London Infrastructure Engineer Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Infrastructure Engineer role in IT contracts within the London region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Infrastructure Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Basingstoke Bath Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bristol Buckinghamshire Canary Wharf Cheshire City of London Derbyshire Docklands, London East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Gloucester Gloucestershire Hackney Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hertfordshire High Wycombe Leeds Lincolnshire Liverpool London M4 Corridor Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Northumberland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Reading Scotland Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South West Staffordshire Surrey Telford Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Worthing Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	318	362
Rank change on same period last year	+44
Matching contract IT job ads	81	107
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.114 %	0.108 %
As % of the category below	0.291 %	0.252 %
Daily rates quoted	30	34
Average minimum daily rate	£325	£380
Average daily rate	£342	£396
% change on same period last year	-13.57 %
Average maximum daily rate	£359	£412
UK excluding London average daily rate	£324	£317
% change on same period last year	+2.04 %
Hourly rates quoted	13	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.85	£27.50
Average hourly rate	£26.38	£28.50
% change on same period last year	-7.42 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.92	£29.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.38	£22.09
% change on same period last year	+5.80 %
Job Titles London
Matching contract IT job ads	27870	42471
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	39.24 %	42.92 %
Daily rates quoted	11573	15986
Average minimum daily rate	£400	£422
Average daily rate	£429	£451
% change on same period last year	-4.90 %
Average maximum daily rate	£458	£479
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£353
% change on same period last year	-0.20 %
Hourly rates quoted	1595	2259
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.05	£24.09
Average hourly rate	£25.60	£25.73
% change on same period last year	-0.50 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.16	£27.38
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.76	£25.22
% change on same period last year	-5.77 %
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We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer across the London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer across the London region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer across the London region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

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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 London region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
City of London	-7	16	£374	-29.29 %
Docklands, London	+31	3	-	-
Canary Wharf	-	3	£363	-
Hackney	-	1	-	-
Uxbridge	-	1	-	-
Hammersmith	-	1	£450	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the London 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.

1 109 (66.46 %) Windows 2 53 (32.32 %) Windows Server 2003 3 48 (29.27 %) Active Directory 4 46 (28.05 %) MS Exchange 5 36 (21.95 %) Microsoft 6 35 (21.34 %) UNIX 7 34 (20.73 %) Linux 8 33 (20.12 %) Cisco 9 31 (18.90 %) Citrix 10 30 (18.29 %) SAN 11 29 (17.68 %) DNS 11 29 (17.68 %) Exchange Server 2003 12 27 (16.46 %) Finance 12 27 (16.46 %) VMware 13 25 (15.24 %) Windows 2000

14 24 (14.63 %) TCP/IP 15 23 (14.02 %) DHCP 15 23 (14.02 %) Perl 15 23 (14.02 %) Microsoft Certification 16 21 (12.80 %) Oracle 16 21 (12.80 %) MCSE 17 20 (12.20 %) LAN 17 20 (12.20 %) HP 18 19 (11.59 %) IIS 19 18 (10.98 %) SQL 19 18 (10.98 %) WAN 19 18 (10.98 %) Migration 19 18 (10.98 %) Firewall 20 16 (9.756 %) Solaris 20 16 (9.756 %) Windows 2000 Server

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the London 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 3 (1.829 %) WebServices 1 3 (1.829 %) .NET 1 3 (1.829 %) WebSphere 2 2 (1.220 %) Application Packaging 2 2 (1.220 %) Adobe Flex 2 2 (1.220 %) CGI 2 2 (1.220 %) Middleware 2 2 (1.220 %) WinForms 2 2 (1.220 %) Windows SharePoint Services 2 2 (1.220 %) SOAP 3 1 (0.610 %) COM	Application Platforms 1 46 (28.05 %) MS Exchange 2 29 (17.68 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 19 (11.59 %) IIS 4 13 (7.927 %) Exchange Server 2007 5 9 (5.488 %) Apache 6 8 (4.878 %) SharePoint 7 6 (3.659 %) Exchange Server 5.5 8 5 (3.049 %) Oracle Collaboration Suite 9 4 (2.439 %) WebLogic 10 3 (1.829 %) MQSeries 10 3 (1.829 %) Lotus Notes 10 3 (1.829 %) WPS 10 3 (1.829 %) WebSphere MQ 10 3 (1.829 %) SharePoint Portal Server 10 3 (1.829 %) WebSphere Message Broker 11 2 (1.220 %) Tomcat 12 1 (0.610 %) Site Server 12 1 (0.610 %) iPlanet 12 1 (0.610 %) ESB 12 1 (0.610 %) SharePoint Server 2007
Applications 1 10 (6.098 %) MS Excel 2 7 (4.268 %) MS Office 3 2 (1.220 %) MS Visio 4 1 (0.610 %) MS PowerPoint 4 1 (0.610 %) MS Project	Business Applications 1 2 (1.220 %) RMDS 2 1 (0.610 %) Oracle EBS 2 1 (0.610 %) Global One 2 1 (0.610 %) Summit
Communications & Networking 1 30 (18.29 %) SAN 2 29 (17.68 %) DNS 3 24 (14.63 %) TCP/IP 4 23 (14.02 %) DHCP 5 20 (12.20 %) LAN 6 18 (10.98 %) WAN 6 18 (10.98 %) Firewall 7 10 (6.098 %) Cisco PIX 7 10 (6.098 %) ISDN 8 7 (4.268 %) VPN 8 7 (4.268 %) VoIP 9 6 (3.659 %) Intranet 10 4 (2.439 %) Internet 10 4 (2.439 %) LDAP 11 3 (1.829 %) Network Security 12 2 (1.220 %) LLU 12 2 (1.220 %) SSL 12 2 (1.220 %) IP Telephony 12 2 (1.220 %) Intrusion Detection 12 2 (1.220 %) SMS	Database & Business Intelligence 1 15 (9.146 %) SQL Server 2 6 (3.659 %) Oracle 9i 3 4 (2.439 %) Sybase ASE 3 4 (2.439 %) SQL Server 2005 4 3 (1.829 %) SQL Server 2000 5 2 (1.220 %) GIS 5 2 (1.220 %) Sybase IQ 5 2 (1.220 %) MySQL 6 1 (0.610 %) Datawarehouse 6 1 (0.610 %) Oracle Reports
Development Applications 1 4 (2.439 %) VSS/SourceSafe 2 3 (1.829 %) ClearCase 3 2 (1.220 %) JIRA 3 2 (1.220 %) Visual Studio	General 1 27 (16.46 %) Finance 2 12 (7.317 %) Banking 3 10 (6.098 %) Government 4 4 (2.439 %) Construction 4 4 (2.439 %) Auditing 5 3 (1.829 %) Investment Banking 6 2 (1.220 %) Local Government 6 2 (1.220 %) Retail 6 2 (1.220 %) Health 6 2 (1.220 %) Financial Institution 6 2 (1.220 %) Back Office 7 1 (0.610 %) Telecoms 7 1 (0.610 %) Front Office 7 1 (0.610 %) Education
Miscellaneous 1 4 (2.439 %) Blackberry 1 4 (2.439 %) Replication 2 3 (1.829 %) Clustering 3 2 (1.220 %) PDA 3 2 (1.220 %) Fat Client 3 2 (1.220 %) RIA 3 2 (1.220 %) NHS 3 2 (1.220 %) Thin Client 4 1 (0.610 %) Grid Computing 4 1 (0.610 %) French Language	Operating Systems 1 109 (66.46 %) Windows 2 53 (32.32 %) Windows Server 2003 3 35 (21.34 %) UNIX 4 34 (20.73 %) Linux 5 25 (15.24 %) Windows 2000 6 16 (9.756 %) Solaris 6 16 (9.756 %) Windows 2000 Server 7 10 (6.098 %) Red Hat Linux 7 10 (6.098 %) Windows XP 8 6 (3.659 %) Windows NT 8 6 (3.659 %) Windows Server 2008 9 4 (2.439 %) NetWare 10 3 (1.829 %) AIX
Processes & Methodologies 1 18 (10.98 %) Migration 2 8 (4.878 %) SC Cleared 2 8 (4.878 %) Security Cleared 3 5 (3.049 %) Disaster Recovery 3 5 (3.049 %) Asset Management 3 5 (3.049 %) ITIL 4 4 (2.439 %) Project Management 5 3 (1.829 %) E-Commerce 5 3 (1.829 %) EAI 5 3 (1.829 %) SOA 5 3 (1.829 %) Project Planning 5 3 (1.829 %) Business Continuity 5 3 (1.829 %) Data Protection 6 2 (1.220 %) User Acceptance Testing 6 2 (1.220 %) Software Engineering 7 1 (0.610 %) Incident Management 7 1 (0.610 %) Technical Architecture 7 1 (0.610 %) Release Management 7 1 (0.610 %) Validation 7 1 (0.610 %) BPR	Programming Languages 1 23 (14.02 %) Perl 2 18 (10.98 %) SQL 3 13 (7.927 %) Java 4 10 (6.098 %) Shell Script 5 7 (4.268 %) C++ 6 5 (3.049 %) C 7 3 (1.829 %) C# 8 2 (1.220 %) VB 8 2 (1.220 %) Korn 9 1 (0.610 %) Ruby 9 1 (0.610 %) VBA
Qualifications 1 23 (14.02 %) Microsoft Certification 2 21 (12.80 %) MCSE 3 12 (7.317 %) Cisco Certification 4 9 (5.488 %) MCP 5 7 (4.268 %) CCNP 6 6 (3.659 %) Degree 7 5 (3.049 %) CCNA 7 5 (3.049 %) CCIE 8 4 (2.439 %) CCA 8 4 (2.439 %) Citrix Certification 9 2 (1.220 %) CCEA 9 2 (1.220 %) Novell Certification 10 1 (0.610 %) Check Point Certification 10 1 (0.610 %) CCSA 10 1 (0.610 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 10 1 (0.610 %) CNE 10 1 (0.610 %) MCAD 10 1 (0.610 %) MCSA 10 1 (0.610 %) MCT 10 1 (0.610 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (1.220 %) QA
System Software 1 48 (29.27 %) Active Directory 2 14 (8.537 %) Backup Exec 3 11 (6.707 %) VMware ESX 4 9 (5.488 %) ISA Server 5 8 (4.878 %) VMware Infrastructure 6 6 (3.659 %) Citrix Presentation Server 6 6 (3.659 %) Oracle RMAN 7 5 (3.049 %) Oracle RAC 8 4 (2.439 %) NetBackup 9 3 (1.829 %) VMware GSX 10 2 (1.220 %) Terminal Server 10 2 (1.220 %) VMware Server 11 1 (0.610 %) MetaFrame 11 1 (0.610 %) AquaLogic	Systems Management 1 6 (3.659 %) MAILsweeper 2 5 (3.049 %) MOM 3 4 (2.439 %) DameWare 3 4 (2.439 %) Netcool 4 3 (1.829 %) BMC PATROL 4 3 (1.829 %) ARCserve 4 3 (1.829 %) Legato 4 3 (1.829 %) EMC NetWorker 4 3 (1.829 %) SCCM 5 2 (1.220 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 5 2 (1.220 %) WSUS 6 1 (0.610 %) Unicenter
Vendors 1 36 (21.95 %) Microsoft 2 33 (20.12 %) Cisco 3 31 (18.90 %) Citrix 4 27 (16.46 %) VMware 5 21 (12.80 %) Oracle 6 20 (12.20 %) HP 7 15 (9.146 %) Sybase 8 10 (6.098 %) Altiris 8 10 (6.098 %) Red Hat 9 5 (3.049 %) McAfee Security 9 5 (3.049 %) EMC 9 5 (3.049 %) Novell 9 5 (3.049 %) VERITAS 9 5 (3.049 %) Lotus 10 4 (2.439 %) Bloomberg 10 4 (2.439 %) Kofax 11 3 (1.829 %) CheckPoint 11 3 (1.829 %) Reuters 11 3 (1.829 %) BMC 12 2 (1.220 %) Avaya