Converged Infrastructure Contracts

Converged Infrastructure
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Converged Infrastructure skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Converged Infrastructure over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 559 665 815
Rank change year-on-year +106 +150 -174
Contract jobs citing Converged Infrastructure 32 53 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.074% 0.090% 0.044%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.086% 0.100% 0.049%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 30 24
10th Percentile - £358 £289
25th Percentile £463 £385 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £390 £496
Median % change year-on-year +55.13% -21.41% +10.28%
75th Percentile £608 £432 £588
90th Percentile £611 £548 £618
UK excluding London median daily rate £605 £390 £385
% change year-on-year +55.13% +1.30% -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 9 5
10th Percentile - £48.22 -
25th Percentile - £48.40 £60.00
Median hourly rate £23.80 £54.56 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year -56.38% -13.40% -10.00%
75th Percentile - £87.50 £85.00
90th Percentile - £92.50 £86.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £54.56 £85.00
% change year-on-year - -35.81% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Converged Infrastructure is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,262 53,150 80,380
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.35% 89.86% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,013 36,862 56,431
10th Percentile £300 £325 £341
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,440 1,756 1,916
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.95 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.14% +44.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £64.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

Converged Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Converged Infrastructure as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Converged Infrastructure in the UK

Converged Infrastructure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Converged Infrastructure.

Daily rate trend for Converged Infrastructure in the UK

Converged Infrastructure
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Converged Infrastructure over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Converged Infrastructure in the UK

Converged Infrastructure
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Converged Infrastructure.

Hourly rate trend for Converged Infrastructure in the UK

Converged Infrastructure
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Converged Infrastructure within the UK over the 6 months to 4 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
England +92 32 £605 +55.13% 7
UK excluding London +52 29 £605 +55.13% 7
South East +19 17 £605 +53.75% 3
South West +30 12 £475 -9.52%
London +99 3 £485 -7.62%

Converged Infrastructure
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (6.25%) IIS
1 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (6.25%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 17 (53.13%) Azure
2 14 (43.75%) OCI
3 2 (6.25%) AWS
3 2 (6.25%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 2 (6.25%) Entra ID
3 2 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (6.25%) Mimecast
3 2 (6.25%) Nutanix
3 2 (6.25%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 18 (56.25%) Firewall
2 16 (50.00%) DNS
2 16 (50.00%) SAN
3 14 (43.75%) DHCP
4 11 (34.38%) VSAN
5 2 (6.25%) DKIM
5 2 (6.25%) DMARC
5 2 (6.25%) Extranet
5 2 (6.25%) Internet
5 2 (6.25%) LAN
5 2 (6.25%) NAS
5 2 (6.25%) VPN
5 2 (6.25%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (6.25%) Wireless
General
1 14 (43.75%) Social Skills
2 3 (9.38%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 15 (46.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 15 (46.88%) VMware Engineer
2 10 (31.25%) Storage Engineer
3 4 (12.50%) Architect
3 4 (12.50%) Server Engineer
3 4 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) PowerShell Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (9.38%) VMware Architect
5 2 (6.25%) IT Support
5 2 (6.25%) Support Officer
6 1 (3.13%) Azure Architect
6 1 (3.13%) Infrastructure Support
6 1 (3.13%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Migration Architect
6 1 (3.13%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.25%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 29 (90.63%) Data Centre
2 14 (43.75%) PKI
3 2 (6.25%) Fat Client
3 2 (6.25%) Thin Client
3 2 (6.25%) Virtual Team
4 1 (3.13%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 26 (81.25%) Linux
2 16 (50.00%) Windows
3 14 (43.75%) Windows 10
3 14 (43.75%) Windows Server
3 14 (43.75%) Windows Server 2012
3 14 (43.75%) Windows Server 2016
3 14 (43.75%) Windows Server 2019
3 14 (43.75%) Windows XP
4 2 (6.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 16 (50.00%) ITIL
1 16 (50.00%) Server Management
2 15 (46.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 14 (43.75%) Break/Fix
3 14 (43.75%) Performance Monitoring
3 14 (43.75%) Performance Tuning
3 14 (43.75%) Proactive Monitoring
3 14 (43.75%) Problem-Solving
3 14 (43.75%) Project Management
3 14 (43.75%) Storage Management
4 3 (9.38%) Agile
4 3 (9.38%) Computer Science
5 2 (6.25%) Application Packaging
5 2 (6.25%) Infrastructure Management
5 2 (6.25%) Kalman Filter
5 2 (6.25%) Mobile Device Management
5 2 (6.25%) Network Monitoring
5 2 (6.25%) Security Hardening
5 2 (6.25%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 16 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 29 (90.63%) Security Cleared
2 25 (78.13%) DV Cleared
3 16 (50.00%) SC Cleared
4 14 (43.75%) CCNA
4 14 (43.75%) CCNP
4 14 (43.75%) Cisco Certification
4 14 (43.75%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.25%) SLA
System Software
1 26 (81.25%) VMware ESXi
2 17 (53.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (50.00%) Active Directory
3 16 (50.00%) Hyper-V
4 12 (37.50%) vSphere
5 11 (34.38%) VMware NSX
6 2 (6.25%) BitLocker
6 2 (6.25%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 19 (59.38%) SCCM
1 19 (59.38%) SCOM
2 16 (50.00%) NetBackup
3 14 (43.75%) EMC NetWorker
3 14 (43.75%) vCenter Server
3 14 (43.75%) WSUS
4 4 (12.50%) VxRail
5 2 (6.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (6.25%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 31 (96.88%) VMware
2 19 (59.38%) Cisco
2 19 (59.38%) Microsoft
3 16 (50.00%) Dell
3 16 (50.00%) EMC
3 16 (50.00%) HP
3 16 (50.00%) Juniper
4 14 (43.75%) 3PAR
4 14 (43.75%) Extreme Networks
4 14 (43.75%) Oracle
4 14 (43.75%) Palo Alto
4 14 (43.75%) Symantec
4 14 (43.75%) Veeam
5 2 (6.25%) Dell Compellent
5 2 (6.25%) Equitrac
5 2 (6.25%) F5
5 2 (6.25%) MobileIron
5 2 (6.25%) Proofpoint
5 2 (6.25%) SolarWinds
5 2 (6.25%) Wyse