3rd Line Infrastructure Support Contracts

Third Line Infrastructure Support
UK

The median Third Line Infrastructure Support daily rate in the UK is £335 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 582 699 816
Rank change year-on-year +117 +117 -154
Contract jobs requiring a 3rd Line Infrastructure Support 4 23 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.009% 0.038% 0.017%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.010% 0.041% 0.018%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 17 7
10th Percentile £258 £313 £276
25th Percentile £269 £363 £318
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £335 £400 £390
Median % change year-on-year -16.25% +2.56% +20.00%
75th Percentile £374 £450 £400
90th Percentile £382 £520 £415
UK excluding London median daily rate £335 £375 £290
% change year-on-year -10.67% +29.31% -10.08%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 40,482 56,783 84,604
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.58% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,407 39,621 59,331
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,642 1,607 2,111
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.28 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.45 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.68 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.71% +95.65% +1.41%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.60 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.63%

3rd Line Infrastructure Support
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured 3rd Line Infrastructure Support in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for 3rd Line Infrastructure Support in the UK

3rd Line Infrastructure Support
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing 3rd Line Infrastructure Support.

Daily rate trend for 3rd Line Infrastructure Support in the UK

3rd Line Infrastructure Support
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing 3rd Line Infrastructure Support.

Hourly rate trend for 3rd Line Infrastructure Support in the UK

3rd Line Infrastructure Support
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing 3rd Line Infrastructure Support within the UK over the 6 months to 25 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
UK excluding London +61 4 £335 -10.67% 8
England +103 3 £300 -25.00% 5
South West +19 1 £300 -41.46% 1
South East +11 1 £375 - 3
Scotland - 1 £370 - 3
East of England - 1 £250 -

3rd Line Infrastructure Support Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, 3rd Line 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 featuring 3rd Line Infrastructure Support in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 3 (75.00%) WSUS
2 3 (75.00%) VMware
3 2 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (50.00%) Business Continuity
3 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (50.00%) SAN
3 2 (50.00%) Patch Management
3 2 (50.00%) Azure
3 2 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Antivirus Management
4 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (25.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (25.00%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (25.00%) vCenter Server
4 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (25.00%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (25.00%) Business Continuity Planning
4 1 (25.00%) Ansible
4 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (25.00%) Public Cloud
4 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (25.00%) Network Management

3rd Line Infrastructure Support Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) SAN
2 1 (25.00%) DHCP
2 1 (25.00%) DNS
2 1 (25.00%) NAS
2 1 (25.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (25.00%) MySQL
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Fat Client
1 1 (25.00%) PKI
1 1 (25.00%) Public Cloud
1 1 (25.00%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (25.00%) Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Ubuntu
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Business Continuity
1 2 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (50.00%) Patch Management
2 1 (25.00%) Antivirus Management
2 1 (25.00%) BCP
2 1 (25.00%) Business Continuity Planning
2 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL
2 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (25.00%) Network Management
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (25.00%) Hyper-V
3 1 (25.00%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) WSUS
2 1 (25.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (25.00%) Ansible
2 1 (25.00%) Nessus
2 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Satellite
2 1 (25.00%) SCCM
2 1 (25.00%) vCenter Server
2 1 (25.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (75.00%) VMware
3 1 (25.00%) Oracle
3 1 (25.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (25.00%) Veeam