Infrastructure Engineer Contracts in England

Infrastructure Engineer
UK > England

The median Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in England is £450 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 17 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
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 145 174 208
Rank change year-on-year +29 +34 +17
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 587 715 1,012
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.61% 1.49% 1.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.74% 1.57% 1.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 453 538 756
10th Percentile £300 £345 £306
25th Percentile £375 £410 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £550
90th Percentile £638 £675 £625
UK median daily rate £463 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -7.50% +11.11% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 7
10th Percentile £20.73 £27.88 £31.85
25th Percentile £21.25 £48.48 £40.12
Median hourly rate £22.50 £63.84 £47.34
Median % change year-on-year -64.76% +34.85% +22.17%
75th Percentile £47.50 £65.00 £67.39
90th Percentile £73.95 £76.65 £68.02
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £61.62 £45.48
% change year-on-year -63.48% +35.48% +13.70%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 33,809 45,522 67,131
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.60% 95.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,413 32,346 47,872
10th Percentile £283 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £644 £663 £644
90th Percentile £750 £760 £743
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.82% +2.90% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,440 1,342 1,849
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.92 £44.77 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.54% +94.63% +4.55%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in England

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in England

Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in England over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in England

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in England.

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in England

Infrastructure Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in England over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in England

Infrastructure Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 17 May 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
London +52 200 £450 -19.32% 67
South East +35 159 £450 -1.10% 66
North of England -2 82 £425 -8.11% 36
South West -11 76 £525 - 60
North West -10 52 £425 -10.53% 18
Midlands +6 42 £400 -10.61% 49
West Midlands +20 33 £425 -5.56% 25
Yorkshire +3 26 £450 +5.88% 16
East of England -11 21 £625 +25.00% 28
East Midlands -10 8 £338 -23.73% 24
North East +10 4 £438 +9.38% 4
Infrastructure Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 17 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 England region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 569 (96.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 261 (44.46%) Windows
3 247 (42.08%) VMware
4 232 (39.52%) Security Cleared
5 231 (39.35%) Active Directory
6 186 (31.69%) Azure
7 175 (29.81%) Microsoft
8 172 (29.30%) VMware Infrastructure
9 167 (28.45%) Windows Server
10 137 (23.34%) Linux
11 126 (21.47%) SC Cleared
12 118 (20.10%) DV Cleared
13 116 (19.76%) DNS
14 114 (19.42%) Firewall
15 97 (16.52%) Social Skills
16 96 (16.35%) PowerShell
17 94 (16.01%) Microsoft 365
18 90 (15.33%) DHCP
19 88 (14.99%) AWS
20 87 (14.82%) Migration
21 78 (13.29%) Public Sector
22 76 (12.95%) SCCM
23 70 (11.93%) SAN
24 62 (10.56%) Microsoft Exchange
24 62 (10.56%) Hyper-V
24 62 (10.56%) Data Centre
25 60 (10.22%) vCenter Server
26 59 (10.05%) Problem-Solving
27 58 (9.88%) ITIL
28 56 (9.54%) SQL Server

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 62 (10.56%) Microsoft Exchange
2 31 (5.28%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.53%) Confluence
4 7 (1.19%) Apache
5 6 (1.02%) IIS
6 4 (0.68%) SharePoint Server
6 4 (0.68%) Tomcat
7 3 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.51%) WordPress
8 2 (0.34%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.17%) WebLogic
Applications
1 14 (2.39%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.68%) AutoCAD
2 4 (0.68%) Revit
3 1 (0.17%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.17%) Eikon
2 1 (0.17%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.17%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 186 (31.69%) Azure
2 94 (16.01%) Microsoft 365
3 88 (14.99%) AWS
4 54 (9.20%) Entra ID
5 28 (4.77%) IaaS
6 19 (3.24%) SaaS
7 16 (2.73%) OCI
7 16 (2.73%) PaaS
8 12 (2.04%) Cloud Computing
8 12 (2.04%) GCP
8 12 (2.04%) Power Platform
9 11 (1.87%) Amazon S3
10 10 (1.70%) Amazon EC2
10 10 (1.70%) Azure DevOps
11 9 (1.53%) Mimecast
11 9 (1.53%) OneDrive
12 8 (1.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 7 (1.19%) Dynamics 365
14 6 (1.02%) Azure Logic Apps
14 6 (1.02%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 116 (19.76%) DNS
2 114 (19.42%) Firewall
3 90 (15.33%) DHCP
4 70 (11.93%) SAN
5 36 (6.13%) WAN
6 30 (5.11%) LAN
7 26 (4.43%) NAS
8 23 (3.92%) VPN
9 22 (3.75%) TCP/IP
10 21 (3.58%) Network Security
11 15 (2.56%) Wi-Fi
12 13 (2.21%) Wireless
13 12 (2.04%) VSAN
14 10 (1.70%) MPLS
14 10 (1.70%) VLAN
15 9 (1.53%) iSCSI
16 8 (1.36%) Fibre Channel
16 8 (1.36%) OSPF
17 7 (1.19%) BGP
17 7 (1.19%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (9.54%) SQL Server
2 10 (1.70%) Power BI
3 7 (1.19%) MySQL
4 6 (1.02%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (0.85%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (0.68%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (0.68%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (0.34%) DB2
7 2 (0.34%) SAP HANA
7 2 (0.34%) Sisense
8 1 (0.17%) Adabas
8 1 (0.17%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (0.17%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.17%) Redis
Development Applications
1 12 (2.04%) Git
2 11 (1.87%) JIRA
3 9 (1.53%) Jenkins
4 7 (1.19%) GitLab
5 5 (0.85%) Hudson
6 2 (0.34%) Artifactory
6 2 (0.34%) Robot Framework
6 2 (0.34%) Selenium
6 2 (0.34%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.17%) CA Gen
7 1 (0.17%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.17%) VisualWorks
General
1 97 (16.52%) Social Skills
2 78 (13.29%) Public Sector
3 43 (7.33%) Finance
4 25 (4.26%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (3.58%) Documentation Skills
6 17 (2.90%) Banking
7 6 (1.02%) Manufacturing
8 5 (0.85%) Financial Institution
8 5 (0.85%) Legal
8 5 (0.85%) Military
8 5 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (0.68%) Front Office
9 4 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (0.68%) Telecoms
10 3 (0.51%) French Language
10 3 (0.51%) Local Government
10 3 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.34%) Law
12 1 (0.17%) Advertising
12 1 (0.17%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (2.90%) Flash
2 4 (0.68%) .NET
2 4 (0.68%) AWS CDK
3 3 (0.51%) JSON
3 3 (0.51%) LAMP
4 2 (0.34%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (0.34%) J2EE
4 2 (0.34%) Jinja
4 2 (0.34%) LDAP
4 2 (0.34%) Middleware
4 2 (0.34%) NETCONF
4 2 (0.34%) Redfish
4 2 (0.34%) RESTful
4 2 (0.34%) Spring Boot
4 2 (0.34%) XML
4 2 (0.34%) YAML
4 2 (0.34%) YANG
5 1 (0.17%) EDI
5 1 (0.17%) SAML
5 1 (0.17%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 62 (10.56%) Data Centre
2 30 (5.11%) PKI
3 24 (4.09%) Replication
4 17 (2.90%) Private Cloud
5 14 (2.39%) Clustering
6 12 (2.04%) Driving Licence
7 11 (1.87%) Management Information System
8 7 (1.19%) Public Cloud
9 6 (1.02%) Onboarding
10 5 (0.85%) Client/Server
10 5 (0.85%) Linux Command Line
10 5 (0.85%) NHS
10 5 (0.85%) Video Conferencing
11 4 (0.68%) Fat Client
11 4 (0.68%) Thin Client
12 3 (0.51%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 3 (0.51%) Enterprise Software
12 3 (0.51%) Hybrid Cloud
12 3 (0.51%) Security Posture
12 3 (0.51%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 261 (44.46%) Windows
2 167 (28.45%) Windows Server
3 137 (23.34%) Linux
4 56 (9.54%) Windows Server 2016
5 55 (9.37%) Windows Server 2019
6 52 (8.86%) Windows 10
7 42 (7.16%) Windows Server 2012
8 27 (4.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 22 (3.75%) Unix
10 14 (2.39%) Windows 7
10 14 (2.39%) Windows XP
11 12 (2.04%) AIX
11 12 (2.04%) Ubuntu
12 11 (1.87%) VMS
13 10 (1.70%) Windows Server 2008
14 7 (1.19%) Windows Server 2003
15 5 (0.85%) Apple iOS
15 5 (0.85%) CentOS
15 5 (0.85%) Mac OS
16 2 (0.34%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 569 (96.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 87 (14.82%) Migration
3 59 (10.05%) Problem-Solving
4 58 (9.88%) ITIL
5 53 (9.03%) DevOps
6 37 (6.30%) Infrastructure as Code
7 35 (5.96%) Cybersecurity
7 35 (5.96%) Disaster Recovery
8 31 (5.28%) Agile
9 30 (5.11%) Project Delivery
10 27 (4.60%) CI/CD
11 22 (3.75%) Change Management
11 22 (3.75%) Storage Management
12 21 (3.58%) Virtual Infrastructure
13 20 (3.41%) Containerisation
13 20 (3.41%) Server Management
14 19 (3.24%) Computer Science
14 19 (3.24%) Performance Tuning
14 19 (3.24%) Virtual Environments
14 19 (3.24%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 96 (16.35%) PowerShell
2 33 (5.62%) Python
3 32 (5.45%) SQL
4 13 (2.21%) Bash
4 13 (2.21%) Java
5 11 (1.87%) C#
6 9 (1.53%) VBScript
7 5 (0.85%) C
8 4 (0.68%) C++
8 4 (0.68%) TypeScript
9 3 (0.51%) PHP
9 3 (0.51%) VB.NET
10 2 (0.34%) Bicep
11 1 (0.17%) Go
11 1 (0.17%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.17%) Natural
11 1 (0.17%) Ruby
11 1 (0.17%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.17%) Smalltalk
Qualifications
1 232 (39.52%) Security Cleared
2 126 (21.47%) SC Cleared
3 118 (20.10%) DV Cleared
4 53 (9.03%) Degree
5 39 (6.64%) Cisco Certification
6 38 (6.47%) CCNA
7 25 (4.26%) Microsoft Certification
8 20 (3.41%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 18 (3.07%) Azure Certification
9 18 (3.07%) CCNP
10 10 (1.70%) MCSE
11 8 (1.36%) AWS Certification
11 8 (1.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 8 (1.36%) Computer Science Degree
12 5 (0.85%) Master's Degree
13 4 (0.68%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 4 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
13 4 (0.68%) Chartered Engineer
13 4 (0.68%) ITIL Certification
13 4 (0.68%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 8 (1.36%) NIST
2 6 (1.02%) GDPR
2 6 (1.02%) QA
2 6 (1.02%) SLA
3 5 (0.85%) PCI DSS
4 4 (0.68%) NCSC
5 3 (0.51%) COBIT
5 3 (0.51%) Government Security Classifications
5 3 (0.51%) ISO 9001
5 3 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 2 (0.34%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.17%) NIST 800
System Software
1 231 (39.35%) Active Directory
2 172 (29.30%) VMware Infrastructure
3 62 (10.56%) Hyper-V
4 55 (9.37%) vSphere
5 47 (8.01%) VMware ESXi
6 25 (4.26%) VMware NSX
7 23 (3.92%) Virtual Machines
7 23 (3.92%) XenApp
8 17 (2.90%) Docker
9 8 (1.36%) Firmware
10 7 (1.19%) XenDesktop
11 5 (0.85%) Virtual Desktop
12 3 (0.51%) Virtual Servers
13 1 (0.17%) KVM
13 1 (0.17%) Terminal Services
13 1 (0.17%) VMware Server
13 1 (0.17%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 76 (12.95%) SCCM
2 60 (10.22%) vCenter Server
3 44 (7.50%) Terraform
4 31 (5.28%) Microsoft Intune
5 28 (4.77%) Ansible
5 28 (4.77%) WSUS
6 26 (4.43%) Kubernetes
7 22 (3.75%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 22 (3.75%) SCOM
8 14 (2.39%) EMC NetWorker
8 14 (2.39%) NetBackup
9 13 (2.21%) Single Sign-On
10 5 (0.85%) Nessus
10 5 (0.85%) VxRail
11 4 (0.68%) FortiGate
11 4 (0.68%) Microsoft Clustering
11 4 (0.68%) Puppet
11 4 (0.68%) Red Hat Satellite
12 3 (0.51%) ZABBIX
13 2 (0.34%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 247 (42.08%) VMware
2 175 (29.81%) Microsoft
3 54 (9.20%) Cisco
4 51 (8.69%) Veeam
5 40 (6.81%) Citrix
6 31 (5.28%) Dell
7 29 (4.94%) HP
8 24 (4.09%) Palo Alto
9 22 (3.75%) Red Hat
10 21 (3.58%) Juniper
10 21 (3.58%) Symantec
11 18 (3.07%) Oracle
12 16 (2.73%) 3PAR
12 16 (2.73%) EMC
13 15 (2.56%) CA
13 15 (2.56%) Ivanti
14 14 (2.39%) Aruba
14 14 (2.39%) Extreme Networks
14 14 (2.39%) IBM
14 14 (2.39%) ServiceNow