Lead Infrastructure Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Lead Infrastructure Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Lead Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £438 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 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
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 378 447 484
Rank change year-on-year +69 +37 -66
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Infrastructure Engineer 8 9 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.039% 0.038% 0.069%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.042% 0.041% 0.072%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 9 15
10th Percentile - - £413
25th Percentile £375 £239 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £600 £500
Median % change year-on-year -27.08% +20.00% +37.93%
75th Percentile £547 £650 £625
90th Percentile £628 £713 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -16.67% - +65.52%

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 18,847 22,167 29,345
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.49% 94.31% 95.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,464 15,534 20,562
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £399 £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 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,241 1,145 1,448
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.24
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.03 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £19.52
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +117.73% +2.74%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £42.57
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Lead Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London

Lead Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Lead Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London

Lead Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Lead Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London

Lead Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Lead Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London

Lead 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 Lead Infrastructure Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 7 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
North of England +29 5 £400 -8.57% 2
North West +26 4 £400 -8.57% 2
South West +15 2 £538 +121.65% 10
East of England +3 1 £700 +9.80% 1
Yorkshire - 1 £475 -
Lead Infrastructure Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 7 May 2024, Lead 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 Lead Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (62.50%) AWS
2 5 (62.50%) PowerShell
3 4 (50.00%) Linux
3 4 (50.00%) Sophos
3 4 (50.00%) Azure
3 4 (50.00%) Hudson
3 4 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (50.00%) Mimecast
3 4 (50.00%) Power BI
3 4 (50.00%) Power Platform
4 3 (37.50%) GCP
4 3 (37.50%) Apple iOS
4 3 (37.50%) Open Source
4 3 (37.50%) DV Cleared
4 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
4 3 (37.50%) Mac OS
5 2 (25.00%) Python
5 2 (25.00%) Bash
5 2 (25.00%) Task Automation
6 1 (12.50%) NIST 800
6 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
6 1 (12.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
6 1 (12.50%) Data Centre
6 1 (12.50%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (12.50%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 1 (12.50%) Security Operations
6 1 (12.50%) Security Operations Centre

Lead 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 1 (12.50%) Apache
1 1 (12.50%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) AWS
2 4 (50.00%) Azure
2 4 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (50.00%) Mimecast
2 4 (50.00%) Power Platform
3 3 (37.50%) GCP
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon S3
4 1 (12.50%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (12.50%) OpenShift
4 1 (12.50%) Snowflake
4 1 (12.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) IPv4
1 1 (12.50%) OSPF
1 1 (12.50%) VLAN
1 1 (12.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) Power BI
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (12.50%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Hudson
2 1 (12.50%) Git
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Cyber Defence
1 1 (12.50%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 1 (12.50%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (12.50%) Data Centre
1 1 (12.50%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) Linux
2 3 (37.50%) Apple iOS
2 3 (37.50%) Mac OS
3 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (37.50%) Open Source
3 2 (25.00%) Task Automation
4 1 (12.50%) Case Management
4 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
4 1 (12.50%) Containerisation
4 1 (12.50%) Cost Optimisation
4 1 (12.50%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (12.50%) Incident Response
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Management
4 1 (12.50%) Mentoring
4 1 (12.50%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 1 (12.50%) Protective Monitoring
4 1 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (12.50%) Security Operations
4 1 (12.50%) SIEM
4 1 (12.50%) SOAR
4 1 (12.50%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) PowerShell
2 2 (25.00%) Bash
2 2 (25.00%) Python
3 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) DV Cleared
1 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) NIST
1 1 (12.50%) NIST 800
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (12.50%) Ansible
2 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 1 (12.50%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Sophos
2 1 (12.50%) Informatica
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) VMware