Infrastructure Support Contracts in London

Infrastructure Support
England > London

The median Infrastructure Support daily rate in London is £385 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 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
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 363 472 572
Rank change year-on-year +109 +100 -131
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Support 19 11 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.11% 0.042% 0.096%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.044% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 6 25
10th Percentile £208 - £360
25th Percentile £338 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £385 £450 £400
Median % change year-on-year -14.44% +12.50% -15.79%
75th Percentile £500 £525 £450
90th Percentile £524 £550 £609
England median daily rate £375 £400 £400
% change year-on-year -6.25% - +10.34%

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 16,506 25,035 36,829
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.29% 95.25% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,947 18,137 26,928
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £445 £463 £471
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £680 £700 £683
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 329 282 444
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.00 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.66 £22.50
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.75 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +2.14% +8.63%
75th Percentile £44.75 £62.64 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.01 £79.80 £67.94
England median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -17.38% +100.00% +2.27%

Infrastructure Support
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Support in London

Infrastructure Support
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Support in London

Infrastructure Support
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Support in London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Support in London

Infrastructure Support
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Support in London.

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Support in London

Infrastructure Support
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Support within the London region over the 6 months to 8 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
East London - 4 £500 -
Central London +41 2 £385 -30.00% 1
Infrastructure Support
England

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

For the 6 months to 8 May 2024, Infrastructure Support 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 Infrastructure Support in the job title.

1 10 (52.63%) Microsoft 365
1 10 (52.63%) Windows 10
1 10 (52.63%) Disaster Recovery
1 10 (52.63%) Windows
1 10 (52.63%) Microsoft
1 10 (52.63%) Active Directory
1 10 (52.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 9 (47.37%) Finance
2 9 (47.37%) SCCM
3 8 (42.11%) Firewall
4 7 (36.84%) VMware
4 7 (36.84%) Citrix
4 7 (36.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (36.84%) AWS
4 7 (36.84%) ServiceNow
4 7 (36.84%) Windows Server
5 6 (31.58%) Virtual Infrastructure
5 6 (31.58%) Refinitiv
5 6 (31.58%) Bloomberg
6 5 (26.32%) ITIL
6 5 (26.32%) SLA
6 5 (26.32%) Time Management
6 5 (26.32%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (21.05%) Data Centre
8 3 (15.79%) Entra ID
8 3 (15.79%) Azure
9 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (10.53%) SQL Server
9 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Office
9 2 (10.53%) Management Information System

Infrastructure Support 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:

Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 10 (52.63%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (36.84%) AWS
3 3 (15.79%) Azure
3 3 (15.79%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 8 (42.11%) Firewall
2 1 (5.26%) Structured Cabling
2 1 (5.26%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.53%) SQL Server
General
1 9 (47.37%) Finance
2 5 (26.32%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (10.53%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Data Centre
2 2 (10.53%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 10 (52.63%) Windows
1 10 (52.63%) Windows 10
2 7 (36.84%) Windows Server
3 2 (10.53%) Windows 7
4 1 (5.26%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (52.63%) Disaster Recovery
1 10 (52.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (31.58%) Virtual Infrastructure
3 5 (26.32%) ITIL
3 5 (26.32%) Time Management
4 1 (5.26%) Customer Service
4 1 (5.26%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (5.26%) Open Source
4 1 (5.26%) Order Management
4 1 (5.26%) Project Delivery
4 1 (5.26%) Project Management
4 1 (5.26%) Prototyping
4 1 (5.26%) Service Delivery
Qualifications
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (10.53%) SC Cleared
1 2 (10.53%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (26.32%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (52.63%) Active Directory
2 7 (36.84%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (47.37%) SCCM
Vendors
1 10 (52.63%) Microsoft
2 7 (36.84%) Citrix
2 7 (36.84%) ServiceNow
2 7 (36.84%) VMware
3 6 (31.58%) Bloomberg
3 6 (31.58%) Refinitiv