Infrastructure Maintenance Contracts

Infrastructure Maintenance
UK

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

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 569 697 849
Rank change year-on-year +128 +152 -180
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Maintenance 9 19 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.021% 0.032% 0.020%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.024% 0.036% 0.022%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 10 13
10th Percentile £486 £440 £132
25th Percentile £503 £613 £140
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £673 £406
Median % change year-on-year -16.36% +65.64% +1.50%
75th Percentile £650 £718 £513
90th Percentile £695 £752 £534
UK excluding London median daily rate - £445 £140
% change year-on-year - +217.86% -44.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Infrastructure Maintenance 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 37,480 53,073 80,381
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.37% 89.85% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,166 36,804 56,457
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
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% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,447 1,751 1,910
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.96 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.11% +44.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

Infrastructure Maintenance
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Maintenance in the UK

Infrastructure Maintenance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Maintenance in the UK

Infrastructure Maintenance
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Maintenance over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Maintenance in the UK

Infrastructure Maintenance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Maintenance in the UK

Infrastructure Maintenance
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Maintenance within the UK over the 6 months to 6 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
Work from Home +127 6 £525 -27.34% 11
England +98 6 £600 -10.78% 9
London +105 5 £613 -11.87% 3

Infrastructure Maintenance
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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (77.78%) Azure
2 6 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (44.44%) IaaS
3 4 (44.44%) PaaS
3 4 (44.44%) SaaS
4 3 (33.33%) AWS
4 3 (33.33%) Azure Key Vault
4 3 (33.33%) GCP
5 1 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (11.11%) Anthos
5 1 (11.11%) Apigee
5 1 (11.11%) Datadog
5 1 (11.11%) GitHub
5 1 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (11.11%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (11.11%) Stackdriver
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) BigQuery
1 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) Oracle APEX
2 1 (11.11%) GitLab
General
1 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Banking
3 1 (11.11%) Finance
3 1 (11.11%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Applications Specialist
2 3 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Automation Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Cloud Automation Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) DevOps Automation Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (11.11%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) GCP Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior
4 1 (11.11%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior DevOps
4 1 (11.11%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Tandem
2 1 (11.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 4 (44.44%) Solaris
1 4 (44.44%) Unix
1 4 (44.44%) VMS
1 4 (44.44%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) DevOps
2 6 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 5 (55.56%) Knowledge Transfer
3 5 (55.56%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (44.44%) Availability Management
4 4 (44.44%) Change Management
4 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (44.44%) Performance Management
5 3 (33.33%) Agile
5 3 (33.33%) Business Strategy
5 3 (33.33%) Code Quality
5 3 (33.33%) Migration
5 3 (33.33%) Thought Leadership
6 2 (22.22%) Computer Science
6 2 (22.22%) Service Delivery
6 2 (22.22%) Storage Management
7 1 (11.11%) Configuration Management
7 1 (11.11%) Fintech
7 1 (11.11%) Load Balancing
7 1 (11.11%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 2 (22.22%) Bicep
3 1 (11.11%) Bash
3 1 (11.11%) C#
3 1 (11.11%) Go
3 1 (11.11%) Python
3 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (55.56%) SC Cleared
1 5 (55.56%) Security Cleared
2 2 (22.22%) Azure Certification
2 2 (22.22%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (22.22%) Degree
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) Terraform
2 1 (11.11%) Ansible
2 1 (11.11%) Grafana
2 1 (11.11%) Prometheus
2 1 (11.11%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Oracle
2 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (11.11%) Ariba
3 1 (11.11%) Google
3 1 (11.11%) New Relic
3 1 (11.11%) SAP
3 1 (11.11%) Splunk
3 1 (11.11%) webMethods