Infrastructure Engineer Contracts

Infrastructure Engineer
UK

The median Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in the UK is £463 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 14 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
14 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 156 188 221
Rank change year-on-year +32 +33 +12
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 664 827 1,171
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.56% 1.43% 1.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.68% 1.52% 1.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 500 614 880
10th Percentile £300 £338 £306
25th Percentile £375 £413 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% +11.05% +12.56%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £552
90th Percentile £650 £675 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -2.63% +5.56% +24.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 8 8
10th Percentile £20.99 £34.23 £17.09
25th Percentile £21.25 £53.13 £34.81
Median hourly rate £22.50 £61.62 £45.48
Median % change year-on-year -63.48% +35.48% +13.70%
75th Percentile £77.00 £65.00 £67.07
90th Percentile £77.20 £71.99 £68.02
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.50 £59.03 £65.50
% change year-on-year -61.88% -9.89% +120.17%

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 39,586 54,569 84,106
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.66% 95.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,744 38,105 59,089
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.01%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,669 1,523 2,070
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.45 £15.75
Median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -17.38% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.02 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Infrastructure Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Infrastructure Engineer
Top 16 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 6 months to 14 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 +22 583 £450 -10.00% 308
UK excluding London +23 437 £463 -2.63% 258
London +54 199 £450 -21.74% 66
South East +34 158 £450 - 63
Work from Home 0 148 £450 -10.00% 121
North of England -8 83 £425 -5.56% 41
South West -4 75 £525 - 55
Scotland +69 53 £475 +5.56% 18
North West +1 53 £425 -10.53% 26
Midlands -1 41 £400 -10.61% 55
West Midlands +15 33 £425 -5.56% 29
Yorkshire +8 26 £450 +7.46% 12
East of England -11 21 £625 +31.58% 28
Wales +6 7 £365 -32.09% 4
East Midlands -6 7 £338 -23.73% 26
North East +8 4 £438 +9.38% 5

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

For the 6 months to 14 May 2024, 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 featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 636 (95.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 299 (45.03%) Windows
3 257 (38.70%) VMware
4 246 (37.05%) Security Cleared
5 244 (36.75%) Active Directory
6 211 (31.78%) Azure
7 188 (28.31%) Microsoft
8 181 (27.26%) Windows Server
9 180 (27.11%) VMware Infrastructure
10 162 (24.40%) Linux
11 140 (21.08%) SC Cleared
12 129 (19.43%) Social Skills
13 127 (19.13%) DNS
14 123 (18.52%) Firewall
15 119 (17.92%) DV Cleared
16 115 (17.32%) PowerShell
17 103 (15.51%) AWS
18 102 (15.36%) Microsoft 365
19 99 (14.91%) Migration
20 98 (14.76%) DHCP
21 85 (12.80%) Public Sector
22 83 (12.50%) SCCM
23 81 (12.20%) SAN
24 77 (11.60%) Problem-Solving
25 70 (10.54%) Data Centre
26 69 (10.39%) DevOps
27 68 (10.24%) Hyper-V
28 65 (9.79%) ITIL
29 63 (9.49%) vCenter Server
30 62 (9.34%) Cisco

Infrastructure Engineer 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:

Application Platforms
1 59 (8.89%) Microsoft Exchange
2 32 (4.82%) SharePoint
3 12 (1.81%) Confluence
4 8 (1.20%) IIS
5 7 (1.05%) Apache
6 5 (0.75%) SharePoint Server
6 5 (0.75%) Tomcat
7 4 (0.60%) OpenStack
7 4 (0.60%) SAS
8 3 (0.45%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.45%) CMS
8 3 (0.45%) WordPress
9 2 (0.30%) WebLogic
Applications
1 14 (2.11%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.60%) AutoCAD
2 4 (0.60%) Revit
3 1 (0.15%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.15%) Eikon
2 1 (0.15%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.15%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 211 (31.78%) Azure
2 103 (15.51%) AWS
3 102 (15.36%) Microsoft 365
4 60 (9.04%) Entra ID
5 32 (4.82%) IaaS
6 20 (3.01%) SaaS
7 18 (2.71%) OCI
8 17 (2.56%) PaaS
9 16 (2.41%) GCP
10 14 (2.11%) Cloud Computing
11 13 (1.96%) Power Platform
12 11 (1.66%) Amazon S3
12 11 (1.66%) Azure DevOps
13 10 (1.51%) Amazon EC2
13 10 (1.51%) OneDrive
13 10 (1.51%) OpenShift
14 9 (1.36%) Mimecast
14 9 (1.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 7 (1.05%) Dynamics 365
16 6 (0.90%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 127 (19.13%) DNS
2 123 (18.52%) Firewall
3 98 (14.76%) DHCP
4 81 (12.20%) SAN
5 35 (5.27%) WAN
6 30 (4.52%) LAN
7 29 (4.37%) NAS
8 25 (3.77%) VPN
9 24 (3.61%) TCP/IP
10 22 (3.31%) Network Security
11 15 (2.26%) VSAN
12 13 (1.96%) iSCSI
12 13 (1.96%) Wi-Fi
13 12 (1.81%) Fibre Channel
13 12 (1.81%) MPLS
13 12 (1.81%) VLAN
13 12 (1.81%) Wireless
14 9 (1.36%) BGP
14 9 (1.36%) OSPF
15 8 (1.20%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (8.73%) SQL Server
2 11 (1.66%) Power BI
3 8 (1.20%) MySQL
4 7 (1.05%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (0.90%) DB2
6 5 (0.75%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (0.75%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (0.60%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (0.30%) Adabas
8 2 (0.30%) SAP HANA
8 2 (0.30%) Sisense
9 1 (0.15%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (0.15%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.15%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.15%) Redis
Development Applications
1 19 (2.86%) Git
2 17 (2.56%) JIRA
3 13 (1.96%) Jenkins
4 7 (1.05%) GitLab
5 5 (0.75%) Hudson
6 2 (0.30%) Artifactory
6 2 (0.30%) CA Gen
6 2 (0.30%) Robot Framework
6 2 (0.30%) Selenium
6 2 (0.30%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.15%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.15%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.15%) VisualWorks
General
1 129 (19.43%) Social Skills
2 85 (12.80%) Public Sector
3 55 (8.28%) Finance
4 36 (5.42%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (3.92%) Banking
6 21 (3.16%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (1.36%) Manufacturing
7 9 (1.36%) Organisational Skills
8 7 (1.05%) Telecoms
9 6 (0.90%) Legal
10 5 (0.75%) Military
11 4 (0.60%) Financial Institution
11 4 (0.60%) Front Office
11 4 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (0.60%) Investment Banking
11 4 (0.60%) Local Government
11 4 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.45%) French Language
12 3 (0.45%) Retail Banking
13 2 (0.30%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (3.16%) Flash
2 4 (0.60%) .NET
2 4 (0.60%) AWS CDK
2 4 (0.60%) JSON
2 4 (0.60%) POSIX
3 3 (0.45%) Jinja
3 3 (0.45%) LAMP
3 3 (0.45%) LDAP
3 3 (0.45%) NETCONF
3 3 (0.45%) Redfish
3 3 (0.45%) RESTful
3 3 (0.45%) XML
3 3 (0.45%) YAML
3 3 (0.45%) YANG
4 2 (0.30%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (0.30%) Middleware
4 2 (0.30%) Web Services
5 1 (0.15%) EDI
5 1 (0.15%) REST
5 1 (0.15%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 70 (10.54%) Data Centre
2 33 (4.97%) PKI
3 26 (3.92%) Replication
4 18 (2.71%) Clustering
4 18 (2.71%) Private Cloud
5 12 (1.81%) Driving Licence
5 12 (1.81%) Management Information System
6 9 (1.36%) Client/Server
7 8 (1.20%) Onboarding
7 8 (1.20%) Public Cloud
8 5 (0.75%) Linux Command Line
8 5 (0.75%) NHS
8 5 (0.75%) Video Conferencing
9 4 (0.60%) Fat Client
9 4 (0.60%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (0.60%) NVMe
9 4 (0.60%) Thin Client
10 3 (0.45%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 3 (0.45%) Security Posture
10 3 (0.45%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 299 (45.03%) Windows
2 181 (27.26%) Windows Server
3 162 (24.40%) Linux
4 60 (9.04%) Windows Server 2016
5 58 (8.73%) Windows Server 2019
6 53 (7.98%) Windows 10
7 44 (6.63%) Windows Server 2012
8 38 (5.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 38 (5.72%) Unix
9 14 (2.11%) Windows 7
9 14 (2.11%) Windows XP
10 13 (1.96%) Ubuntu
11 12 (1.81%) AIX
12 11 (1.66%) Mac OS
12 11 (1.66%) VMS
13 10 (1.51%) Windows Server 2008
14 7 (1.05%) CentOS
14 7 (1.05%) Windows Server 2003
15 6 (0.90%) Apple iOS
15 6 (0.90%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 636 (95.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 99 (14.91%) Migration
3 77 (11.60%) Problem-Solving
4 69 (10.39%) DevOps
5 65 (9.79%) ITIL
6 50 (7.53%) Agile
7 41 (6.17%) Cybersecurity
8 38 (5.72%) Disaster Recovery
8 38 (5.72%) Infrastructure as Code
9 30 (4.52%) Project Delivery
10 29 (4.37%) CI/CD
11 25 (3.77%) Storage Management
12 24 (3.61%) Change Management
12 24 (3.61%) Customer Service
13 23 (3.46%) Computer Science
14 22 (3.31%) Containerisation
14 22 (3.31%) Server Management
15 21 (3.16%) Virtual Environments
15 21 (3.16%) Virtual Infrastructure
16 20 (3.01%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 115 (17.32%) PowerShell
2 53 (7.98%) Python
3 37 (5.57%) SQL
4 16 (2.41%) Bash
4 16 (2.41%) Java
5 11 (1.66%) C#
6 10 (1.51%) Perl
6 10 (1.51%) VBScript
7 5 (0.75%) C
8 4 (0.60%) TypeScript
9 3 (0.45%) Go
9 3 (0.45%) PHP
9 3 (0.45%) Ruby
9 3 (0.45%) Shell Script
9 3 (0.45%) VB.NET
10 2 (0.30%) Bicep
10 2 (0.30%) C++
10 2 (0.30%) JavaScript
10 2 (0.30%) Natural
11 1 (0.15%) Smalltalk
Qualifications
1 246 (37.05%) Security Cleared
2 140 (21.08%) SC Cleared
3 119 (17.92%) DV Cleared
4 54 (8.13%) Degree
5 40 (6.02%) Cisco Certification
6 38 (5.72%) CCNA
7 29 (4.37%) Microsoft Certification
8 20 (3.01%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 19 (2.86%) CCNP
10 17 (2.56%) Azure Certification
11 15 (2.26%) MCSE
12 8 (1.20%) AWS Certification
12 8 (1.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 8 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
13 6 (0.90%) ITIL Certification
14 5 (0.75%) Master's Degree
15 4 (0.60%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 4 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
15 4 (0.60%) DBS Check
15 4 (0.60%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (1.66%) SLA
2 8 (1.20%) NIST
3 7 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (0.90%) QA
5 4 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (0.60%) GDPR
5 4 (0.60%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 3 (0.45%) Government Security Classifications
6 3 (0.45%) ISO 9001
6 3 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 3 (0.45%) NCSC
7 2 (0.30%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.15%) COBIT
8 1 (0.15%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.15%) NIST 800
System Software
1 244 (36.75%) Active Directory
2 180 (27.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 68 (10.24%) Hyper-V
4 56 (8.43%) vSphere
5 51 (7.68%) VMware ESXi
6 30 (4.52%) VMware NSX
7 24 (3.61%) Docker
8 23 (3.46%) XenApp
9 22 (3.31%) Virtual Machines
10 8 (1.20%) Firmware
11 7 (1.05%) XenDesktop
12 5 (0.75%) KVM
12 5 (0.75%) Virtual Desktop
13 4 (0.60%) GPFS
13 4 (0.60%) NFS
13 4 (0.60%) Virtual Servers
14 2 (0.30%) VMware Workstation
15 1 (0.15%) Terminal Services
15 1 (0.15%) vCloud
15 1 (0.15%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 83 (12.50%) SCCM
2 63 (9.49%) vCenter Server
3 45 (6.78%) Terraform
4 35 (5.27%) Kubernetes
5 34 (5.12%) Microsoft Intune
6 33 (4.97%) Ansible
7 31 (4.67%) WSUS
8 25 (3.77%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 21 (3.16%) SCOM
10 16 (2.41%) NetBackup
11 14 (2.11%) EMC NetWorker
12 11 (1.66%) Single Sign-On
13 6 (0.90%) Puppet
14 5 (0.75%) FortiGate
14 5 (0.75%) VxRail
15 4 (0.60%) Microsoft Clustering
15 4 (0.60%) Nessus
15 4 (0.60%) Red Hat Satellite
15 4 (0.60%) Veritas Storage Foundation
15 4 (0.60%) vRealize
Vendors
1 257 (38.70%) VMware
2 188 (28.31%) Microsoft
3 62 (9.34%) Cisco
4 52 (7.83%) Veeam
5 47 (7.08%) Citrix
6 35 (5.27%) Dell
7 34 (5.12%) HP
8 29 (4.37%) Red Hat
9 23 (3.46%) Palo Alto
10 22 (3.31%) Juniper
11 21 (3.16%) Oracle
11 21 (3.16%) Symantec
12 20 (3.01%) EMC
13 18 (2.71%) Brocade
13 18 (2.71%) IBM
14 16 (2.41%) 3PAR
14 16 (2.41%) CA
15 15 (2.26%) Ivanti
15 15 (2.26%) ServiceNow
16 14 (2.11%) Aruba
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