Senior Infrastructure Engineer Contracts in London

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
England > London

The median Senior Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in London is £625, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 7 August 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
7 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 346 371 448
Rank change year-on-year +25 +77 +100
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 25 10 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.18% 0.062% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.065% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 8 25
10th Percentile - £346 £428
25th Percentile £563 £444 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £550 £675
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -18.52% +22.73%
75th Percentile £638 £556 £745
90th Percentile £650 £575 £763
England median daily rate £625 £475 £544
% change year-on-year +31.58% -12.64% +0.69%

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 12,608 15,269 22,668
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.97% 94.13% 94.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,524 10,788 16,594
10th Percentile £325 £350 £356
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 204 199 244
10th Percentile £17.98 £17.45 £18.56
25th Percentile £22.98 £22.00 £24.06
Median hourly rate £30.00 £33.07 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.28% -11.81% +12.78%
75th Percentile £50.13 £54.38 £65.00
90th Percentile £63.75 £71.88 £81.58
England median hourly rate £26.00 £45.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year -42.22% +4.65% +68.63%

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Infrastructure Engineer in London

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Infrastructure Engineer in London

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Infrastructure Engineer in London over the 6 months to 7 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Infrastructure Engineer in London

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Infrastructure Engineer in London

Senior 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 Senior Infrastructure Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 7 August 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 0 4 £600 - 1
Senior Infrastructure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 7 August 2025, Senior 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 Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 25 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 14 (56.00%) VPN
3 13 (52.00%) DNS
3 13 (52.00%) Windows
3 13 (52.00%) SC Cleared
3 13 (52.00%) Security Cleared
3 13 (52.00%) Azure
4 12 (48.00%) TCP/IP
4 12 (48.00%) Firewall
5 11 (44.00%) AWS
6 10 (40.00%) High Availability
7 9 (36.00%) Business Continuity
7 9 (36.00%) Incident Management
7 9 (36.00%) Infrastructure Management
7 9 (36.00%) Mentoring
7 9 (36.00%) Terraform
8 8 (32.00%) Windows Server
8 8 (32.00%) Public Sector
8 8 (32.00%) DHCP
9 7 (28.00%) Python
9 7 (28.00%) Agile
9 7 (28.00%) Network Security
9 7 (28.00%) Social Skills
10 6 (24.00%) Inventory Management
10 6 (24.00%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (24.00%) Proactive Management
10 6 (24.00%) Data Privacy
10 6 (24.00%) Software Licensing
10 6 (24.00%) FortiGate
10 6 (24.00%) JIRA

Senior 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 6 (24.00%) Confluence
2 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 13 (52.00%) Azure
2 11 (44.00%) AWS
3 5 (20.00%) Entra ID
3 5 (20.00%) IaaS
4 4 (16.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 4 (16.00%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (16.00%) Amazon ELB
4 4 (16.00%) Amazon S3
4 4 (16.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 3 (12.00%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (12.00%) GCP
6 2 (8.00%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (4.00%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 14 (56.00%) VPN
2 13 (52.00%) DNS
3 12 (48.00%) Firewall
3 12 (48.00%) TCP/IP
4 8 (32.00%) DHCP
5 7 (28.00%) Network Security
6 6 (24.00%) LAN
6 6 (24.00%) WAN
7 5 (20.00%) 4G
7 5 (20.00%) Wireless
8 4 (16.00%) SSL
9 1 (4.00%) BGP
9 1 (4.00%) IGRP
9 1 (4.00%) OSPF
9 1 (4.00%) SD-WAN
9 1 (4.00%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (4.00%) Oracle Database
2 1 (4.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (24.00%) JIRA
2 5 (20.00%) ScriptRunner
3 4 (16.00%) Git
3 4 (16.00%) Jenkins
4 2 (8.00%) GitLab
General
1 8 (32.00%) Public Sector
2 7 (28.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (12.00%) Military
4 1 (4.00%) Finance
4 1 (4.00%) Law
Miscellaneous
1 6 (24.00%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (20.00%) Security Operations Centre
3 3 (12.00%) PKI
4 1 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (4.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 13 (52.00%) Windows
2 8 (32.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 10 (40.00%) High Availability
3 9 (36.00%) Business Continuity
3 9 (36.00%) Incident Management
3 9 (36.00%) Infrastructure Management
3 9 (36.00%) Mentoring
4 7 (28.00%) Agile
5 6 (24.00%) Data Privacy
5 6 (24.00%) Inventory Management
5 6 (24.00%) Proactive Management
5 6 (24.00%) Software Licensing
6 5 (20.00%) Business Strategy
6 5 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
6 5 (20.00%) Migration
6 5 (20.00%) Security Operations
6 5 (20.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 4 (16.00%) DevOps
7 4 (16.00%) Infrastructure Automation
7 4 (16.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
7 4 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 7 (28.00%) Python
2 6 (24.00%) PowerShell
3 5 (20.00%) Groovy
4 3 (12.00%) Bash
5 1 (4.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (52.00%) SC Cleared
1 13 (52.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (16.00%) CCNA
2 4 (16.00%) CCNP
2 4 (16.00%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (4.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 5 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (16.00%) Docker
3 3 (12.00%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (36.00%) Terraform
2 6 (24.00%) FortiGate
3 5 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (16.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 6 (24.00%) Atlassian
2 5 (20.00%) Palo Alto
3 4 (16.00%) CheckPoint
3 4 (16.00%) F5
4 3 (12.00%) Google
4 3 (12.00%) Microsoft
5 2 (8.00%) Cisco
5 2 (8.00%) QAD
6 1 (4.00%) NetApp
6 1 (4.00%) Oracle
6 1 (4.00%) VMware
6 1 (4.00%) Zscaler