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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 152 190 143
Rank change year-on-year +38 -47 +14
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 348 183 303
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.76% 1.35% 1.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.98% 1.46% 1.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 238 139 235
10th Percentile £398 £349 £325
25th Percentile £445 £400 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £650 £600 £631
90th Percentile £706 £655 £711
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 £77.00 £54.88
% change year-on-year -5.79% +40.32% -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 17,581 12,493 15,383
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.98% 92.12% 88.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,664 8,343 10,937
10th Percentile £360 £331 £350
25th Percentile £446 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £770 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 274 239 281
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.24
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.66 £20.22
Median hourly rate £36.25 £32.00 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year +13.28% +6.10% -27.33%
75th Percentile £58.44 £50.25 £50.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.35 £69.50
England median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +88.87% -34.02% -8.14%

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 16 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 16 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 -1 49 £575 - 32
West London -8 8 £675 - 8
South London -10 7 £425 -29.17% 2
East London 0 1 £775 +64.02% 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 16 (4.60%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (3.74%) CICS
3 9 (2.59%) SharePoint
4 8 (2.30%) WebSphere
5 7 (2.01%) Confluence
6 3 (0.86%) Apache
7 1 (0.29%) CloudStack
7 1 (0.29%) IBM HTTP Server
7 1 (0.29%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.29%) SAS
7 1 (0.29%) SharePoint Server
7 1 (0.29%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 3 (0.86%) AutoCAD
1 3 (0.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 163 (46.84%) Azure
2 90 (25.86%) AWS
3 48 (13.79%) GitHub
4 42 (12.07%) GCP
5 36 (10.34%) Azure DevOps
6 34 (9.77%) GitHub Actions
7 30 (8.62%) IaaS
8 29 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
9 28 (8.05%) Entra ID
10 25 (7.18%) Azure AKS
10 25 (7.18%) PaaS
11 20 (5.75%) SaaS
12 19 (5.46%) Amazon EKS
13 18 (5.17%) Serverless
14 16 (4.60%) Azure Monitor
15 15 (4.31%) Amazon S3
15 15 (4.31%) AWS Lambda
16 12 (3.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 8 (2.30%) AWS CloudFormation
17 8 (2.30%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 63 (18.10%) DNS
2 43 (12.36%) DHCP
2 43 (12.36%) Firewall
3 33 (9.48%) VPN
4 23 (6.61%) Network Security
5 18 (5.17%) TCP/IP
6 14 (4.02%) WAN
7 9 (2.59%) LAN
8 8 (2.30%) SAN
8 8 (2.30%) SMTP
8 8 (2.30%) SSL
9 6 (1.72%) NAS
10 5 (1.44%) DMZ
10 5 (1.44%) HTTP
10 5 (1.44%) SD-WAN
10 5 (1.44%) Structured Cabling
11 4 (1.15%) BGP
11 4 (1.15%) MPLS
11 4 (1.15%) Remote Desktop
11 4 (1.15%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (6.03%) SQL Server
2 8 (2.30%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (2.30%) DynamoDB
3 7 (2.01%) Elasticsearch
4 6 (1.72%) Db2
5 3 (0.86%) Big Data
5 3 (0.86%) BigQuery
5 3 (0.86%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (0.86%) Snowflake Schema
6 2 (0.57%) Power BI
7 1 (0.29%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.29%) Data Mining
7 1 (0.29%) Metadata
7 1 (0.29%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 19 (5.46%) GitLab
2 17 (4.89%) Git
3 14 (4.02%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.44%) Bitbucket
4 5 (1.44%) JIRA
5 2 (0.57%) Subversion
6 1 (0.29%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.29%) Chocolatey
6 1 (0.29%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.29%) CMake
6 1 (0.29%) Gradle
6 1 (0.29%) Introscope
6 1 (0.29%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 81 (23.28%) Social Skills
2 62 (17.82%) Finance
3 30 (8.62%) Banking
4 24 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (5.17%) Public Sector
6 17 (4.89%) Documentation Skills
7 12 (3.45%) Legal
8 8 (2.30%) Law
8 8 (2.30%) Retail
9 6 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (1.72%) Telecoms
10 5 (1.44%) Billing
10 5 (1.44%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.15%) Publishing
12 3 (0.86%) Military
13 2 (0.57%) Aerospace
13 2 (0.57%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.57%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.57%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 200 (57.47%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 54 (15.52%) Cloud Engineer
3 39 (11.21%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 32 (9.20%) Azure Engineer
4 32 (9.20%) Senior
5 24 (6.90%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 22 (6.32%) DevOps Engineer
7 18 (5.17%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 16 (4.60%) Lead
9 15 (4.31%) Architect
10 14 (4.02%) Network Engineer
11 13 (3.74%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 13 (3.74%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
12 11 (3.16%) Platform Engineer
13 10 (2.87%) Infrastructure Support
13 10 (2.87%) Support Engineer
14 9 (2.59%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
14 9 (2.59%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
14 9 (2.59%) Security Engineer
14 9 (2.59%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (2.87%) REST
2 9 (2.59%) JSON
3 8 (2.30%) Middleware
4 6 (1.72%) RESTful
4 6 (1.72%) SOAP
4 6 (1.72%) Web Services
4 6 (1.72%) WSDL
4 6 (1.72%) YAML
5 5 (1.44%) AWS CDK
5 5 (1.44%) Elastic Stack
5 5 (1.44%) Loki
5 5 (1.44%) OpenID
6 4 (1.15%) .NET
6 4 (1.15%) 802.1X
6 4 (1.15%) SAML
7 3 (0.86%) ADO
7 3 (0.86%) ARM Templates
7 3 (0.86%) HTML
7 3 (0.86%) ModSecurity
8 2 (0.57%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 22 (6.32%) Hybrid Cloud
2 21 (6.03%) Data Centre
3 20 (5.75%) Cloud Native
4 15 (4.31%) Onboarding
5 13 (3.74%) Mainframe
6 12 (3.45%) PKI
7 10 (2.87%) Distributed Systems
7 10 (2.87%) Public Cloud
8 8 (2.30%) Clustering
8 8 (2.30%) CMDB
8 8 (2.30%) Enterprise Storage
9 6 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (1.72%) DataPower
9 6 (1.72%) Online Banking
9 6 (1.72%) Replication
9 6 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (1.44%) AI Agents
10 5 (1.44%) Enterprise Cloud
10 5 (1.44%) IoT
10 5 (1.44%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 109 (31.32%) Windows
2 62 (17.82%) Windows Server
3 55 (15.80%) Linux
4 13 (3.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 13 (3.74%) zOS
5 9 (2.59%) Unix
6 6 (1.72%) Android
6 6 (1.72%) Apple iOS
6 6 (1.72%) Windows Server 2019
7 5 (1.44%) Ubuntu
7 5 (1.44%) VMS
7 5 (1.44%) Windows Server 2003
8 4 (1.15%) Windows 10
8 4 (1.15%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.86%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.57%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.29%) AIX
11 1 (0.29%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.29%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (28.74%) Infrastructure as Code
2 95 (27.30%) DevOps
3 86 (24.71%) CI/CD
4 49 (14.08%) Platform Engineering
5 46 (13.22%) Migration
6 45 (12.93%) AI
7 37 (10.63%) Problem-Solving
8 35 (10.06%) Containerisation
9 34 (9.77%) Infrastructure Automation
10 29 (8.33%) Agile
11 28 (8.05%) Incident Response
12 27 (7.76%) Continuous Improvement
12 27 (7.76%) Disaster Recovery
12 27 (7.76%) Observability
13 24 (6.90%) Runbook
14 23 (6.61%) Roadmaps
14 23 (6.61%) Validation
15 22 (6.32%) Stakeholder Management
16 21 (6.03%) Configuration Management
17 19 (5.46%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 81 (23.28%) PowerShell
2 79 (22.70%) Python
3 32 (9.20%) Bash
4 27 (7.76%) SQL
5 18 (5.17%) C#
6 16 (4.60%) Java
6 16 (4.60%) Shell Script
7 13 (3.74%) Bicep
8 6 (1.72%) Go
8 6 (1.72%) JavaScript
8 6 (1.72%) JCL
9 3 (0.86%) Kusto Query Language
9 3 (0.86%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.57%) C++
10 2 (0.57%) Korn
10 2 (0.57%) Ruby
11 1 (0.29%) C
11 1 (0.29%) Jython
11 1 (0.29%) Perl
11 1 (0.29%) VB
Qualifications
1 109 (31.32%) Security Cleared
2 72 (20.69%) SC Cleared
3 38 (10.92%) DV Cleared
4 14 (4.02%) Azure Certification
4 14 (4.02%) Degree
5 13 (3.74%) Cisco Certification
6 10 (2.87%) CISSP
7 9 (2.59%) AWS Certification
8 8 (2.30%) CCNA
9 6 (1.72%) CCNP
10 5 (1.44%) CISM
11 4 (1.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.86%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.86%) PMI Certification
12 3 (0.86%) TOGAF Certification
13 2 (0.57%) CISA
13 2 (0.57%) CRISC
13 2 (0.57%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (2.59%) QA
2 8 (2.30%) NIST
3 6 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (1.72%) PCI DSS
3 6 (1.72%) SLA
4 4 (1.15%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (1.15%) SOC 2
5 3 (0.86%) GDPR
5 3 (0.86%) NCSC
6 2 (0.57%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.57%) PMO
7 1 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.29%) FedRAMP
7 1 (0.29%) GRC
7 1 (0.29%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 63 (18.10%) Active Directory
2 52 (14.94%) VMware Infrastructure
3 30 (8.62%) Docker
4 23 (6.61%) Hyper-V
5 19 (5.46%) VMware ESXi
6 14 (4.02%) vSphere
7 13 (3.74%) Virtual Machines
8 11 (3.16%) Virtual Desktop
9 8 (2.30%) BitLocker
9 8 (2.30%) Microsoft App-V
10 4 (1.15%) Terminal Services
10 4 (1.15%) VMware NSX
11 3 (0.86%) Firmware
11 3 (0.86%) NFS
11 3 (0.86%) Virtual Servers
12 2 (0.57%) Postfix
12 2 (0.57%) Sendmail
12 2 (0.57%) Varnish
13 1 (0.29%) RACF
13 1 (0.29%) Samba
Systems Management
1 107 (30.75%) Terraform
2 68 (19.54%) Kubernetes
3 44 (12.64%) Ansible
4 18 (5.17%) Microsoft Intune
5 16 (4.60%) vCenter Server
6 14 (4.02%) Grafana
6 14 (4.02%) Puppet
7 11 (3.16%) Packer
7 11 (3.16%) Prometheus
8 8 (2.30%) vMotion
9 6 (1.72%) Argo
9 6 (1.72%) FortiGate
9 6 (1.72%) SCCM
10 5 (1.44%) Nessus
10 5 (1.44%) systemd
11 4 (1.15%) Nagios
12 3 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
12 3 (0.86%) yum
13 2 (0.57%) Check_MK
13 2 (0.57%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 96 (27.59%) Microsoft
2 65 (18.68%) VMware
3 24 (6.90%) Citrix
4 22 (6.32%) Google
5 16 (4.60%) ServiceNow
6 14 (4.02%) NetApp
7 13 (3.74%) Cisco
8 8 (2.30%) Tenable
9 7 (2.01%) IBM
9 7 (2.01%) Oracle
9 7 (2.01%) Red Hat
10 6 (1.72%) Dell
10 6 (1.72%) Qualys
10 6 (1.72%) Zscaler
11 5 (1.44%) CyberArk
12 4 (1.15%) Dynatrace
12 4 (1.15%) EMC
12 4 (1.15%) SolarWinds
12 4 (1.15%) Splunk
12 4 (1.15%) Symantec