IT Infrastructure Engineer Contracts in London

IT Infrastructure Engineer
England > London

The median IT Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in London is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 July 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 365 394 491
Rank change year-on-year +29 +97 +100
Contract jobs requiring an IT Infrastructure Engineer 2 3 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.015% 0.017% 0.012%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.016% 0.018% 0.012%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 3
10th Percentile - £363 £548
25th Percentile £425 £419 £585
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £665
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -21.05% +48.60%
75th Percentile £475 £589 £683
90th Percentile - £620 -
England median daily rate £525 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +10.53% - +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £30.00 - -
England median hourly rate £53.50 - £72.50

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in London with a recognized job title 12,617 16,359 24,255
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.24% 94.01% 94.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,533 11,674 17,727
10th Percentile £331 £330 £361
25th Percentile £425 £445 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £788 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 196 296 276
10th Percentile £18.47 £16.25 £18.50
25th Percentile £22.98 £20.50 £22.98
Median hourly rate £32.00 £28.25 £37.42
Median % change year-on-year +13.27% -24.51% +6.91%
75th Percentile £50.56 £48.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £63.75 £69.13 £82.50
England median hourly rate £28.18 £40.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year -29.55% -6.98% +70.01%

IT Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured IT Infrastructure Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for IT Infrastructure Engineer in London

IT Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for IT Infrastructure Engineer in London

IT Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for IT Infrastructure Engineer in London

IT Infrastructure Engineer
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 IT Infrastructure Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 15 July 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
South London - 1 £450 -
IT Infrastructure Engineer
England

IT Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 15 July 2025, IT Infrastructure Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring IT Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (100.00%) PaaS
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (100.00%) IaaS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) DBS Check
2 1 (50.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) NIST
2 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2019
2 1 (50.00%) SD-WAN
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Log Analytics

IT Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
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 1 (50.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 2 (100.00%) IaaS
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (100.00%) PaaS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
2 1 (50.00%) NAS
2 1 (50.00%) SAN
2 1 (50.00%) SD-WAN
2 1 (50.00%) WAN
General
1 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Legal
1 1 (50.00%) Local Government
1 1 (50.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Defence
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Security Posture
1 1 (50.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (50.00%) Compliance Management
2 1 (50.00%) Cyber Resilience
2 1 (50.00%) Data Loss Prevention
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) IT Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Log Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Remediation Plan
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (50.00%) Runbook
2 1 (50.00%) Security Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Security Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (50.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (50.00%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) Citrix
2 1 (50.00%) Dell
2 1 (50.00%) EMC
2 1 (50.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (50.00%) SonicWALL