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

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 136 186 163
Rank change year-on-year +50 -23 -18
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 436 199 258
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.14% 1.48% 1.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.41% 1.59% 1.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 303 141 198
10th Percentile £383 £350 £325
25th Percentile £450 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - -
75th Percentile £638 £623 £650
90th Percentile £700 £675 £700
England median daily rate £550 £500 £510
% change year-on-year +10.00% -1.96% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 2
10th Percentile £52.85 £24.40 -
25th Percentile £58.63 £26.50 -
Median hourly rate £69.50 £30.00 £112.00
Median % change year-on-year +131.67% -73.21% +24.44%
75th Percentile £81.63 £32.70 -
90th Percentile £88.15 £34.32 -
England median hourly rate £73.27 £32.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +128.97% -54.29% -

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 18,082 12,492 14,475
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.85% 92.60% 89.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,829 8,233 9,474
10th Percentile £358 £331 £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 £668 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 336 246 181
10th Percentile £16.04 £17.98 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.03 £25.00 £24.18
Median hourly rate £32.50 £30.25 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.44% -17.12% -2.67%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £78.75
England median hourly rate £40.08 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.36% -41.51% -3.37%

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 October 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 3 October 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 3 October 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 -5 49 £620 +12.73% 53
West London -17 10 £675 - 10
South London -4 7 £473 -21.25% 3
East London +5 3 £500 +38.89% 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 26 (5.96%) SharePoint
2 23 (5.28%) Microsoft Exchange
3 17 (3.90%) Confluence
4 12 (2.75%) CICS
5 7 (1.61%) WebSphere
6 6 (1.38%) Apache
7 5 (1.15%) nginx
8 4 (0.92%) Apache Spark
8 4 (0.92%) SharePoint Server
9 2 (0.46%) Exchange Server 2013
10 1 (0.23%) CloudStack
10 1 (0.23%) CMS
10 1 (0.23%) JBoss
10 1 (0.23%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.23%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.23%) WebLogic
Applications
1 5 (1.15%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.92%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.69%) AutoCAD
3 3 (0.69%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.23%) CPLEX
4 1 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (0.69%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 200 (45.87%) Azure
2 114 (26.15%) AWS
3 57 (13.07%) Entra ID
4 50 (11.47%) GCP
4 50 (11.47%) Microsoft 365
5 48 (11.01%) GitHub
6 41 (9.40%) Azure DevOps
7 37 (8.49%) GitHub Actions
8 26 (5.96%) Azure AKS
9 23 (5.28%) Amazon EKS
10 20 (4.59%) IaaS
11 19 (4.36%) Amazon S3
12 17 (3.90%) OpenShift
13 16 (3.67%) Azure Monitor
14 14 (3.21%) OCI
14 14 (3.21%) SaaS
15 13 (2.98%) Serverless
16 12 (2.75%) Datadog
17 11 (2.52%) PaaS
18 10 (2.29%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 75 (17.20%) DNS
2 55 (12.61%) Firewall
3 54 (12.39%) DHCP
4 38 (8.72%) VPN
5 32 (7.34%) Network Security
5 32 (7.34%) TCP/IP
6 19 (4.36%) SSL
7 16 (3.67%) WAN
8 15 (3.44%) Wi-Fi
9 13 (2.98%) SAN
10 12 (2.75%) LAN
11 11 (2.52%) HTTP
12 9 (2.06%) BGP
12 9 (2.06%) VLAN
13 7 (1.61%) NAS
13 7 (1.61%) Wireless
14 5 (1.15%) DMZ
14 5 (1.15%) HTTPS
14 5 (1.15%) MPLS
14 5 (1.15%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (7.34%) SQL Server
2 8 (1.83%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (1.61%) Power BI
4 6 (1.38%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (1.38%) BigQuery
4 6 (1.38%) Oracle Database
5 5 (1.15%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (0.92%) Big Data
7 3 (0.69%) Apache Iceberg
7 3 (0.69%) ClickHouse
7 3 (0.69%) Data Lake
7 3 (0.69%) Db2
7 3 (0.69%) DynamoDB
7 3 (0.69%) Flink
7 3 (0.69%) MongoDB
7 3 (0.69%) Relational Database
7 3 (0.69%) Snowflake Schema
7 3 (0.69%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 3 (0.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (0.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 29 (6.65%) Git
2 22 (5.05%) Jenkins
3 20 (4.59%) GitLab
4 13 (2.98%) JIRA
5 4 (0.92%) Artifactory
5 4 (0.92%) Chocolatey
5 4 (0.92%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (0.69%) JUnit
6 3 (0.69%) Oracle Forms
7 2 (0.46%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.46%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.46%) HP UFT
7 2 (0.46%) IBM UrbanCode
7 2 (0.46%) Selenium
7 2 (0.46%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.46%) Subversion
8 1 (0.23%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.23%) MLflow
8 1 (0.23%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.23%) Vagrant
General
1 105 (24.08%) Social Skills
2 98 (22.48%) Finance
3 43 (9.86%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (8.26%) Banking
5 22 (5.05%) Public Sector
6 17 (3.90%) Documentation Skills
7 11 (2.52%) Telecoms
8 9 (2.06%) Retail
9 6 (1.38%) Billing
9 6 (1.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (1.38%) Law
9 6 (1.38%) Legal
10 5 (1.15%) Automotive
10 5 (1.15%) Publishing
11 4 (0.92%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (0.92%) International Banking
12 3 (0.69%) Local Government
12 3 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (0.69%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.46%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 203 (46.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 52 (11.93%) Cloud Engineer
2 52 (11.93%) Senior
3 40 (9.17%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 38 (8.72%) DevOps Engineer
5 37 (8.49%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 33 (7.57%) Lead
7 32 (7.34%) Azure Engineer
8 25 (5.73%) Architect
9 22 (5.05%) Network Engineer
10 20 (4.59%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
11 17 (3.90%) Platform Engineer
12 16 (3.67%) Support Engineer
13 14 (3.21%) Security Engineer
14 13 (2.98%) Automation Engineer
15 12 (2.75%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 12 (2.75%) Infrastructure Specialist
15 12 (2.75%) Infrastructure Support
15 12 (2.75%) Microsoft Engineer
16 11 (2.52%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 148 (33.94%) Terraform
2 17 (3.90%) REST
3 12 (2.75%) ARM Templates
4 11 (2.52%) Kafka
4 11 (2.52%) Middleware
4 11 (2.52%) YAML
5 8 (1.83%) .NET
5 8 (1.83%) Loki
5 8 (1.83%) Web Services
6 7 (1.61%) 802.1X
7 6 (1.38%) JSON
7 6 (1.38%) OAuth
7 6 (1.38%) OpenID
7 6 (1.38%) SOAP
8 5 (1.15%) Elastic Stack
8 5 (1.15%) SAML
9 4 (0.92%) Model Context Protocol
9 4 (0.92%) Spark Streaming
10 3 (0.69%) LangGraph
10 3 (0.69%) React
Miscellaneous
1 38 (8.72%) Hybrid Cloud
2 37 (8.49%) Cloud Native
3 24 (5.50%) Data Centre
4 16 (3.67%) Onboarding
4 16 (3.67%) Public Cloud
5 14 (3.21%) Clustering
5 14 (3.21%) Enterprise Cloud
6 12 (2.75%) Mainframe
6 12 (2.75%) PKI
7 11 (2.52%) Data Protection Act
7 11 (2.52%) Distributed Systems
8 10 (2.29%) Linux Command Line
8 10 (2.29%) Replication
8 10 (2.29%) Security Posture
9 8 (1.83%) Private Cloud
10 7 (1.61%) AI Agents
10 7 (1.61%) CMDB
10 7 (1.61%) Cyber Threat
10 7 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (1.15%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 128 (29.36%) Windows
2 82 (18.81%) Windows Server
3 81 (18.58%) Linux
4 22 (5.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (2.98%) Unix
6 12 (2.75%) zOS
7 9 (2.06%) Windows Server 2019
8 8 (1.83%) Ubuntu
9 7 (1.61%) Mac OS
9 7 (1.61%) VMS
9 7 (1.61%) Windows Server 2016
10 6 (1.38%) Android
10 6 (1.38%) Apple iOS
11 4 (0.92%) Windows 10
11 4 (0.92%) Windows Server 2008
11 4 (0.92%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.46%) Amazon Linux
12 2 (0.46%) OpenVMS
12 2 (0.46%) Windows 7
13 1 (0.23%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (37.16%) Infrastructure as Code
2 146 (33.49%) DevOps
3 138 (31.65%) CI/CD
4 76 (17.43%) Platform Engineering
5 72 (16.51%) Infrastructure Automation
6 71 (16.28%) Migration
7 69 (15.83%) AI
8 62 (14.22%) Problem-Solving
9 59 (13.53%) Stakeholder Management
10 47 (10.78%) Disaster Recovery
11 46 (10.55%) Continuous Improvement
11 46 (10.55%) Observability
12 43 (9.86%) Agile
12 43 (9.86%) Configuration Management
12 43 (9.86%) Containerisation
13 40 (9.17%) Incident Response
14 38 (8.72%) Cloud Security
15 36 (8.26%) High Availability
15 36 (8.26%) Identity Access Management
16 35 (8.03%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 117 (26.83%) Python
2 104 (23.85%) PowerShell
3 50 (11.47%) Bash
4 36 (8.26%) SQL
5 27 (6.19%) Java
6 23 (5.28%) Bicep
7 17 (3.90%) C#
8 13 (2.98%) Go
8 13 (2.98%) Shell Script
9 10 (2.29%) C++
10 8 (1.83%) Perl
11 6 (1.38%) Kusto Query Language
12 5 (1.15%) C
12 5 (1.15%) JavaScript
12 5 (1.15%) JCL
12 5 (1.15%) TypeScript
13 2 (0.46%) COBOL
13 2 (0.46%) Korn
14 1 (0.23%) Groovy
14 1 (0.23%) Scala
Qualifications
1 122 (27.98%) Security Cleared
2 83 (19.04%) SC Cleared
3 39 (8.94%) DV Cleared
4 26 (5.96%) Degree
5 24 (5.50%) Azure Certification
6 15 (3.44%) Cisco Certification
7 14 (3.21%) AWS Certification
8 13 (2.98%) Computer Science Degree
9 12 (2.75%) CISSP
10 10 (2.29%) CCNP
11 9 (2.06%) CCNA
12 6 (1.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 6 (1.38%) BPSS Clearance
12 6 (1.38%) CISM
12 6 (1.38%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (0.92%) JNCIP
13 4 (0.92%) JNCIS
14 3 (0.69%) PMI Certification
14 3 (0.69%) PMP
15 2 (0.46%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 12 (2.75%) QA
2 12 (2.75%) SLA
3 8 (1.83%) NIST
4 6 (1.38%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.15%) Data Quality
6 4 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 3 (0.69%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.46%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.23%) FedRAMP
9 1 (0.23%) GDPR
9 1 (0.23%) GLBA
9 1 (0.23%) GRC
9 1 (0.23%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.23%) PMO
System Software
1 89 (20.41%) Active Directory
2 72 (16.51%) VMware Infrastructure
3 38 (8.72%) Docker
4 24 (5.50%) Hyper-V
5 21 (4.82%) VMware ESXi
6 20 (4.59%) vSphere
7 18 (4.13%) Virtual Machines
8 17 (3.90%) Virtual Desktop
9 8 (1.83%) Virtual Servers
10 5 (1.15%) Firmware
11 3 (0.69%) BitLocker
11 3 (0.69%) Microsoft App-V
11 3 (0.69%) RACF
11 3 (0.69%) Terminal Services
11 3 (0.69%) VMware NSX
12 2 (0.46%) Ceph
12 2 (0.46%) IAG
12 2 (0.46%) Time Sharing Option
13 1 (0.23%) DFS Replication
13 1 (0.23%) Dovecot
Systems Management
1 90 (20.64%) Kubernetes
2 74 (16.97%) Ansible
3 37 (8.49%) Microsoft Intune
4 24 (5.50%) Grafana
5 20 (4.59%) Prometheus
6 17 (3.90%) Puppet
7 16 (3.67%) SCCM
8 14 (3.21%) vCenter Server
9 11 (2.52%) Argo
10 9 (2.06%) FortiGate
10 9 (2.06%) Packer
11 8 (1.83%) systemd
12 7 (1.61%) Progress Chef
12 7 (1.61%) Single Sign-On
13 6 (1.38%) Nessus
14 5 (1.15%) Microsoft Clustering
15 4 (0.92%) Nagios
15 4 (0.92%) SCOM
16 3 (0.69%) WSUS
16 3 (0.69%) yum
Vendors
1 139 (31.88%) Microsoft
2 96 (22.02%) VMware
3 28 (6.42%) Cisco
4 24 (5.50%) Google
5 20 (4.59%) Oracle
5 20 (4.59%) Red Hat
6 15 (3.44%) Citrix
7 14 (3.21%) ServiceNow
8 10 (2.29%) IBM
8 10 (2.29%) Tenable
8 10 (2.29%) Zscaler
9 9 (2.06%) HP
10 8 (1.83%) Databricks
10 8 (1.83%) Dynatrace
10 8 (1.83%) NetApp
10 8 (1.83%) Splunk
11 7 (1.61%) CyberArk
12 6 (1.38%) Juniper
13 5 (1.15%) Qualys
14 4 (0.92%) Veeam