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 25 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 190 160 130
Rank change year-on-year -30 -30 +59
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 198 244 356
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.37% 1.63% 1.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.50% 1.81% 2.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 186 247
10th Percentile £378 £325 £363
25th Percentile £448 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £515
Median % change year-on-year - +6.80% -6.36%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £675 £688 £741
England median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 3
10th Percentile £24.40 - £32.97
25th Percentile £26.50 - £34.42
Median hourly rate £30.00 £112.00 £36.84
Median % change year-on-year -73.21% +204.02% -41.23%
75th Percentile £32.70 - £38.04
90th Percentile £34.32 - £38.75
England median hourly rate £34.00 £63.14 £55.00
% change year-on-year -46.15% +14.80% +2.80%

All Process and 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 13,200 13,500 16,465
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.35% 90.19% 89.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,690 8,658 11,798
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -4.66%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £681
90th Percentile £758 £800 £788
England median daily rate £501 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.67% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 233 166 236
10th Percentile £18.03 £18.05 £18.42
25th Percentile £24.61 £23.80 £21.38
Median hourly rate £30.00 £36.65 £33.35
Median % change year-on-year -18.14% +9.91% -13.95%
75th Percentile £51.25 £55.19 £60.00
90th Percentile £67.30 £80.75 £74.38
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% -22.22% +22.56%

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 25 December 2025.

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 25 December 2025. 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 36 £550 -7.17% 25
West London -14 4 £300 -25.00% 3
South London -6 2 - - 5
East London - 1 - - 3
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 23 (11.62%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (3.54%) Confluence
3 5 (2.53%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.52%) Apache
4 3 (1.52%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.01%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.01%) nginx
5 2 (1.01%) Traefik
6 1 (0.51%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.51%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.51%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 3 (1.52%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.51%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 86 (43.43%) Azure
2 51 (25.76%) AWS
3 40 (20.20%) Microsoft 365
4 30 (15.15%) Entra ID
5 21 (10.61%) GitHub
6 20 (10.10%) GCP
7 16 (8.08%) Serverless
8 15 (7.58%) GitHub Actions
9 14 (7.07%) Amazon S3
9 14 (7.07%) Azure DevOps
9 14 (7.07%) IaaS
10 10 (5.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 9 (4.55%) Amazon EKS
11 9 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
11 9 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
12 8 (4.04%) Amazon ECS
12 8 (4.04%) Nutanix
13 7 (3.54%) Azure Monitor
13 7 (3.54%) GitHub Copilot
13 7 (3.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 48 (24.24%) Firewall
2 31 (15.66%) VPN
3 27 (13.64%) DNS
4 23 (11.62%) WAN
5 20 (10.10%) TCP/IP
6 17 (8.59%) Network Security
7 16 (8.08%) LAN
8 13 (6.57%) Wi-Fi
9 12 (6.06%) SSL
10 9 (4.55%) MPLS
11 7 (3.54%) DHCP
12 6 (3.03%) HTTP
12 6 (3.03%) SD-WAN
13 5 (2.53%) VLAN
13 5 (2.53%) Wireless
14 4 (2.02%) WLAN
15 3 (1.52%) BGP
15 3 (1.52%) Cisco Wireless
15 3 (1.52%) OSPF
15 3 (1.52%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.53%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.02%) DynamoDB
3 3 (1.52%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.01%) Big Data
4 2 (1.01%) MariaDB
4 2 (1.01%) MySQL
4 2 (1.01%) Power BI
5 1 (0.51%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.51%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (0.51%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.51%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.51%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.51%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.51%) Oracle Database 11g
5 1 (0.51%) Oracle Database 12c
5 1 (0.51%) Oracle Exadata
5 1 (0.51%) Parquet
5 1 (0.51%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 20 (10.10%) Git
2 17 (8.59%) Jenkins
3 11 (5.56%) GitLab
4 8 (4.04%) JIRA
5 4 (2.02%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.51%) Jaeger
6 1 (0.51%) MLflow
General
1 47 (23.74%) Finance
1 47 (23.74%) Social Skills
2 25 (12.63%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (10.10%) Banking
4 13 (6.57%) Public Sector
5 7 (3.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (3.03%) Spanish Language
7 5 (2.53%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (2.53%) Financial Institution
7 5 (2.53%) Front Office
8 4 (2.02%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.52%) Billing
9 3 (1.52%) Military
9 3 (1.52%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.01%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.01%) Local Government
10 2 (1.01%) Retail
11 1 (0.51%) International Banking
11 1 (0.51%) Italian Language
11 1 (0.51%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 101 (51.01%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 29 (14.65%) Senior
3 17 (8.59%) Network Engineer
3 17 (8.59%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 14 (7.07%) Security Engineer
5 12 (6.06%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
5 12 (6.06%) Platform Engineer
6 11 (5.56%) Azure Engineer
6 11 (5.56%) Cloud Engineer
7 10 (5.05%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
7 10 (5.05%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 9 (4.55%) Developer
9 8 (4.04%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
9 8 (4.04%) DevOps Engineer
9 8 (4.04%) Python Engineer
10 6 (3.03%) Automation Engineer
10 6 (3.03%) Windows Engineer
11 5 (2.53%) AWS Engineer
11 5 (2.53%) Infrastructure Support
11 5 (2.53%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.04%) Kafka
2 6 (3.03%) GraphQL
2 6 (3.03%) Middleware
2 6 (3.03%) REST
3 5 (2.53%) ARM Templates
4 4 (2.02%) gRPC
4 4 (2.02%) NumPy
4 4 (2.02%) Pandas
4 4 (2.02%) RESTful
4 4 (2.02%) YAML
5 3 (1.52%) AWT
5 3 (1.52%) FIX Protocol
5 3 (1.52%) GWT
5 3 (1.52%) JMS
5 3 (1.52%) Rendezvous
5 3 (1.52%) SciPy
5 3 (1.52%) TIBCO EMS
6 2 (1.01%) ADO
6 2 (1.01%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (1.01%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 11 (5.56%) Data Centre
1 11 (5.56%) Onboarding
1 11 (5.56%) Public Cloud
2 10 (5.05%) Cloud Native
3 7 (3.54%) Data Protection Act
3 7 (3.54%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (3.54%) PKI
3 7 (3.54%) Private Cloud
3 7 (3.54%) Replication
4 6 (3.03%) Equities
5 5 (2.53%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (2.02%) DataPower
6 4 (2.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (2.02%) Mainframe
7 3 (1.52%) Client/Server
7 3 (1.52%) Derivative
7 3 (1.52%) Equity Derivative
7 3 (1.52%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (1.52%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 56 (28.28%) Windows
2 43 (21.72%) Linux
3 39 (19.70%) Windows Server
4 13 (6.57%) Unix
5 4 (2.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (2.02%) Ubuntu
5 4 (2.02%) VMS
5 4 (2.02%) Windows 10
6 3 (1.52%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (1.01%) Android
7 2 (1.01%) Mac OS
7 2 (1.01%) Windows Server 2003
8 1 (0.51%) AIX
8 1 (0.51%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.51%) CentOS
8 1 (0.51%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.51%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.51%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (30.81%) Infrastructure as Code
2 54 (27.27%) DevOps
3 53 (26.77%) CI/CD
4 43 (21.72%) Problem-Solving
5 28 (14.14%) Containerisation
6 25 (12.63%) Agile
7 22 (11.11%) Migration
8 21 (10.61%) Observability
9 20 (10.10%) High Availability
10 19 (9.60%) Infrastructure Automation
11 18 (9.09%) Platform Engineering
12 17 (8.59%) Cybersecurity
12 17 (8.59%) ITIL
13 16 (8.08%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 14 (7.07%) Low Latency
15 13 (6.57%) AI
15 13 (6.57%) Analytics
15 13 (6.57%) Test Automation
16 12 (6.06%) SDLC
16 12 (6.06%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 64 (32.32%) Python
2 33 (16.67%) PowerShell
3 19 (9.60%) Bash
4 17 (8.59%) Java
5 12 (6.06%) Go
6 8 (4.04%) SQL
7 7 (3.54%) Perl
8 5 (2.53%) Shell Script
9 4 (2.02%) Bicep
10 3 (1.52%) C#
10 3 (1.52%) C++
10 3 (1.52%) Ruby
11 1 (0.51%) Scala
11 1 (0.51%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 29 (14.65%) Security Cleared
2 20 (10.10%) Degree
2 20 (10.10%) SC Cleared
3 11 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
4 9 (4.55%) Azure Certification
5 8 (4.04%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (3.54%) CCNA
6 7 (3.54%) CCNP
6 7 (3.54%) DV Cleared
7 6 (3.03%) CISSP
8 5 (2.53%) CISM
9 4 (2.02%) Master's Degree
9 4 (2.02%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (1.52%) JNCIP
10 3 (1.52%) JNCIS
10 3 (1.52%) PhD
11 2 (1.01%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (1.01%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 2 (1.01%) PMI Certification
11 2 (1.01%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.52%) Cyber Essentials
1 3 (1.52%) NIST
2 2 (1.01%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.01%) SLA
3 1 (0.51%) GDPR
3 1 (0.51%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 1 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.51%) QA
3 1 (0.51%) SOC 2
System Software
1 45 (22.73%) Active Directory
2 31 (15.66%) Docker
3 19 (9.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (5.05%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (3.54%) Hyper-V
5 7 (3.54%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (2.02%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (1.52%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (1.01%) BitLocker
8 2 (1.01%) Firmware
9 1 (0.51%) etcd
9 1 (0.51%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (0.51%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.51%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.51%) vSphere
9 1 (0.51%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 70 (35.35%) Terraform
2 34 (17.17%) Kubernetes
2 34 (17.17%) Microsoft Intune
3 31 (15.66%) Ansible
4 20 (10.10%) SCCM
5 19 (9.60%) Grafana
6 12 (6.06%) Prometheus
7 6 (3.03%) CASB
7 6 (3.03%) SCOrch
7 6 (3.03%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (2.53%) FortiGate
9 4 (2.02%) Argo
10 3 (1.52%) Istio
10 3 (1.52%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (1.01%) ITRS Geneos
11 2 (1.01%) Kibana
11 2 (1.01%) Puppet
11 2 (1.01%) Red Hat Satellite
11 2 (1.01%) SCOM
11 2 (1.01%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 63 (31.82%) Microsoft
2 24 (12.12%) VMware
3 17 (8.59%) Google
3 17 (8.59%) Palo Alto
4 16 (8.08%) Cisco
5 14 (7.07%) F5
6 9 (4.55%) Fortinet
7 8 (4.04%) Zscaler
8 7 (3.54%) CheckPoint
8 7 (3.54%) CyberArk
9 6 (3.03%) Dell
9 6 (3.03%) Juniper
10 5 (2.53%) Citrix
10 5 (2.53%) Veeam
11 4 (2.02%) Aruba
11 4 (2.02%) Commvault
11 4 (2.02%) Databricks
11 4 (2.02%) IBM
11 4 (2.02%) Meraki
11 4 (2.02%) Oracle