Infrastructure Engineer Contracts in the City of London

Infrastructure Engineer
Central London > City of London

The median Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in the City of London is £520, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 November 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
14 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 102 100 154
Rank change year-on-year -2 +54 -21
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 25 50 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.18% 1.80% 0.98%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.26% 1.91% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 30 33
10th Percentile £416 £411 £375
25th Percentile £456 £466 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% - +16.67%
75th Percentile £601 £634 £618
90th Percentile £614 £701 £638
Central London median daily rate £523 £513 £475
% change year-on-year +1.95% +7.89% +5.56%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the City of 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 the City of London with a recognized job title 1,978 2,612 4,256
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.17% 94.06% 94.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,214 1,841 2,835
10th Percentile £363 £350 £356
25th Percentile £463 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.55%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £700
90th Percentile £775 £800 £792
Central London median daily rate £575 £575 £575
% change year-on-year - - +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 15 55
10th Percentile £15.95 £17.00 £15.75
25th Percentile £28.06 £17.97 £18.75
Median hourly rate £67.50 £38.00 £42.00
Median % change year-on-year +77.63% -9.52% +29.63%
75th Percentile £112.00 £50.63 £58.13
90th Percentile £137.50 £71.75 £78.75
Central London median hourly rate £35.00 £38.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year -7.89% -6.17% +20.90%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the City of London

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the City of London

Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in the City of London over the 6 months to 14 November 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in the City of London

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the City of London

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

For the 6 months to 14 November 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 City of London region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 21 (84.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 14 (56.00%) Windows
2 14 (56.00%) Firewall
3 13 (52.00%) Azure
4 11 (44.00%) Microsoft
5 9 (36.00%) VMware
6 8 (32.00%) VPN
6 8 (32.00%) Entra ID
6 8 (32.00%) Windows Server
7 7 (28.00%) Docker
7 7 (28.00%) DNS
7 7 (28.00%) Microsoft Exchange
7 7 (28.00%) Active Directory
7 7 (28.00%) Finance
8 6 (24.00%) Ansible
8 6 (24.00%) Data Centre
8 6 (24.00%) High Availability
8 6 (24.00%) Microsoft Intune
9 5 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
9 5 (20.00%) Project Delivery
9 5 (20.00%) Security Operations
9 5 (20.00%) Terraform
9 5 (20.00%) Agile
9 5 (20.00%) Banking
9 5 (20.00%) Network Security
9 5 (20.00%) PowerShell
9 5 (20.00%) Jenkins
9 5 (20.00%) ServiceNow
9 5 (20.00%) Investment Banking
9 5 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 7 (28.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (8.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 13 (52.00%) Azure
2 8 (32.00%) Entra ID
3 3 (12.00%) Azure API Management
3 3 (12.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 3 (12.00%) Azure Functions
3 3 (12.00%) Azure Logic Apps
3 3 (12.00%) Azure Monitor
3 3 (12.00%) Azure Storage
3 3 (12.00%) IaaS
3 3 (12.00%) Serverless
4 2 (8.00%) GitHub
4 2 (8.00%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (4.00%) AWS
5 1 (4.00%) Mimecast
5 1 (4.00%) OneDrive
5 1 (4.00%) PaaS
5 1 (4.00%) SaaS
5 1 (4.00%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 14 (56.00%) Firewall
2 8 (32.00%) VPN
3 7 (28.00%) DNS
4 5 (20.00%) Network Security
4 5 (20.00%) WAN
5 3 (12.00%) LAN
5 3 (12.00%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (8.00%) 4G
6 2 (8.00%) DHCP
6 2 (8.00%) Internet
6 2 (8.00%) IPsec
6 2 (8.00%) SNA
6 2 (8.00%) TCP/IP
6 2 (8.00%) Wireless
7 1 (4.00%) DKIM
7 1 (4.00%) DMARC
7 1 (4.00%) SAN
7 1 (4.00%) Unified Communications
Development Applications
1 5 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (12.00%) Git
2 3 (12.00%) JIRA
3 2 (8.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 7 (28.00%) Finance
2 5 (20.00%) Banking
2 5 (20.00%) Investment Banking
3 3 (12.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (12.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (8.00%) Automotive
4 2 (8.00%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.00%) French Language
5 1 (4.00%) Italian Language
5 1 (4.00%) Legal
5 1 (4.00%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.00%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 6 (24.00%) Data Centre
2 4 (16.00%) Management Information System
3 3 (12.00%) Private Cloud
3 3 (12.00%) Public Cloud
4 2 (8.00%) Security Operations Centre
4 2 (8.00%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (4.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 14 (56.00%) Windows
2 8 (32.00%) Windows Server
3 3 (12.00%) Windows Server 2012
4 2 (8.00%) Linux
4 2 (8.00%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (4.00%) Android
5 1 (4.00%) Mac OS
5 1 (4.00%) VMS
5 1 (4.00%) Windows 10
5 1 (4.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (84.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (24.00%) High Availability
3 5 (20.00%) Agile
3 5 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 5 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (20.00%) Project Delivery
3 5 (20.00%) Security Operations
4 4 (16.00%) Data Privacy
4 4 (16.00%) DevOps
4 4 (16.00%) Incident Management
4 4 (16.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 3 (12.00%) Artificial Intelligence
5 3 (12.00%) Continuous Delivery
5 3 (12.00%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (12.00%) Data Security
5 3 (12.00%) Identity Management
5 3 (12.00%) Information Security
5 3 (12.00%) Infrastructure Management
5 3 (12.00%) Machine Learning
5 3 (12.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 5 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 4 (16.00%) Java
2 4 (16.00%) Python
3 3 (12.00%) Bicep
4 2 (8.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (16.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (12.00%) CCNA
2 3 (12.00%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (8.00%) DV Cleared
3 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (8.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (4.00%) AWS Certification
4 1 (4.00%) Azure Certification
4 1 (4.00%) Degree
4 1 (4.00%) MCSE
4 1 (4.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.00%) COBIT
1 3 (12.00%) PCI DSS
2 2 (8.00%) GDPR
2 2 (8.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (8.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 7 (28.00%) Active Directory
1 7 (28.00%) Docker
2 4 (16.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (12.00%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (12.00%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (8.00%) Hyper-V
4 2 (8.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 6 (24.00%) Ansible
1 6 (24.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (20.00%) Terraform
3 4 (16.00%) Kubernetes
3 4 (16.00%) SCCM
4 3 (12.00%) CASB
4 3 (12.00%) Packer
5 2 (8.00%) FortiGate
5 2 (8.00%) Progress Chef
5 2 (8.00%) Puppet
5 2 (8.00%) SCOrch
5 2 (8.00%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (4.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (4.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 11 (44.00%) Microsoft
2 9 (36.00%) VMware
3 5 (20.00%) ServiceNow
4 3 (12.00%) Citrix
5 2 (8.00%) Cisco
5 2 (8.00%) CrowdStrike
5 2 (8.00%) Imperva
5 2 (8.00%) Netskope
5 2 (8.00%) Palo Alto
5 2 (8.00%) Zscaler
6 1 (4.00%) Apple
6 1 (4.00%) Aruba
6 1 (4.00%) Commvault
6 1 (4.00%) Fortinet
6 1 (4.00%) Juniper
6 1 (4.00%) NetApp
6 1 (4.00%) Okta