The first table below looks at the demand for the Infrastructure Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the Somerset 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 23 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 Somerset 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Infrastructure Engineer
Rank 26 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 5 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Somerset 2.874% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 3.145% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Average daily rate £295 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £290 £285 £265
% change year-on-year
+1.75% +7.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £23.75 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £23.50 £30.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year
-21.66% +42.85%
All Job Titles
Somerset
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
159 163 166
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Somerset 91.38% 96.45% 95.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 91 75
Average daily rate £301 £320 £340
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.93% -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £230 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £433 £445
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 13 22
Average hourly rate £10.00 £13.25 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-24.52% -11.66%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Infrastructure Engineer
South West

Infrastructure Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Somerset 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 Somerset region.

Somerset Infrastructure Engineer Daily Rate Trend

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 Somerset region.

Somerset 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 Somerset region over the 3 months to 23 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
Yeovil - 3 £290 -
Street - 1 £300 -
Infrastructure Engineer
South West

Infrastructure Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Somerset 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 5 (83.33%) Windows
1 5 (83.33%) Windows Server 2008
2 4 (66.67%) Windows Server 2003
2 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 4 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 4 (66.67%) MS Office
2 4 (66.67%) MS Exchange
3 3 (50.00%) VoIP
3 3 (50.00%) Oracle
3 3 (50.00%) VPN
3 3 (50.00%) Windows XP
3 3 (50.00%) Cisco
3 3 (50.00%) Windows 7
4 2 (33.33%) Windows Vista
4 2 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2007
4 2 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2010
4 2 (33.33%) Clustering
4 2 (33.33%) VMware
4 2 (33.33%) SQL
5 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
5 1 (16.67%) DHCP
5 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
5 1 (16.67%) DNS
5 1 (16.67%) Oracle 8/8i
5 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (16.67%) SAN
5 1 (16.67%) NetApp
5 1 (16.67%) VMware ESX
5 1 (16.67%) MCITP
5 1 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2003

Infrastructure Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Somerset 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 (66.67%) MS Exchange
2 2 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2007
2 2 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2003
3 1 (16.67%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 4 (66.67%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) VoIP
1 3 (50.00%) VPN
2 1 (16.67%) DHCP
2 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
2 1 (16.67%) DNS
2 1 (16.67%) SAN
2 1 (16.67%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle 8/8i
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server 2008
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Clustering
2 1 (16.67%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) Windows
1 5 (83.33%) Windows Server 2008
2 4 (66.67%) Windows Server 2003
3 3 (50.00%) Windows XP
3 3 (50.00%) Windows 7
4 2 (33.33%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (16.67%) Network Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (16.67%) MCITP
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (16.67%) VMware ESX
2 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (16.67%) vSphere
2 1 (16.67%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (50.00%) Oracle
2 3 (50.00%) Cisco
3 2 (33.33%) VMware
4 1 (16.67%) NetApp