The first table below looks at the demand for the IT Infrastructure Manager 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 IT Infrastructure Manager 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
IT Infrastructure Manager
Rank 201 213 244
Rank change year-on-year
+12 +31
Contract jobs requiring an IT Infrastructure Manager 2 5 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.031% 0.064% 0.010%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.034% 0.070% 0.011%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 1
Average daily rate £390 £500 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-22.00% +17.64%
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £413 £388
% change year-on-year
-3.03% +6.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
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%
IT Infrastructure Manager
London

IT Infrastructure Manager
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London IT Infrastructure Manager Jobs Demand Trend

IT Infrastructure Manager
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London IT Infrastructure Manager Daily Rate Trend

IT Infrastructure Manager
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 3 (75.00%) Finance
1 3 (75.00%) Firewall
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) MS Exchange
2 2 (50.00%) Cisco
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) Citrix
2 2 (50.00%) ITIL
2 2 (50.00%) VMware
2 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2013
3 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (25.00%) Hyper-V
3 1 (25.00%) NAS
3 1 (25.00%) XenApp
3 1 (25.00%) Windows 7
3 1 (25.00%) 3PAR
3 1 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (25.00%) ITIL V3
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Banking
3 1 (25.00%) MCITP
3 1 (25.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Change Management
3 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (25.00%) PRINCE2
3 1 (25.00%) Wireless

IT Infrastructure Manager
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 IT Infrastructure Manager 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 IT Infrastructure Manager in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 2 (50.00%) MS Exchange
2 1 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2013
2 1 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) MS Excel
1 1 (25.00%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) Firewall
2 1 (25.00%) NAS
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (25.00%) Wireless
2 1 (25.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (25.00%) BusinessObjects
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (25.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL V3
2 1 (25.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Change Management
2 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (25.00%) PRINCE2
2 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Java
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) MCITP
1 1 (25.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (25.00%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (25.00%) ISEB
1 1 (25.00%) MCSE
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (25.00%) XenApp
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (50.00%) Citrix
1 2 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (25.00%) 3PAR
2 1 (25.00%) Juniper
2 1 (25.00%) NetApp
2 1 (25.00%) Symantec
2 1 (25.00%) HP
2 1 (25.00%) Business Objects
2 1 (25.00%) SAP