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

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 185 162 130
Rank change year-on-year -23 -32 +58
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 206 255 375
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.47% 1.63% 1.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.60% 1.81% 2.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 198 270
10th Percentile £350 £325 £352
25th Percentile £425 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £532 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.36% +4.76% -3.45%
75th Percentile £610 £650 £639
90th Percentile £675 £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 £67.50 £59.00
% change year-on-year -49.63% +14.42% +6.30%

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 12,904 14,060 17,647
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.94% 89.70% 89.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,504 9,083 12,650
10th Percentile £335 £350 £353
25th Percentile £425 £450 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £567
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.96% -3.72%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £764 £800 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £548
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.11% -0.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 242 169 237
10th Percentile £18.25 £17.25 £18.54
25th Percentile £24.50 £23.80 £21.50
Median hourly rate £29.25 £37.00 £35.63
Median % change year-on-year -20.95% +3.85% -9.80%
75th Percentile £47.38 £53.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £66.50 £80.75 £76.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.14%

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 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 1 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 -1 36 £550 -7.17% 20
West London -8 5 £300 -25.00% 4
South London -4 3 - - 4
East London - 1 - - 7
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 21 (10.19%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (3.40%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (3.40%) Confluence
3 3 (1.46%) Apache
3 3 (1.46%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.97%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.97%) nginx
4 2 (0.97%) Traefik
5 1 (0.49%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.49%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.49%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.49%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.49%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 2 (0.97%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.49%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 93 (45.15%) Azure
2 50 (24.27%) AWS
3 37 (17.96%) Microsoft 365
4 29 (14.08%) Entra ID
5 24 (11.65%) GitHub
6 20 (9.71%) Azure DevOps
6 20 (9.71%) GCP
7 14 (6.80%) Amazon S3
7 14 (6.80%) Serverless
8 13 (6.31%) GitHub Actions
9 12 (5.83%) Azure Monitor
10 11 (5.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 11 (5.34%) IaaS
11 9 (4.37%) Amazon EKS
12 8 (3.88%) Azure Logic Apps
13 7 (3.40%) AWS CloudFormation
13 7 (3.40%) Azure Key Vault
13 7 (3.40%) Azure Service Bus
13 7 (3.40%) Mimecast
13 7 (3.40%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 47 (22.82%) Firewall
2 30 (14.56%) VPN
3 26 (12.62%) WAN
4 24 (11.65%) DNS
5 20 (9.71%) Network Security
5 20 (9.71%) TCP/IP
6 15 (7.28%) LAN
7 14 (6.80%) SSL
8 13 (6.31%) Wi-Fi
9 9 (4.37%) SD-WAN
10 7 (3.40%) DHCP
10 7 (3.40%) MPLS
11 6 (2.91%) HTTP
12 5 (2.43%) VLAN
12 5 (2.43%) Wireless
13 4 (1.94%) BGP
13 4 (1.94%) OSPF
13 4 (1.94%) tcpdump
13 4 (1.94%) WLAN
14 3 (1.46%) Cisco Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.94%) DynamoDB
1 4 (1.94%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.46%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (0.97%) Big Data
3 2 (0.97%) MariaDB
3 2 (0.97%) MySQL
3 2 (0.97%) Power BI
4 1 (0.49%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.49%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (0.49%) Apache Iceberg
4 1 (0.49%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.49%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.49%) Delta Lake
4 1 (0.49%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.49%) Oracle Database 11g
4 1 (0.49%) Oracle Database 12c
4 1 (0.49%) Oracle Exadata
4 1 (0.49%) Parquet
4 1 (0.49%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 19 (9.22%) Git
2 18 (8.74%) Jenkins
3 11 (5.34%) GitLab
4 9 (4.37%) JIRA
5 4 (1.94%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.49%) Jaeger
6 1 (0.49%) Log4j
6 1 (0.49%) MLflow
6 1 (0.49%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.49%) SonarQube
General
1 53 (25.73%) Finance
2 51 (24.76%) Social Skills
3 23 (11.17%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (9.22%) Banking
5 17 (8.25%) Public Sector
6 8 (3.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (3.40%) Law
8 6 (2.91%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (2.91%) Financial Institution
8 6 (2.91%) Spanish Language
9 4 (1.94%) Front Office
10 3 (1.46%) Military
10 3 (1.46%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.46%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.97%) Billing
11 2 (0.97%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.97%) Retail
12 1 (0.49%) International Banking
12 1 (0.49%) Italian Language
12 1 (0.49%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 104 (50.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 29 (14.08%) Senior
3 17 (8.25%) Network Engineer
3 17 (8.25%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 15 (7.28%) Security Engineer
5 14 (6.80%) Azure Engineer
5 14 (6.80%) Cloud Engineer
6 13 (6.31%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
7 12 (5.83%) Platform Engineer
8 11 (5.34%) DevOps Engineer
8 11 (5.34%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
9 10 (4.85%) Python Engineer
10 9 (4.37%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
10 9 (4.37%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 8 (3.88%) Developer
12 7 (3.40%) Architect
13 6 (2.91%) Automation Engineer
13 6 (2.91%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
13 6 (2.91%) Infrastructure Support
14 5 (2.43%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (4.37%) ARM Templates
1 9 (4.37%) Kafka
2 8 (3.88%) YAML
3 6 (2.91%) ADO
3 6 (2.91%) Middleware
3 6 (2.91%) RESTful
4 5 (2.43%) GraphQL
4 5 (2.43%) REST
5 4 (1.94%) gRPC
5 4 (1.94%) JMS
6 3 (1.46%) AWT
6 3 (1.46%) FIX Protocol
6 3 (1.46%) GWT
6 3 (1.46%) NumPy
6 3 (1.46%) Pandas
6 3 (1.46%) Rendezvous
6 3 (1.46%) TIBCO EMS
7 2 (0.97%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (0.97%) Loki
7 2 (0.97%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 11 (5.34%) Cloud Native
1 11 (5.34%) Data Centre
1 11 (5.34%) Onboarding
2 10 (4.85%) Public Cloud
3 7 (3.40%) Data Protection Act
3 7 (3.40%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (3.40%) PKI
3 7 (3.40%) Private Cloud
3 7 (3.40%) Replication
4 5 (2.43%) Equities
4 5 (2.43%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (1.94%) DataPower
5 4 (1.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 4 (1.94%) Linux Command Line
5 4 (1.94%) Mainframe
5 4 (1.94%) Security Posture
6 3 (1.46%) Legacy Code
7 2 (0.97%) Client/Server
7 2 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 57 (27.67%) Windows
2 45 (21.84%) Linux
3 39 (18.93%) Windows Server
4 14 (6.80%) Unix
5 6 (2.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (2.43%) Ubuntu
6 5 (2.43%) Windows 10
7 4 (1.94%) VMS
8 2 (0.97%) Android
8 2 (0.97%) CentOS
8 2 (0.97%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.97%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.49%) AIX
9 1 (0.49%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.49%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.49%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (0.49%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.49%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (31.55%) Infrastructure as Code
2 58 (28.16%) DevOps
3 57 (27.67%) CI/CD
4 46 (22.33%) Problem-Solving
5 29 (14.08%) Agile
6 28 (13.59%) Containerisation
7 26 (12.62%) Migration
8 24 (11.65%) Infrastructure Automation
9 21 (10.19%) High Availability
10 19 (9.22%) Observability
11 18 (8.74%) Platform Engineering
12 17 (8.25%) Analytics
12 17 (8.25%) Cybersecurity
13 16 (7.77%) ITIL
13 16 (7.77%) Task Automation
13 16 (7.77%) Test Automation
14 14 (6.80%) Low Latency
15 13 (6.31%) Information Security
15 13 (6.31%) RBAC
15 13 (6.31%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 70 (33.98%) Python
2 35 (16.99%) PowerShell
3 24 (11.65%) Bash
4 16 (7.77%) Java
5 11 (5.34%) Go
6 9 (4.37%) SQL
7 8 (3.88%) Bicep
8 7 (3.40%) Perl
9 6 (2.91%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.97%) C#
10 2 (0.97%) C++
11 1 (0.49%) Ruby
11 1 (0.49%) Scala
11 1 (0.49%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 34 (16.50%) Security Cleared
2 26 (12.62%) SC Cleared
3 19 (9.22%) Degree
4 12 (5.83%) Cisco Certification
5 10 (4.85%) Azure Certification
6 8 (3.88%) CCNA
6 8 (3.88%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (3.40%) CCNP
8 6 (2.91%) CISSP
8 6 (2.91%) DV Cleared
9 5 (2.43%) CISM
10 4 (1.94%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (1.46%) JNCIP
11 3 (1.46%) JNCIS
11 3 (1.46%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.97%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.97%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 2 (0.97%) PhD
12 2 (0.97%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.97%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.46%) Cyber Essentials
1 3 (1.46%) NIST
2 2 (0.97%) SLA
3 1 (0.49%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.49%) GDPR
3 1 (0.49%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 1 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.49%) QA
3 1 (0.49%) SOC 2
System Software
1 45 (21.84%) Active Directory
2 29 (14.08%) Docker
3 21 (10.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (7.77%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (3.88%) Hyper-V
6 5 (2.43%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (1.94%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (1.46%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.49%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.49%) etcd
9 1 (0.49%) Firmware
9 1 (0.49%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.49%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.49%) vSphere
9 1 (0.49%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 72 (34.95%) Terraform
2 31 (15.05%) Kubernetes
3 30 (14.56%) Ansible
3 30 (14.56%) Microsoft Intune
4 21 (10.19%) SCCM
5 18 (8.74%) Grafana
6 12 (5.83%) Prometheus
7 8 (3.88%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (3.40%) CASB
8 7 (3.40%) SCOrch
9 5 (2.43%) FortiGate
10 4 (1.94%) Argo
11 3 (1.46%) Istio
11 3 (1.46%) Jamf Pro
12 2 (0.97%) ITRS Geneos
12 2 (0.97%) Kibana
12 2 (0.97%) McAfee ePO
12 2 (0.97%) Red Hat Satellite
12 2 (0.97%) SCOM
12 2 (0.97%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 61 (29.61%) Microsoft
2 26 (12.62%) VMware
3 20 (9.71%) Cisco
4 19 (9.22%) Palo Alto
5 17 (8.25%) Google
6 14 (6.80%) F5
7 11 (5.34%) Fortinet
8 8 (3.88%) Zscaler
9 7 (3.40%) CheckPoint
9 7 (3.40%) CyberArk
9 7 (3.40%) Juniper
10 6 (2.91%) Red Hat
11 5 (2.43%) Dell
11 5 (2.43%) IBM
11 5 (2.43%) Meraki
11 5 (2.43%) TIBCO
11 5 (2.43%) Veeam
12 4 (1.94%) Aruba
12 4 (1.94%) Citrix
12 4 (1.94%) Splunk