The first table below looks at the demand for the Infrastructure Specialist role in IT contracts advertised for the Dorset 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 23 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 Dorset 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Infrastructure Specialist
Rank 31 - 41
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Specialist 1 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Dorset 0.476% - 0.308%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.498% - 0.322%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £505 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £328 £450 £318
% change year-on-year
-27.22% +41.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £38.75 - £19.00
All Job Titles
Dorset
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
201 244 311
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Dorset 95.71% 90.71% 95.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 139 170
Average daily rate £350 £375 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.66% +7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £275 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £463
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 20 14
Average hourly rate £32.00 £25.00 £17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+28.00% +47.05%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £13.00 £11.38
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £40.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Infrastructure Specialist
South West

Infrastructure Specialist
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Dorset 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 Dorset region.

Dorset Infrastructure Specialist Daily Rate Trend

Infrastructure Specialist
Top 12 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Dorset 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 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) SAP
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) EMC
1 1 (100.00%) Replication
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) Clustering
1 1 (100.00%) SAP Basis
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Management
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2012

Infrastructure Specialist
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Dorset 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 (100.00%) SAP Basis
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Replication
1 1 (100.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) SAP
1 1 (100.00%) EMC
1 1 (100.00%) VMware