Infrastructure Engineer Contracts in Reading

Infrastructure Engineer
Berkshire > Reading

The median Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in Reading is £605 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 71 76 85
Rank change year-on-year +5 +9 -28
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 24 11 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 2.02% 1.06% 0.96%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.16% 1.10% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 10 8
10th Percentile £448 £404 £363
25th Percentile £525 £572 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £625 £524
Median % change year-on-year -3.20% +19.27% +31.66%
75th Percentile £608 £666 £613
90th Percentile - £683 £727
Berkshire median daily rate £550 £588 £524
% change year-on-year -6.38% +12.12% +22.29%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Reading

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Reading. 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 Reading with a recognized job title 1,113 996 1,298
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 95.68% 95.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 634 664 884
10th Percentile £213 £363 £181
25th Percentile £413 £453 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.09% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £623 £651 £595
90th Percentile £688 £721 £655
Berkshire median daily rate £513 £525 £490
% change year-on-year -2.38% +7.14% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 24 7
10th Percentile £35.00 £26.45 £12.30
25th Percentile £52.90 £51.48 £17.63
Median hourly rate £61.60 £65.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.23% +150.00% -40.23%
75th Percentile £74.66 £74.20 £32.50
90th Percentile £87.46 £79.19 £33.50
Berkshire median hourly rate £60.00 £56.89 £21.00
% change year-on-year +5.48% +170.88% -2.33%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in Reading

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in Reading

Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

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

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in Reading

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in Reading

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

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 Reading region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 24 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 22 (91.67%) Security Cleared
3 21 (87.50%) DV Cleared
4 20 (83.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (83.33%) VMware
5 19 (79.17%) Azure
6 18 (75.00%) PowerShell
7 17 (70.83%) Windows
7 17 (70.83%) Linux
7 17 (70.83%) Windows Server
8 16 (66.67%) SC Cleared
9 14 (58.33%) SCCM
10 13 (54.17%) SCOM
10 13 (54.17%) WSUS
10 13 (54.17%) EMC NetWorker
10 13 (54.17%) Degree
10 13 (54.17%) Hyper-V
10 13 (54.17%) 3PAR
10 13 (54.17%) VMware ESXi
10 13 (54.17%) Windows Server 2012
10 13 (54.17%) Performance Tuning
10 13 (54.17%) Performance Monitoring
10 13 (54.17%) Oracle
10 13 (54.17%) ITIL
10 13 (54.17%) Windows XP
10 13 (54.17%) NetBackup
10 13 (54.17%) Disaster Recovery
10 13 (54.17%) Firewall
10 13 (54.17%) DHCP
10 13 (54.17%) DNS

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 19 (79.17%) Azure
2 13 (54.17%) OCI
3 4 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 13 (54.17%) DHCP
1 13 (54.17%) DNS
1 13 (54.17%) Firewall
1 13 (54.17%) SAN
Development Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Robot Framework
1 2 (8.33%) Selenium
General
1 13 (54.17%) Social Skills
2 4 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (8.33%) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous
1 13 (54.17%) Data Centre
2 4 (16.67%) Client/Server
3 2 (8.33%) Public Cloud
4 1 (4.17%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 17 (70.83%) Linux
1 17 (70.83%) Windows
1 17 (70.83%) Windows Server
2 13 (54.17%) Windows 10
2 13 (54.17%) Windows Server 2012
2 13 (54.17%) Windows Server 2016
2 13 (54.17%) Windows Server 2019
2 13 (54.17%) Windows XP
3 4 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 13 (54.17%) Break/Fix
2 13 (54.17%) Converged Infrastructure
2 13 (54.17%) Disaster Recovery
2 13 (54.17%) ITIL
2 13 (54.17%) Performance Monitoring
2 13 (54.17%) Performance Tuning
2 13 (54.17%) Proactive Monitoring
2 13 (54.17%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (54.17%) Project Management
2 13 (54.17%) Server Management
2 13 (54.17%) Storage Management
3 4 (16.67%) Agile
3 4 (16.67%) Application Packaging
3 4 (16.67%) Application Virtualisation
3 4 (16.67%) DevOps
3 4 (16.67%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 2 (8.33%) Release Management
4 2 (8.33%) Scrum
4 2 (8.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 18 (75.00%) PowerShell
2 4 (16.67%) Python
2 4 (16.67%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 22 (91.67%) Security Cleared
2 21 (87.50%) DV Cleared
3 16 (66.67%) SC Cleared
4 13 (54.17%) CCNA
4 13 (54.17%) CCNP
4 13 (54.17%) Cisco Certification
4 13 (54.17%) Degree
System Software
1 20 (83.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (54.17%) Active Directory
2 13 (54.17%) Hyper-V
2 13 (54.17%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (8.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 14 (58.33%) SCCM
2 13 (54.17%) EMC NetWorker
2 13 (54.17%) NetBackup
2 13 (54.17%) SCOM
2 13 (54.17%) vCenter Server
2 13 (54.17%) WSUS
3 1 (4.17%) Ansible
Vendors
1 20 (83.33%) VMware
2 13 (54.17%) 3PAR
2 13 (54.17%) Cisco
2 13 (54.17%) Dell
2 13 (54.17%) EMC
2 13 (54.17%) Extreme Networks
2 13 (54.17%) HP
2 13 (54.17%) Juniper
2 13 (54.17%) Microsoft
2 13 (54.17%) Oracle
2 13 (54.17%) Palo Alto
2 13 (54.17%) Symantec
2 13 (54.17%) Veeam
8 Infrastructure Engineer jobs in Berkshire