The first table below looks at the demand for the Infrastructure Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Infrastructure Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 22 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 advertised for the Yorkshire region.

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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Infrastructure Engineer
Rank 99 95 93
Rank change year-on-year
-4 -2
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 14 19 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 0.742% 0.826% 0.168%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.786% 0.873% 0.179%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 10 1
Average daily rate £325 £313 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.00% +4.16%
UK excluding London average daily rate £290 £290 £265
% change year-on-year
- +9.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 1
Average hourly rate - £30.00 £15.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +93.54%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £23.50 £30.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year
-21.66% +42.85%
All Job Titles
Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1781 2177 1679
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 94.38% 94.61% 93.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 907 1163 786
Average daily rate £320 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.53% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £188 £205
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 116 121
Average hourly rate £13.00 £14.00 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-7.14% -20.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.30 £10.30 £7.83
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £34.45 £30.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Infrastructure Engineer
England

Infrastructure Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Yorkshire Infrastructure Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer across the Yorkshire region.

Yorkshire Infrastructure Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer across the Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Yorkshire Infrastructure Engineer Daily Rate Histogram

Infrastructure Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer across the Yorkshire region.

Yorkshire Infrastructure Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Infrastructure Engineer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer within the Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 22 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
West Yorkshire -11 7 £279 -10.80%
North Yorkshire +5 5 £394 -
East Yorkshire - 2 £325 -
South Yorkshire -2 1 - -
Infrastructure Engineer
England

Infrastructure Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire region that cited Infrastructure 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 Engineer in their job title.

1 16 (53.33%) Windows
2 14 (46.67%) Firewall
2 14 (46.67%) VMware
3 11 (36.67%) HP
3 11 (36.67%) Windows Server 2008
4 10 (33.33%) Juniper
5 9 (30.00%) Active Directory
6 8 (26.67%) Citrix
6 8 (26.67%) Wireless
6 8 (26.67%) Windows Server 2003
6 8 (26.67%) SQL Server
6 8 (26.67%) VMware Infrastructure
7 7 (23.33%) Oracle
7 7 (23.33%) Linux
7 7 (23.33%) Apache
7 7 (23.33%) Cisco
7 7 (23.33%) Microsoft
7 7 (23.33%) FortiGate
8 6 (20.00%) Red Hat
8 6 (20.00%) Tomcat
8 6 (20.00%) XenApp
9 5 (16.67%) TippingPoint
9 5 (16.67%) Windows XP
9 5 (16.67%) MS Exchange
10 4 (13.33%) MS Excel
10 4 (13.33%) HPUX
10 4 (13.33%) IIS
10 4 (13.33%) MS Office
10 4 (13.33%) Web Services
10 4 (13.33%) Java

Infrastructure Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire region that cited Infrastructure 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 Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (13.33%) Web Services
2 1 (3.333%) J2EE
2 1 (3.333%) XML
Application Platforms
1 7 (23.33%) Apache
2 6 (20.00%) Tomcat
3 5 (16.67%) MS Exchange
4 4 (13.33%) IIS
4 4 (13.33%) Exchange Server 2003
5 3 (10.00%) Exchange Server 2007
6 1 (3.333%) OpenStack
6 1 (3.333%) Exchange Server 2010
6 1 (3.333%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (3.333%) Windows Azure
6 1 (3.333%) WorkSite
6 1 (3.333%) SharePoint
6 1 (3.333%) CloudStack
Applications
1 4 (13.33%) MS Excel
1 4 (13.33%) MS Office
2 3 (10.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (6.667%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 14 (46.67%) Firewall
2 8 (26.67%) Wireless
3 4 (13.33%) NAS
4 3 (10.00%) Fibre Channel
4 3 (10.00%) Cisco ASA
4 3 (10.00%) iSCSI
4 3 (10.00%) BIG-IP
4 3 (10.00%) LAN
5 2 (6.667%) WAN
5 2 (6.667%) VPN
6 1 (3.333%) RTSP
6 1 (3.333%) DVB
6 1 (3.333%) SAN
6 1 (3.333%) LDAP
6 1 (3.333%) DNS
6 1 (3.333%) DHCP
6 1 (3.333%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (26.67%) SQL Server
2 3 (10.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 3 (10.00%) SQL Server 2005
2 3 (10.00%) MySQL
3 1 (3.333%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 1 (3.333%) CruiseControl
1 1 (3.333%) Maven
General
1 1 (3.333%) Telecoms
1 1 (3.333%) Law
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.33%) Clustering
2 1 (3.333%) Open Source
2 1 (3.333%) Video on Demand
2 1 (3.333%) SaaS
2 1 (3.333%) PaaS
2 1 (3.333%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (3.333%) IPTV
2 1 (3.333%) Fat Client
2 1 (3.333%) Blackberry
2 1 (3.333%) Thin Client
2 1 (3.333%) Client/Server
2 1 (3.333%) IaaS
2 1 (3.333%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 16 (53.33%) Windows
2 11 (36.67%) Windows Server 2008
3 8 (26.67%) Windows Server 2003
4 7 (23.33%) Linux
5 5 (16.67%) Windows XP
6 4 (13.33%) HPUX
6 4 (13.33%) UNIX
6 4 (13.33%) Windows 7
6 4 (13.33%) CentOS
7 3 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (10.00%) Ubuntu
7 3 (10.00%) Debian
7 3 (10.00%) Solaris
7 3 (10.00%) AIX
8 1 (3.333%) Windows Vista
8 1 (3.333%) NetWare
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (10.00%) ITIL
2 2 (6.667%) CRM
2 2 (6.667%) Change Management
3 1 (3.333%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (3.333%) Test Automation
3 1 (3.333%) Time Management
3 1 (3.333%) Incident Management
3 1 (3.333%) Integration Testing
3 1 (3.333%) Document Management
3 1 (3.333%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (3.333%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 4 (13.33%) Java
1 4 (13.33%) PHP
2 3 (10.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (10.00%) VBScript
3 2 (6.667%) SQL
4 1 (3.333%) C
Qualifications
1 3 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (6.667%) MCSE
3 1 (3.333%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.333%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.333%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.333%) QA
System Software
1 9 (30.00%) Active Directory
2 8 (26.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (20.00%) XenApp
4 4 (13.33%) Terminal Services
4 4 (13.33%) vSphere
5 3 (10.00%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (6.667%) Hyper-V
7 1 (3.333%) XenServer
7 1 (3.333%) Citrix Presentation Server
7 1 (3.333%) Xen
Systems Management
1 7 (23.33%) FortiGate
2 3 (10.00%) Cacti
2 3 (10.00%) Puppet
2 3 (10.00%) SCCM
2 3 (10.00%) Nagios
3 1 (3.333%) CA Wily
3 1 (3.333%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (3.333%) SCOM
Vendors
1 14 (46.67%) VMware
2 11 (36.67%) HP
3 10 (33.33%) Juniper
4 8 (26.67%) Citrix
5 7 (23.33%) Oracle
5 7 (23.33%) Cisco
5 7 (23.33%) Microsoft
6 6 (20.00%) Red Hat
7 5 (16.67%) TippingPoint
8 4 (13.33%) EMC
8 4 (13.33%) F5
9 3 (10.00%) IBM
9 3 (10.00%) CheckPoint
9 3 (10.00%) JBoss
10 2 (6.667%) Dell
10 2 (6.667%) Trapeze
11 1 (3.333%) Google
11 1 (3.333%) Tangosol
11 1 (3.333%) Novell
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