The first table below looks at the demand for the Infrastructure Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the Cardiff region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Infrastructure Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 18 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the Cardiff region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Infrastructure Engineer
Rank 26 - 34
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 1 0 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cardiff 0.490% - 0.806%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.529% - 0.847%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
Average daily rate £420 - £300
UK excluding London average daily rate £290 £300 £275
% change year-on-year
-3.33% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £23.50 £30.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-21.66% +13.20%
All Job Titles
Cardiff
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
189 198 236
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cardiff 92.65% 95.19% 95.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 119 139
Average daily rate £350 £340 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.94% +4.61%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £190 £225 £108
10% offered a daily rate of more than £420 £500 £405
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 10 6
Average hourly rate £25.60 £14.00 £12.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+82.85% +16.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.69 £14.00 £7.97
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £22.50 £100.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Infrastructure Engineer
South Wales

Infrastructure Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer across the Cardiff region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Cardiff Infrastructure Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer across the Cardiff region.

Cardiff Infrastructure Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Infrastructure Engineer
Top 16 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cardiff region that cited Infrastructure Engineer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with Infrastructure Engineer in their job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) MCSE
1 1 (100.00%) MCSA
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (100.00%) NetApp
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) MCTS
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008

Infrastructure Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cardiff region that cited Infrastructure Engineer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with Infrastructure Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) MCSE
1 1 (100.00%) MCSA
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (100.00%) MCTS
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) NetApp
1 1 (100.00%) VMware