The first table below looks at the demand for the Infrastructure Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the Leeds 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 19 June 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 Leeds 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Infrastructure Engineer
Rank 71 53 61
Rank change year-on-year
-18 +8
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 7 20 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 0.884% 1.978% 0.147%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.946% 2.077% 0.156%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 12 1
Average daily rate - £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +8.33%
UK excluding London average daily rate £290 £300 £281
% change year-on-year
-3.33% +6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Average hourly rate - £30.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £23.50 £30.00 £28.00
% change year-on-year
-21.66% +7.14%
All Job Titles
Leeds
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
740 963 640
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 93.43% 95.25% 94.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 384 562 307
Average daily rate £300 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.69% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £183 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £460 £489
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 46 60
Average hourly rate £15.50 £13.50 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+14.81% -10.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.65 £10.00 £8.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.00 £50.00 £29.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £19.94
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -9.72%
Infrastructure Engineer
West Yorkshire

Infrastructure Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Leeds Infrastructure Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Infrastructure Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer across the Leeds region.

Leeds Infrastructure Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Infrastructure Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 5 (55.56%) SQL Server
1 5 (55.56%) VMware
2 4 (44.44%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (44.44%) Web Services
2 4 (44.44%) UNIX
2 4 (44.44%) Windows
2 4 (44.44%) Oracle
3 3 (33.33%) MySQL
3 3 (33.33%) Java
3 3 (33.33%) PHP
3 3 (33.33%) MS Visio
3 3 (33.33%) AIX
3 3 (33.33%) HPUX
3 3 (33.33%) Solaris
3 3 (33.33%) Linux
3 3 (33.33%) JBoss
3 3 (33.33%) Apache
3 3 (33.33%) Tomcat
3 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 3 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
3 3 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (33.33%) Red Hat
4 2 (22.22%) vSphere
4 2 (22.22%) Exchange Server 2010
4 2 (22.22%) SQL Server 2005
4 2 (22.22%) Firewall
4 2 (22.22%) SQL Server 2008
4 2 (22.22%) Exchange Server 2007
4 2 (22.22%) Citrix

Infrastructure Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 4 (44.44%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 3 (33.33%) Apache
1 3 (33.33%) Tomcat
2 2 (22.22%) Exchange Server 2010
2 2 (22.22%) Exchange Server 2007
2 2 (22.22%) MS Exchange
3 1 (11.11%) SharePoint
3 1 (11.11%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 1 (11.11%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 3 (33.33%) MS Visio
2 1 (11.11%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) Firewall
1 2 (22.22%) DNS
2 1 (11.11%) LAN
2 1 (11.11%) WAN
2 1 (11.11%) DHCP
2 1 (11.11%) VPN
2 1 (11.11%) SAN
2 1 (11.11%) Internet
2 1 (11.11%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (55.56%) SQL Server
2 3 (33.33%) MySQL
3 2 (22.22%) SQL Server 2005
3 2 (22.22%) SQL Server 2008
4 1 (11.11%) SQL Server 2012
General
1 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Blackberry
1 1 (11.11%) Fat Client
1 1 (11.11%) Thin Client
1 1 (11.11%) Clustering
1 1 (11.11%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 4 (44.44%) UNIX
1 4 (44.44%) Windows
2 3 (33.33%) AIX
2 3 (33.33%) HPUX
2 3 (33.33%) Solaris
2 3 (33.33%) Linux
2 3 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
2 3 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
2 3 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (11.11%) NetWare
3 1 (11.11%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (11.11%) ITIL
1 1 (11.11%) Change Management
1 1 (11.11%) Integration Testing
1 1 (11.11%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) Java
1 3 (33.33%) PHP
2 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (44.44%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (22.22%) vSphere
2 2 (22.22%) Active Directory
3 1 (11.11%) Citrix Presentation Server
3 1 (11.11%) Hyper-V
3 1 (11.11%) XenApp
3 1 (11.11%) XenServer
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) SCCM
1 1 (11.11%) SCOM
1 1 (11.11%) HP Quality Center
1 1 (11.11%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) VMware
2 4 (44.44%) Oracle
3 3 (33.33%) JBoss
3 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 3 (33.33%) Red Hat
4 2 (22.22%) Citrix
4 2 (22.22%) NetApp
4 2 (22.22%) HP
4 2 (22.22%) Cisco
5 1 (11.11%) IBM
5 1 (11.11%) EMC
5 1 (11.11%) Novell
5 1 (11.11%) McAfee
5 1 (11.11%) Riverbed
5 1 (11.11%) Blue Coat
5 1 (11.11%) Brocade