Infrastructure Support Contracts in Cardiff

Infrastructure Support
South Wales > Cardiff

The median Infrastructure Support daily rate in Cardiff is £350 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 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
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 33 42 -
Rank change year-on-year +9 - -
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Support 1 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 0.47% 0.30% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.51% 0.31% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £325 -
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% - -
South Wales median daily rate £350 £325 £550
% change year-on-year +7.69% -40.91% -

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 196 322 508
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.89% 96.41% 96.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 256 390
10th Percentile £199 £188 £238
25th Percentile £381 £361 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +8.89% - +12.50%
75th Percentile £545 £550 £538
90th Percentile £616 £628 £638
South Wales median daily rate £470 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -1.05% - +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 5
10th Percentile £11.32 £13.00 £13.45
25th Percentile £11.75 £13.81 £15.25
Median hourly rate £13.50 £17.25 £18.75
Median % change year-on-year -21.75% -7.99% +20.97%
75th Percentile £18.00 £22.34 £23.75
90th Percentile £39.45 £24.38 £24.95
South Wales median hourly rate £22.68 £18.14 £19.91
% change year-on-year +25.03% -8.89% +7.62%

Infrastructure Support
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Support in Cardiff

Infrastructure Support
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Support in Cardiff

Infrastructure Support Skill Set
Top 11 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff

For the 6 months to 6 May 2024, Infrastructure Support 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 Support in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Rackspace
1 1 (100.00%) New Relic
1 1 (100.00%) PagerDuty
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering

Infrastructure Support 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) New Relic
1 1 (100.00%) PagerDuty
1 1 (100.00%) Rackspace
1 1 (100.00%) VMware