Infrastructure Management Contracts

Infrastructure Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Infrastructure Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Infrastructure Management 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 476 622 709
Rank change year-on-year +146 +87 -113
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Management 122 97 140
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.28% 0.16% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.18% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 62 96
10th Percentile £143 £363 £378
25th Percentile £350 £445 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £544 £528
Median % change year-on-year -12.64% +3.08% +25.60%
75th Percentile £600 £647 £675
90th Percentile £675 £725 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% +18.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
Median hourly rate £23.80 £35.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -32.96% - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Infrastructure Management 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 Management
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Management in the UK

Infrastructure Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Management in the UK

Infrastructure Management
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Management in the UK

Infrastructure Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Management in the UK

Infrastructure Management
Top 14 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Management 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 +152 110 £470 -13.56% 102
UK excluding London +102 74 £450 -10.00% 57
Work from Home +133 40 £538 -2.27% 37
London +89 36 £475 -13.64% 45
South East +48 30 £433 -13.50% 19
West Midlands +39 16 £550 +27.91% 4
Midlands +30 16 £550 +25.71% 14
North of England +39 15 £650 +20.93% 16
North West +24 13 £500 -4.76% 9
South West +28 9 £220 -70.67% 6
Yorkshire +18 2 £650 -7.14% 6
East of England +12 2 - - 7
Northern Ireland - 1 £140 -
Wales - 1 £600 - 2

Infrastructure Management
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 7 (5.74%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (3.28%) Confluence
2 4 (3.28%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.46%) CMS
4 2 (1.64%) Apache
4 2 (1.64%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.64%) IIS
5 1 (0.82%) SharePoint 2010
5 1 (0.82%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 2 (1.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.82%) AutoCAD
2 1 (0.82%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 42 (34.43%) AWS
2 35 (28.69%) Azure
3 13 (10.66%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 11 (9.02%) Entra ID
5 10 (8.20%) Amazon S3
5 10 (8.20%) GCP
5 10 (8.20%) Serverless
6 9 (7.38%) Amazon EC2
6 9 (7.38%) AWS Lambda
6 9 (7.38%) GitHub
7 7 (5.74%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (5.74%) Power Platform
8 5 (4.10%) Cloud Computing
8 5 (4.10%) CloudFront
9 4 (3.28%) IaaS
9 4 (3.28%) PaaS
9 4 (3.28%) SaaS
10 3 (2.46%) Contentful
10 3 (2.46%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (2.46%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 19 (15.57%) VPN
2 17 (13.93%) Firewall
3 16 (13.11%) DNS
4 15 (12.30%) Network Security
5 10 (8.20%) LAN
5 10 (8.20%) TCP/IP
6 8 (6.56%) Wi-Fi
7 7 (5.74%) SAN
8 6 (4.92%) NAS
8 6 (4.92%) Wireless
9 5 (4.10%) WAN
10 4 (3.28%) DHCP
10 4 (3.28%) Fibre Channel
10 4 (3.28%) iSCSI
10 4 (3.28%) Radio Access Network
10 4 (3.28%) SSL
10 4 (3.28%) VLAN
10 4 (3.28%) VoIP
10 4 (3.28%) WLAN
11 3 (2.46%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.38%) Amazon Redshift
2 7 (5.74%) Power BI
3 6 (4.92%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (3.28%) Tableau
5 2 (1.64%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.64%) Data Lake
5 2 (1.64%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.64%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.82%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.82%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.82%) Bigtable
6 1 (0.82%) CockroachDB
6 1 (0.82%) Couchbase
6 1 (0.82%) CouchDB
6 1 (0.82%) Metadata
6 1 (0.82%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.82%) MySQL
6 1 (0.82%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.82%) PowerPivot
6 1 (0.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 12 (9.84%) Git
2 10 (8.20%) GitLab
3 9 (7.38%) Jenkins
4 6 (4.92%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 6 (4.92%) Bitbucket
4 6 (4.92%) JIRA
5 3 (2.46%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.82%) Jaeger
6 1 (0.82%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.82%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.82%) Spinnaker
6 1 (0.82%) TeamCity
General
1 44 (36.07%) Social Skills
2 22 (18.03%) Telecoms
3 20 (16.39%) Finance
4 18 (14.75%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (13.93%) Public Sector
6 12 (9.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (4.10%) Retail
8 4 (3.28%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (2.46%) Legal
9 3 (2.46%) Marketing
10 2 (1.64%) Electronics
10 2 (1.64%) Law
10 2 (1.64%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.82%) Advertising
11 1 (0.82%) French Language
11 1 (0.82%) Front Office
11 1 (0.82%) German Language
11 1 (0.82%) Military
11 1 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (13.93%) Senior
2 13 (10.66%) Analyst
3 12 (9.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 11 (9.02%) DevOps Engineer
5 8 (6.56%) Lead
6 7 (5.74%) Architect
6 7 (5.74%) AWS DevOps
6 7 (5.74%) Senior Analyst
6 7 (5.74%) Support Engineer
7 6 (4.92%) Cloud Engineer
7 6 (4.92%) IT Engineer
7 6 (4.92%) Monitoring Engineer
7 6 (4.92%) Network Engineer
7 6 (4.92%) Security Engineer
8 5 (4.10%) Applications Engineer
8 5 (4.10%) AWS Developer
8 5 (4.10%) Desktop Support
8 5 (4.10%) Desktop Support Engineer
8 5 (4.10%) Developer
8 5 (4.10%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.74%) SAML
2 6 (4.92%) Loki
3 5 (4.10%) OAuth
3 5 (4.10%) OAuth2
4 3 (2.46%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (2.46%) Next.js
5 2 (1.64%) Kafka
5 2 (1.64%) NETCONF
5 2 (1.64%) PySpark
5 2 (1.64%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (1.64%) Software Packaging
6 1 (0.82%) CSS
6 1 (0.82%) HTML
6 1 (0.82%) Laravel
6 1 (0.82%) Node.js
6 1 (0.82%) OpenTelemetry
6 1 (0.82%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (11.48%) Data Centre
2 11 (9.02%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (4.92%) CCTV
3 6 (4.92%) Cloud Native
4 5 (4.10%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (3.28%) Fat Client
5 4 (3.28%) Product Ownership
5 4 (3.28%) Replication
5 4 (3.28%) Thin Client
5 4 (3.28%) Virtual Team
6 3 (2.46%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (2.46%) IoT
7 2 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.64%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.64%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.64%) PKI
7 2 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.82%) Clustering
8 1 (0.82%) HP Storage
Operating Systems
1 38 (31.15%) Windows
2 21 (17.21%) Linux
3 14 (11.48%) Unix
4 6 (4.92%) Windows Server
5 3 (2.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (2.46%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (1.64%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.82%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.82%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (23.77%) Problem-Solving
2 28 (22.95%) CI/CD
3 23 (18.85%) Agile
3 23 (18.85%) DevOps
4 21 (17.21%) Infrastructure as Code
5 19 (15.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 18 (14.75%) Containerisation
7 17 (13.93%) Customer-Centricity
8 14 (11.48%) Migration
9 13 (10.66%) Disaster Recovery
10 12 (9.84%) Software Deployment
11 11 (9.02%) Collaborative Working
11 11 (9.02%) Continuous Improvement
11 11 (9.02%) High Availability
11 11 (9.02%) Project Management
12 10 (8.20%) Scrum
12 10 (8.20%) Task Automation
13 9 (7.38%) Identity Access Management
13 9 (7.38%) Incident Response
13 9 (7.38%) Network Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 29 (23.77%) Python
2 18 (14.75%) PowerShell
3 13 (10.66%) Bash
4 7 (5.74%) Go
5 5 (4.10%) JavaScript
6 4 (3.28%) SQL
7 3 (2.46%) PHP
8 2 (1.64%) Java
9 1 (0.82%) VBA
Qualifications
1 18 (14.75%) Security Cleared
2 16 (13.11%) SC Cleared
3 11 (9.02%) Cisco Certification
3 11 (9.02%) Degree
4 7 (5.74%) CCNA
5 6 (4.92%) MCSE
5 6 (4.92%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (4.10%) AWS Certification
6 5 (4.10%) DV Cleared
7 4 (3.28%) CCIE
7 4 (3.28%) CCNP
7 4 (3.28%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 3 (2.46%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.82%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.82%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.82%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.82%) PMP
9 1 (0.82%) RHCE
9 1 (0.82%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.92%) Data Quality
1 6 (4.92%) QA
1 6 (4.92%) SLA
2 3 (2.46%) NIST
2 3 (2.46%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.64%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 24 (19.67%) Docker
2 23 (18.85%) Active Directory
3 12 (9.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (4.10%) Hyper-V
5 4 (3.28%) Firmware
5 4 (3.28%) vSphere
6 2 (1.64%) BitLocker
6 2 (1.64%) Microsoft App-V
6 2 (1.64%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.82%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 21 (17.21%) Ansible
2 20 (16.39%) Kubernetes
2 20 (16.39%) Terraform
3 10 (8.20%) Grafana
3 10 (8.20%) Prometheus
4 6 (4.92%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 6 (4.92%) Graylog
4 6 (4.92%) Icinga
4 6 (4.92%) Nagios
4 6 (4.92%) Puppet
4 6 (4.92%) ZABBIX
5 5 (4.10%) SCCM
6 4 (3.28%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (2.46%) SCOM
8 2 (1.64%) NetBackup
8 2 (1.64%) Nmap
8 2 (1.64%) OpenNMS
8 2 (1.64%) SCVMM
8 2 (1.64%) VxRail
9 1 (0.82%) Argo
Vendors
1 23 (18.85%) Microsoft
2 17 (13.93%) VMware
3 10 (8.20%) Cisco
4 7 (5.74%) Google
5 6 (4.92%) Splunk
6 5 (4.10%) SolarWinds
7 4 (3.28%) Dell
7 4 (3.28%) Red Hat
7 4 (3.28%) Salesforce
8 3 (2.46%) Atlassian
8 3 (2.46%) HP
8 3 (2.46%) Juniper
8 3 (2.46%) SAP
9 2 (1.64%) Avaya
9 2 (1.64%) Brocade
9 2 (1.64%) BT
9 2 (1.64%) Commvault
9 2 (1.64%) EMC
9 2 (1.64%) Mitel
9 2 (1.64%) Proofpoint