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 17 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 184 155 132
Rank change year-on-year -29 -23 +54
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 203 259 394
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.47% 1.66% 1.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.59% 1.86% 2.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 201 283
10th Percentile £351 £325 £325
25th Percentile £425 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £550 £515
Median % change year-on-year -4.09% +6.80% -2.09%
75th Percentile £603 £650 £638
90th Percentile £675 £700 £745
England median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 4
10th Percentile £24.40 - £33.45
25th Percentile £26.50 - £35.63
Median hourly rate £30.00 £112.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -73.21% +198.69% -50.98%
75th Percentile £32.70 - £51.92
90th Percentile £34.32 - £74.77
England median hourly rate £34.00 £70.00 £63.63
% change year-on-year -51.43% +10.01% +15.17%

All Process and 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 12,793 13,929 18,148
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.39% 89.24% 89.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,409 8,974 13,045
10th Percentile £334 £350 £355
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £570
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -3.51% -3.39%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £507 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.43% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 259 165 251
10th Percentile £17.98 £17.35 £18.57
25th Percentile £24.77 £23.80 £21.63
Median hourly rate £29.50 £37.50 £36.84
Median % change year-on-year -21.33% +1.79% -1.76%
75th Percentile £47.25 £55.75 £61.75
90th Percentile £67.87 £80.45 £76.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £37.25 £44.50
% change year-on-year -32.48% -16.29% +27.14%

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 17 November 2025.

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 17 November 2025. 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 -13 31 £550 -4.35% 94
West London -10 4 - - 6
South London -11 2 - - 4
East London - 1 - - 10
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 (9.36%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (3.45%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (3.45%) Confluence
3 3 (1.48%) Apache
3 3 (1.48%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.99%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.99%) nginx
4 2 (0.99%) Traefik
5 1 (0.49%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.49%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.49%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.49%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.49%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (0.49%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 92 (45.32%) Azure
2 48 (23.65%) AWS
3 35 (17.24%) Microsoft 365
4 31 (15.27%) Entra ID
5 26 (12.81%) GitHub
6 22 (10.84%) GCP
7 20 (9.85%) Azure DevOps
8 14 (6.90%) GitHub Actions
9 12 (5.91%) Azure Monitor
10 11 (5.42%) Amazon S3
10 11 (5.42%) Serverless
11 10 (4.93%) IaaS
12 9 (4.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 8 (3.94%) Amazon EKS
13 8 (3.94%) Azure Logic Apps
13 8 (3.94%) Mimecast
14 7 (3.45%) AWS CloudFormation
14 7 (3.45%) Azure Key Vault
14 7 (3.45%) Azure Service Bus
14 7 (3.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 51 (25.12%) Firewall
2 32 (15.76%) VPN
3 26 (12.81%) DNS
3 26 (12.81%) WAN
4 21 (10.34%) Network Security
4 21 (10.34%) TCP/IP
5 17 (8.37%) LAN
6 14 (6.90%) SSL
7 13 (6.40%) Wi-Fi
8 9 (4.43%) DHCP
8 9 (4.43%) SD-WAN
9 6 (2.96%) HTTP
9 6 (2.96%) Wireless
10 5 (2.46%) MPLS
10 5 (2.46%) VLAN
11 4 (1.97%) BGP
11 4 (1.97%) OSPF
11 4 (1.97%) tcpdump
12 3 (1.48%) Cisco Wireless
12 3 (1.48%) DMARC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.48%) Power BI
1 3 (1.48%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.99%) Big Data
2 2 (0.99%) DynamoDB
2 2 (0.99%) MariaDB
2 2 (0.99%) MySQL
2 2 (0.99%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.49%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (0.49%) Apache Iceberg
3 1 (0.49%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.49%) BigQuery
3 1 (0.49%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.49%) Delta Lake
3 1 (0.49%) Looker
3 1 (0.49%) Oracle Database
3 1 (0.49%) Oracle Database 11g
3 1 (0.49%) Oracle Database 12c
3 1 (0.49%) Oracle Exadata
3 1 (0.49%) Parquet
3 1 (0.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 18 (8.87%) Jenkins
2 15 (7.39%) Git
3 11 (5.42%) GitLab
3 11 (5.42%) JIRA
4 4 (1.97%) Robot Framework
5 1 (0.49%) Log4j
5 1 (0.49%) MLflow
5 1 (0.49%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.49%) SonarQube
General
1 52 (25.62%) Finance
2 50 (24.63%) Social Skills
3 21 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (8.87%) Public Sector
5 15 (7.39%) Banking
6 8 (3.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (3.94%) Law
7 6 (2.96%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (2.96%) Financial Institution
8 5 (2.46%) Spanish Language
9 3 (1.48%) Marketing
9 3 (1.48%) Military
9 3 (1.48%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.99%) Billing
10 2 (0.99%) Front Office
10 2 (0.99%) Legal
10 2 (0.99%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.49%) International Banking
11 1 (0.49%) Retail
Job Titles
1 105 (51.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 27 (13.30%) Senior
3 17 (8.37%) Cloud Engineer
4 16 (7.88%) Security Engineer
4 16 (7.88%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 15 (7.39%) Network Engineer
6 14 (6.90%) Azure Engineer
6 14 (6.90%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
7 12 (5.91%) Platform Engineer
8 11 (5.42%) DevOps Engineer
8 11 (5.42%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
9 10 (4.93%) Python Engineer
10 9 (4.43%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
11 8 (3.94%) Architect
11 8 (3.94%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
12 7 (3.45%) Infrastructure Support
12 7 (3.45%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 6 (2.96%) Automation Engineer
14 5 (2.46%) AWS Engineer
14 5 (2.46%) Network Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (4.93%) ARM Templates
2 9 (4.43%) Kafka
3 8 (3.94%) YAML
4 6 (2.96%) ADO
4 6 (2.96%) Middleware
4 6 (2.96%) RESTful
5 5 (2.46%) GraphQL
5 5 (2.46%) REST
6 4 (1.97%) gRPC
6 4 (1.97%) JMS
7 3 (1.48%) AWT
7 3 (1.48%) FIX Protocol
7 3 (1.48%) GWT
7 3 (1.48%) LDAP
7 3 (1.48%) Rendezvous
7 3 (1.48%) TIBCO EMS
8 2 (0.99%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (0.99%) OAuth
8 2 (0.99%) PySpark
8 2 (0.99%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (5.42%) Onboarding
2 10 (4.93%) Data Centre
3 9 (4.43%) Cloud Native
3 9 (4.43%) Public Cloud
4 8 (3.94%) PKI
5 7 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (3.45%) Private Cloud
6 6 (2.96%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (2.96%) Replication
7 5 (2.46%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (1.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 4 (1.97%) Linux Command Line
8 4 (1.97%) Security Posture
8 4 (1.97%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.48%) Equities
9 3 (1.48%) Legacy Code
10 2 (0.99%) DataPower
10 2 (0.99%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.99%) Mainframe
10 2 (0.99%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 57 (28.08%) Windows
2 45 (22.17%) Linux
3 39 (19.21%) Windows Server
4 14 (6.90%) Unix
5 6 (2.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (2.46%) Ubuntu
6 5 (2.46%) Windows 10
7 4 (1.97%) VMS
8 2 (0.99%) Android
8 2 (0.99%) CentOS
8 2 (0.99%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.49%) AIX
9 1 (0.49%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.49%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.49%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (0.49%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.49%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.49%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (32.02%) Infrastructure as Code
2 60 (29.56%) DevOps
3 55 (27.09%) CI/CD
4 44 (21.67%) Problem-Solving
5 30 (14.78%) Agile
5 30 (14.78%) Containerisation
6 28 (13.79%) Migration
7 23 (11.33%) Infrastructure Automation
8 20 (9.85%) High Availability
9 17 (8.37%) Analytics
9 17 (8.37%) Observability
10 16 (7.88%) Cybersecurity
10 16 (7.88%) Platform Engineering
10 16 (7.88%) RBAC
10 16 (7.88%) Task Automation
10 16 (7.88%) Test Automation
11 15 (7.39%) ITIL
12 14 (6.90%) Cloud Security
13 13 (6.40%) Identity Access Management
13 13 (6.40%) Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 65 (32.02%) Python
2 36 (17.73%) PowerShell
3 24 (11.82%) Bash
4 14 (6.90%) Java
5 11 (5.42%) Go
6 9 (4.43%) Bicep
7 8 (3.94%) SQL
8 7 (3.45%) Perl
9 4 (1.97%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.49%) Ruby
10 1 (0.49%) Scala
10 1 (0.49%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 37 (18.23%) Security Cleared
2 28 (13.79%) SC Cleared
3 15 (7.39%) Degree
4 12 (5.91%) Cisco Certification
5 11 (5.42%) Azure Certification
6 8 (3.94%) CCNA
6 8 (3.94%) CCNP
7 7 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (2.96%) CISSP
8 6 (2.96%) DV Cleared
9 5 (2.46%) CISM
10 4 (1.97%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (1.48%) JNCIP
11 3 (1.48%) JNCIS
11 3 (1.48%) PMI Certification
11 3 (1.48%) PMP
12 2 (0.99%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 1 (0.49%) AWS Certification
13 1 (0.49%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (0.49%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.48%) NIST
2 2 (0.99%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (0.99%) GDPR
2 2 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (0.99%) QA
2 2 (0.99%) SLA
3 1 (0.49%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.49%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 1 (0.49%) SOC 2
System Software
1 45 (22.17%) Active Directory
2 29 (14.29%) Docker
3 21 (10.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (7.88%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (3.94%) Hyper-V
6 6 (2.96%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (1.48%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (1.48%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.49%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.49%) etcd
8 1 (0.49%) Firmware
8 1 (0.49%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.49%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.49%) vSphere
8 1 (0.49%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 71 (34.98%) Terraform
2 33 (16.26%) Kubernetes
3 30 (14.78%) Ansible
4 28 (13.79%) Microsoft Intune
5 19 (9.36%) SCCM
6 16 (7.88%) Grafana
7 11 (5.42%) Prometheus
8 10 (4.93%) Single Sign-On
9 7 (3.45%) FortiGate
10 6 (2.96%) CASB
10 6 (2.96%) SCOrch
11 5 (2.46%) Argo
12 3 (1.48%) Istio
12 3 (1.48%) Jamf Pro
12 3 (1.48%) vCenter Server
13 2 (0.99%) ITRS Geneos
13 2 (0.99%) Kibana
13 2 (0.99%) McAfee ePO
13 2 (0.99%) Red Hat Satellite
13 2 (0.99%) SELinux
Vendors
1 61 (30.05%) Microsoft
2 25 (12.32%) VMware
3 19 (9.36%) Cisco
3 19 (9.36%) Palo Alto
4 17 (8.37%) Google
5 14 (6.90%) F5
6 10 (4.93%) Fortinet
7 8 (3.94%) Zscaler
8 7 (3.45%) CheckPoint
8 7 (3.45%) CyberArk
8 7 (3.45%) Juniper
9 6 (2.96%) Red Hat
10 5 (2.46%) Citrix
10 5 (2.46%) Dell
10 5 (2.46%) TIBCO
10 5 (2.46%) Veeam
11 4 (1.97%) Aruba
11 4 (1.97%) Commvault
11 4 (1.97%) Databricks
11 4 (1.97%) Meraki