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 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 95 122 141
Rank change year-on-year +27 +19 +10
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 872 1,056 1,373
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.38% 2.15% 1.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.75% 2.38% 2.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 655 796 1,032
10th Percentile £290 £331 £306
25th Percentile £375 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £575
90th Percentile £700 £713 £674
UK median daily rate £480 £520 £475
% change year-on-year -7.69% +9.47% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 16 11
10th Percentile £21.25 £38.07 £25.00
25th Percentile £40.31 £52.38 £27.52
Median hourly rate £46.18 £63.84 £43.62
Median % change year-on-year -27.66% +46.35% +9.05%
75th Percentile £62.50 £78.00 £65.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £83.15 £68.02
UK median hourly rate £54.88 £61.62 £43.06
% change year-on-year -10.94% +43.09% +7.65%

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 31,661 44,294 64,052
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.54% 90.18% 90.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,752 31,074 45,519
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £444 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £650 £674 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,232 1,569 1,736
10th Percentile £12.87 £10.73 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £37.34 £24.30
Median % change year-on-year -2.25% +53.69% +3.38%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +2.04%

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 7 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 7 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 7 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 +48 312 £525 -8.70% 123
South East +31 219 £456 +0.83% 89
South West +12 124 £500 -9.09% 80
North of England -4 119 £425 -10.53% 74
North West 0 78 £425 -10.53% 38
Midlands -11 54 £419 -6.94% 74
West Midlands +6 45 £425 -5.56% 43
East of England -21 38 £525 +16.67% 45
Yorkshire +4 36 £380 -10.59% 29
East Midlands -9 8 £338 -23.73% 30
North East +9 5 £438 +2.94% 10
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 (8.72%) Microsoft Exchange
2 47 (5.39%) SharePoint
3 22 (2.52%) Confluence
4 12 (1.38%) Apache
5 11 (1.26%) IIS
6 9 (1.03%) SharePoint Server
7 7 (0.80%) Tomcat
8 6 (0.69%) SharePoint 2010
9 5 (0.57%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.34%) WordPress
11 2 (0.23%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.11%) Exchange Server 2007
12 1 (0.11%) Exchange Server 2010
12 1 (0.11%) WebLogic
Applications
1 12 (1.38%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (1.03%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.69%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.46%) AutoCAD
4 4 (0.46%) Revit
5 2 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.11%) Dynamics NAV
1 1 (0.11%) Eikon
1 1 (0.11%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.11%) Shopify
1 1 (0.11%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 267 (30.62%) Azure
2 140 (16.06%) AWS
3 134 (15.37%) Microsoft 365
4 67 (7.68%) Entra ID
5 43 (4.93%) IaaS
6 28 (3.21%) PaaS
7 26 (2.98%) SaaS
8 25 (2.87%) Azure DevOps
9 23 (2.64%) Power Platform
10 20 (2.29%) Cloud Computing
10 20 (2.29%) Mimecast
11 18 (2.06%) GCP
12 16 (1.83%) OCI
12 16 (1.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 15 (1.72%) Amazon EC2
13 15 (1.72%) Amazon S3
14 13 (1.49%) AWS CloudFormation
14 13 (1.49%) Serverless
15 12 (1.38%) OneDrive
16 11 (1.26%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 160 (18.35%) Firewall
2 141 (16.17%) DNS
3 99 (11.35%) DHCP
4 88 (10.09%) SAN
5 59 (6.77%) WAN
6 50 (5.73%) LAN
7 40 (4.59%) VPN
8 36 (4.13%) Network Security
8 36 (4.13%) Wireless
9 34 (3.90%) NAS
10 27 (3.10%) TCP/IP
11 26 (2.98%) OSPF
12 21 (2.41%) Software-Defined Radio
13 19 (2.18%) VSAN
14 18 (2.06%) BGP
15 17 (1.95%) SNMP
16 15 (1.72%) MPLS
16 15 (1.72%) Wi-Fi
17 12 (1.38%) Wireless Security
17 12 (1.38%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (7.45%) SQL Server
2 14 (1.61%) Power BI
3 10 (1.15%) Amazon RDS
3 10 (1.15%) MongoDB
4 9 (1.03%) MySQL
5 7 (0.80%) Elasticsearch
5 7 (0.80%) Sybase ASE
6 6 (0.69%) Metadata
6 6 (0.69%) Microsoft Power View
6 6 (0.69%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (0.69%) PowerPivot
6 6 (0.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 5 (0.57%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.23%) Big Data
8 2 (0.23%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.23%) Sisense
9 1 (0.11%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.11%) DB2
9 1 (0.11%) Redis
9 1 (0.11%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 41 (4.70%) Git
2 32 (3.67%) Jenkins
3 27 (3.10%) JIRA
4 20 (2.29%) GitLab
5 16 (1.83%) Robot Framework
6 15 (1.72%) Bitbucket
6 15 (1.72%) Eclipse
7 14 (1.61%) GoogleTest
8 7 (0.80%) Hudson
8 7 (0.80%) Postman
8 7 (0.80%) SoapUI
9 4 (0.46%) TeamCity
10 3 (0.34%) Selenium
10 3 (0.34%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.23%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.23%) Visual Studio Code
12 1 (0.11%) CA Gen
12 1 (0.11%) Octopus Deploy
12 1 (0.11%) SonarQube
12 1 (0.11%) VisualWorks
General
1 133 (15.25%) Social Skills
2 91 (10.44%) Public Sector
3 54 (6.19%) Finance
4 44 (5.05%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (2.87%) Documentation Skills
6 22 (2.52%) Banking
7 11 (1.26%) Telecoms
8 8 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (0.80%) Legal
10 6 (0.69%) Aerospace
10 6 (0.69%) Manufacturing
10 6 (0.69%) Publishing
11 5 (0.57%) French Language
11 5 (0.57%) German Language
11 5 (0.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (0.57%) Retail
12 4 (0.46%) Financial Institution
12 4 (0.46%) Front Office
12 4 (0.46%) Military
13 3 (0.34%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 577 (66.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 75 (8.60%) Senior
3 65 (7.45%) Network Engineer
4 61 (7.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 43 (4.93%) Cloud Engineer
6 42 (4.82%) Azure Engineer
6 42 (4.82%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
7 35 (4.01%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 33 (3.78%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
9 31 (3.56%) AWS Engineer
9 31 (3.56%) Support Engineer
10 29 (3.33%) VMware Engineer
11 27 (3.10%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
11 27 (3.10%) Storage Engineer
12 26 (2.98%) Architect
13 25 (2.87%) DevOps Engineer
14 23 (2.64%) 3rd Line Engineer
15 22 (2.52%) Infrastructure Technician
15 22 (2.52%) Lead
16 21 (2.41%) Infrastructure Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (2.41%) CSS
1 21 (2.41%) HTML
2 18 (2.06%) Flash
3 13 (1.49%) Kafka
4 11 (1.26%) RabbitMQ
5 9 (1.03%) RESTful
6 8 (0.92%) YAML
7 7 (0.80%) .NET
7 7 (0.80%) SOAP
8 4 (0.46%) AWS CDK
9 3 (0.34%) Elastic Stack
9 3 (0.34%) JSON
9 3 (0.34%) LAMP
9 3 (0.34%) XML
10 2 (0.23%) Jinja
10 2 (0.23%) Lambda Expressions
10 2 (0.23%) LDAP
10 2 (0.23%) Middleware
10 2 (0.23%) NumPy
10 2 (0.23%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 89 (10.21%) Data Centre
2 39 (4.47%) PKI
3 27 (3.10%) Replication
4 24 (2.75%) Private Cloud
5 19 (2.18%) Management Information System
6 18 (2.06%) NHS
7 16 (1.83%) Clustering
8 12 (1.38%) Driving Licence
9 11 (1.26%) Distributed Systems
10 9 (1.03%) Linux Command Line
10 9 (1.03%) Public Cloud
11 8 (0.92%) Onboarding
11 8 (0.92%) Video Conferencing
12 7 (0.80%) Algorithms
12 7 (0.80%) Data Structures
12 7 (0.80%) Mobile App
13 6 (0.69%) Client/Server
13 6 (0.69%) Fat Client
13 6 (0.69%) Hybrid Cloud
13 6 (0.69%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 353 (40.48%) Windows
2 216 (24.77%) Windows Server
3 202 (23.17%) Linux
4 63 (7.22%) Windows Server 2016
4 63 (7.22%) Windows Server 2019
5 55 (6.31%) Windows 10
6 54 (6.19%) Windows Server 2012
7 32 (3.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 26 (2.98%) Unix
9 15 (1.72%) Ubuntu
10 14 (1.61%) Windows XP
11 13 (1.49%) AIX
11 13 (1.49%) Windows 7
12 11 (1.26%) Windows Server 2008
13 10 (1.15%) VMS
14 9 (1.03%) Mac OS
15 8 (0.92%) Apple iOS
15 8 (0.92%) Windows Server 2003
16 5 (0.57%) CentOS
17 2 (0.23%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 134 (15.37%) Migration
2 112 (12.84%) DevOps
3 98 (11.24%) Problem-Solving
4 93 (10.67%) ITIL
5 92 (10.55%) Agile
6 76 (8.72%) CI/CD
7 62 (7.11%) Infrastructure as Code
8 58 (6.65%) Cybersecurity
9 48 (5.50%) Project Delivery
10 41 (4.70%) Disaster Recovery
11 39 (4.47%) Change Management
11 39 (4.47%) Software Engineering
12 38 (4.36%) Configuration Management
13 34 (3.90%) Scrum
14 27 (3.10%) Containerisation
14 27 (3.10%) Load Balancing
14 27 (3.10%) Virtual Infrastructure
15 26 (2.98%) Mentoring
15 26 (2.98%) Server Management
16 25 (2.87%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 127 (14.56%) PowerShell
2 65 (7.45%) Python
3 47 (5.39%) SQL
4 37 (4.24%) JavaScript
5 28 (3.21%) Java
6 24 (2.75%) C#
7 20 (2.29%) C++
8 17 (1.95%) Bash
9 16 (1.83%) Shell Script
10 10 (1.15%) VBScript
11 7 (0.80%) Perl
12 6 (0.69%) Go
13 5 (0.57%) TypeScript
14 4 (0.46%) Bicep
14 4 (0.46%) Ruby
15 3 (0.34%) PHP
15 3 (0.34%) VB.NET
16 2 (0.23%) Korn
17 1 (0.11%) C
17 1 (0.11%) Smalltalk
Qualifications
1 321 (36.81%) Security Cleared
2 191 (21.90%) SC Cleared
3 156 (17.89%) DV Cleared
4 70 (8.03%) Degree
5 59 (6.77%) Cisco Certification
6 57 (6.54%) CCNA
7 31 (3.56%) Azure Certification
8 27 (3.10%) CCNP
9 24 (2.75%) Microsoft Certification
10 19 (2.18%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 12 (1.38%) MCSE
12 9 (1.03%) Computer Science Degree
13 8 (0.92%) AWS Certification
13 8 (0.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 7 (0.80%) Master's Degree
15 6 (0.69%) MCSA
15 6 (0.69%) VCAP
16 5 (0.57%) A+ Certification
16 5 (0.57%) ITIL Certification
16 5 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 10 (1.15%) SLA
2 8 (0.92%) GDPR
2 8 (0.92%) NIST
2 8 (0.92%) QA
3 5 (0.57%) PCI DSS
4 3 (0.34%) Government Security Classifications
4 3 (0.34%) ISO 9001
4 3 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 3 (0.34%) NCSC
5 2 (0.23%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.11%) COBIT
6 1 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.11%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.11%) PMO
System Software
1 272 (31.19%) Active Directory
2 213 (24.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 72 (8.26%) Hyper-V
4 61 (7.00%) vSphere
5 53 (6.08%) VMware ESXi
6 36 (4.13%) VMware NSX
7 28 (3.21%) Virtual Machines
8 26 (2.98%) Firmware
9 24 (2.75%) XenApp
10 19 (2.18%) Docker
11 10 (1.15%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 8 (0.92%) XenDesktop
13 6 (0.69%) Virtual Desktop
14 4 (0.46%) KVM
14 4 (0.46%) Virtual Servers
15 1 (0.11%) DFS Replication
15 1 (0.11%) Terminal Services
15 1 (0.11%) VMware Server
15 1 (0.11%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 86 (9.86%) SCCM
2 76 (8.72%) Terraform
3 68 (7.80%) vCenter Server
4 66 (7.57%) Ansible
5 49 (5.62%) Microsoft Intune
6 41 (4.70%) Kubernetes
7 40 (4.59%) WSUS
8 31 (3.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 25 (2.87%) SCOM
10 23 (2.64%) Puppet
11 15 (1.72%) Grafana
11 15 (1.72%) NetBackup
11 15 (1.72%) Single Sign-On
12 14 (1.61%) EMC NetWorker
13 13 (1.49%) Prometheus
14 11 (1.26%) FortiGate
14 11 (1.26%) vRealize
15 10 (1.15%) Consul
16 9 (1.03%) VxRail
17 6 (0.69%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 316 (36.24%) VMware
2 232 (26.61%) Microsoft
3 73 (8.37%) Cisco
4 66 (7.57%) Veeam
5 50 (5.73%) Citrix
6 43 (4.93%) Dell
7 35 (4.01%) HP
8 32 (3.67%) Palo Alto
8 32 (3.67%) Red Hat
9 30 (3.44%) Juniper
10 25 (2.87%) Atlassian
10 25 (2.87%) Google
11 22 (2.52%) ServiceNow
11 22 (2.52%) Symantec
12 21 (2.41%) Oracle
13 20 (2.29%) Extreme Networks
14 18 (2.06%) 3PAR
15 17 (1.95%) Fortinet
16 16 (1.83%) CA
16 16 (1.83%) EMC