Infrastructure Engineering Contracts in England

Infrastructure Engineering
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Infrastructure Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Infrastructure Engineering over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 93 120 139
Rank change year-on-year +27 +19 +18
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 881 1,099 1,394
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.38% 2.17% 1.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.75% 2.41% 2.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 652 836 1,040
10th Percentile £285 £331 £306
25th Percentile £375 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £505 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.94% +6.32% +11.76%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £575
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 18 11
10th Percentile £21.25 £40.34 £25.00
25th Percentile £37.63 £52.19 £27.52
Median hourly rate £46.18 £63.84 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.66% +27.68% +25.00%
75th Percentile £60.59 £78.00 £67.39
90th Percentile £70.00 £80.96 £68.02
UK median hourly rate £46.18 £61.62 £50.00
% change year-on-year -25.05% +23.23% +25.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Infrastructure Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,985 45,619 64,566
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.53% 90.25% 90.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,974 32,022 45,804
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £769 £749
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,225 1,607 1,769
10th Percentile £12.86 £10.94 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.31 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.15
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Infrastructure Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineering in England

Infrastructure Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Engineering in England

Infrastructure Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in England

Infrastructure Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Engineering in England

Infrastructure Engineering
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

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

Hourly rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in England

Infrastructure Engineering
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 Engineering 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 +47 322 £525 -4.98% 122
South East +28 215 £456 +0.27% 93
South West +17 126 £500 -9.09% 71
North of England -4 117 £425 -10.53% 85
North West -5 78 £425 -10.53% 49
Midlands -20 52 £413 -8.33% 68
West Midlands +11 44 £425 -5.56% 42
East of England -14 39 £525 +16.67% 39
Yorkshire -8 34 £380 -10.59% 26
East Midlands -14 7 £338 -23.30% 26
North East +12 5 £438 -14.63% 13
Infrastructure Engineering
UK

Infrastructure Engineering
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 79 (8.97%) Microsoft Exchange
2 47 (5.33%) SharePoint
3 23 (2.61%) Confluence
4 11 (1.25%) IIS
5 10 (1.14%) Apache
6 9 (1.02%) SharePoint Server
7 7 (0.79%) Tomcat
8 6 (0.68%) SharePoint 2010
9 3 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.34%) WordPress
10 2 (0.23%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.11%) Exchange Server 2007
11 1 (0.11%) Exchange Server 2010
11 1 (0.11%) Skype for Business
11 1 (0.11%) WebLogic
Applications
1 14 (1.59%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (1.02%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.79%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.45%) AutoCAD
4 4 (0.45%) Revit
5 2 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.11%) Dynamics NAV
1 1 (0.11%) Eikon
1 1 (0.11%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.11%) Shopify
1 1 (0.11%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 274 (31.10%) Azure
2 138 (15.66%) AWS
2 138 (15.66%) Microsoft 365
3 71 (8.06%) Entra ID
4 44 (4.99%) IaaS
5 28 (3.18%) PaaS
6 25 (2.84%) Azure DevOps
7 24 (2.72%) SaaS
8 23 (2.61%) Power Platform
9 20 (2.27%) Cloud Computing
9 20 (2.27%) GCP
9 20 (2.27%) Mimecast
10 15 (1.70%) OCI
11 14 (1.59%) Serverless
12 13 (1.48%) AWS CloudFormation
13 12 (1.36%) AWS Lambda
13 12 (1.36%) OneDrive
14 11 (1.25%) GitHub
14 11 (1.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 10 (1.14%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 164 (18.62%) Firewall
2 147 (16.69%) DNS
3 101 (11.46%) DHCP
4 89 (10.10%) SAN
5 64 (7.26%) WAN
6 55 (6.24%) LAN
7 42 (4.77%) VPN
8 38 (4.31%) Wireless
9 37 (4.20%) NAS
9 37 (4.20%) Network Security
10 30 (3.41%) OSPF
11 29 (3.29%) TCP/IP
12 22 (2.50%) BGP
12 22 (2.50%) VSAN
13 20 (2.27%) Software-Defined Radio
14 16 (1.82%) SNMP
14 16 (1.82%) Wi-Fi
15 15 (1.70%) MPLS
16 14 (1.59%) VLAN
16 14 (1.59%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (7.72%) SQL Server
2 14 (1.59%) Power BI
3 9 (1.02%) MongoDB
4 7 (0.79%) Elasticsearch
4 7 (0.79%) Sybase ASE
5 6 (0.68%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (0.68%) Metadata
5 6 (0.68%) Microsoft Power View
5 6 (0.68%) MySQL
5 6 (0.68%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (0.68%) PowerPivot
5 6 (0.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 5 (0.57%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (0.34%) Big Data
7 3 (0.34%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.23%) Sisense
9 1 (0.11%) Adabas
9 1 (0.11%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (0.11%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.11%) Redis
Development Applications
1 38 (4.31%) Git
2 30 (3.41%) Jenkins
3 27 (3.06%) JIRA
4 20 (2.27%) GitLab
5 15 (1.70%) Bitbucket
5 15 (1.70%) Robot Framework
6 14 (1.59%) Eclipse
7 13 (1.48%) GoogleTest
8 7 (0.79%) Hudson
9 6 (0.68%) Postman
9 6 (0.68%) SoapUI
10 4 (0.45%) TeamCity
11 3 (0.34%) Selenium
11 3 (0.34%) Sonatype Nexus
12 2 (0.23%) Artifactory
12 2 (0.23%) Visual Studio Code
13 1 (0.11%) CA Gen
13 1 (0.11%) Octopus Deploy
13 1 (0.11%) SonarQube
13 1 (0.11%) VisualWorks
General
1 132 (14.98%) Social Skills
2 98 (11.12%) Public Sector
3 55 (6.24%) Finance
4 46 (5.22%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (2.95%) Documentation Skills
6 20 (2.27%) Banking
7 13 (1.48%) Telecoms
8 8 (0.91%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (0.79%) Legal
9 7 (0.79%) Manufacturing
10 6 (0.68%) Publishing
11 5 (0.57%) Aerospace
11 5 (0.57%) French Language
11 5 (0.57%) German Language
11 5 (0.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (0.57%) Mandarin Language
11 5 (0.57%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (0.57%) Retail
12 4 (0.45%) Front Office
12 4 (0.45%) Military
Job Titles
1 581 (65.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 77 (8.74%) Senior
3 64 (7.26%) Network Engineer
4 62 (7.04%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 44 (4.99%) Azure Engineer
6 43 (4.88%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
7 41 (4.65%) Cloud Engineer
8 35 (3.97%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
9 33 (3.75%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
10 31 (3.52%) Support Engineer
11 30 (3.41%) VMware Engineer
12 29 (3.29%) AWS Engineer
13 26 (2.95%) Architect
13 26 (2.95%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
13 26 (2.95%) Storage Engineer
14 25 (2.84%) DevOps Engineer
15 24 (2.72%) 3rd Line Engineer
16 22 (2.50%) Lead
17 21 (2.38%) Infrastructure Support
17 21 (2.38%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (2.27%) CSS
1 20 (2.27%) HTML
2 19 (2.16%) Flash
3 13 (1.48%) Kafka
4 10 (1.14%) RabbitMQ
5 8 (0.91%) .NET
5 8 (0.91%) RESTful
5 8 (0.91%) YAML
6 6 (0.68%) SOAP
6 6 (0.68%) Software Packaging
7 4 (0.45%) AWS CDK
8 3 (0.34%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (0.34%) JSON
8 3 (0.34%) Lambda Expressions
8 3 (0.34%) LAMP
8 3 (0.34%) NumPy
8 3 (0.34%) Pandas
8 3 (0.34%) PySpark
8 3 (0.34%) XML
9 2 (0.23%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 85 (9.65%) Data Centre
2 41 (4.65%) PKI
3 29 (3.29%) Replication
4 24 (2.72%) Management Information System
5 23 (2.61%) Private Cloud
6 20 (2.27%) NHS
7 18 (2.04%) Clustering
8 13 (1.48%) Driving Licence
9 10 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
9 10 (1.14%) Video Conferencing
10 9 (1.02%) Linux Command Line
10 9 (1.02%) Onboarding
10 9 (1.02%) Public Cloud
11 7 (0.79%) Fat Client
11 7 (0.79%) Thin Client
12 6 (0.68%) Algorithms
12 6 (0.68%) CCTV
12 6 (0.68%) Client/Server
12 6 (0.68%) Data Structures
12 6 (0.68%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 366 (41.54%) Windows
2 222 (25.20%) Windows Server
3 201 (22.81%) Linux
4 65 (7.38%) Windows Server 2016
4 65 (7.38%) Windows Server 2019
5 58 (6.58%) Windows 10
6 53 (6.02%) Windows Server 2012
7 33 (3.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 26 (2.95%) Unix
9 15 (1.70%) Ubuntu
10 14 (1.59%) Windows 7
11 13 (1.48%) AIX
11 13 (1.48%) Windows XP
12 11 (1.25%) VMS
12 11 (1.25%) Windows Server 2008
13 8 (0.91%) Mac OS
13 8 (0.91%) Windows Server 2003
14 7 (0.79%) Apple iOS
15 6 (0.68%) CentOS
16 1 (0.11%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (15.44%) Migration
2 107 (12.15%) DevOps
3 97 (11.01%) ITIL
4 96 (10.90%) Problem-Solving
5 95 (10.78%) Agile
6 72 (8.17%) CI/CD
7 63 (7.15%) Infrastructure as Code
8 59 (6.70%) Cybersecurity
9 52 (5.90%) Project Delivery
10 42 (4.77%) Configuration Management
11 41 (4.65%) Disaster Recovery
12 39 (4.43%) Change Management
13 38 (4.31%) Software Engineering
14 34 (3.86%) Scrum
15 27 (3.06%) Mentoring
16 26 (2.95%) Load Balancing
16 26 (2.95%) Server Management
16 26 (2.95%) Service Management
16 26 (2.95%) Virtual Infrastructure
17 25 (2.84%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 132 (14.98%) PowerShell
2 63 (7.15%) Python
3 49 (5.56%) SQL
4 36 (4.09%) JavaScript
5 27 (3.06%) Java
6 23 (2.61%) C#
7 19 (2.16%) C++
8 15 (1.70%) Bash
8 15 (1.70%) Shell Script
9 10 (1.14%) VBScript
10 8 (0.91%) Perl
11 6 (0.68%) Go
12 5 (0.57%) TypeScript
13 4 (0.45%) Bicep
13 4 (0.45%) Ruby
14 3 (0.34%) Korn
14 3 (0.34%) PHP
14 3 (0.34%) VB.NET
15 2 (0.23%) C
16 1 (0.11%) Smalltalk
Qualifications
1 327 (37.12%) Security Cleared
2 193 (21.91%) SC Cleared
3 157 (17.82%) DV Cleared
4 71 (8.06%) Degree
5 60 (6.81%) Cisco Certification
6 58 (6.58%) CCNA
7 32 (3.63%) Azure Certification
8 26 (2.95%) CCNP
9 25 (2.84%) Microsoft Certification
10 20 (2.27%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 14 (1.59%) MCSE
12 9 (1.02%) Computer Science Degree
13 8 (0.91%) AWS Certification
13 8 (0.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 8 (0.91%) Master's Degree
14 7 (0.79%) MCSA
15 6 (0.68%) A+ Certification
15 6 (0.68%) VCAP
16 5 (0.57%) ITIL Certification
16 5 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (1.14%) SLA
3 8 (0.91%) GDPR
3 8 (0.91%) NIST
3 8 (0.91%) QA
4 5 (0.57%) PCI DSS
5 3 (0.34%) Government Security Classifications
5 3 (0.34%) ISO 9001
5 3 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 3 (0.34%) NCSC
6 2 (0.23%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.23%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 2 (0.23%) PMO
7 1 (0.11%) COBIT
7 1 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.11%) NIST 800
System Software
1 282 (32.01%) Active Directory
2 215 (24.40%) VMware Infrastructure
3 72 (8.17%) Hyper-V
4 61 (6.92%) vSphere
5 55 (6.24%) VMware ESXi
6 38 (4.31%) VMware NSX
7 29 (3.29%) Virtual Machines
8 25 (2.84%) Firmware
9 23 (2.61%) XenApp
10 18 (2.04%) Docker
11 9 (1.02%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 8 (0.91%) XenDesktop
13 6 (0.68%) Virtual Desktop
14 5 (0.57%) Virtual Servers
15 4 (0.45%) KVM
16 2 (0.23%) VMware Workstation
17 1 (0.11%) DFS Replication
17 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
17 1 (0.11%) Terminal Services
17 1 (0.11%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 93 (10.56%) SCCM
2 76 (8.63%) Terraform
3 70 (7.95%) vCenter Server
4 67 (7.60%) Ansible
5 56 (6.36%) Microsoft Intune
6 45 (5.11%) WSUS
7 40 (4.54%) Kubernetes
8 36 (4.09%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 25 (2.84%) Puppet
10 23 (2.61%) SCOM
11 15 (1.70%) Single Sign-On
12 14 (1.59%) Grafana
12 14 (1.59%) NetBackup
13 13 (1.48%) EMC NetWorker
14 12 (1.36%) FortiGate
14 12 (1.36%) Prometheus
14 12 (1.36%) vRealize
15 9 (1.02%) Consul
15 9 (1.02%) VxRail
16 7 (0.79%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 318 (36.10%) VMware
2 240 (27.24%) Microsoft
3 74 (8.40%) Cisco
4 68 (7.72%) Veeam
5 48 (5.45%) Citrix
6 41 (4.65%) Dell
7 35 (3.97%) Red Hat
8 34 (3.86%) HP
9 32 (3.63%) Palo Alto
10 30 (3.41%) Juniper
11 26 (2.95%) Google
12 25 (2.84%) Atlassian
13 22 (2.50%) ServiceNow
14 21 (2.38%) Symantec
15 20 (2.27%) Extreme Networks
15 20 (2.27%) Oracle
16 18 (2.04%) 3PAR
16 18 (2.04%) Fortinet
17 17 (1.93%) CA
18 16 (1.82%) SolarWinds