Infrastructure Engineer Contracts in Wales

Infrastructure Engineer
UK > Wales

The median Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in Wales is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 May 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
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 36 40 36
Rank change year-on-year +4 -4 +25
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 10 21 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 2.56% 3.32% 4.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.87% 3.50% 4.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 20 40
10th Percentile £354 £452 £313
25th Percentile £387 £513 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £516
Median % change year-on-year - +6.63% +5.81%
75th Percentile £638 £656 £588
90th Percentile £669 £700 £666
UK median daily rate £465 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -7.00% +11.11% +9.76%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Wales

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Wales. 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 Wales with a recognized job title 349 600 957
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.26% 94.79% 96.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 247 463 706
10th Percentile £187 £178 £183
25th Percentile £356 £313 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £460 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.17% -3.16% +11.76%
75th Percentile £550 £551 £575
90th Percentile £641 £650 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 33 39
10th Percentile £11.75 £13.25 £11.15
25th Percentile £13.06 £15.25 £12.62
Median hourly rate £19.09 £18.14 £19.91
Median % change year-on-year +5.21% -8.89% +20.67%
75th Percentile £31.02 £19.98 £26.38
90th Percentile £86.54 £45.75 £46.98
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.81
% change year-on-year -18.89% +89.04% +5.80%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in Wales

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in Wales

Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in Wales over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in Wales

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in Wales

Infrastructure Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer within the Wales region over the 6 months to 4 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
South Wales +7 8 £550 - 5
North Wales - 2 - -
Infrastructure Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, Infrastructure 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 across the Wales region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 9 (90.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (50.00%) Windows
3 4 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 4 (40.00%) Security Cleared
3 4 (40.00%) Azure
4 3 (30.00%) DevOps
4 3 (30.00%) Linux
4 3 (30.00%) Active Directory
4 3 (30.00%) SAN
4 3 (30.00%) VMware
4 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (30.00%) Public Sector
4 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
4 3 (30.00%) Unix
4 3 (30.00%) Terraform
4 3 (30.00%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (20.00%) Windows Server
5 2 (20.00%) Azure Pipelines
5 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
5 2 (20.00%) NetBackup
5 2 (20.00%) Agile
5 2 (20.00%) Dell
5 2 (20.00%) Cisco
5 2 (20.00%) Migration
5 2 (20.00%) NetApp
5 2 (20.00%) Veritas
5 2 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (20.00%) Data ONTAP
5 2 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (20.00%) Brocade

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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 1 (10.00%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) Azure
2 3 (30.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (20.00%) Azure Pipelines
3 2 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (10.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) SAN
2 1 (10.00%) Firewall
2 1 (10.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Adabas
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) CA Gen
General
1 3 (30.00%) Public Sector
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
Operating Systems
1 5 (50.00%) Windows
2 3 (30.00%) Linux
2 3 (30.00%) Unix
3 2 (20.00%) Data ONTAP
3 2 (20.00%) Windows Server
4 1 (10.00%) CentOS
4 1 (10.00%) Debian
4 1 (10.00%) Ubuntu
4 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (30.00%) DevOps
2 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (20.00%) Agile
3 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (20.00%) Migration
4 1 (10.00%) Cloud Security
4 1 (10.00%) Community of Practice
4 1 (10.00%) Continuous Deployment
4 1 (10.00%) Decision-Making
4 1 (10.00%) IT Strategy
4 1 (10.00%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (10.00%) Project Delivery
4 1 (10.00%) Roadmaps
4 1 (10.00%) Scrum
4 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (10.00%) Strategic Roadmap
4 1 (10.00%) Technology Roadmap
4 1 (10.00%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) Natural
1 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (10.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (10.00%) DBS Check
2 1 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) HMG Security Policy Framework
1 1 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (10.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Terraform
2 2 (20.00%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) VMware
2 2 (20.00%) Brocade
2 2 (20.00%) Cisco
2 2 (20.00%) Dell
2 2 (20.00%) NetApp
2 2 (20.00%) Veritas
3 1 (10.00%) CA
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (10.00%) New Relic
3 1 (10.00%) PagerDuty
3 1 (10.00%) Rackspace
3 1 (10.00%) Red Hat