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This section looks at the demand for the Infrastructure Engineer role in IT contracts across the UK compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Infrastructure Engineer in their job title over the last 3 months to 15 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

 Infrastructure Engineer
Location
3 months to 15 May 2008Same period last year
Rank445476
Rank change on same period last yearUp+31
Matching contract IT job ads149137
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled0.191 %0.154 %
As % of the category below0.210 %0.168 %
Daily rates quoted3328
Average minimum daily rate£329£268
Average daily rate£346£287
% change on same period last year+20.32 %
Average maximum daily rate£362£307
UK excluding London average daily rate£346£317
% change on same period last year+8.92 %
Hourly rates quoted2529
Average minimum hourly rate£22.94£23.22
Average hourly rate£24.62£24.18
% change on same period last year+1.81 %
Average maximum hourly rate£26.30£25.15
UK excluding London average hourly rate£23.37£24.73
% change on same period last year-5.49 %
Job Titles UKJob Titles
UK
Matching contract IT job ads7092481306
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled90.99 %91.34 %
Daily rates quoted2228922890
Average minimum daily rate£383£392
Average daily rate£410£418
% change on same period last year-1.69 %
Average maximum daily rate£438£443
UK excluding London average daily rate£363£353
% change on same period last year+2.70 %
Hourly rates quoted60836544
Average minimum hourly rate£22.19£23.65
Average hourly rate£23.90£25.10
% change on same period last year-4.78 %
Average maximum hourly rate£25.61£26.55
UK excluding London average hourly rate£23.51£25.10
% change on same period last year-6.32 %

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

Infrastructure Engineer
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing Infrastructure Engineer across the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Infrastructure Engineer Demand Trend

Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs ads citing Infrastructure Engineer across the UK.

Infrastructure Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer across the UK over the past 3 months.

Infrastructure Engineer Daily Rate Histogram

Infrastructure Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs ads citing Infrastructure Engineer across the UK.

Infrastructure Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Infrastructure Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer across the UK over the past 3 months.

Infrastructure Engineer Hourly Rate Histogram

Infrastructure Engineer
Top 30 Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer within the UK over the past 3 months.

RankLocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Last
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
1EnglandUp+43141£342+19.24 %
2LondonUp+6082£345+32.34 %
3City of LondonDown-2313£380-5.00 %
3South EastUp+1513£250-30.23 %
4North WestDown-1010£309+17.77 %
5YorkshireUp+49£392-
5East of EnglandDown-139£275-14.06 %
6ScotlandUp+207£390-
7South WestUp+136--
8West MidlandsDown-115£390+30.00 %
8Docklands, LondonDown-25£313-
8CheshireDown-215£275-
9SurreyUp+144--
9GlasgowUp+34£390-
9West YorkshireUp+34£438-
10East MidlandsDown-123--
10MidlandsNew entry-3--
10LeedsDown-23£438-
10BristolNew entry-3--
10MiddlesexNew entry-3--
11NorfolkNew entry-2--
11HertfordshireNew entry-2--
11LincolnshireDown-52--
11EssexNew entry-2£275-
11ManchesterDown-172--
11PeterboroughNew entry-2--
11Canary WharfNew entry-2--
11WiltshireUp+22--
11CambridgeshireDown-162--
11West SussexUp+12--

Infrastructure Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the UK citing Infrastructure Engineer also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Infrastructure Engineer.

1186 (58.31 %)Windows
2163 (51.10 %)Active Directory
391 (28.53 %)Microsoft
482 (25.71 %)VMware
581 (25.39 %)Windows Server 2003
677 (24.14 %)SAN
775 (23.51 %)MS Exchange
871 (22.26 %)Exchange Server 2003
966 (20.69 %)Microsoft Certification
1063 (19.75 %)Citrix
1161 (19.12 %)HP
1260 (18.81 %)TCP/IP
1260 (18.81 %)LAN
1359 (18.50 %)MCSE
1452 (16.30 %)Cisco
1549 (15.36 %)WAN
1646 (14.42 %)Migration
1743 (13.48 %)Banking
1841 (12.85 %)Unix
1841 (12.85 %)Linux
1938 (11.91 %)DNS
1938 (11.91 %)Finance
2037 (11.60 %)Windows 2000
2133 (10.34 %)SQL
2232 (10.03 %)VMware ESX
2331 (9.718 %)Firewall
2331 (9.718 %)ITIL
2430 (9.404 %)Citrix Presentation Server
2529 (9.091 %)MS Excel
2628 (8.777 %)IIS

Infrastructure Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the UK citing Infrastructure Engineer also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Infrastructure Engineer. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
114 (4.389 %).NET
25 (1.567 %)WebSphere
25 (1.567 %)Software Packaging
34 (1.254 %).NET Framework
34 (1.254 %)ASP
43 (0.940 %)WebServices
43 (0.940 %)Application Packaging
43 (0.940 %)WinForms
52 (0.627 %)WCF
52 (0.627 %)LAMP
52 (0.627 %)ASP.NET
52 (0.627 %)J2EE
61 (0.313 %)CSS
61 (0.313 %)HTML
61 (0.313 %)XML
61 (0.313 %)Middleware
61 (0.313 %)Windows SharePoint Services
Application Platforms
175 (23.51 %)MS Exchange
271 (22.26 %)Exchange Server 2003
328 (8.777 %)IIS
426 (8.150 %)Exchange Server 2000
525 (7.837 %)Exchange Server 5.5
622 (6.897 %)Exchange Server 2007
718 (5.643 %)SharePoint Server 2007
814 (4.389 %)SharePoint
910 (3.135 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
109 (2.821 %)Apache
116 (1.881 %)Tomcat
116 (1.881 %)WebLogic
123 (0.940 %)BizTalk Server
123 (0.940 %)iPlanet
132 (0.627 %)Rendezvous
132 (0.627 %)GroupWise
132 (0.627 %)JBoss
132 (0.627 %)Lotus Notes
141 (0.313 %)Lotus Domino
141 (0.313 %)CMS
Applications
129 (9.091 %)MS Excel
212 (3.762 %)MS Office
31 (0.313 %)Photoshop
31 (0.313 %)MS Visio
31 (0.313 %)Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
112 (3.762 %)RMDS
22 (0.627 %)Oracle EBS
31 (0.313 %)SAP CRM
Communications & Networking
177 (24.14 %)SAN
260 (18.81 %)LAN
260 (18.81 %)TCP/IP
349 (15.36 %)WAN
438 (11.91 %)DNS
531 (9.718 %)Firewall
628 (8.777 %)DHCP
727 (8.464 %)VPN
817 (5.329 %)WINS
915 (4.702 %)Internet
1011 (3.448 %)VoIP
1110 (3.135 %)ISDN
127 (2.194 %)SMS
127 (2.194 %)Wireless
136 (1.881 %)Cisco PIX
145 (1.567 %)IP Telephony
145 (1.567 %)Ethernet
154 (1.254 %)LDAP
154 (1.254 %)FirePass
154 (1.254 %)Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
125 (7.837 %)SQL Server
29 (2.821 %)SQL Server 2005
37 (2.194 %)SQL Server 7
45 (1.567 %)MySQL
52 (0.627 %)SQL Server 2000
Development Applications
13 (0.940 %)Visual Studio
13 (0.940 %)VSS/SourceSafe
13 (0.940 %)JIRA
22 (0.627 %)MSI
31 (0.313 %)InstallShield
31 (0.313 %)Ant
31 (0.313 %)JUnit
31 (0.313 %)WinRunner
31 (0.313 %)TestDirector
31 (0.313 %)LoadRunner
General
143 (13.48 %)Banking
238 (11.91 %)Finance
320 (6.270 %)Construction
414 (4.389 %)Investment Banking
513 (4.075 %)Government
612 (3.762 %)Front Office
74 (1.254 %)Telecoms
83 (0.940 %)Back Office
83 (0.940 %)Health
83 (0.940 %)Education
92 (0.627 %)Local Government
92 (0.627 %)Auditing
101 (0.313 %)Marketing
101 (0.313 %)Insurance
101 (0.313 %)Retail
101 (0.313 %)Law
101 (0.313 %)Legal
101 (0.313 %)Advertising
101 (0.313 %)Pharmaceutical
101 (0.313 %)Financial Institution
Miscellaneous
117 (5.329 %)Blackberry
27 (2.194 %)Clustering
35 (1.567 %)Management Information System
44 (1.254 %)Asset Management
53 (0.940 %)Fat Client
53 (0.940 %)Thin Client
62 (0.627 %)Symmetrix
62 (0.627 %)PDA
71 (0.313 %)Statistics
71 (0.313 %)CMDB
71 (0.313 %)PKI
71 (0.313 %)IVR
71 (0.313 %)CLARiiON
71 (0.313 %)Client/Server
71 (0.313 %)Firmware
Operating Systems
1186 (58.31 %)Windows
281 (25.39 %)Windows Server 2003
341 (12.85 %)Linux
341 (12.85 %)Unix
437 (11.60 %)Windows 2000
521 (6.583 %)Windows XP
618 (5.643 %)Solaris
618 (5.643 %)Windows NT
71 (0.313 %)SUSE
71 (0.313 %)Fedora
71 (0.313 %)AIX
71 (0.313 %)VMS
71 (0.313 %)NetWare
71 (0.313 %)Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
146 (14.42 %)Migration
231 (9.718 %)ITIL
315 (4.702 %)Disaster Recovery
49 (2.821 %)Network Design
58 (2.508 %)Service Management
58 (2.508 %)Service Delivery
67 (2.194 %)Project Management
76 (1.881 %)E-Commerce
85 (1.567 %)Change Management
85 (1.567 %)Business Continuity
85 (1.567 %)Information Security
93 (0.940 %)PRINCE2
93 (0.940 %)Enterprise Architecture
93 (0.940 %)Test Scripting
93 (0.940 %)Validation
102 (0.627 %)Wealth Management
102 (0.627 %)Problem Management
102 (0.627 %)Release Management
102 (0.627 %)Security Management
111 (0.313 %)Data Security
Programming Languages
133 (10.34 %)SQL
220 (6.270 %)Shell Script
319 (5.956 %)Perl
414 (4.389 %)VBScript
57 (2.194 %)VB
57 (2.194 %)Java
66 (1.881 %)C#
75 (1.567 %)C++
82 (0.627 %)C
91 (0.313 %)PHP
91 (0.313 %)JavaScript
91 (0.313 %)VB.NET
Qualifications
166 (20.69 %)Microsoft Certification
259 (18.50 %)MCSE
316 (5.016 %)Cisco Certification
410 (3.135 %)CCNA
59 (2.821 %)ITIL Certification
59 (2.821 %)Degree
68 (2.508 %)CCNP
68 (2.508 %)MCP
76 (1.881 %)CCA
76 (1.881 %)Citrix Certification
84 (1.254 %)ISEB
84 (1.254 %)VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
93 (0.940 %)CCSP
93 (0.940 %)CCEA
102 (0.627 %)CCVP
102 (0.627 %)MCSA
102 (0.627 %)CCDP
111 (0.313 %)CCIE
111 (0.313 %)IBM Certification
111 (0.313 %)EMC Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
13 (0.940 %)ISO9000
13 (0.940 %)BS7799
21 (0.313 %)SLA
System Software
1163 (51.10 %)Active Directory
232 (10.03 %)VMware ESX
330 (9.404 %)Citrix Presentation Server
422 (6.897 %)Terminal Services
517 (5.329 %)ISA Server
612 (3.762 %)Backup Exec
77 (2.194 %)NetBackup
85 (1.567 %)VMware GSX
93 (0.940 %)Terminal Server
93 (0.940 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
101 (0.313 %)VMware Server
101 (0.313 %)Samba
101 (0.313 %)MetaFrame
Systems Management
19 (2.821 %)MOM
28 (2.508 %)MAILsweeper
36 (1.881 %)DameWare
45 (1.567 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
45 (1.567 %)WSUS
53 (0.940 %)SCCM
62 (0.627 %)HP Data Protector
62 (0.627 %)ServiceCenter
62 (0.627 %)MIMEsweeper
62 (0.627 %)AppDetective
71 (0.313 %)EMC Navisphere
71 (0.313 %)Norton AntiVirus
71 (0.313 %)OpenView
71 (0.313 %)CiscoWorks
71 (0.313 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
191 (28.53 %)Microsoft
282 (25.71 %)VMware
363 (19.75 %)Citrix
461 (19.12 %)HP
552 (16.30 %)Cisco
620 (6.270 %)Bloomberg
719 (5.956 %)Reuters
817 (5.329 %)Oracle
914 (4.389 %)Sybase
1013 (4.075 %)Altiris
119 (2.821 %)Telerate
119 (2.821 %)Symantec
119 (2.821 %)EMC
128 (2.508 %)Dell
137 (2.194 %)IBM
146 (1.881 %)Avaya
146 (1.881 %)VERITAS
146 (1.881 %)Red Hat
146 (1.881 %)CheckPoint
154 (1.254 %)TIBCO
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