Infrastructure Engineer Contracts in the East Midlands

Infrastructure Engineer
England > East Midlands

The median Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in the East Midlands is £449, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 53 52 56
Rank change year-on-year -1 +4 +6
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 17 25 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 1.96% 2.52% 2.90%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.07% 2.65% 3.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 23 31
10th Percentile £313 £330 £280
25th Percentile £319 £363 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £449 £445 £398
Median % change year-on-year +0.90% +11.95% +31.40%
75th Percentile £474 £488 £513
90th Percentile - £660 £520
England median daily rate £463 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -7.50% +11.11% +12.50%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
East Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the East Midlands. 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 the East Midlands with a recognized job title 820 942 1,306
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.36% 94.96% 94.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 531 736 976
10th Percentile £180 £213 £179
25th Percentile £270 £334 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £463 £430
Median % change year-on-year -8.11% +7.56% +14.67%
75th Percentile £550 £591 £519
90th Percentile £622 £700 £595
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 50 79
10th Percentile £11.83 £13.11 £9.75
25th Percentile £14.00 £15.35 £14.72
Median hourly rate £17.60 £22.13 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.47% +10.65% +36.89%
75th Percentile £26.15 £40.25 £32.63
90th Percentile £51.91 £65.00 £35.00
England median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -12.22% +87.50% +14.01%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the East Midlands

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the East Midlands

Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 20 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in the East Midlands

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in the East Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the East Midlands

Infrastructure Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 20 June 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
Leicestershire +11 9 £449 +19.73% 4
Northamptonshire -2 6 £450 -5.26% 2
Nottinghamshire -1 2 £350 -20.90% 7
Infrastructure Engineer
England

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands

For the 6 months to 20 June 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 East Midlands region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 17 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 14 (82.35%) Windows
3 13 (76.47%) VMware
3 13 (76.47%) Windows Server
4 11 (64.71%) VMware Infrastructure
5 10 (58.82%) Active Directory
6 9 (52.94%) Microsoft
6 9 (52.94%) SCOM
6 9 (52.94%) Microsoft 365
7 8 (47.06%) Public Sector
8 5 (29.41%) Virtual Desktop
8 5 (29.41%) Infrastructure Monitoring
8 5 (29.41%) Migration
8 5 (29.41%) PowerShell
8 5 (29.41%) Microsoft Exchange
8 5 (29.41%) Linux
8 5 (29.41%) Microsoft Office
9 4 (23.53%) SQL Server
9 4 (23.53%) Red Hat
9 4 (23.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (23.53%) SCCM
9 4 (23.53%) Grid Computing
9 4 (23.53%) Performance Tuning
9 4 (23.53%) SCSM
9 4 (23.53%) GitLab
9 4 (23.53%) Red Hat Satellite
9 4 (23.53%) SolarWinds
9 4 (23.53%) Azure
9 4 (23.53%) Task Automation
10 3 (17.65%) Windows Server 2016

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 5 (29.41%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (5.88%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (29.41%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 9 (52.94%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (23.53%) Azure
3 3 (17.65%) Entra ID
4 1 (5.88%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (17.65%) DHCP
1 3 (17.65%) DNS
2 1 (5.88%) LAN
2 1 (5.88%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (23.53%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (23.53%) GitLab
General
1 8 (47.06%) Public Sector
2 3 (17.65%) Local Government
3 2 (11.76%) Social Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Finance
4 1 (5.88%) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Grid Computing
2 1 (5.88%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 14 (82.35%) Windows
2 13 (76.47%) Windows Server
3 5 (29.41%) Linux
4 4 (23.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (17.65%) Windows Server 2012
5 3 (17.65%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (17.65%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (11.76%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (29.41%) Infrastructure Monitoring
2 5 (29.41%) Migration
3 4 (23.53%) Performance Tuning
3 4 (23.53%) Task Automation
4 2 (11.76%) PRINCE2
4 2 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (5.88%) Agile
5 1 (5.88%) ITIL
5 1 (5.88%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (29.41%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) SC Cleared
1 2 (11.76%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.88%) Degree
System Software
1 11 (64.71%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (58.82%) Active Directory
3 5 (29.41%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (11.76%) Hyper-V
5 1 (5.88%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 9 (52.94%) SCOM
2 4 (23.53%) Red Hat Satellite
2 4 (23.53%) SCCM
2 4 (23.53%) SCSM
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 13 (76.47%) VMware
2 9 (52.94%) Microsoft
3 4 (23.53%) Red Hat
3 4 (23.53%) SolarWinds
4 3 (17.65%) Citrix