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 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 62 93 98
Rank change year-on-year +31 +5 +13
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 76 58 74
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.89% 2.05% 2.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.34% 2.25% 2.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 48 61
10th Percentile £325 £300 £356
25th Percentile £406 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £460
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -2.17% +15.00%
75th Percentile £608 £567 £538
90th Percentile - £690 £594
South East median daily rate £470 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -6.00% +11.11% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £12.00 -
South East median hourly rate £62.50 £57.50 £66.76
% change year-on-year +8.70% -13.87% +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 2,277 2,574 3,224
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 86.64% 90.76% 89.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,262 1,757 2,182
10th Percentile £213 £314 £235
25th Percentile £375 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £605 £584
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £510 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +2.00% - +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 66 88
10th Percentile £14.09 £16.88 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.25 £24.86 £12.25
Median hourly rate £45.00 £52.30 £17.42
Median % change year-on-year -13.96% +200.23% -17.24%
75th Percentile £64.42 £69.05 £25.38
90th Percentile £85.65 £79.19 £67.40
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £21.95
% change year-on-year -5.00% +127.79% -20.18%

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 28 May 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 28 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 51 £605 +2.98% 7
Buckinghamshire +34 20 £457 +0.55% 7
Oxfordshire -1 5 £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 (10.53%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.32%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (2.63%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 25 (32.89%) Azure
2 14 (18.42%) OCI
3 4 (5.26%) AWS
3 4 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (5.26%) IaaS
3 4 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (3.95%) PaaS
4 3 (3.95%) SaaS
5 2 (2.63%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (2.63%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (2.63%) Amazon EMR
5 2 (2.63%) Amazon S3
5 2 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (2.63%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (2.63%) Google Workspace
5 2 (2.63%) Serverless
5 2 (2.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 33 (43.42%) DNS
2 31 (40.79%) DHCP
3 18 (23.68%) Firewall
3 18 (23.68%) SAN
4 4 (5.26%) NAS
4 4 (5.26%) VSAN
5 3 (3.95%) LAN
5 3 (3.95%) VPN
5 3 (3.95%) WAN
6 2 (2.63%) Network Security
6 2 (2.63%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (1.32%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.26%) Elasticsearch
1 4 (5.26%) MySQL
1 4 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (5.26%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (2.63%) Robot Framework
1 2 (2.63%) Selenium
General
1 25 (32.89%) Social Skills
2 4 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (3.95%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (2.63%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.32%) Legal
5 1 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 61 (80.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 14 (18.42%) Storage Engineer
3 8 (10.53%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
3 8 (10.53%) Operations Engineer
3 8 (10.53%) VMware Engineer
4 7 (9.21%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 7 (9.21%) Server Engineer
5 6 (7.89%) Active Directory Engineer
6 5 (6.58%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (6.58%) Senior
7 4 (5.26%) Hyper-V Engineer
7 4 (5.26%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (5.26%) Support Engineer
7 4 (5.26%) Virtualisation Engineer
8 3 (3.95%) 3rd Line Support
8 3 (3.95%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
8 3 (3.95%) Analyst
8 3 (3.95%) Infrastructure Analyst
8 3 (3.95%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
8 3 (3.95%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 14 (18.42%) Data Centre
2 10 (13.16%) PKI
3 4 (5.26%) Client/Server
3 4 (5.26%) Fat Client
3 4 (5.26%) Thin Client
4 2 (2.63%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.32%) CCTV
5 1 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 36 (47.37%) Windows
2 33 (43.42%) Windows Server
3 23 (30.26%) Linux
4 20 (26.32%) Windows Server 2019
5 17 (22.37%) Windows Server 2016
6 16 (21.05%) Windows 10
6 16 (21.05%) Windows Server 2012
7 14 (18.42%) Windows XP
8 4 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (5.26%) Ubuntu
9 2 (2.63%) Windows 7
10 1 (1.32%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (31.58%) ITIL
2 17 (22.37%) Problem-Solving
3 16 (21.05%) Disaster Recovery
3 16 (21.05%) Server Management
4 15 (19.74%) Project Management
5 14 (18.42%) Agile
5 14 (18.42%) Break/Fix
5 14 (18.42%) Converged Infrastructure
5 14 (18.42%) Performance Monitoring
5 14 (18.42%) Performance Tuning
5 14 (18.42%) Proactive Monitoring
5 14 (18.42%) Storage Management
6 7 (9.21%) DevOps
6 7 (9.21%) Release Management
7 5 (6.58%) Configuration Management
7 5 (6.58%) Incident Management
7 5 (6.58%) Software Distribution
8 4 (5.26%) Application Virtualisation
8 4 (5.26%) Mentoring
8 4 (5.26%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 29 (38.16%) PowerShell
2 4 (5.26%) Python
2 4 (5.26%) VBScript
3 1 (1.32%) SQL
Qualifications
1 50 (65.79%) Security Cleared
2 37 (48.68%) SC Cleared
3 33 (43.42%) DV Cleared
4 22 (28.95%) Degree
5 17 (22.37%) Cisco Certification
6 16 (21.05%) CCNA
6 16 (21.05%) CCNP
7 4 (5.26%) VCAP
7 4 (5.26%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 2 (2.63%) AWS Certification
8 2 (2.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (2.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (2.63%) CCDP
8 2 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (1.32%) CCIE
9 1 (1.32%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.32%) COBIT
2 1 (1.32%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.32%) QA
System Software
1 42 (55.26%) VMware Infrastructure
2 38 (50.00%) Active Directory
3 21 (27.63%) Hyper-V
3 21 (27.63%) VMware ESXi
4 7 (9.21%) vSphere
5 5 (6.58%) XenApp
5 5 (6.58%) XenDesktop
6 4 (5.26%) VMware NSX
7 1 (1.32%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 23 (30.26%) SCCM
2 20 (26.32%) vCenter Server
3 19 (25.00%) WSUS
4 14 (18.42%) EMC NetWorker
4 14 (18.42%) NetBackup
4 14 (18.42%) SCOM
5 6 (7.89%) Ansible
6 4 (5.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 4 (5.26%) Nessus
6 4 (5.26%) Red Hat Satellite
6 4 (5.26%) ZABBIX
7 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 48 (63.16%) VMware
2 36 (47.37%) Microsoft
3 18 (23.68%) Oracle
3 18 (23.68%) Veeam
4 17 (22.37%) Cisco
5 15 (19.74%) HP
6 14 (18.42%) 3PAR
6 14 (18.42%) Dell
6 14 (18.42%) EMC
6 14 (18.42%) Extreme Networks
6 14 (18.42%) Juniper
6 14 (18.42%) Palo Alto
6 14 (18.42%) Symantec
7 7 (9.21%) Citrix
8 4 (5.26%) Red Hat
9 3 (3.95%) FireEye
9 3 (3.95%) ServiceNow
9 3 (3.95%) Tanium
10 2 (2.63%) Aruba
10 2 (2.63%) Meraki