Infrastructure Specialist Contracts in London

Infrastructure Specialist
England > London

The median Infrastructure Specialist daily rate in London is £500 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 368 456 563
Rank change year-on-year +88 +107 -122
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Specialist 22 35 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.12% 0.13% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.14% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 28 30
10th Percentile £454 £409 £363
25th Percentile £481 £444 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £519 £544
Median % change year-on-year -3.61% -4.60% +14.47%
75th Percentile £511 £600 £588
90th Percentile £572 £641 £625
England median daily rate £520 £500 £531
% change year-on-year +4.00% -5.88% +20.74%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 16,498 25,529 37,134
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.24% 95.28% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,929 18,487 27,116
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £443 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £680
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 336 291 449
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.45
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.57 £22.03
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.54% +1.43% +9.38%
75th Percentile £43.75 £62.25 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £78.80 £67.50
England median hourly rate £36.50 £44.53 £22.50
% change year-on-year -18.03% +97.91% +2.27%

Infrastructure Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Specialist in London

Infrastructure Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Specialist in London

Infrastructure Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Specialist in London over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Specialist in London

Infrastructure Specialist
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Specialist in London

Infrastructure Specialist
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London 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
East London - 4 £500 - 1
Central London +32 1 - -
Infrastructure Specialist
England

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

For the 6 months to 4 May 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 London region featuring Infrastructure Specialist in the job title.

1 16 (72.73%) AWS
2 13 (59.09%) Windows
2 13 (59.09%) VMware
3 12 (54.55%) Active Directory
3 12 (54.55%) Windows Server
4 11 (50.00%) Linux
4 11 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 10 (45.45%) Ansible
6 9 (40.91%) Finance
6 9 (40.91%) ITIL
7 8 (36.36%) Microsoft
7 8 (36.36%) Microsoft 365
8 7 (31.82%) ServiceNow
8 7 (31.82%) Windows 10
8 7 (31.82%) Citrix
8 7 (31.82%) SCCM
9 6 (27.27%) Qualys
9 6 (27.27%) Firewall
9 6 (27.27%) Unix
9 6 (27.27%) Security Patching
9 6 (27.27%) Virtual Infrastructure
10 5 (22.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 5 (22.73%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (22.73%) Vulnerability Management
10 5 (22.73%) SLA
10 5 (22.73%) Management Information System
10 5 (22.73%) Time Management
11 4 (18.18%) Agile
11 4 (18.18%) SC Cleared
11 4 (18.18%) Security Cleared

Infrastructure Specialist Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 16 (72.73%) AWS
2 8 (36.36%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (18.18%) Amazon S3
3 4 (18.18%) Azure
3 4 (18.18%) Entra ID
4 3 (13.64%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (13.64%) IaaS
4 3 (13.64%) Route 53
4 3 (13.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 2 (9.09%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (4.55%) Amazon Glacier
6 1 (4.55%) Cohesity
6 1 (4.55%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 6 (27.27%) Firewall
2 3 (13.64%) LAN
2 3 (13.64%) VPN
2 3 (13.64%) WAN
2 3 (13.64%) Wireless
2 3 (13.64%) WLAN
3 2 (9.09%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (4.55%) BGP
4 1 (4.55%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (4.55%) iSCSI
4 1 (4.55%) Network Security
4 1 (4.55%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.64%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (4.55%) SQL Server
General
1 9 (40.91%) Finance
2 5 (22.73%) Organisational Skills
3 4 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (9.09%) Public Sector
4 2 (9.09%) Social Skills
5 1 (4.55%) Banking
5 1 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.55%) .NET
1 1 (4.55%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (22.73%) Management Information System
2 4 (18.18%) Data Centre
3 3 (13.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (4.55%) Client/Server
4 1 (4.55%) Onboarding
4 1 (4.55%) PKI
4 1 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 13 (59.09%) Windows
2 12 (54.55%) Windows Server
3 11 (50.00%) Linux
4 7 (31.82%) Windows 10
5 6 (27.27%) Unix
6 3 (13.64%) CentOS
6 3 (13.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (13.64%) Ubuntu
7 2 (9.09%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (40.91%) ITIL
2 6 (27.27%) Security Patching
2 6 (27.27%) Virtual Infrastructure
3 5 (22.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 5 (22.73%) Time Management
3 5 (22.73%) Vulnerability Management
4 4 (18.18%) Agile
4 4 (18.18%) Configuration Management
4 4 (18.18%) Disaster Recovery
4 4 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (18.18%) Technical Leadership
5 3 (13.64%) Business Case
5 3 (13.64%) Change Control
5 3 (13.64%) Change Management
5 3 (13.64%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (13.64%) Line Management
5 3 (13.64%) Migration
5 3 (13.64%) Power Management
5 3 (13.64%) Root Cause Analysis
5 3 (13.64%) Threat Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.55%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (18.18%) SC Cleared
1 4 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.55%) Azure Certification
2 1 (4.55%) CEH
2 1 (4.55%) CISSP
2 1 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (4.55%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (22.73%) SLA
2 1 (4.55%) NCSC
System Software
1 12 (54.55%) Active Directory
2 11 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (9.09%) Hyper-V
4 1 (4.55%) Docker
4 1 (4.55%) NFS
4 1 (4.55%) VMware NSX
4 1 (4.55%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (45.45%) Ansible
2 7 (31.82%) SCCM
3 4 (18.18%) Puppet
4 3 (13.64%) Progress Chef
5 2 (9.09%) FortiGate
5 2 (9.09%) Terraform
6 1 (4.55%) Kubernetes
6 1 (4.55%) vRealize
Vendors
1 13 (59.09%) VMware
2 8 (36.36%) Microsoft
3 7 (31.82%) Citrix
3 7 (31.82%) ServiceNow
4 6 (27.27%) Qualys
5 4 (18.18%) Red Hat
6 2 (9.09%) Cisco
6 2 (9.09%) Palo Alto
7 1 (4.55%) Aruba
7 1 (4.55%) Nimble Storage
7 1 (4.55%) Oracle
7 1 (4.55%) Sybase