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

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 173 181 153
Rank change year-on-year +8 -28 +39
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 264 176 302
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.46% 1.44% 1.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.65% 1.56% 1.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 190 139 220
10th Percentile £400 £362 £300
25th Percentile £425 £425 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £518
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +1.45% -10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £611 £641
90th Percentile £719 £655 £744
England median daily rate £525 £525 £475
% change year-on-year - +10.53% -7.09%

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 15,989 11,284 15,445
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.37% 92.22% 88.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,696 7,602 11,075
10th Percentile £356 £350 £346
25th Percentile £431 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.56%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £680
90th Percentile £758 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 236 184 305
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.50 £15.68
25th Percentile £25.25 £23.80 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.25 £34.25 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year +8.76% +23.16% -25.52%
75th Percentile £57.86 £50.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £63.75 £66.90
England median hourly rate £46.11 £29.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year +58.98% -20.55% -0.73%

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 22 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 22 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 0 45 £600 - 32
South London -16 6 £425 -20.56% 1
West London -24 5 £675 +68.75% 4
East London -7 1 £775 +64.02% 2
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 23 (8.71%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (2.65%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.89%) CICS
4 4 (1.52%) Apache
5 3 (1.14%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.76%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.76%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.38%) IBM HTTP Server
7 1 (0.38%) SAS
7 1 (0.38%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 2 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.38%) AutoCAD
2 1 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 120 (45.45%) Azure
2 57 (21.59%) AWS
3 34 (12.88%) Microsoft 365
4 32 (12.12%) GitHub
5 30 (11.36%) GCP
6 29 (10.98%) Entra ID
7 28 (10.61%) IaaS
8 24 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
9 21 (7.95%) PaaS
10 20 (7.58%) GitHub Actions
11 19 (7.20%) Azure AKS
12 18 (6.82%) Serverless
13 14 (5.30%) AWS Lambda
13 14 (5.30%) SaaS
14 12 (4.55%) Azure Monitor
15 9 (3.41%) Amazon S3
15 9 (3.41%) Nutanix
16 7 (2.65%) Amazon EKS
16 7 (2.65%) Azure Stack
16 7 (2.65%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 48 (18.18%) DNS
2 33 (12.50%) Firewall
3 29 (10.98%) DHCP
4 21 (7.95%) VPN
5 15 (5.68%) Network Security
5 15 (5.68%) WAN
6 11 (4.17%) LAN
7 8 (3.03%) TCP/IP
8 7 (2.65%) SMTP
9 6 (2.27%) MPLS
10 4 (1.52%) SAN
10 4 (1.52%) SD-WAN
10 4 (1.52%) Software-Defined Networking
11 3 (1.14%) HTTP
11 3 (1.14%) NAS
12 2 (0.76%) DMZ
12 2 (0.76%) Internet
12 2 (0.76%) SSL
12 2 (0.76%) Wi-Fi
12 2 (0.76%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (6.06%) SQL Server
2 6 (2.27%) DynamoDB
2 6 (2.27%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (1.89%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (1.52%) DB2
5 3 (1.14%) MongoDB
5 3 (1.14%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.14%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (1.14%) RDBMS
5 3 (1.14%) Relational Database
5 3 (1.14%) Snowflake Schema
6 2 (0.76%) Big Data
6 2 (0.76%) Hadoop
6 2 (0.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.38%) Data Hub
7 1 (0.38%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.38%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.38%) Metadata
7 1 (0.38%) Power BI
7 1 (0.38%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 13 (4.92%) GitLab
2 11 (4.17%) Git
3 10 (3.79%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.89%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.76%) JIRA
6 1 (0.38%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.38%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.38%) CMake
6 1 (0.38%) Gradle
6 1 (0.38%) Introscope
6 1 (0.38%) Jaeger
General
1 55 (20.83%) Social Skills
2 45 (17.05%) Finance
3 23 (8.71%) Banking
4 14 (5.30%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (4.92%) Public Sector
6 11 (4.17%) Legal
7 7 (2.65%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (1.89%) Retail
9 4 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.14%) Front Office
10 3 (1.14%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.14%) Military
10 3 (1.14%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.76%) Billing
11 2 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.76%) Law
11 2 (0.76%) Local Government
12 1 (0.38%) Games
Job Titles
1 161 (60.98%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 40 (15.15%) Cloud Engineer
3 29 (10.98%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
3 29 (10.98%) Senior
4 22 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
5 19 (7.20%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 16 (6.06%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
7 14 (5.30%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 14 (5.30%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
8 13 (4.92%) NetApp Engineer
8 13 (4.92%) Storage Engineer
9 12 (4.55%) Architect
9 12 (4.55%) Network Engineer
10 9 (3.41%) Security Engineer
11 8 (3.03%) Lead
11 8 (3.03%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
12 7 (2.65%) Data Engineer
13 5 (1.89%) AWS Engineer
13 5 (1.89%) DevOps Engineer
13 5 (1.89%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.89%) JSON
1 5 (1.89%) REST
2 4 (1.52%) Kafka
2 4 (1.52%) RESTful
2 4 (1.52%) SOAP
2 4 (1.52%) Web Services
2 4 (1.52%) WSDL
3 3 (1.14%) ARM Templates
3 3 (1.14%) AWS CDK
3 3 (1.14%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (1.14%) OpenID
3 3 (1.14%) Spring
3 3 (1.14%) Spring Boot
3 3 (1.14%) YAML
4 2 (0.76%) ADO
4 2 (0.76%) GraphQL
4 2 (0.76%) NumPy
4 2 (0.76%) Pandas
4 2 (0.76%) SAML
4 2 (0.76%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 16 (6.06%) Hybrid Cloud
2 15 (5.68%) Data Centre
3 12 (4.55%) Onboarding
4 9 (3.41%) Cloud Native
5 8 (3.03%) Enterprise Storage
5 8 (3.03%) PKI
6 7 (2.65%) Clustering
7 5 (1.89%) Mainframe
7 5 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.52%) CCTV
8 4 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.52%) DataPower
8 4 (1.52%) Enterprise Cloud
8 4 (1.52%) Online Banking
8 4 (1.52%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.52%) Security Posture
8 4 (1.52%) Virtual Team
9 3 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.14%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.76%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 83 (31.44%) Windows
2 47 (17.80%) Windows Server
3 37 (14.02%) Linux
4 8 (3.03%) Unix
5 6 (2.27%) Android
5 6 (2.27%) Apple iOS
5 6 (2.27%) Windows Server 2003
5 6 (2.27%) Windows Server 2019
6 5 (1.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (1.89%) VMS
6 5 (1.89%) zOS
7 4 (1.52%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.76%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.76%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.76%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.38%) AIX
9 1 (0.38%) Amazon Linux
9 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (23.86%) Infrastructure as Code
2 61 (23.11%) CI/CD
3 59 (22.35%) DevOps
4 32 (12.12%) Migration
5 31 (11.74%) Platform Engineering
6 28 (10.61%) Problem-Solving
7 23 (8.71%) Containerisation
8 22 (8.33%) AI
9 20 (7.58%) Continuous Improvement
10 19 (7.20%) Roadmaps
11 18 (6.82%) Infrastructure Automation
12 17 (6.44%) Disaster Recovery
13 14 (5.30%) Agile
13 14 (5.30%) Cloud Security
13 14 (5.30%) Incident Management
13 14 (5.30%) ITIL
13 14 (5.30%) Mentoring
14 13 (4.92%) Analytics
14 13 (4.92%) Infrastructure Transformation
14 13 (4.92%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 54 (20.45%) PowerShell
2 43 (16.29%) Python
3 27 (10.23%) SQL
4 18 (6.82%) C#
5 11 (4.17%) Bash
5 11 (4.17%) Shell Script
6 10 (3.79%) Bicep
6 10 (3.79%) Java
7 4 (1.52%) C++
7 4 (1.52%) JavaScript
7 4 (1.52%) JCL
7 4 (1.52%) Ruby
8 3 (1.14%) Go
9 1 (0.38%) Jython
9 1 (0.38%) Korn
9 1 (0.38%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.38%) Scala
9 1 (0.38%) VB
Qualifications
1 80 (30.30%) Security Cleared
2 53 (20.08%) SC Cleared
3 28 (10.61%) DV Cleared
4 9 (3.41%) Degree
5 8 (3.03%) Azure Certification
6 7 (2.65%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (2.27%) CCNA
7 6 (2.27%) CISSP
8 3 (1.14%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.14%) CCNP
8 3 (1.14%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.76%) CISA
9 2 (0.76%) CISM
9 2 (0.76%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.76%) PhD
9 2 (0.76%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.38%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.38%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.65%) NIST
1 7 (2.65%) QA
2 4 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (1.52%) SLA
3 3 (1.14%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.14%) GDPR
3 3 (1.14%) NCSC
3 3 (1.14%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.76%) PMO
4 2 (0.76%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.38%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.38%) FedRAMP
5 1 (0.38%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 54 (20.45%) Active Directory
2 33 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (7.95%) Docker
3 21 (7.95%) Hyper-V
4 11 (4.17%) vSphere
5 10 (3.79%) Virtual Desktop
5 10 (3.79%) VMware ESXi
6 8 (3.03%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (2.65%) BitLocker
7 7 (2.65%) Microsoft App-V
8 5 (1.89%) Firmware
9 4 (1.52%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.76%) NFS
10 2 (0.76%) Postfix
10 2 (0.76%) Sendmail
10 2 (0.76%) Varnish
10 2 (0.76%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.38%) RACF
11 1 (0.38%) Terminal Services
11 1 (0.38%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 67 (25.38%) Terraform
2 47 (17.80%) Kubernetes
3 25 (9.47%) Ansible
3 25 (9.47%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (3.03%) Puppet
4 8 (3.03%) vCenter Server
5 7 (2.65%) Packer
5 7 (2.65%) vMotion
6 5 (1.89%) Grafana
7 4 (1.52%) AirWatch
7 4 (1.52%) Prometheus
7 4 (1.52%) SCCM
8 3 (1.14%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.76%) HAProxy
9 2 (0.76%) vRealize
10 1 (0.38%) CASB
10 1 (0.38%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.38%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.38%) SCOrch
10 1 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 71 (26.89%) Microsoft
2 46 (17.42%) VMware
3 19 (7.20%) Citrix
4 15 (5.68%) NetApp
5 13 (4.92%) Google
6 7 (2.65%) Dell
7 6 (2.27%) Oracle
7 6 (2.27%) ServiceNow
8 5 (1.89%) Cisco
8 5 (1.89%) Red Hat
8 5 (1.89%) SolarWinds
9 4 (1.52%) CyberArk
10 3 (1.14%) Fortinet
10 3 (1.14%) Informatica
10 3 (1.14%) Palo Alto
11 2 (0.76%) Adyen
11 2 (0.76%) CrowdStrike
11 2 (0.76%) Netskope
11 2 (0.76%) Tenable
11 2 (0.76%) Zscaler