Infrastructure Support Engineer Contracts in England

Infrastructure Support Engineer
UK > England

The median Infrastructure Support Engineer daily rate in England is £375 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 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
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 531 615 731
Rank change year-on-year +84 +116 -123
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Support Engineer 23 30 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.062% 0.061% 0.067%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.067% 0.065% 0.070%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 17 27
10th Percentile £143 £298 £258
25th Percentile £181 £350 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £450 £400
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +12.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile £413 £550 £444
90th Percentile £538 £590 £510
UK median daily rate £340 £438 £400
% change year-on-year -22.29% +9.38% +14.29%

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 34,147 46,484 67,372
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.70% 94.64% 95.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,648 32,994 47,972
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 £644 £663 £639
90th Percentile £750 £758 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,443 1,382 1,859
10th Percentile £12.87 £14.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.37
Median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.38% +100.00% +2.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.45 £48.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.50 £62.80
UK median hourly rate £36.65 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.56% +88.21% +6.27%

Infrastructure Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Support Engineer in England

Infrastructure Support Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Support Engineer in England

Infrastructure Support Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Support Engineer in England over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Support Engineer in England

Infrastructure Support Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Support Engineer in England

Infrastructure Support 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 Support Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 8 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 +105 12 £375 -16.67% 3
South East +12 9 £275 -53.19% 8
North of England +27 1 £160 -52.59%
Midlands +26 1 £320 -11.72%
North West +23 1 £160 -54.29%
West Midlands +23 1 £320 -8.57%
Infrastructure Support Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 8 May 2024, Infrastructure Support 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 Support Engineer in the job title.

1 20 (86.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 14 (60.87%) Windows
3 11 (47.83%) Firewall
3 11 (47.83%) Windows 10
4 10 (43.48%) Microsoft
5 9 (39.13%) Windows Server 2019
6 8 (34.78%) Windows 7
6 8 (34.78%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (34.78%) Disaster Recovery
6 8 (34.78%) SCCM
7 7 (30.43%) Security Cleared
7 7 (30.43%) Active Directory
7 7 (30.43%) SQL Server
7 7 (30.43%) Azure
8 6 (26.09%) Refinitiv
8 6 (26.09%) Windows Server 2016
8 6 (26.09%) Windows Server
8 6 (26.09%) Bloomberg
8 6 (26.09%) VMware Infrastructure
8 6 (26.09%) VMware
9 5 (21.74%) Finance
9 5 (21.74%) SC Cleared
10 4 (17.39%) Linux
10 4 (17.39%) Citrix
11 3 (13.04%) Microsoft Office
11 3 (13.04%) SQL
11 3 (13.04%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (13.04%) Windows Server 2008
11 3 (13.04%) Network Security
11 3 (13.04%) Banking

Infrastructure Support 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:

Applications
1 3 (13.04%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (34.78%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (30.43%) Azure
3 3 (13.04%) Entra ID
4 2 (8.70%) AWS
5 1 (4.35%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 11 (47.83%) Firewall
2 3 (13.04%) Network Security
3 2 (8.70%) DHCP
3 2 (8.70%) DNS
3 2 (8.70%) SAN
4 1 (4.35%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (30.43%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.35%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (4.35%) MySQL
2 1 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
General
1 5 (21.74%) Finance
2 3 (13.04%) Banking
3 1 (4.35%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.70%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.35%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.35%) Fat Client
2 1 (4.35%) PKI
2 1 (4.35%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 14 (60.87%) Windows
2 11 (47.83%) Windows 10
3 9 (39.13%) Windows Server 2019
4 8 (34.78%) Windows 7
5 6 (26.09%) Windows Server
5 6 (26.09%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (17.39%) Linux
7 3 (13.04%) Windows Server 2008
7 3 (13.04%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (8.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (4.35%) Ubuntu
9 1 (4.35%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (86.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 8 (34.78%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (13.04%) Open Source
4 2 (8.70%) Deployment Automation
4 2 (8.70%) Virtual Infrastructure
5 1 (4.35%) Break/Fix
5 1 (4.35%) Business Continuity
5 1 (4.35%) Converged Infrastructure
5 1 (4.35%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (4.35%) Incident Management
5 1 (4.35%) Mentoring
5 1 (4.35%) Patch Management
5 1 (4.35%) Performance Monitoring
5 1 (4.35%) Performance Tuning
5 1 (4.35%) Proactive Monitoring
5 1 (4.35%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (4.35%) Prototyping
5 1 (4.35%) Server Management
5 1 (4.35%) Software Distribution
5 1 (4.35%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (13.04%) SQL
2 2 (8.70%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (30.43%) Security Cleared
2 5 (21.74%) SC Cleared
3 3 (13.04%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (4.35%) CCNA
4 1 (4.35%) CCNP
4 1 (4.35%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (4.35%) Degree
4 1 (4.35%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 7 (30.43%) Active Directory
2 6 (26.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (8.70%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (8.70%) XenApp
3 2 (8.70%) XenDesktop
4 1 (4.35%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 8 (34.78%) SCCM
2 2 (8.70%) vCenter Server
2 2 (8.70%) WSUS
3 1 (4.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (4.35%) Ansible
3 1 (4.35%) EMC NetWorker
3 1 (4.35%) McAfee ePO
3 1 (4.35%) Nessus
3 1 (4.35%) NetBackup
3 1 (4.35%) Red Hat Satellite
3 1 (4.35%) SCOM
3 1 (4.35%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 10 (43.48%) Microsoft
2 6 (26.09%) Bloomberg
2 6 (26.09%) Refinitiv
2 6 (26.09%) VMware
3 4 (17.39%) Citrix
4 2 (8.70%) Oracle
4 2 (8.70%) ServiceNow
4 2 (8.70%) Veeam
5 1 (4.35%) 3PAR
5 1 (4.35%) Cisco
5 1 (4.35%) Dell
5 1 (4.35%) EMC
5 1 (4.35%) Extreme Networks
5 1 (4.35%) HP
5 1 (4.35%) Juniper
5 1 (4.35%) McAfee
5 1 (4.35%) Palo Alto
5 1 (4.35%) Red Hat
5 1 (4.35%) Symantec