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

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 188 166
Rank change year-on-year +50 -22 -10
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 409 184 266
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.03% 1.36% 1.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.28% 1.47% 1.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 277 136 214
10th Percentile £397 £355 £325
25th Percentile £450 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £539 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.09% +2.62% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £625
90th Percentile £692 £675 £700
England median daily rate £538 £525 £501
% change year-on-year +2.38% +4.90% -2.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £30.00 -
England median hourly rate £72.54 £42.44 £67.50
% change year-on-year +70.93% -37.13% -6.90%

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 17,930 12,520 14,416
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.08% 92.34% 88.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,792 8,353 10,096
10th Percentile £363 £325 £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 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £787 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 291 254 202
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £17.08
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.50 £35.61
Median % change year-on-year +20.34% -17.15% -12.67%
75th Percentile £56.63 £48.44 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.60 £71.25
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +3.24%

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 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 13 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 -2 53 £598 -0.42% 34
West London -9 9 £675 - 5
South London -9 5 £500 -16.67% 4
East London +1 3 £638 +34.92% 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 21 (5.13%) Microsoft Exchange
2 20 (4.89%) SharePoint
3 13 (3.18%) CICS
3 13 (3.18%) Confluence
4 8 (1.96%) WebSphere
5 6 (1.47%) Apache
6 4 (0.98%) SharePoint Server
7 2 (0.49%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.49%) Exchange Server 2013
8 1 (0.24%) CloudStack
8 1 (0.24%) IBM HTTP Server
8 1 (0.24%) JBoss
8 1 (0.24%) nginx
8 1 (0.24%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.24%) SAS
8 1 (0.24%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 5 (1.22%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.73%) AutoCAD
2 3 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.24%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.73%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 189 (46.21%) Azure
2 101 (24.69%) AWS
3 53 (12.96%) GitHub
4 46 (11.25%) Azure DevOps
5 44 (10.76%) GCP
6 42 (10.27%) Entra ID
7 40 (9.78%) Microsoft 365
8 39 (9.54%) GitHub Actions
9 31 (7.58%) IaaS
10 29 (7.09%) Azure AKS
11 23 (5.62%) PaaS
12 22 (5.38%) SaaS
13 20 (4.89%) Amazon EKS
13 20 (4.89%) Azure Monitor
14 17 (4.16%) Serverless
15 16 (3.91%) Amazon S3
16 12 (2.93%) AWS Lambda
17 11 (2.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 11 (2.69%) OCI
18 10 (2.44%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 77 (18.83%) DNS
2 59 (14.43%) Firewall
3 57 (13.94%) DHCP
4 41 (10.02%) VPN
5 33 (8.07%) Network Security
6 31 (7.58%) TCP/IP
7 20 (4.89%) WAN
8 16 (3.91%) SSL
9 14 (3.42%) LAN
9 14 (3.42%) Wi-Fi
10 10 (2.44%) SAN
11 9 (2.20%) HTTP
12 8 (1.96%) VLAN
13 7 (1.71%) SD-WAN
13 7 (1.71%) SMTP
14 6 (1.47%) BGP
14 6 (1.47%) NAS
14 6 (1.47%) Wireless
15 5 (1.22%) DMZ
15 5 (1.22%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (7.58%) SQL Server
2 8 (1.96%) Elasticsearch
3 6 (1.47%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (1.47%) Db2
3 6 (1.47%) DynamoDB
4 5 (1.22%) BigQuery
4 5 (1.22%) Power BI
5 3 (0.73%) Big Data
5 3 (0.73%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (0.73%) Snowflake Schema
5 3 (0.73%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 3 (0.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (0.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (0.49%) Apache Iceberg
6 2 (0.49%) ClickHouse
6 2 (0.49%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.49%) Flink
6 2 (0.49%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.24%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.24%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 26 (6.36%) Git
2 19 (4.65%) GitLab
2 19 (4.65%) Jenkins
3 8 (1.96%) JIRA
4 3 (0.73%) Bitbucket
4 3 (0.73%) Chocolatey
5 2 (0.49%) Oracle Forms
5 2 (0.49%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.49%) Subversion
6 1 (0.24%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.24%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.24%) CMake
6 1 (0.24%) Gradle
6 1 (0.24%) Introscope
6 1 (0.24%) Maven
6 1 (0.24%) Terragrunt
General
1 93 (22.74%) Social Skills
2 69 (16.87%) Finance
3 35 (8.56%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (7.82%) Banking
5 22 (5.38%) Public Sector
6 18 (4.40%) Documentation Skills
7 12 (2.93%) Telecoms
8 11 (2.69%) Retail
9 8 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (1.96%) Law
10 7 (1.71%) Legal
11 5 (1.22%) Automotive
11 5 (1.22%) Billing
11 5 (1.22%) Publishing
12 4 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (0.73%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.73%) Military
14 2 (0.49%) Aerospace
14 2 (0.49%) Local Government
14 2 (0.49%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 219 (53.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 54 (13.20%) Cloud Engineer
3 47 (11.49%) Senior
4 41 (10.02%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 40 (9.78%) Azure Engineer
6 35 (8.56%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 29 (7.09%) DevOps Engineer
8 24 (5.87%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
9 22 (5.38%) Network Engineer
10 21 (5.13%) Lead
11 18 (4.40%) Architect
12 13 (3.18%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 13 (3.18%) Platform Engineer
13 11 (2.69%) 3rd Line Engineer
13 11 (2.69%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
13 11 (2.69%) Infrastructure Specialist
13 11 (2.69%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
13 11 (2.69%) Support Engineer
14 10 (2.44%) Infrastructure Support
15 9 (2.20%) Microsoft Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (2.69%) ARM Templates
1 11 (2.69%) REST
2 10 (2.44%) YAML
3 9 (2.20%) JSON
3 9 (2.20%) Middleware
4 7 (1.71%) 802.1X
4 7 (1.71%) Loki
5 6 (1.47%) RESTful
5 6 (1.47%) SOAP
5 6 (1.47%) Web Services
5 6 (1.47%) WSDL
6 5 (1.22%) .NET
6 5 (1.22%) OpenID
6 5 (1.22%) SAML
7 4 (0.98%) ADO
7 4 (0.98%) Elastic Stack
7 4 (0.98%) Kafka
8 3 (0.73%) AWS CDK
8 3 (0.73%) Model Context Protocol
8 3 (0.73%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 24 (5.87%) Cloud Native
1 24 (5.87%) Hybrid Cloud
2 22 (5.38%) Data Centre
3 16 (3.91%) Onboarding
4 15 (3.67%) Clustering
5 13 (3.18%) Mainframe
5 13 (3.18%) PKI
5 13 (3.18%) Public Cloud
6 9 (2.20%) Data Protection Act
6 9 (2.20%) Distributed Systems
7 8 (1.96%) CMDB
7 8 (1.96%) Enterprise Storage
7 8 (1.96%) Linux Command Line
7 8 (1.96%) Replication
8 7 (1.71%) Enterprise Cloud
9 6 (1.47%) AI Agents
9 6 (1.47%) Cyber Threat
9 6 (1.47%) Management Information System
9 6 (1.47%) Online Banking
9 6 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 131 (32.03%) Windows
2 77 (18.83%) Windows Server
3 71 (17.36%) Linux
4 19 (4.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (3.18%) zOS
6 12 (2.93%) Unix
7 8 (1.96%) Ubuntu
7 8 (1.96%) VMS
7 8 (1.96%) Windows Server 2019
8 6 (1.47%) Android
8 6 (1.47%) Apple iOS
8 6 (1.47%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (1.22%) Mac OS
9 5 (1.22%) Windows 10
9 5 (1.22%) Windows Server 2012
10 4 (0.98%) Windows Server 2003
11 3 (0.73%) Windows Server 2008
12 2 (0.49%) OpenVMS
12 2 (0.49%) Windows 7
13 1 (0.24%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (30.56%) Infrastructure as Code
2 121 (29.58%) DevOps
3 108 (26.41%) CI/CD
4 66 (16.14%) Migration
5 59 (14.43%) AI
6 58 (14.18%) Platform Engineering
7 52 (12.71%) Problem-Solving
8 50 (12.22%) Infrastructure Automation
9 40 (9.78%) Continuous Improvement
10 38 (9.29%) Containerisation
10 38 (9.29%) Disaster Recovery
11 35 (8.56%) Incident Response
12 34 (8.31%) Agile
12 34 (8.31%) Configuration Management
13 33 (8.07%) Observability
13 33 (8.07%) Stakeholder Management
14 30 (7.33%) High Availability
15 28 (6.85%) Cloud Security
15 28 (6.85%) ITIL
16 27 (6.60%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 101 (24.69%) PowerShell
1 101 (24.69%) Python
2 43 (10.51%) Bash
3 35 (8.56%) SQL
4 20 (4.89%) Bicep
5 19 (4.65%) C#
6 17 (4.16%) Java
7 16 (3.91%) Shell Script
8 7 (1.71%) Go
8 7 (1.71%) Perl
9 6 (1.47%) C++
9 6 (1.47%) JCL
10 4 (0.98%) C
10 4 (0.98%) JavaScript
10 4 (0.98%) TypeScript
11 3 (0.73%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.49%) Korn
12 2 (0.49%) Ruby
13 1 (0.24%) Jython
13 1 (0.24%) VB
Qualifications
1 135 (33.01%) Security Cleared
2 91 (22.25%) SC Cleared
3 41 (10.02%) DV Cleared
4 21 (5.13%) Azure Certification
5 19 (4.65%) Degree
6 16 (3.91%) Cisco Certification
7 11 (2.69%) CISSP
8 10 (2.44%) CCNA
8 10 (2.44%) CCNP
9 8 (1.96%) AWS Certification
10 6 (1.47%) CISM
10 6 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
10 6 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (1.22%) PMI Certification
12 4 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (0.98%) JNCIP
12 4 (0.98%) JNCIS
12 4 (0.98%) PMP
13 3 (0.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 3 (0.73%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (3.18%) QA
1 13 (3.18%) SLA
2 11 (2.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (2.20%) NIST
4 6 (1.47%) PCI DSS
5 4 (0.98%) SOC 2
6 3 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.73%) GDPR
6 3 (0.73%) NCSC
7 2 (0.49%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.49%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.49%) PMO
8 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.24%) FedRAMP
8 1 (0.24%) GRC
8 1 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (0.24%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 81 (19.80%) Active Directory
2 65 (15.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 32 (7.82%) Docker
4 25 (6.11%) Hyper-V
5 22 (5.38%) VMware ESXi
6 18 (4.40%) Virtual Machines
7 17 (4.16%) vSphere
8 14 (3.42%) Virtual Desktop
9 7 (1.71%) BitLocker
9 7 (1.71%) Microsoft App-V
9 7 (1.71%) Virtual Servers
10 5 (1.22%) Firmware
11 4 (0.98%) Terminal Services
11 4 (0.98%) VMware NSX
12 3 (0.73%) NFS
13 2 (0.49%) Ceph
13 2 (0.49%) Postfix
13 2 (0.49%) Sendmail
13 2 (0.49%) Varnish
14 1 (0.24%) KVM
Systems Management
1 130 (31.78%) Terraform
2 77 (18.83%) Kubernetes
3 61 (14.91%) Ansible
4 27 (6.60%) Microsoft Intune
5 17 (4.16%) Grafana
5 17 (4.16%) Puppet
5 17 (4.16%) vCenter Server
6 14 (3.42%) Prometheus
6 14 (3.42%) SCCM
7 12 (2.93%) Packer
8 10 (2.44%) FortiGate
9 8 (1.96%) Argo
9 8 (1.96%) systemd
10 7 (1.71%) vMotion
11 5 (1.22%) Microsoft Clustering
11 5 (1.22%) Nessus
11 5 (1.22%) Single Sign-On
12 4 (0.98%) Nagios
13 3 (0.73%) Jamf Pro
13 3 (0.73%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 123 (30.07%) Microsoft
2 85 (20.78%) VMware
3 24 (5.87%) Cisco
3 24 (5.87%) Citrix
4 23 (5.62%) Google
5 15 (3.67%) ServiceNow
6 14 (3.42%) Oracle
6 14 (3.42%) Red Hat
7 13 (3.18%) NetApp
8 10 (2.44%) Tenable
8 10 (2.44%) Zscaler
9 8 (1.96%) HP
10 7 (1.71%) Dynatrace
10 7 (1.71%) IBM
11 6 (1.47%) Qualys
12 5 (1.22%) Dell
12 5 (1.22%) EMC
12 5 (1.22%) Juniper
12 5 (1.22%) Splunk
13 4 (0.98%) Commvault