Infrastructure Engineer Contracts in Manchester

Infrastructure Engineer
North West > Manchester

The median Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in Manchester is £438 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 April 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
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 74 50 93
Rank change year-on-year -24 +43 -11
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 25 67 49
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.62% 3.54% 1.89%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.70% 3.67% 1.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 49 37
10th Percentile £313 £323 £240
25th Percentile £375 £415 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% +5.56% +28.57%
75th Percentile £531 £500 £538
90th Percentile £644 £540 £625
North West median daily rate £425 £475 £425
% change year-on-year -10.53% +11.76% +30.77%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Manchester. 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 Manchester with a recognized job title 1,474 1,828 2,522
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.78% 96.62% 97.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,022 1,359 1,979
10th Percentile £313 £313 £224
25th Percentile £395 £410 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £584 £588 £575
90th Percentile £688 £663 £650
North West median daily rate £493 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 84 55 62
10th Percentile £12.07 £14.10 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.31 £20.00 £11.82
Median hourly rate £25.10 £35.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.30% +100.00% +7.83%
75th Percentile £62.50 £48.13 £23.69
90th Percentile £73.75 £68.40 £33.75
North West median hourly rate £26.53 £30.54 £20.31
% change year-on-year -13.15% +50.37% +12.47%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in Manchester

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in Manchester

Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in Manchester over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in Manchester

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in Manchester.

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in Manchester

Infrastructure Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 29 April 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
Wigan -3 4 £400 -
Infrastructure Engineer
North West

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

For the 6 months to 29 April 2024, 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 Manchester region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 25 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 18 (72.00%) Azure
3 10 (40.00%) VMware
4 9 (36.00%) AWS
4 9 (36.00%) Microsoft
4 9 (36.00%) Active Directory
5 7 (28.00%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (28.00%) Windows
5 7 (28.00%) Hyper-V
5 7 (28.00%) Security Cleared
5 7 (28.00%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (24.00%) Terraform
6 6 (24.00%) VMware Infrastructure
6 6 (24.00%) Linux
7 5 (20.00%) PowerShell
7 5 (20.00%) Migration
7 5 (20.00%) SC Cleared
8 4 (16.00%) CI/CD
8 4 (16.00%) Customer Service
8 4 (16.00%) Power Platform
8 4 (16.00%) Social Skills
8 4 (16.00%) Power BI
8 4 (16.00%) Network Virtualisation
8 4 (16.00%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (16.00%) Hudson
8 4 (16.00%) DevOps
8 4 (16.00%) Mimecast
8 4 (16.00%) Wireless Security
8 4 (16.00%) SharePoint
8 4 (16.00%) LAN

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (28.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (16.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 18 (72.00%) Azure
2 9 (36.00%) AWS
3 7 (28.00%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (16.00%) Mimecast
4 4 (16.00%) Power Platform
5 3 (12.00%) GCP
6 2 (8.00%) Nutanix
7 1 (4.00%) Entra ID
7 1 (4.00%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.00%) LAN
1 4 (16.00%) WAN
1 4 (16.00%) Wireless
1 4 (16.00%) Wireless Security
2 3 (12.00%) Ethernet
2 3 (12.00%) OSPF
2 3 (12.00%) SAN
2 3 (12.00%) VPN
3 2 (8.00%) DHCP
3 2 (8.00%) DNS
3 2 (8.00%) Firewall
4 1 (4.00%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (4.00%) NAS
4 1 (4.00%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.00%) Power BI
2 3 (12.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 4 (16.00%) Hudson
General
1 4 (16.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (4.00%) Legal
3 1 (4.00%) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.00%) Clustering
1 2 (8.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (8.00%) Private Cloud
2 1 (4.00%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (28.00%) Windows
2 6 (24.00%) Linux
3 3 (12.00%) Apple iOS
3 3 (12.00%) Mac OS
3 3 (12.00%) Windows Server
4 2 (8.00%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (4.00%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (4.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (20.00%) Migration
3 4 (16.00%) CI/CD
3 4 (16.00%) Customer Service
3 4 (16.00%) DevOps
3 4 (16.00%) Network Virtualisation
4 3 (12.00%) Open Source
4 3 (12.00%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (4.00%) Agile
5 1 (4.00%) BCP
5 1 (4.00%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (4.00%) Database Security
5 1 (4.00%) ITIL
5 1 (4.00%) Mentoring
5 1 (4.00%) Problem Management
5 1 (4.00%) Project Delivery
5 1 (4.00%) Scrum
5 1 (4.00%) Technology Strategy
5 1 (4.00%) Time Management
5 1 (4.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 5 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (8.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (28.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (12.00%) CCNA
3 3 (12.00%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (12.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (12.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 2 (8.00%) MCITP
4 2 (8.00%) VCAP
5 1 (4.00%) MCSA
5 1 (4.00%) MCSE
System Software
1 9 (36.00%) Active Directory
2 7 (28.00%) Hyper-V
3 6 (24.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (12.00%) VMware NSX
5 1 (4.00%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (4.00%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (4.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (24.00%) Terraform
2 4 (16.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Clustering
3 1 (4.00%) vCenter Server
3 1 (4.00%) VxRail
Vendors
1 10 (40.00%) VMware
2 9 (36.00%) Microsoft
3 4 (16.00%) Dell
3 4 (16.00%) Sophos
4 3 (12.00%) 3PAR
4 3 (12.00%) Cisco
4 3 (12.00%) Nimble Storage
4 3 (12.00%) Red Hat
4 3 (12.00%) Veeam
5 2 (8.00%) Dell Compellent
5 2 (8.00%) HP
6 1 (4.00%) Citrix
6 1 (4.00%) CyberArk
6 1 (4.00%) EMC
6 1 (4.00%) Meraki