Head of Infrastructure Contracts in London

Head of Infrastructure
England > London

The median Head of Infrastructure daily rate in London is £950 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 378 484 581
Rank change year-on-year +106 +97 -115
Contract jobs requiring a Head of Infrastructure 12 7 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.068% 0.026% 0.054%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.073% 0.027% 0.057%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 3
10th Percentile £610 £655 £620
25th Percentile £769 £700 £631
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £950 £750 £650
Median % change year-on-year +26.67% +15.38% -36.59%
75th Percentile £975 £800 £750
90th Percentile £1,125 £905 £810
England median daily rate £750 £738 £613
% change year-on-year +1.69% +20.41% +2.08%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 16,498 25,529 37,134
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.24% 95.28% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,929 18,487 27,116
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £443 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £680
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 336 291 449
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.45
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.57 £22.03
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.54% +1.43% +9.38%
75th Percentile £43.75 £62.25 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £78.80 £67.50
England median hourly rate £36.50 £44.53 £22.50
% change year-on-year -18.03% +97.91% +2.27%

Head of Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Head of Infrastructure in London

Head of Infrastructure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Head of Infrastructure in London.

Daily rate trend for Head of Infrastructure in London

Head of Infrastructure
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Head of Infrastructure in London over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Head of Infrastructure in London

Head of Infrastructure Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, Head of Infrastructure 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 London region featuring Head of Infrastructure in the job title.

1 6 (50.00%) Azure
2 5 (41.67%) Finance
3 4 (33.33%) VMware
3 4 (33.33%) Linux
3 4 (33.33%) Red Hat
3 4 (33.33%) Confluence
3 4 (33.33%) GitHub
3 4 (33.33%) Active Directory
3 4 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (33.33%) Public Cloud
3 4 (33.33%) Red Hat Satellite
3 4 (33.33%) Public Sector
4 3 (25.00%) Roadmaps
4 3 (25.00%) Data Centre
4 3 (25.00%) Strategic Roadmap
4 3 (25.00%) SC Cleared
4 3 (25.00%) Security Cleared
5 2 (16.67%) Technical Debt
5 2 (16.67%) Technology Roadmap
6 1 (8.33%) Windows
6 1 (8.33%) Budgeting
6 1 (8.33%) Collaborative Culture
6 1 (8.33%) Event-Driven
6 1 (8.33%) Platform Engineering
6 1 (8.33%) Business Strategy
6 1 (8.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (8.33%) DevSecOps
6 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure as Code
6 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (8.33%) Business Analytics

Head of Infrastructure Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 4 (33.33%) Confluence
2 1 (8.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (50.00%) Azure
2 4 (33.33%) GitHub
3 1 (8.33%) IaaS
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (8.33%) PaaS
3 1 (8.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
General
1 5 (41.67%) Finance
2 4 (33.33%) Public Sector
3 1 (8.33%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Public Cloud
2 3 (25.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (8.33%) Mainframe
3 1 (8.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 4 (33.33%) Linux
2 1 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (25.00%) Roadmaps
1 3 (25.00%) Strategic Roadmap
2 2 (16.67%) Technical Debt
2 2 (16.67%) Technology Roadmap
3 1 (8.33%) Acceptance Criteria
3 1 (8.33%) Analytics
3 1 (8.33%) Budgeting
3 1 (8.33%) Business Analytics
3 1 (8.33%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (8.33%) Business Strategy
3 1 (8.33%) Collaborative Culture
3 1 (8.33%) Configuration Management
3 1 (8.33%) Customer-Centricity
3 1 (8.33%) DevSecOps
3 1 (8.33%) Event-Driven
3 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (8.33%) Microservices
3 1 (8.33%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (8.33%) SOA
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 4 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Red Hat
1 4 (33.33%) VMware
2 1 (8.33%) Broadcom
2 1 (8.33%) CheckPoint
2 1 (8.33%) Cisco
2 1 (8.33%) Commvault
2 1 (8.33%) EMC
2 1 (8.33%) F5
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft