Infrastructure Engineer Contracts in the Thames Valley

Infrastructure Engineer
South East > Thames Valley

The median Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in the Thames Valley is £465 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 13 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
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 74 97 119
Rank change year-on-year +23 +22 -3
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 63 49 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.39% 1.72% 1.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.58% 1.83% 1.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 43 39
10th Percentile £310 £330 £350
25th Percentile £363 £403 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £450 £455
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -1.10% +14.04%
75th Percentile £608 £544 £550
90th Percentile - £638 £555
South East median daily rate £450 £453 £426
% change year-on-year -0.55% +6.16% +13.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £12.00 -
South East median hourly rate - £54.38 £68.02
% change year-on-year - -20.06% +209.18%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Thames Valley

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley. 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 Thames Valley with a recognized job title 2,439 2,684 3,356
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.67% 94.47% 95.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,404 1,854 2,294
10th Percentile £205 £303 £200
25th Percentile £363 £406 £376
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £492
% change year-on-year - +1.57% +9.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 185 77 102
10th Percentile £15.63 £17.11 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.25 £20.00 £12.44
Median hourly rate £45.00 £48.40 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.02% +176.57% -16.86%
75th Percentile £62.50 £66.21 £22.25
90th Percentile £85.49 £79.19 £54.80
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £47.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +137.50% -20.00%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the Thames Valley

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the Thames Valley

Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in the Thames Valley

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the Thames Valley

Infrastructure Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 13 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
Berkshire +16 46 £600 +5.49% 3
Buckinghamshire +31 13 £431 -5.23% 6
Oxfordshire -5 4 £375 -6.83% 6
Infrastructure Engineer
South East

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley

For the 6 months to 13 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 Thames Valley region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 63 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 40 (63.49%) Security Cleared
3 39 (61.90%) VMware
4 36 (57.14%) Windows
4 36 (57.14%) Active Directory
4 36 (57.14%) VMware Infrastructure
5 32 (50.79%) DNS
6 31 (49.21%) DHCP
6 31 (49.21%) SC Cleared
6 31 (49.21%) Windows Server
7 27 (42.86%) Azure
7 27 (42.86%) Microsoft
8 26 (41.27%) DV Cleared
9 24 (38.10%) SCCM
10 23 (36.51%) PowerShell
11 21 (33.33%) ITIL
11 21 (33.33%) Linux
11 21 (33.33%) Social Skills
12 20 (31.75%) Windows Server 2019
12 20 (31.75%) vCenter Server
12 20 (31.75%) Degree
13 19 (30.16%) Firewall
13 19 (30.16%) WSUS
14 18 (28.57%) VMware ESXi
14 18 (28.57%) Windows Server 2012
14 18 (28.57%) Windows 10
14 18 (28.57%) Windows Server 2016
15 17 (26.98%) Hyper-V
16 16 (25.40%) Veeam
16 16 (25.40%) Oracle

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (12.70%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.59%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 27 (42.86%) Azure
2 14 (22.22%) OCI
3 5 (7.94%) IaaS
4 4 (6.35%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (6.35%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (4.76%) AWS
6 2 (3.17%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (3.17%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (3.17%) Amazon EMR
6 2 (3.17%) Amazon S3
6 2 (3.17%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (3.17%) PaaS
6 2 (3.17%) SaaS
6 2 (3.17%) Serverless
6 2 (3.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (1.59%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.59%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 32 (50.79%) DNS
2 31 (49.21%) DHCP
3 19 (30.16%) Firewall
4 16 (25.40%) SAN
5 2 (3.17%) NAS
5 2 (3.17%) Network Security
5 2 (3.17%) VPN
5 2 (3.17%) VSAN
6 1 (1.59%) LAN
6 1 (1.59%) NetScaler
6 1 (1.59%) WAN
6 1 (1.59%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.17%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (3.17%) MySQL
1 2 (3.17%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (3.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (3.17%) Robot Framework
1 2 (3.17%) Selenium
General
1 21 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (6.35%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (3.17%) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous
1 14 (22.22%) Data Centre
2 8 (12.70%) PKI
3 4 (6.35%) Client/Server
4 2 (3.17%) Fat Client
4 2 (3.17%) Public Cloud
4 2 (3.17%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 36 (57.14%) Windows
2 31 (49.21%) Windows Server
3 21 (33.33%) Linux
4 20 (31.75%) Windows Server 2019
5 18 (28.57%) Windows 10
5 18 (28.57%) Windows Server 2012
5 18 (28.57%) Windows Server 2016
6 14 (22.22%) Windows XP
7 4 (6.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (6.35%) Windows 7
8 2 (3.17%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 21 (33.33%) ITIL
3 15 (23.81%) Disaster Recovery
3 15 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
3 15 (23.81%) Server Management
4 14 (22.22%) Break/Fix
4 14 (22.22%) Converged Infrastructure
4 14 (22.22%) Performance Monitoring
4 14 (22.22%) Performance Tuning
4 14 (22.22%) Proactive Monitoring
4 14 (22.22%) Project Management
4 14 (22.22%) Storage Management
5 11 (17.46%) Agile
6 6 (9.52%) Configuration Management
6 6 (9.52%) DevOps
6 6 (9.52%) Software Distribution
7 5 (7.94%) Incident Management
7 5 (7.94%) Release Management
8 4 (6.35%) Application Packaging
8 4 (6.35%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (36.51%) PowerShell
2 4 (6.35%) Python
2 4 (6.35%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 40 (63.49%) Security Cleared
2 31 (49.21%) SC Cleared
3 26 (41.27%) DV Cleared
4 20 (31.75%) Degree
5 15 (23.81%) CCNA
5 15 (23.81%) CCNP
5 15 (23.81%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (3.17%) AWS Certification
6 2 (3.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (3.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (3.17%) VCAP
6 2 (3.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (1.59%) CCDP
7 1 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.59%) COBIT
1 1 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.59%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 36 (57.14%) Active Directory
1 36 (57.14%) VMware Infrastructure
2 18 (28.57%) VMware ESXi
3 17 (26.98%) Hyper-V
4 7 (11.11%) XenApp
4 7 (11.11%) XenDesktop
5 5 (7.94%) vSphere
6 3 (4.76%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (3.17%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 24 (38.10%) SCCM
2 20 (31.75%) vCenter Server
3 19 (30.16%) WSUS
4 14 (22.22%) EMC NetWorker
4 14 (22.22%) NetBackup
4 14 (22.22%) SCOM
5 4 (6.35%) Ansible
6 3 (4.76%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (3.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (3.17%) Nessus
7 2 (3.17%) Red Hat Satellite
7 2 (3.17%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 39 (61.90%) VMware
2 27 (42.86%) Microsoft
3 16 (25.40%) Cisco
3 16 (25.40%) Oracle
3 16 (25.40%) Veeam
4 15 (23.81%) HP
5 14 (22.22%) 3PAR
5 14 (22.22%) Dell
5 14 (22.22%) EMC
5 14 (22.22%) Extreme Networks
5 14 (22.22%) Juniper
5 14 (22.22%) Palo Alto
5 14 (22.22%) Symantec
6 8 (12.70%) Citrix
7 3 (4.76%) FireEye
7 3 (4.76%) ServiceNow
7 3 (4.76%) Tanium
8 2 (3.17%) Aruba
8 2 (3.17%) Red Hat
9 1 (1.59%) Meraki