Infrastructure Engineering Contract Job Trends in South London

Infrastructure Engineering
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South London requiring Infrastructure Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 33 40
Rank change year-on-year -10 +7 +7
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 6 3 1
As % of all contract jobs in South London 2.03% 1.51% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.35% 1.69% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 0
10th Percentile £421 £384 -
25th Percentile £434 £416 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £470 -
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% - -
75th Percentile £484 £535 -
90th Percentile £494 £574 -
London median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £37.08
Median hourly rate - - £38.16
75th Percentile - - £39.23
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £28.75 £112.00 £36.84
% change year-on-year -74.33% +204.02% -53.25%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South 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 South London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 255 178 240
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 86.15% 89.45% 92.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 178 120 163
10th Percentile £413 £320 £188
25th Percentile £475 £459 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £555 £600 £588
90th Percentile £691 £754 £648
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 8 19
10th Percentile £54.42 - £16.28
25th Percentile £54.55 £15.84 £19.25
Median hourly rate £61.22 £24.92 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year +145.66% +6.04% -46.72%
75th Percentile £66.50 £78.40 £66.57
90th Percentile £67.70 £79.84 £83.75
London median hourly rate £35.50 £35.70 £30.00
% change year-on-year -0.55% +18.98% -16.67%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Infrastructure Engineering relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South London.

Infrastructure Engineering job vacancy trend in South London

Infrastructure Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in South London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Infrastructure Engineering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Infrastructure Engineering

Infrastructure Engineering
Hourly Rate Trend in South London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Infrastructure Engineering.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Infrastructure Engineering

Infrastructure Engineering
Contract Job Locations in South 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 South London region over the 6 months to 13 March 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
Croydon -7 3 £500 +6.38% 1
Bromley +1 1 - - 1
Merton -4 1 £425 +13.33%
Sutton - 1 - -
Infrastructure Engineering
London

Infrastructure Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South 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 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) AWS
2 4 (66.67%) Amazon EC2
2 4 (66.67%) Amazon ECS
2 4 (66.67%) Amazon EKS
2 4 (66.67%) Amazon S3
2 4 (66.67%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (50.00%) AWS CodePipeline
3 3 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (50.00%) GitHub
3 3 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
3 3 (50.00%) Serverless
3 3 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 2 (33.33%) Azure
5 1 (16.67%) IaaS
5 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) DKIM
1 1 (16.67%) DMARC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (16.67%) Relational Database
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Bitbucket
1 3 (50.00%) GitLab
1 3 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (16.67%) Git
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Delivery Manager
1 3 (50.00%) Technical Delivery Manager
1 3 (50.00%) Technical Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) DevOps Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Exchange Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Mobile Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Exchange Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Site Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
1 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (16.67%) Mobile App
1 1 (16.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon Linux
2 1 (16.67%) Android
2 1 (16.67%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Agile
1 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
1 4 (66.67%) Platform Engineering
2 3 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (50.00%) DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 3 (50.00%) Project Delivery
3 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (16.67%) Cloud Operations
4 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
4 1 (16.67%) Configuration Management
4 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
4 1 (16.67%) ITIL
4 1 (16.67%) Mathematics
4 1 (16.67%) Mobile Application Development
4 1 (16.67%) Mobile Device Management
4 1 (16.67%) Strategic Thinking
4 1 (16.67%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Python
2 3 (50.00%) Shell Script
3 1 (16.67%) Bash
3 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
3 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (16.67%) Degree
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Terraform
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (16.67%) Ansible
3 1 (16.67%) Grafana
3 1 (16.67%) Progress Chef
3 1 (16.67%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 1 (16.67%) PagerDuty
1 1 (16.67%) Proofpoint