Infrastructure Support Engineer Contracts in the South East

Infrastructure Support Engineer
England > South East

The median Infrastructure Support Engineer daily rate in the South East is £275 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 April 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
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 195 215 253
Rank change year-on-year +20 +38 -57
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Support Engineer 9 8 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.16% 0.14% 0.064%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.14% 0.067%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 3
10th Percentile £142 £570 £230
25th Percentile £143 £572 £238
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £588 £250
Median % change year-on-year -53.19% +135.00% -20.63%
75th Percentile £331 £603 £281
90th Percentile £476 £605 £285
England median daily rate £375 £375 £400
% change year-on-year - -6.25% +23.08%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 5,161 5,536 7,502
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.56% 94.33% 95.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,107 3,852 5,076
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £390 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £614 £603 £588
90th Percentile £688 £700 £669
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 477 243 339
10th Percentile £12.78 £18.08 £12.24
25th Percentile £18.32 £22.16 £16.18
Median hourly rate £47.50 £48.08 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.21% +128.95% -13.40%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.30 £43.85
90th Percentile £76.86 £75.00 £60.30
England median hourly rate £35.00 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -22.22% +100.00% +0.36%

Infrastructure Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Support Engineer in the South East

Infrastructure Support Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Support Engineer in the South East

Infrastructure Support Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Support Engineer in the South East over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Support Engineer in the South East

Infrastructure Support Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Support Engineer in the South East

Infrastructure Support Engineer
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 Support Engineer within the South East region over the 6 months to 23 April 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
Thames Valley +6 4 £325 -44.68% 4
Berkshire -10 4 £325 -44.68% 3
West Sussex - 3 £145 -
Hampshire +8 2 - - 3
Infrastructure Support Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 23 April 2024, Infrastructure Support 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 South East region featuring Infrastructure Support Engineer in the job title.

1 9 (100.00%) Windows
1 9 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 9 (100.00%) Windows Server 2019
2 6 (66.67%) Windows Server 2016
2 6 (66.67%) Windows 10
3 5 (55.56%) Microsoft
3 5 (55.56%) Security Cleared
3 5 (55.56%) Windows 7
4 4 (44.44%) Azure
4 4 (44.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (44.44%) Linux
4 4 (44.44%) SQL Server
4 4 (44.44%) VMware
4 4 (44.44%) Windows Server
5 3 (33.33%) SQL
5 3 (33.33%) Network Security
5 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
5 3 (33.33%) SCCM
5 3 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
5 3 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (33.33%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (22.22%) XenApp
6 2 (22.22%) XenDesktop
6 2 (22.22%) Veeam
6 2 (22.22%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (22.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (22.22%) Open Source
6 2 (22.22%) WSUS
6 2 (22.22%) PowerShell
6 2 (22.22%) DHCP

Infrastructure Support Engineer 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) Azure
2 3 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (11.11%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (33.33%) Network Security
2 2 (22.22%) DHCP
2 2 (22.22%) DNS
2 2 (22.22%) SAN
3 1 (11.11%) Firewall
3 1 (11.11%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) SQL Server
2 1 (11.11%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (11.11%) MySQL
2 1 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
General
1 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Data Centre
1 1 (11.11%) Fat Client
1 1 (11.11%) PKI
1 1 (11.11%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 9 (100.00%) Windows
1 9 (100.00%) Windows Server 2019
2 6 (66.67%) Windows 10
2 6 (66.67%) Windows Server 2016
3 5 (55.56%) Windows 7
4 4 (44.44%) Linux
4 4 (44.44%) Windows Server
5 3 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
5 3 (33.33%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (22.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (11.11%) Ubuntu
7 1 (11.11%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (22.22%) Deployment Automation
2 2 (22.22%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (22.22%) Open Source
3 1 (11.11%) Break/Fix
3 1 (11.11%) Business Continuity
3 1 (11.11%) Configuration Management
3 1 (11.11%) Converged Infrastructure
3 1 (11.11%) Incident Management
3 1 (11.11%) ITIL
3 1 (11.11%) Mentoring
3 1 (11.11%) Patch Management
3 1 (11.11%) Performance Monitoring
3 1 (11.11%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (11.11%) Proactive Monitoring
3 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (11.11%) Project Management
3 1 (11.11%) Server Management
3 1 (11.11%) Software Distribution
3 1 (11.11%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) SQL
2 2 (22.22%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (55.56%) Security Cleared
2 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (11.11%) CCNA
3 1 (11.11%) CCNP
3 1 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (11.11%) Degree
3 1 (11.11%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 4 (44.44%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (22.22%) Active Directory
2 2 (22.22%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (22.22%) XenApp
2 2 (22.22%) XenDesktop
3 1 (11.11%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) SCCM
2 2 (22.22%) vCenter Server
2 2 (22.22%) WSUS
3 1 (11.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (11.11%) Ansible
3 1 (11.11%) EMC NetWorker
3 1 (11.11%) Nessus
3 1 (11.11%) NetBackup
3 1 (11.11%) Red Hat Satellite
3 1 (11.11%) SCOM
3 1 (11.11%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) Microsoft
2 4 (44.44%) VMware
3 2 (22.22%) Citrix
3 2 (22.22%) Oracle
3 2 (22.22%) Veeam
4 1 (11.11%) 3PAR
4 1 (11.11%) Cisco
4 1 (11.11%) Dell
4 1 (11.11%) EMC
4 1 (11.11%) Extreme Networks
4 1 (11.11%) HP
4 1 (11.11%) Juniper
4 1 (11.11%) Palo Alto
4 1 (11.11%) Red Hat
4 1 (11.11%) Symantec