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 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 90 122 141
Rank change year-on-year +32 +19 +23
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 889 1,088 1,389
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.39% 2.14% 1.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.76% 2.37% 2.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 661 826 1,031
10th Percentile £286 £332 £306
25th Percentile £375 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £575
90th Percentile £700 £701 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 18 11
10th Percentile £21.25 £40.34 £25.00
25th Percentile £37.63 £52.19 £27.52
Median hourly rate £46.18 £63.84 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.66% +27.68% +25.00%
75th Percentile £60.59 £78.00 £67.39
90th Percentile £70.00 £80.96 £68.02
UK median hourly rate £46.18 £61.62 £50.00
% change year-on-year -25.05% +23.23% +25.00%

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 32,208 45,878 64,835
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.52% 90.28% 90.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,179 32,145 45,991
10th Percentile £300 £325 £330
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.41%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £768 £744
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,233 1,631 1,786
10th Percentile £12.86 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.95 £16.74 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £38.35 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.74% +59.79% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.23
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.19
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% +50.00% -

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 24 April 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 24 April 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 24 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 +53 329 £518 -5.91% 155
South East +26 215 £450 -7.69% 95
South West +24 125 £500 -4.76% 72
North of England -2 118 £425 -10.53% 93
North West -6 77 £438 -7.89% 49
Midlands -14 52 £413 -8.33% 66
West Midlands +10 44 £425 -5.56% 41
East of England -11 40 £525 +16.67% 37
Yorkshire 0 36 £380 -11.63% 33
East Midlands -18 7 £338 -23.73% 25
North East +10 5 £438 -14.63% 13
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 80 (9.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 47 (5.29%) SharePoint
3 22 (2.47%) Confluence
4 11 (1.24%) IIS
5 9 (1.01%) Apache
5 9 (1.01%) SharePoint Server
6 6 (0.67%) SharePoint 2010
6 6 (0.67%) Tomcat
7 3 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.34%) WordPress
8 2 (0.22%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.11%) Exchange Server 2007
9 1 (0.11%) Exchange Server 2010
9 1 (0.11%) Skype for Business
9 1 (0.11%) WebLogic
Applications
1 13 (1.46%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (1.01%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (0.90%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.22%) AutoCAD
4 2 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.22%) Revit
Business Applications
1 1 (0.11%) Dynamics NAV
1 1 (0.11%) Eikon
1 1 (0.11%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.11%) Shopify
1 1 (0.11%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 277 (31.16%) Azure
2 142 (15.97%) Microsoft 365
3 141 (15.86%) AWS
4 73 (8.21%) Entra ID
5 44 (4.95%) IaaS
6 28 (3.15%) PaaS
7 25 (2.81%) Azure DevOps
8 23 (2.59%) Power Platform
8 23 (2.59%) SaaS
9 21 (2.36%) Cloud Computing
10 20 (2.25%) GCP
10 20 (2.25%) Mimecast
11 15 (1.69%) Serverless
12 14 (1.57%) OCI
13 13 (1.46%) AWS CloudFormation
14 12 (1.35%) AWS Lambda
14 12 (1.35%) OneDrive
15 11 (1.24%) GitHub
15 11 (1.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 10 (1.12%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 169 (19.01%) Firewall
2 147 (16.54%) DNS
3 101 (11.36%) DHCP
4 88 (9.90%) SAN
5 66 (7.42%) WAN
6 56 (6.30%) LAN
7 41 (4.61%) VPN
8 38 (4.27%) Wireless
9 37 (4.16%) Network Security
10 36 (4.05%) NAS
11 30 (3.37%) TCP/IP
12 29 (3.26%) OSPF
13 22 (2.47%) BGP
13 22 (2.47%) VSAN
14 20 (2.25%) Software-Defined Radio
15 17 (1.91%) Wi-Fi
16 16 (1.80%) SNMP
17 15 (1.69%) MPLS
18 14 (1.57%) WLAN
19 13 (1.46%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (7.76%) SQL Server
2 14 (1.57%) Power BI
3 9 (1.01%) MongoDB
4 7 (0.79%) Elasticsearch
4 7 (0.79%) Sybase ASE
5 6 (0.67%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (0.67%) Metadata
5 6 (0.67%) Microsoft Power View
5 6 (0.67%) PowerPivot
5 6 (0.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 5 (0.56%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (0.56%) MySQL
6 5 (0.56%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (0.34%) Big Data
7 3 (0.34%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.22%) Sisense
9 1 (0.11%) Adabas
9 1 (0.11%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (0.11%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.11%) Redis
Development Applications
1 38 (4.27%) Git
2 31 (3.49%) Jenkins
3 26 (2.92%) JIRA
4 20 (2.25%) GitLab
5 15 (1.69%) Bitbucket
5 15 (1.69%) Robot Framework
6 14 (1.57%) Eclipse
7 13 (1.46%) GoogleTest
8 7 (0.79%) Hudson
9 6 (0.67%) Postman
9 6 (0.67%) SoapUI
10 4 (0.45%) TeamCity
11 3 (0.34%) Selenium
11 3 (0.34%) Sonatype Nexus
12 2 (0.22%) Artifactory
12 2 (0.22%) Visual Studio Code
13 1 (0.11%) CA Gen
13 1 (0.11%) Maven
13 1 (0.11%) Octopus Deploy
13 1 (0.11%) SonarQube
General
1 134 (15.07%) Social Skills
2 97 (10.91%) Public Sector
3 57 (6.41%) Finance
4 45 (5.06%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (3.04%) Documentation Skills
6 20 (2.25%) Banking
7 13 (1.46%) Telecoms
8 8 (0.90%) Legal
8 8 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (0.79%) Manufacturing
10 6 (0.67%) German Language
10 6 (0.67%) Publishing
10 6 (0.67%) Retail
11 5 (0.56%) Aerospace
11 5 (0.56%) Financial Institution
11 5 (0.56%) French Language
11 5 (0.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (0.56%) Mandarin Language
11 5 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.45%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 582 (65.47%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 78 (8.77%) Senior
3 65 (7.31%) Network Engineer
4 63 (7.09%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 44 (4.95%) Azure Engineer
5 44 (4.95%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
6 42 (4.72%) Cloud Engineer
7 35 (3.94%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 33 (3.71%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
9 32 (3.60%) VMware Engineer
10 31 (3.49%) Support Engineer
11 28 (3.15%) Architect
11 28 (3.15%) AWS Engineer
12 26 (2.92%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
13 25 (2.81%) 3rd Line Engineer
13 25 (2.81%) DevOps Engineer
14 24 (2.70%) Storage Engineer
15 23 (2.59%) Lead
15 23 (2.59%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
15 23 (2.59%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (2.25%) CSS
1 20 (2.25%) HTML
2 18 (2.02%) Flash
3 13 (1.46%) Kafka
4 10 (1.12%) RabbitMQ
5 8 (0.90%) .NET
5 8 (0.90%) RESTful
5 8 (0.90%) YAML
6 6 (0.67%) SOAP
6 6 (0.67%) Software Packaging
7 4 (0.45%) AWS CDK
8 3 (0.34%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (0.34%) JSON
8 3 (0.34%) Lambda Expressions
8 3 (0.34%) LAMP
8 3 (0.34%) NumPy
8 3 (0.34%) Pandas
8 3 (0.34%) PySpark
8 3 (0.34%) XML
9 2 (0.22%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 85 (9.56%) Data Centre
2 40 (4.50%) PKI
3 29 (3.26%) Replication
4 24 (2.70%) Management Information System
4 24 (2.70%) Private Cloud
5 20 (2.25%) NHS
6 17 (1.91%) Clustering
7 13 (1.46%) Driving Licence
8 10 (1.12%) Distributed Systems
8 10 (1.12%) Video Conferencing
9 9 (1.01%) Linux Command Line
9 9 (1.01%) Onboarding
9 9 (1.01%) Public Cloud
10 7 (0.79%) Client/Server
10 7 (0.79%) Fat Client
10 7 (0.79%) Thin Client
11 6 (0.67%) CCTV
11 6 (0.67%) Data Structures
11 6 (0.67%) Hybrid Cloud
11 6 (0.67%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 372 (41.84%) Windows
2 226 (25.42%) Windows Server
3 198 (22.27%) Linux
4 66 (7.42%) Windows Server 2016
4 66 (7.42%) Windows Server 2019
5 58 (6.52%) Windows 10
6 54 (6.07%) Windows Server 2012
7 33 (3.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 27 (3.04%) Unix
9 15 (1.69%) Ubuntu
10 14 (1.57%) Windows 7
11 13 (1.46%) AIX
12 12 (1.35%) VMS
12 12 (1.35%) Windows XP
13 11 (1.24%) Windows Server 2008
14 8 (0.90%) Mac OS
14 8 (0.90%) Windows Server 2003
15 7 (0.79%) Apple iOS
16 6 (0.67%) CentOS
17 1 (0.11%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (15.64%) Migration
2 107 (12.04%) DevOps
3 97 (10.91%) ITIL
4 96 (10.80%) Problem-Solving
5 94 (10.57%) Agile
6 71 (7.99%) CI/CD
7 63 (7.09%) Infrastructure as Code
8 59 (6.64%) Cybersecurity
9 53 (5.96%) Project Delivery
10 41 (4.61%) Configuration Management
10 41 (4.61%) Disaster Recovery
11 39 (4.39%) Change Management
12 38 (4.27%) Software Engineering
13 34 (3.82%) Scrum
14 27 (3.04%) Mentoring
15 26 (2.92%) Load Balancing
15 26 (2.92%) Server Management
15 26 (2.92%) Stakeholder Management
15 26 (2.92%) Virtual Infrastructure
16 25 (2.81%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 134 (15.07%) PowerShell
2 65 (7.31%) Python
3 50 (5.62%) SQL
4 36 (4.05%) JavaScript
5 27 (3.04%) Java
6 23 (2.59%) C#
7 19 (2.14%) C++
8 15 (1.69%) Bash
8 15 (1.69%) Shell Script
9 10 (1.12%) VBScript
10 8 (0.90%) Perl
11 6 (0.67%) Go
12 5 (0.56%) TypeScript
13 4 (0.45%) Bicep
13 4 (0.45%) Ruby
14 3 (0.34%) Korn
14 3 (0.34%) VB.NET
15 2 (0.22%) C
15 2 (0.22%) PHP
16 1 (0.11%) Smalltalk
Qualifications
1 328 (36.90%) Security Cleared
2 193 (21.71%) SC Cleared
3 157 (17.66%) DV Cleared
4 71 (7.99%) Degree
5 60 (6.75%) Cisco Certification
6 58 (6.52%) CCNA
7 33 (3.71%) Azure Certification
8 26 (2.92%) CCNP
8 26 (2.92%) Microsoft Certification
9 19 (2.14%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 15 (1.69%) MCSE
11 9 (1.01%) AWS Certification
11 9 (1.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 9 (1.01%) Computer Science Degree
12 8 (0.90%) MCSA
13 7 (0.79%) Master's Degree
14 6 (0.67%) A+ Certification
14 6 (0.67%) VCAP
15 5 (0.56%) ITIL Certification
15 5 (0.56%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (1.12%) SLA
3 8 (0.90%) GDPR
3 8 (0.90%) NIST
3 8 (0.90%) QA
4 5 (0.56%) PCI DSS
5 3 (0.34%) Government Security Classifications
5 3 (0.34%) ISO 9001
5 3 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 3 (0.34%) NCSC
6 2 (0.22%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.22%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 2 (0.22%) PMO
7 1 (0.11%) COBIT
7 1 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.11%) NIST 800
System Software
1 288 (32.40%) Active Directory
2 215 (24.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 72 (8.10%) Hyper-V
4 64 (7.20%) vSphere
5 53 (5.96%) VMware ESXi
6 39 (4.39%) VMware NSX
7 30 (3.37%) Virtual Machines
8 25 (2.81%) Firmware
9 23 (2.59%) XenApp
10 18 (2.02%) Docker
11 9 (1.01%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 8 (0.90%) XenDesktop
13 6 (0.67%) Virtual Desktop
14 5 (0.56%) Virtual Servers
15 4 (0.45%) KVM
16 2 (0.22%) VMware Workstation
17 1 (0.11%) DFS Replication
17 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
17 1 (0.11%) Terminal Services
17 1 (0.11%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 96 (10.80%) SCCM
2 75 (8.44%) Terraform
3 68 (7.65%) Ansible
3 68 (7.65%) vCenter Server
4 57 (6.41%) Microsoft Intune
5 45 (5.06%) WSUS
6 39 (4.39%) Kubernetes
7 38 (4.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 23 (2.59%) Puppet
9 22 (2.47%) SCOM
10 15 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
11 14 (1.57%) Grafana
12 13 (1.46%) FortiGate
12 13 (1.46%) NetBackup
13 12 (1.35%) EMC NetWorker
13 12 (1.35%) Prometheus
13 12 (1.35%) vRealize
14 9 (1.01%) Consul
14 9 (1.01%) VxRail
15 7 (0.79%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 321 (36.11%) VMware
2 246 (27.67%) Microsoft
3 76 (8.55%) Cisco
4 68 (7.65%) Veeam
5 49 (5.51%) Citrix
6 40 (4.50%) Dell
7 36 (4.05%) Red Hat
8 35 (3.94%) HP
9 32 (3.60%) Palo Alto
10 30 (3.37%) Juniper
11 26 (2.92%) Google
12 24 (2.70%) Atlassian
13 22 (2.47%) ServiceNow
14 20 (2.25%) Symantec
15 19 (2.14%) Extreme Networks
15 19 (2.14%) Fortinet
15 19 (2.14%) Oracle
16 18 (2.02%) 3PAR
17 17 (1.91%) CA
18 16 (1.80%) SolarWinds