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

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 194 173 136
Rank change year-on-year -21 -37 +47
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 246 198 330
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.40% 1.55% 1.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.58% 1.69% 2.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 179 159 233
10th Percentile £400 £333 £313
25th Percentile £438 £400 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +0.96% -5.45%
75th Percentile £640 £625 £644
90th Percentile £704 £675 £750
England median daily rate £520 £525 £480
% change year-on-year -0.95% +9.38% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £32.97
25th Percentile - - £34.42
Median hourly rate - - £36.84
75th Percentile - - £38.04
90th Percentile - - £38.75
England median hourly rate £72.54 £62.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +16.06% +35.34% -27.66%

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 15,557 11,724 15,799
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.81% 92.03% 88.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,420 7,969 11,310
10th Percentile £355 £350 £338
25th Percentile £430 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £685 £675
90th Percentile £756 £813 £800
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 170 331
10th Percentile £18.70 £16.66 £16.00
25th Percentile £25.11 £23.05 £19.96
Median hourly rate £35.50 £34.58 £29.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.68% +19.22% -25.64%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.75 £47.50
90th Percentile £73.08 £63.75 £66.00
England median hourly rate £42.50 £30.62 £35.00
% change year-on-year +38.82% -12.53% -6.67%

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 24 April 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 24 April 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 0 44 £588 -1.47% 21
South London -9 7 £425 -9.57% 4
West London -22 4 £463 +15.63% 2
East London -4 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 27 (10.98%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (2.03%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.63%) Apache
3 4 (1.63%) CICS
4 3 (1.22%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.81%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.41%) IBM HTTP Server
6 1 (0.41%) SAS
6 1 (0.41%) Skype for Business
6 1 (0.41%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.41%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 3 (1.22%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 108 (43.90%) Azure
2 52 (21.14%) AWS
3 36 (14.63%) Microsoft 365
4 29 (11.79%) GitHub
5 28 (11.38%) IaaS
6 27 (10.98%) Entra ID
7 26 (10.57%) GCP
8 24 (9.76%) Serverless
9 23 (9.35%) PaaS
10 20 (8.13%) Azure DevOps
11 18 (7.32%) AWS Lambda
11 18 (7.32%) GitHub Actions
12 17 (6.91%) Azure AKS
13 15 (6.10%) SaaS
14 12 (4.88%) Azure Monitor
15 11 (4.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 10 (4.07%) Nutanix
17 9 (3.66%) Amazon S3
17 9 (3.66%) AWS CloudFormation
18 8 (3.25%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 39 (15.85%) DNS
2 36 (14.63%) Firewall
3 25 (10.16%) VPN
4 21 (8.54%) DHCP
5 17 (6.91%) WAN
6 15 (6.10%) LAN
7 11 (4.47%) Network Security
8 8 (3.25%) MPLS
9 7 (2.85%) SMTP
10 5 (2.03%) SAN
10 5 (2.03%) Wi-Fi
11 4 (1.63%) SD-WAN
11 4 (1.63%) Software-Defined Networking
12 3 (1.22%) TCP/IP
13 2 (0.81%) NAS
13 2 (0.81%) Remote Desktop
13 2 (0.81%) VLAN
13 2 (0.81%) VSAN
14 1 (0.41%) Cisco Wireless
14 1 (0.41%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (5.69%) SQL Server
2 10 (4.07%) DynamoDB
3 6 (2.44%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (2.03%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (1.63%) DB2
5 4 (1.63%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (1.63%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.22%) MongoDB
6 3 (1.22%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.22%) RDBMS
7 2 (0.81%) Big Data
7 2 (0.81%) Hadoop
7 2 (0.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.41%) Data Hub
8 1 (0.41%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.41%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.41%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.41%) Metadata
8 1 (0.41%) Power BI
8 1 (0.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 14 (5.69%) GitLab
2 13 (5.28%) Git
3 11 (4.47%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.22%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.41%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.41%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.41%) Introscope
5 1 (0.41%) Jaeger
5 1 (0.41%) JIRA
General
1 58 (23.58%) Social Skills
2 44 (17.89%) Finance
3 24 (9.76%) Banking
4 16 (6.50%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (5.69%) Public Sector
6 11 (4.47%) Legal
7 8 (3.25%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (2.03%) Retail
10 4 (1.63%) Front Office
10 4 (1.63%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.63%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.22%) Investment Banking
11 3 (1.22%) Military
11 3 (1.22%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.81%) Billing
12 2 (0.81%) Law
12 2 (0.81%) Spanish Language
13 1 (0.41%) Local Government
13 1 (0.41%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 150 (60.98%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 33 (13.41%) Cloud Engineer
3 28 (11.38%) Senior
4 24 (9.76%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 23 (9.35%) Azure Engineer
6 17 (6.91%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
7 16 (6.50%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 14 (5.69%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 14 (5.69%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
9 13 (5.28%) Architect
9 13 (5.28%) NetApp Engineer
9 13 (5.28%) Storage Engineer
10 11 (4.47%) Network Engineer
11 10 (4.07%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
12 8 (3.25%) Developer
12 8 (3.25%) Lead
13 7 (2.85%) VMware Engineer
14 6 (2.44%) Data Engineer
14 6 (2.44%) Security Engineer
14 6 (2.44%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.63%) JSON
1 4 (1.63%) Kafka
1 4 (1.63%) RESTful
1 4 (1.63%) SOAP
1 4 (1.63%) Web Services
1 4 (1.63%) WSDL
2 3 (1.22%) AWS CDK
2 3 (1.22%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (1.22%) NumPy
2 3 (1.22%) Pandas
2 3 (1.22%) REST
2 3 (1.22%) SciPy
2 3 (1.22%) Spring
2 3 (1.22%) Spring Boot
3 2 (0.81%) ADO
3 2 (0.81%) ARM Templates
3 2 (0.81%) GraphQL
3 2 (0.81%) OpenID
3 2 (0.81%) SAML
4 1 (0.41%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 15 (6.10%) Data Centre
1 15 (6.10%) Hybrid Cloud
2 11 (4.47%) Cloud Native
3 9 (3.66%) Onboarding
3 9 (3.66%) PKI
4 8 (3.25%) Clustering
4 8 (3.25%) DataPower
4 8 (3.25%) Mainframe
5 7 (2.85%) Enterprise Storage
6 5 (2.03%) CCTV
6 5 (2.03%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (1.63%) Online Banking
7 4 (1.63%) Public Cloud
7 4 (1.63%) Replication
8 3 (1.22%) Client/Server
8 3 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.22%) Derivative
8 3 (1.22%) Equities
8 3 (1.22%) Equity Derivative
8 3 (1.22%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 76 (30.89%) Windows
2 40 (16.26%) Windows Server
3 39 (15.85%) Linux
4 8 (3.25%) Unix
5 7 (2.85%) Windows Server 2003
6 5 (2.03%) Android
6 5 (2.03%) Apple iOS
6 5 (2.03%) VMS
7 4 (1.63%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.63%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (1.63%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (1.63%) zOS
8 3 (1.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (1.22%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.81%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.81%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.41%) AIX
10 1 (0.41%) Amazon Linux
10 1 (0.41%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (23.58%) CI/CD
2 57 (23.17%) Infrastructure as Code
3 52 (21.14%) DevOps
4 33 (13.41%) Migration
5 26 (10.57%) Problem-Solving
6 23 (9.35%) Containerisation
7 22 (8.94%) Platform Engineering
8 17 (6.91%) Continuous Improvement
9 16 (6.50%) Cloud Security
9 16 (6.50%) Disaster Recovery
10 15 (6.10%) AI
10 15 (6.10%) Observability
10 15 (6.10%) Roadmaps
11 14 (5.69%) Analytics
11 14 (5.69%) ITIL
11 14 (5.69%) Mentoring
12 13 (5.28%) Agile
12 13 (5.28%) Incident Management
12 13 (5.28%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 12 (4.88%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 57 (23.17%) PowerShell
2 45 (18.29%) Python
3 24 (9.76%) SQL
4 17 (6.91%) C#
5 15 (6.10%) Shell Script
6 11 (4.47%) Bash
7 7 (2.85%) Bicep
7 7 (2.85%) Java
8 5 (2.03%) Ruby
9 4 (1.63%) C++
9 4 (1.63%) JCL
10 3 (1.22%) Go
10 3 (1.22%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.41%) Jython
11 1 (0.41%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.41%) Perl
11 1 (0.41%) Scala
11 1 (0.41%) VB
Qualifications
1 73 (29.67%) Security Cleared
2 51 (20.73%) SC Cleared
3 23 (9.35%) DV Cleared
4 13 (5.28%) Degree
5 11 (4.47%) Azure Certification
6 7 (2.85%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (2.44%) CCNA
8 4 (1.63%) CISSP
9 3 (1.22%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.22%) CCNP
9 3 (1.22%) Master's Degree
9 3 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (1.22%) PhD
9 3 (1.22%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (0.81%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.81%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (0.81%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.81%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.81%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 1 (0.41%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.44%) NIST
2 5 (2.03%) QA
3 4 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.22%) GDPR
4 3 (1.22%) NCSC
5 2 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.81%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.81%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.81%) SLA
6 1 (0.41%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.41%) PMO
6 1 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.41%) SOC 2
System Software
1 51 (20.73%) Active Directory
2 34 (13.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (10.16%) Docker
4 20 (8.13%) Hyper-V
5 11 (4.47%) VMware ESXi
6 10 (4.07%) Virtual Desktop
6 10 (4.07%) vSphere
7 9 (3.66%) Virtual Machines
8 8 (3.25%) BitLocker
9 7 (2.85%) Microsoft App-V
10 5 (2.03%) Firmware
11 4 (1.63%) VMware NSX
12 2 (0.81%) NFS
12 2 (0.81%) Postfix
12 2 (0.81%) Sendmail
12 2 (0.81%) Varnish
13 1 (0.41%) Terminal Services
13 1 (0.41%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 61 (24.80%) Terraform
2 45 (18.29%) Kubernetes
3 32 (13.01%) Microsoft Intune
4 25 (10.16%) Ansible
5 11 (4.47%) SCCM
6 9 (3.66%) Puppet
6 9 (3.66%) vCenter Server
7 7 (2.85%) vMotion
8 6 (2.44%) Grafana
8 6 (2.44%) Packer
9 4 (1.63%) AirWatch
9 4 (1.63%) Prometheus
10 2 (0.81%) CASB
10 2 (0.81%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.81%) HAProxy
10 2 (0.81%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.81%) SCOM
10 2 (0.81%) SCOrch
10 2 (0.81%) vRealize
11 1 (0.41%) CA Wily
Vendors
1 69 (28.05%) Microsoft
2 46 (18.70%) VMware
3 17 (6.91%) Citrix
4 14 (5.69%) NetApp
5 12 (4.88%) Google
6 8 (3.25%) Dell
7 7 (2.85%) Cisco
7 7 (2.85%) SolarWinds
8 6 (2.44%) Oracle
8 6 (2.44%) Veeam
9 5 (2.03%) CyberArk
9 5 (2.03%) Fortinet
10 4 (1.63%) IBM
10 4 (1.63%) Red Hat
10 4 (1.63%) ServiceNow
11 3 (1.22%) Informatica
11 3 (1.22%) Meraki
11 3 (1.22%) Palo Alto
12 2 (0.81%) EMC
12 2 (0.81%) Splunk