Infrastructure Engineer Contracts in the East of England

Infrastructure Engineer
England > East of England

The median Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in the East of England is £625 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 April 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
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 83 73 117
Rank change year-on-year -10 +44 -44
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 24 50 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 1.26% 2.37% 1.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.41% 2.59% 1.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 41 27
10th Percentile £250 £345 £335
25th Percentile £295 £360 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +38.89% -10.00% +29.03%
75th Percentile £725 £625 £538
90th Percentile - £700 £633
England median daily rate £463 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -7.50% +11.11% +12.50%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
East of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the East of England. 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 of England with a recognized job title 1,701 1,933 2,430
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.48% 91.52% 93.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 795 1,184 1,397
10th Percentile £210 £185 £163
25th Percentile £315 £300 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £560 £600 £540
90th Percentile £673 £700 £638
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 568 305 380
10th Percentile £14.16 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £15.25 £13.25
Median hourly rate £43.00 £35.00 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.86% +125.81% -3.13%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £39.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £70.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £35.00 £43.86 £22.40
% change year-on-year -20.20% +95.80% -0.09%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the East of England

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the East of England

Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in the East of England over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in the East of England

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the East of England

Infrastructure Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 19 April 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
Hertfordshire +8 15 £675 +42.11% 9
Bedfordshire -4 4 £300 -29.41%
Essex -5 3 £213 -52.78% 2
Suffolk +9 2 - -
Infrastructure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 19 April 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 of England region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 24 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 14 (58.33%) Active Directory
2 14 (58.33%) Security Cleared
3 13 (54.17%) DV Cleared
4 12 (50.00%) VMware
5 9 (37.50%) Microsoft
5 9 (37.50%) Windows
5 9 (37.50%) VMware Infrastructure
6 8 (33.33%) Migration
7 7 (29.17%) Data Centre
8 6 (25.00%) Linux
8 6 (25.00%) Project Delivery
9 5 (20.83%) Roadmaps
9 5 (20.83%) Technology Roadmap
9 5 (20.83%) Windows Server
10 4 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
10 4 (16.67%) Windows Server 2019
10 4 (16.67%) Social Skills
11 3 (12.50%) Public Sector
11 3 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
11 3 (12.50%) Cisco
11 3 (12.50%) Citrix
11 3 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (12.50%) Red Hat
11 3 (12.50%) CCNA
11 3 (12.50%) Telecoms
11 3 (12.50%) DBS Check
11 3 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
11 3 (12.50%) PowerShell
11 3 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 4 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (8.33%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 3 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (4.17%) Azure
2 1 (4.17%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.17%) DHCP
1 1 (4.17%) DNS
1 1 (4.17%) Firewall
1 1 (4.17%) Internet
1 1 (4.17%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.33%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (12.50%) Public Sector
2 3 (12.50%) Telecoms
3 1 (4.17%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 7 (29.17%) Data Centre
2 2 (8.33%) Fat Client
2 2 (8.33%) PKI
2 2 (8.33%) Thin Client
3 1 (4.17%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (4.17%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 9 (37.50%) Windows
2 6 (25.00%) Linux
3 5 (20.83%) Windows Server
4 4 (16.67%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (8.33%) Windows 10
6 2 (8.33%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 8 (33.33%) Migration
3 6 (25.00%) Project Delivery
4 5 (20.83%) Roadmaps
4 5 (20.83%) Technology Roadmap
5 3 (12.50%) High Availability
5 3 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (8.33%) Data Migration
6 2 (8.33%) Infrastructure Management
6 2 (8.33%) Security Hardening
7 1 (4.17%) Agile
7 1 (4.17%) Containerisation
7 1 (4.17%) Data Loss Prevention
7 1 (4.17%) Deployment Automation
7 1 (4.17%) Disaster Recovery
7 1 (4.17%) Email Migration
7 1 (4.17%) Mobile Device Management
7 1 (4.17%) Network Virtualisation
7 1 (4.17%) Patch Management
7 1 (4.17%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 3 (12.50%) PowerShell
2 1 (4.17%) C
Qualifications
1 14 (58.33%) Security Cleared
2 13 (54.17%) DV Cleared
3 3 (12.50%) CCNA
3 3 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (12.50%) DBS Check
4 1 (4.17%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 14 (58.33%) Active Directory
2 9 (37.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (8.33%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (4.17%) Hyper-V
5 1 (4.17%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (4.17%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (8.33%) SCCM
1 2 (8.33%) vCenter Server
2 1 (4.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (4.17%) Ansible
2 1 (4.17%) SCOM
2 1 (4.17%) SCOrch
2 1 (4.17%) Terraform
2 1 (4.17%) WSUS
Vendors
1 12 (50.00%) VMware
2 9 (37.50%) Microsoft
3 3 (12.50%) Cisco
3 3 (12.50%) Citrix
3 3 (12.50%) Red Hat
4 2 (8.33%) CrowdStrike