Infrastructure Engineering Contracts in London

Infrastructure Engineering
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Infrastructure Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Infrastructure Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 181 144 157
Rank change year-on-year -37 +13 +40
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 187 312 417
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.41% 1.77% 1.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.53% 2.00% 1.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 242 312
10th Percentile £350 £325 £376
25th Percentile £400 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £518 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.45% -5.91% +4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £640 £650
90th Percentile £650 £736 £800
England median daily rate £525 £500 £507
% change year-on-year +5.00% -1.38% +6.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £81.91
25th Percentile - - £84.94
Median hourly rate £30.00 - £90.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £57.75 £54.88 £72.50
% change year-on-year +5.24% -24.31% +53.15%

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 12,241 15,588 23,258
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.47% 90.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,173 11,098 16,857
10th Percentile £331 £340 £370
25th Percentile £425 £445 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £585
Median % change year-on-year - -5.98% +1.74%
75th Percentile £675 £680 £700
90th Percentile £799 £800 £800
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 226 295 265
10th Percentile £16.50 £15.97 £18.50
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.02 £23.00
Median hourly rate £32.00 £30.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -25.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £50.50 £48.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £63.75 £68.75 £82.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £37.50
% change year-on-year -34.02% +1.65% +46.03%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Infrastructure Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineering in London

Infrastructure Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in London.

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Engineering in London

Infrastructure Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in London over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in London

Infrastructure Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in London.

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Engineering in London

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 July 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 -23 34 £563 -5.06% 74
South London +2 5 £600 +54.84% 1
East London - 3 £473 - 8
West London +12 2 - - 7
North London -4 1 £675 +170.00% 2
Infrastructure Engineering
England

Infrastructure Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 21 (11.23%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (8.02%) SharePoint
3 7 (3.74%) Confluence
4 6 (3.21%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.53%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.53%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 3 (1.60%) Chatbot
2 2 (1.07%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.07%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 100 (53.48%) Azure
2 48 (25.67%) Microsoft 365
3 45 (24.06%) Entra ID
4 29 (15.51%) AWS
5 22 (11.76%) IaaS
6 19 (10.16%) Azure DevOps
7 16 (8.56%) GCP
8 14 (7.49%) GitHub
9 11 (5.88%) SaaS
10 10 (5.35%) Azure Monitor
11 9 (4.81%) PaaS
12 6 (3.21%) Mimecast
13 5 (2.67%) AWS CloudFormation
13 5 (2.67%) Azure API Management
13 5 (2.67%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 5 (2.67%) Azure Key Vault
13 5 (2.67%) Azure Logic Apps
13 5 (2.67%) Azure Service Bus
13 5 (2.67%) Azure Storage
13 5 (2.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 53 (28.34%) Firewall
2 35 (18.72%) DNS
3 27 (14.44%) VPN
4 23 (12.30%) WAN
5 19 (10.16%) DHCP
6 17 (9.09%) Wi-Fi
7 15 (8.02%) TCP/IP
8 14 (7.49%) LAN
8 14 (7.49%) Network Security
9 11 (5.88%) SD-WAN
10 9 (4.81%) MPLS
11 7 (3.74%) Wireless
12 6 (3.21%) SSL
13 5 (2.67%) 4G
14 4 (2.14%) Internet
15 3 (1.60%) BGP
15 3 (1.60%) Multicast
15 3 (1.60%) OSPF
15 3 (1.60%) SAN
15 3 (1.60%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.28%) SQL Server
2 6 (3.21%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (1.60%) Power BI
4 2 (1.07%) DynamoDB
4 2 (1.07%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.53%) Big Data
5 1 (0.53%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.53%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.53%) Looker
5 1 (0.53%) Oracle Database 11g
5 1 (0.53%) Oracle Database 12c
5 1 (0.53%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 11 (5.88%) JIRA
2 10 (5.35%) Jenkins
3 6 (3.21%) ScriptRunner
4 5 (2.67%) Git
4 5 (2.67%) GitLab
5 3 (1.60%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.07%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.53%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.53%) eggPlant
7 1 (0.53%) JIRA Agile
7 1 (0.53%) Log4j
7 1 (0.53%) Postman
7 1 (0.53%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.53%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.53%) TeamCity
General
1 54 (28.88%) Finance
2 40 (21.39%) Social Skills
3 16 (8.56%) Public Sector
4 14 (7.49%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (5.88%) Banking
6 9 (4.81%) Law
7 7 (3.74%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (3.74%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (2.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.14%) Legal
8 4 (2.14%) Marketing
8 4 (2.14%) Spanish Language
9 3 (1.60%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.60%) Local Government
10 2 (1.07%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.07%) Military
10 2 (1.07%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.07%) Retail
11 1 (0.53%) Front Office
11 1 (0.53%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 114 (60.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 31 (16.58%) Senior
3 25 (13.37%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 18 (9.63%) Azure Engineer
5 16 (8.56%) Cloud Engineer
6 15 (8.02%) Architect
6 15 (8.02%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
7 11 (5.88%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
7 11 (5.88%) Lead
8 9 (4.81%) Network Engineer
9 8 (4.28%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
9 8 (4.28%) Security Engineer
10 7 (3.74%) DevOps Engineer
10 7 (3.74%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
10 7 (3.74%) Windows Engineer
11 6 (3.21%) Infrastructure Support
11 6 (3.21%) Python Engineer
11 6 (3.21%) VMware Engineer
11 6 (3.21%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
11 6 (3.21%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.28%) ARM Templates
2 6 (3.21%) ADO
2 6 (3.21%) YAML
3 3 (1.60%) LDAP
3 3 (1.60%) OAuth
3 3 (1.60%) SAML
4 2 (1.07%) .NET
4 2 (1.07%) 802.1X
4 2 (1.07%) ASP.NET
4 2 (1.07%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (1.07%) Node.js
4 2 (1.07%) OAuth2
4 2 (1.07%) RESTful
4 2 (1.07%) Spring
5 1 (0.53%) JDBC
5 1 (0.53%) Kafka
5 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Graph
5 1 (0.53%) Oracle GoldenGate
5 1 (0.53%) SOAP
5 1 (0.53%) Ultra Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 13 (6.95%) Data Centre
2 10 (5.35%) PKI
3 6 (3.21%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (3.21%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (2.67%) Security Operations Centre
4 5 (2.67%) Video Conferencing
5 4 (2.14%) Clustering
5 4 (2.14%) Legacy Applications
5 4 (2.14%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (2.14%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.14%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.60%) Cloud Native
6 3 (1.60%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (1.60%) Legacy Code
6 3 (1.60%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.07%) Low-Code
7 2 (1.07%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.53%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.53%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 79 (42.25%) Windows
2 46 (24.60%) Windows Server
3 28 (14.97%) Linux
4 14 (7.49%) Windows 10
5 5 (2.67%) Ubuntu
6 4 (2.14%) Unix
7 3 (1.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (1.07%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.53%) AIX
9 1 (0.53%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.53%) CentOS
9 1 (0.53%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (0.53%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (22.46%) DevOps
2 32 (17.11%) Migration
3 31 (16.58%) Problem-Solving
4 30 (16.04%) CI/CD
4 30 (16.04%) Infrastructure as Code
5 22 (11.76%) Agile
6 19 (10.16%) Infrastructure Management
7 17 (9.09%) Cloud Security
8 15 (8.02%) Containerisation
8 15 (8.02%) High Availability
8 15 (8.02%) Infrastructure Automation
9 14 (7.49%) Disaster Recovery
9 14 (7.49%) Incident Management
10 12 (6.42%) Business Continuity
11 11 (5.88%) Analytics
11 11 (5.88%) Data Loss Prevention
11 11 (5.88%) Information Security
11 11 (5.88%) Mentoring
11 11 (5.88%) Platform Engineering
11 11 (5.88%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 50 (26.74%) PowerShell
2 40 (21.39%) Python
3 11 (5.88%) Bash
4 9 (4.81%) Bicep
4 9 (4.81%) SQL
5 6 (3.21%) Groovy
5 6 (3.21%) Perl
6 4 (2.14%) Java
6 4 (2.14%) JavaScript
7 3 (1.60%) Go
7 3 (1.60%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.07%) C#
8 2 (1.07%) C++
8 2 (1.07%) Ruby
9 1 (0.53%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 34 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 28 (14.97%) SC Cleared
3 12 (6.42%) Degree
4 11 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
5 9 (4.81%) CCNP
6 6 (3.21%) Azure Certification
6 6 (3.21%) CCNA
6 6 (3.21%) DV Cleared
7 4 (2.14%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.07%) CCIE
8 2 (1.07%) DBS Check
8 2 (1.07%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 2 (1.07%) PMI Certification
8 2 (1.07%) PMP
8 2 (1.07%) VCAP
8 2 (1.07%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 1 (0.53%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.53%) IBM Certification
9 1 (0.53%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.14%) NCSC
1 4 (2.14%) QA
2 3 (1.60%) GDPR
2 3 (1.60%) NIST
3 2 (1.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.07%) SLA
4 1 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.53%) GRC
4 1 (0.53%) NIST 800
4 1 (0.53%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.53%) PMO
System Software
1 71 (37.97%) Active Directory
2 24 (12.83%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (7.49%) Docker
5 9 (4.81%) Hyper-V
6 7 (3.74%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (1.07%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.53%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.53%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.53%) Terminal Services
8 1 (0.53%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 39 (20.86%) Terraform
2 32 (17.11%) Microsoft Intune
3 18 (9.63%) Kubernetes
4 12 (6.42%) Ansible
4 12 (6.42%) SCCM
5 8 (4.28%) FortiGate
5 8 (4.28%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (2.67%) vCenter Server
7 4 (2.14%) Prometheus
8 3 (1.60%) CASB
8 3 (1.60%) Grafana
8 3 (1.60%) Puppet
8 3 (1.60%) SCOrch
9 2 (1.07%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (1.07%) McAfee ePO
9 2 (1.07%) NetBackup
9 2 (1.07%) SELinux
10 1 (0.53%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.53%) Nagios
10 1 (0.53%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 68 (36.36%) Microsoft
2 34 (18.18%) VMware
3 24 (12.83%) Cisco
4 10 (5.35%) Google
4 10 (5.35%) Palo Alto
5 8 (4.28%) Fortinet
5 8 (4.28%) Meraki
6 7 (3.74%) Atlassian
7 6 (3.21%) Citrix
8 5 (2.67%) Dell
9 4 (2.14%) McAfee
9 4 (2.14%) Red Hat
9 4 (2.14%) Splunk
10 3 (1.60%) F5
10 3 (1.60%) NetApp
10 3 (1.60%) Qualys
11 2 (1.07%) Commvault
11 2 (1.07%) Juniper
11 2 (1.07%) TIBCO
11 2 (1.07%) Veritas