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Infrastructure Engineer Contracts

Browse 114 Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies

The first table below looks at the demand for the Infrastructure Engineer role in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Infrastructure Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 20 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles currently tracked.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

3 months to
20 Jun 2013

Same period 2012

Same period 2011

Infrastructure Engineer

Rank

264

275

352

Rank change year-on-year

+11

+77

Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer

324

370

263

As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK

0.663%

0.647%

0.423%

As % of the Job Titles category

0.719%

0.700%

0.457%

Number of daily rates quoted

182

221

138

Average daily rate

£325

£303

Average daily rate % change year-on-year

+7.43%

90% offered a daily rate of more than

£231

£215

£220

10% offered a daily rate of more than

£420

£425

£500

UK excluding London average daily rate

£290

£300

£275

% change year-on-year

-3.33%

+9.09%

Number of hourly rates quoted

Average hourly rate

£23.63

£29.00

£28.00

Average hourly rate % change year-on-year

-18.53%

+3.57%

90% offered a hourly rate of more than

£19.00

£17.50

10% offered a hourly rate of more than

£30.90

£30.00

£35.00

UK excluding London average hourly rate

£23.50

£30.00

£28.00

% change year-on-year

-21.66%

+7.14%

All Job Titles
UK

Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category

45063

52855

57510

As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK

92.16%

92.46%

92.49%

Number of daily rates quoted

25972

29220

31540

Average daily rate

£400

£420

Average daily rate % change year-on-year

-4.76%

90% offered a daily rate of more than

£238

£240

£250

10% offered a daily rate of more than

£575

£600

UK excluding London average daily rate

£350

Number of hourly rates quoted

2142

2525

2941

Average hourly rate

£18.50

£20.00

Average hourly rate % change year-on-year

-7.50%

90% offered a hourly rate of more than

£11.00

10% offered a hourly rate of more than

£41.77

£40.00

£42.50

UK excluding London average hourly rate

£17.50

£18.00

£20.00

% change year-on-year

-2.77%

-10.00%

Infrastructure Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer within the UK over the 3 months to 20 June 2013.

Infrastructure Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer within the UK.

Infrastructure Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer within the UK over the 3 months to 20 June 2013.

Infrastructure Engineer
Top 30 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer within the UK over the 3 months to 20 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location (Click each for more statistics)	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Find Job Vacancies
England	+6	300	£325	-1.51%	109
London	-50	112	£350	+2.94%	36
South East	+53	61	£289	-3.75%	29
East of England	+16	33	£308	-12.14%	6
City of London	-23	24	£325	-23.52%	15
Berkshire	+23	22	£275	-3.50%	7
South West	+31	20	£305	-2.40%	14
Hampshire	+5	18	£288	-8.73%	5
North West	+11	16	£280	+6.66%	10
West Midlands	+11	16	£250	-29.57%	7
East Midlands	-1	16	£263	+16.66%	2
Yorkshire	-4	15	£291	-10.38%	5
West Yorkshire	-9	11	£275	-15.38%	3
Wales	+12	8	£143	-28.75%	2
Cheshire	+5	8	£325	+23.80%	3
Reading	+8	7	£275	+22.22%	2
Wiltshire	+6	7	£388	+171.92%
Nottingham	-3	7	£250	-
Nottinghamshire	-6	7	£250	-
Leeds	-14	7	-	-	3
Southampton	-	7	£284	-	3
Manchester	+17	6	£280	+86.66%	5
Somerset	-	6	£295	-
Bedfordshire	-	6	£325	-	2
Lincolnshire	+5	5	£263	+31.25%	1
Oxfordshire	+3	5	£325	-	5
Scotland	-31	5	£325	+13.04%	3
North Yorkshire	-	5	£394	-
York	-	5	£394	-
Swindon	-	5	£413	-

Infrastructure Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Infrastructure Engineer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with Infrastructure Engineer in their job title.

1	410 (67.10%)	Windows
2	313 (51.23%)	VMware
3	265 (43.37%)	Active Directory
4	244 (39.93%)	Windows Server 2008
5	204 (33.39%)	MS Exchange
6	193 (31.59%)	Microsoft
7	158 (25.86%)	Citrix
8	149 (24.39%)	SAN
9	142 (23.24%)	Cisco
9	142 (23.24%)	Exchange Server 2010
10	140 (22.91%)	Windows Server 2003
11	128 (20.95%)	HP
12	125 (20.46%)	VMware Infrastructure
13	122 (19.97%)	Firewall
14	116 (18.99%)	DNS

15	92 (15.06%)	Linux
16	89 (14.57%)	Exchange Server 2007
17	85 (13.91%)	SQL
18	81 (13.26%)	XenApp
19	79 (12.93%)	SQL Server
19	79 (12.93%)	ITIL
20	77 (12.60%)	DHCP
21	72 (11.78%)	Clustering
22	70 (11.46%)	NetApp
23	67 (10.97%)	vSphere
24	65 (10.64%)	Migration
25	63 (10.31%)	UNIX
26	62 (10.15%)	PowerShell
27	60 (9.820%)	LAN
28	58 (9.493%)	Windows 7

Infrastructure Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Infrastructure Engineer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with Infrastructure Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1	18 (2.946%)	HTML
2	17 (2.782%)	Web Services
3	15 (2.455%)	SOAP
3	15 (2.455%)	Middleware
4	13 (2.128%)	XML
5	11 (1.800%)	OpenCL
6	10 (1.637%)	LAMP
6	10 (1.637%)	.NET
6	10 (1.637%)	J2EE
6	10 (1.637%)	REST
7	8 (1.309%)	Java EE
8	7 (1.146%)	HTML5
8	7 (1.146%)	WebSphere
8	7 (1.146%)	WSRP
8	7 (1.146%)	JSR 168
8	7 (1.146%)	Ajax
8	7 (1.146%)	DHTML
8	7 (1.146%)	Flash
8	7 (1.146%)	ADSI
9	5 (0.818%)	XSLT

Application Platforms
1	204 (33.39%)	MS Exchange
2	142 (23.24%)	Exchange Server 2010
3	89 (14.57%)	Exchange Server 2007
4	57 (9.329%)	IIS
5	53 (8.674%)	Exchange Server 2003
6	51 (8.347%)	SharePoint
7	26 (4.255%)	Apache
8	21 (3.437%)	Blackberry Enterprise Server
9	12 (1.964%)	Tomcat
9	12 (1.964%)	Amazon AWS
9	12 (1.964%)	Amazon EC2
10	10 (1.637%)	SharePoint 2010
11	9 (1.473%)	SAS
12	8 (1.309%)	Exchange Server 2013
13	5 (0.818%)	Lync
13	5 (0.818%)	WebSphere Application Server
14	4 (0.655%)	WebLogic
15	3 (0.491%)	Amazon S3
15	3 (0.491%)	Office Communications Server
15	3 (0.491%)	IBM Notes

Applications
1	51 (8.347%)	MS Excel
2	30 (4.910%)	MS Office
3	9 (1.473%)	Office 365
4	3 (0.491%)	MS Visio
5	2 (0.327%)	Google Apps
6	1 (0.164%)	MS Project

Business Applications
1	2 (0.327%)	Dynamics CRM
2	1 (0.164%)	Oracle EBS R12
2	1 (0.164%)	assyst
2	1 (0.164%)	Oracle EBS

Communications & Networking
1	149 (24.39%)	SAN
2	122 (19.97%)	Firewall
3	116 (18.99%)	DNS
4	77 (12.60%)	DHCP
5	60 (9.820%)	LAN
6	54 (8.838%)	WAN
7	46 (7.529%)	TCP/IP
8	42 (6.874%)	VPN
8	42 (6.874%)	NAS
9	29 (4.746%)	Wireless
10	23 (3.764%)	VoIP
11	21 (3.437%)	VLAN
12	19 (3.110%)	Internet
13	18 (2.946%)	SSL
14	16 (2.619%)	Network Security
15	15 (2.455%)	HTTP
16	13 (2.128%)	SNMP
17	12 (1.964%)	FTP
17	12 (1.964%)	SMTP
17	12 (1.964%)	MPLS

Database & Business Intelligence
1	79 (12.93%)	SQL Server
2	33 (5.401%)	SQL Server 2008
3	17 (2.782%)	MySQL
4	15 (2.455%)	SQL Server 2005
5	10 (1.637%)	Oracle 8/8i
5	10 (1.637%)	CouchDB
5	10 (1.637%)	MongoDB
5	10 (1.637%)	NoSQL
5	10 (1.637%)	Redis
6	7 (1.146%)	RDBMS
7	6 (0.982%)	SQL Server 2000
8	4 (0.655%)	Hadoop
8	4 (0.655%)	SQL Server 2012
9	3 (0.491%)	Apache Cassandra
10	2 (0.327%)	SQLPlus
10	2 (0.327%)	SQL Server Reporting Services
10	2 (0.327%)	SQL Server Integration Services
10	2 (0.327%)	SQL Server Analysis Services
10	2 (0.327%)	Oracle Exadata
11	1 (0.164%)	Big Data

Development Applications
1	8 (1.309%)	Maven
1	8 (1.309%)	Git (software)
2	7 (1.146%)	Jenkins
2	7 (1.146%)	Hudson
2	7 (1.146%)	JIRA
2	7 (1.146%)	Selenium
3	5 (0.818%)	MSI
4	1 (0.164%)	Wise Package Studio
4	1 (0.164%)	Team Foundation Server
4	1 (0.164%)	TeamCity
4	1 (0.164%)	CruiseControl
4	1 (0.164%)	ClearCase
4	1 (0.164%)	TestDirector
4	1 (0.164%)	ClearQuest
4	1 (0.164%)	InstallShield
4	1 (0.164%)	AdminStudio

General
1	38 (6.219%)	Finance
2	22 (3.601%)	Telecoms
3	13 (2.128%)	Retail
4	12 (1.964%)	Banking
5	9 (1.473%)	Publishing
6	7 (1.146%)	Law
7	6 (0.982%)	Advertising
7	6 (0.982%)	Financial Institution
8	5 (0.818%)	Legal
9	3 (0.491%)	Local Government
10	2 (0.327%)	Investment Banking
10	2 (0.327%)	Multimedia
10	2 (0.327%)	Marketing
11	1 (0.164%)	French Language
11	1 (0.164%)	Military
11	1 (0.164%)	Games

Miscellaneous
1	72 (11.78%)	Clustering
2	26 (4.255%)	Blackberry
3	16 (2.619%)	Open Source
4	8 (1.309%)	Thin Client
4	8 (1.309%)	Fat Client
4	8 (1.309%)	Hedge funds
5	7 (1.146%)	EqualLogic
5	7 (1.146%)	Taxonomies
5	7 (1.146%)	Ontologies
6	6 (0.982%)	NHS
6	6 (0.982%)	PKI
7	5 (0.818%)	IaaS
7	5 (0.818%)	CLARiiON
8	4 (0.655%)	Replication
8	4 (0.655%)	Management Information System
9	3 (0.491%)	SaaS
9	3 (0.491%)	iPad
9	3 (0.491%)	Mathematics
9	3 (0.491%)	Client/Server
9	3 (0.491%)	MPEG

Operating Systems
1	410 (67.10%)	Windows
2	244 (39.93%)	Windows Server 2008
3	140 (22.91%)	Windows Server 2003
4	92 (15.06%)	Linux
5	63 (10.31%)	UNIX
6	58 (9.493%)	Windows 7
7	52 (8.511%)	Windows XP
8	36 (5.892%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9	30 (4.910%)	Solaris
10	27 (4.419%)	Windows Server 2012
11	14 (2.291%)	Windows 8
12	13 (2.128%)	Windows Vista
13	9 (1.473%)	AIX
14	6 (0.982%)	HPUX
15	5 (0.818%)	CentOS
15	5 (0.818%)	Ubuntu
15	5 (0.818%)	NetWare
15	5 (0.818%)	SUSE
16	4 (0.655%)	Debian
16	4 (0.655%)	VMS

Processes & Methodologies
1	79 (12.93%)	ITIL
2	65 (10.64%)	Migration
3	38 (6.219%)	Disaster Recovery
4	24 (3.928%)	PRINCE2
4	24 (3.928%)	Load Balancing
5	23 (3.764%)	Incident Management
6	22 (3.601%)	Configuration Management
7	20 (3.273%)	Change Control
8	19 (3.110%)	Capacity Management
9	18 (2.946%)	Change Management
9	18 (2.946%)	Problem Management
10	17 (2.782%)	Business Continuity
11	14 (2.291%)	Service Delivery
11	14 (2.291%)	E-Commerce
11	14 (2.291%)	Capacity Planning
12	12 (1.964%)	Penetration Testing
12	12 (1.964%)	Software Testing
13	11 (1.800%)	Project Management
14	10 (1.637%)	Network Load Balancing
14	10 (1.637%)	Data Migration

Programming Languages
1	85 (13.91%)	SQL
2	62 (10.15%)	PowerShell
3	22 (3.601%)	VBScript
4	21 (3.437%)	Java
5	19 (3.110%)	Perl
6	16 (2.619%)	VB
6	16 (2.619%)	Python
7	15 (2.455%)	C
8	14 (2.291%)	PHP
9	11 (1.800%)	Shell Script
10	10 (1.637%)	Embedded C
11	8 (1.309%)	JavaScript
12	3 (0.491%)	Korn
13	2 (0.327%)	PL/SQL
13	2 (0.327%)	DCL
13	2 (0.327%)	Bash shell
14	1 (0.164%)	Ruby
14	1 (0.164%)	C#
14	1 (0.164%)	COBOL

Qualifications
1	49 (8.020%)	Microsoft Certification
2	45 (7.365%)	Security Cleared
3	36 (5.892%)	MCSE
4	30 (4.910%)	SC Cleared
5	29 (4.746%)	VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6	21 (3.437%)	Cisco Certification
7	17 (2.782%)	MCITP
8	16 (2.619%)	ITIL Certification
9	14 (2.291%)	CCNA
10	12 (1.964%)	Citrix Certification
11	11 (1.800%)	VCP5
12	10 (1.637%)	MCP
13	9 (1.473%)	NCDA
14	8 (1.309%)	Degree
15	6 (0.982%)	CCA
15	6 (0.982%)	MCTS
15	6 (0.982%)	DV Cleared
16	5 (0.818%)	HP APS
16	5 (0.818%)	PRINCE2 Practitioner
16	5 (0.818%)	MCSA

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	17 (2.782%)	SLA
2	13 (2.128%)	QA
3	3 (0.491%)	Sarbanes-Oxley
4	2 (0.327%)	ISO/IEC 27001
5	1 (0.164%)	BS7799
5	1 (0.164%)	TickIT

System Software
1	265 (43.37%)	Active Directory
2	125 (20.46%)	VMware Infrastructure
3	81 (13.26%)	XenApp
4	67 (10.97%)	vSphere
5	55 (9.002%)	Hyper-V
6	48 (7.856%)	VMware ESX
7	27 (4.419%)	VMware ESXi
8	23 (3.764%)	XenServer
9	16 (2.619%)	XenDesktop
10	15 (2.455%)	UAG
11	14 (2.291%)	Microsoft App-V
12	12 (1.964%)	VMware Server
13	10 (1.637%)	Samba
13	10 (1.637%)	ProxySG
14	8 (1.309%)	NFS
14	8 (1.309%)	Citrix Presentation Server
14	8 (1.309%)	EMC RecoverPoint
14	8 (1.309%)	Forefront TMG
15	7 (1.146%)	ISA Server
16	5 (0.818%)	Terminal Services

Systems Management
1	52 (8.511%)	SCCM
1	52 (8.511%)	SCOM
2	42 (6.874%)	Backup Exec
3	29 (4.746%)	WSUS
4	20 (3.273%)	Systems Management Server (SMS)
5	17 (2.782%)	NetBackup
6	14 (2.291%)	Tivoli Storage Manager
7	13 (2.128%)	HP SIM
8	12 (1.964%)	EMC NetWorker
9	9 (1.473%)	Tivoli
10	8 (1.309%)	OpenView
10	8 (1.309%)	SCVMM
11	7 (1.146%)	FortiGate
12	6 (0.982%)	Nagios
12	6 (0.982%)	Cacti
12	6 (0.982%)	Cisco CUCM
13	5 (0.818%)	Puppet
13	5 (0.818%)	Legato
13	5 (0.818%)	Norton AntiVirus
14	4 (0.655%)	ARCserve

Vendors
1	313 (51.23%)	VMware
2	193 (31.59%)	Microsoft
3	158 (25.86%)	Citrix
4	142 (23.24%)	Cisco
5	128 (20.95%)	HP
6	70 (11.46%)	NetApp
7	57 (9.329%)	Oracle
8	44 (7.201%)	Red Hat
9	43 (7.038%)	Juniper
10	39 (6.383%)	EMC
11	34 (5.565%)	IBM
12	33 (5.401%)	Dell
13	31 (5.074%)	Altiris
14	29 (4.746%)	CheckPoint
15	25 (4.092%)	Veritas
16	22 (3.601%)	Symantec
17	20 (3.273%)	ProCurve
17	20 (3.273%)	JBoss
18	15 (2.455%)	Blue Coat
18	15 (2.455%)	F5

3rd Line Engineer / Infrastructure engineer -VMware, Exchange 2010, SAN

Gloucestershire, South West

3rd Line / Infrastructure Engineer -VMware, Exchange 2010, SAN is required on a 3-6 Month contract by a genuine market in Gloucestershire paying between £300-£350 per day-...

OPUS

Rate: GBP300 to GBP350 per day

Posted: 22 May 2013

Infrastructure Engineer - VMWare - 6month Contract - £45k

Colwyn Bay, Clwyd

Role Overview A strong Infrastructure Engineer with experience of VMWare and a Windows environment is required to work for a growing organisation based nearColwynBay. Initially this will be...

CV Screen Ltd

Rate: £40k - 45k per year + pro rata

Posted: 18 June 2013

Infrastructure Engineer - 2008R2/VMWare/AD/Exchange - LONDON

City of London

A fantastic opportunity has arisen working for my client Located in Fenchurch Street, they are currently looking for a 3rd line engineer to join their team on a...

Computer Futures

Posted: 3 June 2013

Infrastructure Engineer - 2008R2/Citrix/Exchange 2010/VMWare

City of London

A fantastic opportunity has arisen working for my client Located in Fenchurch Street, they are currently looking for a 3rd line engineer to join their team on a...

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Posted: 3 June 2013

Infrastructure Engineer - Urgent, Peterborough Windows 2008, AD

Peterborough, Cambridgeshire

The successful Infrastructure Engineer will have an excellent understanding of Windows Desktop and Server envinronments, including Windows 2008, Exchange and Active Directory administration and support... The successful Infrastructure...

Oscar Associates (UK) Ltd

Rate: £10 - £20 per hour

Posted: 13 June 2013

Contract Infrastructure Support Engineer (Windows Server)

Fareham, Hampshire

Spectrum IT Recruitment (South) Ltd

Rate: £20 - £22 per hour

Posted: 13 June 2013

Infrastructure Engineer (1 Year Fixed Term Contract)

East London

Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd

Rate: £34953 - £38984 per annum + Benefits