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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 163 185 146
Rank change year-on-year +22 -39 +24
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 320 178 309
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.68% 1.42% 1.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.89% 1.54% 1.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 227 140 238
10th Percentile £401 £349 £319
25th Percentile £446 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £515
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +1.94% -6.36%
75th Percentile £650 £600 £638
90th Percentile £725 £650 £738
England median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -1.38%

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 16,916 11,555 15,666
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.87% 92.40% 88.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,270 7,751 11,170
10th Percentile £360 £338 £340
25th Percentile £437 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 259 210 314
10th Percentile £18.06 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.22 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £33.45 £28.25
Median % change year-on-year +12.12% +18.39% -29.38%
75th Percentile £59.99 £50.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £67.70
England median hourly rate £47.50 £27.40 £37.63
% change year-on-year +73.36% -27.18% +4.81%

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 20 June 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 20 June 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 -5 46 £575 +2.22% 16
West London -20 8 £675 +68.75% 8
South London -4 6 £425 -20.56% 1
East London -3 1 £775 +64.02% 5
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 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (2.19%) CICS
3 6 (1.88%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.25%) Apache
5 3 (0.94%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.63%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.31%) Confluence
7 1 (0.31%) IBM HTTP Server
7 1 (0.31%) SAS
7 1 (0.31%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 3 (0.94%) AutoCAD
2 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 150 (46.88%) Azure
2 81 (25.31%) AWS
3 45 (14.06%) GCP
4 40 (12.50%) GitHub
5 32 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
6 30 (9.38%) IaaS
7 29 (9.06%) Microsoft 365
8 28 (8.75%) Entra ID
9 27 (8.44%) GitHub Actions
10 25 (7.81%) Azure AKS
10 25 (7.81%) PaaS
11 19 (5.94%) Serverless
12 18 (5.63%) SaaS
13 15 (4.69%) AWS Lambda
13 15 (4.69%) Azure Monitor
14 13 (4.06%) Amazon EKS
15 11 (3.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 10 (3.13%) Amazon S3
16 10 (3.13%) Nutanix
17 8 (2.50%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 58 (18.13%) DNS
2 40 (12.50%) DHCP
3 37 (11.56%) Firewall
4 30 (9.38%) VPN
5 19 (5.94%) Network Security
6 15 (4.69%) WAN
7 12 (3.75%) TCP/IP
8 10 (3.13%) LAN
8 10 (3.13%) SMTP
9 7 (2.19%) SSL
10 5 (1.56%) SAN
10 5 (1.56%) SD-WAN
11 4 (1.25%) DMZ
11 4 (1.25%) HTTP
11 4 (1.25%) MPLS
11 4 (1.25%) NAS
11 4 (1.25%) Structured Cabling
12 3 (0.94%) BGP
12 3 (0.94%) OSPF
12 3 (0.94%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (7.50%) SQL Server
2 9 (2.81%) Elasticsearch
3 8 (2.50%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (2.50%) DynamoDB
4 6 (1.88%) Db2
4 6 (1.88%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (1.56%) Big Data
6 3 (0.94%) MongoDB
6 3 (0.94%) NoSQL
6 3 (0.94%) RDBMS
6 3 (0.94%) Relational Database
6 3 (0.94%) Snowflake Schema
7 2 (0.63%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.63%) Hadoop
7 2 (0.63%) Power BI
7 2 (0.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.31%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.31%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.31%) Metadata
8 1 (0.31%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 18 (5.63%) GitLab
2 13 (4.06%) Jenkins
3 10 (3.13%) Git
4 5 (1.56%) Bitbucket
5 4 (1.25%) JIRA
6 1 (0.31%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.31%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.31%) CMake
6 1 (0.31%) Gradle
6 1 (0.31%) Introscope
General
1 74 (23.13%) Social Skills
2 59 (18.44%) Finance
3 27 (8.44%) Banking
4 17 (5.31%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (5.31%) Documentation Skills
5 15 (4.69%) Public Sector
6 11 (3.44%) Legal
7 8 (2.50%) Retail
8 7 (2.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (1.88%) Law
10 5 (1.56%) Billing
10 5 (1.56%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (1.56%) Telecoms
11 4 (1.25%) Publishing
12 3 (0.94%) Military
13 2 (0.63%) Aerospace
13 2 (0.63%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.63%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.63%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 188 (58.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 50 (15.63%) Cloud Engineer
3 35 (10.94%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 31 (9.69%) Senior
5 28 (8.75%) Azure Engineer
6 19 (5.94%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 18 (5.63%) DevOps Engineer
8 17 (5.31%) Architect
8 17 (5.31%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
9 16 (5.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 16 (5.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
10 12 (3.75%) NetApp Engineer
10 12 (3.75%) Network Engineer
10 12 (3.75%) Storage Engineer
11 11 (3.44%) Platform Engineer
12 10 (3.13%) Infrastructure Support
12 10 (3.13%) Lead
12 10 (3.13%) Support Engineer
13 9 (2.81%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
13 9 (2.81%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (3.13%) REST
2 9 (2.81%) JSON
3 6 (1.88%) RESTful
3 6 (1.88%) SOAP
3 6 (1.88%) Web Services
3 6 (1.88%) WSDL
3 6 (1.88%) YAML
4 5 (1.56%) AWS CDK
5 4 (1.25%) .NET
5 4 (1.25%) Kafka
5 4 (1.25%) OpenID
6 3 (0.94%) ADO
6 3 (0.94%) ARM Templates
6 3 (0.94%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (0.94%) HTML
6 3 (0.94%) SAML
6 3 (0.94%) Spring
6 3 (0.94%) Spring Boot
7 2 (0.63%) LangChain
7 2 (0.63%) pydantic
Miscellaneous
1 20 (6.25%) Data Centre
1 20 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
2 19 (5.94%) Cloud Native
3 17 (5.31%) Onboarding
4 12 (3.75%) PKI
5 10 (3.13%) Clustering
6 9 (2.81%) Distributed Systems
7 8 (2.50%) Enterprise Storage
8 7 (2.19%) CMDB
8 7 (2.19%) Mainframe
9 6 (1.88%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (1.88%) DataPower
9 6 (1.88%) Online Banking
9 6 (1.88%) Replication
9 6 (1.88%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (1.56%) AI Agents
10 5 (1.56%) CCTV
10 5 (1.56%) Enterprise Cloud
10 5 (1.56%) Public Cloud
11 4 (1.25%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 99 (30.94%) Windows
2 59 (18.44%) Windows Server
3 48 (15.00%) Linux
4 12 (3.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (3.13%) Unix
6 7 (2.19%) Windows Server 2003
6 7 (2.19%) zOS
7 6 (1.88%) Android
7 6 (1.88%) Apple iOS
7 6 (1.88%) Windows Server 2019
8 5 (1.56%) VMS
9 4 (1.25%) Windows 10
10 3 (0.94%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (0.94%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.63%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.63%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.31%) AIX
12 1 (0.31%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (0.31%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (26.56%) DevOps
2 83 (25.94%) Infrastructure as Code
3 75 (23.44%) CI/CD
4 45 (14.06%) Platform Engineering
5 42 (13.13%) AI
6 41 (12.81%) Migration
7 37 (11.56%) Problem-Solving
8 35 (10.94%) Containerisation
9 29 (9.06%) Infrastructure Automation
10 25 (7.81%) Agile
10 25 (7.81%) Continuous Improvement
10 25 (7.81%) Roadmaps
11 22 (6.88%) Incident Response
12 21 (6.56%) Disaster Recovery
13 19 (5.94%) Observability
13 19 (5.94%) Validation
14 18 (5.63%) Cloud Security
15 17 (5.31%) Configuration Management
16 16 (5.00%) ITIL
16 16 (5.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 72 (22.50%) PowerShell
2 64 (20.00%) Python
3 30 (9.38%) SQL
4 20 (6.25%) Bash
5 18 (5.63%) C#
6 15 (4.69%) Java
6 15 (4.69%) Shell Script
7 12 (3.75%) Bicep
8 6 (1.88%) Go
8 6 (1.88%) JavaScript
8 6 (1.88%) JCL
9 3 (0.94%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.63%) C++
10 2 (0.63%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (0.63%) Ruby
11 1 (0.31%) C
11 1 (0.31%) Jython
11 1 (0.31%) Korn
11 1 (0.31%) Scala
11 1 (0.31%) VB
Qualifications
1 96 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 60 (18.75%) SC Cleared
3 37 (11.56%) DV Cleared
4 13 (4.06%) Degree
5 11 (3.44%) Azure Certification
6 10 (3.13%) Cisco Certification
7 9 (2.81%) CISSP
8 8 (2.50%) AWS Certification
8 8 (2.50%) CCNA
9 4 (1.25%) CISM
10 3 (0.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.94%) CCNP
10 3 (0.94%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.94%) PMI Certification
10 3 (0.94%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (0.63%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 2 (0.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 2 (0.63%) CISA
11 2 (0.63%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (0.63%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.50%) NIST
2 7 (2.19%) QA
3 6 (1.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (1.88%) PCI DSS
4 5 (1.56%) SLA
5 4 (1.25%) SOC 2
6 3 (0.94%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.94%) Data Quality
6 3 (0.94%) GDPR
6 3 (0.94%) NCSC
7 2 (0.63%) PMO
8 1 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.31%) FedRAMP
8 1 (0.31%) GRC
8 1 (0.31%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 63 (19.69%) Active Directory
2 46 (14.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 27 (8.44%) Docker
4 25 (7.81%) Hyper-V
5 15 (4.69%) VMware ESXi
6 13 (4.06%) Virtual Desktop
7 12 (3.75%) vSphere
8 11 (3.44%) Virtual Machines
9 10 (3.13%) BitLocker
9 10 (3.13%) Microsoft App-V
10 4 (1.25%) Firmware
10 4 (1.25%) Terminal Services
10 4 (1.25%) VMware NSX
11 3 (0.94%) Virtual Servers
12 2 (0.63%) NFS
12 2 (0.63%) Postfix
12 2 (0.63%) Sendmail
12 2 (0.63%) Varnish
13 1 (0.31%) KVM
13 1 (0.31%) RACF
Systems Management
1 91 (28.44%) Terraform
2 64 (20.00%) Kubernetes
3 40 (12.50%) Ansible
4 19 (5.94%) Microsoft Intune
5 14 (4.38%) Puppet
6 13 (4.06%) vCenter Server
7 10 (3.13%) vMotion
8 9 (2.81%) Packer
9 8 (2.50%) Prometheus
10 7 (2.19%) Grafana
11 4 (1.25%) AirWatch
11 4 (1.25%) FortiGate
11 4 (1.25%) Nessus
11 4 (1.25%) SCCM
12 3 (0.94%) Nagios
12 3 (0.94%) Single Sign-On
12 3 (0.94%) systemd
12 3 (0.94%) yum
13 2 (0.63%) HAProxy
13 2 (0.63%) vRealize
Vendors
1 84 (26.25%) Microsoft
2 61 (19.06%) VMware
3 22 (6.88%) Citrix
4 21 (6.56%) Google
5 16 (5.00%) ServiceNow
6 15 (4.69%) NetApp
7 8 (2.50%) CyberArk
8 7 (2.19%) Cisco
8 7 (2.19%) Red Hat
9 6 (1.88%) Dell
10 5 (1.56%) Oracle
10 5 (1.56%) Qualys
10 5 (1.56%) SolarWinds
10 5 (1.56%) Zscaler
11 4 (1.25%) CrowdStrike
11 4 (1.25%) HP
11 4 (1.25%) Palo Alto
11 4 (1.25%) Symantec
11 4 (1.25%) Tenable
12 3 (0.94%) Informatica