Infrastructure Engineering Contracts in London

Infrastructure Engineering
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Infrastructure Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Infrastructure Engineering over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 141 189 206
Rank change year-on-year +48 +17 -43
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 313 368 550
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.77% 1.40% 1.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.00% 1.54% 1.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 227 275 410
10th Percentile £308 £400 £350
25th Percentile £407 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £575 £520
Median % change year-on-year -9.57% +10.58% +9.47%
75th Percentile £647 £650 £613
90th Percentile £750 £748 £675
England median daily rate £475 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 4
10th Percentile - £66.12 £31.29
25th Percentile - £71.28 £36.73
Median hourly rate - £84.09 £43.06
Median % change year-on-year - +95.29% -
75th Percentile - £89.15 £47.21
90th Percentile - £89.66 £48.04
England median hourly rate £54.88 £63.84 £43.06
% change year-on-year -14.04% +48.26% +11.12%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Infrastructure Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,656 23,861 35,487
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.73% 90.97% 92.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,212 17,181 25,922
10th Percentile £340 £375 £388
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £680 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 313 269 419
10th Percentile £15.96 £18.40 £17.25
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.50 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.00 £37.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.21% +5.41% +12.63%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.25 £51.00
90th Percentile £66.40 £80.45 £69.45
England median hourly rate £37.18 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.85% +50.00% +6.38%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineering in London

Infrastructure Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Engineering in London

Infrastructure Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in London over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in London

Infrastructure Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Engineering in London

Infrastructure Engineering
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 Engineering within the London region over the 6 months to 10 May 2024. 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 +48 64 £525 -12.50% 14
West London +11 2 £250 -51.22% 3
North London - 2 £250 -
South London -1 1 £425 -15.00% 5
Infrastructure Engineering
England

Infrastructure Engineering
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 36 (11.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 20 (6.39%) SharePoint
3 9 (2.88%) Apache
4 7 (2.24%) Tomcat
5 4 (1.28%) IIS
6 2 (0.64%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.64%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.32%) Exchange Server 2007
7 1 (0.32%) Exchange Server 2010
7 1 (0.32%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.32%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.32%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.64%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.32%) Eikon
2 1 (0.32%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.32%) Shopify
2 1 (0.32%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 114 (36.42%) Azure
2 96 (30.67%) AWS
3 66 (21.09%) Microsoft 365
4 44 (14.06%) Entra ID
5 28 (8.95%) IaaS
6 16 (5.11%) Azure DevOps
7 15 (4.79%) PaaS
8 13 (4.15%) AWS CloudFormation
8 13 (4.15%) Mimecast
9 11 (3.51%) Amazon EC2
10 10 (3.19%) Amazon S3
10 10 (3.19%) OneDrive
10 10 (3.19%) Power Platform
10 10 (3.19%) SaaS
10 10 (3.19%) Serverless
10 10 (3.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 9 (2.88%) AWS Lambda
12 7 (2.24%) Cloud Computing
12 7 (2.24%) Cloudflare
12 7 (2.24%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 57 (18.21%) Firewall
2 40 (12.78%) DNS
3 22 (7.03%) WAN
4 18 (5.75%) VPN
5 17 (5.43%) DHCP
5 17 (5.43%) LAN
6 15 (4.79%) SAN
6 15 (4.79%) Wireless
7 13 (4.15%) Network Security
8 12 (3.83%) BGP
8 12 (3.83%) MPLS
8 12 (3.83%) OSPF
9 9 (2.88%) NAS
9 9 (2.88%) WLAN
10 7 (2.24%) SMTP
11 6 (1.92%) Cisco ASA
11 6 (1.92%) SD-WAN
12 5 (1.60%) IPsec
12 5 (1.60%) TCP/IP
12 5 (1.60%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (10.22%) SQL Server
2 10 (3.19%) MongoDB
3 7 (2.24%) Sybase ASE
4 6 (1.92%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.64%) Big Data
5 2 (0.64%) DB2
5 2 (0.64%) MySQL
5 2 (0.64%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.64%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.64%) Power BI
5 2 (0.64%) SAP HANA
5 2 (0.64%) Sisense
6 1 (0.32%) Adabas
6 1 (0.32%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 28 (8.95%) Jenkins
2 21 (6.71%) Git
3 20 (6.39%) GitLab
4 7 (2.24%) Postman
4 7 (2.24%) SoapUI
5 4 (1.28%) TeamCity
6 3 (0.96%) JIRA
7 2 (0.64%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.32%) CA Gen
8 1 (0.32%) Selenium
8 1 (0.32%) VisualWorks
General
1 53 (16.93%) Social Skills
2 41 (13.10%) Public Sector
3 40 (12.78%) Finance
4 23 (7.35%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (5.75%) Banking
6 13 (4.15%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (1.60%) French Language
8 5 (1.60%) Legal
9 4 (1.28%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.28%) Retail
9 4 (1.28%) Telecoms
10 3 (0.96%) Mandarin Language
11 2 (0.64%) Billing
11 2 (0.64%) Law
12 1 (0.32%) Advertising
12 1 (0.32%) Front Office
12 1 (0.32%) German Language
12 1 (0.32%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 191 (61.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 28 (8.95%) AWS Engineer
2 28 (8.95%) Cloud Engineer
3 27 (8.63%) Senior
4 25 (7.99%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
5 23 (7.35%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 22 (7.03%) DevOps Engineer
7 21 (6.71%) Azure Engineer
8 20 (6.39%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 18 (5.75%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
10 14 (4.47%) Python Engineer
11 11 (3.51%) Support Engineer
12 10 (3.19%) Architect
12 10 (3.19%) Infrastructure Support
12 10 (3.19%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
12 10 (3.19%) Site Engineer
12 10 (3.19%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 10 (3.19%) Wintel Engineer
13 9 (2.88%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
13 9 (2.88%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (4.15%) Kafka
2 11 (3.51%) RabbitMQ
3 9 (2.88%) RESTful
4 8 (2.56%) YAML
5 7 (2.24%) SOAP
6 4 (1.28%) AWS CDK
7 2 (0.64%) Jinja
7 2 (0.64%) JSON
7 2 (0.64%) Lambda Expressions
7 2 (0.64%) LDAP
7 2 (0.64%) NETCONF
7 2 (0.64%) NumPy
7 2 (0.64%) Pandas
7 2 (0.64%) PySpark
7 2 (0.64%) XML
7 2 (0.64%) YANG
8 1 (0.32%) LAMP
8 1 (0.32%) OAuth
8 1 (0.32%) React
8 1 (0.32%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 21 (6.71%) Data Centre
1 21 (6.71%) Replication
2 13 (4.15%) Management Information System
2 13 (4.15%) PKI
3 11 (3.51%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (2.24%) Algorithms
4 7 (2.24%) Data Structures
4 7 (2.24%) Mobile App
5 6 (1.92%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (1.92%) Onboarding
6 5 (1.60%) Clustering
6 5 (1.60%) Video Conferencing
7 4 (1.28%) NHS
7 4 (1.28%) Public Cloud
8 3 (0.96%) CCTV
8 3 (0.96%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (0.96%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (0.64%) Blackberry
9 2 (0.64%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 2 (0.64%) LPAR
Operating Systems
1 139 (44.41%) Windows
2 89 (28.43%) Windows Server
3 73 (23.32%) Linux
4 24 (7.67%) Windows Server 2016
5 22 (7.03%) Windows Server 2019
6 21 (6.71%) Windows 10
7 13 (4.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 8 (2.56%) Windows Server 2012
9 5 (1.60%) Mac OS
9 5 (1.60%) Ubuntu
10 4 (1.28%) Unix
11 3 (0.96%) Apple iOS
12 2 (0.64%) CentOS
12 2 (0.64%) zOS
13 1 (0.32%) Android
13 1 (0.32%) VMS
13 1 (0.32%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (25.56%) DevOps
2 66 (21.09%) Migration
3 64 (20.45%) CI/CD
4 36 (11.50%) Infrastructure as Code
5 32 (10.22%) Agile
6 31 (9.90%) Problem-Solving
7 30 (9.58%) ITIL
8 25 (7.99%) Configuration Management
8 25 (7.99%) Microservices
9 23 (7.35%) Cybersecurity
10 22 (7.03%) Platform Engineering
11 21 (6.71%) Disaster Recovery
12 19 (6.07%) Change Management
13 16 (5.11%) Containerisation
14 15 (4.79%) Stakeholder Management
15 14 (4.47%) Scrum
16 13 (4.15%) Project Delivery
16 13 (4.15%) SDLC
17 12 (3.83%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 11 (3.51%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 49 (15.65%) Python
2 48 (15.34%) PowerShell
3 16 (5.11%) JavaScript
4 15 (4.79%) Shell Script
5 13 (4.15%) C#
6 11 (3.51%) SQL
7 9 (2.88%) Java
8 7 (2.24%) Bash
9 6 (1.92%) Go
9 6 (1.92%) Perl
10 5 (1.60%) TypeScript
11 4 (1.28%) C++
12 3 (0.96%) Bicep
12 3 (0.96%) PHP
13 2 (0.64%) Ruby
14 1 (0.32%) Korn
14 1 (0.32%) Natural
14 1 (0.32%) Smalltalk
Qualifications
1 69 (22.04%) Security Cleared
2 42 (13.42%) SC Cleared
3 40 (12.78%) DV Cleared
4 19 (6.07%) Azure Certification
5 13 (4.15%) Degree
6 7 (2.24%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (1.60%) TOGAF Certification
8 4 (1.28%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (1.28%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.28%) MCSE
9 3 (0.96%) AWS Certification
9 3 (0.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (0.96%) CCNA
10 2 (0.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (0.64%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.32%) CCNP
11 1 (0.32%) JNCIP
11 1 (0.32%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (1.28%) SLA
3 3 (0.96%) NCSC
3 3 (0.96%) QA
4 2 (0.64%) GDPR
4 2 (0.64%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 108 (34.50%) Active Directory
2 46 (14.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (6.39%) Hyper-V
4 13 (4.15%) Docker
5 10 (3.19%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 10 (3.19%) vSphere
6 6 (1.92%) VMware NSX
7 5 (1.60%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.96%) KVM
8 3 (0.96%) XenApp
9 2 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
10 1 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.32%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 54 (17.25%) Terraform
2 48 (15.34%) Ansible
3 35 (11.18%) Kubernetes
4 29 (9.27%) Microsoft Intune
5 25 (7.99%) SCCM
6 24 (7.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 18 (5.75%) Puppet
8 13 (4.15%) Grafana
8 13 (4.15%) Prometheus
9 10 (3.19%) Consul
10 7 (2.24%) FortiGate
10 7 (2.24%) WSUS
11 5 (1.60%) Jamf Pro
11 5 (1.60%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (1.60%) vCenter Server
11 5 (1.60%) vRealize
12 3 (0.96%) AirWatch
12 3 (0.96%) SCOM
13 2 (0.64%) Backup Exec
13 2 (0.64%) Packer
Vendors
1 87 (27.80%) Microsoft
2 78 (24.92%) VMware
3 20 (6.39%) Veeam
4 19 (6.07%) Citrix
5 16 (5.11%) Cisco
6 13 (4.15%) Palo Alto
6 13 (4.15%) Red Hat
7 12 (3.83%) SaltStack
8 11 (3.51%) HP
8 11 (3.51%) Juniper
9 10 (3.19%) Bloomberg
9 10 (3.19%) Dell
10 9 (2.88%) Okta
10 9 (2.88%) Refinitiv
11 7 (2.24%) F5
11 7 (2.24%) ServiceNow
11 7 (2.24%) Sybase
12 6 (1.92%) Fortinet
13 5 (1.60%) CA
13 5 (1.60%) Google