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 16 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 193 185 139
Rank change year-on-year -8 -46 +48
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 250 179 304
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.39% 1.44% 1.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.57% 1.56% 1.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 179 142 222
10th Percentile £400 £360 £301
25th Percentile £425 £420 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £523
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +0.48% -9.13%
75th Percentile £648 £620 £645
90th Percentile £719 £675 £749
England median daily rate £525 £525 £475
% change year-on-year - +10.53% -6.31%

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 15,904 11,443 15,488
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.34% 92.27% 88.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,637 7,743 11,096
10th Percentile £356 £350 £343
25th Percentile £431 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £688
90th Percentile £756 £806 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 242 176 307
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.17 £15.77
25th Percentile £25.16 £22.86 £20.00
Median hourly rate £35.71 £34.00 £27.84
Median % change year-on-year +5.03% +22.13% -27.22%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £74.88 £63.75 £66.60
England median hourly rate £47.00 £29.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year +62.07% -20.55% -2.14%

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 16 May 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 16 May 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 £600 +0.63% 33
South London -10 7 £425 -20.56% 1
West London -21 4 £650 +62.50% 4
East London -9 1 £775 +64.02% 1
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 (9.20%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (2.40%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.00%) CICS
4 4 (1.60%) Apache
5 3 (1.20%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.80%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.80%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.40%) IBM HTTP Server
7 1 (0.40%) SAS
7 1 (0.40%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 113 (45.20%) Azure
2 53 (21.20%) AWS
3 35 (14.00%) Microsoft 365
4 31 (12.40%) GitHub
5 28 (11.20%) GCP
5 28 (11.20%) IaaS
6 27 (10.80%) Entra ID
7 22 (8.80%) Azure DevOps
8 21 (8.40%) PaaS
9 20 (8.00%) GitHub Actions
9 20 (8.00%) Serverless
10 17 (6.80%) Azure AKS
11 16 (6.40%) AWS Lambda
12 14 (5.60%) SaaS
13 12 (4.80%) Azure Monitor
14 10 (4.00%) Amazon S3
15 9 (3.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 9 (3.60%) Nutanix
16 8 (3.20%) Amazon ECS
16 8 (3.20%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 44 (17.60%) DNS
2 32 (12.80%) Firewall
3 25 (10.00%) DHCP
4 20 (8.00%) VPN
5 14 (5.60%) WAN
6 12 (4.80%) LAN
6 12 (4.80%) Network Security
7 7 (2.80%) SMTP
8 6 (2.40%) MPLS
8 6 (2.40%) TCP/IP
9 5 (2.00%) SAN
10 4 (1.60%) Software-Defined Networking
11 3 (1.20%) NAS
11 3 (1.20%) SD-WAN
12 2 (0.80%) HTTP
12 2 (0.80%) Internet
12 2 (0.80%) Remote Desktop
12 2 (0.80%) VSAN
12 2 (0.80%) Wi-Fi
13 1 (0.40%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (6.00%) SQL Server
2 8 (3.20%) DynamoDB
3 6 (2.40%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (2.40%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (1.60%) DB2
4 4 (1.60%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (1.60%) Relational Database
5 3 (1.20%) MongoDB
5 3 (1.20%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.20%) RDBMS
5 3 (1.20%) Snowflake Schema
6 2 (0.80%) Big Data
6 2 (0.80%) Hadoop
6 2 (0.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.40%) Data Hub
7 1 (0.40%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.40%) Data Mining
7 1 (0.40%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.40%) Metadata
7 1 (0.40%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 15 (6.00%) GitLab
2 12 (4.80%) Git
3 11 (4.40%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.20%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.40%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.40%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.40%) Introscope
5 1 (0.40%) Jaeger
5 1 (0.40%) JIRA
General
1 54 (21.60%) Social Skills
2 43 (17.20%) Finance
3 22 (8.80%) Banking
4 14 (5.60%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (5.20%) Public Sector
6 11 (4.40%) Legal
7 7 (2.80%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (2.40%) Retail
9 5 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.60%) Front Office
10 4 (1.60%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.60%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.20%) Investment Banking
11 3 (1.20%) Military
12 2 (0.80%) Billing
12 2 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.80%) Law
12 2 (0.80%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.40%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.40%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 152 (60.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 35 (14.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 26 (10.40%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
3 26 (10.40%) Senior
4 21 (8.40%) Azure Engineer
5 16 (6.40%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 15 (6.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
7 14 (5.60%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 14 (5.60%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
8 13 (5.20%) NetApp Engineer
8 13 (5.20%) Storage Engineer
9 12 (4.80%) Architect
10 11 (4.40%) Network Engineer
11 9 (3.60%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
12 8 (3.20%) Lead
13 6 (2.40%) Data Engineer
13 6 (2.40%) Developer
13 6 (2.40%) Security Engineer
14 5 (2.00%) Integration Engineer
14 5 (2.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.00%) JSON
1 5 (2.00%) REST
2 4 (1.60%) Kafka
2 4 (1.60%) RESTful
2 4 (1.60%) SOAP
2 4 (1.60%) Web Services
2 4 (1.60%) WSDL
3 3 (1.20%) ARM Templates
3 3 (1.20%) AWS CDK
3 3 (1.20%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (1.20%) NumPy
3 3 (1.20%) OpenID
3 3 (1.20%) Pandas
3 3 (1.20%) SciPy
3 3 (1.20%) Spring
3 3 (1.20%) Spring Boot
4 2 (0.80%) ADO
4 2 (0.80%) GraphQL
4 2 (0.80%) Middleware
4 2 (0.80%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (6.40%) Hybrid Cloud
2 14 (5.60%) Data Centre
3 11 (4.40%) Onboarding
4 10 (4.00%) Cloud Native
5 8 (3.20%) Enterprise Storage
5 8 (3.20%) PKI
6 7 (2.80%) Clustering
6 7 (2.80%) Mainframe
7 6 (2.40%) DataPower
8 4 (1.60%) CCTV
8 4 (1.60%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.60%) Online Banking
8 4 (1.60%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.60%) Virtual Team
9 3 (1.20%) Derivative
9 3 (1.20%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (1.20%) Equities
9 3 (1.20%) Equity Derivative
9 3 (1.20%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 77 (30.80%) Windows
2 42 (16.80%) Windows Server
3 37 (14.80%) Linux
4 7 (2.80%) Unix
5 6 (2.40%) Android
5 6 (2.40%) Apple iOS
5 6 (2.40%) Windows Server 2003
5 6 (2.40%) Windows Server 2019
6 5 (2.00%) VMS
6 5 (2.00%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (2.00%) zOS
7 3 (1.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (1.20%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.80%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.80%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.40%) AIX
9 1 (0.40%) Amazon Linux
9 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (24.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 58 (23.20%) CI/CD
3 56 (22.40%) DevOps
4 29 (11.60%) Migration
5 28 (11.20%) Problem-Solving
6 27 (10.80%) Platform Engineering
7 24 (9.60%) Containerisation
8 18 (7.20%) AI
8 18 (7.20%) Continuous Improvement
8 18 (7.20%) Roadmaps
9 16 (6.40%) Disaster Recovery
10 15 (6.00%) Infrastructure Automation
11 14 (5.60%) Agile
11 14 (5.60%) Analytics
11 14 (5.60%) Cloud Security
11 14 (5.60%) ITIL
11 14 (5.60%) Mentoring
12 13 (5.20%) High Availability
12 13 (5.20%) Incident Management
12 13 (5.20%) Infrastructure Transformation
Programming Languages
1 54 (21.60%) PowerShell
2 43 (17.20%) Python
3 25 (10.00%) SQL
4 18 (7.20%) C#
5 13 (5.20%) Shell Script
6 11 (4.40%) Bash
7 9 (3.60%) Bicep
7 9 (3.60%) Java
8 5 (2.00%) C++
9 4 (1.60%) JavaScript
9 4 (1.60%) JCL
9 4 (1.60%) Ruby
10 3 (1.20%) Go
11 1 (0.40%) Jython
11 1 (0.40%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.40%) Scala
11 1 (0.40%) VB
Qualifications
1 75 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 51 (20.40%) SC Cleared
3 24 (9.60%) DV Cleared
4 12 (4.80%) Degree
5 8 (3.20%) Azure Certification
6 6 (2.40%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (2.00%) CCNA
8 4 (1.60%) CISSP
9 3 (1.20%) AWS Certification
9 3 (1.20%) Master's Degree
9 3 (1.20%) PhD
9 3 (1.20%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.80%) CCNP
10 2 (0.80%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (0.80%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.40%) CISA
11 1 (0.40%) CISM
11 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.40%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.80%) QA
2 6 (2.40%) NIST
3 4 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.60%) SLA
4 3 (1.20%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.20%) GDPR
4 3 (1.20%) NCSC
4 3 (1.20%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.80%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.40%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.40%) PMO
6 1 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 51 (20.40%) Active Directory
2 33 (13.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (9.20%) Docker
4 21 (8.40%) Hyper-V
5 11 (4.40%) Virtual Desktop
6 10 (4.00%) vSphere
7 9 (3.60%) VMware ESXi
8 8 (3.20%) Virtual Machines
9 7 (2.80%) BitLocker
9 7 (2.80%) Microsoft App-V
10 4 (1.60%) Firmware
11 3 (1.20%) VMware NSX
12 2 (0.80%) NFS
12 2 (0.80%) Postfix
12 2 (0.80%) Sendmail
12 2 (0.80%) Varnish
12 2 (0.80%) Virtual Servers
13 1 (0.40%) KVM
13 1 (0.40%) RACF
13 1 (0.40%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 64 (25.60%) Terraform
2 45 (18.00%) Kubernetes
3 27 (10.80%) Microsoft Intune
4 26 (10.40%) Ansible
5 9 (3.60%) Puppet
6 8 (3.20%) vCenter Server
7 7 (2.80%) Packer
7 7 (2.80%) vMotion
8 6 (2.40%) Grafana
9 5 (2.00%) SCCM
10 4 (1.60%) AirWatch
10 4 (1.60%) Prometheus
11 2 (0.80%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.80%) HAProxy
11 2 (0.80%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.80%) vRealize
12 1 (0.40%) CA Wily
12 1 (0.40%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.40%) SCOrch
12 1 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 66 (26.40%) Microsoft
2 45 (18.00%) VMware
3 19 (7.60%) Citrix
4 15 (6.00%) NetApp
5 12 (4.80%) Google
6 7 (2.80%) Dell
7 6 (2.40%) Oracle
8 5 (2.00%) Cisco
8 5 (2.00%) SolarWinds
9 4 (1.60%) CyberArk
9 4 (1.60%) Red Hat
9 4 (1.60%) ServiceNow
10 3 (1.20%) Fortinet
10 3 (1.20%) IBM
10 3 (1.20%) Informatica
10 3 (1.20%) Palo Alto
10 3 (1.20%) Veeam
11 2 (0.80%) Adyen
11 2 (0.80%) EMC
11 2 (0.80%) Splunk