Infrastructure Engineer Contracts in Cheshire

Infrastructure Engineer
North West > Cheshire

The median Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in Cheshire is £425 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 46 58 51
Rank change year-on-year +12 -7 -10
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 11 4 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 2.12% 0.74% 0.97%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.26% 0.84% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 3
10th Percentile £363 - £361
25th Percentile £405 £350 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £413 £630
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% -34.52% +152.00%
75th Percentile £538 £521 £644
90th Percentile £618 £582 £650
North West median daily rate £425 £475 £428
% change year-on-year -10.53% +11.11% +26.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £20.00
North West median hourly rate - - £20.00
% change year-on-year - - -46.67%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Cheshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Cheshire. 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 Cheshire with a recognized job title 487 477 488
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.83% 88.66% 94.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 341 328 274
10th Percentile £276 £262 £183
25th Percentile £390 £388 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £486 £438
Median % change year-on-year +2.85% +11.11% +0.34%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £538
90th Percentile £627 £652 £631
North West median daily rate £495 £500 £463
% change year-on-year -1.00% +8.11% +9.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 21 27
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.00 £11.83
25th Percentile £16.47 £18.82 £16.49
Median hourly rate £20.11 £27.98 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.13% +14.20% +36.87%
75th Percentile £38.00 £35.00 £33.83
90th Percentile £43.75 £40.00 £60.45
North West median hourly rate £26.39 £30.54 £20.31
% change year-on-year -13.59% +50.37% +12.83%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in Cheshire

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in Cheshire

Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in Cheshire over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in Cheshire

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in Cheshire

Infrastructure Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire region over the 6 months to 25 April 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
Warrington - 3 £500 - 2
Northwich - 1 - -
Chester - 1 - - 2
Infrastructure Engineer
North West

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 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 Cheshire region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (90.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (54.55%) Security Cleared
3 5 (45.45%) VMware
3 5 (45.45%) SC Cleared
4 4 (36.36%) Active Directory
4 4 (36.36%) AutoCAD
4 4 (36.36%) CAE
4 4 (36.36%) Revit
4 4 (36.36%) Strategic Planning
4 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
4 4 (36.36%) 3D Modelling
5 3 (27.27%) Azure
6 2 (18.18%) VSAN
6 2 (18.18%) vCenter Server
6 2 (18.18%) Windows
6 2 (18.18%) Cisco
6 2 (18.18%) SAN
7 1 (9.09%) Red Hat
7 1 (9.09%) Firmware
7 1 (9.09%) Symantec
7 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
7 1 (9.09%) Linux
7 1 (9.09%) Firewall
7 1 (9.09%) Debian
7 1 (9.09%) Dell
7 1 (9.09%) Military
7 1 (9.09%) Local Government
7 1 (9.09%) Ubuntu
7 1 (9.09%) WSUS
7 1 (9.09%) SCCM

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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:

Applications
1 4 (36.36%) AutoCAD
1 4 (36.36%) Revit
Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) SAN
1 2 (18.18%) VSAN
2 1 (9.09%) Firewall
2 1 (9.09%) iSCSI
2 1 (9.09%) WAAS
General
1 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Local Government
2 1 (9.09%) Military
2 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Windows
2 1 (9.09%) CentOS
2 1 (9.09%) Debian
2 1 (9.09%) Linux
2 1 (9.09%) Ubuntu
2 1 (9.09%) Windows 10
2 1 (9.09%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (36.36%) 3D Modelling
2 4 (36.36%) CAE
2 4 (36.36%) Strategic Planning
3 1 (9.09%) Change Control
3 1 (9.09%) Server Building
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (54.55%) Security Cleared
2 5 (45.45%) SC Cleared
3 1 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 4 (36.36%) Active Directory
2 1 (9.09%) Firmware
2 1 (9.09%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (9.09%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) vCenter Server
2 1 (9.09%) Avamar
2 1 (9.09%) SCCM
2 1 (9.09%) SolarWinds Orion
2 1 (9.09%) WSUS
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) VMware
2 2 (18.18%) Cisco
3 1 (9.09%) Dell
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
3 1 (9.09%) Palo Alto
3 1 (9.09%) Red Hat
3 1 (9.09%) SolarWinds
3 1 (9.09%) Symantec
3 1 (9.09%) Veeam