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

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 153 181 152
Rank change year-on-year +28 -29 +8
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 334 178 302
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.73% 1.38% 1.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.95% 1.50% 1.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 232 136 236
10th Percentile £402 £347 £325
25th Percentile £439 £400 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +0.96% -5.45%
75th Percentile £650 £600 £638
90th Percentile £724 £650 £731
England median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -2.44%

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 17,131 11,893 15,475
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.90% 92.25% 88.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,394 7,948 11,029
10th Percentile £360 £333 £343
25th Percentile £438 £425 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.64% - -6.14%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £685
90th Percentile £763 £799 £800
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 266 223 303
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £15.59
25th Percentile £23.91 £24.66 £20.01
Median hourly rate £37.50 £32.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +8.33% -26.42%
75th Percentile £59.00 £49.88 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.20 £68.60
England median hourly rate £46.90 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.48% -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 1 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 1 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 +5 50 £575 +2.22% 38
West London -10 8 £675 - 8
South London -1 7 £425 -29.17% 1
East London -2 1 £775 +64.02% 4
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 (5.69%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (3.29%) CICS
3 7 (2.10%) SharePoint
4 6 (1.80%) WebSphere
5 5 (1.50%) Apache
6 3 (0.90%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.30%) CloudStack
8 1 (0.30%) Confluence
8 1 (0.30%) IBM HTTP Server
8 1 (0.30%) SAS
8 1 (0.30%) SharePoint Server
8 1 (0.30%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 3 (0.90%) AutoCAD
2 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 153 (45.81%) Azure
2 85 (25.45%) AWS
3 45 (13.47%) GCP
4 40 (11.98%) GitHub
5 33 (9.88%) Azure DevOps
6 30 (8.98%) IaaS
7 29 (8.68%) Microsoft 365
8 27 (8.08%) GitHub Actions
9 25 (7.49%) Azure AKS
9 25 (7.49%) Entra ID
10 24 (7.19%) PaaS
11 19 (5.69%) SaaS
11 19 (5.69%) Serverless
12 15 (4.49%) AWS Lambda
12 15 (4.49%) Azure Monitor
13 13 (3.89%) Amazon EKS
14 12 (3.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 10 (2.99%) Amazon S3
16 9 (2.69%) Nutanix
17 8 (2.40%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 59 (17.66%) DNS
2 41 (12.28%) DHCP
3 37 (11.08%) Firewall
4 30 (8.98%) VPN
5 21 (6.29%) Network Security
6 15 (4.49%) WAN
7 13 (3.89%) TCP/IP
8 10 (2.99%) LAN
9 9 (2.69%) SMTP
10 7 (2.10%) SSL
11 6 (1.80%) SAN
12 5 (1.50%) DMZ
12 5 (1.50%) NAS
12 5 (1.50%) SD-WAN
12 5 (1.50%) Structured Cabling
13 4 (1.20%) HTTP
13 4 (1.20%) MPLS
14 3 (0.90%) BGP
14 3 (0.90%) Internet
14 3 (0.90%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (6.89%) SQL Server
2 8 (2.40%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (2.40%) DynamoDB
2 8 (2.40%) Elasticsearch
3 6 (1.80%) Db2
3 6 (1.80%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (1.50%) Big Data
5 3 (0.90%) MongoDB
5 3 (0.90%) NoSQL
5 3 (0.90%) RDBMS
5 3 (0.90%) Relational Database
5 3 (0.90%) Snowflake Schema
6 2 (0.60%) BigQuery
6 2 (0.60%) Hadoop
6 2 (0.60%) Power BI
7 1 (0.30%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.30%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.30%) Data Mining
7 1 (0.30%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.30%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 19 (5.69%) GitLab
2 14 (4.19%) Jenkins
3 12 (3.59%) Git
4 5 (1.50%) Bitbucket
5 4 (1.20%) JIRA
6 2 (0.60%) Subversion
7 1 (0.30%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.30%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.30%) CMake
7 1 (0.30%) Gradle
7 1 (0.30%) Introscope
General
1 74 (22.16%) Social Skills
2 63 (18.86%) Finance
3 28 (8.38%) Banking
4 18 (5.39%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (5.09%) Documentation Skills
6 15 (4.49%) Public Sector
7 12 (3.59%) Legal
8 8 (2.40%) Retail
9 7 (2.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (2.10%) Law
10 5 (1.50%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (1.50%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (1.50%) Telecoms
11 4 (1.20%) Billing
11 4 (1.20%) Publishing
12 3 (0.90%) Military
13 2 (0.60%) Aerospace
13 2 (0.60%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.60%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.60%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 196 (58.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 51 (15.27%) Cloud Engineer
3 36 (10.78%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 30 (8.98%) Senior
5 28 (8.38%) Azure Engineer
6 20 (5.99%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 18 (5.39%) DevOps Engineer
8 17 (5.09%) Architect
8 17 (5.09%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
9 14 (4.19%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 14 (4.19%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
10 11 (3.29%) Lead
10 11 (3.29%) Platform Engineer
11 10 (2.99%) Infrastructure Support
11 10 (2.99%) NetApp Engineer
11 10 (2.99%) Network Engineer
11 10 (2.99%) Storage Engineer
11 10 (2.99%) Support Engineer
12 9 (2.69%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
12 9 (2.69%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (2.99%) REST
2 9 (2.69%) JSON
3 6 (1.80%) Middleware
3 6 (1.80%) RESTful
3 6 (1.80%) SOAP
3 6 (1.80%) Web Services
3 6 (1.80%) WSDL
3 6 (1.80%) YAML
4 5 (1.50%) AWS CDK
4 5 (1.50%) Elastic Stack
4 5 (1.50%) OpenID
5 4 (1.20%) .NET
5 4 (1.20%) Kafka
5 4 (1.20%) SAML
6 3 (0.90%) ADO
6 3 (0.90%) ARM Templates
6 3 (0.90%) HTML
6 3 (0.90%) Spring
6 3 (0.90%) Spring Boot
7 2 (0.60%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 21 (6.29%) Data Centre
2 20 (5.99%) Cloud Native
2 20 (5.99%) Hybrid Cloud
3 15 (4.49%) Onboarding
4 11 (3.29%) Mainframe
4 11 (3.29%) PKI
5 10 (2.99%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (2.69%) Clustering
7 7 (2.10%) CMDB
7 7 (2.10%) Enterprise Storage
8 6 (1.80%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (1.80%) DataPower
8 6 (1.80%) Online Banking
8 6 (1.80%) Public Cloud
8 6 (1.80%) Replication
8 6 (1.80%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (1.50%) AI Agents
9 5 (1.50%) CCTV
9 5 (1.50%) Enterprise Cloud
9 5 (1.50%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 106 (31.74%) Windows
2 62 (18.56%) Windows Server
3 52 (15.57%) Linux
4 12 (3.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (3.29%) zOS
6 10 (2.99%) Unix
7 6 (1.80%) Android
7 6 (1.80%) Apple iOS
7 6 (1.80%) Windows Server 2003
7 6 (1.80%) Windows Server 2019
8 5 (1.50%) VMS
9 4 (1.20%) Windows 10
10 3 (0.90%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.90%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (0.90%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.60%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.30%) AIX
12 1 (0.30%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (0.30%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (26.65%) DevOps
2 85 (25.45%) Infrastructure as Code
3 77 (23.05%) CI/CD
4 47 (14.07%) Platform Engineering
5 45 (13.47%) Migration
6 43 (12.87%) AI
7 36 (10.78%) Containerisation
8 34 (10.18%) Problem-Solving
9 30 (8.98%) Infrastructure Automation
10 27 (8.08%) Continuous Improvement
10 27 (8.08%) Roadmaps
11 25 (7.49%) Agile
12 24 (7.19%) Disaster Recovery
12 24 (7.19%) Incident Response
13 21 (6.29%) Observability
14 20 (5.99%) Validation
15 18 (5.39%) Configuration Management
16 17 (5.09%) High Availability
16 17 (5.09%) Runbook
16 17 (5.09%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 77 (23.05%) PowerShell
2 69 (20.66%) Python
3 30 (8.98%) SQL
4 23 (6.89%) Bash
5 18 (5.39%) C#
6 17 (5.09%) Java
7 15 (4.49%) Shell Script
8 12 (3.59%) Bicep
9 6 (1.80%) Go
9 6 (1.80%) JavaScript
9 6 (1.80%) JCL
10 3 (0.90%) Kusto Query Language
10 3 (0.90%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.60%) C++
11 2 (0.60%) Korn
11 2 (0.60%) Ruby
12 1 (0.30%) C
12 1 (0.30%) Jython
12 1 (0.30%) Perl
12 1 (0.30%) VB
Qualifications
1 99 (29.64%) Security Cleared
2 63 (18.86%) SC Cleared
3 37 (11.08%) DV Cleared
4 13 (3.89%) Degree
5 12 (3.59%) Azure Certification
6 11 (3.29%) Cisco Certification
7 9 (2.69%) AWS Certification
7 9 (2.69%) CISSP
8 8 (2.40%) CCNA
9 4 (1.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (1.20%) CCNP
9 4 (1.20%) CISM
10 3 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.90%) PMI Certification
10 3 (0.90%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.60%) CISA
11 2 (0.60%) CRISC
11 2 (0.60%) PMP
11 2 (0.60%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (2.69%) QA
2 8 (2.40%) NIST
3 6 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (1.80%) PCI DSS
4 5 (1.50%) SLA
5 4 (1.20%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (1.20%) SOC 2
6 3 (0.90%) Data Quality
6 3 (0.90%) GDPR
6 3 (0.90%) NCSC
7 2 (0.60%) PMO
8 1 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.30%) FedRAMP
8 1 (0.30%) GRC
8 1 (0.30%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 62 (18.56%) Active Directory
2 51 (15.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 27 (8.08%) Docker
4 24 (7.19%) Hyper-V
5 17 (5.09%) VMware ESXi
6 14 (4.19%) vSphere
7 11 (3.29%) Virtual Desktop
7 11 (3.29%) Virtual Machines
8 9 (2.69%) BitLocker
8 9 (2.69%) Microsoft App-V
9 5 (1.50%) VMware NSX
10 4 (1.20%) Firmware
10 4 (1.20%) Terminal Services
11 3 (0.90%) NFS
11 3 (0.90%) Virtual Servers
12 2 (0.60%) Postfix
12 2 (0.60%) Sendmail
12 2 (0.60%) Varnish
13 1 (0.30%) KVM
13 1 (0.30%) RACF
Systems Management
1 94 (28.14%) Terraform
2 69 (20.66%) Kubernetes
3 41 (12.28%) Ansible
4 20 (5.99%) Microsoft Intune
5 15 (4.49%) Puppet
5 15 (4.49%) vCenter Server
6 11 (3.29%) Prometheus
7 9 (2.69%) Grafana
7 9 (2.69%) Packer
7 9 (2.69%) vMotion
8 6 (1.80%) FortiGate
8 6 (1.80%) SCCM
9 5 (1.50%) Nessus
10 4 (1.20%) AirWatch
10 4 (1.20%) Nagios
11 3 (0.90%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (0.90%) systemd
11 3 (0.90%) yum
12 2 (0.60%) Check_MK
12 2 (0.60%) vRealize
Vendors
1 87 (26.05%) Microsoft
2 66 (19.76%) VMware
3 23 (6.89%) Citrix
4 21 (6.29%) Google
5 16 (4.79%) ServiceNow
6 14 (4.19%) NetApp
7 10 (2.99%) Cisco
8 8 (2.40%) CyberArk
9 7 (2.10%) Dell
9 7 (2.10%) Red Hat
10 6 (1.80%) Tenable
10 6 (1.80%) Zscaler
11 5 (1.50%) IBM
11 5 (1.50%) Oracle
11 5 (1.50%) Qualys
11 5 (1.50%) SolarWinds
12 4 (1.20%) HP
12 4 (1.20%) Symantec
13 3 (0.90%) EMC
13 3 (0.90%) Informatica