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

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 196 160 130
Rank change year-on-year -36 -30 +65
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 200 247 359
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.39% 1.63% 1.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.52% 1.81% 2.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 189 253
10th Percentile £364 £325 £363
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £633 £650 £638
90th Percentile £685 £688 £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 3
10th Percentile £24.40 - £32.97
25th Percentile £26.50 - £34.42
Median hourly rate £30.00 £112.00 £36.84
Median % change year-on-year -73.21% +204.02% -51.84%
75th Percentile £32.70 - £38.04
90th Percentile £34.32 - £38.75
England median hourly rate £34.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -45.60% +4.17% +8.11%

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 13,135 13,632 16,935
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.46% 90.03% 89.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,670 8,766 12,134
10th Percentile £343 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -2.65% -4.24%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £763 £800 £792
England median daily rate £505 £525 £544
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.49% -1.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 237 164 235
10th Percentile £17.98 £17.65 £18.53
25th Percentile £24.50 £23.80 £21.38
Median hourly rate £30.00 £36.65 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.14% +4.71% -10.83%
75th Percentile £48.00 £54.06 £60.00
90th Percentile £66.90 £80.75 £74.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.30%

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 December 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 16 December 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 -3 34 £550 -7.17% 13
West London -14 5 £300 -25.00% 6
South London -5 3 - - 2
East London - 1 - - 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 22 (11.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (3.50%) Confluence
3 5 (2.50%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (2.00%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.50%) Apache
6 2 (1.00%) Apache Spark
6 2 (1.00%) nginx
6 2 (1.00%) Traefik
7 1 (0.50%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.50%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.50%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 3 (1.50%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.50%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 86 (43.00%) Azure
2 53 (26.50%) AWS
3 38 (19.00%) Microsoft 365
4 27 (13.50%) Entra ID
5 22 (11.00%) GitHub
6 20 (10.00%) GCP
7 16 (8.00%) Serverless
8 15 (7.50%) Amazon S3
9 14 (7.00%) Azure DevOps
9 14 (7.00%) GitHub Actions
10 12 (6.00%) IaaS
11 11 (5.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 9 (4.50%) Amazon EKS
12 9 (4.50%) AWS CloudFormation
12 9 (4.50%) AWS Lambda
13 8 (4.00%) Amazon ECS
14 7 (3.50%) Amazon EC2
14 7 (3.50%) Azure Monitor
14 7 (3.50%) Nutanix
14 7 (3.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 49 (24.50%) Firewall
2 31 (15.50%) VPN
3 27 (13.50%) DNS
4 26 (13.00%) WAN
5 20 (10.00%) TCP/IP
6 17 (8.50%) LAN
6 17 (8.50%) Network Security
7 14 (7.00%) Wi-Fi
8 13 (6.50%) SSL
9 8 (4.00%) DHCP
9 8 (4.00%) MPLS
9 8 (4.00%) SD-WAN
10 6 (3.00%) HTTP
11 5 (2.50%) VLAN
11 5 (2.50%) Wireless
12 4 (2.00%) BGP
12 4 (2.00%) OSPF
12 4 (2.00%) WLAN
13 3 (1.50%) SAN
13 3 (1.50%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.00%) DynamoDB
1 4 (2.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.50%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (1.00%) Big Data
3 2 (1.00%) MariaDB
3 2 (1.00%) MySQL
3 2 (1.00%) Power BI
4 1 (0.50%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.50%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (0.50%) Apache Iceberg
4 1 (0.50%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.50%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.50%) Delta Lake
4 1 (0.50%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.50%) Oracle Database 11g
4 1 (0.50%) Oracle Database 12c
4 1 (0.50%) Oracle Exadata
4 1 (0.50%) Parquet
4 1 (0.50%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 19 (9.50%) Git
2 17 (8.50%) Jenkins
3 11 (5.50%) GitLab
4 9 (4.50%) JIRA
5 4 (2.00%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.50%) Jaeger
6 1 (0.50%) MLflow
General
1 50 (25.00%) Finance
2 49 (24.50%) Social Skills
3 23 (11.50%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (10.50%) Banking
5 14 (7.00%) Public Sector
6 8 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (3.00%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (3.00%) Financial Institution
7 6 (3.00%) Spanish Language
8 5 (2.50%) Front Office
9 4 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.50%) Military
10 3 (1.50%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.00%) Billing
11 2 (1.00%) Investment Banking
11 2 (1.00%) Law
11 2 (1.00%) Local Government
11 2 (1.00%) Retail
12 1 (0.50%) International Banking
12 1 (0.50%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 103 (51.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 30 (15.00%) Senior
3 18 (9.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 17 (8.50%) Network Engineer
5 15 (7.50%) Security Engineer
6 14 (7.00%) Cloud Engineer
7 13 (6.50%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
8 12 (6.00%) Platform Engineer
9 11 (5.50%) Azure Engineer
9 11 (5.50%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
10 10 (5.00%) Python Engineer
10 10 (5.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 8 (4.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
11 8 (4.00%) Developer
11 8 (4.00%) DevOps Engineer
12 7 (3.50%) Architect
13 6 (3.00%) Automation Engineer
13 6 (3.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
13 6 (3.00%) Lead
13 6 (3.00%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.00%) Kafka
2 6 (3.00%) Middleware
3 5 (2.50%) ARM Templates
3 5 (2.50%) GraphQL
3 5 (2.50%) REST
4 4 (2.00%) gRPC
4 4 (2.00%) NumPy
4 4 (2.00%) Pandas
4 4 (2.00%) RESTful
4 4 (2.00%) YAML
5 3 (1.50%) AWT
5 3 (1.50%) FIX Protocol
5 3 (1.50%) GWT
5 3 (1.50%) JMS
5 3 (1.50%) Rendezvous
5 3 (1.50%) SciPy
5 3 (1.50%) TIBCO EMS
6 2 (1.00%) ADO
6 2 (1.00%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (1.00%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 13 (6.50%) Data Centre
2 11 (5.50%) Onboarding
2 11 (5.50%) Public Cloud
3 10 (5.00%) Cloud Native
4 8 (4.00%) Replication
5 7 (3.50%) Data Protection Act
5 7 (3.50%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (3.50%) PKI
5 7 (3.50%) Private Cloud
6 6 (3.00%) Equities
7 4 (2.00%) DataPower
7 4 (2.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (2.00%) Mainframe
8 3 (1.50%) Client/Server
8 3 (1.50%) Derivative
8 3 (1.50%) Equity Derivative
8 3 (1.50%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (1.50%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 58 (29.00%) Windows
2 45 (22.50%) Linux
3 41 (20.50%) Windows Server
4 14 (7.00%) Unix
5 5 (2.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (2.50%) Ubuntu
5 5 (2.50%) Windows 10
6 4 (2.00%) VMS
7 3 (1.50%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (1.00%) Android
8 2 (1.00%) CentOS
8 2 (1.00%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.50%) AIX
9 1 (0.50%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.50%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.50%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (0.50%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.50%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (31.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 55 (27.50%) DevOps
3 53 (26.50%) CI/CD
4 40 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 28 (14.00%) Containerisation
6 26 (13.00%) Agile
7 25 (12.50%) Migration
8 21 (10.50%) High Availability
8 21 (10.50%) Observability
9 19 (9.50%) Infrastructure Automation
9 19 (9.50%) Platform Engineering
10 18 (9.00%) Cybersecurity
11 16 (8.00%) ITIL
12 15 (7.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 14 (7.00%) Low Latency
14 13 (6.50%) Analytics
14 13 (6.50%) Task Automation
14 13 (6.50%) Test Automation
15 12 (6.00%) Architectural Design
15 12 (6.00%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 65 (32.50%) Python
2 31 (15.50%) PowerShell
3 20 (10.00%) Bash
4 16 (8.00%) Java
5 11 (5.50%) Go
6 8 (4.00%) SQL
7 7 (3.50%) Perl
8 6 (3.00%) Shell Script
9 4 (2.00%) Bicep
10 3 (1.50%) C#
10 3 (1.50%) C++
10 3 (1.50%) Ruby
11 1 (0.50%) Scala
11 1 (0.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 32 (16.00%) Security Cleared
2 23 (11.50%) SC Cleared
3 20 (10.00%) Degree
4 12 (6.00%) Cisco Certification
5 10 (5.00%) Azure Certification
6 8 (4.00%) CCNA
6 8 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (3.50%) CCNP
7 7 (3.50%) DV Cleared
8 6 (3.00%) CISSP
9 5 (2.50%) CISM
10 4 (2.00%) Master's Degree
10 4 (2.00%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (1.50%) JNCIP
11 3 (1.50%) JNCIS
11 3 (1.50%) PhD
12 2 (1.00%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (1.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 2 (1.00%) PMI Certification
12 2 (1.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.50%) Cyber Essentials
1 3 (1.50%) NIST
2 2 (1.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.00%) SLA
3 1 (0.50%) GDPR
3 1 (0.50%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 1 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.50%) QA
3 1 (0.50%) SOC 2
System Software
1 45 (22.50%) Active Directory
2 30 (15.00%) Docker
3 21 (10.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (6.00%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (4.00%) Hyper-V
6 5 (2.50%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (2.00%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (1.50%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (1.00%) Firmware
10 1 (0.50%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.50%) etcd
10 1 (0.50%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.50%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.50%) vSphere
10 1 (0.50%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 72 (36.00%) Terraform
2 32 (16.00%) Kubernetes
2 32 (16.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 30 (15.00%) Ansible
4 22 (11.00%) SCCM
5 19 (9.50%) Grafana
6 12 (6.00%) Prometheus
7 7 (3.50%) CASB
7 7 (3.50%) SCOrch
7 7 (3.50%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (2.50%) FortiGate
9 4 (2.00%) Argo
10 3 (1.50%) Istio
10 3 (1.50%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (1.00%) ITRS Geneos
11 2 (1.00%) Kibana
11 2 (1.00%) McAfee ePO
11 2 (1.00%) Red Hat Satellite
11 2 (1.00%) SCOM
12 1 (0.50%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 61 (30.50%) Microsoft
2 26 (13.00%) VMware
3 19 (9.50%) Cisco
4 18 (9.00%) Palo Alto
5 17 (8.50%) Google
6 14 (7.00%) F5
7 11 (5.50%) Fortinet
8 8 (4.00%) Zscaler
9 7 (3.50%) CheckPoint
9 7 (3.50%) CyberArk
9 7 (3.50%) Juniper
10 6 (3.00%) Dell
11 5 (2.50%) Veeam
12 4 (2.00%) Aruba
12 4 (2.00%) Commvault
12 4 (2.00%) Databricks
12 4 (2.00%) IBM
12 4 (2.00%) Meraki
12 4 (2.00%) Red Hat
12 4 (2.00%) TIBCO