3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer Contracts in the North of England

Third Line Infrastructure Engineer
England > North of England

The median Third Line Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in the North of England is £325 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 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
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 176 206 216
Rank change year-on-year +30 +10 -29
Contract jobs requiring a 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer 4 6 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.085% 0.10% 0.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.091% 0.11% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 9
10th Percentile - £305 £246
25th Percentile £263 £313 £283
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £325 £325
Median % change year-on-year - - +8.33%
75th Percentile £400 £375 £388
90th Percentile £423 £455 £438
England median daily rate £375 £450 £399
% change year-on-year -16.67% +12.85% +17.28%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 4,398 5,519 6,974
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.10% 95.25% 96.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,758 3,900 5,135
10th Percentile £263 £281 £200
25th Percentile £384 £410 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £580 £600 £550
90th Percentile £675 £680 £638
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 394 158 292
10th Percentile £11.02 £14.18 £11.00
25th Percentile £12.53 £18.96 £14.00
Median hourly rate £19.34 £30.65 £18.59
Median % change year-on-year -36.90% +64.84% +3.87%
75th Percentile £45.97 £49.48 £29.88
90th Percentile £60.00 £66.00 £49.98
England median hourly rate £36.34 £44.77 £22.50
% change year-on-year -18.83% +98.96% +0.36%

3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings that featured 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer in the North of England

3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer in the North of England

3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer in the North of England over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer in the North of England

3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer in the North of England

3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer within the North of England region over the 6 months to 2 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
North East - 2 £275 -
Yorkshire +18 1 £375 +15.38%
North West +17 1 £425 -0.58% 2
3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
England

3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 2 May 2024, 3rd Line 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 North of England region featuring 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (25.00%) HP
3 1 (25.00%) Citrix
3 1 (25.00%) NetApp
3 1 (25.00%) Sophos
3 1 (25.00%) LIMS
3 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Firewall
3 1 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (25.00%) Back Office
3 1 (25.00%) VMware
3 1 (25.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) Oracle
3 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (25.00%) Windows
3 1 (25.00%) Client/Server
3 1 (25.00%) LAN
3 1 (25.00%) WAN
3 1 (25.00%) DHCP
3 1 (25.00%) DNS
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (25.00%) NetScaler
3 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (25.00%) IaaS
3 1 (25.00%) FortiGate
3 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Entra ID

3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (25.00%) IaaS
2 1 (25.00%) OCI
2 1 (25.00%) PaaS
2 1 (25.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) DHCP
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) LAN
1 1 (25.00%) NetScaler
1 1 (25.00%) WAN
1 1 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Back Office
1 1 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Client/Server
1 1 (25.00%) LIMS
1 1 (25.00%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2012
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Database Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Secure Coding
2 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (25.00%) vSphere
1 1 (25.00%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) FortiGate
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Aruba
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco
2 1 (25.00%) Citrix
2 1 (25.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (25.00%) HP
2 1 (25.00%) NetApp
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) Sophos
2 1 (25.00%) VMware