The first table below looks at the demand for the Infrastructure Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the Oxfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Infrastructure Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 18 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 Oxfordshire 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Infrastructure Engineer
Rank 45 53 50
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -3
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 5 2 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 1.062% 0.344% 0.405%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.124% 0.354% 0.420%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
Average daily rate £325 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £290 £300 £275
% change year-on-year
-3.33% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £23.50 £30.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-21.66% +13.20%
All Job Titles
Oxfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
445 565 476
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 94.48% 97.08% 96.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 264 279 218
Average daily rate £350 £375 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.66% +25.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £225 £180
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £500 £413
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 76 65
Average hourly rate £15.00 £15.00 £14.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +3.44%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £10.00 £11.29
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.50 £30.00 £25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Infrastructure Engineer
South East

Infrastructure Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxfordshire Infrastructure Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Oxfordshire Infrastructure Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer across the Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

Oxfordshire Infrastructure Engineer Daily Rate Histogram

Infrastructure Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Oxfordshire Infrastructure Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Infrastructure Engineer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer within the Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 18 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Banbury - 2 £325 - 1
Oxford - 1 £175 - 2
Witney - - - -
Henley-on-Thames - - - -
Kidlington - - - - 1
Infrastructure Engineer
South East

Infrastructure Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire region that cited Infrastructure Engineer 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 Engineer in their job title.

1 6 (85.71%) Windows
1 6 (85.71%) Microsoft
1 6 (85.71%) Active Directory
1 6 (85.71%) VMware
1 6 (85.71%) Windows Server 2008
2 4 (57.14%) NetApp
2 4 (57.14%) MS Exchange
3 3 (42.86%) Citrix
4 2 (28.57%) WAN
4 2 (28.57%) MS Excel
4 2 (28.57%) ITIL
4 2 (28.57%) CheckPoint
4 2 (28.57%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (28.57%) NetBackup
4 2 (28.57%) Business Continuity
4 2 (28.57%) Cisco
4 2 (28.57%) Migration
4 2 (28.57%) Banking
4 2 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (28.57%) F5
4 2 (28.57%) XenApp
5 1 (14.29%) Windows 7
5 1 (14.29%) vSphere
5 1 (14.29%) Exchange Server 2010
5 1 (14.29%) Hyper-V
5 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
5 1 (14.29%) Red Hat
5 1 (14.29%) HP
5 1 (14.29%) MCP
5 1 (14.29%) UNIX

Infrastructure Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire region that cited Infrastructure Engineer 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 Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 4 (57.14%) MS Exchange
2 1 (14.29%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 2 (28.57%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) WAN
2 1 (14.29%) DNS
2 1 (14.29%) SAN
General
1 2 (28.57%) Banking
Operating Systems
1 6 (85.71%) Windows
1 6 (85.71%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (28.57%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (14.29%) UNIX
3 1 (14.29%) Windows 7
3 1 (14.29%) Solaris
3 1 (14.29%) Linux
3 1 (14.29%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) ITIL
1 2 (28.57%) Migration
1 2 (28.57%) Business Continuity
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) MCP
1 1 (14.29%) MCSE
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (14.29%) Sun Certification
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 6 (85.71%) Active Directory
2 2 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (28.57%) XenApp
3 1 (14.29%) vSphere
3 1 (14.29%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) Microsoft
1 6 (85.71%) VMware
2 4 (57.14%) NetApp
3 3 (42.86%) Citrix
4 2 (28.57%) CheckPoint
4 2 (28.57%) Cisco
4 2 (28.57%) F5
5 1 (14.29%) Oracle
5 1 (14.29%) HP
5 1 (14.29%) Red Hat
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