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

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 197 160 132
Rank change year-on-year -37 -28 +52
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 205 262 381
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.44% 1.65% 1.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.56% 1.84% 2.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 204 274
10th Percentile £350 £325 £345
25th Percentile £425 £413 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £532 £550 £520
Median % change year-on-year -3.36% +5.77% -3.26%
75th Percentile £606 £650 £638
90th Percentile £680 £688 £745
England median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +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 £70.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -51.43% +16.67% +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 13,115 14,259 17,505
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.27% 89.59% 89.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,616 9,203 12,553
10th Percentile £335 £350 £355
25th Percentile £425 £450 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £527 £550 £568
Median % change year-on-year -4.14% -3.08% -3.81%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £799
England median daily rate £501 £525 £548
% change year-on-year -4.67% -4.11% -0.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 253 172 238
10th Percentile £18.25 £17.25 £18.55
25th Percentile £24.50 £23.80 £21.50
Median hourly rate £29.50 £37.50 £35.44
Median % change year-on-year -21.33% +5.81% -10.28%
75th Percentile £47.50 £55.81 £60.00
90th Percentile £67.30 £80.75 £75.38
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.43 £45.00
% change year-on-year -29.01% -21.27% +23.29%

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 November 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 27 November 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 -16 33 £550 -7.17% 20
West London -9 4 - - 4
South London -3 3 - - 3
East London - 1 - - 7
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 (11.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (3.41%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (3.41%) Confluence
3 3 (1.46%) Apache
3 3 (1.46%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.98%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.98%) nginx
4 2 (0.98%) Traefik
5 1 (0.49%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.49%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.49%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.49%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.49%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 2 (0.98%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.49%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 93 (45.37%) Azure
2 50 (24.39%) AWS
3 38 (18.54%) Microsoft 365
4 31 (15.12%) Entra ID
5 24 (11.71%) GitHub
6 21 (10.24%) GCP
7 19 (9.27%) Azure DevOps
8 13 (6.34%) Amazon S3
8 13 (6.34%) GitHub Actions
8 13 (6.34%) Serverless
9 12 (5.85%) Azure Monitor
10 11 (5.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 11 (5.37%) IaaS
11 9 (4.39%) Amazon EKS
12 8 (3.90%) Azure Logic Apps
12 8 (3.90%) Mimecast
13 7 (3.41%) Amazon EC2
13 7 (3.41%) AWS CloudFormation
13 7 (3.41%) Azure Service Bus
13 7 (3.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 48 (23.41%) Firewall
2 31 (15.12%) VPN
3 26 (12.68%) WAN
4 24 (11.71%) DNS
5 20 (9.76%) Network Security
5 20 (9.76%) TCP/IP
6 16 (7.80%) LAN
7 14 (6.83%) SSL
7 14 (6.83%) Wi-Fi
8 9 (4.39%) SD-WAN
9 7 (3.41%) DHCP
9 7 (3.41%) MPLS
10 6 (2.93%) HTTP
11 5 (2.44%) VLAN
11 5 (2.44%) Wireless
12 4 (1.95%) BGP
12 4 (1.95%) OSPF
12 4 (1.95%) tcpdump
12 4 (1.95%) WLAN
13 3 (1.46%) Cisco Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.95%) DynamoDB
1 4 (1.95%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.46%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (0.98%) Big Data
3 2 (0.98%) MariaDB
3 2 (0.98%) MySQL
3 2 (0.98%) Power BI
4 1 (0.49%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.49%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (0.49%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.49%) BigQuery
4 1 (0.49%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.49%) Looker
4 1 (0.49%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.49%) Oracle Database 11g
4 1 (0.49%) Oracle Database 12c
4 1 (0.49%) Oracle Exadata
4 1 (0.49%) Parquet
4 1 (0.49%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 17 (8.29%) Git
1 17 (8.29%) Jenkins
2 12 (5.85%) GitLab
3 9 (4.39%) JIRA
4 4 (1.95%) Robot Framework
5 1 (0.49%) Log4j
5 1 (0.49%) MLflow
5 1 (0.49%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.49%) SonarQube
General
1 53 (25.85%) Finance
2 51 (24.88%) Social Skills
3 22 (10.73%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (8.78%) Public Sector
5 17 (8.29%) Banking
6 9 (4.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (3.90%) Law
8 6 (2.93%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (2.93%) Financial Institution
8 6 (2.93%) Spanish Language
9 3 (1.46%) Front Office
9 3 (1.46%) Military
9 3 (1.46%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.98%) Billing
10 2 (0.98%) Legal
10 2 (0.98%) Marketing
10 2 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.98%) Retail
11 1 (0.49%) Aviation
11 1 (0.49%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 106 (51.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 29 (14.15%) Senior
3 18 (8.78%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 16 (7.80%) Cloud Engineer
4 16 (7.80%) Network Engineer
4 16 (7.80%) Security Engineer
5 14 (6.83%) Azure Engineer
5 14 (6.83%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
6 12 (5.85%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
6 12 (5.85%) Platform Engineer
7 11 (5.37%) DevOps Engineer
8 10 (4.88%) Python Engineer
9 9 (4.39%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
10 8 (3.90%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 7 (3.41%) Architect
11 7 (3.41%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
11 7 (3.41%) Developer
12 6 (2.93%) Automation Engineer
12 6 (2.93%) Infrastructure Support
13 5 (2.44%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (4.39%) ARM Templates
1 9 (4.39%) Kafka
2 8 (3.90%) YAML
3 6 (2.93%) ADO
3 6 (2.93%) Middleware
3 6 (2.93%) RESTful
4 5 (2.44%) GraphQL
4 5 (2.44%) REST
5 4 (1.95%) gRPC
5 4 (1.95%) JMS
6 3 (1.46%) AWT
6 3 (1.46%) FIX Protocol
6 3 (1.46%) GWT
6 3 (1.46%) Rendezvous
6 3 (1.46%) TIBCO EMS
7 2 (0.98%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (0.98%) NumPy
7 2 (0.98%) OAuth
7 2 (0.98%) Pandas
7 2 (0.98%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (5.37%) Data Centre
1 11 (5.37%) Onboarding
2 10 (4.88%) Cloud Native
3 9 (4.39%) Public Cloud
4 8 (3.90%) PKI
5 7 (3.41%) Data Protection Act
5 7 (3.41%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (3.41%) Private Cloud
5 7 (3.41%) Replication
6 6 (2.93%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (1.95%) DataPower
7 4 (1.95%) Equities
7 4 (1.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (1.95%) Linux Command Line
7 4 (1.95%) Mainframe
7 4 (1.95%) Security Posture
8 3 (1.46%) Legacy Code
8 3 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.98%) Client/Server
9 2 (0.98%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 57 (27.80%) Windows
2 45 (21.95%) Linux
3 40 (19.51%) Windows Server
4 14 (6.83%) Unix
5 6 (2.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (2.44%) Ubuntu
6 5 (2.44%) Windows 10
7 4 (1.95%) VMS
8 2 (0.98%) Android
8 2 (0.98%) CentOS
8 2 (0.98%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.98%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.49%) AIX
9 1 (0.49%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.49%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.49%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (0.49%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.49%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (31.71%) Infrastructure as Code
2 57 (27.80%) DevOps
3 55 (26.83%) CI/CD
4 47 (22.93%) Problem-Solving
5 29 (14.15%) Agile
5 29 (14.15%) Containerisation
6 26 (12.68%) Migration
7 23 (11.22%) Infrastructure Automation
8 20 (9.76%) High Availability
9 18 (8.78%) Observability
10 17 (8.29%) Analytics
10 17 (8.29%) Cybersecurity
10 17 (8.29%) Platform Engineering
11 16 (7.80%) ITIL
11 16 (7.80%) Task Automation
11 16 (7.80%) Test Automation
12 14 (6.83%) Cloud Security
13 13 (6.34%) Information Security
13 13 (6.34%) Low Latency
13 13 (6.34%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 69 (33.66%) Python
2 35 (17.07%) PowerShell
3 25 (12.20%) Bash
4 14 (6.83%) Java
5 11 (5.37%) Go
6 8 (3.90%) Bicep
6 8 (3.90%) SQL
7 7 (3.41%) Perl
8 6 (2.93%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.49%) C#
9 1 (0.49%) C++
9 1 (0.49%) Ruby
9 1 (0.49%) Scala
9 1 (0.49%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 35 (17.07%) Security Cleared
2 27 (13.17%) SC Cleared
3 17 (8.29%) Degree
4 12 (5.85%) Cisco Certification
5 10 (4.88%) Azure Certification
6 8 (3.90%) CCNA
6 8 (3.90%) CCNP
6 8 (3.90%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (2.93%) CISSP
7 6 (2.93%) DV Cleared
8 5 (2.44%) CISM
9 4 (1.95%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (1.46%) JNCIP
10 3 (1.46%) JNCIS
11 2 (0.98%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.98%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 2 (0.98%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.98%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.98%) PMP
12 1 (0.49%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.46%) Cyber Essentials
1 3 (1.46%) NIST
2 2 (0.98%) GDPR
2 2 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (0.98%) SLA
3 1 (0.49%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.49%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 1 (0.49%) QA
3 1 (0.49%) SOC 2
System Software
1 47 (22.93%) Active Directory
2 30 (14.63%) Docker
3 21 (10.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (7.80%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (3.90%) Hyper-V
6 5 (2.44%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (1.95%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (1.46%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.49%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.49%) etcd
9 1 (0.49%) Firmware
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 72 (35.12%) Terraform
2 31 (15.12%) Kubernetes
3 30 (14.63%) Microsoft Intune
4 29 (14.15%) Ansible
5 21 (10.24%) SCCM
6 17 (8.29%) Grafana
7 11 (5.37%) Prometheus
8 8 (3.90%) Single Sign-On
9 7 (3.41%) CASB
9 7 (3.41%) SCOrch
10 6 (2.93%) FortiGate
11 4 (1.95%) Argo
12 3 (1.46%) Istio
12 3 (1.46%) Jamf Pro
13 2 (0.98%) ITRS Geneos
13 2 (0.98%) Kibana
13 2 (0.98%) McAfee ePO
13 2 (0.98%) Red Hat Satellite
13 2 (0.98%) SCOM
13 2 (0.98%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 63 (30.73%) Microsoft
2 25 (12.20%) VMware
3 20 (9.76%) Cisco
4 19 (9.27%) Palo Alto
5 17 (8.29%) Google
6 14 (6.83%) F5
7 11 (5.37%) Fortinet
8 8 (3.90%) Zscaler
9 7 (3.41%) CheckPoint
9 7 (3.41%) CyberArk
9 7 (3.41%) Juniper
10 6 (2.93%) Red Hat
10 6 (2.93%) Veeam
11 5 (2.44%) Dell
11 5 (2.44%) IBM
11 5 (2.44%) Meraki
11 5 (2.44%) TIBCO
12 4 (1.95%) Aruba
12 4 (1.95%) Citrix
12 4 (1.95%) Databricks