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 28 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 173 181 151
Rank change year-on-year +8 -30 +35
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 278 176 306
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.51% 1.46% 1.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.71% 1.58% 1.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 200 139 225
10th Percentile £400 £362 £305
25th Percentile £425 £425 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £515
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +1.94% -6.79%
75th Percentile £650 £611 £641
90th Percentile £719 £655 £741
England median daily rate £525 £525 £475
% change year-on-year - +10.53% -6.86%

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 16,241 11,146 15,435
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.51% 92.25% 88.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,846 7,494 11,093
10th Percentile £358 £350 £340
25th Percentile £434 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £760 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.25% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 243 187 312
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.50 £15.95
25th Percentile £25.25 £23.60 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £30.81 £27.92
Median % change year-on-year +21.73% +10.33% -29.54%
75th Percentile £58.84 £48.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £76.73 £63.10 £66.98
England median hourly rate £46.43 £28.18 £36.50
% change year-on-year +64.76% -22.79% -2.46%

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 28 May 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 28 May 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 -4 44 £600 - 16
South London -11 6 £425 -20.56% 3
West London -22 6 £675 +68.75% 3
East London -8 1 £775 +64.02% 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 20 (7.19%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (2.52%) CICS
2 7 (2.52%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.44%) Apache
4 3 (1.08%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.72%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.72%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.36%) IBM HTTP Server
6 1 (0.36%) SAS
6 1 (0.36%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.36%) AutoCAD
2 1 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 124 (44.60%) Azure
2 64 (23.02%) AWS
3 34 (12.23%) Microsoft 365
4 33 (11.87%) GCP
5 32 (11.51%) GitHub
6 27 (9.71%) Entra ID
6 27 (9.71%) IaaS
7 26 (9.35%) Azure DevOps
8 21 (7.55%) PaaS
9 20 (7.19%) GitHub Actions
9 20 (7.19%) Serverless
10 19 (6.83%) Azure AKS
11 16 (5.76%) AWS Lambda
12 15 (5.40%) SaaS
13 12 (4.32%) Azure Monitor
14 10 (3.60%) Amazon S3
14 10 (3.60%) Nutanix
15 9 (3.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 7 (2.52%) AWS CloudFormation
16 7 (2.52%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 49 (17.63%) DNS
2 31 (11.15%) Firewall
3 30 (10.79%) DHCP
4 20 (7.19%) VPN
5 16 (5.76%) Network Security
6 13 (4.68%) WAN
7 11 (3.96%) LAN
8 10 (3.60%) TCP/IP
9 7 (2.52%) SMTP
10 5 (1.80%) MPLS
10 5 (1.80%) SAN
11 4 (1.44%) HTTP
11 4 (1.44%) NAS
12 3 (1.08%) DMZ
12 3 (1.08%) Internet
12 3 (1.08%) SD-WAN
12 3 (1.08%) Software-Defined Networking
12 3 (1.08%) SSL
13 2 (0.72%) Remote Desktop
13 2 (0.72%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (6.12%) SQL Server
2 8 (2.88%) DynamoDB
3 6 (2.16%) DB2
3 6 (2.16%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (1.80%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (1.44%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (1.08%) MongoDB
6 3 (1.08%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.08%) RDBMS
6 3 (1.08%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.08%) Snowflake Schema
7 2 (0.72%) Big Data
7 2 (0.72%) Hadoop
7 2 (0.72%) Power BI
7 2 (0.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.36%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.36%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.36%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.36%) Metadata
8 1 (0.36%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 15 (5.40%) GitLab
2 12 (4.32%) Git
3 10 (3.60%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.80%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.08%) JIRA
6 1 (0.36%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.36%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.36%) CMake
6 1 (0.36%) Gradle
6 1 (0.36%) Introscope
General
1 59 (21.22%) Social Skills
2 48 (17.27%) Finance
3 26 (9.35%) Banking
4 15 (5.40%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (5.40%) Public Sector
5 12 (4.32%) Legal
6 8 (2.88%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (1.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (1.80%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (1.80%) Retail
8 4 (1.44%) Billing
8 4 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.08%) Front Office
9 3 (1.08%) Law
9 3 (1.08%) Military
9 3 (1.08%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.72%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.72%) Local Government
11 1 (0.36%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 167 (60.07%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 41 (14.75%) Cloud Engineer
3 29 (10.43%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 28 (10.07%) Senior
5 22 (7.91%) Azure Engineer
6 18 (6.47%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 15 (5.40%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 14 (5.04%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 14 (5.04%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
9 13 (4.68%) Architect
9 13 (4.68%) NetApp Engineer
9 13 (4.68%) Storage Engineer
10 12 (4.32%) Network Engineer
11 9 (3.24%) Security Engineer
12 8 (2.88%) Lead
12 8 (2.88%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
13 6 (2.16%) Data Engineer
13 6 (2.16%) DevOps Engineer
13 6 (2.16%) Platform Engineer
14 5 (1.80%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (2.88%) JSON
2 6 (2.16%) REST
2 6 (2.16%) RESTful
2 6 (2.16%) SOAP
2 6 (2.16%) Web Services
2 6 (2.16%) WSDL
3 4 (1.44%) Kafka
3 4 (1.44%) YAML
4 3 (1.08%) ARM Templates
4 3 (1.08%) AWS CDK
4 3 (1.08%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (1.08%) OpenID
4 3 (1.08%) Spring
4 3 (1.08%) Spring Boot
5 2 (0.72%) GraphQL
5 2 (0.72%) Middleware
5 2 (0.72%) NumPy
5 2 (0.72%) Pandas
5 2 (0.72%) SAML
5 2 (0.72%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 16 (5.76%) Data Centre
1 16 (5.76%) Hybrid Cloud
2 13 (4.68%) Onboarding
3 9 (3.24%) Cloud Native
4 8 (2.88%) Enterprise Storage
4 8 (2.88%) PKI
5 7 (2.52%) Clustering
5 7 (2.52%) Mainframe
6 6 (2.16%) DataPower
6 6 (2.16%) Online Banking
7 5 (1.80%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (1.80%) Public Cloud
7 5 (1.80%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.44%) CCTV
8 4 (1.44%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.44%) Enterprise Cloud
8 4 (1.44%) Replication
8 4 (1.44%) Security Posture
8 4 (1.44%) Virtual Team
9 3 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 86 (30.94%) Windows
2 47 (16.91%) Windows Server
3 41 (14.75%) Linux
4 8 (2.88%) Unix
5 7 (2.52%) zOS
6 6 (2.16%) Android
6 6 (2.16%) Apple iOS
6 6 (2.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (2.16%) Windows Server 2003
6 6 (2.16%) Windows Server 2019
7 5 (1.80%) VMS
8 4 (1.44%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.72%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.72%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.72%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.36%) AIX
10 1 (0.36%) Amazon Linux
10 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (23.74%) Infrastructure as Code
2 64 (23.02%) CI/CD
3 63 (22.66%) DevOps
4 33 (11.87%) Migration
5 32 (11.51%) Platform Engineering
6 30 (10.79%) Problem-Solving
7 23 (8.27%) AI
7 23 (8.27%) Containerisation
8 21 (7.55%) Continuous Improvement
8 21 (7.55%) Infrastructure Automation
9 19 (6.83%) Disaster Recovery
9 19 (6.83%) Roadmaps
10 17 (6.12%) Agile
11 14 (5.04%) Cloud Security
11 14 (5.04%) High Availability
11 14 (5.04%) Incident Management
11 14 (5.04%) Infrastructure Transformation
11 14 (5.04%) ITIL
11 14 (5.04%) Mentoring
12 13 (4.68%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 57 (20.50%) PowerShell
2 49 (17.63%) Python
3 29 (10.43%) SQL
4 18 (6.47%) C#
5 13 (4.68%) Bash
5 13 (4.68%) Shell Script
6 12 (4.32%) Java
7 10 (3.60%) Bicep
8 6 (2.16%) JCL
9 4 (1.44%) C++
9 4 (1.44%) Go
9 4 (1.44%) JavaScript
9 4 (1.44%) Ruby
10 1 (0.36%) C
10 1 (0.36%) Jython
10 1 (0.36%) Korn
10 1 (0.36%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.36%) Scala
10 1 (0.36%) VB
Qualifications
1 82 (29.50%) Security Cleared
2 54 (19.42%) SC Cleared
3 29 (10.43%) DV Cleared
4 10 (3.60%) Degree
5 8 (2.88%) Azure Certification
5 8 (2.88%) Cisco Certification
6 7 (2.52%) CCNA
6 7 (2.52%) CISSP
7 3 (1.08%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.08%) CCNP
7 3 (1.08%) PMI Certification
7 3 (1.08%) TOGAF Certification
8 2 (0.72%) CISA
8 2 (0.72%) CISM
8 2 (0.72%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.72%) PhD
8 2 (0.72%) PMP
9 1 (0.36%) CCSP
9 1 (0.36%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.52%) NIST
1 7 (2.52%) QA
2 5 (1.80%) SLA
3 4 (1.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.08%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.08%) GDPR
4 3 (1.08%) NCSC
4 3 (1.08%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.08%) SOC 2
5 2 (0.72%) PMO
6 1 (0.36%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.36%) FedRAMP
6 1 (0.36%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 52 (18.71%) Active Directory
2 37 (13.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (7.55%) Docker
3 21 (7.55%) Hyper-V
4 11 (3.96%) vSphere
5 10 (3.60%) Virtual Desktop
5 10 (3.60%) VMware ESXi
6 7 (2.52%) BitLocker
6 7 (2.52%) Microsoft App-V
6 7 (2.52%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (1.80%) Firmware
8 4 (1.44%) VMware NSX
9 3 (1.08%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.72%) NFS
10 2 (0.72%) Postfix
10 2 (0.72%) Sendmail
10 2 (0.72%) Varnish
11 1 (0.36%) RACF
11 1 (0.36%) Terminal Services
11 1 (0.36%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 71 (25.54%) Terraform
2 49 (17.63%) Kubernetes
3 28 (10.07%) Ansible
4 24 (8.63%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (2.88%) Packer
5 8 (2.88%) Puppet
5 8 (2.88%) vCenter Server
6 7 (2.52%) vMotion
7 4 (1.44%) AirWatch
7 4 (1.44%) Grafana
8 3 (1.08%) FortiGate
8 3 (1.08%) Prometheus
8 3 (1.08%) SCCM
9 2 (0.72%) HAProxy
9 2 (0.72%) vRealize
10 1 (0.36%) Istio
10 1 (0.36%) Opsgenie
10 1 (0.36%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.36%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 72 (25.90%) Microsoft
2 51 (18.35%) VMware
3 19 (6.83%) Citrix
4 16 (5.76%) NetApp
5 15 (5.40%) Google
6 8 (2.88%) ServiceNow
7 7 (2.52%) Dell
8 6 (2.16%) Oracle
8 6 (2.16%) Red Hat
9 5 (1.80%) Cisco
9 5 (1.80%) SolarWinds
10 4 (1.44%) CyberArk
11 3 (1.08%) Blue Coat
11 3 (1.08%) CrowdStrike
11 3 (1.08%) Informatica
11 3 (1.08%) Netskope
11 3 (1.08%) Palo Alto
11 3 (1.08%) Zscaler
12 2 (0.72%) Splunk
12 2 (0.72%) Tenable