Converged Infrastructure Contracts

Converged Infrastructure
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Converged Infrastructure skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Converged Infrastructure over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 552 669 789
Rank change year-on-year +117 +120 -164
Contract jobs citing Converged Infrastructure 34 53 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.078% 0.088% 0.047%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.090% 0.098% 0.052%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 32 26
10th Percentile - £358 £310
25th Percentile £463 £385 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £390 £521
Median % change year-on-year +53.85% -25.18% +15.83%
75th Percentile £608 £475 £588
90th Percentile £625 £532 £665
UK excluding London median daily rate £603 £390 £385
% change year-on-year +54.49% +1.30% -14.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 8 5
10th Percentile - £48.13 -
25th Percentile - £48.40 £60.00
Median hourly rate £23.80 £67.28 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year -64.63% +6.79% -10.00%
75th Percentile - £87.50 £85.00
90th Percentile - £95.00 £86.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £54.56 £85.00
% change year-on-year - -35.81% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Converged Infrastructure 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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,653 53,977 80,244
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.28% 89.91% 90.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,313 37,392 56,301
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,429 1,779 1,937
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.54 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +50.00% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.98 £35.90 £20.00
% change year-on-year +0.21% +79.50% -8.09%

Converged Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Converged Infrastructure as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Converged Infrastructure in the UK

Converged Infrastructure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Converged Infrastructure in the UK

Converged Infrastructure
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Converged Infrastructure over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Converged Infrastructure in the UK

Converged Infrastructure
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Converged Infrastructure in the UK

Converged Infrastructure
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Converged Infrastructure within the UK over the 6 months to 25 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
England +101 31 £605 +55.13% 9
UK excluding London +58 31 £603 +54.49% 6
South East +10 15 £605 +56.33% 3
South West +29 13 £475 +5.56%
London +104 3 £485 -7.62% 3
Wales - 3 £202 -
Work from Home +101 1 - -

Converged Infrastructure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 3 (8.82%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (8.82%) SharePoint
2 2 (5.88%) IIS
3 1 (2.94%) Confluence
3 1 (2.94%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 15 (44.12%) Azure
2 12 (35.29%) OCI
3 2 (5.88%) AWS
3 2 (5.88%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 2 (5.88%) Entra ID
3 2 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (5.88%) Mimecast
3 2 (5.88%) Nutanix
3 2 (5.88%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 17 (50.00%) SAN
2 16 (47.06%) Firewall
3 15 (44.12%) DNS
4 13 (38.24%) DHCP
5 12 (35.29%) VSAN
6 3 (8.82%) TCP/IP
7 2 (5.88%) DKIM
7 2 (5.88%) DMARC
7 2 (5.88%) Extranet
7 2 (5.88%) Internet
7 2 (5.88%) LAN
7 2 (5.88%) NAS
7 2 (5.88%) VPN
7 2 (5.88%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (5.88%) Wireless
8 1 (2.94%) Skype
8 1 (2.94%) Software-Defined Networking
8 1 (2.94%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.82%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Bitbucket
1 1 (2.94%) JIRA
General
1 13 (38.24%) Social Skills
2 5 (14.71%) Public Sector
3 1 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (44.12%) VMware Engineer
2 14 (41.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 8 (23.53%) Storage Engineer
4 4 (11.76%) Architect
4 4 (11.76%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 3 (8.82%) PowerShell Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) Product Specialist
5 3 (8.82%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (8.82%) VMware Architect
6 2 (5.88%) IT Support
6 2 (5.88%) Server Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Support Officer
7 1 (2.94%) Azure Architect
7 1 (2.94%) Infrastructure Support
7 1 (2.94%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) Support Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.88%) Software Packaging
2 1 (2.94%) .NET
2 1 (2.94%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 30 (88.24%) Data Centre
2 15 (44.12%) PKI
3 3 (8.82%) Management Information System
4 2 (5.88%) Fat Client
4 2 (5.88%) Thin Client
4 2 (5.88%) Virtual Team
5 1 (2.94%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 24 (70.59%) Linux
2 18 (52.94%) Windows
3 16 (47.06%) Windows Server
4 15 (44.12%) Windows Server 2016
4 15 (44.12%) Windows Server 2019
5 13 (38.24%) Windows 10
5 13 (38.24%) Windows Server 2012
6 12 (35.29%) Windows XP
7 2 (5.88%) Unix
8 1 (2.94%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (52.94%) ITIL
2 15 (44.12%) Project Management
3 14 (41.18%) Disaster Recovery
3 14 (41.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 14 (41.18%) Server Management
4 12 (35.29%) Break/Fix
4 12 (35.29%) Performance Monitoring
4 12 (35.29%) Performance Tuning
4 12 (35.29%) Proactive Monitoring
4 12 (35.29%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (35.29%) Storage Management
5 5 (14.71%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (11.76%) Agile
6 4 (11.76%) Migration
7 3 (8.82%) Change Management
7 3 (8.82%) Computer Science
7 3 (8.82%) Cybersecurity
7 3 (8.82%) Service Delivery
7 3 (8.82%) Service Management
8 2 (5.88%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 18 (52.94%) PowerShell
2 4 (11.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 29 (85.29%) Security Cleared
2 24 (70.59%) DV Cleared
3 16 (47.06%) Degree
4 15 (44.12%) SC Cleared
5 12 (35.29%) CCNA
5 12 (35.29%) CCNP
5 12 (35.29%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (5.88%) SLA
System Software
1 25 (73.53%) VMware ESXi
2 18 (52.94%) Active Directory
3 17 (50.00%) Hyper-V
4 16 (47.06%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (35.29%) VMware NSX
5 12 (35.29%) vSphere
6 2 (5.88%) BitLocker
6 2 (5.88%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (2.94%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 17 (50.00%) NetBackup
1 17 (50.00%) SCCM
1 17 (50.00%) SCOM
2 13 (38.24%) vCenter Server
2 13 (38.24%) WSUS
3 12 (35.29%) EMC NetWorker
4 7 (20.59%) VxRail
5 4 (11.76%) Ansible
6 3 (8.82%) Terraform
7 2 (5.88%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (5.88%) SCVMM
8 1 (2.94%) Progress Chef
8 1 (2.94%) Puppet
Vendors
1 33 (97.06%) VMware
2 18 (52.94%) Microsoft
3 17 (50.00%) Cisco
3 17 (50.00%) Dell
3 17 (50.00%) HP
4 15 (44.12%) 3PAR
5 14 (41.18%) EMC
5 14 (41.18%) Juniper
6 13 (38.24%) Veeam
7 12 (35.29%) Extreme Networks
7 12 (35.29%) Oracle
7 12 (35.29%) Palo Alto
7 12 (35.29%) Symantec
8 5 (14.71%) Brocade
9 3 (8.82%) SolarWinds
10 2 (5.88%) Commvault
10 2 (5.88%) Forcepoint
10 2 (5.88%) Mitel
10 2 (5.88%) Proofpoint
10 2 (5.88%) Wyse