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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 140 182 198
Rank change year-on-year +42 +16 -23
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 307 381 566
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.75% 1.49% 1.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.98% 1.64% 1.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 226 285 431
10th Percentile £306 £381 £350
25th Percentile £406 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £553 £523
Median % change year-on-year -6.79% +5.74% +10.00%
75th Percentile £640 £650 £600
90th Percentile £738 £783 £675
England median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 4
10th Percentile - £67.84 £31.29
25th Percentile - £75.58 £36.73
Median hourly rate - £87.05 £43.06
Median % change year-on-year - +102.15% -
75th Percentile - £90.00 £47.21
90th Percentile - - £48.04
England median hourly rate £54.88 £68.75 £42.50
% change year-on-year -20.18% +61.76% +28.79%

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 15,473 23,264 35,752
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.29% 90.93% 92.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,093 16,856 26,215
10th Percentile £340 £375 £394
25th Percentile £449 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 320 265 402
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.00 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.49 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.00 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.21% +9.86% +8.07%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.50 £50.00
90th Percentile £68.08 £82.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £37.50 £37.15 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.94% +48.60% +11.11%

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 2 June 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 2 June 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 +30 62 £550 -8.33% 11
West London +16 2 £250 -50.00% 6
North London - 2 £250 -
South London -3 1 £425 -15.00% 4
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 35 (11.40%) Microsoft Exchange
2 19 (6.19%) SharePoint
3 7 (2.28%) Apache
3 7 (2.28%) Tomcat
4 3 (0.98%) IIS
5 2 (0.65%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.33%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.33%) Confluence
6 1 (0.33%) Exchange Server 2007
6 1 (0.33%) Exchange Server 2010
6 1 (0.33%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (1.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.65%) SAP S/4HANA
1 2 (0.65%) Shopify
2 1 (0.33%) Eikon
2 1 (0.33%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.33%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 102 (33.22%) Azure
2 89 (28.99%) AWS
3 61 (19.87%) Microsoft 365
4 36 (11.73%) Entra ID
5 21 (6.84%) IaaS
6 12 (3.91%) PaaS
7 11 (3.58%) Mimecast
8 10 (3.26%) Azure DevOps
8 10 (3.26%) Power Platform
9 9 (2.93%) AWS CloudFormation
10 8 (2.61%) Amazon EC2
10 8 (2.61%) OneDrive
10 8 (2.61%) Serverless
10 8 (2.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 7 (2.28%) Amazon S3
11 7 (2.28%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (2.28%) Cloudflare
11 7 (2.28%) GCP
11 7 (2.28%) SaaS
12 6 (1.95%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 54 (17.59%) Firewall
2 39 (12.70%) DNS
3 22 (7.17%) WAN
4 19 (6.19%) DHCP
5 17 (5.54%) VPN
6 15 (4.89%) LAN
6 15 (4.89%) SAN
7 13 (4.23%) Wireless
8 12 (3.91%) BGP
8 12 (3.91%) OSPF
9 10 (3.26%) Network Security
10 9 (2.93%) MPLS
11 8 (2.61%) NAS
12 7 (2.28%) SMTP
13 6 (1.95%) SD-WAN
13 6 (1.95%) Wi-Fi
13 6 (1.95%) WLAN
14 5 (1.63%) IPsec
14 5 (1.63%) TCP/IP
14 5 (1.63%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (8.79%) SQL Server
2 10 (3.26%) MongoDB
3 7 (2.28%) Sybase ASE
4 4 (1.30%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (0.98%) Data Lake
5 3 (0.98%) Power BI
6 2 (0.65%) DB2
6 2 (0.65%) MySQL
6 2 (0.65%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.65%) SAP HANA
6 2 (0.65%) Sisense
7 1 (0.33%) Adabas
7 1 (0.33%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.33%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.33%) Data Vault
7 1 (0.33%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 29 (9.45%) Jenkins
2 20 (6.51%) GitLab
3 19 (6.19%) Git
4 9 (2.93%) Postman
4 9 (2.93%) SoapUI
5 5 (1.63%) JIRA
6 2 (0.65%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.33%) CA Gen
7 1 (0.33%) Selenium
7 1 (0.33%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.33%) VisualWorks
General
1 47 (15.31%) Social Skills
2 43 (14.01%) Finance
3 39 (12.70%) Public Sector
4 25 (8.14%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (5.21%) Banking
6 13 (4.23%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (1.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (1.95%) Legal
8 5 (1.63%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (1.63%) Retail
9 4 (1.30%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.30%) Telecoms
10 3 (0.98%) Mandarin Language
11 2 (0.65%) Billing
11 2 (0.65%) French Language
11 2 (0.65%) Law
11 2 (0.65%) Marketing
12 1 (0.33%) Advertising
12 1 (0.33%) German Language
12 1 (0.33%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 188 (61.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 28 (9.12%) Senior
3 27 (8.79%) AWS Engineer
4 26 (8.47%) Cloud Engineer
5 24 (7.82%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
6 23 (7.49%) DevOps Engineer
7 20 (6.51%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 19 (6.19%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
9 15 (4.89%) Azure Engineer
10 12 (3.91%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
11 11 (3.58%) Analyst
11 11 (3.58%) Python Engineer
11 11 (3.58%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 11 (3.58%) Support Engineer
12 10 (3.26%) Business Analyst
12 10 (3.26%) Infrastructure Support
12 10 (3.26%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
12 10 (3.26%) Security Engineer
12 10 (3.26%) Technical Analyst
12 10 (3.26%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (3.91%) Kafka
1 12 (3.91%) RabbitMQ
2 11 (3.58%) RESTful
3 9 (2.93%) SOAP
4 4 (1.30%) AWS CDK
5 3 (0.98%) J2EE
5 3 (0.98%) Spring Boot
5 3 (0.98%) YAML
6 2 (0.65%) Jinja
6 2 (0.65%) JSON
6 2 (0.65%) LDAP
6 2 (0.65%) NETCONF
6 2 (0.65%) VML
6 2 (0.65%) XML
6 2 (0.65%) YANG
7 1 (0.33%) EDI
7 1 (0.33%) Middleware
7 1 (0.33%) React
7 1 (0.33%) SAML
7 1 (0.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 19 (6.19%) Data Centre
2 17 (5.54%) Replication
3 16 (5.21%) Management Information System
4 15 (4.89%) PKI
5 12 (3.91%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (2.93%) Algorithms
6 9 (2.93%) Data Structures
6 9 (2.93%) Mobile App
7 5 (1.63%) Clustering
7 5 (1.63%) Video Conferencing
8 4 (1.30%) NHS
9 3 (0.98%) CCTV
9 3 (0.98%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 3 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (0.98%) Public Cloud
9 3 (0.98%) Security Posture
10 2 (0.65%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (0.65%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (0.65%) Onboarding
10 2 (0.65%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 127 (41.37%) Windows
2 80 (26.06%) Windows Server
3 72 (23.45%) Linux
4 22 (7.17%) Windows 10
5 21 (6.84%) Windows Server 2016
6 17 (5.54%) Windows Server 2019
7 14 (4.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (1.95%) Windows Server 2012
9 5 (1.63%) Mac OS
10 4 (1.30%) Unix
11 2 (0.65%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.65%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.65%) zOS
12 1 (0.33%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (26.38%) DevOps
2 63 (20.52%) CI/CD
3 53 (17.26%) Migration
4 35 (11.40%) Infrastructure as Code
5 33 (10.75%) ITIL
5 33 (10.75%) Problem-Solving
6 32 (10.42%) Microservices
7 29 (9.45%) Agile
8 27 (8.79%) Configuration Management
9 25 (8.14%) Platform Engineering
10 22 (7.17%) Cybersecurity
11 21 (6.84%) Disaster Recovery
12 18 (5.86%) Change Management
12 18 (5.86%) Containerisation
13 14 (4.56%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 13 (4.23%) Scrum
14 13 (4.23%) Task Automation
15 12 (3.91%) Information Security
15 12 (3.91%) Stakeholder Management
15 12 (3.91%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 51 (16.61%) Python
2 38 (12.38%) PowerShell
3 16 (5.21%) Shell Script
4 15 (4.89%) JavaScript
5 14 (4.56%) Java
6 12 (3.91%) C#
7 10 (3.26%) SQL
8 9 (2.93%) C++
8 9 (2.93%) Go
9 6 (1.95%) Bash
10 5 (1.63%) Perl
10 5 (1.63%) TypeScript
11 3 (0.98%) Bicep
11 3 (0.98%) C
11 3 (0.98%) PHP
12 1 (0.33%) Natural
12 1 (0.33%) Ruby
12 1 (0.33%) Smalltalk
Qualifications
1 65 (21.17%) Security Cleared
2 39 (12.70%) DV Cleared
2 39 (12.70%) SC Cleared
3 18 (5.86%) Azure Certification
4 15 (4.89%) Degree
5 11 (3.58%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (1.63%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (1.63%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.63%) MCSE
7 4 (1.30%) CCNA
7 4 (1.30%) TOGAF Certification
8 3 (0.98%) AWS Certification
8 3 (0.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.65%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (0.65%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.33%) CCNP
10 1 (0.33%) JNCIP
10 1 (0.33%) MCSA
10 1 (0.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (1.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (1.30%) GDPR
2 4 (1.30%) NCSC
2 4 (1.30%) PCI DSS
2 4 (1.30%) SLA
3 3 (0.98%) QA
4 2 (0.65%) COBIT
5 1 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 100 (32.57%) Active Directory
2 48 (15.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (6.84%) Hyper-V
4 18 (5.86%) Docker
5 11 (3.58%) vSphere
6 10 (3.26%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 5 (1.63%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (1.30%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (1.30%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.98%) KVM
9 3 (0.98%) XenApp
10 2 (0.65%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.65%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 56 (18.24%) Terraform
2 45 (14.66%) Ansible
3 37 (12.05%) Kubernetes
4 27 (8.79%) SCCM
5 24 (7.82%) Microsoft Intune
6 18 (5.86%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 15 (4.89%) Puppet
8 13 (4.23%) Grafana
8 13 (4.23%) Prometheus
9 10 (3.26%) Consul
10 7 (2.28%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (1.63%) FortiGate
11 5 (1.63%) SCOM
11 5 (1.63%) WSUS
12 4 (1.30%) vCenter Server
12 4 (1.30%) vRealize
13 3 (0.98%) AirWatch
13 3 (0.98%) CASB
13 3 (0.98%) Jamf Pro
14 2 (0.65%) Salt
Vendors
1 90 (29.32%) Microsoft
2 79 (25.73%) VMware
3 18 (5.86%) Citrix
4 16 (5.21%) Veeam
5 14 (4.56%) Cisco
6 12 (3.91%) Dell
6 12 (3.91%) Juniper
6 12 (3.91%) SaltStack
7 11 (3.58%) Bloomberg
7 11 (3.58%) Palo Alto
8 10 (3.26%) HP
9 9 (2.93%) Refinitiv
10 8 (2.61%) Red Hat
10 8 (2.61%) ServiceNow
11 7 (2.28%) F5
11 7 (2.28%) Fortinet
11 7 (2.28%) Sybase
12 6 (1.95%) CA
12 6 (1.95%) Google
13 5 (1.63%) SAP