The first table below looks at the demand for the Infrastructure Support 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 Support 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.

Location
3 months to
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Infrastructure Support Engineer
Rank 516 556 564
Rank change year-on-year
+40 +8
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Support Engineer 25 23 26
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.051% 0.040% 0.042%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.055% 0.044% 0.045%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 13 12
Average daily rate £350 £203 £215
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+72.83% -5.81%
UK excluding London average daily rate £308 £201 £215
% change year-on-year
+52.79% -6.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 4
Average hourly rate £23.75 £17.68 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+34.37% -15.83%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £20.38 £17.54 £15.40
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £23.88 £17.82 £23.80
UK excluding London average hourly rate £23.75 £17.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year
+35.71% -16.66%
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 £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 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 2142 2525 2941
Average hourly rate £18.50 £18.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -7.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.77 £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 Support Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Infrastructure Support Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Infrastructure Support Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Infrastructure Support Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Infrastructure Support Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Infrastructure Support Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Infrastructure Support 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 Support 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 +40 25 £350 +55.55% 12
South East +26 7 £338 +54.28% 5
South West +29 5 £290 +11.53% 3
London +24 4 £350 +2.94% 2
City of London +1 3 £350 -
Hampshire -5 3 - - 3
West Midlands +10 2 - - 1
Oxfordshire - 2 £325 -
Southampton - 2 - - 2
Solihull 0 1 - -
Lincoln - 1 £263 -
Reading - 1 - -
Berkshire - 1 - -
East Midlands - 1 £263 - 1
Lincolnshire - 1 £263 -
Channel Islands - - - -
East of England - - - -
Wales - - - -
South Wales - - - -
North West - - - -
Hertfordshire - - - -
Shropshire - - - -
South Yorkshire - - - -
Surrey - - - - 1
West Sussex - - - -
West Yorkshire - - - -
Yorkshire - - - -
Cambridgeshire - - - -
Derbyshire - - - - 1
Dorset - - - - 3

Infrastructure Support Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Infrastructure Support 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 Support Engineer in their job title.

1 34 (64.15%) Windows
2 27 (50.94%) VMware
3 22 (41.51%) Active Directory
4 20 (37.74%) Windows Server 2008
5 17 (32.08%) MS Exchange
6 16 (30.19%) Microsoft
6 16 (30.19%) Windows Server 2003
7 12 (22.64%) VMware Infrastructure
8 11 (20.75%) SAN
9 10 (18.87%) Cisco
10 9 (16.98%) DNS
10 9 (16.98%) ITIL
10 9 (16.98%) vSphere
11 8 (15.09%) Oracle
11 8 (15.09%) SQL Server
11 8 (15.09%) DHCP
11 8 (15.09%) MS Excel
11 8 (15.09%) NetApp
12 7 (13.21%) HP
12 7 (13.21%) Windows XP
12 7 (13.21%) WAN
12 7 (13.21%) Disaster Recovery
12 7 (13.21%) Windows 7
13 6 (11.32%) Finance
13 6 (11.32%) VMware ESX
13 6 (11.32%) Exchange Server 2007
13 6 (11.32%) LAN
13 6 (11.32%) SQL
13 6 (11.32%) MS Office
13 6 (11.32%) Citrix

Infrastructure Support Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 3 (5.660%) Middleware
1 3 (5.660%) Oracle Fusion
1 3 (5.660%) WebCenter
2 1 (1.887%) Application Packaging
Application Platforms
1 17 (32.08%) MS Exchange
2 6 (11.32%) Exchange Server 2007
3 5 (9.434%) SharePoint
3 5 (9.434%) Exchange Server 2003
3 5 (9.434%) Exchange Server 2010
4 3 (5.660%) WebLogic
5 2 (3.774%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 2 (3.774%) IIS
6 1 (1.887%) Apache
Applications
1 8 (15.09%) MS Excel
2 6 (11.32%) MS Office
3 1 (1.887%) Office 365
Communications & Networking
1 11 (20.75%) SAN
2 9 (16.98%) DNS
3 8 (15.09%) DHCP
4 7 (13.21%) WAN
5 6 (11.32%) LAN
6 4 (7.547%) Firewall
6 4 (7.547%) VoIP
7 3 (5.660%) VPN
7 3 (5.660%) Cisco Nexus
7 3 (5.660%) Network Security
7 3 (5.660%) Fibre Channel
8 2 (3.774%) NAS
8 2 (3.774%) Internet
8 2 (3.774%) TCP/IP
9 1 (1.887%) DVB
9 1 (1.887%) Wireless
9 1 (1.887%) RTSP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (15.09%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.774%) SQL Server 2008
2 2 (3.774%) Oracle 8/8i
3 1 (1.887%) MySQL
3 1 (1.887%) SQL Server 2000
3 1 (1.887%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 1 (1.887%) MSI
General
1 6 (11.32%) Finance
2 5 (9.434%) Financial Institution
3 3 (5.660%) Banking
4 2 (3.774%) Investment Banking
4 2 (3.774%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.887%) Advertising
Miscellaneous
1 5 (9.434%) Hedge funds
2 3 (5.660%) Mathematics
3 2 (3.774%) Clustering
3 2 (3.774%) Blackberry
4 1 (1.887%) Client/Server
4 1 (1.887%) IPTV
4 1 (1.887%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.887%) iPad
4 1 (1.887%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 34 (64.15%) Windows
2 20 (37.74%) Windows Server 2008
3 16 (30.19%) Windows Server 2003
4 7 (13.21%) Windows XP
4 7 (13.21%) Windows 7
5 4 (7.547%) Linux
6 3 (5.660%) UNIX
6 3 (5.660%) Windows Vista
7 1 (1.887%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (1.887%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (16.98%) ITIL
2 7 (13.21%) Disaster Recovery
3 5 (9.434%) Incident Management
4 4 (7.547%) Capacity Management
4 4 (7.547%) Migration
5 3 (5.660%) Configuration Management
5 3 (5.660%) Project Management
5 3 (5.660%) Change Management
5 3 (5.660%) Problem Management
6 2 (3.774%) Capacity Planning
6 2 (3.774%) Network Management
6 2 (3.774%) User Acceptance Testing
6 2 (3.774%) Release Management
6 2 (3.774%) Business Continuity
6 2 (3.774%) Information Security
6 2 (3.774%) E-Commerce
7 1 (1.887%) PRINCE2
7 1 (1.887%) Service Management
7 1 (1.887%) Risk Management
7 1 (1.887%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (11.32%) SQL
2 4 (7.547%) C
3 2 (3.774%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.887%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 5 (9.434%) Microsoft Certification
1 5 (9.434%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 3 (5.660%) MCSE
2 3 (5.660%) MCP
2 3 (5.660%) MCITP
2 3 (5.660%) Security Cleared
3 2 (3.774%) MCTS
3 2 (3.774%) CNE
3 2 (3.774%) Novell Certification
3 2 (3.774%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (3.774%) CCNP
4 1 (1.887%) Degree
4 1 (1.887%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.774%) QA
System Software
1 22 (41.51%) Active Directory
2 12 (22.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (16.98%) vSphere
4 6 (11.32%) VMware ESX
5 5 (9.434%) XenApp
6 3 (5.660%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (3.774%) Hyper-V
7 2 (3.774%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (1.887%) VMware Server
8 1 (1.887%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 2 (3.774%) Tivoli
1 2 (3.774%) Tivoli Storage Manager
1 2 (3.774%) Control-M
1 2 (3.774%) ARCserve
2 1 (1.887%) SCCM
2 1 (1.887%) SCOM
2 1 (1.887%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 27 (50.94%) VMware
2 16 (30.19%) Microsoft
3 10 (18.87%) Cisco
4 8 (15.09%) Oracle
4 8 (15.09%) NetApp
5 7 (13.21%) HP
6 6 (11.32%) Citrix
7 5 (9.434%) IBM
8 2 (3.774%) CheckPoint
8 2 (3.774%) Juniper
8 2 (3.774%) BMC
8 2 (3.774%) CA
9 1 (1.887%) Nokia
9 1 (1.887%) Veritas
9 1 (1.887%) Compaq
9 1 (1.887%) Symantec
9 1 (1.887%) Remedy
9 1 (1.887%) 3Com
9 1 (1.887%) Altiris
9 1 (1.887%) Blue Coat
Fareham, Hampshire
Contract IT Support Engineer - Windows Server, Exchange, Active Directory, VMWare, SAN. ** Applicants must be eligible for security clearance or ideally hold SC level clearance already ** A 6 month...
Spectrum IT Recruitment (South) Ltd
Rate: £20 - £22 per hour
Posted: 13 June 2013
Southampton, Hampshire
This immediate requirement is to support maintenance of existing IT infrastructure, including the following key skills: Essential Skills: *MS ActiveDirectory, MS Exchange Server, MS Windows Server *MS SQL...
Connectus
Rate: £18 - £21.5 per hour
Posted: 13 June 2013
Southampton, Hampshire
This immediate requirement is to support maintenance of existing IT infrastructure, including the following key skills: ** Note: Valid Security Clearance an immediate advantage but not essential Essential Skills: *...
Connectus
Rate: £22 - £26 per hour
Posted: 14 June 2013
Chatham, Kent
Essential skills/Exp: - Windows server based hardware and software: Fault Resolution Project Delivery ITIL environment - MCP or equivalent - CCNA or equivalent - Analytical Skills - Experience supporting and maintaining Cisco...
Lorien Resourcing
Posted: 18 June 2013
West Midlands
start and finishing times) Required experience: *Windows Server implementation and support - Windows Server 2008 R2, 2003 *Experience and in-depth knowledge of Exchange Server 2007 and associated technologies *...
Venn Group
Rate: £25000 Per Annum 1600 car allowance
Posted: 18 June 2013