Infrastructure Engineering Contracts in the Thames Valley

Infrastructure Engineering
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 64 86 96
Rank change year-on-year +22 +10 -1
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 78 60 74
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.89% 2.05% 2.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.31% 2.23% 2.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 53 63
10th Percentile £310 £305 £352
25th Percentile £363 £400 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.62% +2.63% +9.70%
75th Percentile £608 £594 £550
90th Percentile - £675 £695
South East median daily rate £450 £488 £450
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £82.50
Median hourly rate - £12.00 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year - -85.88% -
75th Percentile - - £87.50
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £57.44 £55.50 £66.76
% change year-on-year +3.49% -16.87% +134.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,359 2,692 3,087
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 87.31% 91.91% 88.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,317 1,870 2,083
10th Percentile £213 £320 £225
25th Percentile £363 £413 £388
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 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 62 86
10th Percentile £15.52 £18.60 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.94 £24.86 £12.10
Median hourly rate £45.00 £51.25 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% +192.86% -16.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.21 £25.55
90th Percentile £85.61 £79.19 £66.88
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -5.00% +122.22% -11.76%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineering in the Thames Valley

Infrastructure Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Engineering in the Thames Valley

Infrastructure Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in the Thames Valley

Infrastructure Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Engineering in the Thames Valley

Infrastructure Engineering
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 Engineering within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 25 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
Berkshire +17 56 £525 -13.40% 12
Buckinghamshire +26 16 £448 -11.49% 4
Oxfordshire -5 6 £375 -6.25% 8
Infrastructure Engineering
South East

Infrastructure Engineering
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 (10.26%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.28%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.28%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 29 (37.18%) Azure
2 12 (15.38%) OCI
3 6 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (6.41%) IaaS
5 4 (5.13%) AWS
5 4 (5.13%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (3.85%) PaaS
7 2 (2.56%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (2.56%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (2.56%) Amazon EMR
7 2 (2.56%) Amazon S3
7 2 (2.56%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (2.56%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (2.56%) Google Workspace
7 2 (2.56%) SaaS
7 2 (2.56%) Serverless
7 2 (2.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (1.28%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.28%) GitHub
8 1 (1.28%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 34 (43.59%) DNS
2 31 (39.74%) DHCP
3 19 (24.36%) Firewall
4 16 (20.51%) SAN
5 4 (5.13%) NAS
5 4 (5.13%) VSAN
6 3 (3.85%) LAN
6 3 (3.85%) VPN
6 3 (3.85%) WAN
7 2 (2.56%) Network Security
7 2 (2.56%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (1.28%) Cisco ISE
8 1 (1.28%) NetScaler
8 1 (1.28%) SNA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.41%) SQL Server
2 4 (5.13%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (5.13%) MySQL
2 4 (5.13%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (2.56%) Jenkins
1 2 (2.56%) Robot Framework
1 2 (2.56%) Selenium
2 1 (1.28%) Bitbucket
2 1 (1.28%) JIRA
2 1 (1.28%) Maven
2 1 (1.28%) SonarQube
General
1 21 (26.92%) Social Skills
2 4 (5.13%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (2.56%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.28%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 59 (75.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 11 (14.10%) Storage Engineer
3 8 (10.26%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
3 8 (10.26%) Operations Engineer
4 7 (8.97%) Senior
5 6 (7.69%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 6 (7.69%) Active Directory Engineer
5 6 (7.69%) Analyst
5 6 (7.69%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 6 (7.69%) Support Engineer
5 6 (7.69%) VMware Engineer
6 5 (6.41%) Infrastructure Analyst
7 4 (5.13%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (5.13%) Infrastructure Support
7 4 (5.13%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 4 (5.13%) Server Engineer
7 4 (5.13%) Virtualisation Engineer
8 3 (3.85%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
8 3 (3.85%) PowerShell Engineer
8 3 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 14 (17.95%) Data Centre
2 10 (12.82%) PKI
3 4 (5.13%) Client/Server
3 4 (5.13%) Fat Client
3 4 (5.13%) Thin Client
4 2 (2.56%) Enterprise Storage
4 2 (2.56%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.28%) CCTV
5 1 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.28%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.28%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 42 (53.85%) Windows
2 35 (44.87%) Windows Server
3 23 (29.49%) Linux
4 20 (25.64%) Windows Server 2019
5 17 (21.79%) Windows Server 2016
6 16 (20.51%) Windows 10
6 16 (20.51%) Windows Server 2012
7 12 (15.38%) Windows XP
8 6 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (5.13%) Ubuntu
9 4 (5.13%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (28.21%) ITIL
2 16 (20.51%) Problem-Solving
3 15 (19.23%) Agile
3 15 (19.23%) Server Management
4 13 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
4 13 (16.67%) Project Management
5 12 (15.38%) Break/Fix
5 12 (15.38%) Converged Infrastructure
5 12 (15.38%) Performance Monitoring
5 12 (15.38%) Performance Tuning
5 12 (15.38%) Proactive Monitoring
5 12 (15.38%) Storage Management
6 7 (8.97%) DevOps
6 7 (8.97%) Release Management
7 6 (7.69%) Configuration Management
7 6 (7.69%) Software Distribution
8 5 (6.41%) Incident Management
8 5 (6.41%) ITSM
8 5 (6.41%) Mentoring
8 5 (6.41%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 24 (30.77%) PowerShell
2 5 (6.41%) Python
3 4 (5.13%) VBScript
4 1 (1.28%) SQL
Qualifications
1 44 (56.41%) Security Cleared
2 34 (43.59%) SC Cleared
3 27 (34.62%) DV Cleared
4 20 (25.64%) Degree
5 14 (17.95%) Cisco Certification
6 13 (16.67%) CCNA
6 13 (16.67%) CCNP
7 4 (5.13%) VCAP
7 4 (5.13%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 2 (2.56%) AWS Certification
8 2 (2.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (2.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (1.28%) CCDP
9 1 (1.28%) CCIE
9 1 (1.28%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.28%) COBIT
2 1 (1.28%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.28%) PMO
2 1 (1.28%) QA
System Software
1 40 (51.28%) VMware Infrastructure
2 38 (48.72%) Active Directory
3 19 (24.36%) VMware ESXi
4 16 (20.51%) Hyper-V
5 7 (8.97%) vSphere
5 7 (8.97%) XenApp
5 7 (8.97%) XenDesktop
6 5 (6.41%) VMware NSX
7 3 (3.85%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (1.28%) Docker
Systems Management
1 24 (30.77%) SCCM
2 20 (25.64%) vCenter Server
2 20 (25.64%) WSUS
3 12 (15.38%) EMC NetWorker
3 12 (15.38%) NetBackup
3 12 (15.38%) SCOM
4 8 (10.26%) Ansible
5 4 (5.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 4 (5.13%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (5.13%) Nessus
5 4 (5.13%) Red Hat Satellite
5 4 (5.13%) ZABBIX
6 1 (1.28%) Kubernetes
6 1 (1.28%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.28%) Puppet
6 1 (1.28%) Terraform
6 1 (1.28%) vRealize
6 1 (1.28%) VxRail
Vendors
1 44 (56.41%) VMware
2 34 (43.59%) Microsoft
3 16 (20.51%) Cisco
3 16 (20.51%) Oracle
3 16 (20.51%) Veeam
4 15 (19.23%) Dell
4 15 (19.23%) HP
5 14 (17.95%) 3PAR
6 12 (15.38%) EMC
6 12 (15.38%) Extreme Networks
6 12 (15.38%) Juniper
6 12 (15.38%) Palo Alto
6 12 (15.38%) Symantec
7 8 (10.26%) Citrix
8 7 (8.97%) Red Hat
9 4 (5.13%) ServiceNow
10 3 (3.85%) FireEye
10 3 (3.85%) Meraki
10 3 (3.85%) Tanium
11 2 (2.56%) Nimble Storage