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 £463 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 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
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 94 121 118
Rank change year-on-year +27 -3 +31
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 439 486 672
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.16% 2.11% 2.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.34% 2.24% 2.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 347 367 529
10th Percentile £310 £325 £287
25th Percentile £375 £363 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% +5.56% +24.14%
75th Percentile £581 £550 £538
90th Percentile £650 £650 £600
UK median daily rate £463 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -7.50% +11.11% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 5
10th Percentile £20.73 £27.88 £14.17
25th Percentile £21.25 £46.88 £20.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £59.03 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year -61.88% -9.89% +120.17%
75th Percentile £47.50 £63.89 £68.02
90th Percentile £73.95 £65.00 -
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £61.62 £45.48
% change year-on-year -63.48% +35.48% +13.70%

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 18,772 21,693 29,145
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.48% 94.28% 95.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,463 15,127 20,437
10th Percentile £213 £225 £204
25th Percentile £363 £394 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £544 £525
% change year-on-year -3.40% +3.52% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,267 1,104 1,447
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.73 £18.07 £14.29
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £44.85
90th Percentile £73.85 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

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 18 May 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 18 May 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 18 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
South East +45 159 £450 -1.10% 76
North of England 0 82 £425 -8.11% 37
South West -4 76 £525 - 54
Scotland +70 53 £475 +8.57% 24
North West -6 52 £425 -10.53% 18
Midlands 0 42 £400 -10.61% 50
West Midlands +18 33 £425 -5.56% 28
Yorkshire +5 26 £450 +5.88% 17
East of England -17 21 £625 +25.00% 29
East Midlands -8 8 £338 -23.73% 22
Wales +2 7 £365 -30.48% 4
North East +8 4 £438 +9.38% 3
Infrastructure Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 18 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 UK excluding London region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 425 (96.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 200 (45.56%) Security Cleared
3 191 (43.51%) VMware
4 187 (42.60%) Windows
5 154 (35.08%) Active Directory
6 144 (32.80%) VMware Infrastructure
7 128 (29.16%) Microsoft
8 125 (28.47%) Azure
9 117 (26.65%) SC Cleared
10 115 (26.20%) Linux
11 109 (24.83%) Windows Server
12 96 (21.87%) DV Cleared
13 93 (21.18%) Social Skills
14 92 (20.96%) DNS
15 86 (19.59%) Firewall
16 80 (18.22%) DHCP
17 79 (18.00%) PowerShell
18 70 (15.95%) SAN
19 62 (14.12%) SCCM
20 61 (13.90%) Problem-Solving
21 59 (13.44%) vCenter Server
21 59 (13.44%) Data Centre
22 54 (12.30%) Migration
23 51 (11.62%) Hyper-V
24 49 (11.16%) VMware ESXi
24 49 (11.16%) Cisco
25 48 (10.93%) ITIL
25 48 (10.93%) Microsoft 365
26 47 (10.71%) Public Sector
27 46 (10.48%) Degree

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 40 (9.11%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (3.19%) SharePoint
3 10 (2.28%) Confluence
4 4 (0.91%) SAS
5 3 (0.68%) Apache
5 3 (0.68%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.68%) IIS
5 3 (0.68%) SharePoint Server
6 2 (0.46%) WordPress
7 1 (0.23%) CMS
7 1 (0.23%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.23%) WebLogic
Applications
1 12 (2.73%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.91%) AutoCAD
2 4 (0.91%) Revit
3 1 (0.23%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.23%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 125 (28.47%) Azure
2 48 (10.93%) Microsoft 365
3 44 (10.02%) AWS
4 30 (6.83%) Entra ID
5 15 (3.42%) OCI
6 14 (3.19%) IaaS
7 13 (2.96%) Cloud Computing
7 13 (2.96%) SaaS
8 11 (2.51%) GCP
9 10 (2.28%) OpenShift
10 9 (2.05%) PaaS
10 9 (2.05%) Power Platform
11 6 (1.37%) Azure Logic Apps
12 5 (1.14%) Amazon EC2
12 5 (1.14%) Amazon S3
12 5 (1.14%) Dynamics 365
12 5 (1.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 4 (0.91%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (0.91%) Mimecast
13 4 (0.91%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 92 (20.96%) DNS
2 86 (19.59%) Firewall
3 80 (18.22%) DHCP
4 70 (15.95%) SAN
5 26 (5.92%) NAS
6 24 (5.47%) TCP/IP
7 22 (5.01%) WAN
8 21 (4.78%) LAN
9 15 (3.42%) VPN
10 14 (3.19%) VSAN
11 12 (2.73%) iSCSI
11 12 (2.73%) Network Security
12 11 (2.51%) Fibre Channel
12 11 (2.51%) Wireless
13 10 (2.28%) VLAN
14 9 (2.05%) Wi-Fi
15 7 (1.59%) VoIP
16 5 (1.14%) SSL
17 4 (0.91%) OSPF
17 4 (0.91%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (5.92%) SQL Server
2 9 (2.05%) Power BI
3 6 (1.37%) MySQL
4 5 (1.14%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (1.14%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (0.91%) DB2
5 4 (0.91%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (0.68%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.23%) Adabas
7 1 (0.23%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.23%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.23%) Redis
Development Applications
1 12 (2.73%) JIRA
2 6 (1.37%) Git
3 5 (1.14%) Hudson
4 2 (0.46%) Artifactory
4 2 (0.46%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.46%) Robot Framework
4 2 (0.46%) Selenium
5 1 (0.23%) CA Gen
5 1 (0.23%) GitLab
5 1 (0.23%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 93 (21.18%) Social Skills
2 47 (10.71%) Public Sector
3 26 (5.92%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (5.92%) Finance
4 12 (2.73%) Banking
4 12 (2.73%) Documentation Skills
5 8 (1.82%) Manufacturing
6 7 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (1.14%) Military
8 4 (0.91%) Telecoms
9 3 (0.68%) Front Office
9 3 (0.68%) Investment Banking
9 3 (0.68%) Local Government
10 1 (0.23%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.23%) Back Office
10 1 (0.23%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.23%) Legal
10 1 (0.23%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (4.78%) Flash
2 4 (0.91%) POSIX
3 3 (0.68%) .NET
3 3 (0.68%) Redfish
4 2 (0.46%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (0.46%) LAMP
4 2 (0.46%) Middleware
5 1 (0.23%) JSON
5 1 (0.23%) REST
5 1 (0.23%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 59 (13.44%) Data Centre
2 24 (5.47%) PKI
3 18 (4.10%) Private Cloud
4 15 (3.42%) Clustering
5 11 (2.51%) Driving Licence
6 9 (2.05%) Client/Server
7 5 (1.14%) Management Information System
7 5 (1.14%) Public Cloud
8 4 (0.91%) Fat Client
8 4 (0.91%) NVMe
8 4 (0.91%) Replication
8 4 (0.91%) Thin Client
9 3 (0.68%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (0.68%) NHS
9 3 (0.68%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (0.68%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 3 (0.68%) Video Conferencing
10 2 (0.46%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.46%) IVR
10 2 (0.46%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 187 (42.60%) Windows
2 115 (26.20%) Linux
3 109 (24.83%) Windows Server
4 41 (9.34%) Windows Server 2012
5 37 (8.43%) Windows Server 2016
5 37 (8.43%) Windows Server 2019
6 35 (7.97%) Unix
7 32 (7.29%) Windows 10
8 29 (6.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 14 (3.19%) Windows XP
10 12 (2.73%) AIX
11 11 (2.51%) Windows 7
12 9 (2.05%) Ubuntu
12 9 (2.05%) VMS
12 9 (2.05%) Windows Server 2008
13 8 (1.82%) Mac OS
14 7 (1.59%) Windows Server 2003
15 6 (1.37%) Data ONTAP
16 5 (1.14%) CentOS
16 5 (1.14%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 425 (96.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 61 (13.90%) Problem-Solving
3 54 (12.30%) Migration
4 48 (10.93%) ITIL
5 38 (8.66%) Agile
6 34 (7.74%) Cybersecurity
7 33 (7.52%) DevOps
8 22 (5.01%) Project Delivery
9 21 (4.78%) Change Management
9 21 (4.78%) Customer Service
9 21 (4.78%) Server Management
9 21 (4.78%) Storage Management
10 20 (4.56%) Disaster Recovery
11 19 (4.33%) High Availability
11 19 (4.33%) Virtual Environments
12 18 (4.10%) Computer Science
13 17 (3.87%) Infrastructure as Code
13 17 (3.87%) Performance Tuning
13 17 (3.87%) Project Management
13 17 (3.87%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 79 (18.00%) PowerShell
2 30 (6.83%) Python
3 29 (6.61%) SQL
4 14 (3.19%) Java
5 10 (2.28%) C#
5 10 (2.28%) VBScript
6 9 (2.05%) Bash
6 9 (2.05%) Perl
7 3 (0.68%) C
7 3 (0.68%) VB.NET
8 2 (0.46%) C++
9 1 (0.23%) Bicep
9 1 (0.23%) Elixir
9 1 (0.23%) Go
9 1 (0.23%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.23%) Natural
9 1 (0.23%) Ruby
9 1 (0.23%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 200 (45.56%) Security Cleared
2 117 (26.65%) SC Cleared
3 96 (21.87%) DV Cleared
4 46 (10.48%) Degree
5 35 (7.97%) CCNA
5 35 (7.97%) Cisco Certification
6 20 (4.56%) Microsoft Certification
7 18 (4.10%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 17 (3.87%) CCNP
9 11 (2.51%) MCSE
10 8 (1.82%) Azure Certification
11 5 (1.14%) AWS Certification
11 5 (1.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (1.14%) ITIL Certification
11 5 (1.14%) Master's Degree
11 5 (1.14%) RHCE
12 4 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (0.91%) Chartered Engineer
12 4 (0.91%) VCAP
13 3 (0.68%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (2.73%) SLA
2 8 (1.82%) NIST
3 3 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 3 (0.68%) GDPR
3 3 (0.68%) Government Security Classifications
3 3 (0.68%) ISO 9001
3 3 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 3 (0.68%) QA
4 2 (0.46%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.23%) COBIT
5 1 (0.23%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.23%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.23%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 154 (35.08%) Active Directory
2 144 (32.80%) VMware Infrastructure
3 51 (11.62%) Hyper-V
4 49 (11.16%) VMware ESXi
5 44 (10.02%) vSphere
6 24 (5.47%) VMware NSX
7 20 (4.56%) Virtual Machines
7 20 (4.56%) XenApp
8 12 (2.73%) Docker
9 6 (1.37%) Firmware
9 6 (1.37%) KVM
9 6 (1.37%) XenDesktop
10 5 (1.14%) Virtual Desktop
11 4 (0.91%) GPFS
11 4 (0.91%) NFS
11 4 (0.91%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.23%) Terminal Services
12 1 (0.23%) VMware Server
12 1 (0.23%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 62 (14.12%) SCCM
2 59 (13.44%) vCenter Server
3 28 (6.38%) WSUS
4 18 (4.10%) SCOM
5 17 (3.87%) Microsoft Intune
6 16 (3.64%) NetBackup
7 15 (3.42%) Terraform
8 14 (3.19%) EMC NetWorker
9 13 (2.96%) Kubernetes
10 9 (2.05%) Ansible
11 8 (1.82%) Single Sign-On
12 4 (0.91%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (0.91%) Nessus
12 4 (0.91%) Red Hat Satellite
12 4 (0.91%) Veritas Storage Foundation
12 4 (0.91%) VxRail
13 3 (0.68%) Microsoft Clustering
13 3 (0.68%) vRealize
13 3 (0.68%) ZABBIX
14 2 (0.46%) logstash
Vendors
1 191 (43.51%) VMware
2 128 (29.16%) Microsoft
3 49 (11.16%) Cisco
4 32 (7.29%) Citrix
4 32 (7.29%) Veeam
5 30 (6.83%) Dell
6 26 (5.92%) HP
7 22 (5.01%) Red Hat
8 21 (4.78%) Symantec
9 20 (4.56%) EMC
10 18 (4.10%) Brocade
10 18 (4.10%) Oracle
10 18 (4.10%) Palo Alto
11 16 (3.64%) 3PAR
11 16 (3.64%) IBM
12 15 (3.42%) Juniper
13 14 (3.19%) Extreme Networks
14 13 (2.96%) Ivanti
15 11 (2.51%) Atlassian
16 10 (2.28%) CA