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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 257 352 438
Rank change year-on-year +95 +86 +105
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Management 87 41 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.71% 0.23% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.77% 0.27% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 23 25
10th Percentile £403 £317 £455
25th Percentile £506 £355 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £475 £575
Median % change year-on-year +21.05% -17.39% -5.15%
75th Percentile £663 £596 £638
90th Percentile £710 £725 £710
England median daily rate £550 £458 £550
% change year-on-year +20.22% -16.82% -6.38%
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 £20.13 £23.80 £35.50
% change year-on-year -15.44% -32.96% +65.12%

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 11,308 15,427 23,126
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.23% 88.39% 90.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,584 11,065 16,744
10th Percentile £350 £340 £375
25th Percentile £431 £449 £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 £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 191 315 262
10th Percentile £16.50 £15.50 £18.05
25th Percentile £23.99 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £32.00 £28.00 £39.63
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -29.34% +11.62%
75th Percentile £49.88 £48.75 £64.50
90th Percentile £63.75 £66.90 £82.50
England median hourly rate £28.53 £37.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -23.93% - +50.00%

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 31 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 31 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 +17 10 £550 +17.02% 4
West London +13 4 £512 +22.20% 1
South London +1 2 £525 -
North London - 1 £550 -
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 (2.30%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.15%) Apache
2 1 (1.15%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.15%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.30%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 52 (59.77%) Azure
2 48 (55.17%) AWS
3 15 (17.24%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (11.49%) GCP
5 9 (10.34%) AWS CloudFormation
5 9 (10.34%) IaaS
6 8 (9.20%) PaaS
7 7 (8.05%) SaaS
8 6 (6.90%) Entra ID
9 5 (5.75%) Azure Monitor
9 5 (5.75%) GitHub
9 5 (5.75%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (5.75%) Serverless
10 4 (4.60%) Azure AKS
11 3 (3.45%) Amazon S3
11 3 (3.45%) AWS Fargate
11 3 (3.45%) AWS KMS
11 3 (3.45%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (3.45%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 13 (14.94%) DNS
2 12 (13.79%) Firewall
3 10 (11.49%) TCP/IP
4 9 (10.34%) DHCP
4 9 (10.34%) VPN
5 7 (8.05%) LAN
5 7 (8.05%) Network Security
6 6 (6.90%) WAN
6 6 (6.90%) Wireless
7 5 (5.75%) 4G
8 3 (3.45%) SAN
9 2 (2.30%) Cisco Nexus
9 2 (2.30%) NAS
9 2 (2.30%) VLAN
9 2 (2.30%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (1.15%) Internet
10 1 (1.15%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (10.34%) SQL Server
2 8 (9.20%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (9.20%) Oracle Database
3 5 (5.75%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.30%) MySQL
4 2 (2.30%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (1.15%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.15%) Big Data
5 1 (1.15%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.15%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.15%) Flink
5 1 (1.15%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.15%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 12 (13.79%) GitLab
2 8 (9.20%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.45%) CircleCI
3 3 (3.45%) Git
4 1 (1.15%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.15%) JUnit
4 1 (1.15%) Maven
4 1 (1.15%) Snyk
General
1 39 (44.83%) Social Skills
2 16 (18.39%) Finance
3 13 (14.94%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (6.90%) Public Sector
5 5 (5.75%) Banking
5 5 (5.75%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (3.45%) Multimedia
6 3 (3.45%) Retail
7 2 (2.30%) Front Office
7 2 (2.30%) Local Government
7 2 (2.30%) Military
8 1 (1.15%) Aviation
8 1 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.15%) Law
8 1 (1.15%) Legal
Job Titles
1 26 (29.89%) Senior
2 19 (21.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 14 (16.09%) Architect
4 11 (12.64%) Infrastructure Architect
5 10 (11.49%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 9 (10.34%) Consultant
6 9 (10.34%) DevOps Engineer
7 6 (6.90%) AWS Engineer
7 6 (6.90%) Cloud Engineer
7 6 (6.90%) Platform Engineer
7 6 (6.90%) Senior Architect
7 6 (6.90%) Senior Infrastructure Architect
7 6 (6.90%) Software Engineer
8 5 (5.75%) Developer
8 5 (5.75%) VMware Engineer
8 5 (5.75%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (4.60%) Azure Architect
9 4 (4.60%) Azure Engineer
9 4 (4.60%) Senior DevOps
9 4 (4.60%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (10.34%) Kafka
2 3 (3.45%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (3.45%) OAuth
2 3 (3.45%) Spring
3 2 (2.30%) ARM Templates
3 2 (2.30%) CSS
3 2 (2.30%) GraphQL
3 2 (2.30%) HTML
3 2 (2.30%) JPA
3 2 (2.30%) JWT
3 2 (2.30%) Node.js
3 2 (2.30%) RESTful
4 1 (1.15%) ADO
4 1 (1.15%) AWS CDK
4 1 (1.15%) Azure Blueprints
4 1 (1.15%) Jest
4 1 (1.15%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.15%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 16 (18.39%) Public Cloud
2 13 (14.94%) Data Centre
3 11 (12.64%) Private Cloud
4 9 (10.34%) Cloud Native
4 9 (10.34%) Management Information System
5 6 (6.90%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (6.90%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (5.75%) Security Operations Centre
7 4 (4.60%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (4.60%) Legacy Applications
8 3 (3.45%) Educational Technology
8 3 (3.45%) PKI
8 3 (3.45%) Podcast
9 2 (2.30%) Clustering
10 1 (1.15%) CUDA
10 1 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (1.15%) Hedge funds
10 1 (1.15%) HP Storage
10 1 (1.15%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 25 (28.74%) Windows
2 21 (24.14%) Linux
3 13 (14.94%) Windows Server
4 3 (3.45%) CentOS
5 2 (2.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (2.30%) Unix
6 1 (1.15%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.15%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (45.98%) CI/CD
2 33 (37.93%) DevOps
3 26 (29.89%) Infrastructure as Code
4 22 (25.29%) Mentoring
5 21 (24.14%) High Availability
6 20 (22.99%) Problem-Solving
7 19 (21.84%) Containerisation
7 19 (21.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 18 (20.69%) Agile
9 16 (18.39%) Capacity Planning
9 16 (18.39%) Roadmaps
10 14 (16.09%) Infrastructure Automation
11 12 (13.79%) Configuration Management
11 12 (13.79%) Software Engineering
12 10 (11.49%) Business Continuity
12 10 (11.49%) Data Privacy
12 10 (11.49%) Incident Management
12 10 (11.49%) ITIL
13 9 (10.34%) Test Automation
13 9 (10.34%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 26 (29.89%) Python
2 12 (13.79%) Java
3 11 (12.64%) Bash
3 11 (12.64%) PowerShell
4 8 (9.20%) Go
5 5 (5.75%) Kotlin
5 5 (5.75%) SQL
6 3 (3.45%) TypeScript
7 2 (2.30%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.15%) Bicep
8 1 (1.15%) Scala
8 1 (1.15%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (14.94%) Security Cleared
2 12 (13.79%) Degree
2 12 (13.79%) SC Cleared
3 6 (6.90%) AWS Certification
4 4 (4.60%) CCNA
4 4 (4.60%) CCNP
4 4 (4.60%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (4.60%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.45%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.30%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (2.30%) VCAP
6 2 (2.30%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (1.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.15%) CISSP
7 1 (1.15%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.15%) OCP
7 1 (1.15%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (1.15%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.15%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.05%) GDPR
2 5 (5.75%) QA
3 3 (3.45%) NCSC
3 3 (3.45%) NIST
4 2 (2.30%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.30%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (1.15%) SLA
5 1 (1.15%) SOC 2
System Software
1 15 (17.24%) Docker
2 12 (13.79%) Active Directory
3 10 (11.49%) Virtual Desktop
4 7 (8.05%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (4.60%) Hyper-V
5 4 (4.60%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (3.45%) vSphere
7 2 (2.30%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 41 (47.13%) Terraform
2 27 (31.03%) Kubernetes
3 16 (18.39%) Ansible
4 8 (9.20%) FortiGate
5 6 (6.90%) Grafana
5 6 (6.90%) Prometheus
6 5 (5.75%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (4.60%) Puppet
8 3 (3.45%) Kibana
9 2 (2.30%) Dell DRAC
9 2 (2.30%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 2 (2.30%) Progress Chef
9 2 (2.30%) VxRail
10 1 (1.15%) Argo
10 1 (1.15%) Cilium
10 1 (1.15%) Kustomize
10 1 (1.15%) logstash
10 1 (1.15%) Podman
10 1 (1.15%) SCCM
10 1 (1.15%) WSUS
Vendors
1 22 (25.29%) Microsoft
2 14 (16.09%) Oracle
3 11 (12.64%) VMware
4 7 (8.05%) Red Hat
5 5 (5.75%) Google
6 4 (4.60%) Dell
6 4 (4.60%) Fortinet
6 4 (4.60%) ServiceNow
7 3 (3.45%) F5
8 2 (2.30%) Atempo
8 2 (2.30%) Cisco
8 2 (2.30%) Confluent
8 2 (2.30%) Databricks
8 2 (2.30%) EMC
8 2 (2.30%) Mellanox
8 2 (2.30%) QAD
8 2 (2.30%) Splunk
8 2 (2.30%) Sun
9 1 (1.15%) Netskope
9 1 (1.15%) Zscaler