Infrastructure Engineering Contracts in Cheshire

Infrastructure Engineering
North West > Cheshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire with a requirement for Infrastructure Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Infrastructure Engineering over the 6 months to 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 51 53 51
Rank change year-on-year +2 -2 -13
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 7 8 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 1.39% 1.48% 1.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.62% 1.63% 1.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 7 3
10th Percentile £356 £350 £361
25th Percentile £419 £356 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £450 £630
Median % change year-on-year +6.94% -28.57% +61.13%
75th Percentile £589 £489 £644
90th Percentile £619 £543 £650
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £425
% change year-on-year -5.26% +11.76% +17.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £20.00
North West median hourly rate £45.59 - £20.00
% change year-on-year - - -46.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

Infrastructure Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 431 492 433
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 85.35% 90.94% 85.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 296 336 246
10th Percentile £292 £269 £212
25th Percentile £401 £385 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% +2.86%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £539
90th Percentile £623 £653 £632
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 21 24
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.75 £11.13
25th Percentile £16.67 £22.41 £16.02
Median hourly rate £26.66 £27.98 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.72% +19.06% -22.79%
75th Percentile £43.75 £35.00 £37.93
90th Percentile £45.00 £40.00 £61.73
North West median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £20.75
% change year-on-year -40.00% +68.72% +19.02%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Job postings citing Infrastructure Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineering in Cheshire

Infrastructure Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in Cheshire.

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Engineering in Cheshire

Infrastructure Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in Cheshire over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in Cheshire

Infrastructure Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in Cheshire.

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Engineering in Cheshire

Infrastructure Engineering
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 19 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
Warrington +7 3 £513 +13.89% 8
Northwich - 1 - -
Infrastructure Engineering
North West

Infrastructure Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 4 (57.14%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Direct Connect
2 1 (14.29%) GCP
2 1 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) SAN
1 2 (28.57%) VSAN
2 1 (14.29%) DHCP
2 1 (14.29%) DNS
2 1 (14.29%) Firewall
2 1 (14.29%) iSCSI
2 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
2 1 (14.29%) VLAN
2 1 (14.29%) VPN
2 1 (14.29%) WAAS
General
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Local Government
2 1 (14.29%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Storage Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Cisco Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Network Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Migration Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Network Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Network Migration Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) PowerShell Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) SAN Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) SAN Storage Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) SCCM Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) SCCM Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Server Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) VMware Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Data Centre
1 1 (14.29%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Windows
2 1 (14.29%) Windows 10
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (14.29%) Change Control
1 1 (14.29%) Migration
1 1 (14.29%) Network Design
1 1 (14.29%) Server Building
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Active Directory
2 1 (14.29%) Firmware
2 1 (14.29%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (14.29%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) vCenter Server
2 1 (14.29%) Avamar
2 1 (14.29%) SCCM
2 1 (14.29%) SolarWinds Orion
2 1 (14.29%) WSUS
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) VMware
2 2 (28.57%) Cisco
3 1 (14.29%) Dell
3 1 (14.29%) Google
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 1 (14.29%) Palo Alto
3 1 (14.29%) SolarWinds
3 1 (14.29%) Symantec
3 1 (14.29%) Veeam