Infrastructure Engineering Contracts

Infrastructure Engineering
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Infrastructure Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Infrastructure Engineering over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 93 121 157
Rank change year-on-year +28 +36 +5
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 1,025 1,261 1,639
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.37% 2.11% 1.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.74% 2.34% 2.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 754 944 1,210
10th Percentile £300 £333 £307
25th Percentile £375 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% +11.76%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £575
90th Percentile £725 £700 £669
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £450
% change year-on-year - +5.56% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 20 13
10th Percentile £21.25 £42.61 £21.00
25th Percentile £38.22 £52.56 £27.36
Median hourly rate £46.18 £61.62 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.05% +23.23% +25.00%
75th Percentile £63.44 £78.00 £66.75
90th Percentile £72.98 £79.52 £68.02
UK excluding London median hourly rate £46.18 £57.50 £60.48
% change year-on-year -19.69% -4.92% +61.27%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Infrastructure Engineering 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 37,374 53,774 80,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.91% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,095 37,304 56,474
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
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% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,763 1,928
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +80.00% -8.17%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineering in the UK

Infrastructure Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Engineering in the UK

Infrastructure Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in the UK

Infrastructure Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Engineering in the UK

Infrastructure Engineering
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in the UK

Infrastructure Engineering
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 Engineering within the UK over the 6 months to 27 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
England +27 881 £475 -5.94% 478
UK excluding London +20 624 £475 - 383
London +47 322 £525 -4.98% 122
Work from Home -14 229 £465 -11.43% 230
South East +28 215 £456 +0.27% 93
South West +17 126 £500 -9.09% 71
North of England -4 117 £425 -10.53% 85
North West -5 78 £425 -10.53% 49
Scotland +59 66 £475 -10.68% 23
Midlands -20 52 £413 -8.33% 68
West Midlands +11 44 £425 -5.56% 42
East of England -14 39 £525 +16.67% 39
Yorkshire -8 34 £380 -10.59% 26
Wales +6 10 £600 +9.09% 8
East Midlands -14 7 £338 -23.30% 26
North East +12 5 £438 -14.63% 13

Infrastructure Engineering
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 85 (8.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 49 (4.78%) SharePoint
3 25 (2.44%) Confluence
4 13 (1.27%) IIS
5 10 (0.98%) Apache
5 10 (0.98%) SharePoint Server
6 8 (0.78%) Tomcat
7 6 (0.59%) SharePoint 2010
8 4 (0.39%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.29%) CMS
9 3 (0.29%) WordPress
10 2 (0.20%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.098%) Exchange Server 2007
11 1 (0.098%) Exchange Server 2010
11 1 (0.098%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 14 (1.37%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (1.07%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.68%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.39%) AutoCAD
4 4 (0.39%) Revit
5 2 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.098%) Dynamics NAV
1 1 (0.098%) Eikon
1 1 (0.098%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.098%) Shopify
1 1 (0.098%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 316 (30.83%) Azure
2 168 (16.39%) AWS
3 157 (15.32%) Microsoft 365
4 98 (9.56%) Entra ID
5 44 (4.29%) IaaS
6 32 (3.12%) Azure DevOps
7 29 (2.83%) Power Platform
8 28 (2.73%) PaaS
9 25 (2.44%) Cloud Computing
9 25 (2.44%) SaaS
10 23 (2.24%) GCP
11 20 (1.95%) Mimecast
12 17 (1.66%) OCI
13 16 (1.56%) Serverless
14 15 (1.46%) OpenShift
15 14 (1.37%) AWS Lambda
16 13 (1.27%) AWS CloudFormation
16 13 (1.27%) OneDrive
17 12 (1.17%) Amazon EKS
17 12 (1.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 185 (18.05%) Firewall
2 159 (15.51%) DNS
3 110 (10.73%) DHCP
4 96 (9.37%) SAN
5 71 (6.93%) WAN
6 61 (5.95%) LAN
7 49 (4.78%) VPN
8 41 (4.00%) Wireless
9 40 (3.90%) NAS
9 40 (3.90%) Network Security
10 34 (3.32%) OSPF
11 32 (3.12%) TCP/IP
12 26 (2.54%) VSAN
13 24 (2.34%) BGP
14 20 (1.95%) Software-Defined Radio
15 18 (1.76%) VLAN
16 17 (1.66%) MPLS
16 17 (1.66%) SNMP
16 17 (1.66%) Wi-Fi
17 15 (1.46%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (7.02%) SQL Server
2 20 (1.95%) Power BI
3 9 (0.88%) MongoDB
4 7 (0.68%) Elasticsearch
4 7 (0.68%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (0.68%) Sybase ASE
5 6 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (0.59%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (0.59%) Metadata
5 6 (0.59%) Microsoft Power View
5 6 (0.59%) MySQL
5 6 (0.59%) PowerPivot
5 6 (0.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 3 (0.29%) Big Data
6 3 (0.29%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.20%) Adabas
7 2 (0.20%) Sisense
8 1 (0.098%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (0.098%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.098%) Redis
Development Applications
1 51 (4.98%) Git
2 41 (4.00%) Jenkins
3 31 (3.02%) JIRA
4 22 (2.15%) GitLab
5 16 (1.56%) Bitbucket
6 15 (1.46%) Robot Framework
7 14 (1.37%) Eclipse
8 13 (1.27%) GoogleTest
9 8 (0.78%) Maven
10 7 (0.68%) Hudson
11 6 (0.59%) Gradle
11 6 (0.59%) Postman
11 6 (0.59%) SoapUI
12 5 (0.49%) Sonatype Nexus
13 4 (0.39%) TeamCity
14 3 (0.29%) Selenium
15 2 (0.20%) Artifactory
15 2 (0.20%) CA Gen
15 2 (0.20%) Visual Studio Code
16 1 (0.098%) SonarQube
General
1 181 (17.66%) Social Skills
2 139 (13.56%) Public Sector
3 69 (6.73%) Finance
4 63 (6.15%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (2.54%) Documentation Skills
6 24 (2.34%) Banking
7 16 (1.56%) Telecoms
8 10 (0.98%) Manufacturing
9 9 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
10 8 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
11 7 (0.68%) Legal
12 6 (0.59%) Publishing
13 5 (0.49%) Aerospace
13 5 (0.49%) French Language
13 5 (0.49%) German Language
13 5 (0.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 5 (0.49%) Mandarin Language
13 5 (0.49%) Retail
14 4 (0.39%) Local Government
14 4 (0.39%) Military
Job Titles
1 670 (65.37%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 95 (9.27%) Senior
3 74 (7.22%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 67 (6.54%) Network Engineer
5 57 (5.56%) Cloud Engineer
6 49 (4.78%) Azure Engineer
7 45 (4.39%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 44 (4.29%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
9 38 (3.71%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
10 35 (3.41%) Support Engineer
11 33 (3.22%) VMware Engineer
12 32 (3.12%) AWS Engineer
13 31 (3.02%) DevOps Engineer
14 30 (2.93%) Architect
15 29 (2.83%) Windows Engineer
16 28 (2.73%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
16 28 (2.73%) Storage Engineer
17 27 (2.63%) 3rd Line Engineer
17 27 (2.63%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
18 26 (2.54%) Infrastructure Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (1.95%) CSS
1 20 (1.95%) HTML
2 19 (1.85%) Flash
3 18 (1.76%) OAuth
3 18 (1.76%) SAML
4 17 (1.66%) OpenID
5 13 (1.27%) Kafka
6 10 (0.98%) RabbitMQ
7 9 (0.88%) .NET
7 9 (0.88%) RESTful
8 8 (0.78%) YAML
9 6 (0.59%) SOAP
9 6 (0.59%) Software Packaging
10 4 (0.39%) AWS CDK
10 4 (0.39%) JSON
10 4 (0.39%) XML
11 3 (0.29%) NETCONF
11 3 (0.29%) PySpark
11 3 (0.29%) Redfish
11 3 (0.29%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 95 (9.27%) Data Centre
2 46 (4.49%) PKI
3 31 (3.02%) Replication
4 27 (2.63%) Management Information System
5 25 (2.44%) Private Cloud
6 22 (2.15%) Clustering
7 20 (1.95%) NHS
8 13 (1.27%) Driving Licence
9 11 (1.07%) Onboarding
10 10 (0.98%) Distributed Systems
10 10 (0.98%) Public Cloud
10 10 (0.98%) Video Conferencing
11 9 (0.88%) Linux Command Line
12 7 (0.68%) Data Protection Act
12 7 (0.68%) Fat Client
12 7 (0.68%) Self-Motivation
12 7 (0.68%) Thin Client
13 6 (0.59%) CCTV
13 6 (0.59%) Client/Server
13 6 (0.59%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 418 (40.78%) Windows
2 237 (23.12%) Windows Server
3 229 (22.34%) Linux
4 70 (6.83%) Windows Server 2016
5 68 (6.63%) Windows Server 2019
6 60 (5.85%) Windows 10
7 58 (5.66%) Windows Server 2012
8 47 (4.59%) Unix
9 37 (3.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 16 (1.56%) Mac OS
10 16 (1.56%) Ubuntu
11 14 (1.37%) Windows 7
12 13 (1.27%) AIX
12 13 (1.27%) Windows XP
13 11 (1.07%) VMS
13 11 (1.07%) Windows Server 2008
14 10 (0.98%) Windows Server 2003
15 8 (0.78%) Apple iOS
15 8 (0.78%) CentOS
16 3 (0.29%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 153 (14.93%) DevOps
2 148 (14.44%) Migration
3 127 (12.39%) Problem-Solving
4 118 (11.51%) Agile
5 105 (10.24%) ITIL
6 83 (8.10%) CI/CD
7 72 (7.02%) Infrastructure as Code
8 69 (6.73%) Cybersecurity
9 56 (5.46%) Project Delivery
10 45 (4.39%) Disaster Recovery
11 44 (4.29%) Change Management
11 44 (4.29%) Configuration Management
12 43 (4.20%) Software Engineering
13 41 (4.00%) Scrum
14 32 (3.12%) Customer Service
15 31 (3.02%) Mentoring
16 30 (2.93%) Server Management
17 29 (2.83%) Infrastructure Automation
18 27 (2.63%) Containerisation
19 26 (2.54%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 163 (15.90%) PowerShell
2 90 (8.78%) Python
3 52 (5.07%) SQL
4 36 (3.51%) JavaScript
5 29 (2.83%) Java
6 24 (2.34%) Bash
6 24 (2.34%) C#
6 24 (2.34%) Shell Script
7 19 (1.85%) C++
8 12 (1.17%) Perl
8 12 (1.17%) Ruby
9 11 (1.07%) VBScript
10 7 (0.68%) Groovy
11 6 (0.59%) Go
12 5 (0.49%) TypeScript
13 4 (0.39%) Bicep
13 4 (0.39%) C
14 3 (0.29%) Korn
14 3 (0.29%) PHP
14 3 (0.29%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 377 (36.78%) Security Cleared
2 238 (23.22%) SC Cleared
3 162 (15.80%) DV Cleared
4 78 (7.61%) Degree
5 61 (5.95%) Cisco Certification
6 58 (5.66%) CCNA
7 34 (3.32%) Azure Certification
8 29 (2.83%) Microsoft Certification
9 27 (2.63%) CCNP
10 20 (1.95%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 18 (1.76%) MCSE
12 11 (1.07%) Computer Science Degree
13 8 (0.78%) AWS Certification
13 8 (0.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 8 (0.78%) Master's Degree
13 8 (0.78%) MCSA
14 7 (0.68%) ITIL Certification
15 6 (0.59%) A+ Certification
15 6 (0.59%) VCAP
16 5 (0.49%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (1.46%) SLA
2 14 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (0.78%) GDPR
3 8 (0.78%) NIST
3 8 (0.78%) QA
4 6 (0.59%) PCI DSS
5 4 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (0.39%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 4 (0.39%) NCSC
6 3 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 3 (0.29%) Disclosure Scotland
6 3 (0.29%) Government Security Classifications
6 3 (0.29%) ISO 9001
6 3 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 2 (0.20%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.20%) PMO
8 1 (0.098%) COBIT
8 1 (0.098%) NIST 800
System Software
1 304 (29.66%) Active Directory
2 225 (21.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 81 (7.90%) Hyper-V
4 66 (6.44%) vSphere
5 63 (6.15%) VMware ESXi
6 44 (4.29%) VMware NSX
7 29 (2.83%) Virtual Machines
8 26 (2.54%) Docker
9 25 (2.44%) Firmware
10 23 (2.24%) XenApp
11 9 (0.88%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 8 (0.78%) Virtual Desktop
12 8 (0.78%) XenDesktop
13 6 (0.59%) KVM
14 5 (0.49%) Virtual Servers
15 3 (0.29%) VMware Workstation
16 2 (0.20%) Terminal Services
17 1 (0.098%) DFS Replication
17 1 (0.098%) Microsoft Virtual Server
17 1 (0.098%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 107 (10.44%) SCCM
2 99 (9.66%) Terraform
3 82 (8.00%) Ansible
4 74 (7.22%) vCenter Server
5 62 (6.05%) Microsoft Intune
6 52 (5.07%) Kubernetes
7 50 (4.88%) WSUS
8 40 (3.90%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 27 (2.63%) Puppet
10 23 (2.24%) SCOM
11 17 (1.66%) Single Sign-On
12 16 (1.56%) NetBackup
13 14 (1.37%) Grafana
13 14 (1.37%) vRealize
14 13 (1.27%) EMC NetWorker
14 13 (1.27%) FortiGate
15 12 (1.17%) Prometheus
16 10 (0.98%) Consul
17 9 (0.88%) VxRail
18 7 (0.68%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 336 (32.78%) VMware
2 295 (28.78%) Microsoft
3 82 (8.00%) Cisco
4 70 (6.83%) Veeam
5 59 (5.76%) Citrix
6 46 (4.49%) Dell
7 42 (4.10%) HP
8 38 (3.71%) Red Hat
9 33 (3.22%) Palo Alto
10 32 (3.12%) Juniper
11 28 (2.73%) Google
12 25 (2.44%) Atlassian
13 24 (2.34%) ServiceNow
14 23 (2.24%) Oracle
14 23 (2.24%) Symantec
15 20 (1.95%) CA
15 20 (1.95%) Extreme Networks
16 18 (1.76%) 3PAR
16 18 (1.76%) Fortinet
16 18 (1.76%) SolarWinds