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 5 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 145 191 168
Rank change year-on-year +46 -23 -25
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 420 185 259
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.08% 1.39% 1.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.34% 1.50% 1.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 283 137 208
10th Percentile £375 £353 £324
25th Percentile £450 £425 £424
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £614
90th Percentile £700 £675 £700
England median daily rate £549 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +9.80% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £52.85 - -
25th Percentile £58.63 - -
Median hourly rate £69.50 £30.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +131.67% - -
75th Percentile £81.63 - -
90th Percentile £88.15 - -
England median hourly rate £74.00 £30.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +146.67% -57.14% -3.45%

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 17,968 12,305 14,254
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.07% 92.45% 89.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,753 8,146 9,703
10th Percentile £360 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £681
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £509 £525
% change year-on-year +3.05% -2.96% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 288 255 185
10th Percentile £17.18 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.98 £25.00 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £32.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.94% -8.57% -12.50%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.63 £55.00
90th Percentile £85.53 £63.75 £71.88
England median hourly rate £43.56 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +73.20% -41.51% +1.18%

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 5 September 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in London over the 6 months to 5 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in London

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 5 September 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 49 £620 +15.67% 37
West London -9 10 £675 - 16
South London -7 6 £473 -21.25% 6
East London +5 4 £638 +77.08% 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 21 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 21 (5.00%) SharePoint
2 14 (3.33%) Confluence
3 12 (2.86%) CICS
4 7 (1.67%) WebSphere
5 6 (1.43%) Apache
6 4 (0.95%) SharePoint Server
7 3 (0.71%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.71%) nginx
8 2 (0.48%) Exchange Server 2013
9 1 (0.24%) CloudStack
9 1 (0.24%) CMS
9 1 (0.24%) JBoss
9 1 (0.24%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.24%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.24%) WebLogic
Applications
1 5 (1.19%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.71%) AutoCAD
2 3 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.24%) CPLEX
3 1 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.24%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.71%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 186 (44.29%) Azure
2 103 (24.52%) AWS
3 46 (10.95%) GitHub
4 45 (10.71%) GCP
5 44 (10.48%) Azure DevOps
5 44 (10.48%) Entra ID
6 43 (10.24%) Microsoft 365
7 34 (8.10%) GitHub Actions
8 28 (6.67%) IaaS
9 25 (5.95%) Azure AKS
10 21 (5.00%) SaaS
11 19 (4.52%) Amazon EKS
11 19 (4.52%) PaaS
12 17 (4.05%) Azure Monitor
13 16 (3.81%) Amazon S3
14 14 (3.33%) Serverless
15 13 (3.10%) OCI
16 11 (2.62%) Datadog
17 10 (2.38%) OpenShift
18 9 (2.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 77 (18.33%) DNS
2 59 (14.05%) DHCP
2 59 (14.05%) Firewall
3 42 (10.00%) VPN
4 33 (7.86%) Network Security
5 31 (7.38%) TCP/IP
6 18 (4.29%) WAN
7 17 (4.05%) SSL
8 15 (3.57%) Wi-Fi
9 13 (3.10%) LAN
9 13 (3.10%) SAN
10 11 (2.62%) HTTP
11 10 (2.38%) VLAN
12 9 (2.14%) BGP
13 7 (1.67%) NAS
13 7 (1.67%) SMTP
13 7 (1.67%) Wireless
14 6 (1.43%) SD-WAN
15 5 (1.19%) SSH
15 5 (1.19%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (6.67%) SQL Server
2 9 (2.14%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (1.67%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (1.43%) BigQuery
5 5 (1.19%) Power BI
6 4 (0.95%) Db2
6 4 (0.95%) DynamoDB
6 4 (0.95%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (0.71%) Apache Iceberg
7 3 (0.71%) Big Data
7 3 (0.71%) ClickHouse
7 3 (0.71%) Flink
7 3 (0.71%) Oracle Database
7 3 (0.71%) Snowflake Schema
7 3 (0.71%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 3 (0.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (0.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (0.48%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.48%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.48%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 27 (6.43%) Git
2 19 (4.52%) Jenkins
3 17 (4.05%) GitLab
4 8 (1.90%) JIRA
5 4 (0.95%) Chocolatey
6 3 (0.71%) Oracle Forms
7 2 (0.48%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.48%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.48%) Subversion
8 1 (0.24%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.24%) CMake
8 1 (0.24%) Gradle
8 1 (0.24%) IBM UrbanCode
8 1 (0.24%) Maven
8 1 (0.24%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.24%) Vagrant
General
1 93 (22.14%) Social Skills
2 76 (18.10%) Finance
3 37 (8.81%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (7.38%) Banking
5 22 (5.24%) Public Sector
6 17 (4.05%) Documentation Skills
7 12 (2.86%) Telecoms
8 11 (2.62%) Retail
9 8 (1.90%) Law
10 7 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (1.19%) Automotive
11 5 (1.19%) Billing
11 5 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (1.19%) Publishing
12 4 (0.95%) Legal
13 3 (0.71%) Local Government
13 3 (0.71%) Military
13 3 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.48%) Aviation
14 2 (0.48%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 210 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 51 (12.14%) Senior
3 49 (11.67%) Cloud Engineer
4 38 (9.05%) Azure Engineer
5 36 (8.57%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 36 (8.57%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 33 (7.86%) DevOps Engineer
7 31 (7.38%) Lead
8 24 (5.71%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 24 (5.71%) Network Engineer
9 21 (5.00%) Architect
10 16 (3.81%) Platform Engineer
11 13 (3.10%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 13 (3.10%) Support Engineer
12 12 (2.86%) Infrastructure Specialist
13 11 (2.62%) AWS Engineer
14 10 (2.38%) Infrastructure Support
14 10 (2.38%) Microsoft Engineer
14 10 (2.38%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
14 10 (2.38%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 131 (31.19%) Terraform
2 11 (2.62%) ARM Templates
2 11 (2.62%) REST
2 11 (2.62%) YAML
3 9 (2.14%) Middleware
4 7 (1.67%) 802.1X
4 7 (1.67%) JSON
4 7 (1.67%) Loki
5 6 (1.43%) Kafka
5 6 (1.43%) OpenID
5 6 (1.43%) SAML
6 5 (1.19%) .NET
7 4 (0.95%) Elastic Stack
7 4 (0.95%) RESTful
7 4 (0.95%) SOAP
7 4 (0.95%) Web Services
7 4 (0.95%) WSDL
8 3 (0.71%) Model Context Protocol
8 3 (0.71%) ModSecurity
8 3 (0.71%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 31 (7.38%) Hybrid Cloud
2 27 (6.43%) Cloud Native
3 20 (4.76%) Data Centre
4 17 (4.05%) Clustering
5 15 (3.57%) Onboarding
6 12 (2.86%) Mainframe
6 12 (2.86%) PKI
6 12 (2.86%) Public Cloud
7 11 (2.62%) Distributed Systems
8 10 (2.38%) Replication
9 9 (2.14%) Data Protection Act
9 9 (2.14%) Enterprise Cloud
9 9 (2.14%) Linux Command Line
10 8 (1.90%) Private Cloud
11 7 (1.67%) CMDB
11 7 (1.67%) Cyber Threat
11 7 (1.67%) Enterprise Storage
12 6 (1.43%) AI Agents
13 5 (1.19%) Distributed Applications
13 5 (1.19%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 130 (30.95%) Windows
2 83 (19.76%) Windows Server
3 74 (17.62%) Linux
4 20 (4.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (2.86%) zOS
6 11 (2.62%) Unix
7 9 (2.14%) Ubuntu
7 9 (2.14%) Windows Server 2019
8 7 (1.67%) VMS
8 7 (1.67%) Windows Server 2016
9 6 (1.43%) Android
9 6 (1.43%) Apple iOS
9 6 (1.43%) Mac OS
10 5 (1.19%) Windows 10
10 5 (1.19%) Windows Server 2012
11 4 (0.95%) Windows Server 2008
12 3 (0.71%) Windows Server 2003
13 2 (0.48%) Amazon Linux
13 2 (0.48%) OpenVMS
13 2 (0.48%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (32.62%) Infrastructure as Code
2 126 (30.00%) DevOps
3 116 (27.62%) CI/CD
4 67 (15.95%) Migration
4 67 (15.95%) Platform Engineering
5 65 (15.48%) AI
6 61 (14.52%) Infrastructure Automation
7 53 (12.62%) Problem-Solving
8 44 (10.48%) Disaster Recovery
9 41 (9.76%) Stakeholder Management
10 40 (9.52%) Configuration Management
10 40 (9.52%) Continuous Improvement
11 39 (9.29%) Containerisation
11 39 (9.29%) Observability
12 36 (8.57%) Incident Response
13 35 (8.33%) High Availability
14 34 (8.10%) ITIL
15 32 (7.62%) Agile
16 31 (7.38%) Cloud Security
17 29 (6.90%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 108 (25.71%) Python
2 103 (24.52%) PowerShell
3 45 (10.71%) Bash
4 30 (7.14%) SQL
5 22 (5.24%) Bicep
6 18 (4.29%) Java
7 13 (3.10%) C#
8 11 (2.62%) Shell Script
9 8 (1.90%) C++
9 8 (1.90%) Go
9 8 (1.90%) Perl
10 5 (1.19%) C
10 5 (1.19%) JCL
10 5 (1.19%) TypeScript
11 4 (0.95%) JavaScript
12 3 (0.71%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.48%) Korn
14 1 (0.24%) Groovy
14 1 (0.24%) R
14 1 (0.24%) Scala
Qualifications
1 130 (30.95%) Security Cleared
2 86 (20.48%) SC Cleared
3 43 (10.24%) DV Cleared
4 24 (5.71%) Degree
5 22 (5.24%) Azure Certification
6 17 (4.05%) Cisco Certification
7 11 (2.62%) CCNA
7 11 (2.62%) CCNP
7 11 (2.62%) CISSP
8 10 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
9 9 (2.14%) AWS Certification
10 6 (1.43%) CISM
10 6 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (0.95%) JNCIP
11 4 (0.95%) JNCIS
12 3 (0.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (0.71%) PMI Certification
12 3 (0.71%) PMP
12 3 (0.71%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (3.10%) QA
1 13 (3.10%) SLA
2 12 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (1.90%) NIST
4 5 (1.19%) PCI DSS
5 4 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.71%) Data Quality
6 3 (0.71%) NCSC
6 3 (0.71%) SOC 2
7 2 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.48%) GDPR
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%) PMO
System Software
1 84 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 71 (16.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 34 (8.10%) Docker
4 29 (6.90%) Hyper-V
5 24 (5.71%) VMware ESXi
6 19 (4.52%) Virtual Machines
6 19 (4.52%) vSphere
7 14 (3.33%) Virtual Desktop
8 8 (1.90%) Virtual Servers
9 6 (1.43%) BitLocker
9 6 (1.43%) Firmware
9 6 (1.43%) Microsoft App-V
10 4 (0.95%) Terminal Services
10 4 (0.95%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.48%) Ceph
11 2 (0.48%) NFS
11 2 (0.48%) Postfix
11 2 (0.48%) RACF
12 1 (0.24%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 1 (0.24%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 78 (18.57%) Kubernetes
2 65 (15.48%) Ansible
3 29 (6.90%) Microsoft Intune
4 18 (4.29%) Grafana
5 17 (4.05%) Puppet
5 17 (4.05%) vCenter Server
6 16 (3.81%) SCCM
7 15 (3.57%) Prometheus
8 10 (2.38%) FortiGate
8 10 (2.38%) Packer
9 8 (1.90%) Argo
9 8 (1.90%) systemd
10 6 (1.43%) Nessus
10 6 (1.43%) Single Sign-On
10 6 (1.43%) vMotion
11 5 (1.19%) Microsoft Clustering
12 4 (0.95%) Nagios
12 4 (0.95%) Progress Chef
12 4 (0.95%) SCOM
13 3 (0.71%) WSUS
Vendors
1 131 (31.19%) Microsoft
2 97 (23.10%) VMware
3 28 (6.67%) Cisco
4 22 (5.24%) Google
5 21 (5.00%) Citrix
6 17 (4.05%) Red Hat
7 15 (3.57%) Oracle
8 14 (3.33%) ServiceNow
9 11 (2.62%) NetApp
10 10 (2.38%) Tenable
10 10 (2.38%) Zscaler
11 9 (2.14%) IBM
12 8 (1.90%) Dynatrace
12 8 (1.90%) HP
13 6 (1.43%) Juniper
13 6 (1.43%) Splunk
14 5 (1.19%) Databricks
14 5 (1.19%) Qualys
15 4 (0.95%) CyberArk
15 4 (0.95%) MikroTik