04%) Windows Server 2012
11 3 (0.78%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.52%) Amazon Linux
12 2 (0.52%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.26%) CentOS
13 1 (0.26%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (31.95%) Infrastructure as Code
2 113 (29.35%) DevOps
3 102 (26.49%) CI/CD
4 62 (16.10%) Migration
5 54 (14.03%) Platform Engineering
6 51 (13.25%) AI
7 46 (11.95%) Problem-Solving
8 44 (11.43%) Infrastructure Automation
9 40 (10.39%) Containerisation
10 37 (9.61%) Continuous Improvement
11 36 (9.35%) Disaster Recovery
12 35 (9.09%) Agile
12 35 (9.09%) Incident Response
13 32 (8.31%) Observability
14 31 (8.05%) Stakeholder Management
15 28 (7.27%) Configuration Management
16 27 (7.01%) ITIL
17 26 (6.75%) High Availability
17 26 (6.75%) Roadmaps
18 25 (6.49%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 92 (23.90%) PowerShell
2 89 (23.12%) Python
3 41 (10.65%) Bash
4 32 (8.31%) SQL
5 19 (4.94%) C#
6 17 (4.42%) Bicep
6 17 (4.42%) Java
6 17 (4.42%) Shell Script
7 7 (1.82%) Go
8 6 (1.56%) JavaScript
8 6 (1.56%) JCL
9 3 (0.78%) Kusto Query Language
9 3 (0.78%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.52%) C++
10 2 (0.52%) Korn
10 2 (0.52%) Perl
10 2 (0.52%) Ruby
11 1 (0.26%) C
11 1 (0.26%) Jython
11 1 (0.26%) VB
Qualifications
1 127 (32.99%) Security Cleared
2 87 (22.60%) SC Cleared
3 40 (10.39%) DV Cleared
4 23 (5.97%) Azure Certification
5 19 (4.94%) Degree
6 16 (4.16%) Cisco Certification
7 12 (3.12%) CISSP
8 10 (2.60%) AWS Certification
9 9 (2.34%) CCNA
9 9 (2.34%) CCNP
10 7 (1.82%) CISM
10 7 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
11 6 (1.56%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (1.30%) PMI Certification
13 4 (1.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
13 4 (1.04%) JNCIP
13 4 (1.04%) JNCIS
13 4 (1.04%) PMP
14 3 (0.78%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (3.38%) SLA
2 12 (3.12%) QA
3 10 (2.60%) NIST
4 9 (2.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (1.56%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.04%) SOC 2
7 3 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.78%) GDPR
7 3 (0.78%) NCSC
8 2 (0.52%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.52%) PMO
9 1 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.26%) FedRAMP
9 1 (0.26%) GRC
9 1 (0.26%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 80 (20.78%) Active Directory
2 64 (16.62%) VMware Infrastructure
3 36 (9.35%) Docker
4 24 (6.23%) Hyper-V
5 22 (5.71%) VMware ESXi
6 16 (4.16%) Virtual Machines
6 16 (4.16%) vSphere
7 13 (3.38%) Virtual Desktop
8 8 (2.08%) BitLocker
8 8 (2.08%) Microsoft App-V
9 5 (1.30%) Virtual Servers
10 4 (1.04%) Firmware
10 4 (1.04%) Terminal Services
10 4 (1.04%) VMware NSX
11 3 (0.78%) NFS
12 2 (0.52%) Ceph
12 2 (0.52%) Postfix
12 2 (0.52%) Sendmail
12 2 (0.52%) Varnish
13 1 (0.26%) KVM
Systems Management
1 127 (32.99%) Terraform
2 76 (19.74%) Kubernetes
3 57 (14.81%) Ansible
4 24 (6.23%) Microsoft Intune
5 17 (4.42%) Grafana
5 17 (4.42%) vCenter Server
6 15 (3.90%) Puppet
7 14 (3.64%) Prometheus
8 13 (3.38%) SCCM
9 12 (3.12%) Packer
10 9 (2.34%) FortiGate
11 8 (2.08%) Argo
11 8 (2.08%) systemd
11 8 (2.08%) vMotion
12 5 (1.30%) Nessus
13 4 (1.04%) Microsoft Clustering
13 4 (1.04%) Nagios
14 3 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
14 3 (0.78%) yum
15 2 (0.52%) SCOM
Vendors
1 116 (30.13%) Microsoft
2 84 (21.82%) VMware
3 26 (6.75%) Citrix
4 23 (5.97%) Cisco
5 21 (5.45%) Google
6 15 (3.90%) NetApp
6 15 (3.90%) ServiceNow
7 11 (2.86%) Oracle
7 11 (2.86%) Red Hat
8 10 (2.60%) Tenable
8 10 (2.60%) Zscaler
9 8 (2.08%) HP
10 7 (1.82%) Dynatrace
10 7 (1.82%) IBM
11 6 (1.56%) Dell
11 6 (1.56%) Qualys
12 5 (1.30%) EMC
12 5 (1.30%) Splunk
13 4 (1.04%) Juniper
13 4 (1.04%) Symantec