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

6 months to
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 188 160 131
Rank change year-on-year -28 -29 +64
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 224 213 339
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.38% 1.59% 1.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.53% 1.75% 2.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 159 233
10th Percentile £400 £348 £315
25th Percentile £450 £400 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £693 £688 £750
England median daily rate £510 £539 £500
% change year-on-year -5.34% +7.75% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 3
10th Percentile £24.06 - £32.97
25th Percentile £25.65 - £34.42
Median hourly rate £28.75 £112.00 £36.84
Median % change year-on-year -74.33% +204.02% -53.25%
75th Percentile £32.30 - £38.04
90th Percentile £34.16 - £38.75
England median hourly rate £34.25 £63.14 £46.18
% change year-on-year -45.76% +36.73% -16.79%

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 14,672 12,161 16,110
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.13% 90.96% 88.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,836 7,963 11,510
10th Percentile £350 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.17%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 221 157 347
10th Percentile £18.07 £20.45 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.41 £24.66 £19.42
Median hourly rate £35.00 £35.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.41% +18.33% -16.08%
75th Percentile £56.50 £53.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.86 £71.00
England median hourly rate £29.60 £35.00 £34.00
% change year-on-year -15.43% +2.94% -4.23%

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 6 March 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 6 March 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 -6 41 £550 -8.33% 15
South London -12 6 £463 -1.60% 3
West London -19 3 £300 -25.00%
East London +1 1 - - 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 28 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (2.23%) Apache
2 5 (2.23%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.79%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.79%) Confluence
4 2 (0.89%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.89%) CICS
4 2 (0.89%) nginx
4 2 (0.89%) Traefik
5 1 (0.45%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.45%) SAS
5 1 (0.45%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 3 (1.34%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.45%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 100 (44.64%) Azure
2 50 (22.32%) AWS
3 46 (20.54%) Microsoft 365
4 32 (14.29%) Entra ID
5 26 (11.61%) GitHub
6 25 (11.16%) GCP
7 23 (10.27%) Serverless
8 18 (8.04%) IaaS
9 16 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
9 16 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
10 15 (6.70%) Azure DevOps
11 13 (5.80%) PaaS
12 12 (5.36%) Amazon EKS
12 12 (5.36%) Amazon S3
13 11 (4.91%) Nutanix
14 10 (4.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 10 (4.46%) AWS CloudFormation
14 10 (4.46%) Microsoft Purview
15 9 (4.02%) Amazon ECS
15 9 (4.02%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 43 (19.20%) Firewall
2 29 (12.95%) DNS
2 29 (12.95%) WAN
3 24 (10.71%) VPN
4 21 (9.38%) LAN
5 13 (5.80%) Network Security
5 13 (5.80%) Wi-Fi
6 12 (5.36%) DHCP
7 9 (4.02%) MPLS
8 6 (2.68%) SD-WAN
9 5 (2.23%) TCP/IP
9 5 (2.23%) VLAN
10 4 (1.79%) SMTP
10 4 (1.79%) Software-Defined Networking
10 4 (1.79%) Wireless
10 4 (1.79%) WLAN
11 3 (1.34%) BGP
11 3 (1.34%) Cisco Wireless
11 3 (1.34%) OSPF
11 3 (1.34%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (4.91%) SQL Server
2 8 (3.57%) DynamoDB
3 6 (2.68%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (1.79%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (1.79%) Big Data
4 4 (1.79%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (1.79%) Relational Database
5 3 (1.34%) MongoDB
5 3 (1.34%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.34%) RDBMS
6 2 (0.89%) DB2
6 2 (0.89%) Hadoop
6 2 (0.89%) MariaDB
6 2 (0.89%) MySQL
6 2 (0.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.45%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.45%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.45%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.45%) Power BI
7 1 (0.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 14 (6.25%) GitLab
2 13 (5.80%) Jenkins
3 10 (4.46%) Git
4 6 (2.68%) JIRA
5 3 (1.34%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.45%) Jaeger
6 1 (0.45%) MLflow
General
1 53 (23.66%) Social Skills
2 48 (21.43%) Finance
3 21 (9.38%) Banking
4 18 (8.04%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (4.91%) Legal
6 9 (4.02%) Public Sector
7 7 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (2.68%) Spanish Language
9 5 (2.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.34%) Billing
11 3 (1.34%) Front Office
12 2 (0.89%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.89%) Military
12 2 (0.89%) Retail
12 2 (0.89%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.45%) Games
13 1 (0.45%) Italian Language
13 1 (0.45%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 117 (52.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 31 (13.84%) Senior
3 19 (8.48%) Cloud Engineer
4 18 (8.04%) Azure Engineer
5 17 (7.59%) Network Engineer
5 17 (7.59%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 13 (5.80%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
7 12 (5.36%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
8 11 (4.91%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
9 10 (4.46%) Architect
9 10 (4.46%) Security Engineer
10 8 (3.57%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 8 (3.57%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
10 8 (3.57%) Developer
10 8 (3.57%) NetApp Engineer
10 8 (3.57%) Storage Engineer
11 7 (3.13%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
12 6 (2.68%) Linux Engineer
12 6 (2.68%) Platform Engineer
12 6 (2.68%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.23%) Kafka
2 4 (1.79%) NumPy
2 4 (1.79%) Pandas
3 3 (1.34%) ARM Templates
3 3 (1.34%) AWS CDK
3 3 (1.34%) REST
3 3 (1.34%) RESTful
3 3 (1.34%) SciPy
3 3 (1.34%) Spring
3 3 (1.34%) Spring Boot
3 3 (1.34%) YAML
4 2 (0.89%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (0.89%) GraphQL
4 2 (0.89%) JSON
4 2 (0.89%) Loki
4 2 (0.89%) Microsoft Graph
4 2 (0.89%) OpenTelemetry
4 2 (0.89%) SOAP
4 2 (0.89%) Web Services
4 2 (0.89%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 17 (7.59%) Data Centre
2 16 (7.14%) Onboarding
3 12 (5.36%) Hybrid Cloud
4 11 (4.91%) Cloud Native
5 9 (4.02%) PKI
6 7 (3.13%) Public Cloud
7 6 (2.68%) DataPower
7 6 (2.68%) Mainframe
8 5 (2.23%) Clustering
8 5 (2.23%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.79%) Enterprise Storage
9 4 (1.79%) Replication
9 4 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.34%) CCTV
10 3 (1.34%) Client/Server
10 3 (1.34%) Derivative
10 3 (1.34%) Equities
10 3 (1.34%) Equity Derivative
10 3 (1.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 63 (28.13%) Windows
2 39 (17.41%) Linux
3 35 (15.63%) Windows Server
4 8 (3.57%) Unix
5 5 (2.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (2.23%) VMS
5 5 (2.23%) Windows Server 2003
6 4 (1.79%) Ubuntu
6 4 (1.79%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (1.79%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (1.34%) Android
8 2 (0.89%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.89%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.89%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.89%) zOS
9 1 (0.45%) Amazon Linux
9 1 (0.45%) CentOS
9 1 (0.45%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (23.21%) Infrastructure as Code
2 51 (22.77%) CI/CD
3 49 (21.88%) DevOps
4 33 (14.73%) Problem-Solving
5 30 (13.39%) Migration
6 25 (11.16%) Containerisation
7 21 (9.38%) Agile
8 19 (8.48%) Platform Engineering
9 18 (8.04%) Cloud Security
9 18 (8.04%) Cybersecurity
10 17 (7.59%) Observability
10 17 (7.59%) Project Delivery
11 15 (6.70%) Analytics
12 13 (5.80%) ITIL
12 13 (5.80%) RBAC
13 12 (5.36%) Continuous Improvement
13 12 (5.36%) Disaster Recovery
13 12 (5.36%) Incident Management
13 12 (5.36%) Performance Tuning
14 11 (4.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 46 (20.54%) Python
2 43 (19.20%) PowerShell
3 17 (7.59%) SQL
4 11 (4.91%) Shell Script
5 10 (4.46%) Bash
6 9 (4.02%) C#
7 7 (3.13%) Java
8 5 (2.23%) Go
9 4 (1.79%) Ruby
10 3 (1.34%) Bicep
10 3 (1.34%) C++
11 2 (0.89%) JavaScript
11 2 (0.89%) JCL
12 1 (0.45%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.45%) Perl
12 1 (0.45%) Scala
12 1 (0.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 46 (20.54%) Security Cleared
2 32 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 14 (6.25%) Azure Certification
3 14 (6.25%) DV Cleared
4 12 (5.36%) Degree
5 10 (4.46%) Cisco Certification
6 7 (3.13%) CISSP
7 6 (2.68%) CCNP
7 6 (2.68%) CISM
8 5 (2.23%) CCNA
9 4 (1.79%) Master's Degree
10 3 (1.34%) AWS Certification
10 3 (1.34%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (1.34%) JNCIP
10 3 (1.34%) JNCIS
10 3 (1.34%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (1.34%) PhD
10 3 (1.34%) PMI Certification
10 3 (1.34%) PMP
10 3 (1.34%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.79%) Cyber Essentials
1 4 (1.79%) NIST
2 2 (0.89%) Accessibility
2 2 (0.89%) GDPR
2 2 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (0.89%) SOC 2
3 1 (0.45%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.45%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 1 (0.45%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.45%) PMO
3 1 (0.45%) QA
3 1 (0.45%) SLA
System Software
1 49 (21.88%) Active Directory
2 28 (12.50%) Docker
3 27 (12.05%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (4.46%) Hyper-V
4 10 (4.46%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (4.02%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (2.68%) VMware ESXi
6 6 (2.68%) vSphere
7 5 (2.23%) BitLocker
8 4 (1.79%) Microsoft App-V
9 3 (1.34%) Firmware
10 2 (0.89%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.45%) etcd
11 1 (0.45%) NFS
11 1 (0.45%) Postfix
11 1 (0.45%) Sendmail
11 1 (0.45%) Varnish
11 1 (0.45%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 55 (24.55%) Terraform
2 38 (16.96%) Kubernetes
2 38 (16.96%) Microsoft Intune
3 26 (11.61%) Ansible
4 15 (6.70%) SCCM
5 12 (5.36%) Grafana
6 6 (2.68%) CASB
6 6 (2.68%) Prometheus
6 6 (2.68%) Puppet
6 6 (2.68%) SCOrch
7 5 (2.23%) AirWatch
7 5 (2.23%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (2.23%) vCenter Server
8 4 (1.79%) FortiGate
8 4 (1.79%) vMotion
9 3 (1.34%) Argo
9 3 (1.34%) Istio
9 3 (1.34%) Jamf Pro
9 3 (1.34%) Packer
10 2 (0.89%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 69 (30.80%) Microsoft
2 35 (15.63%) VMware
3 14 (6.25%) Google
4 11 (4.91%) Cisco
4 11 (4.91%) Citrix
5 10 (4.46%) CyberArk
6 9 (4.02%) NetApp
7 8 (3.57%) Fortinet
8 7 (3.13%) Dell
9 6 (2.68%) Palo Alto
9 6 (2.68%) Red Hat
9 6 (2.68%) Veeam
10 5 (2.23%) Juniper
10 5 (2.23%) ServiceNow
10 5 (2.23%) SolarWinds
10 5 (2.23%) Zscaler
11 4 (1.79%) CrowdStrike
11 4 (1.79%) Databricks
11 4 (1.79%) IBM
11 4 (1.79%) Oracle