Infrastructure Engineer Contracts in the East Midlands

Infrastructure Engineer
England > East Midlands

The median Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in the East Midlands is £412 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 May 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
26 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 56 53 56
Rank change year-on-year -3 +3 0
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 11 29 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 1.40% 2.88% 2.87%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.48% 3.03% 3.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 26 31
10th Percentile £304 £338 £256
25th Percentile £319 £363 £309
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £412 £443 £398
Median % change year-on-year -6.89% +11.32% +34.75%
75th Percentile £468 £484 £513
90th Percentile £483 £600 £520
England median daily rate £450 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% +12.50%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
East Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands. 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 the East Midlands with a recognized job title 741 956 1,318
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.27% 94.94% 94.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 498 746 977
10th Percentile £167 £213 £180
25th Percentile £267 £331 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £412 £463 £425
Median % change year-on-year -10.97% +8.82% +13.33%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £513
90th Percentile £622 £700 £600
England median daily rate £525 £550 £529
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.97% +6.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 85 50 86
10th Percentile £11.83 £11.80 £9.75
25th Percentile £14.00 £15.35 £14.61
Median hourly rate £17.50 £21.19 £19.46
Median % change year-on-year -17.40% +8.89% +33.18%
75th Percentile £26.15 £40.25 £28.75
90th Percentile £51.91 £65.00 £35.00
England median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -17.38% +95.65% +6.98%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the East Midlands

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the East Midlands

Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 26 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in the East Midlands

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in the East Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the East Midlands

Infrastructure Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 26 May 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
Leicestershire +11 6 £449 +19.73% 3
Northamptonshire -1 3 £450 -5.26% 2
Nottinghamshire 0 2 £350 -20.90% 3
Infrastructure Engineer
England

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands

For the 6 months to 26 May 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 East Midlands region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 11 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 8 (72.73%) Windows
3 7 (63.64%) Active Directory
3 7 (63.64%) VMware
3 7 (63.64%) Windows Server
4 6 (54.55%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (45.45%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (36.36%) Azure
6 4 (36.36%) Public Sector
7 3 (27.27%) Entra ID
7 3 (27.27%) SCOM
7 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
8 2 (18.18%) Migration
8 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
8 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
8 2 (18.18%) PowerShell
8 2 (18.18%) Hyper-V
8 2 (18.18%) Citrix
8 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (18.18%) Linux
8 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Office
8 2 (18.18%) PRINCE2
8 2 (18.18%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Monitoring
9 1 (9.09%) Task Automation
9 1 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
9 1 (9.09%) Red Hat Satellite
9 1 (9.09%) AWS
9 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (9.09%) Windows Server 2012

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (9.09%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 6 (54.55%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (36.36%) Azure
3 3 (27.27%) Entra ID
4 1 (9.09%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) DHCP
1 1 (9.09%) DNS
1 1 (9.09%) LAN
1 1 (9.09%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) GitLab
General
1 4 (36.36%) Public Sector
2 1 (9.09%) Finance
2 1 (9.09%) Local Government
2 1 (9.09%) Manufacturing
2 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Grid Computing
1 1 (9.09%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (72.73%) Windows
2 7 (63.64%) Windows Server
3 2 (18.18%) Linux
4 1 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (9.09%) Windows 10
4 1 (9.09%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (9.09%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (9.09%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Monitoring
2 2 (18.18%) Migration
2 2 (18.18%) PRINCE2
3 1 (9.09%) Agile
3 1 (9.09%) ITIL
3 1 (9.09%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (9.09%) Release Management
3 1 (9.09%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
1 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 7 (63.64%) Active Directory
2 5 (45.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (18.18%) Hyper-V
3 2 (18.18%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (9.09%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) SCOM
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (9.09%) Red Hat Satellite
2 1 (9.09%) SCCM
2 1 (9.09%) SCSM
Vendors
1 7 (63.64%) VMware
2 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
3 2 (18.18%) Citrix
4 1 (9.09%) Red Hat
4 1 (9.09%) SolarWinds