Infrastructure Consultant Contracts

Infrastructure Consultant
UK

The median Infrastructure Consultant daily rate in the UK is £543 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 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
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 558 662 795
Rank change year-on-year +104 +133 -176
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Consultant 28 54 60
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.064% 0.089% 0.067%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.069% 0.094% 0.070%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 44 48
10th Percentile £350 £387 £368
25th Percentile £419 £430 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £575 £563
Median % change year-on-year -5.65% +2.22% +33.14%
75th Percentile £644 £619 £613
90th Percentile £650 £700 £643
UK excluding London median daily rate £625 £525 £538
% change year-on-year +19.05% -2.33% +34.38%

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 40,501 57,364 85,821
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.55% 95.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,442 40,011 60,276
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £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 £748 £750 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £493 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,615 1,620 2,120
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.25 £19.33 £15.47
Median hourly rate £35.00 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +95.65% -
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.77 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -14.12% +117.95% +2.63%

Infrastructure Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Infrastructure Consultant in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Consultant in the UK

Infrastructure Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Consultant in the UK

Infrastructure Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Consultant over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Consultant in the UK

Infrastructure Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Consultant in the UK

Infrastructure Consultant
Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Consultant within the UK over the 6 months to 19 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 +78 22 £625 +19.05% 5
England +104 21 £506 -11.96% 6
Work from Home +111 12 £650 +20.93% 4
Scotland +45 7 £650 +43.65%
East of England - 7 £400 -
London +98 6 £500 -14.53% 1
North of England +42 5 £625 +47.06% 2
North West +27 5 £625 +47.06% 1
South East +11 2 £350 -33.33% 2
Midlands +33 1 £550 -12.00%
East Midlands - 1 £550 -

Infrastructure Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 19 April 2024, Infrastructure Consultant 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 Infrastructure Consultant in the job title.

1 14 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 13 (46.43%) Azure
3 9 (32.14%) VMware
3 9 (32.14%) Active Directory
4 7 (25.00%) SC Cleared
4 7 (25.00%) Security Cleared
5 5 (17.86%) Azure Data Factory
5 5 (17.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 4 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (10.71%) Software Engineering
7 3 (10.71%) Firewall
7 3 (10.71%) Wireless
7 3 (10.71%) Telecoms
7 3 (10.71%) 5G
7 3 (10.71%) Data Centre
7 3 (10.71%) 4G
8 2 (7.14%) ServiceNow
8 2 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (7.14%) Hyper-V
8 2 (7.14%) Microsoft
8 2 (7.14%) Citrix
8 2 (7.14%) Windows
8 2 (7.14%) WAN
8 2 (7.14%) Project Delivery
8 2 (7.14%) SD-WAN
8 2 (7.14%) Customer Experience
9 1 (3.57%) Cloud Security
9 1 (3.57%) Social Skills

Infrastructure Consultant 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 13 (46.43%) Azure
2 5 (17.86%) Azure Data Factory
3 4 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (3.57%) AWS
5 1 (3.57%) Entra ID
5 1 (3.57%) IaaS
5 1 (3.57%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.71%) 4G
1 3 (10.71%) 5G
1 3 (10.71%) Firewall
1 3 (10.71%) Wireless
2 2 (7.14%) SD-WAN
2 2 (7.14%) WAN
3 1 (3.57%) DNS
3 1 (3.57%) MPLS
3 1 (3.57%) PBX
3 1 (3.57%) SAN
3 1 (3.57%) VPLS
3 1 (3.57%) VPN
General
1 3 (10.71%) Telecoms
2 1 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (3.57%) Finance
2 1 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (3.57%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.71%) Data Centre
2 2 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.57%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.14%) Windows
2 1 (3.57%) Windows 10
2 1 (3.57%) Windows Server
2 1 (3.57%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (17.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (10.71%) Software Engineering
3 2 (7.14%) Customer Experience
3 2 (7.14%) Project Delivery
4 1 (3.57%) Cloud Security
4 1 (3.57%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (3.57%) Data Protection
4 1 (3.57%) Data Strategy
4 1 (3.57%) DevSecOps
4 1 (3.57%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (3.57%) Patch Management
4 1 (3.57%) Penetration Testing
4 1 (3.57%) Presales
4 1 (3.57%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (3.57%) Programme Management
4 1 (3.57%) Project Management
4 1 (3.57%) Server Management
4 1 (3.57%) Time Management
4 1 (3.57%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 7 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.57%) CCIE
2 1 (3.57%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 9 (32.14%) Active Directory
2 2 (7.14%) Hyper-V
3 1 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 9 (32.14%) VMware
2 2 (7.14%) Citrix
2 2 (7.14%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.14%) ServiceNow
3 1 (3.57%) Remedy