3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Third Line Infrastructure Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Third Line Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £365 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 May 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 380 414 451
Rank change year-on-year +34 +37 -37
Contract jobs requiring a 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer 16 33 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.078% 0.14% 0.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.084% 0.15% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 28 37
10th Percentile £216 £313 £261
25th Percentile £263 £347 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £365 £475 £398
Median % change year-on-year -23.16% +19.50% +22.31%
75th Percentile £388 £525 £438
90th Percentile £395 £588 £450
UK median daily rate £370 £450 £398
% change year-on-year -17.78% +13.21% +18.66%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 18,944 22,126 29,093
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.49% 94.32% 95.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,551 15,489 20,369
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,258 1,140 1,432
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.24
25th Percentile £15.72 £17.86 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.43 £19.67
Median % change year-on-year -5.73% +115.78% +3.50%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £43.07
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.65 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.56% +88.21% +6.27%

3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London

3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London

3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London

3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London

3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 May 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
South East +25 6 £375 -34.78% 3
North of England +26 4 £325 -3.70% 3
East of England - 3 £213 - 2
North East +14 2 £275 -31.25%
Yorkshire +17 1 £375 +15.38% 1
North West +13 1 £425 -0.58% 2
South West +9 1 £300 -40.00% 3
Wales - 1 £365 - 1
Scotland - 1 £340 -
3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
UK

3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 9 May 2024, 3rd Line 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 UK excluding London region featuring 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 16 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 10 (62.50%) VMware
3 9 (56.25%) Windows
4 8 (50.00%) Windows Server
5 7 (43.75%) Microsoft
6 6 (37.50%) Active Directory
6 6 (37.50%) SAN
7 5 (31.25%) Linux
7 5 (31.25%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (31.25%) Firewall
7 5 (31.25%) VMware Infrastructure
7 5 (31.25%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (25.00%) Patch Management
8 4 (25.00%) NAS
8 4 (25.00%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (25.00%) VPN
8 4 (25.00%) DNS
8 4 (25.00%) DHCP
9 3 (18.75%) Citrix
9 3 (18.75%) Red Hat
9 3 (18.75%) Oracle
9 3 (18.75%) SQL Server
9 3 (18.75%) PowerShell
9 3 (18.75%) VLAN
9 3 (18.75%) Veeam
9 3 (18.75%) vSphere
10 2 (12.50%) Aruba
10 2 (12.50%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (12.50%) Fibre Channel
10 2 (12.50%) High Availability

3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 5 (31.25%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 5 (31.25%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (12.50%) Azure
3 1 (6.25%) AWS
3 1 (6.25%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (6.25%) Entra ID
3 1 (6.25%) IaaS
3 1 (6.25%) Nutanix
3 1 (6.25%) OCI
3 1 (6.25%) PaaS
3 1 (6.25%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (37.50%) SAN
2 5 (31.25%) Firewall
3 4 (25.00%) DHCP
3 4 (25.00%) DNS
3 4 (25.00%) NAS
3 4 (25.00%) VPN
4 3 (18.75%) VLAN
5 2 (12.50%) Fibre Channel
5 2 (12.50%) iSCSI
5 2 (12.50%) SSL
5 2 (12.50%) TCP/IP
5 2 (12.50%) VoIP
6 1 (6.25%) LAN
6 1 (6.25%) NetScaler
6 1 (6.25%) WAN
6 1 (6.25%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) SQL Server
2 2 (12.50%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (12.50%) MySQL
2 2 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
General
1 2 (12.50%) Public Sector
2 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Back Office
2 1 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Fat Client
1 2 (12.50%) PKI
1 2 (12.50%) Thin Client
2 1 (6.25%) Client/Server
2 1 (6.25%) Clustering
2 1 (6.25%) Data Centre
2 1 (6.25%) LIMS
2 1 (6.25%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 9 (56.25%) Windows
2 8 (50.00%) Windows Server
3 5 (31.25%) Linux
4 4 (25.00%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (12.50%) Ubuntu
5 2 (12.50%) Unix
5 2 (12.50%) Windows 10
5 2 (12.50%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (12.50%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (6.25%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (25.00%) Patch Management
3 2 (12.50%) Change Management
3 2 (12.50%) High Availability
3 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Management
3 2 (12.50%) Mentoring
3 2 (12.50%) Security Management
3 2 (12.50%) Virtual Infrastructure
4 1 (6.25%) Business Continuity
4 1 (6.25%) Compliance Management
4 1 (6.25%) Containerisation
4 1 (6.25%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (6.25%) Incident Management
4 1 (6.25%) ITIL
4 1 (6.25%) Logistics
4 1 (6.25%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (6.25%) Secure Coding
4 1 (6.25%) Server Management
4 1 (6.25%) Service Delivery
4 1 (6.25%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 3 (18.75%) PowerShell
2 1 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) CCNA
1 2 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (12.50%) Degree
1 2 (12.50%) MCSE
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared
1 2 (12.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 1 (6.25%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (37.50%) Active Directory
2 5 (31.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (18.75%) vSphere
4 2 (12.50%) Firmware
4 2 (12.50%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (6.25%) Hyper-V
5 1 (6.25%) KVM
5 1 (6.25%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (6.25%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 2 (12.50%) Ansible
1 2 (12.50%) Nessus
1 2 (12.50%) Red Hat Satellite
1 2 (12.50%) vCenter Server
1 2 (12.50%) WSUS
1 2 (12.50%) ZABBIX
2 1 (6.25%) FortiGate
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 10 (62.50%) VMware
2 7 (43.75%) Microsoft
3 3 (18.75%) Citrix
3 3 (18.75%) Oracle
3 3 (18.75%) Red Hat
3 3 (18.75%) Veeam
4 2 (12.50%) Aruba
4 2 (12.50%) HP
4 2 (12.50%) Sophos
5 1 (6.25%) Cisco
5 1 (6.25%) Fortinet
5 1 (6.25%) NetApp