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

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 135 193 167
Rank change year-on-year +58 -26 -19
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 416 184 260
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.07% 1.37% 1.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.32% 1.48% 1.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 283 138 212
10th Percentile £394 £357 £325
25th Percentile £450 £416 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £539 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.09% +2.62% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £617
90th Percentile £699 £675 £700
England median daily rate £542 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +3.21% +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £30.00 -
England median hourly rate £73.27 £30.00 £67.50
% change year-on-year +144.23% -55.56% -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 17,903 12,394 14,446
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.17% 92.46% 88.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,741 8,241 10,033
10th Percentile £361 £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 £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 287 256 196
10th Percentile £17.16 £16.50 £17.08
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.74 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.34% -15.71% -12.50%
75th Percentile £57.25 £47.50 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.56
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -40.82% +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 21 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 21 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 +11 52 £623 +10.67% 18
West London -14 9 £675 - 5
South London -7 5 £473 -21.25% 5
East London +1 3 £638 +34.92% 6
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 20 (4.81%) SharePoint
2 19 (4.57%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (3.13%) CICS
3 13 (3.13%) Confluence
4 8 (1.92%) WebSphere
5 7 (1.68%) Apache
6 4 (0.96%) SharePoint Server
7 3 (0.72%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.48%) Exchange Server 2013
8 2 (0.48%) nginx
9 1 (0.24%) CloudStack
9 1 (0.24%) CMS
9 1 (0.24%) IBM HTTP Server
9 1 (0.24%) JBoss
9 1 (0.24%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.24%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.24%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.24%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 5 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.72%) AutoCAD
2 3 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.24%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.72%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 189 (45.43%) Azure
2 100 (24.04%) AWS
3 51 (12.26%) GitHub
4 48 (11.54%) Azure DevOps
5 44 (10.58%) GCP
6 41 (9.86%) Entra ID
7 39 (9.38%) Microsoft 365
8 37 (8.89%) GitHub Actions
9 30 (7.21%) Azure AKS
9 30 (7.21%) IaaS
10 24 (5.77%) SaaS
11 23 (5.53%) PaaS
12 21 (5.05%) Azure Monitor
13 19 (4.57%) Amazon EKS
14 17 (4.09%) Serverless
15 15 (3.61%) Amazon S3
16 12 (2.88%) OCI
17 11 (2.64%) AWS Lambda
17 11 (2.64%) Datadog
18 10 (2.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 77 (18.51%) DNS
2 58 (13.94%) DHCP
2 58 (13.94%) Firewall
3 42 (10.10%) VPN
4 34 (8.17%) Network Security
5 31 (7.45%) TCP/IP
6 19 (4.57%) WAN
7 17 (4.09%) SSL
8 15 (3.61%) Wi-Fi
9 13 (3.13%) LAN
10 12 (2.88%) SAN
11 10 (2.40%) HTTP
12 9 (2.16%) VLAN
13 7 (1.68%) BGP
13 7 (1.68%) NAS
13 7 (1.68%) SD-WAN
13 7 (1.68%) SMTP
14 6 (1.44%) Wireless
15 5 (1.20%) DMZ
15 5 (1.20%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (7.69%) SQL Server
2 10 (2.40%) Elasticsearch
3 6 (1.44%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (1.44%) BigQuery
3 6 (1.44%) Db2
3 6 (1.44%) DynamoDB
4 5 (1.20%) Power BI
5 3 (0.72%) Apache Iceberg
5 3 (0.72%) Big Data
5 3 (0.72%) ClickHouse
5 3 (0.72%) Flink
5 3 (0.72%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (0.72%) Snowflake Schema
5 3 (0.72%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 3 (0.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (0.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (0.48%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.48%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.24%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.24%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 25 (6.01%) Git
2 18 (4.33%) GitLab
3 17 (4.09%) Jenkins
4 7 (1.68%) JIRA
5 4 (0.96%) Chocolatey
6 2 (0.48%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.48%) Oracle Forms
6 2 (0.48%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.48%) 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 95 (22.84%) Social Skills
2 74 (17.79%) Finance
3 36 (8.65%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (8.41%) Banking
5 22 (5.29%) Public Sector
6 18 (4.33%) Documentation Skills
7 12 (2.88%) Telecoms
8 11 (2.64%) Retail
9 8 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (1.92%) Law
10 5 (1.20%) Automotive
10 5 (1.20%) Billing
10 5 (1.20%) Legal
10 5 (1.20%) Publishing
11 3 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.72%) Military
11 3 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.48%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.48%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.48%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 222 (53.37%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 54 (12.98%) Cloud Engineer
3 50 (12.02%) Senior
4 41 (9.86%) Azure Engineer
4 41 (9.86%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 36 (8.65%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 32 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
7 27 (6.49%) Lead
8 25 (6.01%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
9 22 (5.29%) Network Engineer
10 18 (4.33%) Architect
11 14 (3.37%) Platform Engineer
12 13 (3.13%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 12 (2.88%) Infrastructure Specialist
14 11 (2.64%) 3rd Line Engineer
14 11 (2.64%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
14 11 (2.64%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
14 11 (2.64%) Support Engineer
15 10 (2.40%) Infrastructure Support
16 9 (2.16%) Microsoft Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 130 (31.25%) Terraform
2 11 (2.64%) ARM Templates
2 11 (2.64%) YAML
3 10 (2.40%) Middleware
3 10 (2.40%) REST
4 9 (2.16%) JSON
5 7 (1.68%) 802.1X
5 7 (1.68%) Loki
6 6 (1.44%) OpenID
6 6 (1.44%) RESTful
6 6 (1.44%) SAML
6 6 (1.44%) SOAP
6 6 (1.44%) Web Services
6 6 (1.44%) WSDL
7 5 (1.20%) .NET
7 5 (1.20%) Kafka
8 4 (0.96%) ADO
8 4 (0.96%) Elastic Stack
9 3 (0.72%) ModSecurity
9 3 (0.72%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 26 (6.25%) Cloud Native
2 25 (6.01%) Hybrid Cloud
3 21 (5.05%) Data Centre
4 17 (4.09%) Clustering
5 14 (3.37%) Onboarding
6 13 (3.13%) Mainframe
6 13 (3.13%) PKI
6 13 (3.13%) Public Cloud
7 10 (2.40%) Distributed Systems
8 9 (2.16%) Data Protection Act
9 8 (1.92%) Enterprise Cloud
9 8 (1.92%) Enterprise Storage
9 8 (1.92%) Linux Command Line
9 8 (1.92%) Replication
10 7 (1.68%) CMDB
10 7 (1.68%) Cyber Threat
11 6 (1.44%) DataPower
11 6 (1.44%) Online Banking
11 6 (1.44%) Private Cloud
11 6 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 131 (31.49%) Windows
2 79 (18.99%) Windows Server
3 72 (17.31%) Linux
4 20 (4.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (3.13%) zOS
6 12 (2.88%) Unix
7 9 (2.16%) Windows Server 2019
8 8 (1.92%) Ubuntu
8 8 (1.92%) VMS
8 8 (1.92%) Windows Server 2016
9 6 (1.44%) Android
9 6 (1.44%) Apple iOS
10 5 (1.20%) Mac OS
10 5 (1.20%) Windows 10
10 5 (1.20%) Windows Server 2012
11 4 (0.96%) Windows Server 2003
11 4 (0.96%) Windows Server 2008
12 2 (0.48%) OpenVMS
12 2 (0.48%) Windows 7
13 1 (0.24%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (31.97%) Infrastructure as Code
2 125 (30.05%) DevOps
3 111 (26.68%) CI/CD
4 66 (15.87%) Migration
5 62 (14.90%) Platform Engineering
6 61 (14.66%) AI
7 56 (13.46%) Infrastructure Automation
8 54 (12.98%) Problem-Solving
9 41 (9.86%) Disaster Recovery
10 40 (9.62%) Continuous Improvement
11 38 (9.13%) Configuration Management
11 38 (9.13%) Containerisation
12 35 (8.41%) High Availability
12 35 (8.41%) Incident Response
12 35 (8.41%) Observability
12 35 (8.41%) Stakeholder Management
13 32 (7.69%) Agile
14 29 (6.97%) ITIL
14 29 (6.97%) Runbook
15 28 (6.73%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 105 (25.24%) PowerShell
2 104 (25.00%) Python
3 43 (10.34%) Bash
4 36 (8.65%) SQL
5 20 (4.81%) Bicep
6 19 (4.57%) C#
7 18 (4.33%) Java
8 15 (3.61%) Shell Script
9 7 (1.68%) Perl
10 6 (1.44%) C++
10 6 (1.44%) Go
10 6 (1.44%) JCL
11 4 (0.96%) C
11 4 (0.96%) JavaScript
11 4 (0.96%) TypeScript
12 3 (0.72%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.48%) Korn
13 2 (0.48%) Ruby
14 1 (0.24%) Jython
14 1 (0.24%) VB
Qualifications
1 138 (33.17%) Security Cleared
2 92 (22.12%) SC Cleared
3 43 (10.34%) DV Cleared
4 21 (5.05%) Azure Certification
5 20 (4.81%) Degree
6 16 (3.85%) Cisco Certification
7 11 (2.64%) CISSP
8 10 (2.40%) CCNA
8 10 (2.40%) CCNP
9 8 (1.92%) AWS Certification
10 7 (1.68%) Computer Science Degree
11 6 (1.44%) CISM
11 6 (1.44%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (0.96%) JNCIP
12 4 (0.96%) JNCIS
12 4 (0.96%) PMI Certification
13 3 (0.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 3 (0.72%) PMP
13 3 (0.72%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (3.13%) QA
1 13 (3.13%) SLA
2 11 (2.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (1.92%) NIST
4 5 (1.20%) PCI DSS
5 3 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (0.72%) NCSC
5 3 (0.72%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.48%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.48%) GDPR
7 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.24%) FedRAMP
7 1 (0.24%) GRC
7 1 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 1 (0.24%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.24%) PMO
7 1 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 80 (19.23%) Active Directory
2 68 (16.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 32 (7.69%) Docker
4 27 (6.49%) Hyper-V
5 24 (5.77%) VMware ESXi
6 19 (4.57%) Virtual Machines
7 18 (4.33%) vSphere
8 13 (3.13%) Virtual Desktop
9 8 (1.92%) Virtual Servers
10 7 (1.68%) BitLocker
10 7 (1.68%) Microsoft App-V
11 6 (1.44%) Firmware
12 4 (0.96%) Terminal Services
12 4 (0.96%) VMware NSX
13 3 (0.72%) NFS
14 2 (0.48%) Ceph
14 2 (0.48%) Postfix
14 2 (0.48%) Sendmail
14 2 (0.48%) Varnish
15 1 (0.24%) Citrix Hypervisor
Systems Management
1 79 (18.99%) Kubernetes
2 63 (15.14%) Ansible
3 26 (6.25%) Microsoft Intune
4 18 (4.33%) vCenter Server
5 17 (4.09%) Grafana
5 17 (4.09%) Puppet
6 16 (3.85%) SCCM
7 14 (3.37%) Prometheus
8 12 (2.88%) Packer
9 10 (2.40%) FortiGate
10 8 (1.92%) Argo
10 8 (1.92%) systemd
11 7 (1.68%) vMotion
12 6 (1.44%) Single Sign-On
13 5 (1.20%) Microsoft Clustering
13 5 (1.20%) Nessus
14 4 (0.96%) Nagios
14 4 (0.96%) SCOM
15 3 (0.72%) Jamf Pro
15 3 (0.72%) yum
Vendors
1 125 (30.05%) Microsoft
2 88 (21.15%) VMware
3 25 (6.01%) Cisco
4 22 (5.29%) Citrix
4 22 (5.29%) Google
5 16 (3.85%) Oracle
6 15 (3.61%) Red Hat
7 14 (3.37%) ServiceNow
8 13 (3.13%) NetApp
9 10 (2.40%) Tenable
9 10 (2.40%) Zscaler
10 8 (1.92%) Dynatrace
10 8 (1.92%) HP
10 8 (1.92%) IBM
11 6 (1.44%) Splunk
12 5 (1.20%) Databricks
12 5 (1.20%) EMC
12 5 (1.20%) Juniper
12 5 (1.20%) Qualys
13 4 (0.96%) MikroTik