Infrastructure Management Contracts in London

Infrastructure Management
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Infrastructure Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Infrastructure Management over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 263 353 446
Rank change year-on-year +90 +93 +90
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Management 90 38 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.72% 0.21% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.78% 0.24% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 18 28
10th Percentile £400 £339 £363
25th Percentile £480 £367 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £475 £544
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -12.64% -7.45%
75th Percentile £669 £579 £628
90th Percentile £713 £673 £688
England median daily rate £550 £465 £538
% change year-on-year +18.28% -13.49% -6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £34.25
Median hourly rate - £23.80 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year - -32.96% -
75th Percentile - - £36.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - £23.80 £35.50
% change year-on-year - -32.96% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Infrastructure Management 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 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Infrastructure Management
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Management in London

Infrastructure Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Management in London

Infrastructure Management
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Management in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Management in London

Infrastructure Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Management in London

Infrastructure Management
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 Management within the London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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 +8 8 £550 +17.02% 8
West London +14 4 £475 +13.37% 5
South London +7 2 £525 - 3
North London - 1 £550 -
East London - 1 £495 - 2
Infrastructure Management
England

Infrastructure Management
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 2 (2.22%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.11%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 53 (58.89%) Azure
2 49 (54.44%) AWS
3 16 (17.78%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (12.22%) GCP
5 9 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 9 (10.00%) IaaS
6 8 (8.89%) Serverless
7 7 (7.78%) Amazon S3
7 7 (7.78%) GitHub
7 7 (7.78%) GitHub Actions
7 7 (7.78%) PaaS
7 7 (7.78%) SaaS
8 6 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (6.67%) Entra ID
9 5 (5.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (4.44%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (4.44%) AWS KMS
10 4 (4.44%) Azure Monitor
10 4 (4.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 13 (14.44%) DNS
2 10 (11.11%) Firewall
2 10 (11.11%) TCP/IP
3 8 (8.89%) DHCP
4 7 (7.78%) VPN
5 6 (6.67%) Network Security
6 4 (4.44%) LAN
6 4 (4.44%) WAN
6 4 (4.44%) Wireless
7 3 (3.33%) 4G
8 2 (2.22%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (2.22%) NAS
8 2 (2.22%) SAN
8 2 (2.22%) VLAN
9 1 (1.11%) Internet
9 1 (1.11%) SD-WAN
9 1 (1.11%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (10.00%) SQL Server
3 8 (8.89%) Oracle Database
4 3 (3.33%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (3.33%) Power BI
5 2 (2.22%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (2.22%) DynamoDB
5 2 (2.22%) MySQL
5 2 (2.22%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.11%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.11%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.11%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.11%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.11%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 13 (14.44%) GitLab
2 12 (13.33%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.33%) CircleCI
3 3 (3.33%) Git
4 1 (1.11%) Snyk
4 1 (1.11%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.11%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 37 (41.11%) Social Skills
2 15 (16.67%) Finance
3 13 (14.44%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (7.78%) Public Sector
5 4 (4.44%) Banking
5 4 (4.44%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (3.33%) Multimedia
6 3 (3.33%) Retail
7 2 (2.22%) Law
7 2 (2.22%) Legal
7 2 (2.22%) Local Government
7 2 (2.22%) Military
8 1 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 23 (25.56%) Senior
2 18 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 15 (16.67%) Architect
4 14 (15.56%) DevOps Engineer
5 11 (12.22%) Infrastructure Architect
6 9 (10.00%) Consultant
7 8 (8.89%) AWS Engineer
7 8 (8.89%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (6.67%) Azure Engineer
8 6 (6.67%) Senior Architect
8 6 (6.67%) Senior Infrastructure Architect
8 6 (6.67%) Software Engineer
9 5 (5.56%) Cloud Engineer
9 5 (5.56%) Developer
9 5 (5.56%) Platform Engineer
10 4 (4.44%) Azure Architect
10 4 (4.44%) Principal Engineer
10 4 (4.44%) Senior DevOps
10 4 (4.44%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 4 (4.44%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (10.00%) Kafka
2 3 (3.33%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (3.33%) Node.js
3 2 (2.22%) boto
3 2 (2.22%) CSS
3 2 (2.22%) HTML
3 2 (2.22%) JPA
3 2 (2.22%) React
3 2 (2.22%) Spring
3 2 (2.22%) YAML
4 1 (1.11%) ADO
4 1 (1.11%) ARM Templates
4 1 (1.11%) AWS CDK
4 1 (1.11%) Azure Blueprints
4 1 (1.11%) OAuth
4 1 (1.11%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.11%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 16 (17.78%) Public Cloud
2 13 (14.44%) Data Centre
3 11 (12.22%) Private Cloud
4 8 (8.89%) Cloud Native
4 8 (8.89%) Management Information System
5 5 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (3.33%) Educational Technology
6 3 (3.33%) Legacy Applications
6 3 (3.33%) PKI
6 3 (3.33%) Podcast
6 3 (3.33%) Security Operations Centre
6 3 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (2.22%) Clustering
7 2 (2.22%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.11%) Distributed Applications
8 1 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.11%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (1.11%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.11%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 23 (25.56%) Windows
2 21 (23.33%) Linux
3 12 (13.33%) Windows Server
4 3 (3.33%) CentOS
5 2 (2.22%) Unix
5 2 (2.22%) Windows 10
6 1 (1.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.11%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (48.89%) CI/CD
2 39 (43.33%) DevOps
3 29 (32.22%) Infrastructure as Code
4 21 (23.33%) Problem-Solving
5 20 (22.22%) High Availability
6 19 (21.11%) Containerisation
6 19 (21.11%) Mentoring
7 18 (20.00%) Agile
7 18 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
7 18 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 17 (18.89%) Roadmaps
9 14 (15.56%) Capacity Planning
10 12 (13.33%) Configuration Management
11 11 (12.22%) Software Engineering
12 10 (11.11%) Cloud Security
13 9 (10.00%) ITIL
13 9 (10.00%) TOGAF
14 8 (8.89%) Business Continuity
14 8 (8.89%) Data Protection
14 8 (8.89%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 30 (33.33%) Python
2 14 (15.56%) Bash
3 12 (13.33%) PowerShell
4 11 (12.22%) Java
5 6 (6.67%) Go
5 6 (6.67%) SQL
6 5 (5.56%) Kotlin
7 4 (4.44%) TypeScript
8 2 (2.22%) JavaScript
9 1 (1.11%) Bicep
9 1 (1.11%) Scala
9 1 (1.11%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 15 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 14 (15.56%) Degree
3 12 (13.33%) SC Cleared
4 10 (11.11%) AWS Certification
5 6 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (4.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 4 (4.44%) Azure Certification
6 4 (4.44%) CCNA
6 4 (4.44%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (3.33%) CCNP
8 2 (2.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (2.22%) DV Cleared
8 2 (2.22%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (2.22%) VCAP
8 2 (2.22%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 1 (1.11%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (1.11%) OCP
9 1 (1.11%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (1.11%) PMI Certification
9 1 (1.11%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.44%) GDPR
1 4 (4.44%) QA
2 3 (3.33%) NCSC
3 2 (2.22%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.22%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (2.22%) NIST
4 1 (1.11%) SLA
4 1 (1.11%) SOC 2
System Software
1 19 (21.11%) Docker
2 11 (12.22%) Active Directory
3 10 (11.11%) Virtual Desktop
4 9 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (7.78%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (5.56%) Hyper-V
7 3 (3.33%) vSphere
8 2 (2.22%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (1.11%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 44 (48.89%) Terraform
2 33 (36.67%) Kubernetes
3 15 (16.67%) Ansible
4 6 (6.67%) Prometheus
5 5 (5.56%) FortiGate
5 5 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (4.44%) Grafana
6 4 (4.44%) Puppet
7 2 (2.22%) Dell DRAC
7 2 (2.22%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 2 (2.22%) Progress Chef
7 2 (2.22%) SCCM
7 2 (2.22%) VxRail
8 1 (1.11%) Argo
8 1 (1.11%) Cilium
8 1 (1.11%) Kibana
8 1 (1.11%) Kustomize
8 1 (1.11%) logstash
8 1 (1.11%) Podman
Vendors
1 19 (21.11%) Microsoft
2 14 (15.56%) Oracle
3 12 (13.33%) VMware
4 6 (6.67%) Red Hat
5 5 (5.56%) Google
6 4 (4.44%) Fortinet
6 4 (4.44%) ServiceNow
6 4 (4.44%) Splunk
7 3 (3.33%) Cisco
7 3 (3.33%) Databricks
7 3 (3.33%) Dell
7 3 (3.33%) F5
8 2 (2.22%) Atempo
8 2 (2.22%) Confluent
8 2 (2.22%) EMC
8 2 (2.22%) Mellanox
8 2 (2.22%) QAD
9 1 (1.11%) Infoblox
9 1 (1.11%) New Relic
9 1 (1.11%) SolarWinds