The first table below looks at the demand for the Infrastructure Consultant role in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Infrastructure Consultant in their job title over the 3 months to 18 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 London 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Infrastructure Consultant
Rank 375 387 435
Rank change year-on-year
+12 +48
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Consultant 17 26 20
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.074% 0.098% 0.064%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.080% 0.105% 0.069%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 18 7
Average daily rate £388 £400 £383
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.12% +4.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £263 £346 £220
10% offered a daily rate of more than £545 £575 £485
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
+12.12% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £70.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.00 - -
All Job Titles
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
21207 24646 29107
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 91.96% 92.55% 92.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 14319 15934 18765
Average daily rate £450 £435 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.44% -8.42%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 457 611 670
Average hourly rate £20.00 £19.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.56% -2.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.97 £12.50 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £41.10 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Infrastructure Consultant
England

Infrastructure Consultant
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London Infrastructure Consultant Jobs Demand Trend

Infrastructure Consultant
Daily Rate Trend

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

London Infrastructure Consultant Daily Rate Trend

Infrastructure Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Infrastructure Consultant across the London region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

London Infrastructure Consultant Daily Rate Histogram

Infrastructure Consultant
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London Infrastructure Consultant Hourly Rate Trend

Infrastructure Consultant
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Consultant within the London region over the 3 months to 18 June 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
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Job
Vacancies
City of London +4 3 £356 +1.78% 1
Bromley - - - -
Croydon - - - -
Infrastructure Consultant
England

Infrastructure Consultant
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region that cited Infrastructure Consultant 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 Consultant in their job title.

1 17 (51.52%) Windows
2 13 (39.39%) VMware
3 11 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 11 (33.33%) Citrix
4 9 (27.27%) Windows Server 2008
5 8 (24.24%) Banking
5 8 (24.24%) Finance
5 8 (24.24%) MS Exchange
6 7 (21.21%) SharePoint
6 7 (21.21%) SAN
7 6 (18.18%) HP
7 6 (18.18%) Cisco
8 5 (15.15%) Exchange Server 2010
8 5 (15.15%) UNIX
8 5 (15.15%) Windows Server 2003
8 5 (15.15%) Active Directory
8 5 (15.15%) Project Management
8 5 (15.15%) Firewall
9 4 (12.12%) E-Commerce
9 4 (12.12%) MS Excel
9 4 (12.12%) ITIL
9 4 (12.12%) Change Control
9 4 (12.12%) Lync
9 4 (12.12%) Windows 7
9 4 (12.12%) vSphere
9 4 (12.12%) SharePoint 2010
9 4 (12.12%) Exchange Server 2007
9 4 (12.12%) SCOM
9 4 (12.12%) VMware Infrastructure
10 3 (9.091%) SCCM

Infrastructure Consultant
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region that cited Infrastructure Consultant 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 Consultant in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (6.061%) Application Packaging
2 1 (3.030%) COM
Application Platforms
1 8 (24.24%) MS Exchange
2 7 (21.21%) SharePoint
3 5 (15.15%) Exchange Server 2010
4 4 (12.12%) Exchange Server 2007
4 4 (12.12%) SharePoint 2010
4 4 (12.12%) Lync
5 3 (9.091%) Exchange Server 2003
6 1 (3.030%) Exchange Server 2013
6 1 (3.030%) IIS
6 1 (3.030%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 4 (12.12%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (9.091%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 7 (21.21%) SAN
2 5 (15.15%) Firewall
3 3 (9.091%) Wireless
3 3 (9.091%) NAS
3 3 (9.091%) DNS
3 3 (9.091%) DHCP
4 2 (6.061%) SMTP
4 2 (6.061%) VPN
5 1 (3.030%) BGP
5 1 (3.030%) EIGRP
5 1 (3.030%) Kerberos
5 1 (3.030%) TCP/IP
5 1 (3.030%) LAN
5 1 (3.030%) WLAN
5 1 (3.030%) HSRP
5 1 (3.030%) IPsec
5 1 (3.030%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.091%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.030%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (9.091%) MSI
2 2 (6.061%) Visual Studio
3 1 (3.030%) TeamCity
General
1 8 (24.24%) Finance
1 8 (24.24%) Banking
2 2 (6.061%) Investment Banking
2 2 (6.061%) Front Office
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.061%) Clustering
2 1 (3.030%) EqualLogic
2 1 (3.030%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 17 (51.52%) Windows
2 9 (27.27%) Windows Server 2008
3 5 (15.15%) UNIX
3 5 (15.15%) Windows Server 2003
4 4 (12.12%) Windows 7
5 3 (9.091%) Linux
5 3 (9.091%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (6.061%) Windows XP
6 2 (6.061%) CentOS
7 1 (3.030%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (15.15%) Project Management
2 4 (12.12%) ITIL
2 4 (12.12%) E-Commerce
2 4 (12.12%) Change Control
3 3 (9.091%) Enterprise Architecture
3 3 (9.091%) CRM
4 2 (6.061%) Time Management
5 1 (3.030%) Operations Management
5 1 (3.030%) Risk Analysis
5 1 (3.030%) Service Delivery
5 1 (3.030%) Migration
5 1 (3.030%) Capacity Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (6.061%) SQL
1 2 (6.061%) PowerShell
2 1 (3.030%) Perl
Qualifications
1 2 (6.061%) MCP
1 2 (6.061%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (6.061%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 1 (3.030%) MCTS
2 1 (3.030%) DV Cleared
2 1 (3.030%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.030%) VCP4
2 1 (3.030%) NCDA
2 1 (3.030%) NCIE
2 1 (3.030%) CCEE
2 1 (3.030%) CCIA
2 1 (3.030%) VCP5
2 1 (3.030%) MCSE
2 1 (3.030%) CCIE
2 1 (3.030%) CCNP
2 1 (3.030%) CCA
2 1 (3.030%) Citrix Certification
2 1 (3.030%) CCEA
2 1 (3.030%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.061%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (15.15%) Active Directory
2 4 (12.12%) vSphere
2 4 (12.12%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (6.061%) Hyper-V
3 2 (6.061%) XenApp
3 2 (6.061%) Terminal Services
4 1 (3.030%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (3.030%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 4 (12.12%) SCOM
2 3 (9.091%) SCCM
3 1 (3.030%) MAILsweeper
3 1 (3.030%) Backup Exec
3 1 (3.030%) WSUS
3 1 (3.030%) SCVMM
3 1 (3.030%) HP SIM
3 1 (3.030%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
Vendors
1 13 (39.39%) VMware
2 11 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 11 (33.33%) Citrix
3 6 (18.18%) HP
3 6 (18.18%) Cisco
4 3 (9.091%) Dell
4 3 (9.091%) Symantec
5 2 (6.061%) Wyse
5 2 (6.061%) CommVault
5 2 (6.061%) NetApp
5 2 (6.061%) Red Hat
6 1 (3.030%) CheckPoint
6 1 (3.030%) SAP
6 1 (3.030%) Open Text
6 1 (3.030%) Clearswift
6 1 (3.030%) RightFax
6 1 (3.030%) Broadcom