Infrastructure Security Engineer Contracts

Infrastructure Security Engineer
UK

The median Infrastructure Security Engineer daily rate in the UK is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 562 682 784
Rank change year-on-year +120 +102 -125
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Security Engineer 24 40 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.055% 0.067% 0.053%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.059% 0.070% 0.056%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 31 30
10th Percentile £384 £513 £306
25th Percentile £416 £550 £316
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £400
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +50.00% -17.95%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £500
90th Percentile £721 - £538
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £615 £313
% change year-on-year -18.70% +96.80% -12.65%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 40,482 56,783 84,604
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.58% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,407 39,621 59,331
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,642 1,607 2,111
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.28 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.45 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.68 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.71% +95.65% +1.41%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.60 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.63%

Infrastructure Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Infrastructure Security Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Security Engineer in the UK

Infrastructure Security Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Security Engineer in the UK

Infrastructure Security Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Security Engineer over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Security Engineer in the UK

Infrastructure Security Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Security Engineer in the UK

Infrastructure Security Engineer
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Security Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 25 April 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
England +101 14 £456 -24.07% 6
Work from Home +118 12 £513 -21.15% 3
UK excluding London +78 11 £500 -18.70% 3
London +90 10 £525 -12.50% 3
Scotland - 7 £575 -
South East +15 4 £431 -29.89% 1

Infrastructure Security Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, Infrastructure Security Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Infrastructure Security Engineer in the job title.

1 23 (95.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 12 (50.00%) Windows
3 10 (41.67%) Social Skills
3 10 (41.67%) Cybersecurity
4 9 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (37.50%) SCCM
4 9 (37.50%) PowerShell
4 9 (37.50%) Azure
5 8 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (33.33%) Python
5 8 (33.33%) Microsoft
5 8 (33.33%) VMware
5 8 (33.33%) DevOps
6 7 (29.17%) Agile
7 6 (25.00%) AWS
8 5 (20.83%) Windows Server
8 5 (20.83%) Disk Encryption
8 5 (20.83%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 5 (20.83%) Splunk
8 5 (20.83%) Mac OS
8 5 (20.83%) Refactoring
8 5 (20.83%) Unix
8 5 (20.83%) Active Directory
9 4 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
9 4 (16.67%) Firewall
9 4 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 4 (16.67%) vSphere
9 4 (16.67%) Process Improvement
10 3 (12.50%) Microsoft 365

Infrastructure Security Engineer Skill Set
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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 9 (37.50%) Azure
2 6 (25.00%) AWS
3 3 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (12.50%) Azure AKS
3 3 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (8.33%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (8.33%) Mimecast
5 1 (4.17%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.67%) Firewall
2 3 (12.50%) Network Security
3 2 (8.33%) VSAN
4 1 (4.17%) HTTPS
Development Applications
1 1 (4.17%) JIRA
General
1 10 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 9 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (12.50%) Banking
3 3 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Local Government
4 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.50%) YAML
2 1 (4.17%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.50%) Data Centre
1 3 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
1 3 (12.50%) Onboarding
2 2 (8.33%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.17%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 12 (50.00%) Windows
2 5 (20.83%) Mac OS
2 5 (20.83%) Unix
2 5 (20.83%) Windows Server
3 3 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (95.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 10 (41.67%) Cybersecurity
3 9 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (33.33%) DevOps
5 7 (29.17%) Agile
6 5 (20.83%) Disk Encryption
6 5 (20.83%) Refactoring
6 5 (20.83%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 4 (16.67%) Process Improvement
7 4 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
8 3 (12.50%) ITIL
9 2 (8.33%) Disaster Recovery
9 2 (8.33%) Information Security
9 2 (8.33%) ITSM
9 2 (8.33%) Risk Management
9 2 (8.33%) Security Operations
9 2 (8.33%) Statistics
9 2 (8.33%) Virtual Environments
9 2 (8.33%) Virtual Infrastructure
9 2 (8.33%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (37.50%) PowerShell
2 8 (33.33%) Python
3 1 (4.17%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (12.50%) Degree
2 2 (8.33%) SC Cleared
2 2 (8.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.33%) VCAP
2 2 (8.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (4.17%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (4.17%) MCSE
3 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (8.33%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (8.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (4.17%) COBIT
3 1 (4.17%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (4.17%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 8 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (20.83%) Active Directory
3 4 (16.67%) vSphere
4 2 (8.33%) VMware NSX
4 2 (8.33%) XenApp
5 1 (4.17%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 9 (37.50%) SCCM
2 3 (12.50%) Kubernetes
3 2 (8.33%) FortiGate
3 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (8.33%) Nexpose
4 1 (4.17%) vRealize
4 1 (4.17%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 8 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 8 (33.33%) VMware
2 5 (20.83%) Splunk
3 3 (12.50%) CrowdStrike
3 3 (12.50%) Red Hat
4 2 (8.33%) Citrix
4 2 (8.33%) Rapid7
5 1 (4.17%) Google
5 1 (4.17%) Netskope
5 1 (4.17%) Okta
5 1 (4.17%) Veeam