Infrastructure Support Contracts in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Support
UK > UK excluding London

The median Infrastructure Support daily rate in the UK excluding London is £320 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 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
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 365 412 464
Rank change year-on-year +47 +52 -56
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Support 23 35 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.11% 0.15% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.16% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 25 28
10th Percentile £143 £136 £155
25th Percentile £205 £231 £222
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £320 £325 £288
Median % change year-on-year -1.54% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £340 £475 £350
90th Percentile £374 £588 £523
UK median daily rate £340 £400 £400
% change year-on-year -15.00% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £10.29
UK median hourly rate - - £10.29
% change year-on-year - - -47.23%

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 19,104 22,515 29,589
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.55% 94.27% 95.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,669 15,787 20,737
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £397 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £597 £600 £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 2,253 1,161 1,465
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.24
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.00 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.16 £19.52
Median % change year-on-year -5.11% +115.96% +2.74%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £43.50
90th Percentile £73.75 £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 Support
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Support in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Support
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Support in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Support
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Support in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Support in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Support
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Support in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Support
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 Support within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 6 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
Scotland +43 9 £340 +150.92% 8
South East +22 9 £275 -53.19% 13
Midlands +26 1 £320 -11.72%
North West +25 1 £160 -54.29% 1
North of England +20 1 £160 -32.63% 6
West Midlands +17 1 £320 -8.57%
South West +17 1 £300 -39.09% 3
Wales +16 1 £350 +7.69%
East of England +8 1 £250 -35.48% 1
Infrastructure Support
UK

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

For the 6 months to 6 May 2024, Infrastructure Support 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 Support in the job title.

1 19 (82.61%) Windows
1 19 (82.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 13 (56.52%) Microsoft
2 13 (56.52%) Security Cleared
3 11 (47.83%) SC Cleared
3 11 (47.83%) Windows Server
3 11 (47.83%) Active Directory
4 9 (39.13%) SCCM
4 9 (39.13%) Windows Server 2019
5 8 (34.78%) Social Skills
5 8 (34.78%) Windows 10
5 8 (34.78%) WSUS
6 7 (30.43%) VMware
6 7 (30.43%) Linux
6 7 (30.43%) Azure
6 7 (30.43%) Customer Service
7 6 (26.09%) Windows Server 2016
7 6 (26.09%) Windows 7
7 6 (26.09%) VMware Infrastructure
7 6 (26.09%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (26.09%) SQL Server
8 5 (21.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (21.74%) Network Management
9 4 (17.39%) Citrix
9 4 (17.39%) ITIL
9 4 (17.39%) Red Hat
10 3 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
10 3 (13.04%) SLA
10 3 (13.04%) Solaris
10 3 (13.04%) SQL

Infrastructure Support 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:

Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (30.43%) Azure
2 6 (26.09%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (8.70%) Entra ID
4 1 (4.35%) AWS
4 1 (4.35%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.04%) Firewall
1 3 (13.04%) Network Security
1 3 (13.04%) SAN
2 2 (8.70%) DHCP
2 2 (8.70%) DNS
3 1 (4.35%) NAS
3 1 (4.35%) VPN
3 1 (4.35%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (26.09%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.35%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (4.35%) MySQL
2 1 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
General
1 8 (34.78%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.70%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.35%) Banking
3 1 (4.35%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.04%) Clustering
2 1 (4.35%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.35%) Driving Licence
2 1 (4.35%) Fat Client
2 1 (4.35%) PKI
2 1 (4.35%) Public Cloud
2 1 (4.35%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 19 (82.61%) Windows
2 11 (47.83%) Windows Server
3 9 (39.13%) Windows Server 2019
4 8 (34.78%) Windows 10
5 7 (30.43%) Linux
6 6 (26.09%) Windows 7
6 6 (26.09%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (21.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (13.04%) Solaris
8 3 (13.04%) Windows Server 2008
8 3 (13.04%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (4.35%) Ubuntu
9 1 (4.35%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (82.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 7 (30.43%) Customer Service
3 5 (21.74%) Network Management
4 4 (17.39%) ITIL
5 3 (13.04%) Compliance Management
5 3 (13.04%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (13.04%) High Availability
5 3 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (8.70%) Business Continuity
6 2 (8.70%) Deployment Automation
6 2 (8.70%) Open Source
6 2 (8.70%) Patch Management
6 2 (8.70%) Server Management
7 1 (4.35%) BCP
7 1 (4.35%) Business Continuity Planning
7 1 (4.35%) Configuration Management
7 1 (4.35%) Converged Infrastructure
7 1 (4.35%) Incident Management
7 1 (4.35%) Mentoring
7 1 (4.35%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (13.04%) SQL
2 2 (8.70%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 13 (56.52%) Security Cleared
2 11 (47.83%) SC Cleared
3 3 (13.04%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (13.04%) RHCE
4 2 (8.70%) MCP
4 2 (8.70%) MCSE
5 1 (4.35%) CCNA
5 1 (4.35%) CCNP
5 1 (4.35%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (4.35%) Degree
5 1 (4.35%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.04%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (47.83%) Active Directory
2 6 (26.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (13.04%) KVM
4 2 (8.70%) Hyper-V
4 2 (8.70%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (8.70%) XenApp
4 2 (8.70%) XenDesktop
5 1 (4.35%) BitLocker
5 1 (4.35%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 9 (39.13%) SCCM
2 8 (34.78%) WSUS
3 2 (8.70%) vCenter Server
4 1 (4.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (4.35%) Ansible
4 1 (4.35%) EMC NetWorker
4 1 (4.35%) McAfee ePO
4 1 (4.35%) Nessus
4 1 (4.35%) NetBackup
4 1 (4.35%) Red Hat Satellite
4 1 (4.35%) SCOM
4 1 (4.35%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 13 (56.52%) Microsoft
2 7 (30.43%) VMware
3 4 (17.39%) Citrix
3 4 (17.39%) Red Hat
4 2 (8.70%) Oracle
4 2 (8.70%) Veeam
5 1 (4.35%) 3PAR
5 1 (4.35%) Cisco
5 1 (4.35%) Dell
5 1 (4.35%) EMC
5 1 (4.35%) Extreme Networks
5 1 (4.35%) HP
5 1 (4.35%) Juniper
5 1 (4.35%) McAfee
5 1 (4.35%) New Relic
5 1 (4.35%) PagerDuty
5 1 (4.35%) Palo Alto
5 1 (4.35%) Rackspace
5 1 (4.35%) Symantec