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

6 months to
29 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 195 170 132
Rank change year-on-year -25 -38 +56
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 228 200 336
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.35% 1.57% 1.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.51% 1.72% 2.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 166 161 234
10th Percentile £400 £325 £316
25th Percentile £447 £400 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £688 £688 £750
England median daily rate £515 £525 £488
% change year-on-year -1.90% +7.69% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £32.97
25th Percentile - - £34.42
Median hourly rate - - £36.84
75th Percentile - - £38.04
90th Percentile - - £38.75
England median hourly rate £72.54 £62.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +16.06% +35.34% -28.95%

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 15,132 11,625 15,939
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.60% 91.41% 88.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,139 7,889 11,403
10th Percentile £356 £350 £338
25th Percentile £428 £443 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £679 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 235 170 336
10th Percentile £18.14 £18.91 £15.97
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.66 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.00 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% +16.05% -22.67%
75th Percentile £57.25 £51.07 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £65.25 £68.75
England median hourly rate £36.00 £32.50 £33.00
% change year-on-year +10.77% -1.52% -12.00%

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 29 March 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 29 March 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 -7 40 £550 -8.33% 33
South London -12 6 £463 +0.54%
West London -20 3 £300 -25.00% 3
East London -3 1 £775 +32.48% 1
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 (11.40%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (2.19%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.75%) Apache
4 3 (1.32%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.32%) CICS
5 2 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.88%) Confluence
6 1 (0.44%) IBM HTTP Server
6 1 (0.44%) nginx
6 1 (0.44%) SAS
6 1 (0.44%) Skype for Business
6 1 (0.44%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.44%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 3 (1.32%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 100 (43.86%) Azure
2 47 (20.61%) AWS
3 42 (18.42%) Microsoft 365
4 31 (13.60%) Entra ID
5 28 (12.28%) GCP
6 26 (11.40%) GitHub
7 22 (9.65%) IaaS
7 22 (9.65%) Serverless
8 21 (9.21%) Azure DevOps
9 17 (7.46%) PaaS
10 16 (7.02%) AWS Lambda
11 14 (6.14%) GitHub Actions
12 11 (4.82%) Nutanix
13 10 (4.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 10 (4.39%) AWS CloudFormation
13 10 (4.39%) Azure AKS
13 10 (4.39%) Azure Monitor
14 9 (3.95%) Amazon EKS
14 9 (3.95%) Amazon S3
15 8 (3.51%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 42 (18.42%) Firewall
2 34 (14.91%) DNS
3 31 (13.60%) VPN
4 27 (11.84%) WAN
5 21 (9.21%) LAN
6 15 (6.58%) DHCP
7 12 (5.26%) Network Security
8 10 (4.39%) Wi-Fi
9 9 (3.95%) MPLS
10 7 (3.07%) SD-WAN
10 7 (3.07%) TCP/IP
11 6 (2.63%) SMTP
12 4 (1.75%) Software-Defined Networking
12 4 (1.75%) VLAN
13 3 (1.32%) SAN
13 3 (1.32%) Wireless
13 3 (1.32%) WLAN
14 2 (0.88%) BGP
14 2 (0.88%) OSPF
14 2 (0.88%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (4.82%) SQL Server
2 9 (3.95%) DynamoDB
3 5 (2.19%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (2.19%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (1.75%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (1.75%) Relational Database
5 3 (1.32%) Big Data
5 3 (1.32%) DB2
5 3 (1.32%) MongoDB
5 3 (1.32%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.32%) RDBMS
6 2 (0.88%) Hadoop
6 2 (0.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.44%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.44%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.44%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.44%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.44%) MySQL
7 1 (0.44%) Power BI
7 1 (0.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 15 (6.58%) GitLab
2 13 (5.70%) Jenkins
3 11 (4.82%) Git
4 4 (1.75%) JIRA
5 3 (1.32%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.44%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.44%) Introscope
6 1 (0.44%) Jaeger
General
1 57 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 48 (21.05%) Finance
3 25 (10.96%) Banking
4 18 (7.89%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (4.82%) Legal
6 10 (4.39%) Public Sector
7 7 (3.07%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.75%) Front Office
9 4 (1.75%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.75%) Retail
10 3 (1.32%) Billing
10 3 (1.32%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.32%) Spanish Language
11 2 (0.88%) Military
12 1 (0.44%) Games
12 1 (0.44%) Italian Language
12 1 (0.44%) Local Government
12 1 (0.44%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 124 (54.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 31 (13.60%) Senior
3 22 (9.65%) Cloud Engineer
4 21 (9.21%) Azure Engineer
5 17 (7.46%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 16 (7.02%) Network Engineer
7 15 (6.58%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 13 (5.70%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
9 11 (4.82%) Architect
9 11 (4.82%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
10 10 (4.39%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 10 (4.39%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
11 9 (3.95%) NetApp Engineer
11 9 (3.95%) Storage Engineer
12 8 (3.51%) Developer
13 7 (3.07%) VMware Engineer
14 6 (2.63%) DevOps Engineer
14 6 (2.63%) Lead
14 6 (2.63%) Project Manager
14 6 (2.63%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.75%) ARM Templates
2 3 (1.32%) ADO
2 3 (1.32%) AWS CDK
2 3 (1.32%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (1.32%) JSON
2 3 (1.32%) Kafka
2 3 (1.32%) NumPy
2 3 (1.32%) Pandas
2 3 (1.32%) REST
2 3 (1.32%) RESTful
2 3 (1.32%) SciPy
2 3 (1.32%) SOAP
2 3 (1.32%) Spring
2 3 (1.32%) Spring Boot
2 3 (1.32%) Web Services
2 3 (1.32%) WSDL
3 2 (0.88%) GraphQL
3 2 (0.88%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (0.44%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 18 (7.89%) Data Centre
2 16 (7.02%) Onboarding
3 14 (6.14%) Hybrid Cloud
4 11 (4.82%) Cloud Native
5 10 (4.39%) PKI
6 7 (3.07%) Clustering
6 7 (3.07%) DataPower
6 7 (3.07%) Mainframe
6 7 (3.07%) Public Cloud
7 5 (2.19%) Enterprise Storage
8 4 (1.75%) CCTV
8 4 (1.75%) Replication
8 4 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.32%) Client/Server
9 3 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.32%) Derivative
9 3 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.32%) Equities
9 3 (1.32%) Equity Derivative
9 3 (1.32%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 64 (28.07%) Windows
2 37 (16.23%) Linux
3 33 (14.47%) Windows Server
4 9 (3.95%) Unix
5 6 (2.63%) Windows Server 2003
6 5 (2.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (2.19%) Ubuntu
6 5 (2.19%) VMS
7 4 (1.75%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (1.75%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (1.32%) Android
8 3 (1.32%) zOS
9 2 (0.88%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.88%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.88%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.44%) Amazon Linux
10 1 (0.44%) CentOS
10 1 (0.44%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.44%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.44%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (22.81%) DevOps
2 51 (22.37%) Infrastructure as Code
3 50 (21.93%) CI/CD
4 32 (14.04%) Migration
5 28 (12.28%) Problem-Solving
6 23 (10.09%) Containerisation
7 19 (8.33%) Agile
8 16 (7.02%) Cloud Security
8 16 (7.02%) Cybersecurity
8 16 (7.02%) Platform Engineering
8 16 (7.02%) Project Delivery
9 15 (6.58%) Disaster Recovery
9 15 (6.58%) ITIL
10 14 (6.14%) Analytics
10 14 (6.14%) Continuous Improvement
10 14 (6.14%) Observability
11 13 (5.70%) Mentoring
12 12 (5.26%) Incident Management
12 12 (5.26%) Performance Tuning
12 12 (5.26%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 50 (21.93%) PowerShell
2 46 (20.18%) Python
3 18 (7.89%) SQL
4 13 (5.70%) Shell Script
5 10 (4.39%) Bash
5 10 (4.39%) C#
6 7 (3.07%) Java
7 6 (2.63%) Bicep
8 4 (1.75%) Ruby
9 3 (1.32%) C++
9 3 (1.32%) Go
9 3 (1.32%) JavaScript
9 3 (1.32%) JCL
10 1 (0.44%) Jython
10 1 (0.44%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.44%) Perl
10 1 (0.44%) Scala
Qualifications
1 50 (21.93%) Security Cleared
2 33 (14.47%) SC Cleared
3 16 (7.02%) DV Cleared
4 14 (6.14%) Azure Certification
5 11 (4.82%) Degree
6 9 (3.95%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (2.63%) CCNP
7 6 (2.63%) CISSP
8 5 (2.19%) CCNA
9 4 (1.75%) CISM
9 4 (1.75%) PMI Certification
10 3 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (1.32%) JNCIP
10 3 (1.32%) JNCIS
10 3 (1.32%) Master's Degree
10 3 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (1.32%) PhD
10 3 (1.32%) PMP
10 3 (1.32%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (0.88%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.19%) NIST
2 4 (1.75%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.32%) QA
4 2 (0.88%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.88%) GDPR
4 2 (0.88%) NCSC
4 2 (0.88%) SLA
5 1 (0.44%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.44%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 1 (0.44%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.44%) PMO
5 1 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.44%) SOC 2
System Software
1 47 (20.61%) Active Directory
2 27 (11.84%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (10.53%) Docker
4 15 (6.58%) Hyper-V
5 10 (4.39%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (3.51%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (3.07%) BitLocker
7 7 (3.07%) Virtual Machines
8 6 (2.63%) Microsoft App-V
8 6 (2.63%) vSphere
9 3 (1.32%) Firmware
9 3 (1.32%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.44%) NFS
10 1 (0.44%) Postfix
10 1 (0.44%) Sendmail
10 1 (0.44%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.44%) Varnish
10 1 (0.44%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 58 (25.44%) Terraform
2 38 (16.67%) Kubernetes
3 35 (15.35%) Microsoft Intune
4 27 (11.84%) Ansible
5 13 (5.70%) SCCM
6 10 (4.39%) Grafana
7 8 (3.51%) Puppet
8 7 (3.07%) vCenter Server
9 6 (2.63%) Prometheus
9 6 (2.63%) vMotion
10 4 (1.75%) AirWatch
10 4 (1.75%) FortiGate
10 4 (1.75%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (1.32%) CASB
11 3 (1.32%) Packer
11 3 (1.32%) SCOrch
12 2 (0.88%) Jamf Pro
12 2 (0.88%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.88%) SCOM
12 2 (0.88%) vRealize
Vendors
1 69 (30.26%) Microsoft
2 36 (15.79%) VMware
3 16 (7.02%) Citrix
3 16 (7.02%) Google
4 11 (4.82%) Cisco
5 10 (4.39%) NetApp
6 8 (3.51%) CyberArk
6 8 (3.51%) Dell
7 7 (3.07%) Fortinet
8 6 (2.63%) Oracle
8 6 (2.63%) SolarWinds
8 6 (2.63%) Veeam
9 5 (2.19%) Palo Alto
9 5 (2.19%) Red Hat
9 5 (2.19%) ServiceNow
10 4 (1.75%) Aruba
10 4 (1.75%) CrowdStrike
10 4 (1.75%) IBM
10 4 (1.75%) Juniper
11 3 (1.32%) Databricks