Infrastructure Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 92 120 126
Rank change year-on-year +28 +6 +27
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 453 522 655
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.18% 2.16% 2.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.35% 2.30% 2.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 349 405 509
10th Percentile £312 £325 £285
25th Percentile £375 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £440
Median % change year-on-year - +7.95% +18.92%
75th Percentile £600 £550 £538
90th Percentile £673 £650 £600
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% +10.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 7 6
10th Percentile £20.73 £31.05 £15.15
25th Percentile £21.25 £50.00 £29.18
Median hourly rate £22.50 £60.55 £62.99
Median % change year-on-year -62.84% -3.87% +111.72%
75th Percentile £47.50 £65.00 £67.70
90th Percentile £73.95 £73.40 £68.02
UK median hourly rate £45.00 £63.84 £60.48
% change year-on-year -29.51% +5.56% +51.19%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 19,251 22,726 29,670
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.66% 94.14% 95.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,778 15,918 20,742
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £390 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £600 £594 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,230 1,187 1,502
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.02
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.08 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.00 £42.37 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.30% +117.26% +2.47%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £42.20
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.09% +95.65% +0.24%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Infrastructure Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 26 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
South East +29 154 £450 -1.10% 60
North of England -14 87 £425 -10.53% 43
South West +14 84 £537 +2.19% 53
Scotland +66 53 £500 +21.17% 14
North West -11 53 £425 -10.53% 24
Midlands -3 43 £400 -10.11% 44
West Midlands +23 35 £425 -5.56% 26
Yorkshire +7 30 £450 +5.88% 12
East of England -15 22 £625 +47.06% 26
Wales +7 11 £600 +9.09% 3
East Midlands -4 7 £338 -21.97% 18
North East +16 4 £438 -16.67% 9
Infrastructure Engineer
UK

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 26 April 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 UK excluding London region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 438 (96.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 200 (44.15%) Security Cleared
3 198 (43.71%) VMware
4 193 (42.60%) Windows
5 160 (35.32%) Active Directory
6 146 (32.23%) VMware Infrastructure
7 138 (30.46%) Azure
8 134 (29.58%) Microsoft
9 118 (26.05%) SC Cleared
10 113 (24.94%) Linux
11 112 (24.72%) Windows Server
12 103 (22.74%) DNS
13 94 (20.75%) Firewall
14 91 (20.09%) DV Cleared
14 91 (20.09%) Social Skills
15 80 (17.66%) PowerShell
15 80 (17.66%) DHCP
16 73 (16.11%) SAN
17 66 (14.57%) SCCM
18 62 (13.69%) Data Centre
18 62 (13.69%) vCenter Server
19 61 (13.47%) Problem-Solving
20 60 (13.25%) Microsoft 365
21 58 (12.80%) ITIL
22 55 (12.14%) Cisco
22 55 (12.14%) Migration
23 51 (11.26%) Public Sector
24 50 (11.04%) VMware ESXi
25 49 (10.82%) Hyper-V
26 47 (10.38%) vSphere

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 42 (9.27%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (3.53%) SharePoint
3 11 (2.43%) Confluence
4 4 (0.88%) SAS
5 3 (0.66%) CMS
5 3 (0.66%) IIS
5 3 (0.66%) SharePoint Server
6 2 (0.44%) WordPress
7 1 (0.22%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.22%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.22%) WebLogic
Applications
1 14 (3.09%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.88%) AutoCAD
2 4 (0.88%) Revit
3 1 (0.22%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.22%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 138 (30.46%) Azure
2 60 (13.25%) Microsoft 365
3 41 (9.05%) AWS
4 30 (6.62%) Entra ID
5 15 (3.31%) IaaS
6 14 (3.09%) OCI
7 11 (2.43%) GCP
7 11 (2.43%) SaaS
8 10 (2.21%) OpenShift
9 9 (1.99%) Cloud Computing
9 9 (1.99%) Power Platform
10 8 (1.77%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (1.77%) PaaS
11 6 (1.32%) Azure Logic Apps
12 5 (1.10%) Dynamics 365
12 5 (1.10%) Mimecast
13 4 (0.88%) Azure Monitor
13 4 (0.88%) Nutanix
14 3 (0.66%) Azure AKS
14 3 (0.66%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 103 (22.74%) DNS
2 94 (20.75%) Firewall
3 80 (17.66%) DHCP
4 73 (16.11%) SAN
5 27 (5.96%) NAS
6 26 (5.74%) WAN
7 24 (5.30%) TCP/IP
8 23 (5.08%) LAN
9 19 (4.19%) Network Security
10 17 (3.75%) VSAN
11 16 (3.53%) VPN
12 12 (2.65%) iSCSI
13 11 (2.43%) Fibre Channel
14 10 (2.21%) Wi-Fi
14 10 (2.21%) Wireless
15 9 (1.99%) VLAN
16 7 (1.55%) VoIP
17 6 (1.32%) SSL
18 4 (0.88%) OSPF
18 4 (0.88%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (5.96%) SQL Server
2 9 (1.99%) Power BI
3 6 (1.32%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (0.88%) DB2
4 4 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (0.66%) MySQL
5 3 (0.66%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.22%) Adabas
6 1 (0.22%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.22%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.22%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.22%) Redis
Development Applications
1 13 (2.87%) JIRA
2 5 (1.10%) Hudson
3 3 (0.66%) Git
4 2 (0.44%) Artifactory
4 2 (0.44%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.44%) Robot Framework
4 2 (0.44%) Selenium
5 1 (0.22%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.22%) CA Gen
5 1 (0.22%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 91 (20.09%) Social Skills
2 51 (11.26%) Public Sector
3 29 (6.40%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (5.74%) Finance
5 13 (2.87%) Documentation Skills
6 12 (2.65%) Banking
7 8 (1.77%) Manufacturing
8 7 (1.55%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (0.88%) Military
9 4 (0.88%) Telecoms
10 3 (0.66%) Front Office
10 3 (0.66%) Investment Banking
10 3 (0.66%) Local Government
10 3 (0.66%) Retail Banking
11 2 (0.44%) Legal
12 1 (0.22%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.22%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (4.86%) Flash
2 4 (0.88%) .NET
2 4 (0.88%) POSIX
3 3 (0.66%) Redfish
4 2 (0.44%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (0.44%) LAMP
4 2 (0.44%) Middleware
5 1 (0.22%) .NET Framework
5 1 (0.22%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.22%) JSON
5 1 (0.22%) REST
5 1 (0.22%) Twisted
5 1 (0.22%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 62 (13.69%) Data Centre
2 25 (5.52%) PKI
3 18 (3.97%) Private Cloud
4 14 (3.09%) Clustering
5 11 (2.43%) Driving Licence
6 9 (1.99%) Client/Server
7 6 (1.32%) Management Information System
8 5 (1.10%) Fat Client
8 5 (1.10%) Public Cloud
8 5 (1.10%) Thin Client
9 4 (0.88%) NVMe
10 3 (0.66%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (0.66%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (0.66%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (0.66%) NHS
10 3 (0.66%) Replication
10 3 (0.66%) Video Conferencing
11 2 (0.44%) IVR
11 2 (0.44%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (0.44%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 193 (42.60%) Windows
2 113 (24.94%) Linux
3 112 (24.72%) Windows Server
4 41 (9.05%) Windows Server 2012
5 39 (8.61%) Windows Server 2019
6 38 (8.39%) Windows Server 2016
7 36 (7.95%) Unix
8 35 (7.73%) Windows 10
9 25 (5.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 13 (2.87%) Windows 7
10 13 (2.87%) Windows XP
11 12 (2.65%) AIX
12 11 (2.43%) VMS
13 9 (1.99%) Ubuntu
13 9 (1.99%) Windows Server 2008
14 8 (1.77%) Mac OS
15 7 (1.55%) Data ONTAP
15 7 (1.55%) Windows Server 2003
16 6 (1.32%) CentOS
17 3 (0.66%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 438 (96.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 61 (13.47%) Problem-Solving
3 58 (12.80%) ITIL
4 55 (12.14%) Migration
5 43 (9.49%) Agile
6 38 (8.39%) DevOps
7 35 (7.73%) Cybersecurity
8 23 (5.08%) Project Delivery
9 22 (4.86%) Infrastructure as Code
9 22 (4.86%) Server Management
10 21 (4.64%) Change Management
11 20 (4.42%) Storage Management
12 19 (4.19%) Customer Service
12 19 (4.19%) Disaster Recovery
12 19 (4.19%) Virtual Environments
13 18 (3.97%) High Availability
13 18 (3.97%) Service Management
14 17 (3.75%) Virtual Infrastructure
15 16 (3.53%) Computer Science
15 16 (3.53%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 80 (17.66%) PowerShell
2 27 (5.96%) Python
2 27 (5.96%) SQL
3 15 (3.31%) Java
4 10 (2.21%) C#
4 10 (2.21%) Perl
4 10 (2.21%) VBScript
5 8 (1.77%) Bash
6 4 (0.88%) C
7 3 (0.66%) VB.NET
8 2 (0.44%) C++
8 2 (0.44%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.22%) Bicep
9 1 (0.22%) Elixir
9 1 (0.22%) Go
9 1 (0.22%) Natural
9 1 (0.22%) Ruby
9 1 (0.22%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 200 (44.15%) Security Cleared
2 118 (26.05%) SC Cleared
3 91 (20.09%) DV Cleared
4 44 (9.71%) Degree
5 43 (9.49%) CCNA
5 43 (9.49%) Cisco Certification
6 23 (5.08%) CCNP
7 18 (3.97%) Microsoft Certification
7 18 (3.97%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 10 (2.21%) MCSE
9 7 (1.55%) Azure Certification
10 6 (1.32%) Master's Degree
11 5 (1.10%) AWS Certification
11 5 (1.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (1.10%) ITIL Certification
12 4 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (0.88%) Chartered Engineer
12 4 (0.88%) DBS Check
12 4 (0.88%) VCAP
13 3 (0.66%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (1.77%) NIST
1 8 (1.77%) SLA
2 3 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 3 (0.66%) GDPR
2 3 (0.66%) Government Security Classifications
2 3 (0.66%) ISO 9001
2 3 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 3 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (0.66%) QA
3 2 (0.44%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.44%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (0.44%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 1 (0.22%) COBIT
4 1 (0.22%) NIST 800
4 1 (0.22%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 160 (35.32%) Active Directory
2 146 (32.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 50 (11.04%) VMware ESXi
4 49 (10.82%) Hyper-V
5 47 (10.38%) vSphere
6 26 (5.74%) VMware NSX
7 21 (4.64%) Virtual Machines
8 19 (4.19%) XenApp
9 11 (2.43%) Docker
10 7 (1.55%) XenDesktop
11 5 (1.10%) Firmware
11 5 (1.10%) Virtual Desktop
12 4 (0.88%) GPFS
12 4 (0.88%) NFS
12 4 (0.88%) Virtual Servers
13 3 (0.66%) KVM
14 2 (0.44%) VMware Workstation
15 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 1 (0.22%) Terminal Services
15 1 (0.22%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 66 (14.57%) SCCM
2 62 (13.69%) vCenter Server
3 27 (5.96%) WSUS
4 20 (4.42%) Microsoft Intune
5 19 (4.19%) Terraform
6 17 (3.75%) SCOM
7 15 (3.31%) NetBackup
8 13 (2.87%) EMC NetWorker
9 12 (2.65%) Kubernetes
10 11 (2.43%) Ansible
11 8 (1.77%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 8 (1.77%) Single Sign-On
12 4 (0.88%) Microsoft Clustering
12 4 (0.88%) Veritas Storage Foundation
12 4 (0.88%) vRealize
12 4 (0.88%) VxRail
13 3 (0.66%) Nessus
13 3 (0.66%) ZABBIX
14 2 (0.44%) FortiGate
14 2 (0.44%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 198 (43.71%) VMware
2 134 (29.58%) Microsoft
3 55 (12.14%) Cisco
4 33 (7.28%) Veeam
5 31 (6.84%) Citrix
6 28 (6.18%) Dell
7 25 (5.52%) HP
8 20 (4.42%) Symantec
9 19 (4.19%) EMC
10 18 (3.97%) Brocade
10 18 (3.97%) Oracle
10 18 (3.97%) Red Hat
11 17 (3.75%) 3PAR
11 17 (3.75%) Palo Alto
12 16 (3.53%) IBM
13 14 (3.09%) Juniper
14 13 (2.87%) Atlassian
14 13 (2.87%) Extreme Networks
15 11 (2.43%) Ivanti
15 11 (2.43%) NetApp