Lead Infrastructure Engineer Contracts in England

Lead Infrastructure Engineer
UK > England

The median Lead Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in England is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 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
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 524 663 755
Rank change year-on-year +139 +92 -143
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Infrastructure Engineer 17 10 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.046% 0.020% 0.042%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.049% 0.021% 0.044%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 10 16
10th Percentile - £239 £413
25th Percentile £375 £279 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £519 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.20% -13.54% +65.52%
75th Percentile £563 £650 £626
90th Percentile £625 £713 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +65.52%

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 34,448 47,601 67,845
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.71% 94.62% 95.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,861 33,797 48,247
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
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 2,434 1,402 1,905
10th Percentile £13.00 £14.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.02 £44.77 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.53% +98.96% +0.36%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.95 £62.50
UK median hourly rate £36.02 £45.00 £23.50
% change year-on-year -19.95% +91.49% +3.14%

Lead Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Infrastructure Engineer in England

Lead Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Lead Infrastructure Engineer in England

Lead Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead Infrastructure Engineer in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Lead Infrastructure Engineer in England

Lead Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Lead Infrastructure Engineer in England

Lead 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 Lead Infrastructure Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 1 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 +109 10 £525 +31.25% 9
North of England +33 4 £400 -8.57% 1
North West +30 4 £400 -8.57% 1
South West +16 2 £538 +121.65% 7
East of England +8 1 £700 +9.80% 1
Lead Infrastructure Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2024, Lead 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 Lead Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 15 (88.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 11 (64.71%) Linux
2 11 (64.71%) AWS
3 7 (41.18%) CI/CD
3 7 (41.18%) DevOps
4 6 (35.29%) Ansible
4 6 (35.29%) Security Cleared
4 6 (35.29%) PowerShell
4 6 (35.29%) Windows
5 5 (29.41%) Python
5 5 (29.41%) Azure
5 5 (29.41%) Bash
5 5 (29.41%) Puppet
5 5 (29.41%) Containerisation
6 4 (23.53%) Amazon EventBridge
6 4 (23.53%) DevSecOps
6 4 (23.53%) Power Platform
6 4 (23.53%) Mimecast
6 4 (23.53%) Power BI
6 4 (23.53%) Windows Server
6 4 (23.53%) Hudson
6 4 (23.53%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (23.53%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (23.53%) GitHub
6 4 (23.53%) SaaS
6 4 (23.53%) DV Cleared
6 4 (23.53%) Ruby
6 4 (23.53%) VMware
6 4 (23.53%) Sophos
7 3 (17.65%) Red Hat

Lead 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:

Cloud Services
1 11 (64.71%) AWS
2 5 (29.41%) Azure
3 4 (23.53%) Amazon EventBridge
3 4 (23.53%) GitHub
3 4 (23.53%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (23.53%) Mimecast
3 4 (23.53%) Power Platform
3 4 (23.53%) SaaS
4 3 (17.65%) GCP
5 1 (5.88%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.76%) Software-Defined Networking
2 1 (5.88%) Firewall
2 1 (5.88%) IPv4
2 1 (5.88%) OSPF
2 1 (5.88%) SNA
2 1 (5.88%) VLAN
2 1 (5.88%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (23.53%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (23.53%) Hudson
2 3 (17.65%) Git
2 3 (17.65%) GitLab
3 1 (5.88%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (17.65%) Banking
1 3 (17.65%) Finance
1 3 (17.65%) Investment Banking
2 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
2 1 (5.88%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.88%) Cyber Defence
1 1 (5.88%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 1 (5.88%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (5.88%) Data Centre
1 1 (5.88%) Public Cloud
1 1 (5.88%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 11 (64.71%) Linux
2 6 (35.29%) Windows
3 4 (23.53%) Windows Server
4 3 (17.65%) Apple iOS
4 3 (17.65%) Mac OS
4 3 (17.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (5.88%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (88.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 7 (41.18%) CI/CD
2 7 (41.18%) DevOps
3 5 (29.41%) Containerisation
4 4 (23.53%) DevSecOps
5 3 (17.65%) Asset Management
5 3 (17.65%) Open Source
6 2 (11.76%) Agile
6 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (11.76%) ITIL
6 2 (11.76%) ITSM
6 2 (11.76%) Process Improvement
6 2 (11.76%) Task Automation
7 1 (5.88%) Change Control
7 1 (5.88%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
7 1 (5.88%) Cybersecurity
7 1 (5.88%) Mentoring
7 1 (5.88%) Protective Monitoring
7 1 (5.88%) Root Cause Analysis
7 1 (5.88%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 6 (35.29%) PowerShell
2 5 (29.41%) Bash
2 5 (29.41%) Python
3 4 (23.53%) Ruby
4 3 (17.65%) Korn
4 3 (17.65%) Perl
5 2 (11.76%) C
6 1 (5.88%) C#
6 1 (5.88%) Go
6 1 (5.88%) Java
Qualifications
1 6 (35.29%) Security Cleared
2 4 (23.53%) DV Cleared
3 3 (17.65%) SC Cleared
4 2 (11.76%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) NIST
1 1 (5.88%) NIST 800
System Software
1 3 (17.65%) VMware NSX
2 2 (11.76%) Active Directory
2 2 (11.76%) Firmware
2 2 (11.76%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (11.76%) vSphere
3 1 (5.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (35.29%) Ansible
2 5 (29.41%) Puppet
3 4 (23.53%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (17.65%) Red Hat Satellite
5 2 (11.76%) VxRail
6 1 (5.88%) Kubernetes
6 1 (5.88%) Progress Chef
6 1 (5.88%) SCOM
6 1 (5.88%) Terraform
6 1 (5.88%) vCenter Server
6 1 (5.88%) vRealize
Vendors
1 4 (23.53%) Sophos
1 4 (23.53%) VMware
2 3 (17.65%) Red Hat
2 3 (17.65%) Sun
2 3 (17.65%) TOWER Software
3 2 (11.76%) Cisco
3 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.88%) Dell
4 1 (5.88%) LogRhythm
4 1 (5.88%) ServiceNow
4 1 (5.88%) SolarWinds
4 1 (5.88%) Turbonomic