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 4 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 184 165
Rank change year-on-year +43 -19 -20
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 416 184 259
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.07% 1.39% 1.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.33% 1.51% 1.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 281 136 208
10th Percentile £375 £355 £324
25th Percentile £450 £425 £424
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £628 £614
90th Percentile £700 £675 £700
England median daily rate £549 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +9.80% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £52.85 - -
25th Percentile £58.63 - -
Median hourly rate £69.50 £30.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +131.67% - -
75th Percentile £81.63 - -
90th Percentile £88.15 - -
England median hourly rate £74.00 £30.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +146.67% -57.14% -3.45%

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 17,884 12,219 14,282
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.13% 92.48% 89.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,701 8,101 9,738
10th Percentile £359 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £682
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 288 254 186
10th Percentile £17.18 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.98 £25.00 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £32.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.94% -8.57% -12.50%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.69 £54.69
90th Percentile £85.53 £63.75 £71.88
England median hourly rate £43.56 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +73.20% -41.51% +1.18%

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 4 September 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in London over the 6 months to 4 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram 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 4 September 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 49 £620 +15.67% 32
West London -11 10 £675 - 15
South London -9 6 £473 -21.25% 6
East London +6 4 £638 +77.08% 4
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 (5.05%) Microsoft Exchange
1 21 (5.05%) SharePoint
2 14 (3.37%) Confluence
3 11 (2.64%) CICS
4 7 (1.68%) WebSphere
5 6 (1.44%) Apache
6 4 (0.96%) SharePoint Server
7 3 (0.72%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.72%) nginx
8 2 (0.48%) Exchange Server 2013
9 1 (0.24%) CloudStack
9 1 (0.24%) CMS
9 1 (0.24%) JBoss
9 1 (0.24%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.24%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.24%) WebLogic
Applications
1 5 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.72%) AutoCAD
2 3 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.24%) CPLEX
3 1 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.24%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.72%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 185 (44.47%) Azure
2 103 (24.76%) AWS
3 46 (11.06%) GitHub
4 44 (10.58%) Azure DevOps
4 44 (10.58%) Entra ID
4 44 (10.58%) GCP
5 43 (10.34%) Microsoft 365
6 34 (8.17%) GitHub Actions
7 28 (6.73%) IaaS
8 25 (6.01%) Azure AKS
9 21 (5.05%) SaaS
10 19 (4.57%) Amazon EKS
10 19 (4.57%) PaaS
11 17 (4.09%) Azure Monitor
12 16 (3.85%) Amazon S3
13 14 (3.37%) Serverless
14 13 (3.13%) OCI
15 11 (2.64%) Datadog
16 9 (2.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 9 (2.16%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 77 (18.51%) DNS
2 59 (14.18%) DHCP
2 59 (14.18%) Firewall
3 42 (10.10%) VPN
4 33 (7.93%) Network Security
5 31 (7.45%) TCP/IP
6 18 (4.33%) WAN
7 17 (4.09%) SSL
8 15 (3.61%) Wi-Fi
9 13 (3.13%) LAN
9 13 (3.13%) SAN
10 11 (2.64%) HTTP
11 10 (2.40%) VLAN
12 9 (2.16%) BGP
13 7 (1.68%) NAS
13 7 (1.68%) SMTP
13 7 (1.68%) Wireless
14 6 (1.44%) SD-WAN
15 5 (1.20%) SSH
15 5 (1.20%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (6.73%) SQL Server
2 9 (2.16%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (1.68%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (1.44%) BigQuery
5 5 (1.20%) Power BI
6 4 (0.96%) Db2
6 4 (0.96%) DynamoDB
6 4 (0.96%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (0.72%) Apache Iceberg
7 3 (0.72%) Big Data
7 3 (0.72%) ClickHouse
7 3 (0.72%) Flink
7 3 (0.72%) Oracle Database
7 3 (0.72%) Snowflake Schema
7 3 (0.72%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 3 (0.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (0.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (0.48%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.48%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.24%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 26 (6.25%) Git
2 18 (4.33%) Jenkins
3 17 (4.09%) GitLab
4 8 (1.92%) JIRA
5 4 (0.96%) Chocolatey
6 3 (0.72%) Oracle Forms
7 2 (0.48%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.48%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.48%) Subversion
8 1 (0.24%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.24%) CMake
8 1 (0.24%) Gradle
8 1 (0.24%) Maven
8 1 (0.24%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.24%) Vagrant
General
1 92 (22.12%) Social Skills
2 75 (18.03%) Finance
3 37 (8.89%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (7.21%) Banking
5 22 (5.29%) Public Sector
6 17 (4.09%) Documentation Skills
7 12 (2.88%) Telecoms
8 11 (2.64%) Retail
9 8 (1.92%) Law
10 7 (1.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (1.20%) Automotive
11 5 (1.20%) Billing
11 5 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (1.20%) Publishing
12 4 (0.96%) Legal
13 3 (0.72%) Local Government
13 3 (0.72%) Military
13 3 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.48%) Aviation
14 2 (0.48%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 209 (50.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 51 (12.26%) Senior
3 49 (11.78%) Cloud Engineer
4 38 (9.13%) Azure Engineer
5 36 (8.65%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 36 (8.65%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 33 (7.93%) DevOps Engineer
7 30 (7.21%) Lead
8 24 (5.77%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 24 (5.77%) Network Engineer
9 20 (4.81%) Architect
10 16 (3.85%) Platform Engineer
11 13 (3.13%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 13 (3.13%) Support Engineer
12 12 (2.88%) Infrastructure Specialist
13 11 (2.64%) AWS Engineer
14 10 (2.40%) Infrastructure Support
14 10 (2.40%) Microsoft Engineer
14 10 (2.40%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
15 9 (2.16%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 130 (31.25%) Terraform
2 11 (2.64%) ARM Templates
2 11 (2.64%) REST
2 11 (2.64%) YAML
3 9 (2.16%) Middleware
4 7 (1.68%) 802.1X
4 7 (1.68%) JSON
4 7 (1.68%) Loki
5 6 (1.44%) Kafka
5 6 (1.44%) OpenID
5 6 (1.44%) SAML
6 5 (1.20%) .NET
7 4 (0.96%) Elastic Stack
7 4 (0.96%) RESTful
7 4 (0.96%) SOAP
7 4 (0.96%) Web Services
7 4 (0.96%) WSDL
8 3 (0.72%) LangGraph
8 3 (0.72%) ModSecurity
8 3 (0.72%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 29 (6.97%) Hybrid Cloud
2 27 (6.49%) Cloud Native
3 20 (4.81%) Data Centre
4 17 (4.09%) Clustering
5 15 (3.61%) Onboarding
6 12 (2.88%) PKI
6 12 (2.88%) Public Cloud
7 11 (2.64%) Distributed Systems
7 11 (2.64%) Mainframe
8 10 (2.40%) Replication
9 9 (2.16%) Data Protection Act
9 9 (2.16%) Enterprise Cloud
9 9 (2.16%) Linux Command Line
10 8 (1.92%) Private Cloud
11 7 (1.68%) CMDB
11 7 (1.68%) Cyber Threat
11 7 (1.68%) Enterprise Storage
12 6 (1.44%) AI Agents
13 5 (1.20%) Distributed Architecture
13 5 (1.20%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 130 (31.25%) Windows
2 83 (19.95%) Windows Server
3 73 (17.55%) Linux
4 20 (4.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (2.64%) Unix
5 11 (2.64%) zOS
6 9 (2.16%) Ubuntu
6 9 (2.16%) Windows Server 2019
7 7 (1.68%) VMS
7 7 (1.68%) Windows Server 2016
8 6 (1.44%) Android
8 6 (1.44%) Apple iOS
8 6 (1.44%) Mac OS
9 5 (1.20%) Windows 10
9 5 (1.20%) Windows Server 2012
10 4 (0.96%) Windows Server 2008
11 3 (0.72%) Windows Server 2003
12 2 (0.48%) Amazon Linux
12 2 (0.48%) OpenVMS
12 2 (0.48%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (32.69%) Infrastructure as Code
2 124 (29.81%) DevOps
3 114 (27.40%) CI/CD
4 67 (16.11%) Platform Engineering
5 66 (15.87%) Migration
6 65 (15.63%) AI
7 60 (14.42%) Infrastructure Automation
8 52 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
9 43 (10.34%) Disaster Recovery
10 40 (9.62%) Configuration Management
10 40 (9.62%) Stakeholder Management
11 39 (9.38%) Containerisation
11 39 (9.38%) Continuous Improvement
11 39 (9.38%) Observability
12 36 (8.65%) Incident Response
13 35 (8.41%) High Availability
14 34 (8.17%) ITIL
15 30 (7.21%) Agile
15 30 (7.21%) Cloud Security
16 29 (6.97%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 108 (25.96%) Python
2 103 (24.76%) PowerShell
3 45 (10.82%) Bash
4 30 (7.21%) SQL
5 22 (5.29%) Bicep
6 18 (4.33%) Java
7 13 (3.13%) C#
8 11 (2.64%) Shell Script
9 8 (1.92%) C++
9 8 (1.92%) Go
9 8 (1.92%) Perl
10 5 (1.20%) C
10 5 (1.20%) TypeScript
11 4 (0.96%) JavaScript
11 4 (0.96%) JCL
12 3 (0.72%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.48%) Korn
14 1 (0.24%) Groovy
14 1 (0.24%) R
14 1 (0.24%) Scala
Qualifications
1 130 (31.25%) Security Cleared
2 86 (20.67%) SC Cleared
3 43 (10.34%) DV Cleared
4 23 (5.53%) Degree
5 22 (5.29%) Azure Certification
6 17 (4.09%) Cisco Certification
7 11 (2.64%) CCNA
7 11 (2.64%) CCNP
7 11 (2.64%) CISSP
8 9 (2.16%) AWS Certification
8 9 (2.16%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (1.44%) CISM
9 6 (1.44%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (0.96%) JNCIP
10 4 (0.96%) JNCIS
11 3 (0.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.72%) PMI Certification
11 3 (0.72%) PMP
11 3 (0.72%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (3.13%) QA
1 13 (3.13%) SLA
2 12 (2.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (1.92%) NIST
4 5 (1.20%) PCI DSS
5 4 (0.96%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.72%) NCSC
6 3 (0.72%) SOC 2
7 2 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.48%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.48%) GDPR
8 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.24%) FedRAMP
8 1 (0.24%) GRC
8 1 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (0.24%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.24%) PMO
System Software
1 84 (20.19%) Active Directory
2 71 (17.07%) VMware Infrastructure
3 34 (8.17%) Docker
4 29 (6.97%) Hyper-V
5 24 (5.77%) VMware ESXi
6 19 (4.57%) Virtual Machines
6 19 (4.57%) vSphere
7 14 (3.37%) Virtual Desktop
8 8 (1.92%) Virtual Servers
9 6 (1.44%) BitLocker
9 6 (1.44%) Firmware
9 6 (1.44%) Microsoft App-V
10 4 (0.96%) Terminal Services
10 4 (0.96%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.48%) Ceph
11 2 (0.48%) NFS
11 2 (0.48%) Postfix
12 1 (0.24%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 1 (0.24%) DFS Replication
12 1 (0.24%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 77 (18.51%) Kubernetes
2 63 (15.14%) Ansible
3 29 (6.97%) Microsoft Intune
4 18 (4.33%) Grafana
5 17 (4.09%) Puppet
5 17 (4.09%) vCenter Server
6 16 (3.85%) SCCM
7 15 (3.61%) Prometheus
8 10 (2.40%) FortiGate
8 10 (2.40%) Packer
9 8 (1.92%) Argo
9 8 (1.92%) systemd
10 6 (1.44%) Nessus
10 6 (1.44%) Single Sign-On
10 6 (1.44%) vMotion
11 5 (1.20%) Microsoft Clustering
12 4 (0.96%) Nagios
12 4 (0.96%) Progress Chef
12 4 (0.96%) SCOM
13 3 (0.72%) WSUS
Vendors
1 131 (31.49%) Microsoft
2 96 (23.08%) VMware
3 28 (6.73%) Cisco
4 22 (5.29%) Google
5 21 (5.05%) Citrix
6 17 (4.09%) Red Hat
7 15 (3.61%) Oracle
8 14 (3.37%) ServiceNow
9 11 (2.64%) NetApp
10 10 (2.40%) Tenable
10 10 (2.40%) Zscaler
11 8 (1.92%) Dynatrace
11 8 (1.92%) HP
11 8 (1.92%) IBM
12 6 (1.44%) Juniper
12 6 (1.44%) Splunk
13 5 (1.20%) Databricks
13 5 (1.20%) Qualys
14 4 (0.96%) CyberArk
14 4 (0.96%) MikroTik