The first table below looks at the demand for the Infrastructure Specialist role in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Infrastructure Specialist in their job title over the 3 months to 24 May 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 City of London 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Infrastructure Specialist
Rank 199 205 231
Rank change year-on-year
+6 +26
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Specialist 4 13 14
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.063% 0.165% 0.143%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.068% 0.181% 0.156%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 7 9
Average daily rate £388 £400 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.12% -11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £338 £342 £348
10% offered a daily rate of more than £438 £499 £485
UK excluding London average daily rate £328 £450 £319
% change year-on-year
-27.22% +41.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £38.75 - £19.00
All Job Titles
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
5894 7192 8993
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 92.40% 91.44% 91.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 4333 5169 6545
Average daily rate £450 £450 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £285 £275 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £625 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 186 197
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £19.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +2.56%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £12.50 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £133.00 £41.28 £41.38
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Infrastructure Specialist
London

Infrastructure Specialist
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London Infrastructure Specialist Jobs Demand Trend

Infrastructure Specialist
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Infrastructure Specialist across the City of London region.

City of London Infrastructure Specialist Daily Rate Trend

Infrastructure Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Infrastructure Specialist across the City of London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

City of London Infrastructure Specialist Daily Rate Histogram

Infrastructure Specialist
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Infrastructure Specialist across the City of London region.

City of London Infrastructure Specialist Hourly Rate Trend

Infrastructure Specialist
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited Infrastructure Specialist 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 Specialist in their job title.

1 6 (46.15%) Active Directory
2 5 (38.46%) Windows
3 4 (30.77%) Linux
3 4 (30.77%) MS Exchange
3 4 (30.77%) Finance
3 4 (30.77%) Windows Server 2008
3 4 (30.77%) Exchange Server 2010
4 3 (23.08%) Microsoft
4 3 (23.08%) Migration
4 3 (23.08%) VMware
4 3 (23.08%) SCOM
4 3 (23.08%) DV Cleared
4 3 (23.08%) Security Cleared
5 2 (15.38%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (15.38%) Exchange Server 2007
5 2 (15.38%) SCCM
5 2 (15.38%) Banking
5 2 (15.38%) Degree
5 2 (15.38%) CISA
5 2 (15.38%) Blackberry
5 2 (15.38%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 2 (15.38%) Project Management
5 2 (15.38%) HP
5 2 (15.38%) Citrix
5 2 (15.38%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (15.38%) SAN
5 2 (15.38%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (15.38%) Symantec
5 2 (15.38%) SharePoint
5 2 (15.38%) UNIX

Infrastructure Specialist
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited Infrastructure Specialist 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 Specialist in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (7.692%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 4 (30.77%) MS Exchange
1 4 (30.77%) Exchange Server 2010
2 2 (15.38%) Exchange Server 2007
2 2 (15.38%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 2 (15.38%) SharePoint
2 2 (15.38%) SharePoint 2010
3 1 (7.692%) Exchange Server 2013
3 1 (7.692%) Lync
3 1 (7.692%) WebSphere Application Server
3 1 (7.692%) Exchange Server 2003
Business Applications
1 1 (7.692%) SAP Oil and Gas
1 1 (7.692%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) SAN
2 1 (7.692%) SMTP
2 1 (7.692%) DHCP
2 1 (7.692%) Kerberos
2 1 (7.692%) DNS
2 1 (7.692%) LDAP
2 1 (7.692%) VLAN
General
1 4 (30.77%) Finance
2 2 (15.38%) Banking
3 1 (7.692%) Advertising
3 1 (7.692%) Local Government
3 1 (7.692%) Dutch Language
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Blackberry
2 1 (7.692%) EqualLogic
2 1 (7.692%) Mainframe
2 1 (7.692%) AS400
2 1 (7.692%) PKI
2 1 (7.692%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 5 (38.46%) Windows
2 4 (30.77%) Linux
2 4 (30.77%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (15.38%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (15.38%) UNIX
4 1 (7.692%) Windows 8
4 1 (7.692%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (7.692%) Windows 2000 Server
4 1 (7.692%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (7.692%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (23.08%) Migration
2 2 (15.38%) Project Management
2 2 (15.38%) High Availability
3 1 (7.692%) Change Control
3 1 (7.692%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (7.692%) CRM
3 1 (7.692%) ITIL
3 1 (7.692%) PRINCE2
3 1 (7.692%) Configuration Management
3 1 (7.692%) Network Load Balancing
3 1 (7.692%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.692%) SQL
1 1 (7.692%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) DV Cleared
1 3 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 2 (15.38%) Degree
2 2 (15.38%) CISA
2 2 (15.38%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (7.692%) Citrix Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.692%) QA
System Software
1 6 (46.15%) Active Directory
2 2 (15.38%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (15.38%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (7.692%) Hyper-V
3 1 (7.692%) XenApp
3 1 (7.692%) MetaFrame
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) SCOM
2 2 (15.38%) SCCM
3 1 (7.692%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
3 1 (7.692%) McAfee ePO
3 1 (7.692%) Backup Exec
3 1 (7.692%) WSUS
3 1 (7.692%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Microsoft
1 3 (23.08%) VMware
2 2 (15.38%) HP
2 2 (15.38%) Citrix
2 2 (15.38%) Symantec
2 2 (15.38%) Cisco
3 1 (7.692%) Broadcom
3 1 (7.692%) SAP
3 1 (7.692%) McAfee
3 1 (7.692%) Red Hat
3 1 (7.692%) Dell
3 1 (7.692%) AppSense