Infrastructure Specialist Contracts

Infrastructure Specialist
UK

The median Infrastructure Specialist daily rate in the UK is £510 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 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
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 544 656 776
Rank change year-on-year +112 +120 -138
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Specialist 47 62 78
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.10% 0.088%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.11% 0.092%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 43 62
10th Percentile £263 £365 £216
25th Percentile £423 £425 £368
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £506
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -1.23% +19.82%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £614
90th Percentile £656 £638 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £538 £475 £425
% change year-on-year +13.16% +11.76% +13.33%

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 40,021 55,966 84,699
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 94.62% 95.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,056 39,104 59,482
10th Percentile £280 £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 £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 2,666 1,571 2,084
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.81
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +89.04% +5.80%
75th Percentile £61.29 £65.75 £49.19
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.71
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.26 £19.52
% change year-on-year -5.35% +116.50% +2.74%

Infrastructure Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Specialist in the UK

Infrastructure Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Specialist in the UK

Infrastructure Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Specialist over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Specialist in the UK

Infrastructure Specialist
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Specialist in the UK

Infrastructure Specialist
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 Specialist within the UK over the 6 months to 4 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 +89 39 £520 +4.00% 19
Work from Home +126 23 £500 - 3
London +88 22 £500 -3.61% 2
UK excluding London +65 20 £538 +13.16% 20
South East +22 6 £456 -23.96% 3
Midlands +32 5 £525 +23.53%
East of England +14 5 £625 +25.00% 2
East Midlands +26 4 £613 +28.95%
Scotland +41 3 £370 +9.63% 3
West Midlands +25 1 £525 +40.00%
South West +22 1 £295 -37.89% 3

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

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, Infrastructure Specialist 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 Specialist in the job title.

1 26 (55.32%) Windows
2 22 (46.81%) Active Directory
2 22 (46.81%) Windows Server
3 20 (42.55%) Microsoft
3 20 (42.55%) VMware
3 20 (42.55%) AWS
4 17 (36.17%) Azure
5 16 (34.04%) Linux
6 15 (31.91%) VMware Infrastructure
7 13 (27.66%) Security Cleared
7 13 (27.66%) ITIL
8 12 (25.53%) Microsoft 365
8 12 (25.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 10 (21.28%) Citrix
9 10 (21.28%) SCCM
9 10 (21.28%) SC Cleared
9 10 (21.28%) Ansible
10 9 (19.15%) Problem-Solving
10 9 (19.15%) Social Skills
10 9 (19.15%) Disaster Recovery
10 9 (19.15%) Finance
11 8 (17.02%) Migration
11 8 (17.02%) Agile
11 8 (17.02%) SLA
11 8 (17.02%) Entra ID
12 7 (14.89%) Data Centre
12 7 (14.89%) Windows 10
12 7 (14.89%) ServiceNow
12 7 (14.89%) Analytical Skills
12 7 (14.89%) Terraform

Infrastructure Specialist 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 1 (2.13%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 20 (42.55%) AWS
2 17 (36.17%) Azure
3 12 (25.53%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (17.02%) Entra ID
5 4 (8.51%) Amazon S3
5 4 (8.51%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (6.38%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (6.38%) IaaS
6 3 (6.38%) Route 53
6 3 (6.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (2.13%) Amazon Glacier
7 1 (2.13%) Cohesity
7 1 (2.13%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 6 (12.77%) Firewall
1 6 (12.77%) LAN
1 6 (12.77%) WAN
2 4 (8.51%) VPN
3 3 (6.38%) SAN
3 3 (6.38%) Wireless
3 3 (6.38%) WLAN
4 2 (4.26%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (4.26%) Fibre Channel
4 2 (4.26%) NetScaler
5 1 (2.13%) BGP
5 1 (2.13%) DHCP
5 1 (2.13%) DNS
5 1 (2.13%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (2.13%) iSCSI
5 1 (2.13%) NAS
5 1 (2.13%) Network Security
5 1 (2.13%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.38%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (4.26%) SQL Server
General
1 9 (19.15%) Finance
1 9 (19.15%) Social Skills
2 7 (14.89%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (10.64%) Organisational Skills
3 5 (10.64%) Public Sector
4 4 (8.51%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (8.51%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.13%) Banking
5 1 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.13%) .NET
1 1 (2.13%) LDAP
1 1 (2.13%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.89%) Data Centre
2 5 (10.64%) Management Information System
3 4 (8.51%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (6.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (4.26%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (2.13%) Client/Server
6 1 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (2.13%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.13%) PKI
6 1 (2.13%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (2.13%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 26 (55.32%) Windows
2 22 (46.81%) Windows Server
3 16 (34.04%) Linux
4 7 (14.89%) Windows 10
5 6 (12.77%) Unix
6 3 (6.38%) CentOS
6 3 (6.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (6.38%) Ubuntu
7 2 (4.26%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (27.66%) ITIL
2 12 (25.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 9 (19.15%) Disaster Recovery
3 9 (19.15%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (17.02%) Agile
4 8 (17.02%) Migration
5 6 (12.77%) Change Control
5 6 (12.77%) Customer Service
5 6 (12.77%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (12.77%) Security Patching
5 6 (12.77%) Virtual Infrastructure
6 5 (10.64%) Mentoring
6 5 (10.64%) Time Management
6 5 (10.64%) Vulnerability Management
7 4 (8.51%) Change Management
7 4 (8.51%) Computer Science
7 4 (8.51%) Configuration Management
7 4 (8.51%) Network Management
7 4 (8.51%) Server Management
7 4 (8.51%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (4.26%) PowerShell
2 1 (2.13%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (27.66%) Security Cleared
2 10 (21.28%) SC Cleared
3 4 (8.51%) Azure Certification
3 4 (8.51%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (8.51%) Degree
4 3 (6.38%) DV Cleared
4 3 (6.38%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (4.26%) Citrix Certification
6 1 (2.13%) CEH
6 1 (2.13%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (17.02%) SLA
2 1 (2.13%) NCSC
System Software
1 22 (46.81%) Active Directory
2 15 (31.91%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (8.51%) vSphere
4 3 (6.38%) Hyper-V
5 2 (4.26%) XenApp
5 2 (4.26%) XenDesktop
6 1 (2.13%) Citrix Presentation Server
6 1 (2.13%) Docker
6 1 (2.13%) NFS
6 1 (2.13%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 10 (21.28%) Ansible
1 10 (21.28%) SCCM
2 7 (14.89%) Terraform
3 6 (12.77%) Puppet
4 3 (6.38%) Progress Chef
4 3 (6.38%) WSUS
5 2 (4.26%) FortiGate
6 1 (2.13%) Kubernetes
6 1 (2.13%) SCOM
6 1 (2.13%) vRealize
Vendors
1 20 (42.55%) Microsoft
1 20 (42.55%) VMware
2 10 (21.28%) Citrix
3 7 (14.89%) ServiceNow
4 6 (12.77%) Qualys
5 4 (8.51%) Red Hat
6 2 (4.26%) Brocade
6 2 (4.26%) Cisco
6 2 (4.26%) Palo Alto
7 1 (2.13%) Aruba
7 1 (2.13%) Commvault
7 1 (2.13%) Nimble Storage
7 1 (2.13%) Okta
7 1 (2.13%) Oracle
7 1 (2.13%) Sybase