England Infrastructure Engineer Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Infrastructure Engineer role in IT contracts within the England region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Infrastructure Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 21 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Andover Basingstoke Bath Berkshire Birmingham Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheshire City of London Devon Docklands, London East Midlands East of England East Sussex Enfield England Exeter Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate High Wycombe Leeds Liverpool London Merseyside Middlesex Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Northumberland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Reading Slough Somerset South East South West Street Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wolverhampton Worthing Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	387	443
Rank change on same period last year	+56
Matching contract IT job ads	133	185
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.209 %	0.198 %
As % of the category below	0.255 %	0.232 %
Daily rates quoted	31	45
Average minimum daily rate	£322	£318
Average daily rate	£339	£337
% change on same period last year	+0.50 %
Average maximum daily rate	£357	£357
UK excluding London average daily rate	£305	£304
% change on same period last year	+0.49 %
Hourly rates quoted	21	23
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.33	£24.67
Average hourly rate	£25.81	£26.07
% change on same period last year	-0.99 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.29	£27.46
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.83	£24.43
% change on same period last year	+5.75 %
Job Titles England
Matching contract IT job ads	52250	79626
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	82.30 %	85.32 %
Daily rates quoted	16864	24512
Average minimum daily rate	£366	£390
Average daily rate	£392	£414
% change on same period last year	-5.34 %
Average maximum daily rate	£417	£438
UK excluding London average daily rate	£353	£351
% change on same period last year	+0.72 %
Hourly rates quoted	5137	7273
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.14	£23.57
Average hourly rate	£23.59	£25.15
% change on same period last year	-6.22 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.04	£26.74
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.37	£24.42
% change on same period last year	-4.31 %
Infrastructure Engineer UK

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer across the England region over the 3 months to 21 November 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer across the England region over the 3 months to 21 November 2008.

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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 England region over the 3 months to 21 November 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
London	+77	69	£346	-8.07 %
South East	+29	29	£375	+3.95 %
South West	+27	12	£303	-4.71 %
East of England	+28	6	-	-
Yorkshire	+30	5	-	-
West Midlands	+6	4	-	-
East Midlands	-5	3	£240	-4.00 %
North East	-	3	-	-
North West	+8	2	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the 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.

1 201 (64.63 %) Windows 2 112 (36.01 %) Windows Server 2003 3 98 (31.51 %) Active Directory 4 83 (26.69 %) MS Exchange 5 76 (24.44 %) VMware 6 68 (21.86 %) Microsoft 7 61 (19.61 %) Citrix 8 58 (18.65 %) UNIX 9 49 (15.76 %) Linux 9 49 (15.76 %) SQL 9 49 (15.76 %) Microsoft Certification 9 49 (15.76 %) Exchange Server 2003 10 48 (15.43 %) Security Cleared 10 48 (15.43 %) Cisco 11 46 (14.79 %) MCSE

12 41 (13.18 %) SAN 13 38 (12.22 %) HP 14 37 (11.90 %) SC Cleared 15 35 (11.25 %) Oracle 16 34 (10.93 %) LAN 17 32 (10.29 %) WAN 18 31 (9.968 %) Windows 2000 18 31 (9.968 %) Java 19 30 (9.646 %) IIS 19 30 (9.646 %) TCP/IP 20 29 (9.325 %) DNS 21 28 (9.003 %) SQL Server 21 28 (9.003 %) Migration 22 27 (8.682 %) Firewall 22 27 (8.682 %) Solaris

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the 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 19 (6.109 %) HTML 2 18 (5.788 %) XML 3 17 (5.466 %) XSL 4 8 (2.572 %) .NET 5 7 (2.251 %) WebSphere 6 5 (1.608 %) WMI 7 4 (1.286 %) Middleware 7 4 (1.286 %) J2EE 8 3 (0.965 %) CGI 9 2 (0.643 %) Windows SharePoint Services 9 2 (0.643 %) ASP.NET 9 2 (0.643 %) SOAP 9 2 (0.643 %) WebServices 9 2 (0.643 %) Application Packaging 9 2 (0.643 %) Adobe Flex 9 2 (0.643 %) WCF 10 1 (0.322 %) COM 10 1 (0.322 %) ASP 10 1 (0.322 %) .NET Framework 10 1 (0.322 %) WinForms	Application Platforms 1 83 (26.69 %) MS Exchange 2 49 (15.76 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 30 (9.646 %) IIS 4 17 (5.466 %) SharePoint 5 15 (4.823 %) Exchange Server 2007 6 10 (3.215 %) Apache 7 8 (2.572 %) WebLogic 8 7 (2.251 %) Lotus Notes 8 7 (2.251 %) SharePoint Server 2007 9 6 (1.929 %) WebSphere MQ 10 5 (1.608 %) Oracle Collaboration Suite 11 3 (0.965 %) WPS 11 3 (0.965 %) Exchange Server 5.5 11 3 (0.965 %) WebSphere Application Server 11 3 (0.965 %) MQSeries 11 3 (0.965 %) WebSphere Message Broker 12 2 (0.643 %) iPlanet 12 2 (0.643 %) SharePoint Portal Server 12 2 (0.643 %) Tomcat 12 2 (0.643 %) Exchange Server 2000
Applications 1 22 (7.074 %) MS Excel 2 13 (4.180 %) MS Office 3 2 (0.643 %) MS Visio 4 1 (0.322 %) MS PowerPoint 4 1 (0.322 %) MS Project	Business Applications 1 2 (0.643 %) RMDS 2 1 (0.322 %) Oracle ERP 2 1 (0.322 %) Global One 2 1 (0.322 %) Summit
Communications & Networking 1 41 (13.18 %) SAN 2 34 (10.93 %) LAN 3 32 (10.29 %) WAN 4 30 (9.646 %) TCP/IP 5 29 (9.325 %) DNS 6 27 (8.682 %) Firewall 7 17 (5.466 %) DHCP 8 11 (3.537 %) VoIP 9 10 (3.215 %) VPN 10 8 (2.572 %) Internet 10 8 (2.572 %) Cisco PIX 11 6 (1.929 %) SMS 11 6 (1.929 %) LDAP 12 5 (1.608 %) ISDN 12 5 (1.608 %) SSL 12 5 (1.608 %) HTTP 12 5 (1.608 %) Intranet 13 3 (0.965 %) IP Telephony 13 3 (0.965 %) Network Security 13 3 (0.965 %) BIG-IP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 28 (9.003 %) SQL Server 2 8 (2.572 %) SQL Server 2005 3 7 (2.251 %) SQL Server 2000 4 6 (1.929 %) Oracle 9i 5 4 (1.286 %) MySQL 5 4 (1.286 %) Sybase ASE 6 2 (0.643 %) GIS 6 2 (0.643 %) Sybase IQ 6 2 (0.643 %) Oracle 10g 7 1 (0.322 %) Oracle Reports 7 1 (0.322 %) Oracle 8/8i 7 1 (0.322 %) MS Access 7 1 (0.322 %) Datawarehouse 7 1 (0.322 %) RDBMS 7 1 (0.322 %) NonStop SQL
Development Applications 1 10 (3.215 %) MSI 2 3 (0.965 %) VSS/SourceSafe 2 3 (0.965 %) ClearCase 2 3 (0.965 %) WebLOAD 3 1 (0.322 %) Visual Studio 3 1 (0.322 %) InstallShield 3 1 (0.322 %) JIRA	General 1 21 (6.752 %) Government 2 19 (6.109 %) Finance 3 13 (4.180 %) Banking 4 9 (2.894 %) Back Office 5 7 (2.251 %) Telecoms 6 6 (1.929 %) Front Office 7 5 (1.608 %) Auditing 8 3 (0.965 %) Retail 8 3 (0.965 %) Investment Banking 8 3 (0.965 %) Construction 9 2 (0.643 %) Health 9 2 (0.643 %) Local Government 10 1 (0.322 %) FMCG 10 1 (0.322 %) Advertising 10 1 (0.322 %) Education 10 1 (0.322 %) Pharmaceutical
Miscellaneous 1 13 (4.180 %) Clustering 2 6 (1.929 %) Replication 3 4 (1.286 %) Fat Client 3 4 (1.286 %) Thin Client 4 3 (0.965 %) NHS 5 2 (0.643 %) N-Tier 5 2 (0.643 %) Blackberry 5 2 (0.643 %) RIA 6 1 (0.322 %) Grid Computing 6 1 (0.322 %) Statistics 6 1 (0.322 %) Spread Betting 6 1 (0.322 %) Mathematics 6 1 (0.322 %) Biotechnology 6 1 (0.322 %) French Language	Operating Systems 1 201 (64.63 %) Windows 2 112 (36.01 %) Windows Server 2003 3 58 (18.65 %) UNIX 4 49 (15.76 %) Linux 5 31 (9.968 %) Windows 2000 6 27 (8.682 %) Solaris 7 26 (8.360 %) Windows XP 8 19 (6.109 %) Windows 2000 Server 9 18 (5.788 %) Red Hat Linux 10 9 (2.894 %) Windows Server 2008 11 8 (2.572 %) HPUX 12 7 (2.251 %) AIX 12 7 (2.251 %) NetWare 12 7 (2.251 %) Windows NT 13 3 (0.965 %) Windows Vista 14 2 (0.643 %) Windows CE 15 1 (0.322 %) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 48 (15.43 %) Security Cleared 2 37 (11.90 %) SC Cleared 3 28 (9.003 %) Migration 4 17 (5.466 %) Web Development 5 13 (4.180 %) ITIL 6 11 (3.537 %) Disaster Recovery 7 9 (2.894 %) Time Management 8 6 (1.929 %) Project Management 9 4 (1.286 %) Service Management 9 4 (1.286 %) E-Commerce 9 4 (1.286 %) Asset Management 9 4 (1.286 %) Data Protection 9 4 (1.286 %) Configuration Management 9 4 (1.286 %) Load Balancing 10 3 (0.965 %) User Acceptance Testing 10 3 (0.965 %) DV Cleared 10 3 (0.965 %) Project Planning 10 3 (0.965 %) Validation 10 3 (0.965 %) Business Continuity 10 3 (0.965 %) Change Management	Programming Languages 1 49 (15.76 %) SQL 2 31 (9.968 %) Java 3 24 (7.717 %) Perl 4 21 (6.752 %) JavaScript 5 17 (5.466 %) XPath 6 14 (4.502 %) Shell Script 7 11 (3.537 %) C 8 8 (2.572 %) VB 9 7 (2.251 %) VBScript 10 5 (1.608 %) C++ 11 4 (1.286 %) C# 12 2 (0.643 %) Korn 13 1 (0.322 %) VBA 13 1 (0.322 %) Ruby
Qualifications 1 49 (15.76 %) Microsoft Certification 2 46 (14.79 %) MCSE 3 22 (7.074 %) Cisco Certification 4 15 (4.823 %) MCP 4 15 (4.823 %) CCNA 5 12 (3.859 %) Degree 6 9 (2.894 %) CCNP 7 6 (1.929 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 8 5 (1.608 %) CCIE 8 5 (1.608 %) CCA 8 5 (1.608 %) Citrix Certification 9 4 (1.286 %) Novell Certification 10 2 (0.643 %) Check Point Certification 10 2 (0.643 %) CNE 10 2 (0.643 %) CCEA 11 1 (0.322 %) MCAD 11 1 (0.322 %) MCSA 11 1 (0.322 %) MCT 11 1 (0.322 %) CCSA 11 1 (0.322 %) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (0.643 %) SLA 1 2 (0.643 %) QA 2 1 (0.322 %) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software 1 98 (31.51 %) Active Directory 2 23 (7.395 %) VMware ESX 3 19 (6.109 %) VMware Infrastructure 4 15 (4.823 %) Citrix Presentation Server 5 12 (3.859 %) Backup Exec 6 10 (3.215 %) Terminal Server 7 8 (2.572 %) NetBackup 7 8 (2.572 %) Oracle RAC 8 7 (2.251 %) ISA Server 9 6 (1.929 %) Oracle RMAN 9 6 (1.929 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 10 4 (1.286 %) Terminal Services 11 2 (0.643 %) MetaFrame 11 2 (0.643 %) MailMarshal 11 2 (0.643 %) VMware Server 12 1 (0.322 %) Novell eDirectory 12 1 (0.322 %) AquaLogic 12 1 (0.322 %) VMware GSX	Systems Management 1 9 (2.894 %) MOM 2 6 (1.929 %) Netcool 3 4 (1.286 %) OpenView 3 4 (1.286 %) ARCserve 4 3 (0.965 %) BMC PATROL 4 3 (0.965 %) EMC NetWorker 4 3 (0.965 %) Legato 4 3 (0.965 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 5 2 (0.643 %) OpenView Configuration Management 5 2 (0.643 %) Tivoli 5 2 (0.643 %) SCOM 5 2 (0.643 %) HP Data Protector 5 2 (0.643 %) WSUS 5 2 (0.643 %) MAILsweeper 6 1 (0.322 %) NNM 6 1 (0.322 %) OVPM 6 1 (0.322 %) SCCM 6 1 (0.322 %) CiscoWorks 6 1 (0.322 %) Unicenter
Vendors 1 76 (24.44 %) VMware 2 68 (21.86 %) Microsoft 3 61 (19.61 %) Citrix 4 48 (15.43 %) Cisco 5 38 (12.22 %) HP 6 35 (11.25 %) Oracle 7 17 (5.466 %) Red Hat 7 17 (5.466 %) Proxima 8 15 (4.823 %) CA 9 13 (4.180 %) VERITAS 9 13 (4.180 %) Altiris 10 12 (3.859 %) Sybase 11 11 (3.537 %) Lotus 12 10 (3.215 %) Sun 13 8 (2.572 %) Novell 14 6 (1.929 %) CheckPoint 15 5 (1.608 %) EMC 16 4 (1.286 %) IBM 17 3 (0.965 %) Avaya 17 3 (0.965 %) Reuters