3rd Line Infrastructure Support Contracts in the South East

Third Line Infrastructure Support
England > South East

The median Third Line Infrastructure Support daily rate in the South East is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 149 204 220
Rank change year-on-year +55 +16 +41
Contract jobs requiring a 3rd Line Infrastructure Support 10 1 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.33% 0.018% 0.034%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.36% 0.019% 0.036%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £563 £363 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £375 -
Median % change year-on-year +53.33% - -
75th Percentile £617 £388 -
90th Percentile £623 - -
England median daily rate £575 £300 £400
% change year-on-year +91.67% -25.00% +2.56%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 2,767 5,141 5,491
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.93% 92.50% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,821 3,084 3,829
10th Percentile £250 £213 £225
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.42%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £606
90th Percentile £663 £688 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 481 240
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.78 £18.04
25th Percentile £20.06 £18.32 £22.16
Median hourly rate £32.50 £47.50 £48.40
Median % change year-on-year -31.58% -1.86% +130.48%
75th Percentile £63.75 £62.50 £65.16
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £75.00
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

3rd Line Infrastructure Support
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings that featured 3rd Line Infrastructure Support in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for 3rd Line Infrastructure Support in the South East

3rd Line Infrastructure Support
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing 3rd Line Infrastructure Support in the South East.

Daily rate trend for 3rd Line Infrastructure Support in the South East

3rd Line Infrastructure Support
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing 3rd Line Infrastructure Support in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for 3rd Line Infrastructure Support in the South East

3rd Line Infrastructure Support
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing 3rd Line Infrastructure Support within the South East region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Hampshire - 7 £575 -
Kent - 3 £615 -
3rd Line Infrastructure Support
England

3rd Line Infrastructure Support Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 3rd Line Infrastructure Support 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 South East region featuring 3rd Line Infrastructure Support in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) Windows
1 10 (100.00%) DHCP
1 10 (100.00%) DNS
1 10 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 10 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 10 (100.00%) Firewall
1 10 (100.00%) VMware
1 10 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 10 (100.00%) PaaS
1 10 (100.00%) DevOps
1 10 (100.00%) IaaS
1 10 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 7 (70.00%) Windows Server
2 7 (70.00%) vCenter Server
2 7 (70.00%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (70.00%) Data Centre
2 7 (70.00%) GCP
2 7 (70.00%) vMotion
2 7 (70.00%) Kubernetes
2 7 (70.00%) BitLocker
2 7 (70.00%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (70.00%) OpenShift
2 7 (70.00%) Ansible
2 7 (70.00%) Docker
2 7 (70.00%) Hyper-V
2 7 (70.00%) Puppet
2 7 (70.00%) VMware ESXi
2 7 (70.00%) Machine Learning
2 7 (70.00%) Big Data
2 7 (70.00%) Software Deployment

3rd Line Infrastructure Support Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 7 (70.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) IaaS
1 10 (100.00%) PaaS
2 7 (70.00%) AWS
2 7 (70.00%) GCP
2 7 (70.00%) OpenShift
3 3 (30.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 10 (100.00%) DHCP
1 10 (100.00%) DNS
1 10 (100.00%) Firewall
2 7 (70.00%) SMTP
2 7 (70.00%) VPN
3 3 (30.00%) Fibre Channel
3 3 (30.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (70.00%) Amazon RDS
1 7 (70.00%) Big Data
1 7 (70.00%) Elasticsearch
General
1 6 (60.00%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 7 (70.00%) Clustering
1 7 (70.00%) Data Centre
1 7 (70.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 10 (100.00%) Windows
2 7 (70.00%) Linux
2 7 (70.00%) Windows Server
3 2 (20.00%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) DevOps
1 10 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 7 (70.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 7 (70.00%) Machine Learning
2 7 (70.00%) Software Deployment
3 3 (30.00%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (30.00%) ITIL
3 3 (30.00%) Security Patching
Programming Languages
1 7 (70.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (70.00%) Degree
1 7 (70.00%) DV Cleared
1 7 (70.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 10 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (70.00%) BitLocker
2 7 (70.00%) Docker
2 7 (70.00%) Hyper-V
2 7 (70.00%) Microsoft App-V
2 7 (70.00%) Terminal Services
2 7 (70.00%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (30.00%) DFS Replication
3 3 (30.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (70.00%) Ansible
1 7 (70.00%) Kubernetes
1 7 (70.00%) Nagios
1 7 (70.00%) Puppet
1 7 (70.00%) vCenter Server
1 7 (70.00%) vMotion
Vendors
1 10 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 10 (100.00%) VMware
2 7 (70.00%) Citrix
2 7 (70.00%) Google
2 7 (70.00%) HP
2 7 (70.00%) Symantec