Senior Infrastructure Engineer Contracts in England

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
UK > England

The median Senior Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in England is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 483 583 669
Rank change year-on-year +100 +86 -77
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 65 85 111
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.17% 0.17% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.18% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 73 77
10th Percentile £405 £388 £373
25th Percentile £450 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +10.00% +20.48%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £575
90th Percentile £729 £700 £645
UK median daily rate £475 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +10.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £78.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £78.00 - -

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 34,517 47,965 67,732
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.72% 94.58% 95.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,960 34,010 48,090
10th Percentile £275 £310 £313
25th Percentile £411 £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 2,411 1,443 1,914
10th Percentile £12.92 £14.31 £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% +0.36%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.67 £48.49
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.45 £62.15
UK median hourly rate £35.68 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.71% +95.65% +1.41%

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Infrastructure Engineer in England

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Infrastructure Engineer in England

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Infrastructure Engineer in England over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Infrastructure Engineer in England

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Infrastructure Engineer in England

Senior 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 Senior Infrastructure Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 25 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
South East +15 24 £464 +3.05% 8
London +102 21 £606 +10.23% 17
North of England +25 11 £500 -9.09% 10
North West +15 11 £500 -4.76% 7
South West +16 3 £513 -25.86% 6
West Midlands +25 2 £300 -57.14% 3
Midlands +20 2 £300 -29.41% 3
Senior Infrastructure Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, Senior 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 Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 64 (98.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 32 (49.23%) Active Directory
3 30 (46.15%) Windows
3 30 (46.15%) VMware
4 23 (35.38%) Microsoft
5 21 (32.31%) Azure
6 18 (27.69%) DNS
7 17 (26.15%) DHCP
7 17 (26.15%) PowerShell
7 17 (26.15%) Social Skills
8 16 (24.62%) VMware Infrastructure
8 16 (24.62%) AWS
8 16 (24.62%) ITIL
9 15 (23.08%) Firewall
9 15 (23.08%) vSphere
9 15 (23.08%) Security Cleared
10 14 (21.54%) Windows Server
11 12 (18.46%) SAN
12 11 (16.92%) SC Cleared
13 10 (15.38%) Degree
14 9 (13.85%) NAS
14 9 (13.85%) Linux
14 9 (13.85%) DevOps
15 8 (12.31%) Documentation Skills
16 7 (10.77%) Virtual Machines
16 7 (10.77%) Microsoft 365
16 7 (10.77%) Data Centre
16 7 (10.77%) Python
16 7 (10.77%) Microsoft Certification
16 7 (10.77%) Migration

Senior 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 6 (9.23%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.54%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.54%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 3 (4.62%) AutoCAD
1 3 (4.62%) Revit
2 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 21 (32.31%) Azure
2 16 (24.62%) AWS
3 7 (10.77%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (9.23%) GCP
5 5 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (4.62%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (4.62%) Azure AKS
6 3 (4.62%) IaaS
6 3 (4.62%) Nutanix
7 2 (3.08%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.54%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (1.54%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (1.54%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 18 (27.69%) DNS
2 17 (26.15%) DHCP
3 15 (23.08%) Firewall
4 12 (18.46%) SAN
5 9 (13.85%) NAS
6 4 (6.15%) Network Security
6 4 (6.15%) TCP/IP
7 3 (4.62%) SD-WAN
7 3 (4.62%) WAN
8 2 (3.08%) BGP
8 2 (3.08%) DMVPN
8 2 (3.08%) HSRP
8 2 (3.08%) LAN
8 2 (3.08%) MPLS
8 2 (3.08%) OSPF
8 2 (3.08%) SNMP
8 2 (3.08%) Spanning Tree
8 2 (3.08%) VLAN
8 2 (3.08%) VPN
8 2 (3.08%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.15%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.54%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 2 (3.08%) Git
2 1 (1.54%) Artifactory
General
1 17 (26.15%) Social Skills
2 8 (12.31%) Documentation Skills
3 6 (9.23%) Finance
3 6 (9.23%) Public Sector
4 4 (6.15%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.08%) Front Office
6 1 (1.54%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.54%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.62%) YAML
2 2 (3.08%) .NET
2 2 (3.08%) Jinja
2 2 (3.08%) JSON
2 2 (3.08%) Middleware
2 2 (3.08%) NETCONF
2 2 (3.08%) RESTful
2 2 (3.08%) XML
2 2 (3.08%) YANG
3 1 (1.54%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.77%) Data Centre
2 5 (7.69%) PKI
3 3 (4.62%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (4.62%) Onboarding
3 3 (4.62%) Private Cloud
4 2 (3.08%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (3.08%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (3.08%) NHS
4 2 (3.08%) Tandem
5 1 (1.54%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.54%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.54%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 30 (46.15%) Windows
2 14 (21.54%) Windows Server
3 9 (13.85%) Linux
4 6 (9.23%) Windows 10
5 5 (7.69%) Unix
6 4 (6.15%) Windows Server 2003
6 4 (6.15%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (6.15%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (4.62%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (3.08%) Ubuntu
8 2 (3.08%) Windows 7
8 2 (3.08%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (1.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (98.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 16 (24.62%) ITIL
3 9 (13.85%) DevOps
4 7 (10.77%) Migration
5 6 (9.23%) Continuous Improvement
5 6 (9.23%) Roadmaps
5 6 (9.23%) Stakeholder Management
6 5 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (7.69%) Project Delivery
6 5 (7.69%) Root Cause Analysis
7 4 (6.15%) Agile
7 4 (6.15%) Customer Service
7 4 (6.15%) Service Delivery
8 3 (4.62%) Creative Thinking
8 3 (4.62%) Identity Access Management
8 3 (4.62%) Incident Response
8 3 (4.62%) Infrastructure as Code
8 3 (4.62%) RBAC
8 3 (4.62%) SDLC
8 3 (4.62%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 17 (26.15%) PowerShell
2 7 (10.77%) Python
3 5 (7.69%) SQL
4 4 (6.15%) VBScript
5 2 (3.08%) Bash
5 2 (3.08%) VB.NET
6 1 (1.54%) Bicep
6 1 (1.54%) C
6 1 (1.54%) C#
6 1 (1.54%) C++
6 1 (1.54%) Java
Qualifications
1 15 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 11 (16.92%) SC Cleared
3 10 (15.38%) Degree
4 7 (10.77%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (6.15%) Azure Certification
6 2 (3.08%) AWS Certification
6 2 (3.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (3.08%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (3.08%) MCITP
6 2 (3.08%) VCAP
6 2 (3.08%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.54%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (4.62%) GDPR
2 3 (4.62%) QA
3 2 (3.08%) ISO 9001
3 2 (3.08%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 2 (3.08%) NCSC
3 2 (3.08%) SLA
4 1 (1.54%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 1 (1.54%) NIST
System Software
1 32 (49.23%) Active Directory
2 16 (24.62%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (23.08%) vSphere
4 7 (10.77%) Hyper-V
4 7 (10.77%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (6.15%) VMware NSX
5 4 (6.15%) XenApp
6 2 (3.08%) Docker
7 1 (1.54%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 6 (9.23%) SCCM
1 6 (9.23%) WSUS
2 5 (7.69%) Terraform
2 5 (7.69%) vCenter Server
3 4 (6.15%) Kubernetes
4 3 (4.62%) Ansible
4 3 (4.62%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (3.08%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.54%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (1.54%) Kibana
6 1 (1.54%) logstash
6 1 (1.54%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 30 (46.15%) VMware
2 23 (35.38%) Microsoft
3 6 (9.23%) Cisco
4 5 (7.69%) Palo Alto
4 5 (7.69%) Symantec
4 5 (7.69%) Veeam
5 4 (6.15%) 3PAR
5 4 (6.15%) Citrix
5 4 (6.15%) Google
5 4 (6.15%) Ivanti
6 3 (4.62%) Red Hat
6 3 (4.62%) ServiceNow
6 3 (4.62%) SolarWinds
7 2 (3.08%) Aruba
7 2 (3.08%) Dell
7 2 (3.08%) Dell Compellent
7 2 (3.08%) Juniper
7 2 (3.08%) Meraki
7 2 (3.08%) Nimble Storage
8 1 (1.54%) Oracle