Infrastructure Engineer Contracts in Gloucestershire

Infrastructure Engineer
South West > Gloucestershire

The median Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in Gloucestershire is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 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
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 47 47 45
Rank change year-on-year 0 -2 -8
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 12 17 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 2.85% 3.50% 3.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.14% 3.74% 3.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 7 16
10th Percentile £398 - £363
25th Percentile £400 £475 £387
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year - +17.65% -8.11%
75th Percentile £729 £588 £588
90th Percentile £776 £648 -
South West median daily rate £537 £525 £463
% change year-on-year +2.19% +13.51% +23.33%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Gloucestershire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Gloucestershire. 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 Gloucestershire with a recognized job title 382 454 515
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.74% 93.42% 95.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 227 315 414
10th Percentile £300 £322 £179
25th Percentile £425 £445 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £588
90th Percentile £738 £720 £658
South West median daily rate £515 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -1.90% +5.00% +9.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 37 14
10th Percentile £15.05 £35.00 £11.83
25th Percentile £15.79 £50.00 £13.94
Median hourly rate £40.00 £73.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.21% +143.33% -40.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £83.31 £43.28
90th Percentile £72.50 £83.40 £53.50
South West median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £46.50
% change year-on-year -15.38% +39.78% +9.41%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in Gloucestershire

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in Gloucestershire

Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucestershire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in Gloucestershire

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in Gloucestershire

Infrastructure Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 4 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
Gloucester +13 4 £450 -10.00% 3
Cheltenham -5 3 £550 - 5
Infrastructure Engineer
South West

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

For the 6 months to 4 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 Gloucestershire region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 12 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 7 (58.33%) Security Cleared
3 6 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (50.00%) VMware
3 6 (50.00%) Linux
3 6 (50.00%) Containerisation
4 5 (41.67%) Firewall
4 5 (41.67%) DV Cleared
4 5 (41.67%) Ansible
5 4 (33.33%) vSphere
5 4 (33.33%) Bash
5 4 (33.33%) Windows
5 4 (33.33%) Active Directory
5 4 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (25.00%) SQL
6 3 (25.00%) ITIL
6 3 (25.00%) Service Management
6 3 (25.00%) Migration
6 3 (25.00%) PowerShell
6 3 (25.00%) Hyper-V
6 3 (25.00%) Entra ID
6 3 (25.00%) Azure
6 3 (25.00%) Docker
7 2 (16.67%) PaaS
7 2 (16.67%) Kubernetes
7 2 (16.67%) Power BI
7 2 (16.67%) Windows Server
7 2 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (16.67%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (16.67%) Python

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (8.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) Azure
1 3 (25.00%) Entra ID
2 2 (16.67%) Azure Logic Apps
2 2 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
2 2 (16.67%) Dynamics 365
2 2 (16.67%) PaaS
2 2 (16.67%) Power Platform
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (8.33%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 5 (41.67%) Firewall
2 1 (8.33%) IPv4
2 1 (8.33%) NAS
2 1 (8.33%) OSPF
2 1 (8.33%) SAN
2 1 (8.33%) Skype
2 1 (8.33%) VLAN
2 1 (8.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) Power BI
General
1 1 (8.33%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Clustering
1 1 (8.33%) Fat Client
1 1 (8.33%) PKI
1 1 (8.33%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 6 (50.00%) Linux
2 4 (33.33%) Windows
3 2 (16.67%) VMS
3 2 (16.67%) Windows Server
4 1 (8.33%) Windows 10
4 1 (8.33%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (8.33%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 4 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (25.00%) ITIL
4 3 (25.00%) Migration
4 3 (25.00%) Service Management
5 2 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (16.67%) Cost Control
6 1 (8.33%) Agile
6 1 (8.33%) Analytics
6 1 (8.33%) CI/CD
6 1 (8.33%) Configuration Management
6 1 (8.33%) Database Mirroring
6 1 (8.33%) DevOps
6 1 (8.33%) Key Management
6 1 (8.33%) Software Testing
6 1 (8.33%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) Bash
2 3 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (25.00%) SQL
3 2 (16.67%) Python
4 1 (8.33%) C
Qualifications
1 7 (58.33%) Security Cleared
2 5 (41.67%) DV Cleared
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Certification
3 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 6 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 4 (33.33%) vSphere
3 3 (25.00%) Docker
3 3 (25.00%) Hyper-V
4 2 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (8.33%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (8.33%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 5 (41.67%) Ansible
2 2 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 2 (16.67%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (8.33%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Clustering
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (8.33%) Puppet
3 1 (8.33%) SCCM
3 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) VMware
2 2 (16.67%) CA
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft