The first table below looks at the demand for the Infrastructure Specialist role in IT contracts advertised for the North West 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 22 May 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 North West 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Infrastructure Specialist
Rank 116 112 108
Rank change year-on-year
-4 -4
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Specialist 7 18 18
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 0.297% 0.567% 0.598%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.319% 0.617% 0.646%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 13
Average daily rate £213 £475 £265
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-55.26% +79.24%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £475 £255
10% offered a daily rate of more than £303 £475 £410
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £450 £319
% change year-on-year
-27.77% +41.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
Average hourly rate £32.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 - £19.00
All Job Titles
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
2193 2915 2785
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 93.16% 91.78% 92.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1046 1442 1383
Average daily rate £338 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.84% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £205 £225 £185
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £475 £470
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 174 178 190
Average hourly rate £17.50 £19.00 £17.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-7.89% +10.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £12.01 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £33.32 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
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 North West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

North West 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 North West region.

North West 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 North West region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

North West 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 North West region.

North West Infrastructure Specialist Hourly Rate Trend

Infrastructure Specialist
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Infrastructure Specialist across the North West region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

North West Infrastructure Specialist Hourly Rate Histogram

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 North West region over the 3 months to 22 May 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
Lancashire - 6 £213 -
Cheshire 0 1 - -
Infrastructure Specialist
England

Infrastructure Specialist
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 8 (66.67%) Windows
2 5 (41.67%) DNS
2 5 (41.67%) SAN
2 5 (41.67%) Firewall
3 4 (33.33%) VMware
3 4 (33.33%) Windows 7
3 4 (33.33%) SCCM
3 4 (33.33%) Tivoli
3 4 (33.33%) SSL
3 4 (33.33%) UNIX
4 3 (25.00%) DB2
4 3 (25.00%) AIX
4 3 (25.00%) Solaris
4 3 (25.00%) Linux
4 3 (25.00%) Java
4 3 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 3 (25.00%) Perl
4 3 (25.00%) Windows XP
4 3 (25.00%) Cisco
4 3 (25.00%) IBM
4 3 (25.00%) Tivoli Identity Manager
4 3 (25.00%) Citrix
4 3 (25.00%) Tivoli Directory Integrator
4 3 (25.00%) Tivoli Directory Server
4 3 (25.00%) BladeLogic
4 3 (25.00%) QA
4 3 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 3 (25.00%) Identity Management
4 3 (25.00%) Middleware
5 2 (16.67%) Finance

Infrastructure Specialist
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 (25.00%) Tivoli Directory Integrator
1 3 (25.00%) Middleware
2 1 (8.333%) Application Packaging
Application Platforms
1 2 (16.67%) SharePoint 2010
1 2 (16.67%) SharePoint
2 1 (8.333%) MS Exchange
Communications & Networking
1 5 (41.67%) DNS
1 5 (41.67%) SAN
1 5 (41.67%) Firewall
2 4 (33.33%) SSL
3 2 (16.67%) NAS
3 2 (16.67%) LAN
4 1 (8.333%) WLAN
4 1 (8.333%) WAN
4 1 (8.333%) DHCP
4 1 (8.333%) TCP/IP
4 1 (8.333%) VPN
4 1 (8.333%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) DB2
2 1 (8.333%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (8.333%) MSI
General
1 2 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (8.333%) Local Government
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.333%) Replication
1 1 (8.333%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 8 (66.67%) Windows
2 4 (33.33%) Windows 7
2 4 (33.33%) UNIX
3 3 (25.00%) AIX
3 3 (25.00%) Solaris
3 3 (25.00%) Linux
3 3 (25.00%) Windows XP
3 3 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (8.333%) Windows NT
4 1 (8.333%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (25.00%) Identity Management
2 2 (16.67%) ITIL
3 1 (8.333%) PRINCE2
3 1 (8.333%) Change Control
3 1 (8.333%) Migration
3 1 (8.333%) Service Management
3 1 (8.333%) Content Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) Java
1 3 (25.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (25.00%) Perl
2 1 (8.333%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (8.333%) CCNP
1 1 (8.333%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) QA
2 1 (8.333%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) Tivoli Directory Server
2 2 (16.67%) Hyper-V
2 2 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (8.333%) Active Directory
3 1 (8.333%) XenApp
3 1 (8.333%) Citrix Presentation Server
3 1 (8.333%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) SCCM
1 4 (33.33%) Tivoli
2 3 (25.00%) Tivoli Identity Manager
2 3 (25.00%) BladeLogic
3 1 (8.333%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) VMware
2 3 (25.00%) Cisco
2 3 (25.00%) IBM
2 3 (25.00%) Citrix
3 2 (16.67%) HP
3 2 (16.67%) NetApp
3 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
4 1 (8.333%) Dell
4 1 (8.333%) EMC
4 1 (8.333%) Juniper
4 1 (8.333%) Lumension
4 1 (8.333%) Symantec
4 1 (8.333%) AppSense
4 1 (8.333%) Brocade