Infrastructure Management Contracts in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Management
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Infrastructure Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Infrastructure Management over the 6 months to 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 313 406 465
Rank change year-on-year +93 +59 -62
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Management 72 40 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.35% 0.17% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.42% 0.19% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 27 28
10th Percentile £143 £415 £344
25th Percentile £268 £434 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +2.56% +30.00%
75th Percentile £563 £707 £641
90th Percentile £675 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £456 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -17.05% +3.77% +17.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £20.75
Median hourly rate - - £21.50
75th Percentile - - £22.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £23.80 £35.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -32.96% +65.12% -41.10%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Infrastructure Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,140 20,557 27,119
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.34% 89.47% 89.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,220 14,177 18,943
10th Percentile £250 £256 £238
25th Percentile £381 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.43%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £655
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,064 1,258 1,350
10th Percentile £12.35 £10.63 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.25 £15.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.54%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.72 £61.52
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £35.65 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.11% +38.82% +5.90%

Infrastructure Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Infrastructure Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Management in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Management in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Management in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Management in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Management in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Management
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 Infrastructure Management within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 17 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 +36 31 £433 -13.50% 17
Midlands +37 16 £550 +16.40% 7
West Midlands +35 16 £550 +25.71% 5
North of England +31 14 £463 -13.95% 21
North West +23 11 £500 -4.76% 10
South West +7 8 £183 -75.67% 6
Yorkshire +11 3 £450 -35.71% 9
East of England +6 2 - - 5
Northern Ireland - 1 £140 -
Infrastructure Management
UK

Infrastructure Management
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 4 (5.56%) Confluence
1 4 (5.56%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (4.17%) Apache
2 3 (4.17%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.78%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.39%) SharePoint 2010
4 1 (1.39%) SharePoint Server
Cloud Services
1 20 (27.78%) AWS
2 17 (23.61%) Azure
3 12 (16.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 8 (11.11%) Entra ID
5 7 (9.72%) Amazon EC2
5 7 (9.72%) Amazon S3
5 7 (9.72%) Power Platform
6 6 (8.33%) Cloud Computing
7 5 (6.94%) CloudFront
8 4 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (5.56%) Serverless
9 3 (4.17%) GCP
9 3 (4.17%) GitHub
9 3 (4.17%) IaaS
9 3 (4.17%) PaaS
9 3 (4.17%) SaaS
9 3 (4.17%) Snowflake
10 2 (2.78%) Google Workspace
11 1 (1.39%) AWS CloudFormation
11 1 (1.39%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 11 (15.28%) VPN
2 9 (12.50%) DNS
2 9 (12.50%) Network Security
3 6 (8.33%) Firewall
4 4 (5.56%) Fibre Channel
4 4 (5.56%) iSCSI
4 4 (5.56%) NAS
4 4 (5.56%) SAN
4 4 (5.56%) SSL
4 4 (5.56%) TCP/IP
4 4 (5.56%) VLAN
4 4 (5.56%) VoIP
5 3 (4.17%) Radio Access Network
6 2 (2.78%) LAN
6 2 (2.78%) WAN
6 2 (2.78%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (9.72%) Power BI
2 4 (5.56%) Amazon Redshift
2 4 (5.56%) Tableau
3 3 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (4.17%) MySQL
4 1 (1.39%) Metadata
4 1 (1.39%) PowerPivot
4 1 (1.39%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (9.72%) Git
2 6 (8.33%) GitLab
3 2 (2.78%) Bitbucket
3 2 (2.78%) JIRA
4 1 (1.39%) Jenkins
General
1 31 (43.06%) Social Skills
2 22 (30.56%) Telecoms
3 14 (19.44%) Finance
4 13 (18.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 9 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (12.50%) Public Sector
6 5 (6.94%) Retail
7 3 (4.17%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.78%) Electronics
8 2 (2.78%) Law
8 2 (2.78%) Legal
8 2 (2.78%) Manufacturing
8 2 (2.78%) Marketing
9 1 (1.39%) Military
Job Titles
1 13 (18.06%) Senior
2 11 (15.28%) Analyst
2 11 (15.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 8 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
4 7 (9.72%) Senior Analyst
4 7 (9.72%) Support Engineer
5 6 (8.33%) AWS DevOps
5 6 (8.33%) Security Engineer
6 5 (6.94%) Applications Engineer
6 5 (6.94%) Architect
6 5 (6.94%) Desktop Engineer
6 5 (6.94%) Desktop Support
6 5 (6.94%) Desktop Support Engineer
6 5 (6.94%) DevOps Engineer
6 5 (6.94%) IT Engineer
6 5 (6.94%) Lead
7 4 (5.56%) Data Analyst
7 4 (5.56%) Infrastructure Architect
7 4 (5.56%) Master Data Analyst
7 4 (5.56%) Network Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (9.72%) SAML
2 5 (6.94%) OAuth
2 5 (6.94%) OAuth2
3 1 (1.39%) CSS
3 1 (1.39%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (6.94%) Cloud Native
3 4 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (5.56%) Product Ownership
4 3 (4.17%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.78%) Fat Client
5 2 (2.78%) IoT
5 2 (2.78%) Replication
5 2 (2.78%) Thin Client
6 1 (1.39%) Clustering
6 1 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 20 (27.78%) Windows
2 8 (11.11%) Linux
3 4 (5.56%) Unix
4 3 (4.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (4.17%) Windows Server
5 2 (2.78%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (25.00%) Customer-Centricity
2 17 (23.61%) CI/CD
3 14 (19.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 14 (19.44%) Problem-Solving
4 13 (18.06%) Migration
5 11 (15.28%) Agile
6 10 (13.89%) Data Migration
6 10 (13.89%) DevOps
7 9 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
7 9 (12.50%) Incident Response
7 9 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
7 9 (12.50%) Project Management
8 8 (11.11%) Collaborative Working
8 8 (11.11%) Commercial Awareness
8 8 (11.11%) Critical Thinking
8 8 (11.11%) Portfolio Management
8 8 (11.11%) Task Automation
9 7 (9.72%) Configuration Management
9 7 (9.72%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (9.72%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 12 (16.67%) Python
2 7 (9.72%) Bash
2 7 (9.72%) PowerShell
3 4 (5.56%) Go
3 4 (5.56%) SQL
4 1 (1.39%) Java
4 1 (1.39%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 9 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 8 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
2 8 (11.11%) Degree
3 7 (9.72%) SC Cleared
4 5 (6.94%) AWS Certification
4 5 (6.94%) MCSE
4 5 (6.94%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (5.56%) CCIE
5 4 (5.56%) CCNA
5 4 (5.56%) CCNP
5 4 (5.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 3 (4.17%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.39%) APMP
7 1 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.39%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.39%) PMP
7 1 (1.39%) RHCE
7 1 (1.39%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.56%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.17%) NIST
2 3 (4.17%) PCI DSS
2 3 (4.17%) QA
2 3 (4.17%) SLA
3 2 (2.78%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 14 (19.44%) Active Directory
2 11 (15.28%) Docker
3 8 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (5.56%) Firmware
4 4 (5.56%) vSphere
5 2 (2.78%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (1.39%) Hyper-V
6 1 (1.39%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 9 (12.50%) Ansible
2 8 (11.11%) Terraform
3 6 (8.33%) Kubernetes
4 2 (2.78%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (2.78%) SCCM
5 1 (1.39%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (1.39%) vRealize
Vendors
1 12 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 12 (16.67%) VMware
2 4 (5.56%) Salesforce
3 3 (4.17%) Atlassian
3 3 (4.17%) BT
3 3 (4.17%) Informatica
3 3 (4.17%) Red Hat
4 2 (2.78%) Cisco
4 2 (2.78%) CrowdStrike
4 2 (2.78%) Google
4 2 (2.78%) Meraki
4 2 (2.78%) SAP
5 1 (1.39%) BEA
5 1 (1.39%) Dell
5 1 (1.39%) Fujitsu