Senior Infrastructure Engineer Contracts in England

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
UK > England

The median Senior Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in England is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 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
4 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 476 570 676
Rank change year-on-year +94 +106 -78
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 62 78 113
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.17% 0.16% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.16% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 66 82
10th Percentile £405 £375 £375
25th Percentile £450 £441 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £521
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +5.67% +22.47%
75th Percentile £598 £625 £575
90th Percentile £743 £700 £654
UK median daily rate £475 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £78.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £78.00 - -

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 34,178 47,326 67,913
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.70% 94.63% 95.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,701 33,606 48,311
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% +8.25%
75th Percentile £643 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £760 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,433 1,407 1,890
10th Percentile £13.00 £14.37 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.96 £15.37
Median hourly rate £36.50 £44.53 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.03% +97.91% +2.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.82 £77.00 £62.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.81
% change year-on-year -18.89% +89.04% +5.80%

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Infrastructure Engineer in England

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Infrastructure Engineer in England

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Infrastructure Engineer in England over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Infrastructure Engineer in England

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Infrastructure Engineer in England

Senior 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 Senior Infrastructure Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 4 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
South East +30 24 £464 +3.05% 7
London +98 21 £606 +6.36% 9
North of England +17 10 £463 -15.91% 4
North West +16 9 £450 -14.29% 3
Midlands +23 2 £300 -29.41% 7
West Midlands +22 2 £300 -57.14% 5
South West +17 2 - - 10
Yorkshire +15 1 £475 -24.00% 1
Senior Infrastructure Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, Senior 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 Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 61 (98.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 32 (51.61%) Active Directory
3 29 (46.77%) Windows
4 27 (43.55%) VMware
5 21 (33.87%) Microsoft
6 20 (32.26%) Azure
7 18 (29.03%) DNS
8 17 (27.42%) DHCP
8 17 (27.42%) PowerShell
8 17 (27.42%) Social Skills
9 16 (25.81%) AWS
10 15 (24.19%) ITIL
11 14 (22.58%) Firewall
11 14 (22.58%) VMware Infrastructure
12 13 (20.97%) Windows Server
13 12 (19.35%) Security Cleared
13 12 (19.35%) vSphere
14 11 (17.74%) Degree
15 10 (16.13%) SAN
16 9 (14.52%) Linux
16 9 (14.52%) SC Cleared
16 9 (14.52%) NAS
17 8 (12.90%) Python
17 8 (12.90%) Migration
17 8 (12.90%) Documentation Skills
17 8 (12.90%) DevOps
18 7 (11.29%) Microsoft 365
18 7 (11.29%) Data Centre
18 7 (11.29%) Virtual Machines
18 7 (11.29%) Microsoft Certification

Senior 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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (9.68%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.61%) Apache
2 1 (1.61%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.61%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.61%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 3 (4.84%) AutoCAD
1 3 (4.84%) Revit
2 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 20 (32.26%) Azure
2 16 (25.81%) AWS
3 7 (11.29%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (8.06%) GCP
5 4 (6.45%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (4.84%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (4.84%) Azure AKS
6 3 (4.84%) IaaS
6 3 (4.84%) Nutanix
7 2 (3.23%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (3.23%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.61%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.61%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.61%) OCI
8 1 (1.61%) Snowflake
8 1 (1.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 18 (29.03%) DNS
2 17 (27.42%) DHCP
3 14 (22.58%) Firewall
4 10 (16.13%) SAN
5 9 (14.52%) NAS
6 4 (6.45%) Network Security
6 4 (6.45%) TCP/IP
7 3 (4.84%) SD-WAN
7 3 (4.84%) WAN
8 2 (3.23%) BGP
8 2 (3.23%) DMVPN
8 2 (3.23%) HSRP
8 2 (3.23%) LAN
8 2 (3.23%) MPLS
8 2 (3.23%) OSPF
8 2 (3.23%) SNMP
8 2 (3.23%) Spanning Tree
8 2 (3.23%) SSL
8 2 (3.23%) VPN
8 2 (3.23%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.45%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.61%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.61%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (1.61%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (4.84%) Git
2 1 (1.61%) Artifactory
General
1 17 (27.42%) Social Skills
2 8 (12.90%) Documentation Skills
3 6 (9.68%) Finance
3 6 (9.68%) Public Sector
4 4 (6.45%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.23%) Front Office
6 1 (1.61%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.61%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.84%) YAML
2 2 (3.23%) .NET
2 2 (3.23%) Jinja
2 2 (3.23%) JSON
2 2 (3.23%) Middleware
2 2 (3.23%) NETCONF
2 2 (3.23%) RESTful
2 2 (3.23%) XML
2 2 (3.23%) YANG
3 1 (1.61%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 7 (11.29%) Data Centre
2 5 (8.06%) PKI
3 3 (4.84%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (4.84%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.23%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (3.23%) NHS
4 2 (3.23%) Private Cloud
4 2 (3.23%) Tandem
5 1 (1.61%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.61%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.61%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 29 (46.77%) Windows
2 13 (20.97%) Windows Server
3 9 (14.52%) Linux
4 6 (9.68%) Windows 10
5 5 (8.06%) Unix
6 4 (6.45%) Windows Server 2003
6 4 (6.45%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (6.45%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (4.84%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (3.23%) Ubuntu
8 2 (3.23%) Windows 7
8 2 (3.23%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (1.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (98.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 15 (24.19%) ITIL
3 8 (12.90%) DevOps
3 8 (12.90%) Migration
4 6 (9.68%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (8.06%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (8.06%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (8.06%) Roadmaps
5 5 (8.06%) Root Cause Analysis
6 4 (6.45%) Customer Service
6 4 (6.45%) Project Delivery
6 4 (6.45%) Service Delivery
7 3 (4.84%) Agile
7 3 (4.84%) Application Packaging
7 3 (4.84%) CAE
7 3 (4.84%) Computer Science
7 3 (4.84%) Disaster Recovery
7 3 (4.84%) Incident Management
7 3 (4.84%) Problem Management
7 3 (4.84%) Strategic Planning
Programming Languages
1 17 (27.42%) PowerShell
2 8 (12.90%) Python
3 6 (9.68%) SQL
4 4 (6.45%) VBScript
5 3 (4.84%) Bash
6 2 (3.23%) VB.NET
7 1 (1.61%) Bicep
7 1 (1.61%) C
7 1 (1.61%) C#
7 1 (1.61%) C++
7 1 (1.61%) Java
Qualifications
1 12 (19.35%) Security Cleared
2 11 (17.74%) Degree
3 9 (14.52%) SC Cleared
4 7 (11.29%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (6.45%) Azure Certification
6 2 (3.23%) AWS Certification
6 2 (3.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (3.23%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (3.23%) MCITP
6 2 (3.23%) VCAP
6 2 (3.23%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (4.84%) GDPR
2 3 (4.84%) QA
3 2 (3.23%) ISO 9001
3 2 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 2 (3.23%) NCSC
3 2 (3.23%) SLA
4 1 (1.61%) NIST
System Software
1 32 (51.61%) Active Directory
2 14 (22.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (19.35%) vSphere
4 7 (11.29%) Hyper-V
4 7 (11.29%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (6.45%) XenApp
6 3 (4.84%) VMware NSX
7 2 (3.23%) Docker
8 1 (1.61%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 6 (9.68%) SCCM
1 6 (9.68%) WSUS
2 5 (8.06%) vCenter Server
3 4 (6.45%) Kubernetes
3 4 (6.45%) Terraform
4 3 (4.84%) Ansible
4 3 (4.84%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (3.23%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (1.61%) Kibana
6 1 (1.61%) logstash
6 1 (1.61%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 27 (43.55%) VMware
2 21 (33.87%) Microsoft
3 6 (9.68%) Cisco
4 5 (8.06%) Symantec
5 4 (6.45%) Citrix
5 4 (6.45%) Ivanti
5 4 (6.45%) Palo Alto
5 4 (6.45%) Veeam
6 3 (4.84%) Google
6 3 (4.84%) Red Hat
6 3 (4.84%) ServiceNow
6 3 (4.84%) SolarWinds
7 2 (3.23%) 3PAR
7 2 (3.23%) Aruba
7 2 (3.23%) Dell
7 2 (3.23%) Dell Compellent
7 2 (3.23%) Juniper
7 2 (3.23%) Meraki
7 2 (3.23%) Nimble Storage
8 1 (1.61%) OneLogin
51 Senior Infrastructure Engineer jobs Nationwide