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

6 months to
5 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 189 167 123
Rank change year-on-year -22 -44 +66
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 233 197 342
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.36% 1.55% 1.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.52% 1.70% 2.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 156 238
10th Percentile £400 £330 £309
25th Percentile £425 £400 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £617 £638
90th Percentile £680 £681 £750
England median daily rate £517 £534 £488
% change year-on-year -3.19% +9.49% -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 15,334 11,605 15,921
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.40% 91.50% 88.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,290 7,873 11,381
10th Percentile £353 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £685 £675
90th Percentile £756 £806 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 239 169 333
10th Percentile £18.07 £18.12 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.11 £24.18 £19.92
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.00 £30.12
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% +16.20% -22.77%
75th Percentile £56.25 £50.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.50 £65.00 £67.80
England median hourly rate £37.50 £32.50 £33.07
% change year-on-year +15.38% -1.71% -11.83%

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 5 April 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 5 April 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 41 £563 -6.25% 33
South London -12 7 £425 -7.61%
West London -23 3 £300 -25.00% 3
East London -2 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 27 (11.59%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (2.15%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.72%) Apache
4 3 (1.29%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.29%) CICS
5 2 (0.86%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.43%) IBM HTTP Server
6 1 (0.43%) SAS
6 1 (0.43%) Skype for Business
6 1 (0.43%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.43%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 3 (1.29%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 98 (42.06%) Azure
2 45 (19.31%) AWS
3 39 (16.74%) Microsoft 365
4 28 (12.02%) Entra ID
5 26 (11.16%) IaaS
6 24 (10.30%) GCP
6 24 (10.30%) GitHub
7 23 (9.87%) Serverless
8 21 (9.01%) PaaS
9 18 (7.73%) Azure DevOps
10 17 (7.30%) AWS Lambda
11 14 (6.01%) GitHub Actions
12 12 (5.15%) SaaS
13 11 (4.72%) AWS CloudFormation
13 11 (4.72%) Azure AKS
13 11 (4.72%) Nutanix
14 10 (4.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 10 (4.29%) Amazon S3
15 9 (3.86%) Amazon EKS
15 9 (3.86%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 40 (17.17%) Firewall
2 38 (16.31%) DNS
3 27 (11.59%) VPN
4 21 (9.01%) WAN
5 20 (8.58%) DHCP
6 18 (7.73%) LAN
7 13 (5.58%) Network Security
8 8 (3.43%) MPLS
8 8 (3.43%) Wi-Fi
9 7 (3.00%) SMTP
10 4 (1.72%) SD-WAN
10 4 (1.72%) Software-Defined Networking
10 4 (1.72%) TCP/IP
10 4 (1.72%) VLAN
11 3 (1.29%) SAN
12 2 (0.86%) BGP
12 2 (0.86%) Cisco Wireless
12 2 (0.86%) OSPF
12 2 (0.86%) Remote Desktop
12 2 (0.86%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (4.72%) SQL Server
2 9 (3.86%) DynamoDB
3 6 (2.58%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (2.15%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (1.72%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (1.72%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.29%) Big Data
6 3 (1.29%) DB2
6 3 (1.29%) MongoDB
6 3 (1.29%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.29%) RDBMS
7 2 (0.86%) Hadoop
7 2 (0.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.43%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.43%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.43%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.43%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.43%) Metadata
8 1 (0.43%) Power BI
8 1 (0.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 13 (5.58%) Git
1 13 (5.58%) GitLab
2 11 (4.72%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.29%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.43%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.43%) CircleCI
4 1 (0.43%) Introscope
4 1 (0.43%) Jaeger
4 1 (0.43%) JIRA
General
1 56 (24.03%) Social Skills
2 45 (19.31%) Finance
3 25 (10.73%) Banking
4 18 (7.73%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (4.72%) Legal
5 11 (4.72%) Public Sector
6 7 (3.00%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (2.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.72%) Front Office
8 4 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (1.72%) Retail
9 3 (1.29%) Billing
9 3 (1.29%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.29%) Military
9 3 (1.29%) Spanish Language
10 2 (0.86%) Law
10 2 (0.86%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.43%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.43%) Games
Job Titles
1 133 (57.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 30 (12.88%) Senior
3 25 (10.73%) Cloud Engineer
4 23 (9.87%) Azure Engineer
5 17 (7.30%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
6 16 (6.87%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 16 (6.87%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 13 (5.58%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 13 (5.58%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
7 13 (5.58%) Network Engineer
8 12 (5.15%) Architect
8 12 (5.15%) NetApp Engineer
8 12 (5.15%) Storage Engineer
9 10 (4.29%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
10 8 (3.43%) Developer
11 7 (3.00%) Lead
11 7 (3.00%) VMware Engineer
12 6 (2.58%) Data Engineer
12 6 (2.58%) GCP Engineer
12 6 (2.58%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.29%) ADO
1 3 (1.29%) ARM Templates
1 3 (1.29%) AWS CDK
1 3 (1.29%) Elastic Stack
1 3 (1.29%) JSON
1 3 (1.29%) Kafka
1 3 (1.29%) NumPy
1 3 (1.29%) Pandas
1 3 (1.29%) REST
1 3 (1.29%) RESTful
1 3 (1.29%) SciPy
1 3 (1.29%) SOAP
1 3 (1.29%) Spring
1 3 (1.29%) Spring Boot
1 3 (1.29%) Web Services
1 3 (1.29%) WSDL
2 2 (0.86%) GraphQL
2 2 (0.86%) OpenID
2 2 (0.86%) OpenTelemetry
2 2 (0.86%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (6.87%) Data Centre
2 15 (6.44%) Hybrid Cloud
3 14 (6.01%) Onboarding
4 11 (4.72%) Cloud Native
4 11 (4.72%) PKI
5 8 (3.43%) Clustering
6 7 (3.00%) DataPower
6 7 (3.00%) Mainframe
7 6 (2.58%) Enterprise Storage
8 5 (2.15%) CCTV
8 5 (2.15%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.72%) Replication
9 4 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.29%) Derivative
10 3 (1.29%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (1.29%) Equity Derivative
10 3 (1.29%) Online Banking
10 3 (1.29%) Operational Technology
10 3 (1.29%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 67 (28.76%) Windows
2 39 (16.74%) Linux
3 36 (15.45%) Windows Server
4 8 (3.43%) Unix
5 7 (3.00%) Windows Server 2003
6 6 (2.58%) VMS
7 5 (2.15%) Ubuntu
8 4 (1.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (1.72%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (1.72%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (1.29%) Android
9 3 (1.29%) Windows 10
9 3 (1.29%) zOS
10 2 (0.86%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.86%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.43%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.43%) CentOS
11 1 (0.43%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.43%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (22.32%) DevOps
2 51 (21.89%) Infrastructure as Code
3 50 (21.46%) CI/CD
4 35 (15.02%) Migration
5 25 (10.73%) Problem-Solving
6 23 (9.87%) Containerisation
7 19 (8.15%) Platform Engineering
8 17 (7.30%) Cloud Security
9 16 (6.87%) Disaster Recovery
9 16 (6.87%) ITIL
10 15 (6.44%) Continuous Improvement
10 15 (6.44%) Cybersecurity
10 15 (6.44%) Observability
11 14 (6.01%) Agile
12 13 (5.58%) Analytics
12 13 (5.58%) Incident Management
12 13 (5.58%) Mentoring
13 12 (5.15%) Project Delivery
13 12 (5.15%) Roadmaps
13 12 (5.15%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 52 (22.32%) PowerShell
2 44 (18.88%) Python
3 20 (8.58%) SQL
4 14 (6.01%) Shell Script
5 11 (4.72%) Bash
5 11 (4.72%) C#
6 7 (3.00%) Bicep
6 7 (3.00%) Java
7 5 (2.15%) Ruby
8 3 (1.29%) C++
8 3 (1.29%) Go
8 3 (1.29%) JavaScript
8 3 (1.29%) JCL
9 1 (0.43%) Jython
9 1 (0.43%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.43%) Perl
9 1 (0.43%) Scala
Qualifications
1 61 (26.18%) Security Cleared
2 39 (16.74%) SC Cleared
3 21 (9.01%) DV Cleared
4 14 (6.01%) Azure Certification
5 12 (5.15%) Degree
6 8 (3.43%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (2.15%) CCNA
7 5 (2.15%) CCNP
7 5 (2.15%) CISSP
8 3 (1.29%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.29%) CISM
8 3 (1.29%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.29%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.29%) PhD
8 3 (1.29%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (0.86%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.86%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.86%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.86%) JNCIS
9 2 (0.86%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.15%) NIST
2 4 (1.72%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.29%) NCSC
3 3 (1.29%) QA
4 2 (0.86%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.86%) GDPR
4 2 (0.86%) SLA
5 1 (0.43%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.43%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 1 (0.43%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.43%) PMO
5 1 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.43%) SOC 2
System Software
1 49 (21.03%) Active Directory
2 29 (12.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (10.73%) Docker
4 17 (7.30%) Hyper-V
5 10 (4.29%) Virtual Desktop
6 9 (3.86%) VMware ESXi
7 8 (3.43%) BitLocker
8 7 (3.00%) Microsoft App-V
8 7 (3.00%) Virtual Machines
8 7 (3.00%) vSphere
9 4 (1.72%) Firmware
10 3 (1.29%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.86%) NFS
11 2 (0.86%) Postfix
11 2 (0.86%) Sendmail
11 2 (0.86%) Varnish
12 1 (0.43%) Terminal Services
12 1 (0.43%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 57 (24.46%) Terraform
2 40 (17.17%) Kubernetes
3 34 (14.59%) Microsoft Intune
4 24 (10.30%) Ansible
5 13 (5.58%) SCCM
6 9 (3.86%) Puppet
7 8 (3.43%) Grafana
7 8 (3.43%) vCenter Server
8 7 (3.00%) vMotion
9 4 (1.72%) AirWatch
9 4 (1.72%) Packer
9 4 (1.72%) Prometheus
10 3 (1.29%) CASB
10 3 (1.29%) FortiGate
10 3 (1.29%) SCOrch
10 3 (1.29%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.86%) HAProxy
11 2 (0.86%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.86%) SCOM
11 2 (0.86%) vRealize
Vendors
1 69 (29.61%) Microsoft
2 39 (16.74%) VMware
3 17 (7.30%) Citrix
4 15 (6.44%) Google
5 13 (5.58%) NetApp
6 9 (3.86%) Cisco
7 8 (3.43%) Dell
8 7 (3.00%) CyberArk
8 7 (3.00%) SolarWinds
9 6 (2.58%) Fortinet
9 6 (2.58%) Oracle
9 6 (2.58%) Veeam
10 5 (2.15%) ServiceNow
11 4 (1.72%) IBM
11 4 (1.72%) Palo Alto
11 4 (1.72%) Red Hat
12 3 (1.29%) CrowdStrike
12 3 (1.29%) Informatica
12 3 (1.29%) Juniper
12 3 (1.29%) Splunk