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 3 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 155 188 147
Rank change year-on-year +33 -41 +16
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 342 182 309
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.77% 1.39% 1.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.99% 1.51% 1.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 240 139 240
10th Percentile £406 £349 £325
25th Percentile £448 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £515
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +1.94% -6.36%
75th Percentile £650 £600 £638
90th Percentile £719 £650 £726
England median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £30.00 -
England median hourly rate £72.54 £57.75 £54.88
% change year-on-year +25.61% +5.24% -24.31%

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 17,177 12,084 15,599
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.92% 92.22% 88.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,420 8,065 11,124
10th Percentile £360 £331 £341
25th Percentile £438 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £523 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +1.46% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 266 227 298
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £15.98
25th Percentile £23.25 £24.66 £20.02
Median hourly rate £37.25 £32.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.62% +8.33% -26.90%
75th Percentile £59.00 £50.25 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.45 £68.75
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% +1.65%

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 3 July 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 3 July 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 +4 50 £575 +2.22% 39
West London -15 8 £675 - 11
South London -4 7 £425 -29.17%
East London -3 1 £775 +64.02% 5
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 19 (5.56%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (3.22%) CICS
3 7 (2.05%) SharePoint
4 6 (1.75%) Confluence
4 6 (1.75%) WebSphere
5 5 (1.46%) Apache
6 3 (0.88%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.58%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.29%) CloudStack
8 1 (0.29%) IBM HTTP Server
8 1 (0.29%) SAS
8 1 (0.29%) SharePoint Server
8 1 (0.29%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 3 (0.88%) AutoCAD
2 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 159 (46.49%) Azure
2 90 (26.32%) AWS
3 45 (13.16%) GCP
3 45 (13.16%) GitHub
4 33 (9.65%) Azure DevOps
5 32 (9.36%) GitHub Actions
6 30 (8.77%) IaaS
7 28 (8.19%) Microsoft 365
8 26 (7.60%) Entra ID
9 25 (7.31%) Azure AKS
10 24 (7.02%) PaaS
11 19 (5.56%) SaaS
11 19 (5.56%) Serverless
12 18 (5.26%) Amazon EKS
13 15 (4.39%) Amazon S3
13 15 (4.39%) AWS Lambda
13 15 (4.39%) Azure Monitor
14 12 (3.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 9 (2.63%) Nutanix
16 8 (2.34%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 59 (17.25%) DNS
2 41 (11.99%) DHCP
3 38 (11.11%) Firewall
4 30 (8.77%) VPN
5 22 (6.43%) Network Security
6 15 (4.39%) WAN
7 13 (3.80%) TCP/IP
8 10 (2.92%) LAN
9 9 (2.63%) SMTP
10 7 (2.05%) SSL
11 6 (1.75%) SAN
12 5 (1.46%) DMZ
12 5 (1.46%) NAS
12 5 (1.46%) SD-WAN
12 5 (1.46%) Structured Cabling
13 4 (1.17%) HTTP
13 4 (1.17%) MPLS
14 3 (0.88%) BGP
14 3 (0.88%) Internet
14 3 (0.88%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (6.73%) SQL Server
2 8 (2.34%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (2.34%) DynamoDB
2 8 (2.34%) Elasticsearch
3 6 (1.75%) Db2
3 6 (1.75%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (1.46%) Big Data
5 3 (0.88%) MongoDB
5 3 (0.88%) NoSQL
5 3 (0.88%) RDBMS
5 3 (0.88%) Relational Database
5 3 (0.88%) Snowflake Schema
6 2 (0.58%) BigQuery
6 2 (0.58%) Hadoop
6 2 (0.58%) Power BI
7 1 (0.29%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.29%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.29%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.29%) Metadata
7 1 (0.29%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 19 (5.56%) GitLab
2 14 (4.09%) Jenkins
3 12 (3.51%) Git
4 5 (1.46%) Bitbucket
5 4 (1.17%) JIRA
6 2 (0.58%) Subversion
7 1 (0.29%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.29%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.29%) CMake
7 1 (0.29%) Gradle
7 1 (0.29%) Introscope
General
1 79 (23.10%) Social Skills
2 62 (18.13%) Finance
3 28 (8.19%) Banking
4 19 (5.56%) Public Sector
5 18 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (4.97%) Documentation Skills
7 12 (3.51%) Legal
8 8 (2.34%) Retail
9 7 (2.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (2.05%) Law
10 5 (1.46%) Billing
10 5 (1.46%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (1.46%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (1.46%) Telecoms
11 4 (1.17%) Publishing
12 3 (0.88%) Military
13 2 (0.58%) Aerospace
13 2 (0.58%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.58%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.58%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 196 (57.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 52 (15.20%) Cloud Engineer
3 37 (10.82%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 30 (8.77%) Senior
5 28 (8.19%) Azure Engineer
6 20 (5.85%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 18 (5.26%) DevOps Engineer
8 17 (4.97%) Architect
8 17 (4.97%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
9 15 (4.39%) Lead
10 14 (4.09%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 14 (4.09%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
11 11 (3.22%) Platform Engineer
12 10 (2.92%) Infrastructure Support
12 10 (2.92%) NetApp Engineer
12 10 (2.92%) Network Engineer
12 10 (2.92%) Storage Engineer
12 10 (2.92%) Support Engineer
13 9 (2.63%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
13 9 (2.63%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (2.92%) REST
2 9 (2.63%) JSON
3 6 (1.75%) Middleware
3 6 (1.75%) RESTful
3 6 (1.75%) SOAP
3 6 (1.75%) Web Services
3 6 (1.75%) WSDL
3 6 (1.75%) YAML
4 5 (1.46%) AWS CDK
4 5 (1.46%) Elastic Stack
4 5 (1.46%) Loki
4 5 (1.46%) OpenID
5 4 (1.17%) .NET
5 4 (1.17%) Kafka
5 4 (1.17%) SAML
6 3 (0.88%) ADO
6 3 (0.88%) HTML
6 3 (0.88%) ModSecurity
6 3 (0.88%) Spring
6 3 (0.88%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 21 (6.14%) Cloud Native
1 21 (6.14%) Data Centre
2 20 (5.85%) Hybrid Cloud
3 15 (4.39%) Onboarding
4 11 (3.22%) Mainframe
4 11 (3.22%) PKI
5 10 (2.92%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (2.63%) Clustering
7 8 (2.34%) Enterprise Storage
8 7 (2.05%) CMDB
9 6 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (1.75%) DataPower
9 6 (1.75%) Online Banking
9 6 (1.75%) Public Cloud
9 6 (1.75%) Replication
9 6 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (1.46%) AI Agents
10 5 (1.46%) CCTV
10 5 (1.46%) Enterprise Cloud
10 5 (1.46%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 107 (31.29%) Windows
2 62 (18.13%) Windows Server
3 53 (15.50%) Linux
4 12 (3.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (3.22%) zOS
6 10 (2.92%) Unix
7 6 (1.75%) Android
7 6 (1.75%) Apple iOS
7 6 (1.75%) Windows Server 2003
7 6 (1.75%) Windows Server 2019
8 5 (1.46%) VMS
9 4 (1.17%) Windows 10
10 3 (0.88%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.88%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (0.88%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.58%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.29%) AIX
12 1 (0.29%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (0.29%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (26.90%) Infrastructure as Code
2 89 (26.02%) DevOps
3 83 (24.27%) CI/CD
4 48 (14.04%) Platform Engineering
5 44 (12.87%) AI
5 44 (12.87%) Migration
6 37 (10.82%) Containerisation
7 35 (10.23%) Problem-Solving
8 30 (8.77%) Infrastructure Automation
9 28 (8.19%) Incident Response
10 27 (7.89%) Continuous Improvement
10 27 (7.89%) Roadmaps
11 26 (7.60%) Agile
11 26 (7.60%) Observability
12 24 (7.02%) Disaster Recovery
13 22 (6.43%) Runbook
14 21 (6.14%) Validation
15 19 (5.56%) Configuration Management
15 19 (5.56%) Stakeholder Management
16 18 (5.26%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 78 (22.81%) PowerShell
2 75 (21.93%) Python
3 30 (8.77%) SQL
4 29 (8.48%) Bash
5 18 (5.26%) C#
5 18 (5.26%) Java
6 15 (4.39%) Shell Script
7 12 (3.51%) Bicep
8 6 (1.75%) Go
8 6 (1.75%) JavaScript
8 6 (1.75%) JCL
9 3 (0.88%) Kusto Query Language
9 3 (0.88%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.58%) C++
10 2 (0.58%) Korn
10 2 (0.58%) Ruby
11 1 (0.29%) C
11 1 (0.29%) Perl
11 1 (0.29%) Scala
11 1 (0.29%) VB
Qualifications
1 105 (30.70%) Security Cleared
2 68 (19.88%) SC Cleared
3 38 (11.11%) DV Cleared
4 13 (3.80%) Degree
5 12 (3.51%) Azure Certification
6 11 (3.22%) Cisco Certification
7 9 (2.63%) AWS Certification
7 9 (2.63%) CISSP
8 8 (2.34%) CCNA
9 4 (1.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (1.17%) CCNP
9 4 (1.17%) CISM
10 3 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.88%) PMI Certification
10 3 (0.88%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (0.58%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 2 (0.58%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 2 (0.58%) CRISC
11 2 (0.58%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (2.63%) QA
2 8 (2.34%) NIST
3 6 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (1.75%) PCI DSS
4 5 (1.46%) SLA
5 4 (1.17%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (1.17%) SOC 2
6 3 (0.88%) Data Quality
6 3 (0.88%) GDPR
6 3 (0.88%) NCSC
7 2 (0.58%) PMO
8 1 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.29%) FedRAMP
8 1 (0.29%) GRC
8 1 (0.29%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 63 (18.42%) Active Directory
2 52 (15.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 32 (9.36%) Docker
4 24 (7.02%) Hyper-V
5 18 (5.26%) VMware ESXi
6 14 (4.09%) vSphere
7 12 (3.51%) Virtual Machines
8 11 (3.22%) Virtual Desktop
9 9 (2.63%) BitLocker
9 9 (2.63%) Microsoft App-V
10 5 (1.46%) VMware NSX
11 4 (1.17%) Firmware
11 4 (1.17%) Terminal Services
12 3 (0.88%) NFS
12 3 (0.88%) Virtual Servers
13 2 (0.58%) Postfix
13 2 (0.58%) Sendmail
13 2 (0.58%) Varnish
14 1 (0.29%) RACF
14 1 (0.29%) Samba
Systems Management
1 101 (29.53%) Terraform
2 70 (20.47%) Kubernetes
3 42 (12.28%) Ansible
4 19 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
5 16 (4.68%) Puppet
5 16 (4.68%) vCenter Server
6 14 (4.09%) Grafana
7 11 (3.22%) Prometheus
8 9 (2.63%) Packer
8 9 (2.63%) vMotion
9 6 (1.75%) Argo
9 6 (1.75%) FortiGate
9 6 (1.75%) SCCM
10 5 (1.46%) Nessus
11 4 (1.17%) Nagios
12 3 (0.88%) AirWatch
12 3 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
12 3 (0.88%) systemd
12 3 (0.88%) yum
13 2 (0.58%) vRealize
Vendors
1 90 (26.32%) Microsoft
2 66 (19.30%) VMware
3 23 (6.73%) Citrix
4 21 (6.14%) Google
5 16 (4.68%) ServiceNow
6 15 (4.39%) NetApp
7 10 (2.92%) Cisco
8 8 (2.34%) Oracle
9 7 (2.05%) CyberArk
9 7 (2.05%) Dell
9 7 (2.05%) Red Hat
9 7 (2.05%) Tenable
10 6 (1.75%) Zscaler
11 5 (1.46%) IBM
11 5 (1.46%) Qualys
11 5 (1.46%) SolarWinds
12 4 (1.17%) EMC
12 4 (1.17%) HP
12 4 (1.17%) Symantec
13 3 (0.88%) Blue Coat