Infrastructure Engineer Contracts

The median contractor rate for an Infrastructure Engineer was £350 per day in advertised job vacancies during the 3 months to 25 June 2017.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Infrastructure Engineer UK
Location	3 months to 25 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	271	248	217
Rank change year-on-year	-23	-31
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer	379	541	617
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK	0.82%	1.02%	1.10%
As % of the Job Titles category	0.86%	1.07%	1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted	252	364	409
Median daily rate	£350	£350	£325
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	-	+7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£230	£230	£220
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£486	£475	£450
UK excluding London median daily rate	£330	£325	£310
% change year-on-year	+1.53%	+4.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted	10	11	30
Median hourly rate	£14.22	£23.00	£35.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	-38.19%	-34.28%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£13.03	£17.00	£21.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£39.80	£32.50	£44.82
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£14.22	£23.00	£35.00
% change year-on-year	-38.19%	-34.28%

The next table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all job roles in contract job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title. As such, the figures in the first row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract IT Job Roles UK
Contract job vacancies with a job title containing a recognized job role	43855	50329	53147
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK	94.75%	94.86%	94.84%
Number of daily rates quoted	28363	32827	33406
Median daily rate	£438	£425	£400
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+2.94%	+6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£275	£260	£245
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£600	£600	£568
UK excluding London median daily rate	£400	£400	£370
% change year-on-year	-	+8.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted	1353	1495	2037
Median hourly rate	£18.00	£17.50	£16.50
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+2.85%	+6.06%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£11.50	£11.00	£11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£47.50	£44.00	£40.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£17.50	£17.45	£16.00
% change year-on-year	+0.28%	+9.06%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

The job posting trend of jobs advertised that featured Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer.

Contractor daily rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer over the 3 months to 25 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer.

Contractor hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Histogram

The hourly rate distribution of IT jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer over the 3 months to 25 June 2017.

Contractor hourly rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Infrastructure Engineer
Top 30 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer within the UK over the 3 months to 25 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
England	-37	343	£350	+3.32%	143
London	-51	131	£375	-	49
South East	+15	73	£353	+9.30%	37
East of England	-17	33	£390	+25.80%	9
West Midlands	+16	26	£313	-5.30%	6
South West	-3	24	£330	+17.85%	13
East Midlands	0	23	£295	+7.27%	4
City of London	+1	20	£419	+8.06%	14
Norfolk	+20	19	£375	+100.00%
Norwich	+17	18	-	-
Hampshire	+13	17	£400	+14.28%	8
North West	+21	16	£313	-3.84%	13
Scotland	+25	15	£288	-31.54%	6
Wales	+2	14	£310	-24.84%	3
Surrey	-5	13	£353	+0.71%	5
Kent	+10	12	£338	-22.23%	4
South Wales	+2	12	£305	-26.06%	1
Berkshire	-15	11	£315	+14.54%	11
Birmingham	+11	10	£350	+6.06%	2
North East	+59	9	£411	+28.35%	2
Yorkshire	-15	9	£350	+7.69%	10
Manchester	+11	8	£256	-21.15%	9
Bristol	-4	8	£295	-20.53%	4
Leicestershire	-6	8	£225	-10.00%
Dover	-	8	-	-
West Sussex	+22	7	£410	+4.59%	1
Dorset	+12	7	£325	+16.07%
Cardiff	+5	7	£310	-	1
Buckinghamshire	-10	7	£375	+36.36%	4
Staffordshire	+6	6	£220	-

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 June 2017, Infrastructure Engineer contract jobs required the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1	483 (64.75%)	Windows
2	404 (54.16%)	VMware
3	364 (48.79%)	Active Directory
4	307 (41.15%)	Windows Server
5	252 (33.78%)	Microsoft
6	208 (27.88%)	VMware Infrastructure
7	184 (24.66%)	Windows Server 2012
8	176 (23.59%)	Linux
9	153 (20.51%)	Cisco
10	143 (19.17%)	Windows Server 2008
11	140 (18.77%)	PowerShell
12	135 (18.10%)	DNS
13	131 (17.56%)	Firewall
14	129 (17.29%)	MS Exchange
15	128 (17.16%)	Office 365

16	126 (16.89%)	ITIL
17	114 (15.28%)	SAN
18	111 (14.88%)	Hyper-V
19	108 (14.48%)	SCCM
20	107 (14.34%)	Citrix
21	104 (13.94%)	Microsoft Azure
22	103 (13.81%)	Data Centre
23	102 (13.67%)	LAN
24	92 (12.33%)	WAN
25	87 (11.66%)	SQL
26	81 (10.86%)	SQL Server
26	81 (10.86%)	DHCP
26	81 (10.86%)	Finance
27	80 (10.72%)	Migration
27	80 (10.72%)	HP

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring IT Skills by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	129 (17.29%)	MS Exchange
2	71 (9.52%)	Exchange Server 2010
3	47 (6.30%)	Exchange Server 2013
4	44 (5.90%)	SharePoint
4	44 (5.90%)	Skype for Business
5	30 (4.02%)	IIS
6	18 (2.41%)	Apache
6	18 (2.41%)	Apache Spark
7	17 (2.28%)	WebSphere
8	12 (1.61%)	Tomcat
8	12 (1.61%)	WebLogic
9	11 (1.47%)	OpenStack
10	9 (1.21%)	Exchange Server 2007
11	8 (1.07%)	JBoss
12	6 (0.80%)	Confluence
12	6 (0.80%)	Elasticsearch
12	6 (0.80%)	WebSphere Application Server
13	4 (0.54%)	nginx
14	3 (0.40%)	SharePoint 2010
14	3 (0.40%)	SharePoint 2013

Applications
1	43 (5.76%)	Microsoft Office
2	13 (1.74%)	Microsoft Excel
3	2 (0.27%)	MS Visio
3	2 (0.27%)	Spreadsheet
4	1 (0.13%)	Acrobat
4	1 (0.13%)	HipChat
4	1 (0.13%)	Microsoft PowerPoint

Business Applications
1	6 (0.80%)	Dynamics CRM
1	6 (0.80%)	SAP Oil and Gas
2	1 (0.13%)	Dynamics AX
2	1 (0.13%)	SAP Business One

Cloud Services
1	128 (17.16%)	Office 365
2	104 (13.94%)	Microsoft Azure
3	68 (9.12%)	Amazon AWS
4	24 (3.22%)	IaaS
5	17 (2.28%)	SaaS
6	12 (1.61%)	AWS CloudFormation
6	12 (1.61%)	Cloud Computing
7	10 (1.34%)	Azure Active Directory
8	9 (1.21%)	PaaS
9	6 (0.80%)	Amazon EC2
10	5 (0.67%)	OneDrive
11	4 (0.54%)	Mimecast
11	4 (0.54%)	Virtual Private Cloud
12	3 (0.40%)	Amazon S3
12	3 (0.40%)	GitHub
13	2 (0.27%)	Amazon ELB
13	2 (0.27%)	Google Cloud Platform
13	2 (0.27%)	Mailgun
13	2 (0.27%)	Route 53
13	2 (0.27%)	Yammer

Communications & Networking
1	135 (18.10%)	DNS
2	131 (17.56%)	Firewall
3	114 (15.28%)	SAN
4	102 (13.67%)	LAN
5	92 (12.33%)	WAN
6	81 (10.86%)	DHCP
7	58 (7.77%)	TCP/IP
8	53 (7.10%)	VPN
9	34 (4.56%)	Cisco ASA
10	27 (3.62%)	Wireless
11	26 (3.49%)	Cisco Nexus
11	26 (3.49%)	NAS
12	25 (3.35%)	Internet
13	24 (3.22%)	SSL
14	23 (3.08%)	Skype
15	22 (2.95%)	Kerberos
15	22 (2.95%)	MPLS
15	22 (2.95%)	Wi-Fi
16	21 (2.82%)	Network Security
16	21 (2.82%)	VoIP

Database & Business Intelligence
1	81 (10.86%)	SQL Server
2	26 (3.49%)	Hadoop
3	18 (2.41%)	Apache Hive
3	18 (2.41%)	Impala
4	17 (2.28%)	SQL Server 2012
5	16 (2.14%)	SQL Server 2008
6	12 (1.61%)	MySQL
7	10 (1.34%)	Big Data
7	10 (1.34%)	PostgreSQL
8	9 (1.21%)	MongoDB
9	8 (1.07%)	Oracle Database
10	6 (0.80%)	Relational Database
10	6 (0.80%)	SQL Server 2005
11	5 (0.67%)	Apache Cassandra
11	5 (0.67%)	DB2
12	4 (0.54%)	NoSQL
12	4 (0.54%)	Redis
13	3 (0.40%)	Amazon RDS
13	3 (0.40%)	Data Warehouse
13	3 (0.40%)	SQL Server 2016

Development Applications
1	15 (2.01%)	Git (software)
2	8 (1.07%)	Jenkins
3	7 (0.94%)	JIRA
4	6 (0.80%)	Vagrant
5	3 (0.40%)	Team Foundation Server
6	2 (0.27%)	Burp Suite
6	2 (0.27%)	GoCD
6	2 (0.27%)	Sonatype Nexus
6	2 (0.27%)	Subversion
6	2 (0.27%)	TeamCity
6	2 (0.27%)	Visual Studio
7	1 (0.13%)	CruiseControl
7	1 (0.13%)	Gerrit
7	1 (0.13%)	GitLab
7	1 (0.13%)	JUnit
7	1 (0.13%)	Mercurial
7	1 (0.13%)	MSI
7	1 (0.13%)	TestDirector
7	1 (0.13%)	Visual Studio Team System
7	1 (0.13%)	Wise Package Studio

General
1	81 (10.86%)	Finance
2	29 (3.89%)	Banking
3	25 (3.35%)	Retail
4	19 (2.55%)	Telecoms
5	18 (2.41%)	Manufacturing
6	9 (1.21%)	Advertising
6	9 (1.21%)	Law
7	7 (0.94%)	Electronics
7	7 (0.94%)	Marketing
8	5 (0.67%)	Legal
9	4 (0.54%)	Investment Banking
10	3 (0.40%)	Games
11	2 (0.27%)	Back Office
11	2 (0.27%)	Billing
11	2 (0.27%)	Financial Institution
11	2 (0.27%)	French Language
11	2 (0.27%)	Publishing
12	1 (0.13%)	German Language
12	1 (0.13%)	Music Industry
12	1 (0.13%)	Retail Banking

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	20 (2.68%)	Web Services
2	17 (2.28%)	.NET
3	14 (1.88%)	Middleware
4	6 (0.80%)	LAMP
5	4 (0.54%)	Elastic Stack
5	4 (0.54%)	SailPoint
5	4 (0.54%)	WAP
6	3 (0.40%)	ASP.NET
6	3 (0.40%)	J2EE
6	3 (0.40%)	LAPP Stack
6	3 (0.40%)	REST
7	2 (0.27%)	ADO
7	2 (0.27%)	Classic ASP
7	2 (0.27%)	JMS
7	2 (0.27%)	Kafka
7	2 (0.27%)	LEMP Stack
7	2 (0.27%)	RabbitMQ
7	2 (0.27%)	SAML
7	2 (0.27%)	SAP Basis
8	1 (0.13%)	Node.js

Miscellaneous
1	103 (13.81%)	Data Centre
2	33 (4.42%)	Analytical Skills
3	25 (3.35%)	Clustering
4	19 (2.55%)	PKI
5	17 (2.28%)	Management Information System
5	17 (2.28%)	Replication
6	11 (1.47%)	Video Conferencing
7	10 (1.34%)	Computer Science
8	8 (1.07%)	Fat Client
8	8 (1.07%)	Thin Client
9	7 (0.94%)	Blackberry
9	7 (0.94%)	Driving Licence
9	7 (0.94%)	EMC VNX
9	7 (0.94%)	Enterprise Software
9	7 (0.94%)	VxBlock/Vblock
10	6 (0.80%)	NHS
10	6 (0.80%)	Private Cloud
11	5 (0.67%)	Public Cloud
12	4 (0.54%)	Client/Server
12	4 (0.54%)	HP Storage

Operating Systems
1	483 (64.75%)	Windows
2	307 (41.15%)	Windows Server
3	184 (24.66%)	Windows Server 2012
4	176 (23.59%)	Linux
5	143 (19.17%)	Windows Server 2008
6	70 (9.38%)	Windows 7
7	63 (8.45%)	Unix
7	63 (8.45%)	Windows 10
8	60 (8.04%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8	60 (8.04%)	Windows Server 2003
9	23 (3.08%)	Windows 8
10	21 (2.82%)	AIX
11	16 (2.14%)	CentOS
11	16 (2.14%)	Solaris
11	16 (2.14%)	Ubuntu
12	13 (1.74%)	Oracle Linux
12	13 (1.74%)	SUSE
12	13 (1.74%)	SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13	11 (1.47%)	Android
13	11 (1.47%)	Windows XP

Processes & Methodologies
1	126 (16.89%)	ITIL
2	80 (10.72%)	Migration
3	43 (5.76%)	DevOps
4	41 (5.50%)	Disaster Recovery
5	39 (5.23%)	Agile Software Development
6	37 (4.96%)	Configuration Management
6	37 (4.96%)	Service Management
7	31 (4.16%)	ITIL V3
8	25 (3.35%)	Load Balancing
9	23 (3.08%)	Change Management
9	23 (3.08%)	ITSM
9	23 (3.08%)	Patch Management
10	22 (2.95%)	High Availability
11	20 (2.68%)	Mobile Device Management
12	19 (2.55%)	Project Management
12	19 (2.55%)	Scrum
12	19 (2.55%)	Service Design
13	17 (2.28%)	Asset Management
13	17 (2.28%)	Capacity Planning
13	17 (2.28%)	Network Management

Programming Languages
1	140 (18.77%)	PowerShell
2	87 (11.66%)	SQL
3	36 (4.83%)	Python
4	33 (4.42%)	Bash Shell
5	30 (4.02%)	Perl
6	18 (2.41%)	R
7	16 (2.14%)	C
7	16 (2.14%)	Java
8	14 (1.88%)	VBScript
9	13 (1.74%)	C#
10	11 (1.47%)	VB
11	6 (0.80%)	Ruby
12	5 (0.67%)	Korn
13	4 (0.54%)	JavaScript
13	4 (0.54%)	PHP
14	3 (0.40%)	C++
14	3 (0.40%)	Shell Script
14	3 (0.40%)	T-SQL
15	1 (0.13%)	PL/SQL
15	1 (0.13%)	REXX

Qualifications
1	80 (10.72%)	Microsoft Certification
2	71 (9.52%)	Security Cleared
3	62 (8.31%)	MCSE
4	57 (7.64%)	Cisco Certification
5	56 (7.51%)	SC Cleared
6	40 (5.36%)	VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7	34 (4.56%)	CCNA
8	25 (3.35%)	MCP
9	24 (3.22%)	CCNP
9	24 (3.22%)	Degree
10	15 (2.01%)	MCSA
11	13 (1.74%)	MCITP
12	11 (1.47%)	DV Cleared
12	11 (1.47%)	ITIL Certification
13	9 (1.21%)	MCTS
14	7 (0.94%)	VCP6
15	6 (0.80%)	CISSP
16	5 (0.67%)	Citrix Certification
17	4 (0.54%)	CCIE
17	4 (0.54%)	GIAC

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	21 (2.82%)	SLA
2	13 (1.74%)	ISO/IEC 27001
3	9 (1.21%)	PCI DSS
4	8 (1.07%)	ISO/IEC 15288
5	7 (0.94%)	QA
6	4 (0.54%)	Disclosure Scotland
7	2 (0.27%)	Cyber Essentials
8	1 (0.13%)	Cyber Essentials PLUS
8	1 (0.13%)	HIPAA
8	1 (0.13%)	PMO
8	1 (0.13%)	RMADS
8	1 (0.13%)	Sarbanes-Oxley

System Software
1	364 (48.79%)	Active Directory
2	208 (27.88%)	VMware Infrastructure
3	111 (14.88%)	Hyper-V
4	55 (7.37%)	vSphere
5	47 (6.30%)	Virtual Machines
6	46 (6.17%)	VMware ESXi
7	43 (5.76%)	XenApp
8	21 (2.82%)	XenDesktop
9	15 (2.01%)	VMware Server
10	11 (1.47%)	Docker
10	11 (1.47%)	Virtual Servers
11	9 (1.21%)	DFS Replication
11	9 (1.21%)	vCloud
12	8 (1.07%)	BitLocker
13	6 (0.80%)	Firmware
13	6 (0.80%)	KVM
13	6 (0.80%)	Terminal Services
13	6 (0.80%)	Virtual Desktop
14	5 (0.67%)	Microsoft App-V
15	4 (0.54%)	Oracle RAC

Systems Management
1	108 (14.48%)	SCCM
2	37 (4.96%)	SCOM
3	36 (4.83%)	Ansible
3	36 (4.83%)	Puppet
4	27 (3.62%)	WSUS
5	23 (3.08%)	Backup Exec
6	21 (2.82%)	vCenter Server
7	18 (2.41%)	Norton AntiVirus
7	18 (2.41%)	Opscode Chef
8	17 (2.28%)	NetBackup
9	14 (1.88%)	Symantec Endpoint Protection
9	14 (1.88%)	Terraform
10	13 (1.74%)	Microsoft Clustering
11	10 (1.34%)	McAfee ePO
11	10 (1.34%)	Symantec Enterprise Vault
12	9 (1.21%)	AirWatch
12	9 (1.21%)	Tivoli Storage Manager
13	8 (1.07%)	Failover Clustering
13	8 (1.07%)	SCVMM
14	7 (0.94%)	PowerCLI

Vendors
1	404 (54.16%)	VMware
2	252 (33.78%)	Microsoft
3	153 (20.51%)	Cisco
4	107 (14.34%)	Citrix
5	80 (10.72%)	HP
6	59 (7.91%)	Red Hat
7	47 (6.30%)	NetApp
7	47 (6.30%)	Symantec
8	43 (5.76%)	Veeam
9	37 (4.96%)	EMC
9	37 (4.96%)	Oracle
10	36 (4.83%)	IBM
11	33 (4.42%)	Dell
12	26 (3.49%)	CheckPoint
13	24 (3.22%)	SolarWinds
14	23 (3.08%)	Sophos
15	21 (2.82%)	Cloudera
16	19 (2.55%)	McAfee
17	18 (2.41%)	Juniper
18	15 (2.01%)	F5