The first table below looks at the demand for the Infrastructure Specialist 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 Specialist 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 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Infrastructure Specialist
Rank 370 364 420
Rank change year-on-year
-6 +56
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Specialist 14 46 23
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.061% 0.173% 0.073%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.067% 0.187% 0.079%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 16 13
Average daily rate £363 £400 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-9.37% +14.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £328 £345 £248
10% offered a daily rate of more than £480 £483 £478
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £450 £338
% change year-on-year
-26.66% +33.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £38.75 £22.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year
+76.13% +15.78%
All Job Titles
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
20976 24602 29086
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 91.99% 92.53% 92.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 14169 15932 18722
Average daily rate £450 £438 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.85% -7.89%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £293
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 447 607 665
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 £12.50 £12.50 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £41.00 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £19.94
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -9.72%
Infrastructure Specialist
England

Infrastructure Specialist
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London Infrastructure Specialist Jobs Demand Trend

Infrastructure Specialist
Daily Rate Trend

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

London Infrastructure Specialist Daily Rate Trend

Infrastructure Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Infrastructure Specialist across the London region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

London Infrastructure Specialist Daily Rate Histogram

Infrastructure Specialist
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London Infrastructure Specialist Hourly Rate Trend

Infrastructure Specialist
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Specialist within the London region over the 3 months to 19 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 -11 4 £450 +12.50% 5
Infrastructure Specialist
England

Infrastructure Specialist
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region that cited Infrastructure Specialist 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 Specialist in their job title.

1 20 (51.28%) Windows
2 14 (35.90%) Migration
2 14 (35.90%) Windows Server 2008
3 13 (33.33%) Linux
3 13 (33.33%) Microsoft
4 11 (28.21%) Active Directory
4 11 (28.21%) MS Exchange
4 11 (28.21%) SCOM
4 11 (28.21%) VMware
5 10 (25.64%) SCCM
6 9 (23.08%) SharePoint
6 9 (23.08%) Exchange Server 2010
7 8 (20.51%) High Availability
7 8 (20.51%) SharePoint 2010
7 8 (20.51%) Cisco
7 8 (20.51%) DV Cleared
7 8 (20.51%) Security Cleared
8 7 (17.95%) HP
8 7 (17.95%) Citrix
8 7 (17.95%) Cisco Certification
8 7 (17.95%) VMware ESXi
9 6 (15.38%) Symantec
9 6 (15.38%) Blackberry
9 6 (15.38%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
9 6 (15.38%) Finance
10 5 (12.82%) Configuration Management
10 5 (12.82%) SAN
10 5 (12.82%) DNS
10 5 (12.82%) SSL
10 5 (12.82%) Exchange Server 2003

Infrastructure Specialist
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region that cited Infrastructure Specialist 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 Specialist in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (7.692%) Middleware
1 3 (7.692%) Tivoli Directory Integrator
2 2 (5.128%) Web Services
3 1 (2.564%) LAMP
3 1 (2.564%) Application Packaging
3 1 (2.564%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 11 (28.21%) MS Exchange
2 9 (23.08%) SharePoint
2 9 (23.08%) Exchange Server 2010
3 8 (20.51%) SharePoint 2010
4 6 (15.38%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 5 (12.82%) Exchange Server 2003
5 5 (12.82%) Lync
6 3 (7.692%) Exchange Server 2007
7 2 (5.128%) Exchange Server 2013
7 2 (5.128%) Windows Azure
7 2 (5.128%) Amazon AWS
8 1 (2.564%) Apache
8 1 (2.564%) IIS
8 1 (2.564%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 4 (10.26%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.564%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (2.564%) SAP Oil and Gas
Communications & Networking
1 5 (12.82%) SAN
1 5 (12.82%) DNS
1 5 (12.82%) SSL
2 4 (10.26%) Internet
2 4 (10.26%) S/MIME
2 4 (10.26%) Firewall
3 2 (5.128%) VLAN
3 2 (5.128%) SMTP
4 1 (2.564%) Wireless
4 1 (2.564%) LDAP
4 1 (2.564%) LAN
4 1 (2.564%) WAN
4 1 (2.564%) DHCP
4 1 (2.564%) Kerberos
4 1 (2.564%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.692%) DB2
2 1 (2.564%) MySQL
2 1 (2.564%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (2.564%) MSI
General
1 6 (15.38%) Finance
2 4 (10.26%) Banking
3 3 (7.692%) Retail
4 2 (5.128%) Local Government
5 1 (2.564%) Advertising
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.38%) Blackberry
2 2 (5.128%) Clustering
2 2 (5.128%) SaaS
3 1 (2.564%) EqualLogic
3 1 (2.564%) CESG
3 1 (2.564%) PKI
3 1 (2.564%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 20 (51.28%) Windows
2 14 (35.90%) Windows Server 2008
3 13 (33.33%) Linux
4 4 (10.26%) Windows Server 2003
4 4 (10.26%) UNIX
5 3 (7.692%) AIX
5 3 (7.692%) Solaris
5 3 (7.692%) Windows 7
6 2 (5.128%) Windows 8
6 2 (5.128%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (5.128%) Windows XP
7 1 (2.564%) Windows 2000 Server
7 1 (2.564%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (2.564%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (35.90%) Migration
2 8 (20.51%) High Availability
3 5 (12.82%) Configuration Management
4 4 (10.26%) Root Cause Analysis
5 3 (7.692%) Identity Management
5 3 (7.692%) Project Management
5 3 (7.692%) Validation
5 3 (7.692%) Change Control
6 2 (5.128%) Infrastructure Management
6 2 (5.128%) Network Load Balancing
6 2 (5.128%) Network Architecture
6 2 (5.128%) SOA
6 2 (5.128%) ITIL
6 2 (5.128%) PRINCE2
7 1 (2.564%) Service Delivery
7 1 (2.564%) CRM
7 1 (2.564%) Communications Security
7 1 (2.564%) Risk Assessment
7 1 (2.564%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (10.26%) Perl
1 4 (10.26%) Java
2 3 (7.692%) JavaScript
2 3 (7.692%) SQL
3 2 (5.128%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.564%) Python
4 1 (2.564%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 8 (20.51%) DV Cleared
1 8 (20.51%) Security Cleared
2 7 (17.95%) Cisco Certification
3 5 (12.82%) Degree
4 2 (5.128%) Citrix Certification
4 2 (5.128%) CCNP
4 2 (5.128%) CCNA
5 1 (2.564%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.692%) SLA
2 2 (5.128%) QA
3 1 (2.564%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 11 (28.21%) Active Directory
2 7 (17.95%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (10.26%) UAG
3 4 (10.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (10.26%) XenApp
4 3 (7.692%) Tivoli Directory Server
4 3 (7.692%) Microsoft App-V
5 2 (5.128%) Hyper-V
5 2 (5.128%) XenServer
6 1 (2.564%) MetaFrame
6 1 (2.564%) NFS
6 1 (2.564%) Postfix
6 1 (2.564%) VMware Server
6 1 (2.564%) Samba
Systems Management
1 11 (28.21%) SCOM
2 10 (25.64%) SCCM
3 5 (12.82%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
4 3 (7.692%) Tivoli
4 3 (7.692%) Tivoli Identity Manager
4 3 (7.692%) BladeLogic
5 2 (5.128%) Backup Exec
5 2 (5.128%) WSUS
5 2 (5.128%) SCVMM
6 1 (2.564%) McAfee ePO
6 1 (2.564%) Puppet
Vendors
1 13 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 11 (28.21%) VMware
3 8 (20.51%) Cisco
4 7 (17.95%) HP
4 7 (17.95%) Citrix
5 6 (15.38%) Symantec
6 4 (10.26%) AppSense
6 4 (10.26%) IBM
6 4 (10.26%) Websense
7 3 (7.692%) Dell
8 2 (5.128%) Broadcom
9 1 (2.564%) Red Hat
9 1 (2.564%) McAfee
9 1 (2.564%) JBoss
9 1 (2.564%) Oracle
9 1 (2.564%) SAP
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