Lead Infrastructure Engineer Contracts in London

Lead Infrastructure Engineer
England > London

The median Lead Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in London is £525 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 381 490 590
Rank change year-on-year +109 +100 -125
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Infrastructure Engineer 9 1 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.051% 0.004% 0.031%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.055% 0.004% 0.032%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 5
10th Percentile £428 - £585
25th Percentile £450 - £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £400 £618
Median % change year-on-year +31.25% -35.22% +82.96%
75th Percentile £563 - £626
90th Percentile £608 - £753
England median daily rate £475 £519 £600
% change year-on-year -8.43% -13.54% +65.52%

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%

Lead Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Infrastructure Engineer in London

Lead Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Lead Infrastructure Engineer in London

Lead Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Lead Infrastructure Engineer in London

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

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, Lead Infrastructure Engineer 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 Lead Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (77.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 6 (66.67%) Linux
2 6 (66.67%) AWS
2 6 (66.67%) DevOps
3 4 (44.44%) Ansible
3 4 (44.44%) SaaS
3 4 (44.44%) Windows
3 4 (44.44%) Amazon EventBridge
3 4 (44.44%) Containerisation
3 4 (44.44%) DevSecOps
4 3 (33.33%) VMware NSX
4 3 (33.33%) Windows Server
4 3 (33.33%) Python
4 3 (33.33%) Ruby
4 3 (33.33%) Bash
4 3 (33.33%) Puppet
4 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
4 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
4 3 (33.33%) VMware
4 3 (33.33%) GitHub
5 2 (22.22%) Red Hat Satellite
5 2 (22.22%) Software-Defined Networking
5 2 (22.22%) GitLab
5 2 (22.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (22.22%) Git
5 2 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (22.22%) vSphere
5 2 (22.22%) Process Improvement
5 2 (22.22%) Korn

Lead Infrastructure Engineer 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (66.67%) AWS
2 4 (44.44%) Amazon EventBridge
2 4 (44.44%) SaaS
3 3 (33.33%) GitHub
4 1 (11.11%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) Software-Defined Networking
2 1 (11.11%) Firewall
2 1 (11.11%) SNA
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Git
1 2 (22.22%) GitLab
2 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (22.22%) Banking
1 2 (22.22%) Finance
1 2 (22.22%) Investment Banking
2 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (66.67%) Linux
2 4 (44.44%) Windows
3 3 (33.33%) Windows Server
4 2 (22.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (11.11%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 6 (66.67%) DevOps
3 4 (44.44%) Containerisation
3 4 (44.44%) DevSecOps
4 2 (22.22%) Asset Management
4 2 (22.22%) ITIL
4 2 (22.22%) ITSM
4 2 (22.22%) Process Improvement
5 1 (11.11%) Agile
5 1 (11.11%) Business Continuity
5 1 (11.11%) Change Control
5 1 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (11.11%) Network Architecture
5 1 (11.11%) Problem Management
5 1 (11.11%) Scrum
5 1 (11.11%) Service Management
5 1 (11.11%) Task Automation
5 1 (11.11%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) Bash
1 3 (33.33%) Python
1 3 (33.33%) Ruby
2 2 (22.22%) C
2 2 (22.22%) Korn
2 2 (22.22%) Perl
3 1 (11.11%) C#
3 1 (11.11%) Go
3 1 (11.11%) Java
3 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (22.22%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (11.11%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) VMware NSX
2 2 (22.22%) Firmware
2 2 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (22.22%) vSphere
3 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) Ansible
2 3 (33.33%) Puppet
3 2 (22.22%) Red Hat Satellite
3 2 (22.22%) VxRail
4 1 (11.11%) Progress Chef
4 1 (11.11%) SCOM
4 1 (11.11%) Terraform
4 1 (11.11%) vCenter Server
4 1 (11.11%) vRealize
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) VMware
2 2 (22.22%) Cisco
2 2 (22.22%) Red Hat
2 2 (22.22%) Sun
2 2 (22.22%) TOWER Software
3 1 (11.11%) Dell
3 1 (11.11%) LogRhythm
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 1 (11.11%) ServiceNow
3 1 (11.11%) SolarWinds
3 1 (11.11%) Turbonomic