Infrastructure Engineer Contracts in the South East

Infrastructure Engineer
England > South East

The median Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in the South East is £450 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 70 99 107
Rank change year-on-year +29 +8 +14
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 154 135 171
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 2.79% 2.32% 2.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.01% 2.45% 2.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 115 146
10th Percentile £313 £345 £291
25th Percentile £375 £381 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £440
Median % change year-on-year - +2.33% +21.31%
75th Percentile £559 £554 £550
90th Percentile £608 £638 £644
England median daily rate £463 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -7.50% +11.11% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 4
10th Percentile - £21.53 £58.97
25th Percentile - £35.81 £62.36
Median hourly rate - £54.38 £66.76
Median % change year-on-year - -18.55% +203.45%
75th Percentile - £65.00 £68.02
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £22.50 £65.00 £62.99
% change year-on-year -65.38% +3.20% +62.55%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the South East. 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 the South East with a recognized job title 5,114 5,511 7,446
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.56% 94.54% 95.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,065 3,843 5,039
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £400 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
75th Percentile £615 £606 £588
90th Percentile £688 £700 £669
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 478 238 337
10th Percentile £12.78 £18.08 £12.24
25th Percentile £18.32 £22.18 £15.63
Median hourly rate £47.50 £48.40 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.86% +130.48% -16.00%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.45 £43.50
90th Percentile £76.90 £75.00 £60.00
England median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.22%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the South East

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the South East

Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in the South East over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in the South East

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the South East

Infrastructure Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 27 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
Thames Valley +20 60 £465 +3.33% 16
Berkshire +21 44 £550 -6.38% 5
Hampshire -1 42 £525 -2.10% 20
West Sussex +22 24 £450 +5.88% 3
Surrey +17 14 £403 +1.90% 4
Buckinghamshire +25 12 £426 -6.33% 4
Kent -7 9 £388 +10.71% 12
Oxfordshire -7 4 £375 -6.25% 7
East Sussex +7 3 £475 - 3
Sussex -3 1 - -
Middlesex - 1 £425 -
Infrastructure Engineer
England

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 27 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 South East region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 152 (98.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 79 (51.30%) VMware
3 76 (49.35%) Security Cleared
3 76 (49.35%) Windows
4 69 (44.81%) Active Directory
5 62 (40.26%) VMware Infrastructure
6 50 (32.47%) Linux
7 49 (31.82%) DNS
7 49 (31.82%) Microsoft
8 46 (29.87%) SC Cleared
8 46 (29.87%) Windows Server
9 45 (29.22%) DHCP
10 44 (28.57%) SAN
11 43 (27.92%) PowerShell
12 42 (27.27%) Azure
13 41 (26.62%) DV Cleared
14 35 (22.73%) Firewall
15 33 (21.43%) Social Skills
16 30 (19.48%) SCCM
16 30 (19.48%) Degree
17 29 (18.83%) Windows Server 2019
18 28 (18.18%) ITIL
19 27 (17.53%) Windows 10
20 24 (15.58%) Windows Server 2012
21 23 (14.94%) Windows Server 2016
22 22 (14.29%) WSUS
22 22 (14.29%) vSphere
22 22 (14.29%) Data Centre
23 21 (13.64%) vCenter Server
23 21 (13.64%) Hyper-V

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 13 (8.44%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (0.65%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 42 (27.27%) Azure
2 17 (11.04%) Microsoft 365
3 13 (8.44%) OCI
4 8 (5.19%) AWS
5 5 (3.25%) GCP
5 5 (3.25%) OpenShift
6 4 (2.60%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (2.60%) IaaS
6 4 (2.60%) SaaS
7 3 (1.95%) Entra ID
8 2 (1.30%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (1.30%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (1.30%) Amazon EMR
8 2 (1.30%) Amazon S3
8 2 (1.30%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (1.30%) Serverless
8 2 (1.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (0.65%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.65%) Google Workspace
9 1 (0.65%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 49 (31.82%) DNS
2 45 (29.22%) DHCP
3 44 (28.57%) SAN
4 35 (22.73%) Firewall
5 15 (9.74%) NAS
6 9 (5.84%) LAN
6 9 (5.84%) WAN
7 8 (5.19%) TCP/IP
8 7 (4.55%) Network Security
8 7 (4.55%) VPN
9 5 (3.25%) Fibre Channel
9 5 (3.25%) iSCSI
9 5 (3.25%) Wi-Fi
10 4 (2.60%) SSL
10 4 (2.60%) VLAN
10 4 (2.60%) VoIP
10 4 (2.60%) VSAN
11 1 (0.65%) MPLS
11 1 (0.65%) NetScaler
11 1 (0.65%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (7.79%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.30%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (1.30%) MySQL
2 2 (1.30%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (1.30%) Robot Framework
1 2 (1.30%) Selenium
2 1 (0.65%) Git
General
1 33 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 5 (3.25%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (3.25%) Documentation Skills
3 4 (2.60%) Public Sector
4 3 (1.95%) Front Office
5 2 (1.30%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (7.79%) Flash
2 3 (1.95%) .NET
3 2 (1.30%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 22 (14.29%) Data Centre
2 10 (6.49%) Driving Licence
3 9 (5.84%) PKI
4 4 (2.60%) Client/Server
5 2 (1.30%) Fat Client
5 2 (1.30%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.30%) Tandem
5 2 (1.30%) Thin Client
6 1 (0.65%) Clustering
6 1 (0.65%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 76 (49.35%) Windows
2 50 (32.47%) Linux
3 46 (29.87%) Windows Server
4 29 (18.83%) Windows Server 2019
5 27 (17.53%) Windows 10
6 24 (15.58%) Windows Server 2012
7 23 (14.94%) Windows Server 2016
8 13 (8.44%) Windows XP
9 12 (7.79%) AIX
10 11 (7.14%) Unix
11 10 (6.49%) Windows 7
12 8 (5.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 6 (3.90%) Windows Server 2008
14 5 (3.25%) Ubuntu
14 5 (3.25%) Windows Server 2003
15 1 (0.65%) CentOS
15 1 (0.65%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 152 (98.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 28 (18.18%) ITIL
3 19 (12.34%) Problem-Solving
4 16 (10.39%) Storage Management
5 15 (9.74%) Disaster Recovery
6 14 (9.09%) Performance Tuning
6 14 (9.09%) Project Management
6 14 (9.09%) Server Management
7 13 (8.44%) Break/Fix
7 13 (8.44%) Change Management
7 13 (8.44%) Converged Infrastructure
7 13 (8.44%) Performance Monitoring
7 13 (8.44%) Proactive Monitoring
8 12 (7.79%) DevOps
8 12 (7.79%) Migration
8 12 (7.79%) Project Delivery
9 11 (7.14%) Agile
10 9 (5.84%) Software Distribution
10 9 (5.84%) Vulnerability Management
11 8 (5.19%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 43 (27.92%) PowerShell
2 9 (5.84%) VBScript
3 6 (3.90%) Python
3 6 (3.90%) SQL
4 3 (1.95%) VB.NET
5 2 (1.30%) Bash
5 2 (1.30%) C++
6 1 (0.65%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 76 (49.35%) Security Cleared
2 46 (29.87%) SC Cleared
3 41 (26.62%) DV Cleared
4 30 (19.48%) Degree
5 18 (11.69%) CCNA
5 18 (11.69%) Cisco Certification
6 14 (9.09%) CCNP
7 10 (6.49%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (3.90%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 5 (3.25%) MCSE
10 4 (2.60%) AWS Certification
10 4 (2.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (1.95%) Azure Certification
11 3 (1.95%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (1.30%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 2 (1.30%) VCAP
13 1 (0.65%) CCDP
13 1 (0.65%) Computer Science Degree
13 1 (0.65%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.25%) SLA
2 3 (1.95%) GDPR
2 3 (1.95%) ISO 9001
2 3 (1.95%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 1 (0.65%) COBIT
3 1 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.65%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 69 (44.81%) Active Directory
2 62 (40.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (14.29%) vSphere
4 21 (13.64%) Hyper-V
5 18 (11.69%) VMware ESXi
5 18 (11.69%) XenApp
6 9 (5.84%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (4.55%) XenDesktop
8 4 (2.60%) Firmware
9 3 (1.95%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.65%) Docker
10 1 (0.65%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 30 (19.48%) SCCM
2 22 (14.29%) WSUS
3 21 (13.64%) vCenter Server
4 13 (8.44%) EMC NetWorker
4 13 (8.44%) NetBackup
4 13 (8.44%) SCOM
5 8 (5.19%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (3.25%) Terraform
7 4 (2.60%) Ansible
8 2 (1.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (1.30%) Nessus
8 2 (1.30%) Red Hat Satellite
8 2 (1.30%) vRealize
8 2 (1.30%) ZABBIX
9 1 (0.65%) Failover Clustering
9 1 (0.65%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.65%) McAfee ePO
9 1 (0.65%) Nagios
9 1 (0.65%) Norton AntiVirus
9 1 (0.65%) VxRail
Vendors
1 79 (51.30%) VMware
2 49 (31.82%) Microsoft
3 21 (13.64%) Cisco
3 21 (13.64%) Citrix
4 19 (12.34%) Symantec
5 18 (11.69%) HP
6 16 (10.39%) Veeam
7 15 (9.74%) Oracle
8 14 (9.09%) Juniper
8 14 (9.09%) Palo Alto
9 13 (8.44%) 3PAR
9 13 (8.44%) Dell
9 13 (8.44%) EMC
9 13 (8.44%) Extreme Networks
10 12 (7.79%) Brocade
10 12 (7.79%) IBM
11 11 (7.14%) Ivanti
12 8 (5.19%) Red Hat
13 6 (3.90%) Aruba
14 4 (2.60%) ServiceNow