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 13 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
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 148 172 210
Rank change year-on-year +24 +38 +18
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 589 738 1,002
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.61% 1.50% 1.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.74% 1.59% 1.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 454 561 750
10th Percentile £300 £338 £306
25th Percentile £375 £408 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% +11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £550
90th Percentile £638 £675 £625
UK median daily rate £465 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -7.01% +11.05% +12.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 7
10th Percentile £20.73 £27.88 £31.85
25th Percentile £21.25 £48.48 £40.12
Median hourly rate £22.50 £63.84 £47.34
Median % change year-on-year -64.76% +34.85% +22.17%
75th Percentile £47.50 £65.00 £67.39
90th Percentile £73.95 £76.65 £68.02
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £61.62 £45.48
% change year-on-year -63.48% +35.48% +13.70%

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 33,898 46,550 67,598
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.73% 94.63% 95.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,460 33,060 48,164
10th Percentile £281 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £645 £663 £644
90th Percentile £750 £760 £743
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,436 1,372 1,874
10th Percentile £12.87 £14.50 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.51
Median hourly rate £37.50 £44.06 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.88% +91.54% +2.59%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £63.75
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.67% +88.21% +6.13%

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 13 May 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 13 May 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 13 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
London +52 199 £450 -21.74% 75
South East +31 158 £450 -0.55% 66
North of England -11 83 £425 -5.56% 42
South West +8 81 £530 +0.95% 56
North West -4 53 £425 -10.53% 26
Midlands +4 41 £400 -10.11% 56
West Midlands +16 33 £425 -5.56% 31
Yorkshire +6 26 £450 +5.88% 12
East of England -17 21 £625 +31.58% 29
East Midlands -1 7 £338 -23.30% 25
North East +9 4 £438 +9.38% 6
Infrastructure Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 13 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 England region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 571 (96.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 261 (44.31%) Windows
3 244 (41.43%) VMware
4 235 (39.90%) Security Cleared
5 229 (38.88%) Active Directory
6 183 (31.07%) Azure
7 170 (28.86%) VMware Infrastructure
7 170 (28.86%) Microsoft
8 165 (28.01%) Windows Server
9 133 (22.58%) Linux
10 130 (22.07%) SC Cleared
11 123 (20.88%) DNS
12 117 (19.86%) Firewall
12 117 (19.86%) DV Cleared
13 99 (16.81%) Social Skills
14 97 (16.47%) PowerShell
15 94 (15.96%) Microsoft 365
16 92 (15.62%) DHCP
17 90 (15.28%) Migration
18 88 (14.94%) AWS
19 76 (12.90%) Public Sector
20 72 (12.22%) SCCM
21 70 (11.88%) SAN
22 64 (10.87%) Data Centre
23 63 (10.70%) ITIL
24 62 (10.53%) Hyper-V
25 61 (10.36%) Problem-Solving
25 61 (10.36%) vCenter Server
26 60 (10.19%) Cisco
27 59 (10.02%) Microsoft Exchange

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 59 (10.02%) Microsoft Exchange
2 31 (5.26%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.53%) Confluence
4 7 (1.19%) Apache
5 6 (1.02%) IIS
6 4 (0.68%) SharePoint Server
6 4 (0.68%) Tomcat
7 3 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.51%) WordPress
8 2 (0.34%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.17%) WebLogic
Applications
1 14 (2.38%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.68%) AutoCAD
2 4 (0.68%) Revit
3 1 (0.17%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.17%) Eikon
2 1 (0.17%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.17%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 183 (31.07%) Azure
2 94 (15.96%) Microsoft 365
3 88 (14.94%) AWS
4 51 (8.66%) Entra ID
5 29 (4.92%) IaaS
6 20 (3.40%) SaaS
7 17 (2.89%) PaaS
8 16 (2.72%) OCI
9 12 (2.04%) GCP
9 12 (2.04%) Power Platform
10 11 (1.87%) Amazon S3
10 11 (1.87%) Azure DevOps
10 11 (1.87%) Cloud Computing
11 10 (1.70%) Amazon EC2
12 9 (1.53%) Mimecast
12 9 (1.53%) OneDrive
13 8 (1.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 7 (1.19%) Dynamics 365
15 6 (1.02%) Azure Logic Apps
15 6 (1.02%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 123 (20.88%) DNS
2 117 (19.86%) Firewall
3 92 (15.62%) DHCP
4 70 (11.88%) SAN
5 35 (5.94%) WAN
6 29 (4.92%) LAN
7 28 (4.75%) Network Security
8 26 (4.41%) NAS
9 23 (3.90%) VPN
10 21 (3.57%) TCP/IP
11 13 (2.21%) VSAN
12 12 (2.04%) Wi-Fi
12 12 (2.04%) Wireless
13 10 (1.70%) MPLS
14 9 (1.53%) iSCSI
14 9 (1.53%) SD-WAN
14 9 (1.53%) VLAN
15 8 (1.36%) Fibre Channel
15 8 (1.36%) OSPF
16 7 (1.19%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (9.51%) SQL Server
2 10 (1.70%) Power BI
3 7 (1.19%) MySQL
4 6 (1.02%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (0.85%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (0.68%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (0.68%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (0.34%) DB2
7 2 (0.34%) SAP HANA
7 2 (0.34%) Sisense
8 1 (0.17%) Adabas
8 1 (0.17%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (0.17%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.17%) Redis
Development Applications
1 13 (2.21%) Git
2 11 (1.87%) JIRA
3 9 (1.53%) Jenkins
4 7 (1.19%) GitLab
5 5 (0.85%) Hudson
6 2 (0.34%) Artifactory
6 2 (0.34%) Robot Framework
6 2 (0.34%) Selenium
6 2 (0.34%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.17%) CA Gen
7 1 (0.17%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.17%) VisualWorks
General
1 99 (16.81%) Social Skills
2 76 (12.90%) Public Sector
3 42 (7.13%) Finance
4 27 (4.58%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (3.40%) Documentation Skills
6 18 (3.06%) Banking
7 6 (1.02%) Legal
7 6 (1.02%) Manufacturing
8 5 (0.85%) Military
8 5 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (0.68%) Financial Institution
9 4 (0.68%) Front Office
9 4 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (0.68%) Telecoms
10 3 (0.51%) French Language
10 3 (0.51%) Local Government
10 3 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.34%) Law
12 1 (0.17%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.17%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (2.89%) Flash
2 4 (0.68%) .NET
2 4 (0.68%) AWS CDK
3 3 (0.51%) JSON
3 3 (0.51%) LAMP
3 3 (0.51%) YAML
4 2 (0.34%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (0.34%) Jinja
4 2 (0.34%) LDAP
4 2 (0.34%) Middleware
4 2 (0.34%) NETCONF
4 2 (0.34%) Redfish
4 2 (0.34%) RESTful
4 2 (0.34%) XML
4 2 (0.34%) YANG
5 1 (0.17%) EDI
5 1 (0.17%) SAML
5 1 (0.17%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 64 (10.87%) Data Centre
2 30 (5.09%) PKI
3 25 (4.24%) Replication
4 17 (2.89%) Private Cloud
5 14 (2.38%) Clustering
6 12 (2.04%) Driving Licence
7 8 (1.36%) Management Information System
8 7 (1.19%) Onboarding
8 7 (1.19%) Public Cloud
9 5 (0.85%) Client/Server
9 5 (0.85%) Linux Command Line
9 5 (0.85%) NHS
9 5 (0.85%) Video Conferencing
10 4 (0.68%) Fat Client
10 4 (0.68%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (0.68%) Thin Client
11 3 (0.51%) Enterprise Software
12 2 (0.34%) Cyber Threat
12 2 (0.34%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 2 (0.34%) LPAR
Operating Systems
1 261 (44.31%) Windows
2 165 (28.01%) Windows Server
3 133 (22.58%) Linux
4 58 (9.85%) Windows Server 2016
4 58 (9.85%) Windows Server 2019
5 52 (8.83%) Windows 10
6 43 (7.30%) Windows Server 2012
7 26 (4.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 22 (3.74%) Unix
9 15 (2.55%) Windows 7
10 14 (2.38%) Windows XP
11 12 (2.04%) AIX
11 12 (2.04%) Ubuntu
12 11 (1.87%) VMS
13 10 (1.70%) Windows Server 2008
14 7 (1.19%) Windows Server 2003
15 5 (0.85%) Apple iOS
15 5 (0.85%) CentOS
15 5 (0.85%) Mac OS
16 2 (0.34%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 571 (96.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 90 (15.28%) Migration
3 63 (10.70%) ITIL
4 61 (10.36%) Problem-Solving
5 53 (9.00%) DevOps
6 36 (6.11%) Infrastructure as Code
7 34 (5.77%) Disaster Recovery
8 33 (5.60%) Cybersecurity
9 32 (5.43%) Agile
10 30 (5.09%) Project Delivery
11 27 (4.58%) CI/CD
12 22 (3.74%) Storage Management
13 21 (3.57%) Change Management
13 21 (3.57%) Virtual Infrastructure
14 20 (3.40%) Containerisation
15 19 (3.23%) Server Management
15 19 (3.23%) Virtual Environments
16 18 (3.06%) Computer Science
16 18 (3.06%) Project Management
17 17 (2.89%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 97 (16.47%) PowerShell
2 32 (5.43%) Python
2 32 (5.43%) SQL
3 14 (2.38%) Bash
4 11 (1.87%) C#
4 11 (1.87%) Java
5 9 (1.53%) VBScript
6 4 (0.68%) TypeScript
7 3 (0.51%) C
7 3 (0.51%) PHP
7 3 (0.51%) VB.NET
8 2 (0.34%) Bicep
8 2 (0.34%) C++
8 2 (0.34%) Ruby
9 1 (0.17%) Go
9 1 (0.17%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.17%) Korn
9 1 (0.17%) Natural
9 1 (0.17%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.17%) Smalltalk
Qualifications
1 235 (39.90%) Security Cleared
2 130 (22.07%) SC Cleared
3 117 (19.86%) DV Cleared
4 52 (8.83%) Degree
5 46 (7.81%) Cisco Certification
6 45 (7.64%) CCNA
7 25 (4.24%) CCNP
8 24 (4.07%) Microsoft Certification
9 20 (3.40%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 17 (2.89%) Azure Certification
11 10 (1.70%) MCSE
12 8 (1.36%) AWS Certification
12 8 (1.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 7 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
14 5 (0.85%) Master's Degree
15 4 (0.68%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 4 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
15 4 (0.68%) Chartered Engineer
15 4 (0.68%) ITIL Certification
15 4 (0.68%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (1.36%) NIST
2 7 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (1.02%) QA
3 6 (1.02%) SLA
4 4 (0.68%) GDPR
5 3 (0.51%) Government Security Classifications
5 3 (0.51%) ISO 9001
5 3 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 3 (0.51%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.34%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.34%) NCSC
7 1 (0.17%) COBIT
7 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.17%) NIST 800
System Software
1 229 (38.88%) Active Directory
2 170 (28.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 62 (10.53%) Hyper-V
4 55 (9.34%) vSphere
5 46 (7.81%) VMware ESXi
6 26 (4.41%) VMware NSX
7 24 (4.07%) XenApp
8 22 (3.74%) Virtual Machines
9 16 (2.72%) Docker
10 8 (1.36%) Firmware
10 8 (1.36%) XenDesktop
11 4 (0.68%) Virtual Desktop
12 3 (0.51%) Virtual Servers
13 1 (0.17%) KVM
13 1 (0.17%) Terminal Services
13 1 (0.17%) VMware Server
13 1 (0.17%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 72 (12.22%) SCCM
2 61 (10.36%) vCenter Server
3 42 (7.13%) Terraform
4 32 (5.43%) Microsoft Intune
5 29 (4.92%) Ansible
5 29 (4.92%) WSUS
6 26 (4.41%) Kubernetes
7 24 (4.07%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 21 (3.57%) SCOM
9 14 (2.38%) EMC NetWorker
9 14 (2.38%) NetBackup
10 11 (1.87%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (0.85%) Puppet
11 5 (0.85%) VxRail
12 4 (0.68%) FortiGate
12 4 (0.68%) Microsoft Clustering
12 4 (0.68%) Nessus
13 3 (0.51%) Red Hat Satellite
13 3 (0.51%) ZABBIX
14 2 (0.34%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 244 (41.43%) VMware
2 170 (28.86%) Microsoft
3 60 (10.19%) Cisco
4 52 (8.83%) Veeam
5 41 (6.96%) Citrix
6 30 (5.09%) Dell
6 30 (5.09%) HP
7 22 (3.74%) Palo Alto
7 22 (3.74%) Red Hat
8 21 (3.57%) Symantec
9 20 (3.40%) Juniper
10 19 (3.23%) Oracle
11 16 (2.72%) 3PAR
11 16 (2.72%) EMC
12 15 (2.55%) Ivanti
13 14 (2.38%) CA
13 14 (2.38%) Extreme Networks
13 14 (2.38%) IBM
14 13 (2.21%) Aruba
14 13 (2.21%) ServiceNow