Infrastructure Engineer Contracts

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 Bath Berkshire Birmingham Brentwood Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheshire Chester City of London Coventry Docklands, London Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England England Essex Glasgow Hampshire Harrogate Hertfordshire Knutsford Leeds Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Norwich Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Peterlee Renfrewshire Scotland Shropshire Solihull Somerset South East South West Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Swindon Telford UK Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 15 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	445	476
Rank change on same period last year	+31
Matching contract IT job ads	149	137
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.191 %	0.154 %
As % of the category below	0.210 %	0.168 %
Daily rates quoted	33	28
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 quoted	25	29
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 UK
Matching contract IT job ads	70924	81306
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	90.99 %	91.34 %
Daily rates quoted	22289	22890
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 quoted	6083	6544
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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

Rank	Location	Rank 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
1	England	+43	141	£342	+19.24 %
2	London	+60	82	£345	+32.34 %
3	City of London	-23	13	£380	-5.00 %
3	South East	+15	13	£250	-30.23 %
4	North West	-10	10	£309	+17.77 %
5	Yorkshire	+4	9	£392	-
5	East of England	-13	9	£275	-14.06 %
6	Scotland	+20	7	£390	-
7	South West	+13	6	-	-
8	West Midlands	-11	5	£390	+30.00 %
8	Docklands, London	-2	5	£313	-
8	Cheshire	-21	5	£275	-
9	Surrey	+14	4	-	-
9	Glasgow	+3	4	£390	-
9	West Yorkshire	+3	4	£438	-
10	East Midlands	-12	3	-	-
10	Midlands	-	3	-	-
10	Leeds	-2	3	£438	-
10	Bristol	-	3	-	-
10	Middlesex	-	3	-	-
11	Norfolk	-	2	-	-
11	Hertfordshire	-	2	-	-
11	Lincolnshire	-5	2	-	-
11	Essex	-	2	£275	-
11	Manchester	-17	2	-	-
11	Peterborough	-	2	-	-
11	Canary Wharf	-	2	-	-
11	Wiltshire	+2	2	-	-
11	Cambridgeshire	-16	2	-	-
11	West Sussex	+1	2	-	-

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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.

1 186 (58.31 %) Windows 2 163 (51.10 %) Active Directory 3 91 (28.53 %) Microsoft 4 82 (25.71 %) VMware 5 81 (25.39 %) Windows Server 2003 6 77 (24.14 %) SAN 7 75 (23.51 %) MS Exchange 8 71 (22.26 %) Exchange Server 2003 9 66 (20.69 %) Microsoft Certification 10 63 (19.75 %) Citrix 11 61 (19.12 %) HP 12 60 (18.81 %) TCP/IP 12 60 (18.81 %) LAN 13 59 (18.50 %) MCSE 14 52 (16.30 %) Cisco

15 49 (15.36 %) WAN 16 46 (14.42 %) Migration 17 43 (13.48 %) Banking 18 41 (12.85 %) Unix 18 41 (12.85 %) Linux 19 38 (11.91 %) DNS 19 38 (11.91 %) Finance 20 37 (11.60 %) Windows 2000 21 33 (10.34 %) SQL 22 32 (10.03 %) VMware ESX 23 31 (9.718 %) Firewall 23 31 (9.718 %) ITIL 24 30 (9.404 %) Citrix Presentation Server 25 29 (9.091 %) MS Excel 26 28 (8.777 %) IIS

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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 1 14 (4.389 %) .NET 2 5 (1.567 %) WebSphere 2 5 (1.567 %) Software Packaging 3 4 (1.254 %) .NET Framework 3 4 (1.254 %) ASP 4 3 (0.940 %) WebServices 4 3 (0.940 %) Application Packaging 4 3 (0.940 %) WinForms 5 2 (0.627 %) WCF 5 2 (0.627 %) LAMP 5 2 (0.627 %) ASP.NET 5 2 (0.627 %) J2EE 6 1 (0.313 %) CSS 6 1 (0.313 %) HTML 6 1 (0.313 %) XML 6 1 (0.313 %) Middleware 6 1 (0.313 %) Windows SharePoint Services	Application Platforms 1 75 (23.51 %) MS Exchange 2 71 (22.26 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 28 (8.777 %) IIS 4 26 (8.150 %) Exchange Server 2000 5 25 (7.837 %) Exchange Server 5.5 6 22 (6.897 %) Exchange Server 2007 7 18 (5.643 %) SharePoint Server 2007 8 14 (4.389 %) SharePoint 9 10 (3.135 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 10 9 (2.821 %) Apache 11 6 (1.881 %) Tomcat 11 6 (1.881 %) WebLogic 12 3 (0.940 %) BizTalk Server 12 3 (0.940 %) iPlanet 13 2 (0.627 %) Rendezvous 13 2 (0.627 %) GroupWise 13 2 (0.627 %) JBoss 13 2 (0.627 %) Lotus Notes 14 1 (0.313 %) Lotus Domino 14 1 (0.313 %) CMS
Applications 1 29 (9.091 %) MS Excel 2 12 (3.762 %) MS Office 3 1 (0.313 %) Photoshop 3 1 (0.313 %) MS Visio 3 1 (0.313 %) Adobe Illustrator	Business Applications 1 12 (3.762 %) RMDS 2 2 (0.627 %) Oracle EBS 3 1 (0.313 %) SAP CRM
Communications & Networking 1 77 (24.14 %) SAN 2 60 (18.81 %) LAN 2 60 (18.81 %) TCP/IP 3 49 (15.36 %) WAN 4 38 (11.91 %) DNS 5 31 (9.718 %) Firewall 6 28 (8.777 %) DHCP 7 27 (8.464 %) VPN 8 17 (5.329 %) WINS 9 15 (4.702 %) Internet 10 11 (3.448 %) VoIP 11 10 (3.135 %) ISDN 12 7 (2.194 %) SMS 12 7 (2.194 %) Wireless 13 6 (1.881 %) Cisco PIX 14 5 (1.567 %) IP Telephony 14 5 (1.567 %) Ethernet 15 4 (1.254 %) LDAP 15 4 (1.254 %) FirePass 15 4 (1.254 %) Intrusion Detection	Database & Business Intelligence 1 25 (7.837 %) SQL Server 2 9 (2.821 %) SQL Server 2005 3 7 (2.194 %) SQL Server 7 4 5 (1.567 %) MySQL 5 2 (0.627 %) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications 1 3 (0.940 %) Visual Studio 1 3 (0.940 %) VSS/SourceSafe 1 3 (0.940 %) JIRA 2 2 (0.627 %) MSI 3 1 (0.313 %) InstallShield 3 1 (0.313 %) Ant 3 1 (0.313 %) JUnit 3 1 (0.313 %) WinRunner 3 1 (0.313 %) TestDirector 3 1 (0.313 %) LoadRunner	General 1 43 (13.48 %) Banking 2 38 (11.91 %) Finance 3 20 (6.270 %) Construction 4 14 (4.389 %) Investment Banking 5 13 (4.075 %) Government 6 12 (3.762 %) Front Office 7 4 (1.254 %) Telecoms 8 3 (0.940 %) Back Office 8 3 (0.940 %) Health 8 3 (0.940 %) Education 9 2 (0.627 %) Local Government 9 2 (0.627 %) Auditing 10 1 (0.313 %) Marketing 10 1 (0.313 %) Insurance 10 1 (0.313 %) Retail 10 1 (0.313 %) Law 10 1 (0.313 %) Legal 10 1 (0.313 %) Advertising 10 1 (0.313 %) Pharmaceutical 10 1 (0.313 %) Financial Institution
Miscellaneous 1 17 (5.329 %) Blackberry 2 7 (2.194 %) Clustering 3 5 (1.567 %) Management Information System 4 4 (1.254 %) Asset Management 5 3 (0.940 %) Fat Client 5 3 (0.940 %) Thin Client 6 2 (0.627 %) Symmetrix 6 2 (0.627 %) PDA 7 1 (0.313 %) Statistics 7 1 (0.313 %) CMDB 7 1 (0.313 %) PKI 7 1 (0.313 %) IVR 7 1 (0.313 %) CLARiiON 7 1 (0.313 %) Client/Server 7 1 (0.313 %) Firmware	Operating Systems 1 186 (58.31 %) Windows 2 81 (25.39 %) Windows Server 2003 3 41 (12.85 %) Linux 3 41 (12.85 %) Unix 4 37 (11.60 %) Windows 2000 5 21 (6.583 %) Windows XP 6 18 (5.643 %) Solaris 6 18 (5.643 %) Windows NT 7 1 (0.313 %) SUSE 7 1 (0.313 %) Fedora 7 1 (0.313 %) AIX 7 1 (0.313 %) VMS 7 1 (0.313 %) NetWare 7 1 (0.313 %) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies 1 46 (14.42 %) Migration 2 31 (9.718 %) ITIL 3 15 (4.702 %) Disaster Recovery 4 9 (2.821 %) Network Design 5 8 (2.508 %) Service Management 5 8 (2.508 %) Service Delivery 6 7 (2.194 %) Project Management 7 6 (1.881 %) E-Commerce 8 5 (1.567 %) Change Management 8 5 (1.567 %) Business Continuity 8 5 (1.567 %) Information Security 9 3 (0.940 %) PRINCE2 9 3 (0.940 %) Enterprise Architecture 9 3 (0.940 %) Test Scripting 9 3 (0.940 %) Validation 10 2 (0.627 %) Wealth Management 10 2 (0.627 %) Problem Management 10 2 (0.627 %) Release Management 10 2 (0.627 %) Security Management 11 1 (0.313 %) Data Security	Programming Languages 1 33 (10.34 %) SQL 2 20 (6.270 %) Shell Script 3 19 (5.956 %) Perl 4 14 (4.389 %) VBScript 5 7 (2.194 %) VB 5 7 (2.194 %) Java 6 6 (1.881 %) C# 7 5 (1.567 %) C++ 8 2 (0.627 %) C 9 1 (0.313 %) PHP 9 1 (0.313 %) JavaScript 9 1 (0.313 %) VB.NET
Qualifications 1 66 (20.69 %) Microsoft Certification 2 59 (18.50 %) MCSE 3 16 (5.016 %) Cisco Certification 4 10 (3.135 %) CCNA 5 9 (2.821 %) ITIL Certification 5 9 (2.821 %) Degree 6 8 (2.508 %) CCNP 6 8 (2.508 %) MCP 7 6 (1.881 %) CCA 7 6 (1.881 %) Citrix Certification 8 4 (1.254 %) ISEB 8 4 (1.254 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 9 3 (0.940 %) CCSP 9 3 (0.940 %) CCEA 10 2 (0.627 %) CCVP 10 2 (0.627 %) MCSA 10 2 (0.627 %) CCDP 11 1 (0.313 %) CCIE 11 1 (0.313 %) IBM Certification 11 1 (0.313 %) EMC Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (0.940 %) ISO9000 1 3 (0.940 %) BS7799 2 1 (0.313 %) SLA
System Software 1 163 (51.10 %) Active Directory 2 32 (10.03 %) VMware ESX 3 30 (9.404 %) Citrix Presentation Server 4 22 (6.897 %) Terminal Services 5 17 (5.329 %) ISA Server 6 12 (3.762 %) Backup Exec 7 7 (2.194 %) NetBackup 8 5 (1.567 %) VMware GSX 9 3 (0.940 %) Terminal Server 9 3 (0.940 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 10 1 (0.313 %) VMware Server 10 1 (0.313 %) Samba 10 1 (0.313 %) MetaFrame	Systems Management 1 9 (2.821 %) MOM 2 8 (2.508 %) MAILsweeper 3 6 (1.881 %) DameWare 4 5 (1.567 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 4 5 (1.567 %) WSUS 5 3 (0.940 %) SCCM 6 2 (0.627 %) HP Data Protector 6 2 (0.627 %) ServiceCenter 6 2 (0.627 %) MIMEsweeper 6 2 (0.627 %) AppDetective 7 1 (0.313 %) EMC Navisphere 7 1 (0.313 %) Norton AntiVirus 7 1 (0.313 %) OpenView 7 1 (0.313 %) CiscoWorks 7 1 (0.313 %) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors 1 91 (28.53 %) Microsoft 2 82 (25.71 %) VMware 3 63 (19.75 %) Citrix 4 61 (19.12 %) HP 5 52 (16.30 %) Cisco 6 20 (6.270 %) Bloomberg 7 19 (5.956 %) Reuters 8 17 (5.329 %) Oracle 9 14 (4.389 %) Sybase 10 13 (4.075 %) Altiris 11 9 (2.821 %) Telerate 11 9 (2.821 %) Symantec 11 9 (2.821 %) EMC 12 8 (2.508 %) Dell 13 7 (2.194 %) IBM 14 6 (1.881 %) Avaya 14 6 (1.881 %) VERITAS 14 6 (1.881 %) Red Hat 14 6 (1.881 %) CheckPoint 15 4 (1.254 %) TIBCO