Infrastructure Engineering Contracts in the South West

Infrastructure Engineering
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for Infrastructure Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Infrastructure Engineering over the 6 months to 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 43 71 65
Rank change year-on-year +28 -6 +23
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 129 120 127
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 4.02% 3.25% 3.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.84% 3.63% 3.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 95 99
10th Percentile £175 £270 £259
25th Percentile £281 £375 £368
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £451
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +16.54% +20.13%
75th Percentile £588 £675 £550
90th Percentile £643 £738 £633
England median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +12.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 6 0
10th Percentile £47.13 £51.45 -
25th Percentile £57.81 £72.38 -
Median hourly rate £68.75 £78.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -11.86% - -
75th Percentile £72.94 - -
90th Percentile £75.98 £82.00 -
England median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £55.24
% change year-on-year -28.95% +17.67% +42.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

Infrastructure Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,664 3,305 3,339
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 83.02% 89.61% 88.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,739 2,427 2,347
10th Percentile £225 £313 £300
25th Percentile £407 £425 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £549 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.37% +9.80% +6.89%
75th Percentile £625 £641 £588
90th Percentile £706 £719 £670
England median daily rate £525 £550 £533
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.29% +9.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 319 352 189
10th Percentile £13.85 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £25.00 £17.94 £16.80
Median hourly rate £47.50 £61.50 £48.27
Median % change year-on-year -22.76% +27.41% +9.70%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £63.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £83.31 £69.21
England median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% +56.25% -

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Infrastructure Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineering in the South West

Infrastructure Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Engineering in the South West

Infrastructure Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in the South West over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in the South West

Infrastructure Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Engineering in the South West

Infrastructure Engineering
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in the South West over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in the South West

Infrastructure Engineering
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 Engineering within the South West region over the 6 months to 19 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
Wiltshire -6 41 £525 -19.23% 18
Dorset +23 26 £185 -51.84% 2
Bristol +18 25 £450 -12.20% 17
Gloucestershire +13 21 £450 -21.74% 17
Devon +11 14 £600 +150.00% 5
Somerset -1 2 £600 +60.00% 8
Infrastructure Engineering
England

Infrastructure Engineering
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 9 (6.98%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (6.20%) Confluence
3 5 (3.88%) SharePoint
4 3 (2.33%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (0.78%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 7 (5.43%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 31 (24.03%) Azure
2 16 (12.40%) Microsoft 365
3 13 (10.08%) Entra ID
4 7 (5.43%) Dynamics 365
4 7 (5.43%) Power Platform
5 5 (3.88%) Azure Logic Apps
6 4 (3.10%) AWS
7 3 (2.33%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (2.33%) PaaS
8 2 (1.55%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (1.55%) Azure Stack
8 2 (1.55%) PowerApps
9 1 (0.78%) IaaS
9 1 (0.78%) Nutanix
9 1 (0.78%) SaaS
9 1 (0.78%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 42 (32.56%) Firewall
2 19 (14.73%) DNS
3 12 (9.30%) Network Security
4 9 (6.98%) WAN
5 8 (6.20%) DHCP
5 8 (6.20%) SAN
6 7 (5.43%) VSAN
7 6 (4.65%) NAS
7 6 (4.65%) SD-WAN
8 5 (3.88%) BGP
8 5 (3.88%) LAN
9 3 (2.33%) NGFW
9 3 (2.33%) Unified Communications
9 3 (2.33%) Wireless
10 2 (1.55%) OSPF
10 2 (1.55%) Skype
10 2 (1.55%) TCP/IP
10 2 (1.55%) VPN
10 2 (1.55%) WLAN
11 1 (0.78%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.43%) Power BI
2 4 (3.10%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 8 (6.20%) JIRA
2 2 (1.55%) Artifactory
3 1 (0.78%) Bitbucket
General
1 19 (14.73%) Public Sector
2 16 (12.40%) Social Skills
3 10 (7.75%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (1.55%) Finance
5 2 (1.55%) Local Government
5 2 (1.55%) Military
6 1 (0.78%) Aerospace
6 1 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (0.78%) Electronics
6 1 (0.78%) Manufacturing
6 1 (0.78%) Marketing
6 1 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (0.78%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 83 (64.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 29 (22.48%) Network Engineer
3 21 (16.28%) Infrastructure Technician
3 21 (16.28%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 16 (12.40%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 8 (6.20%) Cloud Engineer
5 8 (6.20%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (3.88%) Azure Engineer
6 5 (3.88%) Virtualisation Engineer
6 5 (3.88%) VMware Engineer
6 5 (3.88%) Wintel Engineer
6 5 (3.88%) Wintel Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (3.10%) Backup Engineer
7 4 (3.10%) Backup Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (3.10%) Senior
7 4 (3.10%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (3.10%) Storage and Backup Engineer
7 4 (3.10%) Storage Engineer
8 3 (2.33%) Active Directory Engineer
8 3 (2.33%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.10%) Flash
2 1 (0.78%) .NET
2 1 (0.78%) .NET Framework
2 1 (0.78%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (17.83%) Data Centre
2 21 (16.28%) Private Cloud
3 11 (8.53%) NHS
4 10 (7.75%) PKI
5 6 (4.65%) Clustering
6 3 (2.33%) IoT
6 3 (2.33%) Replication
7 1 (0.78%) CMDB
7 1 (0.78%) Cyber Defence
7 1 (0.78%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 1 (0.78%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.78%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (0.78%) Fat Client
7 1 (0.78%) Operational Technology
7 1 (0.78%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.78%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (0.78%) Thin Client
7 1 (0.78%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 34 (26.36%) Windows
2 25 (19.38%) Windows Server
3 17 (13.18%) Linux
4 9 (6.98%) Windows Server 2012
5 6 (4.65%) VMS
6 4 (3.10%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (2.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (2.33%) Windows 10
8 2 (1.55%) Unix
8 2 (1.55%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (0.78%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (18.60%) Cybersecurity
2 19 (14.73%) ITIL
3 18 (13.95%) Network Management
3 18 (13.95%) Resource Management
3 18 (13.95%) Virtual Infrastructure
4 17 (13.18%) Problem-Solving
5 15 (11.63%) Penetration Testing
5 15 (11.63%) Service Management
6 13 (10.08%) Migration
6 13 (10.08%) Vulnerability Scanning
7 10 (7.75%) Containerisation
8 8 (6.20%) Agile
8 8 (6.20%) Business Intelligence
8 8 (6.20%) Load Balancing
8 8 (6.20%) Virtual Environments
9 7 (5.43%) Mentoring
10 6 (4.65%) Critical Thinking
10 6 (4.65%) Infrastructure as Code
10 6 (4.65%) Validation
11 5 (3.88%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (6.20%) SQL
2 5 (3.88%) PowerShell
3 4 (3.10%) C
4 3 (2.33%) Bash
5 2 (1.55%) C#
5 2 (1.55%) Java
5 2 (1.55%) Python
Qualifications
1 83 (64.34%) Security Cleared
2 49 (37.98%) SC Cleared
3 35 (27.13%) DV Cleared
4 16 (12.40%) CCNA
4 16 (12.40%) Cisco Certification
5 10 (7.75%) CCNP
6 8 (6.20%) Degree
7 5 (3.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 4 (3.10%) Master's Degree
9 2 (1.55%) Chartered Engineer
9 2 (1.55%) MCP
9 2 (1.55%) MCSA
9 2 (1.55%) MCSE
9 2 (1.55%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.78%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.33%) Government Security Classifications
1 3 (2.33%) NIST
2 1 (0.78%) NIST 800
System Software
1 45 (34.88%) VMware Infrastructure
2 24 (18.60%) vSphere
3 22 (17.05%) Active Directory
4 12 (9.30%) VMware ESXi
5 10 (7.75%) VMware NSX
6 7 (5.43%) Hyper-V
7 6 (4.65%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (3.10%) Docker
9 3 (2.33%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.78%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.78%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 26 (20.16%) vCenter Server
2 9 (6.98%) Ansible
3 8 (6.20%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (3.10%) SCCM
5 3 (2.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 3 (2.33%) Kubernetes
5 3 (2.33%) WSUS
6 2 (1.55%) Microsoft Clustering
6 2 (1.55%) SCOM
7 1 (0.78%) AirWatch
7 1 (0.78%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (0.78%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
7 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.78%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.78%) Puppet
7 1 (0.78%) Terraform
7 1 (0.78%) VxRail
Vendors
1 64 (49.61%) VMware
2 31 (24.03%) Microsoft
3 18 (13.95%) Veeam
4 15 (11.63%) Cisco
5 10 (7.75%) Atlassian
6 9 (6.98%) Fortinet
7 8 (6.20%) CA
7 8 (6.20%) Dell
8 4 (3.10%) SolarWinds
9 2 (1.55%) Siemens
9 2 (1.55%) Sophos
9 2 (1.55%) Splunk
10 1 (0.78%) Aruba
10 1 (0.78%) HP
10 1 (0.78%) Juniper
10 1 (0.78%) Meraki
10 1 (0.78%) Oracle
10 1 (0.78%) SAP
10 1 (0.78%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.78%) Veritas