Infrastructure Engineer Contracts in England

Infrastructure Engineer
UK > England

The median Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in England is £463 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 147 170 209
Rank change year-on-year +23 +39 +26
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 598 780 1,007
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.62% 1.54% 1.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.74% 1.63% 1.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 452 601 739
10th Percentile £300 £333 £306
25th Percentile £375 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% +11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £538
90th Percentile £638 £663 £625
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 8 6
10th Percentile £20.73 £34.23 £29.88
25th Percentile £21.25 £57.95 £43.99
Median hourly rate £22.50 £65.00 £62.99
Median % change year-on-year -65.38% +3.20% +62.55%
75th Percentile £47.50 £80.60 £67.70
90th Percentile £73.95 £86.69 £68.02
UK median hourly rate £45.00 £63.84 £60.48
% change year-on-year -29.51% +5.56% +51.19%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in 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 England with a recognized job title 34,271 47,824 67,952
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.72% 94.61% 95.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,751 33,955 48,268
10th Percentile £275 £312 £313
25th Percentile £412 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £640 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,410 1,422 1,902
10th Percentile £12.92 £14.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.22%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.71 £48.70
90th Percentile £72.54 £77.00 £62.24
UK median hourly rate £35.83 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.38% +95.65% -

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in England

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in England

Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in England

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in England

Infrastructure Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in England

Infrastructure Engineer
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 27 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
London +55 201 £450 -18.18% 72
South East +29 154 £450 - 60
North of England -11 85 £425 -10.53% 41
South West +7 84 £537 +2.19% 53
North West -16 52 £425 -10.53% 24
Midlands -3 43 £400 -10.11% 42
West Midlands +24 35 £425 -5.56% 26
Yorkshire +6 29 £415 -2.35% 11
East of England -11 22 £625 +47.06% 26
East Midlands -8 7 £338 -21.97% 16
North East +15 4 £438 -16.67% 8
Infrastructure Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 27 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 England region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 581 (97.16%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 271 (45.32%) Windows
3 249 (41.64%) VMware
4 239 (39.97%) Security Cleared
5 238 (39.80%) Active Directory
6 197 (32.94%) Azure
7 176 (29.43%) Microsoft
8 174 (29.10%) Windows Server
9 171 (28.60%) VMware Infrastructure
10 135 (22.58%) Linux
11 130 (21.74%) SC Cleared
12 127 (21.24%) DNS
13 120 (20.07%) Firewall
14 115 (19.23%) DV Cleared
15 102 (17.06%) Microsoft 365
16 98 (16.39%) PowerShell
16 98 (16.39%) Social Skills
17 90 (15.05%) DHCP
17 90 (15.05%) Migration
18 87 (14.55%) AWS
19 84 (14.05%) Public Sector
20 76 (12.71%) SCCM
21 70 (11.71%) SAN
22 67 (11.20%) ITIL
23 65 (10.87%) Data Centre
24 63 (10.54%) vCenter Server
25 62 (10.37%) Microsoft Exchange
26 61 (10.20%) Cisco
26 61 (10.20%) Windows Server 2019
27 60 (10.03%) SQL Server

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 62 (10.37%) Microsoft Exchange
2 31 (5.18%) SharePoint
3 10 (1.67%) Confluence
4 6 (1.00%) IIS
5 4 (0.67%) Apache
5 4 (0.67%) SharePoint Server
5 4 (0.67%) Tomcat
6 3 (0.50%) WordPress
7 2 (0.33%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.17%) Skype for Business
8 1 (0.17%) WebLogic
Applications
1 16 (2.68%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.67%) AutoCAD
2 4 (0.67%) Revit
3 1 (0.17%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
1 1 (0.17%) Eikon
1 1 (0.17%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.17%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 197 (32.94%) Azure
2 102 (17.06%) Microsoft 365
3 87 (14.55%) AWS
4 54 (9.03%) Entra ID
5 30 (5.02%) IaaS
6 19 (3.18%) SaaS
7 17 (2.84%) PaaS
8 15 (2.51%) OCI
9 14 (2.34%) GCP
10 12 (2.01%) Azure DevOps
10 12 (2.01%) Power Platform
11 10 (1.67%) Mimecast
11 10 (1.67%) OneDrive
12 9 (1.51%) Cloud Computing
13 7 (1.17%) Azure AKS
13 7 (1.17%) Dynamics 365
14 6 (1.00%) Amazon S3
14 6 (1.00%) Azure Logic Apps
14 6 (1.00%) Azure Monitor
14 6 (1.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 127 (21.24%) DNS
2 120 (20.07%) Firewall
3 90 (15.05%) DHCP
4 70 (11.71%) SAN
5 36 (6.02%) WAN
6 30 (5.02%) LAN
7 27 (4.52%) NAS
7 27 (4.52%) Network Security
8 22 (3.68%) VPN
9 21 (3.51%) TCP/IP
10 16 (2.68%) VSAN
11 13 (2.17%) Wi-Fi
12 12 (2.01%) Wireless
13 11 (1.84%) MPLS
14 9 (1.51%) iSCSI
14 9 (1.51%) SD-WAN
15 8 (1.34%) Fibre Channel
15 8 (1.34%) VLAN
16 7 (1.17%) OSPF
16 7 (1.17%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (10.03%) SQL Server
2 10 (1.67%) Power BI
3 6 (1.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (0.67%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (0.67%) MySQL
4 4 (0.67%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.33%) Sisense
6 1 (0.17%) Adabas
6 1 (0.17%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.17%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.17%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.17%) Redis
Development Applications
1 12 (2.01%) Git
1 12 (2.01%) JIRA
2 8 (1.34%) Jenkins
3 7 (1.17%) GitLab
4 5 (0.84%) Hudson
5 2 (0.33%) Artifactory
5 2 (0.33%) Robot Framework
5 2 (0.33%) Selenium
5 2 (0.33%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.17%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.17%) CA Gen
6 1 (0.17%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.17%) VisualWorks
General
1 98 (16.39%) Social Skills
2 84 (14.05%) Public Sector
3 47 (7.86%) Finance
4 27 (4.52%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (3.34%) Documentation Skills
6 17 (2.84%) Banking
7 7 (1.17%) Manufacturing
8 6 (1.00%) Legal
9 5 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (0.67%) Financial Institution
10 4 (0.67%) Front Office
10 4 (0.67%) Military
10 4 (0.67%) Telecoms
11 3 (0.50%) French Language
11 3 (0.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (0.50%) Investment Banking
11 3 (0.50%) Local Government
11 3 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.33%) Law
13 1 (0.17%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (3.01%) Flash
2 5 (0.84%) .NET
3 4 (0.67%) AWS CDK
3 4 (0.67%) YAML
4 3 (0.50%) JSON
4 3 (0.50%) LAMP
5 2 (0.33%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (0.33%) Jinja
5 2 (0.33%) LDAP
5 2 (0.33%) Middleware
5 2 (0.33%) NETCONF
5 2 (0.33%) Redfish
5 2 (0.33%) RESTful
5 2 (0.33%) XML
5 2 (0.33%) YANG
6 1 (0.17%) .NET Framework
6 1 (0.17%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 65 (10.87%) Data Centre
2 30 (5.02%) PKI
3 26 (4.35%) Replication
4 17 (2.84%) Private Cloud
5 16 (2.68%) Clustering
6 13 (2.17%) Driving Licence
7 8 (1.34%) Management Information System
7 8 (1.34%) Onboarding
7 8 (1.34%) Public Cloud
8 5 (0.84%) Client/Server
8 5 (0.84%) Fat Client
8 5 (0.84%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (0.84%) Linux Command Line
8 5 (0.84%) NHS
8 5 (0.84%) Thin Client
8 5 (0.84%) Video Conferencing
9 3 (0.50%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.33%) Blackberry
10 2 (0.33%) Cyber Threat
10 2 (0.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 271 (45.32%) Windows
2 174 (29.10%) Windows Server
3 135 (22.58%) Linux
4 61 (10.20%) Windows Server 2019
5 59 (9.87%) Windows Server 2016
6 54 (9.03%) Windows 10
7 42 (7.02%) Windows Server 2012
8 26 (4.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 22 (3.68%) Unix
10 16 (2.68%) Windows 7
11 13 (2.17%) Windows XP
12 12 (2.01%) AIX
12 12 (2.01%) Ubuntu
12 12 (2.01%) VMS
13 10 (1.67%) Windows Server 2008
14 7 (1.17%) Windows Server 2003
15 6 (1.00%) CentOS
16 4 (0.67%) Apple iOS
16 4 (0.67%) Mac OS
17 2 (0.33%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 581 (97.16%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 90 (15.05%) Migration
3 67 (11.20%) ITIL
4 58 (9.70%) Problem-Solving
5 52 (8.70%) DevOps
6 37 (6.19%) Agile
6 37 (6.19%) Infrastructure as Code
7 34 (5.69%) Cybersecurity
8 33 (5.52%) Disaster Recovery
9 32 (5.35%) Project Delivery
10 26 (4.35%) CI/CD
11 21 (3.51%) Virtual Infrastructure
12 20 (3.34%) Server Management
12 20 (3.34%) Storage Management
12 20 (3.34%) Virtual Environments
13 19 (3.18%) Change Management
13 19 (3.18%) Containerisation
13 19 (3.18%) Service Management
14 17 (2.84%) Mentoring
14 17 (2.84%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 98 (16.39%) PowerShell
2 32 (5.35%) Python
3 30 (5.02%) SQL
4 14 (2.34%) Bash
5 11 (1.84%) C#
5 11 (1.84%) Java
6 9 (1.51%) VBScript
7 4 (0.67%) C
7 4 (0.67%) Ruby
7 4 (0.67%) TypeScript
8 3 (0.50%) Korn
8 3 (0.50%) Perl
8 3 (0.50%) PHP
8 3 (0.50%) VB.NET
9 2 (0.33%) Bicep
9 2 (0.33%) C++
10 1 (0.17%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.17%) Natural
10 1 (0.17%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.17%) Smalltalk
Qualifications
1 239 (39.97%) Security Cleared
2 130 (21.74%) SC Cleared
3 115 (19.23%) DV Cleared
4 49 (8.19%) Degree
5 47 (7.86%) Cisco Certification
6 46 (7.69%) CCNA
7 24 (4.01%) CCNP
8 22 (3.68%) Microsoft Certification
9 20 (3.34%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 17 (2.84%) Azure Certification
11 10 (1.67%) MCSE
12 8 (1.34%) AWS Certification
12 8 (1.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 7 (1.17%) Computer Science Degree
14 6 (1.00%) Master's Degree
15 4 (0.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 4 (0.67%) Chartered Engineer
15 4 (0.67%) ITIL Certification
15 4 (0.67%) VCAP
16 3 (0.50%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (1.34%) NIST
3 6 (1.00%) QA
4 5 (0.84%) SLA
5 4 (0.67%) GDPR
6 3 (0.50%) Government Security Classifications
6 3 (0.50%) ISO 9001
6 3 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 3 (0.50%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.33%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.33%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 2 (0.33%) NCSC
8 1 (0.17%) COBIT
8 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.17%) NIST 800
System Software
1 238 (39.80%) Active Directory
2 171 (28.60%) VMware Infrastructure
3 60 (10.03%) Hyper-V
4 57 (9.53%) vSphere
5 47 (7.86%) VMware ESXi
6 29 (4.85%) VMware NSX
7 22 (3.68%) Virtual Machines
7 22 (3.68%) XenApp
8 14 (2.34%) Docker
9 8 (1.34%) XenDesktop
10 7 (1.17%) Firmware
11 5 (0.84%) Virtual Desktop
12 4 (0.67%) Virtual Servers
13 2 (0.33%) VMware Workstation
14 1 (0.17%) KVM
14 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 1 (0.17%) Terminal Services
14 1 (0.17%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 76 (12.71%) SCCM
2 63 (10.54%) vCenter Server
3 41 (6.86%) Terraform
4 36 (6.02%) Microsoft Intune
5 32 (5.35%) Ansible
6 31 (5.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 29 (4.85%) WSUS
8 26 (4.35%) Kubernetes
9 20 (3.34%) SCOM
10 13 (2.17%) EMC NetWorker
10 13 (2.17%) NetBackup
11 11 (1.84%) Single Sign-On
12 9 (1.51%) Puppet
13 6 (1.00%) VxRail
14 5 (0.84%) Microsoft Clustering
14 5 (0.84%) Red Hat Satellite
15 4 (0.67%) FortiGate
15 4 (0.67%) Nessus
15 4 (0.67%) vRealize
16 3 (0.50%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 249 (41.64%) VMware
2 176 (29.43%) Microsoft
3 61 (10.20%) Cisco
4 55 (9.20%) Veeam
5 40 (6.69%) Citrix
6 29 (4.85%) Dell
6 29 (4.85%) HP
7 27 (4.52%) Red Hat
8 22 (3.68%) Palo Alto
9 20 (3.34%) Symantec
10 19 (3.18%) Juniper
11 18 (3.01%) Oracle
12 16 (2.68%) 3PAR
13 15 (2.51%) CA
13 15 (2.51%) EMC
14 14 (2.34%) ServiceNow
15 13 (2.17%) Aruba
15 13 (2.17%) Extreme Networks
15 13 (2.17%) Ivanti
16 12 (2.01%) Atlassian