Infrastructure Specialist Contracts in England

Infrastructure Specialist
UK > England

The median Infrastructure Specialist daily rate in England is £523 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 510 611 715
Rank change year-on-year +101 +104 -140
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Specialist 38 57 65
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.10% 0.11% 0.092%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.12% 0.096%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 38 50
10th Percentile £263 £393 £215
25th Percentile £481 £431 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £509 £506
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% +0.49% +15.06%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £588
90th Percentile £656 £641 £625
UK median daily rate £505 £503 £500
% change year-on-year +0.50% +0.50% +18.34%

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 34,517 47,965 67,732
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.72% 94.58% 95.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,960 34,010 48,090
10th Percentile £275 £310 £313
25th Percentile £411 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £640 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,411 1,443 1,914
10th Percentile £12.92 £14.31 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.36%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.67 £48.49
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.45 £62.15
UK median hourly rate £35.68 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.71% +95.65% +1.41%

Infrastructure Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Specialist in England

Infrastructure Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Specialist in England

Infrastructure Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Specialist in England over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Specialist in England

Infrastructure Specialist
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Specialist in England

Infrastructure Specialist
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 Specialist within the England region over the 6 months to 25 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
London +95 22 £500 -6.98% 4
South East +12 6 £456 -23.96% 1
East of England +15 5 £625 +25.00% 2
Midlands +28 4 £525 +23.53%
East Midlands +20 3 £613 +28.95%
West Midlands +28 1 £525 +40.00%
South West +21 1 £295 -37.89% 2
Infrastructure Specialist
UK

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, Infrastructure Specialist 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 Specialist in the job title.

1 20 (52.63%) AWS
2 19 (50.00%) Windows
2 19 (50.00%) Active Directory
3 17 (44.74%) VMware
3 17 (44.74%) Windows Server
4 15 (39.47%) Azure
5 14 (36.84%) Microsoft
5 14 (36.84%) Linux
6 13 (34.21%) ITIL
7 12 (31.58%) Microsoft 365
7 12 (31.58%) VMware Infrastructure
8 9 (23.68%) Security Cleared
8 9 (23.68%) Ansible
8 9 (23.68%) Citrix
8 9 (23.68%) Finance
8 9 (23.68%) Disaster Recovery
8 9 (23.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 8 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (21.05%) Entra ID
9 8 (21.05%) SLA
10 7 (18.42%) ServiceNow
10 7 (18.42%) Analytical Skills
10 7 (18.42%) SCCM
10 7 (18.42%) Windows 10
10 7 (18.42%) Social Skills
11 6 (15.79%) Infrastructure as Code
11 6 (15.79%) Security Patching
11 6 (15.79%) Virtual Infrastructure
11 6 (15.79%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (15.79%) Qualys

Infrastructure Specialist 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:

Cloud Services
1 20 (52.63%) AWS
2 15 (39.47%) Azure
3 12 (31.58%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (21.05%) Entra ID
5 4 (10.53%) Amazon S3
5 4 (10.53%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (7.89%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (7.89%) IaaS
6 3 (7.89%) Route 53
6 3 (7.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (2.63%) Amazon Glacier
7 1 (2.63%) Cohesity
Communications & Networking
1 6 (15.79%) Firewall
1 6 (15.79%) LAN
1 6 (15.79%) WAN
2 4 (10.53%) VPN
3 3 (7.89%) Wireless
3 3 (7.89%) WLAN
4 2 (5.26%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (2.63%) BGP
5 1 (2.63%) DHCP
5 1 (2.63%) DNS
5 1 (2.63%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (2.63%) iSCSI
5 1 (2.63%) NAS
5 1 (2.63%) NetScaler
5 1 (2.63%) SAN
5 1 (2.63%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.89%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.63%) SQL Server
General
1 9 (23.68%) Finance
2 7 (18.42%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (18.42%) Social Skills
3 6 (15.79%) Organisational Skills
4 4 (10.53%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (10.53%) Public Sector
5 3 (7.89%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.63%) Banking
6 1 (2.63%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.63%) LDAP
1 1 (2.63%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.16%) Data Centre
1 5 (13.16%) Management Information System
2 4 (10.53%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (7.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (2.63%) Client/Server
4 1 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.63%) PKI
4 1 (2.63%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (2.63%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 19 (50.00%) Windows
2 17 (44.74%) Windows Server
3 14 (36.84%) Linux
4 7 (18.42%) Windows 10
5 6 (15.79%) Unix
6 3 (7.89%) CentOS
6 3 (7.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (7.89%) Ubuntu
7 2 (5.26%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (34.21%) ITIL
2 9 (23.68%) Disaster Recovery
2 9 (23.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 8 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (15.79%) Change Control
4 6 (15.79%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (15.79%) Security Patching
4 6 (15.79%) Virtual Infrastructure
5 5 (13.16%) Agile
5 5 (13.16%) Mentoring
5 5 (13.16%) Migration
5 5 (13.16%) Time Management
5 5 (13.16%) Vulnerability Management
6 4 (10.53%) Change Management
6 4 (10.53%) Computer Science
6 4 (10.53%) Configuration Management
6 4 (10.53%) Customer Service
6 4 (10.53%) Server Management
6 4 (10.53%) Technical Leadership
7 3 (7.89%) Storage Management
Qualifications
1 9 (23.68%) Security Cleared
2 6 (15.79%) SC Cleared
3 4 (10.53%) Azure Certification
3 4 (10.53%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (10.53%) Degree
4 3 (7.89%) DV Cleared
5 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (2.63%) CEH
6 1 (2.63%) CISSP
6 1 (2.63%) Citrix Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (21.05%) SLA
2 1 (2.63%) NCSC
System Software
1 19 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 12 (31.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (10.53%) vSphere
4 2 (5.26%) Hyper-V
5 1 (2.63%) Citrix Presentation Server
5 1 (2.63%) NFS
5 1 (2.63%) VMware NSX
5 1 (2.63%) XenApp
5 1 (2.63%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 9 (23.68%) Ansible
2 7 (18.42%) SCCM
3 5 (13.16%) Terraform
4 4 (10.53%) Puppet
5 3 (7.89%) Progress Chef
6 2 (5.26%) FortiGate
7 1 (2.63%) SCOM
7 1 (2.63%) vRealize
Vendors
1 17 (44.74%) VMware
2 14 (36.84%) Microsoft
3 9 (23.68%) Citrix
4 7 (18.42%) ServiceNow
5 6 (15.79%) Qualys
6 3 (7.89%) Red Hat
7 2 (5.26%) Cisco
7 2 (5.26%) Palo Alto
8 1 (2.63%) Aruba
8 1 (2.63%) Commvault
8 1 (2.63%) Nimble Storage
8 1 (2.63%) Okta
8 1 (2.63%) Oracle
8 1 (2.63%) Sybase