Infrastructure Engineering Contracts in England

Infrastructure Engineering
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 95 121 140
Rank change year-on-year +26 +19 +15
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 862 1,055 1,377
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.36% 2.16% 1.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.73% 2.40% 2.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 651 793 1,038
10th Percentile £285 £338 £306
25th Percentile £375 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £507 £475
Median % change year-on-year -6.31% +6.74% +11.76%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £575
90th Percentile £700 £713 £663
UK median daily rate £475 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -9.52% +10.53% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 15 10
10th Percentile £21.25 £36.94 £24.50
25th Percentile £43.75 £53.75 £27.44
Median hourly rate £50.53 £65.00 £43.06
Median % change year-on-year -22.27% +50.95% +11.12%
75th Percentile £62.81 £78.00 £62.21
90th Percentile £70.00 £84.18 £68.02
UK median hourly rate £54.88 £62.68 £42.50
% change year-on-year -12.45% +47.48% +6.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,523 43,947 64,310
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.44% 90.16% 90.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,648 30,851 45,725
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £448 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £650 £673 £650
90th Percentile £750 £764 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,245 1,554 1,761
10th Percentile £12.89 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £37.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.67% +50.00% +6.61%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.29% +41.73% +4.82%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineering in England

Infrastructure Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Engineering in England

Infrastructure Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in England over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in England

Infrastructure Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Engineering in England

Infrastructure Engineering
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in England over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in England

Infrastructure Engineering
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 Engineering within the England region over the 6 months to 14 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 +41 308 £523 -9.13% 109
South East +33 223 £463 +2.78% 91
South West +7 118 £488 -11.36% 80
North of England -6 116 £425 -10.53% 82
North West 0 79 £425 -10.53% 48
Midlands -17 54 £425 -5.56% 77
West Midlands +4 45 £475 +5.56% 43
East of England -11 37 £525 +5.00% 43
Yorkshire -7 32 £380 -10.59% 29
East Midlands -12 8 £338 -24.16% 34
North East +5 5 £438 +9.38% 7
Infrastructure Engineering
UK

Infrastructure Engineering
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 76 (8.82%) Microsoft Exchange
2 47 (5.45%) SharePoint
3 23 (2.67%) Confluence
4 12 (1.39%) Apache
5 11 (1.28%) IIS
6 9 (1.04%) SharePoint Server
7 7 (0.81%) Tomcat
8 6 (0.70%) SharePoint 2010
9 5 (0.58%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.35%) WordPress
11 2 (0.23%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.12%) Exchange Server 2007
12 1 (0.12%) Exchange Server 2010
12 1 (0.12%) WebLogic
Applications
1 12 (1.39%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (1.04%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.70%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.46%) AutoCAD
4 4 (0.46%) Revit
5 2 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.12%) Eikon
2 1 (0.12%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.12%) Shopify
2 1 (0.12%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 261 (30.28%) Azure
2 141 (16.36%) AWS
3 132 (15.31%) Microsoft 365
4 68 (7.89%) Entra ID
5 43 (4.99%) IaaS
6 28 (3.25%) PaaS
7 26 (3.02%) SaaS
8 24 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
9 23 (2.67%) Power Platform
10 19 (2.20%) Cloud Computing
10 19 (2.20%) Mimecast
11 18 (2.09%) Amazon EC2
11 18 (2.09%) GCP
12 16 (1.86%) OCI
12 16 (1.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 15 (1.74%) Amazon S3
14 13 (1.51%) Serverless
15 12 (1.39%) AWS CloudFormation
16 11 (1.28%) AWS Lambda
16 11 (1.28%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 152 (17.63%) Firewall
2 136 (15.78%) DNS
3 101 (11.72%) DHCP
4 89 (10.32%) SAN
5 57 (6.61%) WAN
6 50 (5.80%) LAN
7 43 (4.99%) VPN
8 38 (4.41%) Wireless
9 34 (3.94%) NAS
10 29 (3.36%) Network Security
11 27 (3.13%) TCP/IP
12 25 (2.90%) OSPF
13 21 (2.44%) Software-Defined Radio
14 18 (2.09%) VSAN
15 17 (1.97%) BGP
15 17 (1.97%) SNMP
16 15 (1.74%) MPLS
17 14 (1.62%) Wi-Fi
18 13 (1.51%) VLAN
19 12 (1.39%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (7.42%) SQL Server
2 14 (1.62%) Power BI
3 10 (1.16%) Amazon RDS
3 10 (1.16%) MongoDB
4 9 (1.04%) MySQL
5 7 (0.81%) Elasticsearch
5 7 (0.81%) Sybase ASE
6 6 (0.70%) Metadata
6 6 (0.70%) Microsoft Power View
6 6 (0.70%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (0.70%) PowerPivot
6 6 (0.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 5 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.23%) Big Data
8 2 (0.23%) DB2
8 2 (0.23%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.23%) SAP HANA
8 2 (0.23%) Sisense
9 1 (0.12%) Adabas
9 1 (0.12%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 40 (4.64%) Git
2 30 (3.48%) Jenkins
3 29 (3.36%) JIRA
4 20 (2.32%) GitLab
5 16 (1.86%) Robot Framework
6 15 (1.74%) Bitbucket
6 15 (1.74%) Eclipse
7 14 (1.62%) GoogleTest
8 7 (0.81%) Hudson
8 7 (0.81%) Postman
8 7 (0.81%) SoapUI
9 4 (0.46%) TeamCity
10 3 (0.35%) Selenium
10 3 (0.35%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.23%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.23%) Visual Studio Code
12 1 (0.12%) CA Gen
12 1 (0.12%) Octopus Deploy
12 1 (0.12%) SonarQube
12 1 (0.12%) VisualWorks
General
1 133 (15.43%) Social Skills
2 91 (10.56%) Public Sector
3 53 (6.15%) Finance
4 42 (4.87%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (3.02%) Documentation Skills
6 22 (2.55%) Banking
7 11 (1.28%) Telecoms
8 8 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (0.81%) Aerospace
9 7 (0.81%) Legal
10 6 (0.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (0.70%) Manufacturing
10 6 (0.70%) Publishing
11 5 (0.58%) French Language
11 5 (0.58%) German Language
11 5 (0.58%) Military
11 5 (0.58%) Retail
12 4 (0.46%) Back Office
12 4 (0.46%) Financial Institution
12 4 (0.46%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 565 (65.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 74 (8.58%) Senior
3 61 (7.08%) Network Engineer
4 60 (6.96%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 41 (4.76%) Azure Engineer
5 41 (4.76%) Cloud Engineer
6 38 (4.41%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
7 33 (3.83%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 32 (3.71%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
9 31 (3.60%) AWS Engineer
10 30 (3.48%) Support Engineer
11 28 (3.25%) Storage Engineer
11 28 (3.25%) VMware Engineer
12 27 (3.13%) Architect
12 27 (3.13%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
13 26 (3.02%) DevOps Engineer
14 25 (2.90%) 3rd Line Engineer
15 22 (2.55%) Infrastructure Technician
16 20 (2.32%) Infrastructure Support
17 19 (2.20%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (2.44%) CSS
1 21 (2.44%) HTML
2 18 (2.09%) Flash
3 13 (1.51%) Kafka
4 11 (1.28%) RabbitMQ
5 9 (1.04%) RESTful
6 7 (0.81%) .NET
6 7 (0.81%) SOAP
6 7 (0.81%) YAML
7 4 (0.46%) AWS CDK
8 3 (0.35%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (0.35%) JSON
8 3 (0.35%) LAMP
8 3 (0.35%) XML
9 2 (0.23%) Jinja
9 2 (0.23%) Lambda Expressions
9 2 (0.23%) LDAP
9 2 (0.23%) Middleware
9 2 (0.23%) NumPy
9 2 (0.23%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 85 (9.86%) Data Centre
2 39 (4.52%) PKI
3 28 (3.25%) Replication
4 24 (2.78%) Private Cloud
5 18 (2.09%) Management Information System
5 18 (2.09%) NHS
6 16 (1.86%) Clustering
7 12 (1.39%) Driving Licence
8 11 (1.28%) Distributed Systems
9 9 (1.04%) Linux Command Line
10 8 (0.93%) Public Cloud
10 8 (0.93%) Video Conferencing
11 7 (0.81%) Algorithms
11 7 (0.81%) Data Structures
11 7 (0.81%) Mobile App
11 7 (0.81%) Onboarding
12 6 (0.70%) Client/Server
12 6 (0.70%) Fat Client
12 6 (0.70%) Thin Client
13 5 (0.58%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 352 (40.84%) Windows
2 218 (25.29%) Windows Server
3 203 (23.55%) Linux
4 61 (7.08%) Windows Server 2016
5 60 (6.96%) Windows Server 2019
6 57 (6.61%) Windows 10
7 53 (6.15%) Windows Server 2012
8 34 (3.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 26 (3.02%) Unix
10 15 (1.74%) Ubuntu
11 14 (1.62%) Windows XP
12 13 (1.51%) AIX
13 12 (1.39%) Windows 7
14 11 (1.28%) Windows Server 2008
15 10 (1.16%) VMS
16 9 (1.04%) Mac OS
17 8 (0.93%) Apple iOS
17 8 (0.93%) Windows Server 2003
18 5 (0.58%) CentOS
19 2 (0.23%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 132 (15.31%) Migration
2 112 (12.99%) DevOps
3 96 (11.14%) Problem-Solving
4 92 (10.67%) Agile
5 85 (9.86%) ITIL
6 76 (8.82%) CI/CD
7 58 (6.73%) Cybersecurity
8 57 (6.61%) Infrastructure as Code
9 48 (5.57%) Project Delivery
10 41 (4.76%) Disaster Recovery
11 40 (4.64%) Software Engineering
12 39 (4.52%) Change Management
13 38 (4.41%) Configuration Management
14 34 (3.94%) Scrum
15 27 (3.13%) Containerisation
15 27 (3.13%) Virtual Infrastructure
16 25 (2.90%) Microservices
16 25 (2.90%) Server Management
17 24 (2.78%) Storage Management
18 23 (2.67%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 128 (14.85%) PowerShell
2 62 (7.19%) Python
3 50 (5.80%) SQL
4 37 (4.29%) JavaScript
5 28 (3.25%) Java
6 24 (2.78%) C#
7 20 (2.32%) C++
8 16 (1.86%) Shell Script
9 15 (1.74%) Bash
10 10 (1.16%) VBScript
11 6 (0.70%) Go
11 6 (0.70%) Perl
12 5 (0.58%) TypeScript
13 4 (0.46%) Bicep
14 3 (0.35%) PHP
14 3 (0.35%) Ruby
14 3 (0.35%) VB.NET
15 1 (0.12%) C
15 1 (0.12%) Korn
15 1 (0.12%) Smalltalk
Qualifications
1 318 (36.89%) Security Cleared
2 187 (21.69%) SC Cleared
3 160 (18.56%) DV Cleared
4 73 (8.47%) Degree
5 52 (6.03%) Cisco Certification
6 50 (5.80%) CCNA
7 31 (3.60%) Azure Certification
8 25 (2.90%) Microsoft Certification
9 20 (2.32%) CCNP
9 20 (2.32%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 12 (1.39%) MCSE
11 11 (1.28%) Computer Science Degree
12 8 (0.93%) AWS Certification
12 8 (0.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 7 (0.81%) Master's Degree
13 7 (0.81%) MCSA
14 6 (0.70%) VCAP
15 5 (0.58%) ITIL Certification
15 5 (0.58%) TOGAF Certification
16 4 (0.46%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (1.39%) SLA
2 9 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (1.04%) QA
3 8 (0.93%) GDPR
3 8 (0.93%) NIST
4 5 (0.58%) PCI DSS
5 3 (0.35%) Government Security Classifications
5 3 (0.35%) ISO 9001
5 3 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 3 (0.35%) NCSC
6 2 (0.23%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.12%) COBIT
7 1 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.12%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.12%) PMO
System Software
1 273 (31.67%) Active Directory
2 218 (25.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 73 (8.47%) Hyper-V
4 59 (6.84%) vSphere
5 54 (6.26%) VMware ESXi
6 32 (3.71%) VMware NSX
7 28 (3.25%) Virtual Machines
8 27 (3.13%) Firmware
9 24 (2.78%) XenApp
10 20 (2.32%) Docker
11 10 (1.16%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 7 (0.81%) XenDesktop
13 5 (0.58%) Virtual Desktop
14 4 (0.46%) KVM
14 4 (0.46%) Virtual Servers
15 1 (0.12%) DFS Replication
15 1 (0.12%) Terminal Services
15 1 (0.12%) VMware Server
15 1 (0.12%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 85 (9.86%) SCCM
2 74 (8.58%) Terraform
3 68 (7.89%) vCenter Server
4 62 (7.19%) Ansible
5 46 (5.34%) Microsoft Intune
6 41 (4.76%) Kubernetes
6 41 (4.76%) WSUS
7 27 (3.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 25 (2.90%) SCOM
9 19 (2.20%) Puppet
10 15 (1.74%) Grafana
10 15 (1.74%) NetBackup
10 15 (1.74%) Single Sign-On
11 14 (1.62%) EMC NetWorker
12 13 (1.51%) Prometheus
13 10 (1.16%) Consul
13 10 (1.16%) FortiGate
14 8 (0.93%) vRealize
15 6 (0.70%) Red Hat Satellite
15 6 (0.70%) VxRail
Vendors
1 316 (36.66%) VMware
2 233 (27.03%) Microsoft
3 66 (7.66%) Veeam
4 65 (7.54%) Cisco
5 49 (5.68%) Citrix
6 41 (4.76%) Dell
7 34 (3.94%) HP
8 32 (3.71%) Red Hat
9 30 (3.48%) Palo Alto
10 29 (3.36%) Juniper
11 25 (2.90%) Atlassian
11 25 (2.90%) Google
12 22 (2.55%) Symantec
13 20 (2.32%) Oracle
14 19 (2.20%) Extreme Networks
14 19 (2.20%) ServiceNow
15 18 (2.09%) 3PAR
16 17 (1.97%) CA
16 17 (1.97%) Ivanti
17 16 (1.86%) EMC