Infrastructure Engineer Contracts in Cardiff

Infrastructure Engineer
South Wales > Cardiff

The median Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in Cardiff is £425 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 12 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
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 30 43 48
Rank change year-on-year +13 +5 -16
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 4 1 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 1.94% 0.31% 1.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.09% 0.32% 1.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 7
10th Percentile £363 - £263
25th Percentile £381 £455 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £470 £350
Median % change year-on-year -9.57% +34.29% -28.21%
75th Percentile £481 £485 £369
90th Percentile £508 - £409
South Wales median daily rate £365 £550 £475
% change year-on-year -33.64% +15.79% -2.56%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Cardiff

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Cardiff. 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 Cardiff with a recognized job title 191 315 500
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.72% 97.52% 96.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 247 384
10th Percentile £199 £184 £250
25th Percentile £381 £359 £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - +12.50%
75th Percentile £539 £569 £538
90th Percentile £609 £634 £638
South Wales median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 6 5
10th Percentile £11.25 £13.00 £13.45
25th Percentile £11.57 £13.81 £15.25
Median hourly rate £13.00 £17.25 £18.75
Median % change year-on-year -24.65% -7.99% +20.97%
75th Percentile £16.85 £22.34 £23.75
90th Percentile £19.74 £24.38 £24.95
South Wales median hourly rate £21.49 £18.14 £19.33
% change year-on-year +18.44% -6.16% +1.74%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in Cardiff

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in Cardiff

Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Cardiff

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in Cardiff over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in Cardiff

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

For the 6 months to 12 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 Cardiff region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Unix
2 3 (75.00%) Windows
3 2 (50.00%) Linux
3 2 (50.00%) Cisco
3 2 (50.00%) NetApp
3 2 (50.00%) Veritas
3 2 (50.00%) Dell
3 2 (50.00%) SAN
3 2 (50.00%) Migration
3 2 (50.00%) NetBackup
3 2 (50.00%) Brocade
3 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (50.00%) Data ONTAP
3 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) AWS
4 1 (25.00%) Rackspace
4 1 (25.00%) CA Gen
4 1 (25.00%) New Relic
4 1 (25.00%) PagerDuty
4 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (25.00%) VMware
4 1 (25.00%) CA
4 1 (25.00%) Natural
4 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
4 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
4 1 (25.00%) WebLogic

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff 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 (25.00%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) SAN
2 1 (25.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Adabas
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) CA Gen
General
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Unix
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) Data ONTAP
2 2 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Natural
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Brocade
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco
1 2 (50.00%) Dell
1 2 (50.00%) NetApp
1 2 (50.00%) Veritas
2 1 (25.00%) CA
2 1 (25.00%) New Relic
2 1 (25.00%) PagerDuty
2 1 (25.00%) Rackspace
2 1 (25.00%) VMware