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 12 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 193 159
Rank change year-on-year +52 -34 -5
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 409 183 268
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.03% 1.35% 1.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.28% 1.46% 1.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 275 135 214
10th Percentile £396 £354 £325
25th Percentile £450 £413 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% +2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £622
90th Percentile £689 £675 £699
England median daily rate £538 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +2.38% +5.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £30.00 -
England median hourly rate £72.54 £42.44 £67.50
% change year-on-year +70.93% -37.13% -6.90%

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 17,953 12,554 14,427
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.10% 92.35% 88.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,817 8,388 10,113
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 294 250 200
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £17.05
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.75 £35.61
Median % change year-on-year +19.33% -16.44% -12.67%
75th Percentile £56.25 £48.44 £54.06
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.30 £71.31
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +3.61%

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 12 August 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 12 August 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 53 £598 -0.42% 38
West London -10 9 £675 - 3
South London -8 7 £500 -16.67% 10
East London +3 2 £775 +64.02% 4
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 21 (5.13%) Microsoft Exchange
2 20 (4.89%) SharePoint
3 13 (3.18%) CICS
3 13 (3.18%) Confluence
4 8 (1.96%) WebSphere
5 6 (1.47%) Apache
6 4 (0.98%) SharePoint Server
7 2 (0.49%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.49%) Exchange Server 2013
8 1 (0.24%) CloudStack
8 1 (0.24%) IBM HTTP Server
8 1 (0.24%) JBoss
8 1 (0.24%) nginx
8 1 (0.24%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.24%) SAS
8 1 (0.24%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 5 (1.22%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.73%) AutoCAD
2 3 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.24%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.73%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 188 (45.97%) Azure
2 101 (24.69%) AWS
3 55 (13.45%) GitHub
4 46 (11.25%) Azure DevOps
5 44 (10.76%) GCP
6 42 (10.27%) Entra ID
7 41 (10.02%) GitHub Actions
8 40 (9.78%) Microsoft 365
9 31 (7.58%) IaaS
10 29 (7.09%) Azure AKS
11 23 (5.62%) PaaS
12 22 (5.38%) Amazon EKS
12 22 (5.38%) SaaS
13 20 (4.89%) Azure Monitor
14 19 (4.65%) Serverless
15 18 (4.40%) Amazon S3
16 14 (3.42%) AWS Lambda
17 13 (3.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 10 (2.44%) Datadog
18 10 (2.44%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 77 (18.83%) DNS
2 58 (14.18%) Firewall
3 57 (13.94%) DHCP
4 41 (10.02%) VPN
5 32 (7.82%) Network Security
6 31 (7.58%) TCP/IP
7 20 (4.89%) WAN
8 15 (3.67%) SSL
9 13 (3.18%) LAN
9 13 (3.18%) Wi-Fi
10 10 (2.44%) SAN
11 9 (2.20%) HTTP
12 8 (1.96%) VLAN
13 7 (1.71%) SD-WAN
13 7 (1.71%) SMTP
14 6 (1.47%) BGP
14 6 (1.47%) NAS
15 5 (1.22%) DMZ
15 5 (1.22%) Structured Cabling
15 5 (1.22%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (7.58%) SQL Server
2 8 (1.96%) Elasticsearch
3 6 (1.47%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (1.47%) Db2
3 6 (1.47%) DynamoDB
4 5 (1.22%) BigQuery
4 5 (1.22%) Power BI
5 3 (0.73%) Big Data
5 3 (0.73%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (0.73%) Snowflake Schema
5 3 (0.73%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 3 (0.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (0.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (0.49%) Apache Iceberg
6 2 (0.49%) ClickHouse
6 2 (0.49%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.49%) Flink
6 2 (0.49%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.24%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.24%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 25 (6.11%) Git
2 21 (5.13%) GitLab
2 21 (5.13%) Jenkins
3 8 (1.96%) JIRA
4 5 (1.22%) Bitbucket
5 3 (0.73%) Chocolatey
6 2 (0.49%) Oracle Forms
6 2 (0.49%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.49%) Subversion
7 1 (0.24%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.24%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.24%) CMake
7 1 (0.24%) Gradle
7 1 (0.24%) Introscope
7 1 (0.24%) Maven
7 1 (0.24%) Terragrunt
General
1 93 (22.74%) Social Skills
2 69 (16.87%) Finance
3 34 (8.31%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (7.82%) Banking
5 23 (5.62%) Public Sector
6 18 (4.40%) Documentation Skills
7 11 (2.69%) Retail
7 11 (2.69%) Telecoms
8 8 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (1.96%) Law
9 7 (1.71%) Legal
10 5 (1.22%) Automotive
10 5 (1.22%) Billing
10 5 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (1.22%) Publishing
11 3 (0.73%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.73%) Military
11 3 (0.73%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.49%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.49%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 220 (53.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 54 (13.20%) Cloud Engineer
3 47 (11.49%) Senior
4 41 (10.02%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 40 (9.78%) Azure Engineer
6 35 (8.56%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 29 (7.09%) DevOps Engineer
8 24 (5.87%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
9 21 (5.13%) Lead
9 21 (5.13%) Network Engineer
10 18 (4.40%) Architect
11 13 (3.18%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 13 (3.18%) Platform Engineer
12 12 (2.93%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 12 (2.93%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
13 11 (2.69%) Infrastructure Specialist
13 11 (2.69%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
13 11 (2.69%) Support Engineer
14 10 (2.44%) Infrastructure Support
15 9 (2.20%) Microsoft Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (2.44%) ARM Templates
1 10 (2.44%) REST
1 10 (2.44%) YAML
2 9 (2.20%) JSON
2 9 (2.20%) Middleware
3 7 (1.71%) Loki
4 6 (1.47%) 802.1X
4 6 (1.47%) RESTful
4 6 (1.47%) SOAP
4 6 (1.47%) Web Services
4 6 (1.47%) WSDL
5 5 (1.22%) .NET
5 5 (1.22%) AWS CDK
5 5 (1.22%) OpenID
5 5 (1.22%) SAML
6 4 (0.98%) ADO
6 4 (0.98%) Elastic Stack
6 4 (0.98%) Kafka
7 3 (0.73%) HTML
7 3 (0.73%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 24 (5.87%) Hybrid Cloud
2 23 (5.62%) Cloud Native
3 22 (5.38%) Data Centre
4 16 (3.91%) Onboarding
5 15 (3.67%) Clustering
6 13 (3.18%) Mainframe
6 13 (3.18%) PKI
6 13 (3.18%) Public Cloud
7 9 (2.20%) Data Protection Act
7 9 (2.20%) Distributed Systems
8 8 (1.96%) CMDB
8 8 (1.96%) Enterprise Storage
8 8 (1.96%) Linux Command Line
8 8 (1.96%) Replication
9 7 (1.71%) Enterprise Cloud
10 6 (1.47%) Cyber Threat
10 6 (1.47%) DataPower
10 6 (1.47%) Management Information System
10 6 (1.47%) Online Banking
10 6 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 131 (32.03%) Windows
2 77 (18.83%) Windows Server
3 72 (17.60%) Linux
4 19 (4.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (3.18%) zOS
6 12 (2.93%) Unix
7 8 (1.96%) Ubuntu
7 8 (1.96%) VMS
7 8 (1.96%) Windows Server 2019
8 6 (1.47%) Android
8 6 (1.47%) Apple iOS
8 6 (1.47%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (1.22%) Mac OS
9 5 (1.22%) Windows 10
9 5 (1.22%) Windows Server 2012
10 4 (0.98%) Windows Server 2003
11 3 (0.73%) Windows Server 2008
12 2 (0.49%) Amazon Linux
12 2 (0.49%) OpenVMS
12 2 (0.49%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (30.81%) Infrastructure as Code
2 122 (29.83%) DevOps
3 108 (26.41%) CI/CD
4 66 (16.14%) Migration
5 59 (14.43%) Platform Engineering
6 57 (13.94%) AI
7 51 (12.47%) Problem-Solving
8 50 (12.22%) Infrastructure Automation
9 41 (10.02%) Continuous Improvement
10 39 (9.54%) Containerisation
11 38 (9.29%) Disaster Recovery
12 36 (8.80%) Agile
13 35 (8.56%) Incident Response
14 34 (8.31%) Configuration Management
15 33 (8.07%) Observability
15 33 (8.07%) Stakeholder Management
16 29 (7.09%) High Availability
17 28 (6.85%) ITIL
18 27 (6.60%) Cloud Security
18 27 (6.60%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 100 (24.45%) PowerShell
1 100 (24.45%) Python
2 43 (10.51%) Bash
3 35 (8.56%) SQL
4 19 (4.65%) Bicep
4 19 (4.65%) C#
5 18 (4.40%) Shell Script
6 17 (4.16%) Java
7 7 (1.71%) Go
7 7 (1.71%) Perl
8 6 (1.47%) C++
8 6 (1.47%) JCL
9 4 (0.98%) C
9 4 (0.98%) JavaScript
10 3 (0.73%) Kusto Query Language
10 3 (0.73%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.49%) Korn
11 2 (0.49%) Ruby
12 1 (0.24%) Jython
12 1 (0.24%) VB
Qualifications
1 138 (33.74%) Security Cleared
2 93 (22.74%) SC Cleared
3 42 (10.27%) DV Cleared
4 21 (5.13%) Azure Certification
5 19 (4.65%) Degree
6 16 (3.91%) Cisco Certification
7 11 (2.69%) CISSP
8 10 (2.44%) CCNA
8 10 (2.44%) CCNP
9 8 (1.96%) AWS Certification
10 6 (1.47%) CISM
10 6 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
10 6 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (1.22%) PMI Certification
12 4 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (0.98%) JNCIP
12 4 (0.98%) JNCIS
12 4 (0.98%) PMP
13 3 (0.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 3 (0.73%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (3.18%) QA
1 13 (3.18%) SLA
2 11 (2.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (2.20%) NIST
4 6 (1.47%) PCI DSS
5 4 (0.98%) SOC 2
6 3 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.73%) GDPR
6 3 (0.73%) NCSC
7 2 (0.49%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.49%) PMO
8 1 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.24%) FedRAMP
8 1 (0.24%) GRC
8 1 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (0.24%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 81 (19.80%) Active Directory
2 65 (15.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 33 (8.07%) Docker
4 25 (6.11%) Hyper-V
5 22 (5.38%) VMware ESXi
6 17 (4.16%) Virtual Machines
6 17 (4.16%) vSphere
7 14 (3.42%) Virtual Desktop
8 7 (1.71%) BitLocker
8 7 (1.71%) Microsoft App-V
8 7 (1.71%) Virtual Servers
9 5 (1.22%) Firmware
10 4 (0.98%) Terminal Services
10 4 (0.98%) VMware NSX
11 3 (0.73%) NFS
12 2 (0.49%) Ceph
12 2 (0.49%) Postfix
12 2 (0.49%) Sendmail
12 2 (0.49%) Varnish
13 1 (0.24%) KVM
Systems Management
1 131 (32.03%) Terraform
2 76 (18.58%) Kubernetes
3 60 (14.67%) Ansible
4 27 (6.60%) Microsoft Intune
5 17 (4.16%) Grafana
5 17 (4.16%) Puppet
5 17 (4.16%) vCenter Server
6 14 (3.42%) Prometheus
6 14 (3.42%) SCCM
7 12 (2.93%) Packer
8 10 (2.44%) FortiGate
9 8 (1.96%) Argo
9 8 (1.96%) systemd
10 7 (1.71%) vMotion
11 5 (1.22%) Microsoft Clustering
11 5 (1.22%) Nessus
11 5 (1.22%) Single Sign-On
12 4 (0.98%) Nagios
13 3 (0.73%) Jamf Pro
13 3 (0.73%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 123 (30.07%) Microsoft
2 85 (20.78%) VMware
3 24 (5.87%) Citrix
4 23 (5.62%) Cisco
4 23 (5.62%) Google
5 15 (3.67%) ServiceNow
6 14 (3.42%) NetApp
6 14 (3.42%) Oracle
6 14 (3.42%) Red Hat
7 10 (2.44%) Tenable
7 10 (2.44%) Zscaler
8 8 (1.96%) HP
9 7 (1.71%) Dynatrace
9 7 (1.71%) IBM
10 6 (1.47%) Qualys
11 5 (1.22%) Dell
11 5 (1.22%) EMC
11 5 (1.22%) Splunk
12 4 (0.98%) Commvault
12 4 (0.98%) Juniper