The first table below looks at the demand for the Infrastructure Specialist 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 Specialist in their job title over the 3 months to 23 May 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.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Infrastructure Specialist
Rank 480 455 504
Rank change year-on-year
-25 +49
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Specialist 61 110 82
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.132% 0.188% 0.132%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.143% 0.204% 0.142%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 46 54
Average daily rate £330 £450 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-26.66% +28.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £300 £259
10% offered a daily rate of more than £468 £550 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £328 £450 £318
% change year-on-year
-27.22% +41.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
Average hourly rate £38.75 - £19.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £38.75 - £19.00
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
42697 54001 57544
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.14% 92.51% 92.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 24521 29759 31287
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £240 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 2095 2581 2973
Average hourly rate £18.25 £18.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-1.35% -7.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.88 £40.00 £41.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%

Infrastructure Specialist
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Infrastructure Specialist Jobs Demand Trend

Infrastructure Specialist
Daily Rate Trend

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

Infrastructure Specialist Daily Rate Trend

Infrastructure Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Infrastructure Specialist within the UK over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Infrastructure Specialist Daily Rate Histogram

Infrastructure Specialist
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Infrastructure Specialist Hourly Rate Trend

Infrastructure Specialist
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Infrastructure Specialist within the UK over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Infrastructure Specialist Hourly Rate Histogram

Infrastructure Specialist
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 Specialist within the UK over the 3 months to 23 May 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
England -2 56 £325 -27.77%
London +11 16 £330 -8.33%
East of England +20 13 £325 -27.77%
South East +8 12 £328 -27.22%
North West +2 9 £250 -47.36%
Essex +3 8 £400 -11.11%
Colchester 0 6 £400 -11.11%
Yorkshire -5 6 - -
Hampshire -10 6 £325 -27.77%
Lancashire - 6 £213 -
City of London +9 4 £388 -3.12%
Preston - 4 £175 -
Cambridgeshire +14 3 - -
Peterborough +6 3 - -
Cheshire +4 3 £358 -24.73%
Farnborough -1 3 £473 +7.50%
West Yorkshire -5 3 - -
Middlesex - 3 - -
Southampton - 3 £283 -
Chester - 3 £358 -
Halifax - 3 - -
South West +31 2 £485 -
Scotland -15 2 £425 +30.76%
Glasgow - 2 £425 -
Luton - 2 £325 -
Bedfordshire - 2 £325 -
York - 2 - -
North Yorkshire - 2 - -
Channel Islands - 2 £408 -
West Sussex +15 1 £475 -

Infrastructure Specialist
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Infrastructure Specialist 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 Specialist in their job title.

1 66 (54.55%) Windows
2 40 (33.06%) Windows Server 2008
3 38 (31.40%) VMware
4 30 (24.79%) Linux
4 30 (24.79%) Microsoft
5 29 (23.97%) Active Directory
6 27 (22.31%) Citrix
6 27 (22.31%) Migration
7 25 (20.66%) SAN
8 24 (19.83%) Finance
9 23 (19.01%) VMware Infrastructure
9 23 (19.01%) Cisco
10 22 (18.18%) SCCM
11 21 (17.36%) Security Cleared
11 21 (17.36%) MS Exchange
11 21 (17.36%) Firewall
12 19 (15.70%) Windows Server 2003
13 18 (14.88%) DNS
13 18 (14.88%) HP
13 18 (14.88%) Exchange Server 2010
14 16 (13.22%) ITIL
15 15 (12.40%) UNIX
15 15 (12.40%) IBM
15 15 (12.40%) SSL
15 15 (12.40%) Cisco Certification
16 14 (11.57%) SharePoint
17 13 (10.74%) Dell
17 13 (10.74%) MS Excel
17 13 (10.74%) SCOM
17 13 (10.74%) Hyper-V

Infrastructure Specialist
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Infrastructure Specialist 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 Specialist in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 9 (7.438%) Middleware
1 9 (7.438%) Tivoli Directory Integrator
2 6 (4.959%) WebSphere
3 5 (4.132%) Web Services
3 5 (4.132%) Application Packaging
4 2 (1.653%) LAMP
4 2 (1.653%) COM
4 2 (1.653%) CSS
5 1 (0.826%) SAP Basis
Application Platforms
1 21 (17.36%) MS Exchange
2 18 (14.88%) Exchange Server 2010
3 14 (11.57%) SharePoint
4 12 (9.917%) SharePoint 2010
5 7 (5.785%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 7 (5.785%) Exchange Server 2007
5 7 (5.785%) Exchange Server 2003
6 6 (4.959%) Lync
7 5 (4.132%) WebSphere Application Server
7 5 (4.132%) Windows Azure
7 5 (4.132%) Amazon AWS
8 3 (2.479%) WebSphere MQ
8 3 (2.479%) IIS
8 3 (2.479%) MQSeries
9 2 (1.653%) Lotus Domino
9 2 (1.653%) Exchange Server 2013
10 1 (0.826%) BizTalk Server
10 1 (0.826%) Apache
10 1 (0.826%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 13 (10.74%) MS Excel
2 1 (0.826%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.653%) Maximo
2 1 (0.826%) Cognos Business Intelligence
2 1 (0.826%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 1 (0.826%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 25 (20.66%) SAN
2 21 (17.36%) Firewall
3 18 (14.88%) DNS
4 15 (12.40%) SSL
5 10 (8.264%) Wireless
6 9 (7.438%) Internet
6 9 (7.438%) NAS
7 7 (5.785%) DHCP
7 7 (5.785%) WAN
8 5 (4.132%) Cisco ASA
8 5 (4.132%) Cisco IOS
8 5 (4.132%) Network Security
9 4 (3.306%) VLAN
9 4 (3.306%) LAN
9 4 (3.306%) S/MIME
10 3 (2.479%) BGP
10 3 (2.479%) TCP/IP
10 3 (2.479%) Cisco PIX
10 3 (2.479%) BIG-IP
11 2 (1.653%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (8.264%) SQL Server
2 9 (7.438%) DB2
3 5 (4.132%) SQL Server 2008
4 3 (2.479%) Oracle 8/8i
5 1 (0.826%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.826%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (2.479%) MSI
2 1 (0.826%) ClearQuest
2 1 (0.826%) VSS/SourceSafe
2 1 (0.826%) ClearCase
General
1 24 (19.83%) Finance
2 7 (5.785%) Banking
3 6 (4.959%) Retail
4 5 (4.132%) Local Government
5 4 (3.306%) Telecoms
6 2 (1.653%) Investment Banking
6 2 (1.653%) Publishing
6 2 (1.653%) Dutch Language
7 1 (0.826%) Advertising
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.264%) Clustering
2 7 (5.785%) Blackberry
3 6 (4.959%) SaaS
4 4 (3.306%) Replication
5 3 (2.479%) PKI
6 2 (1.653%) Device Driver
6 2 (1.653%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (1.653%) CMDB
7 1 (0.826%) IaaS
7 1 (0.826%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.826%) AS400
7 1 (0.826%) EqualLogic
7 1 (0.826%) CESG
7 1 (0.826%) SecurID
7 1 (0.826%) CCTV
7 1 (0.826%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 66 (54.55%) Windows
2 40 (33.06%) Windows Server 2008
3 30 (24.79%) Linux
4 19 (15.70%) Windows Server 2003
5 15 (12.40%) UNIX
6 13 (10.74%) Windows 7
7 12 (9.917%) AIX
7 12 (9.917%) Solaris
7 12 (9.917%) Windows XP
8 5 (4.132%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (3.306%) Windows 8
10 3 (2.479%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (1.653%) Windows 2000 Server
11 2 (1.653%) Windows Vista
12 1 (0.826%) Windows NT
12 1 (0.826%) Debian
12 1 (0.826%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (22.31%) Migration
2 16 (13.22%) ITIL
3 11 (9.091%) High Availability
4 9 (7.438%) Identity Management
5 8 (6.612%) PRINCE2
5 8 (6.612%) Project Management
6 7 (5.785%) Configuration Management
7 6 (4.959%) Validation
8 5 (4.132%) E-Commerce
8 5 (4.132%) SOA
8 5 (4.132%) Network Architecture
9 4 (3.306%) Time Management
9 4 (3.306%) Change Management
9 4 (3.306%) Change Control
9 4 (3.306%) Root Cause Analysis
10 3 (2.479%) Service Management
11 2 (1.653%) Data Management
11 2 (1.653%) Business Continuity
11 2 (1.653%) Network Load Balancing
11 2 (1.653%) Performance Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (9.091%) Perl
1 11 (9.091%) SQL
2 10 (8.264%) Java
3 9 (7.438%) JavaScript
4 5 (4.132%) PowerShell
5 2 (1.653%) VBScript
6 1 (0.826%) C
6 1 (0.826%) Python
6 1 (0.826%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 21 (17.36%) Security Cleared
2 15 (12.40%) Cisco Certification
3 11 (9.091%) SC Cleared
4 10 (8.264%) CCNP
5 9 (7.438%) DV Cleared
6 8 (6.612%) CCNA
7 7 (5.785%) Degree
8 4 (3.306%) Citrix Certification
9 3 (2.479%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 3 (2.479%) CCSE
10 2 (1.653%) CCIE
10 2 (1.653%) CISA
10 2 (1.653%) CCA
11 1 (0.826%) CCDP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.959%) QA
1 6 (4.959%) SLA
2 1 (0.826%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 29 (23.97%) Active Directory
2 23 (19.01%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (10.74%) Hyper-V
3 13 (10.74%) XenApp
4 11 (9.091%) VMware ESXi
5 9 (7.438%) Microsoft App-V
5 9 (7.438%) Tivoli Directory Server
6 8 (6.612%) XenServer
7 7 (5.785%) XenDesktop
7 7 (5.785%) VMware ESX
8 5 (4.132%) UAG
9 3 (2.479%) Citrix Presentation Server
10 2 (1.653%) ProxySG
10 2 (1.653%) vSphere
10 2 (1.653%) Terminal Server
11 1 (0.826%) MetaFrame
11 1 (0.826%) NFS
11 1 (0.826%) VMware Server
11 1 (0.826%) Postfix
11 1 (0.826%) Forefront TMG
Systems Management
1 22 (18.18%) SCCM
2 13 (10.74%) SCOM
3 10 (8.264%) Tivoli
4 9 (7.438%) Tivoli Identity Manager
4 9 (7.438%) BladeLogic
5 5 (4.132%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
6 3 (2.479%) WSUS
7 2 (1.653%) NetBackup
7 2 (1.653%) Backup Exec
7 2 (1.653%) McAfee ePO
7 2 (1.653%) SCVMM
7 2 (1.653%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.826%) HP SIM
8 1 (0.826%) Puppet
8 1 (0.826%) OpenView
8 1 (0.826%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 1 (0.826%) OpenView Configuration Management
8 1 (0.826%) HP Data Protector
8 1 (0.826%) Nessus
Vendors
1 38 (31.40%) VMware
2 30 (24.79%) Microsoft
3 27 (22.31%) Citrix
4 23 (19.01%) Cisco
5 18 (14.88%) HP
6 15 (12.40%) IBM
7 13 (10.74%) Dell
8 12 (9.917%) Symantec
9 10 (8.264%) AppSense
10 9 (7.438%) EMC
11 6 (4.959%) CheckPoint
12 5 (4.132%) Red Hat
13 4 (3.306%) Oracle
13 4 (3.306%) Websense
13 4 (3.306%) NetApp
14 3 (2.479%) F5
14 3 (2.479%) Juniper
14 3 (2.479%) Intel
15 2 (1.653%) Blue Coat
15 2 (1.653%) TippingPoint