Infrastructure Engineer Contracts in London

Infrastructure Engineer
England > London

The median Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in London is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2024.

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

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 204 255 264
Rank change year-on-year +51 +9 +13
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 205 245 413
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.16% 0.97% 1.07%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.24% 1.02% 1.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 181 308
10th Percentile £275 £350 £350
25th Percentile £372 £425 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £547 £650 £575
90th Percentile £633 £700 £630
England median daily rate £463 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -7.50% +11.11% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 3
10th Percentile - £64.40 £39.90
25th Percentile - £66.98 £40.12
Median hourly rate - £73.39 £43.62
Median % change year-on-year - +68.24% -
75th Percentile - £81.89 £47.67
90th Percentile - £85.73 £48.22
England median hourly rate £22.50 £65.00 £43.06
% change year-on-year -65.38% +50.95% +14.83%

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 16,560 23,906 36,699
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.67% 95.05% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,921 17,459 27,030
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £440 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 324 281 404
10th Percentile £16.00 £17.98 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.17 £22.63 £23.75
Median hourly rate £27.81 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.75% +2.86% +7.12%
75th Percentile £46.59 £63.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £66.85 £82.25 £67.50
England median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -12.22% +87.50% +14.01%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in London

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in London

Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in London over the 6 months to 13 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in London

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in London

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 Infrastructure Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 13 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 +26 30 £450 -18.18% 4
West London +19 2 £250 -37.50%
North London - 2 £250 -
South London +2 1 £425 -15.00% 3
Infrastructure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 13 June 2024, 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 Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 193 (94.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 101 (49.27%) Windows
3 84 (40.98%) Active Directory
4 78 (38.05%) Azure
5 67 (32.68%) Windows Server
6 66 (32.20%) Microsoft
7 64 (31.22%) VMware
8 57 (27.80%) AWS
9 49 (23.90%) Security Cleared
10 48 (23.41%) Microsoft 365
11 37 (18.05%) VMware Infrastructure
11 37 (18.05%) Linux
12 36 (17.56%) Firewall
13 34 (16.59%) Migration
13 34 (16.59%) DevOps
14 32 (15.61%) Terraform
14 32 (15.61%) Public Sector
14 32 (15.61%) Finance
15 30 (14.63%) DNS
16 29 (14.15%) Entra ID
17 28 (13.66%) DV Cleared
18 26 (12.68%) SQL Server
19 25 (12.20%) PowerShell
20 24 (11.71%) SCCM
20 24 (11.71%) Social Skills
21 23 (11.22%) SC Cleared
21 23 (11.22%) Microsoft Exchange
22 22 (10.73%) CI/CD
23 21 (10.24%) Windows 10
23 21 (10.24%) Ansible

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 23 (11.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (7.80%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.95%) Apache
3 4 (1.95%) Tomcat
4 2 (0.98%) IIS
4 2 (0.98%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.49%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (0.49%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (0.98%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.98%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.49%) Eikon
2 1 (0.49%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.49%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 78 (38.05%) Azure
2 57 (27.80%) AWS
3 48 (23.41%) Microsoft 365
4 29 (14.15%) Entra ID
5 13 (6.34%) IaaS
6 6 (2.93%) Mimecast
6 6 (2.93%) OneDrive
6 6 (2.93%) PaaS
7 5 (2.44%) Amazon S3
7 5 (2.44%) Azure Storage
8 4 (1.95%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (1.95%) Amazon EventBridge
8 4 (1.95%) AWS CodePipeline
8 4 (1.95%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (1.95%) Cloudflare
8 4 (1.95%) SaaS
8 4 (1.95%) WhatsApp
9 3 (1.46%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (1.46%) GCP
9 3 (1.46%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 36 (17.56%) Firewall
2 30 (14.63%) DNS
3 15 (7.32%) DHCP
4 14 (6.83%) WAN
5 10 (4.88%) VPN
6 9 (4.39%) LAN
6 9 (4.39%) Network Security
6 9 (4.39%) SAN
7 8 (3.90%) MPLS
8 6 (2.93%) Wi-Fi
9 5 (2.44%) SD-WAN
10 4 (1.95%) BGP
10 4 (1.95%) OSPF
10 4 (1.95%) SMTP
11 3 (1.46%) Internet
12 2 (0.98%) NAS
12 2 (0.98%) Software-Defined Networking
12 2 (0.98%) Spanning Tree
12 2 (0.98%) SSL
12 2 (0.98%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (12.68%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (0.98%) DB2
2 2 (0.98%) MySQL
2 2 (0.98%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (0.98%) SAP HANA
2 2 (0.98%) Sisense
3 1 (0.49%) Adabas
3 1 (0.49%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (0.49%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 12 (5.85%) Jenkins
2 9 (4.39%) GitLab
3 8 (3.90%) Git
4 3 (1.46%) JIRA
5 2 (0.98%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.49%) CA Gen
6 1 (0.49%) VisualWorks
General
1 32 (15.61%) Finance
1 32 (15.61%) Public Sector
2 24 (11.71%) Social Skills
3 15 (7.32%) Banking
4 9 (4.39%) Documentation Skills
5 8 (3.90%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (2.93%) Legal
7 4 (1.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.46%) Financial Institution
8 3 (1.46%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (0.98%) French Language
9 2 (0.98%) Law
9 2 (0.98%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (0.98%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.49%) Advertising
10 1 (0.49%) Electronics
10 1 (0.49%) Front Office
10 1 (0.49%) Marketing
10 1 (0.49%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.95%) AWS CDK
2 3 (1.46%) J2EE
2 3 (1.46%) Spring Boot
3 2 (0.98%) Jinja
3 2 (0.98%) JSON
3 2 (0.98%) LDAP
3 2 (0.98%) NETCONF
3 2 (0.98%) RESTful
3 2 (0.98%) XML
3 2 (0.98%) YANG
4 1 (0.49%) .NET
4 1 (0.49%) EDI
4 1 (0.49%) SAML
4 1 (0.49%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 16 (7.80%) Replication
2 9 (4.39%) Data Centre
2 9 (4.39%) Management Information System
2 9 (4.39%) PKI
3 4 (1.95%) Clustering
4 3 (1.46%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 3 (1.46%) NHS
4 3 (1.46%) Public Cloud
4 3 (1.46%) Security Posture
5 2 (0.98%) Blackberry
5 2 (0.98%) LPAR
5 2 (0.98%) Onboarding
5 2 (0.98%) Video Conferencing
6 1 (0.49%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (0.49%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.49%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.49%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.49%) HP Storage
6 1 (0.49%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.49%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 101 (49.27%) Windows
2 67 (32.68%) Windows Server
3 37 (18.05%) Linux
4 21 (10.24%) Windows 10
5 19 (9.27%) Windows Server 2016
6 15 (7.32%) Windows Server 2019
7 8 (3.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (1.95%) Windows Server 2012
9 3 (1.46%) Mac OS
9 3 (1.46%) Windows 7
10 2 (0.98%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.98%) zOS
11 1 (0.49%) Unix
11 1 (0.49%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 193 (94.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 34 (16.59%) DevOps
2 34 (16.59%) Migration
3 22 (10.73%) CI/CD
4 20 (9.76%) ITIL
5 18 (8.78%) Infrastructure as Code
6 16 (7.80%) Disaster Recovery
7 13 (6.34%) Problem-Solving
8 12 (5.85%) Containerisation
9 11 (5.37%) Microservices
10 10 (4.88%) Agile
10 10 (4.88%) Cybersecurity
10 10 (4.88%) Information Security
11 9 (4.39%) Configuration Management
11 9 (4.39%) Vulnerability Management
12 8 (3.90%) Identity Management
12 8 (3.90%) Platform Engineering
12 8 (3.90%) Project Delivery
12 8 (3.90%) Stakeholder Management
13 7 (3.41%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 25 (12.20%) PowerShell
2 17 (8.29%) Python
3 6 (2.93%) SQL
4 5 (2.44%) C
5 4 (1.95%) Bash
5 4 (1.95%) Java
5 4 (1.95%) TypeScript
6 3 (1.46%) C++
6 3 (1.46%) PHP
7 1 (0.49%) Bicep
7 1 (0.49%) C#
7 1 (0.49%) Go
7 1 (0.49%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.49%) Natural
7 1 (0.49%) Ruby
7 1 (0.49%) Smalltalk
Qualifications
1 49 (23.90%) Security Cleared
2 28 (13.66%) DV Cleared
3 23 (11.22%) SC Cleared
4 13 (6.34%) Microsoft Certification
5 9 (4.39%) Azure Certification
6 8 (3.90%) Degree
7 6 (2.93%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (2.44%) CCNA
8 5 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (2.44%) MCSE
9 4 (1.95%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 3 (1.46%) AWS Certification
10 3 (1.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.98%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 1 (0.49%) CCNP
12 1 (0.49%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.49%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (1.95%) NCSC
2 4 (1.95%) PCI DSS
3 3 (1.46%) GDPR
3 3 (1.46%) QA
4 2 (0.98%) COBIT
5 1 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 84 (40.98%) Active Directory
2 37 (18.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (7.80%) Hyper-V
4 13 (6.34%) vSphere
5 10 (4.88%) Docker
6 4 (1.95%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (1.46%) VMware NSX
7 3 (1.46%) XenApp
8 2 (0.98%) Firmware
8 2 (0.98%) XenDesktop
9 1 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.49%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 32 (15.61%) Terraform
2 24 (11.71%) SCCM
3 21 (10.24%) Ansible
4 17 (8.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 17 (8.29%) Kubernetes
4 17 (8.29%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (2.93%) SCOM
6 5 (2.44%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (1.46%) Puppet
8 2 (0.98%) Backup Exec
8 2 (0.98%) CASB
8 2 (0.98%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.98%) SCOrch
8 2 (0.98%) vCenter Server
8 2 (0.98%) WhatsUp Gold
9 1 (0.49%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Clustering
9 1 (0.49%) Nessus
9 1 (0.49%) Packer
9 1 (0.49%) vRealize
Vendors
1 66 (32.20%) Microsoft
2 64 (31.22%) VMware
3 15 (7.32%) Citrix
3 15 (7.32%) Veeam
4 13 (6.34%) Cisco
5 8 (3.90%) Bloomberg
6 7 (3.41%) HP
7 6 (2.93%) CA
7 6 (2.93%) Dell
7 6 (2.93%) F5
7 6 (2.93%) Juniper
7 6 (2.93%) Refinitiv
8 5 (2.44%) Palo Alto
8 5 (2.44%) ServiceNow
9 4 (1.95%) Aruba
9 4 (1.95%) Okta
9 4 (1.95%) SAP
10 3 (1.46%) CrowdStrike
10 3 (1.46%) Google
10 3 (1.46%) Qualys