The first table below looks at the demand for the Infrastructure Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the Gloucestershire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Infrastructure Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 23 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the Gloucestershire region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Infrastructure Engineer
Rank 35 65 42
Rank change year-on-year
+30 -23
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 2 5 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 0.735% 0.761% 1.584%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.772% 0.821% 1.695%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 5
Average daily rate £450 £195 £195
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+130.51% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £290 £285 £265
% change year-on-year
+1.75% +7.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £23.50 £30.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year
-21.66% +42.85%
All Job Titles
Gloucestershire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
259 609 413
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 95.22% 92.69% 93.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 358 165
Average daily rate £380 £400 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.00% +33.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £275 £170
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £460
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 33 63
Average hourly rate £16.50 £25.00 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-34.00% -23.07%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.50 £21.00 £17.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £50.00 £37.40 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Infrastructure Engineer
South West

Infrastructure Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer across the Gloucestershire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Gloucestershire Infrastructure Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Gloucestershire Infrastructure Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Infrastructure Engineer
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 Gloucestershire region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Cheltenham +30 1 - -
Infrastructure Engineer
South West

Infrastructure Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 3 (75.00%) Windows
1 3 (75.00%) VMware
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (50.00%) VMware ESX
2 2 (50.00%) Service Management
2 2 (50.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (50.00%) Client/Server
2 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (50.00%) Citrix
2 2 (50.00%) ITIL
2 2 (50.00%) DV Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) XenApp
3 1 (25.00%) SolarWinds
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon AWS
3 1 (25.00%) vSphere
3 1 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (25.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (25.00%) ClearQuest
3 1 (25.00%) Symantec
3 1 (25.00%) Dell
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco
3 1 (25.00%) Solaris
3 1 (25.00%) Linux
3 1 (25.00%) JBoss
3 1 (25.00%) Tomcat
3 1 (25.00%) MS Excel
3 1 (25.00%) ClearCase
3 1 (25.00%) Java

Infrastructure Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 1 (25.00%) J2EE
1 1 (25.00%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) MySQL
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) ClearQuest
1 1 (25.00%) ClearCase
1 1 (25.00%) Git (software)
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Management Information System
1 2 (50.00%) Client/Server
2 1 (25.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) Solaris
2 1 (25.00%) Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Ubuntu
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (25.00%) CentOS
2 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Service Management
1 2 (50.00%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Java
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (50.00%) VMware ESX
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (50.00%) XenApp
2 1 (25.00%) vSphere
2 1 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Backup Exec
1 1 (25.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) VMware
2 2 (50.00%) Citrix
3 1 (25.00%) SolarWinds
3 1 (25.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (25.00%) Symantec
3 1 (25.00%) Dell
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco
3 1 (25.00%) JBoss
3 1 (25.00%) Oracle
3 1 (25.00%) Perforce
Gloucestershire, South West
3rd Line / Infrastructure Engineer -VMware, Exchange 2010, SAN is required on a 3-6 Month contract by a genuine market in Gloucestershire paying between £300-£350 per day-...
OPUS
Rate: GBP300 to GBP350 per day
Posted: 23 May 2013
Gloucestershire
3rd Line / Infrastructure Engineer -VMware, Exchange 2010, SAN is required on a 3-6 Month contract by a genuine market in Gloucestershire paying between £300-£350 per day...
Opus Recruitment Solutions Ltd
Rate: £300 to £350 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013
Gloucester, South West
Infrastructure Engineer, 3rd Line Engineer,- Contract - GloucesterOur client, has an urgent requirement for an experienced Infrastructure Engineer to join their team-The postholder will be responsible for the...
OPUS
Rate: GBP250 to GBP350 per day
Posted: 23 May 2013
Gloucester, Gloucestershire
Key skills: - Windows Server 2008 R2 - AD - Exchange 2010 - MS Clustering - WSUS - Networking technologies - TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP - VMWare Experience of HP/Cisco Networking technologies is an advantage...
Opus Recruitment Solutions Ltd
Rate: £250 to £350 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013