The first table below looks at the demand for the Infrastructure Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the East of England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Infrastructure Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 17 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 East of England 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Infrastructure Engineer
Rank 67 100 122
Rank change year-on-year
+33 +22
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 48 29 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 2.228% 0.984% 0.381%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.385% 1.046% 0.400%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 11 5
Average daily rate £303 £275 £225
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% +22.22%
UK excluding London average daily rate £293 £285 £265
% change year-on-year
+2.63% +7.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 3 0
Average hourly rate £23.50 £17.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+38.23% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £23.50 £30.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year
-21.66% +42.85%
All Job Titles
East of England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
2013 2772 2497
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 93.45% 94.06% 95.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 1031 1306 1087
Average daily rate £350 £350 £350
90% offered a daily rate of more than £194 £200 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £463 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 247 279 329
Average hourly rate £23.50 £26.00 £20.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-9.61% +26.82%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £11.75 £11.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.90 £42.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
Infrastructure Engineer
England

Infrastructure Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East of England Infrastructure Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer across the East of England region.

East of England Infrastructure Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer across the East of England region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

East of England Infrastructure Engineer Daily Rate Histogram

Infrastructure Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer across the East of England region.

East of England Infrastructure Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Infrastructure Engineer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer within the East of England region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Norfolk +28 29 £225 -
Bedfordshire +12 7 £325 -
Cambridgeshire +13 5 £303 -6.92%
Essex - 5 £233 -
Hertfordshire 0 2 £350 +48.93%
Infrastructure Engineer
England

Infrastructure Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region that cited Infrastructure Engineer 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 Engineer in their job title.

1 41 (46.59%) Windows
2 34 (38.64%) MS Exchange
3 32 (36.36%) Active Directory
4 30 (34.09%) Microsoft
5 29 (32.95%) Exchange Server 2010
6 28 (31.82%) Windows Server 2008
7 26 (29.55%) VMware
8 18 (20.45%) DNS
9 16 (18.18%) IIS
10 14 (15.91%) ITIL
10 14 (15.91%) Finance
10 14 (15.91%) Exchange Server 2003
11 13 (14.77%) UAG
12 12 (13.64%) Disaster Recovery
12 12 (13.64%) Windows Server 2003
13 11 (12.50%) Linux
13 11 (12.50%) HTML
13 11 (12.50%) DHCP
13 11 (12.50%) Python
13 11 (12.50%) Software Testing
13 11 (12.50%) Security Cleared
13 11 (12.50%) Exchange Server 2007
13 11 (12.50%) OpenCL
14 10 (11.36%) Hedge funds
14 10 (11.36%) Hyper-V
14 10 (11.36%) Financial Institution
14 10 (11.36%) C
14 10 (11.36%) Embedded C
14 10 (11.36%) HP
15 9 (10.23%) MCITP

Infrastructure Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region that cited Infrastructure Engineer 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 Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 11 (12.50%) HTML
1 11 (12.50%) OpenCL
2 8 (9.091%) Oracle Fusion
2 8 (9.091%) WebCenter
2 8 (9.091%) Middleware
3 3 (3.409%) JSP
4 2 (2.273%) JRules
4 2 (2.273%) WebSphere
4 2 (2.273%) COM
Application Platforms
1 34 (38.64%) MS Exchange
2 29 (32.95%) Exchange Server 2010
3 16 (18.18%) IIS
4 14 (15.91%) Exchange Server 2003
5 11 (12.50%) Exchange Server 2007
6 8 (9.091%) WebLogic
6 8 (9.091%) SharePoint
7 3 (3.409%) ArcGIS
8 2 (2.273%) Lotus Notes
8 2 (2.273%) Lotus Domino
8 2 (2.273%) WebSphere MQ
9 1 (1.136%) WebSphere Message Broker
Applications
1 7 (7.955%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 18 (20.45%) DNS
2 11 (12.50%) DHCP
3 6 (6.818%) Firewall
4 5 (5.682%) FTP
5 2 (2.273%) HTTP
5 2 (2.273%) SAN
5 2 (2.273%) VoIP
5 2 (2.273%) WAN
5 2 (2.273%) iSCSI
6 1 (1.136%) SNMP
6 1 (1.136%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.682%) SQL Server
2 4 (4.545%) SQL Server 2008
3 3 (3.409%) SQL Server 2000
3 3 (3.409%) GIS
4 2 (2.273%) Oracle 8/8i
5 1 (1.136%) SQL Server 2005
General
1 14 (15.91%) Finance
2 10 (11.36%) Financial Institution
3 5 (5.682%) Telecoms
3 5 (5.682%) Publishing
Miscellaneous
1 10 (11.36%) Hedge funds
2 5 (5.682%) NHS
3 4 (4.545%) Clustering
4 3 (3.409%) Blackberry
5 1 (1.136%) Replication
5 1 (1.136%) HP StorageWorks
Operating Systems
1 41 (46.59%) Windows
2 28 (31.82%) Windows Server 2008
3 12 (13.64%) Windows Server 2003
4 11 (12.50%) Linux
5 7 (7.955%) Windows XP
6 6 (6.818%) Windows 8
7 5 (5.682%) Windows 7
8 3 (3.409%) UNIX
8 3 (3.409%) Windows 2000
9 1 (1.136%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (15.91%) ITIL
2 12 (13.64%) Disaster Recovery
3 11 (12.50%) Software Testing
4 7 (7.955%) Incident Management
4 7 (7.955%) PRINCE
4 7 (7.955%) PRINCE2
5 5 (5.682%) Configuration Management
5 5 (5.682%) Capacity Planning
6 4 (4.545%) Information Security
7 3 (3.409%) Change Control
7 3 (3.409%) Change Management
7 3 (3.409%) ERP
8 2 (2.273%) RDF
8 2 (2.273%) Migration
8 2 (2.273%) BPMN
9 1 (1.136%) Automated Testing
9 1 (1.136%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 11 (12.50%) Python
2 10 (11.36%) Embedded C
2 10 (11.36%) C
3 7 (7.955%) SQL
3 7 (7.955%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 11 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 9 (10.23%) MCITP
3 7 (7.955%) ITIL Certification
3 7 (7.955%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 7 (7.955%) VCP5
4 6 (6.818%) SC Cleared
5 3 (3.409%) DV Cleared
5 3 (3.409%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (2.273%) MCSE
7 1 (1.136%) MCSA
7 1 (1.136%) CCA
7 1 (1.136%) Citrix Certification
7 1 (1.136%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.409%) JSP 440
2 2 (2.273%) SLA
System Software
1 32 (36.36%) Active Directory
2 13 (14.77%) UAG
3 10 (11.36%) Hyper-V
4 9 (10.23%) vSphere
5 7 (7.955%) Forefront TMG
6 3 (3.409%) VMware ESX
7 1 (1.136%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (1.136%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 6 (6.818%) Backup Exec
1 6 (6.818%) SCOM
2 4 (4.545%) NetBackup
3 3 (3.409%) Norton AntiVirus
4 2 (2.273%) Control-M
4 2 (2.273%) HP Data Protector
4 2 (2.273%) Cisco UCCX
4 2 (2.273%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 30 (34.09%) Microsoft
2 26 (29.55%) VMware
3 10 (11.36%) HP
4 8 (9.091%) Oracle
5 7 (7.955%) IBM
6 6 (6.818%) Symantec
6 6 (6.818%) Citrix
7 5 (5.682%) Cisco
8 4 (4.545%) Sophos
9 3 (3.409%) ESRI
9 3 (3.409%) Acronis
9 3 (3.409%) Veritas
10 2 (2.273%) Lotus
10 2 (2.273%) BMC
10 2 (2.273%) Dell
10 2 (2.273%) Websense
11 1 (1.136%) NetApp
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