Infrastructure Engineer Contracts in the South West

Infrastructure Engineer
England > South West

The median Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in the South West is £537 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 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
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 73 85 73
Rank change year-on-year +12 -12 +16
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 81 93 113
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 2.55% 2.62% 3.05%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.74% 2.84% 3.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 69 87
10th Percentile £375 £315 £287
25th Percentile £488 £463 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £525 £451
Median % change year-on-year +2.19% +16.54% +20.13%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £550
90th Percentile £628 £712 £608
England median daily rate £463 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -7.50% +11.11% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £65.18 - -
25th Percentile £67.31 - -
Median hourly rate £72.75 - -
75th Percentile £76.31 - -
90th Percentile £77.33 - -
England median hourly rate £22.50 £63.84 £53.91
% change year-on-year -64.76% +18.43% +39.12%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the South West. 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 West with a recognized job title 2,958 3,279 3,528
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.25% 92.42% 95.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,879 2,449 2,526
10th Percentile £210 £263 £225
25th Percentile £398 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.19% +5.00% +9.14%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £588
90th Percentile £700 £718 £662
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 403 263 203
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.02 £15.90
25th Percentile £27.50 £49.84 £17.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +36.84% +11.76%
75th Percentile £71.25 £75.00 £63.68
90th Percentile £77.50 £84.75 £69.13
England median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -17.38% +100.00% +2.27%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the South West

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the South West

Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in the South West over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in the South West

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the South West

Infrastructure Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer within the South West region over the 6 months to 8 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
Wiltshire -5 27 £525 -4.55% 15
Bristol +10 22 £488 -11.36% 14
Devon +7 13 £600 +150.00% 11
Gloucestershire -3 11 £500 - 15
Somerset +3 4 £600 - 3
Dorset +2 4 £650 +23.81% 2
Infrastructure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 8 May 2024, 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 South West region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 81 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 64 (79.01%) Security Cleared
3 39 (48.15%) VMware
4 37 (45.68%) SC Cleared
5 35 (43.21%) Firewall
6 33 (40.74%) VMware Infrastructure
7 28 (34.57%) DV Cleared
8 24 (29.63%) vCenter Server
9 18 (22.22%) vSphere
9 18 (22.22%) Data Centre
10 17 (20.99%) Public Sector
10 17 (20.99%) DNS
11 15 (18.52%) Cisco
11 15 (18.52%) ITIL
11 15 (18.52%) Windows
11 15 (18.52%) Service Management
11 15 (18.52%) Cybersecurity
11 15 (18.52%) Azure
11 15 (18.52%) Private Cloud
12 14 (17.28%) CCNA
12 14 (17.28%) Active Directory
12 14 (17.28%) Cisco Certification
13 13 (16.05%) Microsoft
13 13 (16.05%) Linux
13 13 (16.05%) Problem-Solving
13 13 (16.05%) Virtual Infrastructure
14 12 (14.81%) Resource Management
14 12 (14.81%) VMware ESXi
15 11 (13.58%) Network Security
15 11 (13.58%) Penetration Testing

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 8 (9.88%) Confluence
2 6 (7.41%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (3.70%) SharePoint
3 3 (3.70%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 6 (7.41%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 15 (18.52%) Azure
2 8 (9.88%) Entra ID
3 5 (6.17%) Azure Logic Apps
3 5 (6.17%) Dynamics 365
3 5 (6.17%) Power Platform
4 4 (4.94%) AWS
5 3 (3.70%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (3.70%) PaaS
6 2 (2.47%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (2.47%) Azure Stack
6 2 (2.47%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.23%) IaaS
7 1 (1.23%) Nutanix
7 1 (1.23%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.23%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 35 (43.21%) Firewall
2 17 (20.99%) DNS
3 11 (13.58%) Network Security
4 7 (8.64%) VSAN
5 6 (7.41%) DHCP
5 6 (7.41%) SAN
6 5 (6.17%) NAS
7 4 (4.94%) SD-WAN
7 4 (4.94%) WAN
8 3 (3.70%) BGP
8 3 (3.70%) NGFW
9 2 (2.47%) TCP/IP
9 2 (2.47%) VLAN
9 2 (2.47%) VPN
9 2 (2.47%) Wireless
10 1 (1.23%) IPv4
10 1 (1.23%) LAN
10 1 (1.23%) OSPF
10 1 (1.23%) VoIP
10 1 (1.23%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.17%) Power BI
2 4 (4.94%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 8 (9.88%) JIRA
2 2 (2.47%) Artifactory
General
1 17 (20.99%) Public Sector
2 11 (13.58%) Social Skills
3 10 (12.35%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (2.47%) Local Government
5 2 (2.47%) Military
6 1 (1.23%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.23%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.17%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 18 (22.22%) Data Centre
2 15 (18.52%) Private Cloud
3 8 (9.88%) PKI
4 6 (7.41%) Clustering
5 1 (1.23%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (1.23%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 1 (1.23%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.23%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (1.23%) NHS
5 1 (1.23%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (1.23%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 15 (18.52%) Windows
2 13 (16.05%) Linux
3 8 (9.88%) Windows Server
4 6 (7.41%) VMS
5 3 (3.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (2.47%) Unix
6 2 (2.47%) Windows Server 2003
6 2 (2.47%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (1.23%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 15 (18.52%) Cybersecurity
2 15 (18.52%) ITIL
2 15 (18.52%) Service Management
3 13 (16.05%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (16.05%) Virtual Infrastructure
4 12 (14.81%) Resource Management
5 11 (13.58%) Penetration Testing
6 10 (12.35%) Containerisation
7 9 (11.11%) Vulnerability Scanning
8 8 (9.88%) Agile
8 8 (9.88%) Load Balancing
9 7 (8.64%) Infrastructure as Code
9 7 (8.64%) Mentoring
9 7 (8.64%) Migration
10 6 (7.41%) Critical Thinking
10 6 (7.41%) High Availability
10 6 (7.41%) Network Management
10 6 (7.41%) Validation
10 6 (7.41%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 6 (7.41%) SQL
2 4 (4.94%) Bash
3 3 (3.70%) PowerShell
4 2 (2.47%) C#
4 2 (2.47%) Java
4 2 (2.47%) Python
5 1 (1.23%) C
Qualifications
1 64 (79.01%) Security Cleared
2 37 (45.68%) SC Cleared
3 28 (34.57%) DV Cleared
4 14 (17.28%) CCNA
4 14 (17.28%) Cisco Certification
5 9 (11.11%) CCNP
6 8 (9.88%) Degree
7 6 (7.41%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 5 (6.17%) Master's Degree
9 4 (4.94%) Chartered Engineer
10 1 (1.23%) Azure Certification
10 1 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.70%) Government Security Classifications
1 3 (3.70%) NIST
2 1 (1.23%) NIST 800
System Software
1 33 (40.74%) VMware Infrastructure
2 18 (22.22%) vSphere
3 14 (17.28%) Active Directory
4 12 (14.81%) VMware ESXi
5 9 (11.11%) VMware NSX
6 6 (7.41%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (6.17%) Docker
7 5 (6.17%) Hyper-V
8 1 (1.23%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (1.23%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 24 (29.63%) vCenter Server
2 6 (7.41%) Single Sign-On
3 5 (6.17%) Ansible
4 4 (4.94%) Kubernetes
5 3 (3.70%) SCCM
6 2 (2.47%) SCOM
7 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Clustering
7 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (1.23%) Puppet
7 1 (1.23%) Terraform
7 1 (1.23%) VxRail
7 1 (1.23%) WSUS
Vendors
1 39 (48.15%) VMware
2 15 (18.52%) Cisco
3 13 (16.05%) Microsoft
4 10 (12.35%) Atlassian
5 8 (9.88%) Fortinet
6 6 (7.41%) CA
6 6 (7.41%) Dell
7 4 (4.94%) Veeam
8 1 (1.23%) Oracle
8 1 (1.23%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.23%) SolarWinds
8 1 (1.23%) Splunk
8 1 (1.23%) Veritas