Infrastructure Specialist Contracts in the South East

Infrastructure Specialist
England > South East

The median Infrastructure Specialist daily rate in the South East is £495, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2024.

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

6 months to
20 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 177 202 237
Rank change year-on-year +25 +35 +19
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Specialist 7 6 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.15% 0.11% 0.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.11% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 33
10th Percentile £380 - -
25th Percentile £425 £500 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £540 £650
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -16.92% +50.29%
75th Percentile £540 £600 -
90th Percentile £541 - -
England median daily rate £450 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -18.18% -8.33% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £60.00
England median hourly rate £112.00 - £21.78

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 4,216 5,334 7,663
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.40% 94.71% 95.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,518 3,614 5,309
10th Percentile £243 £213 £225
25th Percentile £400 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% - +6.95%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £613
90th Percentile £688 £700 £688
England median daily rate £525 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -3.67% -0.91% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 304 251 301
10th Percentile £16.00 £16.00 £12.48
25th Percentile £30.00 £21.03 £16.25
Median hourly rate £57.43 £51.42 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.68% +114.25% -4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £66.25 £55.25
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.67 £70.00
England median hourly rate £46.18 £45.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year +2.62% +73.08% +30.00%

Infrastructure Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Specialist in the South East

Infrastructure Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Specialist in the South East

Infrastructure Specialist
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Specialist in the South East

Infrastructure Specialist
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 Infrastructure Specialist within the South East region over the 6 months to 20 September 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
Hampshire +14 7 £495 - 2
Infrastructure Specialist
England

Infrastructure Specialist Skill Set
Top 17 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 20 September 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 South East region featuring Infrastructure Specialist in the job title.

1 6 (85.71%) Data Centre
2 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (57.14%) AIX
3 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
3 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
3 3 (42.86%) Windows
4 2 (28.57%) Windows Server
4 2 (28.57%) Windows 10
4 2 (28.57%) XenApp
4 2 (28.57%) DNS
4 2 (28.57%) IBM
4 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
4 2 (28.57%) Citrix
4 2 (28.57%) SAN
5 1 (14.29%) High Availability
5 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
5 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving

Infrastructure Specialist 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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) DNS
1 2 (28.57%) SAN
General
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 6 (85.71%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) AIX
2 3 (42.86%) Windows
3 2 (28.57%) Windows 10
3 2 (28.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (14.29%) High Availability
2 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
1 2 (28.57%) XenApp
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Citrix
1 2 (28.57%) IBM