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

6 months to
22 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 186 173 131
Rank change year-on-year -13 -42 +65
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 234 201 330
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.40% 1.57% 1.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.56% 1.72% 2.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 171 158 227
10th Percentile £400 £323 £320
25th Percentile £448 £400 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £531 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.53% +1.19% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £622 £650
90th Percentile £675 £688 £750
England median daily rate £510 £534 £488
% change year-on-year -4.45% +9.49% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £32.97
25th Percentile £33.59 - £34.42
Median hourly rate £34.50 - £36.84
75th Percentile £35.40 - £38.04
90th Percentile - - £38.75
England median hourly rate £56.87 £62.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year -9.02% +35.34% -26.32%

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 14,953 11,720 16,010
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.78% 91.29% 88.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,029 7,873 11,444
10th Percentile £353 £350 £340
25th Percentile £425 £445 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.17%
75th Percentile £650 £676 £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 232 165 339
10th Percentile £18.09 £20.18 £15.99
25th Percentile £21.87 £24.66 £19.74
Median hourly rate £35.50 £36.50 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.74% +19.67% -21.54%
75th Percentile £56.97 £53.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.25 £71.15 £69.60
England median hourly rate £32.50 £34.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -4.41% +4.62% -13.33%

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 22 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 22 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 -2 40 £550 -8.33% 30
South London -12 6 £463 +0.54% 1
West London -19 3 £300 -25.00% 4
East London -3 2 £775 +32.48% 2
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 (11.97%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (2.14%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.71%) Apache
3 4 (1.71%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.85%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.85%) CICS
4 2 (0.85%) Confluence
5 1 (0.43%) IBM HTTP Server
5 1 (0.43%) nginx
5 1 (0.43%) SAS
5 1 (0.43%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.43%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.43%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 3 (1.28%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 106 (45.30%) Azure
2 47 (20.09%) AWS
3 46 (19.66%) Microsoft 365
4 33 (14.10%) Entra ID
5 28 (11.97%) GCP
6 27 (11.54%) GitHub
7 22 (9.40%) IaaS
7 22 (9.40%) Serverless
8 18 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
9 17 (7.26%) PaaS
10 16 (6.84%) AWS Lambda
11 15 (6.41%) GitHub Actions
12 11 (4.70%) Azure Monitor
12 11 (4.70%) Nutanix
13 10 (4.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 10 (4.27%) Amazon EKS
13 10 (4.27%) Amazon S3
13 10 (4.27%) AWS CloudFormation
14 9 (3.85%) Amazon ECS
14 9 (3.85%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 45 (19.23%) Firewall
2 34 (14.53%) DNS
3 30 (12.82%) VPN
4 28 (11.97%) WAN
5 21 (8.97%) LAN
6 15 (6.41%) DHCP
7 13 (5.56%) Network Security
8 12 (5.13%) Wi-Fi
9 9 (3.85%) MPLS
10 7 (2.99%) TCP/IP
11 6 (2.56%) SD-WAN
11 6 (2.56%) SMTP
12 5 (2.14%) VLAN
13 4 (1.71%) Software-Defined Networking
14 3 (1.28%) SAN
14 3 (1.28%) Wireless
14 3 (1.28%) WLAN
15 2 (0.85%) BGP
15 2 (0.85%) OSPF
15 2 (0.85%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (4.70%) SQL Server
2 8 (3.42%) DynamoDB
3 5 (2.14%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (2.14%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (1.71%) Big Data
4 4 (1.71%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (1.71%) Relational Database
5 3 (1.28%) MongoDB
5 3 (1.28%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.28%) RDBMS
6 2 (0.85%) DB2
6 2 (0.85%) Hadoop
6 2 (0.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.43%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.43%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.43%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.43%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.43%) MySQL
7 1 (0.43%) Power BI
7 1 (0.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 14 (5.98%) GitLab
1 14 (5.98%) Jenkins
2 11 (4.70%) Git
3 4 (1.71%) JIRA
4 3 (1.28%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.43%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.43%) Introscope
5 1 (0.43%) Jaeger
General
1 55 (23.50%) Social Skills
2 49 (20.94%) Finance
3 24 (10.26%) Banking
4 18 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (4.70%) Legal
6 10 (4.27%) Public Sector
7 7 (2.99%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (2.14%) Spanish Language
10 4 (1.71%) Front Office
10 4 (1.71%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.71%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.71%) Retail
11 3 (1.28%) Billing
11 3 (1.28%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.85%) Military
12 2 (0.85%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.43%) Games
13 1 (0.43%) Italian Language
13 1 (0.43%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 128 (54.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 33 (14.10%) Senior
3 22 (9.40%) Azure Engineer
4 21 (8.97%) Cloud Engineer
5 19 (8.12%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 18 (7.69%) Network Engineer
7 17 (7.26%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 13 (5.56%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 13 (5.56%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
9 11 (4.70%) Architect
10 10 (4.27%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 10 (4.27%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
11 9 (3.85%) NetApp Engineer
11 9 (3.85%) Security Engineer
11 9 (3.85%) Storage Engineer
12 8 (3.42%) Developer
13 7 (2.99%) VMware Engineer
14 6 (2.56%) Analyst
14 6 (2.56%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
14 6 (2.56%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.71%) ARM Templates
1 4 (1.71%) Kafka
2 3 (1.28%) AWS CDK
2 3 (1.28%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (1.28%) NumPy
2 3 (1.28%) Pandas
2 3 (1.28%) REST
2 3 (1.28%) SciPy
2 3 (1.28%) Spring
2 3 (1.28%) Spring Boot
3 2 (0.85%) ADO
3 2 (0.85%) GraphQL
3 2 (0.85%) JSON
3 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Graph
3 2 (0.85%) OpenTelemetry
3 2 (0.85%) RESTful
3 2 (0.85%) SOAP
3 2 (0.85%) Web Services
3 2 (0.85%) WSDL
4 1 (0.43%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (8.12%) Data Centre
2 17 (7.26%) Onboarding
3 14 (5.98%) Hybrid Cloud
4 12 (5.13%) Cloud Native
5 10 (4.27%) PKI
6 7 (2.99%) Clustering
6 7 (2.99%) Public Cloud
7 6 (2.56%) DataPower
7 6 (2.56%) Mainframe
8 5 (2.14%) Enterprise Storage
9 4 (1.71%) CCTV
9 4 (1.71%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.71%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (1.71%) Replication
9 4 (1.71%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.28%) Client/Server
10 3 (1.28%) Derivative
10 3 (1.28%) Equities
10 3 (1.28%) Equity Derivative
11 2 (0.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 67 (28.63%) Windows
2 40 (17.09%) Linux
3 36 (15.38%) Windows Server
4 9 (3.85%) Unix
5 6 (2.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (2.56%) Windows Server 2003
6 5 (2.14%) Ubuntu
6 5 (2.14%) VMS
7 4 (1.71%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (1.71%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (1.28%) Android
9 2 (0.85%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.85%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.85%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.85%) zOS
10 1 (0.43%) AIX
10 1 (0.43%) Amazon Linux
10 1 (0.43%) CentOS
10 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (21.79%) DevOps
1 51 (21.79%) Infrastructure as Code
2 49 (20.94%) CI/CD
3 31 (13.25%) Migration
4 28 (11.97%) Problem-Solving
5 23 (9.83%) Containerisation
6 18 (7.69%) Agile
6 18 (7.69%) Cloud Security
6 18 (7.69%) Cybersecurity
7 17 (7.26%) Platform Engineering
7 17 (7.26%) Project Delivery
8 16 (6.84%) Disaster Recovery
9 15 (6.41%) Analytics
9 15 (6.41%) ITIL
10 14 (5.98%) Incident Management
10 14 (5.98%) Observability
11 13 (5.56%) Continuous Improvement
11 13 (5.56%) RBAC
11 13 (5.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 12 (5.13%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 50 (21.37%) PowerShell
2 47 (20.09%) Python
3 17 (7.26%) SQL
4 12 (5.13%) Shell Script
5 10 (4.27%) Bash
5 10 (4.27%) C#
6 7 (2.99%) Java
7 5 (2.14%) Bicep
8 4 (1.71%) Ruby
9 3 (1.28%) C++
9 3 (1.28%) Go
9 3 (1.28%) JavaScript
10 2 (0.85%) JCL
11 1 (0.43%) Jython
11 1 (0.43%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.43%) Perl
11 1 (0.43%) Scala
Qualifications
1 49 (20.94%) Security Cleared
2 32 (13.68%) SC Cleared
3 16 (6.84%) DV Cleared
4 15 (6.41%) Azure Certification
5 13 (5.56%) Degree
6 11 (4.70%) Cisco Certification
7 8 (3.42%) CISSP
8 7 (2.99%) CCNP
9 6 (2.56%) CCNA
9 6 (2.56%) CISM
10 4 (1.71%) Master's Degree
10 4 (1.71%) PMI Certification
11 3 (1.28%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (1.28%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (1.28%) JNCIP
11 3 (1.28%) JNCIS
11 3 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (1.28%) PhD
11 3 (1.28%) PMP
11 3 (1.28%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.14%) NIST
2 4 (1.71%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.28%) GDPR
4 2 (0.85%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.85%) QA
4 2 (0.85%) SLA
4 2 (0.85%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.43%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.43%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 1 (0.43%) NCSC
5 1 (0.43%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.43%) PMO
5 1 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 51 (21.79%) Active Directory
2 27 (11.54%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (10.68%) Docker
4 15 (6.41%) Hyper-V
5 10 (4.27%) Virtual Desktop
6 9 (3.85%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (3.42%) VMware ESXi
8 7 (2.99%) BitLocker
9 6 (2.56%) Microsoft App-V
9 6 (2.56%) vSphere
10 3 (1.28%) Firmware
11 2 (0.85%) VMware NSX
12 1 (0.43%) NFS
12 1 (0.43%) Postfix
12 1 (0.43%) Sendmail
12 1 (0.43%) Terminal Services
12 1 (0.43%) Varnish
12 1 (0.43%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 58 (24.79%) Terraform
2 36 (15.38%) Kubernetes
2 36 (15.38%) Microsoft Intune
3 27 (11.54%) Ansible
4 15 (6.41%) SCCM
5 10 (4.27%) Grafana
6 8 (3.42%) Puppet
7 7 (2.99%) vCenter Server
8 6 (2.56%) Prometheus
8 6 (2.56%) vMotion
9 5 (2.14%) CASB
9 5 (2.14%) SCOrch
9 5 (2.14%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (1.71%) AirWatch
10 4 (1.71%) FortiGate
11 3 (1.28%) Packer
12 2 (0.85%) Jamf Pro
12 2 (0.85%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.85%) SCOM
12 2 (0.85%) vRealize
Vendors
1 74 (31.62%) Microsoft
2 36 (15.38%) VMware
3 17 (7.26%) Google
4 15 (6.41%) Citrix
5 10 (4.27%) Cisco
5 10 (4.27%) NetApp
6 9 (3.85%) CyberArk
7 8 (3.42%) Dell
8 7 (2.99%) Fortinet
9 6 (2.56%) Oracle
9 6 (2.56%) Red Hat
9 6 (2.56%) SolarWinds
9 6 (2.56%) Veeam
10 5 (2.14%) Palo Alto
10 5 (2.14%) ServiceNow
11 4 (1.71%) Aruba
11 4 (1.71%) Databricks
11 4 (1.71%) IBM
11 4 (1.71%) Juniper
11 4 (1.71%) Zscaler