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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 92 124 158
Rank change year-on-year +32 +34 +6
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 1,023 1,241 1,618
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.37% 2.10% 1.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.74% 2.34% 2.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 759 928 1,202
10th Percentile £300 £338 £306
25th Percentile £375 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% +10.53% +11.76%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £575
90th Percentile £725 £700 £656
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -1.05% +5.56% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 18 12
10th Percentile £21.25 £40.34 £20.50
25th Percentile £38.22 £53.63 £26.77
Median hourly rate £46.18 £61.62 £43.06
Median % change year-on-year -25.05% +43.09% +7.65%
75th Percentile £63.44 £77.38 £64.87
90th Percentile £70.38 £81.09 £67.89
UK excluding London median hourly rate £46.18 £57.50 £45.10
% change year-on-year -19.69% +27.49% +20.27%

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 37,268 53,074 80,383
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.35% 89.85% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,016 36,805 56,451
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
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% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,439 1,749 1,911
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.95 £35.80 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.42% +43.20% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

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 5 May 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 5 May 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 5 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 +30 883 £475 -5.47% 541
UK excluding London +22 629 £470 -1.05% 432
London +50 322 £525 -8.70% 148
Work from Home -14 224 £450 -14.29% 231
South East +33 219 £456 +0.83% 105
South West +18 125 £500 -9.09% 89
North of England -4 118 £425 -10.53% 77
North West -2 77 £425 -10.53% 38
Scotland +69 67 £475 -12.04% 32
Midlands -14 53 £419 -6.94% 74
West Midlands +4 44 £425 -5.56% 43
East of England -12 39 £525 +16.67% 50
Yorkshire -5 36 £380 -11.11% 31
Wales +2 9 £550 - 12
East Midlands -10 8 £338 -23.73% 31
North East +9 5 £438 -14.63% 11

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 (8.31%) Microsoft Exchange
2 50 (4.89%) SharePoint
3 24 (2.35%) Confluence
4 13 (1.27%) Apache
4 13 (1.27%) IIS
5 10 (0.98%) SharePoint Server
6 8 (0.78%) Tomcat
7 6 (0.59%) Apache Airflow
7 6 (0.59%) SharePoint 2010
8 4 (0.39%) OpenStack
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
Applications
1 12 (1.17%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (1.08%) 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%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.098%) Shopify
1 1 (0.098%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 309 (30.21%) Azure
2 169 (16.52%) AWS
3 153 (14.96%) Microsoft 365
4 94 (9.19%) Entra ID
5 44 (4.30%) IaaS
6 31 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
7 28 (2.74%) PaaS
7 28 (2.74%) Power Platform
8 27 (2.64%) Cloud Computing
9 26 (2.54%) SaaS
10 21 (2.05%) GCP
11 20 (1.96%) Mimecast
12 18 (1.76%) OCI
13 16 (1.56%) Amazon EC2
13 16 (1.56%) Amazon S3
13 16 (1.56%) Serverless
13 16 (1.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 15 (1.47%) OpenShift
15 14 (1.37%) AWS Lambda
16 13 (1.27%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 186 (18.18%) Firewall
2 154 (15.05%) DNS
3 108 (10.56%) DHCP
4 96 (9.38%) SAN
5 68 (6.65%) WAN
6 58 (5.67%) LAN
7 48 (4.69%) VPN
8 41 (4.01%) Wireless
9 40 (3.91%) Network Security
10 39 (3.81%) NAS
11 33 (3.23%) OSPF
12 31 (3.03%) TCP/IP
13 23 (2.25%) BGP
14 22 (2.15%) VSAN
15 21 (2.05%) Software-Defined Radio
16 18 (1.76%) SNMP
17 17 (1.66%) MPLS
17 17 (1.66%) VLAN
18 16 (1.56%) Wi-Fi
19 15 (1.47%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (6.65%) SQL Server
2 19 (1.86%) Power BI
3 11 (1.08%) Amazon RDS
4 9 (0.88%) MongoDB
4 9 (0.88%) MySQL
5 7 (0.68%) Elasticsearch
5 7 (0.68%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (0.68%) Sybase ASE
6 6 (0.59%) Metadata
6 6 (0.59%) Microsoft Power View
6 6 (0.59%) PowerPivot
6 6 (0.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 5 (0.49%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (0.29%) Big Data
8 3 (0.29%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.20%) Adabas
9 2 (0.20%) Sisense
10 1 (0.098%) BusinessObjects
10 1 (0.098%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.098%) DB2
Development Applications
1 53 (5.18%) Git
2 43 (4.20%) Jenkins
3 31 (3.03%) JIRA
4 22 (2.15%) GitLab
5 16 (1.56%) Bitbucket
5 16 (1.56%) Robot Framework
6 15 (1.47%) Eclipse
7 14 (1.37%) GoogleTest
8 8 (0.78%) Maven
9 7 (0.68%) Hudson
10 6 (0.59%) Gradle
10 6 (0.59%) Postman
10 6 (0.59%) SoapUI
11 5 (0.49%) Sonatype Nexus
12 4 (0.39%) TeamCity
13 3 (0.29%) Selenium
14 2 (0.20%) Artifactory
14 2 (0.20%) CA Gen
14 2 (0.20%) Visual Studio Code
15 1 (0.098%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 184 (17.99%) Social Skills
2 130 (12.71%) Public Sector
3 69 (6.74%) Finance
4 60 (5.87%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (2.54%) Banking
5 26 (2.54%) Documentation Skills
6 15 (1.47%) Telecoms
7 10 (0.98%) Manufacturing
8 9 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (0.68%) Legal
9 7 (0.68%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (0.59%) Aerospace
10 6 (0.59%) Publishing
11 5 (0.49%) French Language
11 5 (0.49%) German Language
11 5 (0.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (0.49%) Retail
12 4 (0.39%) Local Government
12 4 (0.39%) Mandarin Language
12 4 (0.39%) Military
Job Titles
1 664 (64.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 91 (8.90%) Senior
3 70 (6.84%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 66 (6.45%) Network Engineer
5 55 (5.38%) Cloud Engineer
6 47 (4.59%) Azure Engineer
7 43 (4.20%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
7 43 (4.20%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
8 37 (3.62%) Support Engineer
9 36 (3.52%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
10 34 (3.32%) AWS Engineer
11 32 (3.13%) Architect
12 31 (3.03%) VMware Engineer
13 30 (2.93%) DevOps Engineer
14 29 (2.83%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
14 29 (2.83%) Infrastructure Support
14 29 (2.83%) Storage Engineer
15 28 (2.74%) Windows Engineer
16 26 (2.54%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
16 26 (2.54%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (2.05%) CSS
1 21 (2.05%) HTML
2 18 (1.76%) Flash
3 17 (1.66%) OAuth
3 17 (1.66%) SAML
4 16 (1.56%) OpenID
5 13 (1.27%) Kafka
6 10 (0.98%) RabbitMQ
7 9 (0.88%) RESTful
8 8 (0.78%) .NET
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%) Lambda Expressions
11 3 (0.29%) Pandas
11 3 (0.29%) PySpark
11 3 (0.29%) Redfish
Miscellaneous
1 97 (9.48%) Data Centre
2 46 (4.50%) PKI
3 30 (2.93%) Replication
4 26 (2.54%) Management Information System
5 25 (2.44%) Private Cloud
6 22 (2.15%) Clustering
7 21 (2.05%) NHS
8 13 (1.27%) Driving Licence
9 10 (0.98%) Distributed Systems
9 10 (0.98%) Onboarding
9 10 (0.98%) Public Cloud
10 9 (0.88%) Linux Command Line
10 9 (0.88%) Video Conferencing
11 7 (0.68%) Data Protection Act
11 7 (0.68%) Fat Client
11 7 (0.68%) Thin Client
12 6 (0.59%) Client/Server
12 6 (0.59%) Cloud Native
12 6 (0.59%) Hybrid Cloud
12 6 (0.59%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 417 (40.76%) Windows
2 237 (23.17%) Windows Server
3 231 (22.58%) Linux
4 68 (6.65%) Windows Server 2016
5 66 (6.45%) Windows Server 2019
6 59 (5.77%) Windows Server 2012
7 58 (5.67%) Windows 10
8 47 (4.59%) Unix
9 38 (3.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 16 (1.56%) Mac OS
10 16 (1.56%) Ubuntu
11 14 (1.37%) Windows XP
12 13 (1.27%) AIX
12 13 (1.27%) Windows 7
13 11 (1.08%) Windows Server 2008
14 10 (0.98%) VMS
14 10 (0.98%) Windows Server 2003
15 8 (0.78%) Apple iOS
16 7 (0.68%) CentOS
17 3 (0.29%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 153 (14.96%) DevOps
2 150 (14.66%) Migration
3 127 (12.41%) Problem-Solving
4 116 (11.34%) Agile
5 103 (10.07%) ITIL
6 85 (8.31%) CI/CD
7 70 (6.84%) Infrastructure as Code
8 68 (6.65%) Cybersecurity
9 53 (5.18%) Project Delivery
10 45 (4.40%) Change Management
10 45 (4.40%) Disaster Recovery
11 44 (4.30%) Software Engineering
12 43 (4.20%) Configuration Management
13 39 (3.81%) Scrum
14 35 (3.42%) Customer Service
15 30 (2.93%) Mentoring
15 30 (2.93%) Server Management
16 29 (2.83%) Containerisation
17 28 (2.74%) Infrastructure Automation
18 27 (2.64%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 164 (16.03%) PowerShell
2 91 (8.90%) Python
3 53 (5.18%) SQL
4 37 (3.62%) JavaScript
5 29 (2.83%) Java
6 26 (2.54%) Bash
7 25 (2.44%) C#
8 24 (2.35%) Shell Script
9 20 (1.96%) C++
10 12 (1.17%) Ruby
11 11 (1.08%) Perl
11 11 (1.08%) VBScript
12 7 (0.68%) Groovy
13 6 (0.59%) Go
14 5 (0.49%) TypeScript
15 4 (0.39%) Bicep
15 4 (0.39%) C
16 3 (0.29%) PHP
16 3 (0.29%) VB.NET
17 2 (0.20%) Natural
Qualifications
1 374 (36.56%) Security Cleared
2 235 (22.97%) SC Cleared
3 162 (15.84%) DV Cleared
4 79 (7.72%) Degree
5 60 (5.87%) Cisco Certification
6 57 (5.57%) CCNA
7 34 (3.32%) Azure Certification
8 30 (2.93%) Microsoft Certification
9 28 (2.74%) CCNP
10 19 (1.86%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 18 (1.76%) MCSE
12 11 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
13 8 (0.78%) AWS Certification
13 8 (0.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 7 (0.68%) ITIL Certification
14 7 (0.68%) Master's Degree
14 7 (0.68%) MCSA
15 6 (0.59%) A+ Certification
15 6 (0.59%) VCAP
16 5 (0.49%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (1.56%) SLA
2 11 (1.08%) 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%) NCSC
6 3 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
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%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.098%) COBIT
8 1 (0.098%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 1 (0.098%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.098%) PMO
System Software
1 299 (29.23%) Active Directory
2 222 (21.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 82 (8.02%) Hyper-V
4 66 (6.45%) vSphere
5 61 (5.96%) VMware ESXi
6 41 (4.01%) VMware NSX
7 29 (2.83%) Virtual Machines
8 27 (2.64%) Docker
9 26 (2.54%) Firmware
10 24 (2.35%) XenApp
11 9 (0.88%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 8 (0.78%) Virtual Desktop
12 8 (0.78%) XenDesktop
13 7 (0.68%) KVM
14 5 (0.49%) Virtual Servers
15 2 (0.20%) Terminal Services
15 2 (0.20%) VMware Workstation
16 1 (0.098%) DFS Replication
16 1 (0.098%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 1 (0.098%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 107 (10.46%) SCCM
2 97 (9.48%) Terraform
3 80 (7.82%) Ansible
4 72 (7.04%) vCenter Server
5 61 (5.96%) Microsoft Intune
6 52 (5.08%) Kubernetes
7 51 (4.99%) WSUS
8 36 (3.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 25 (2.44%) SCOM
10 24 (2.35%) Puppet
11 17 (1.66%) NetBackup
11 17 (1.66%) Single Sign-On
12 14 (1.37%) EMC NetWorker
12 14 (1.37%) Grafana
13 13 (1.27%) FortiGate
13 13 (1.27%) vRealize
14 12 (1.17%) Prometheus
15 9 (0.88%) Consul
15 9 (0.88%) VxRail
16 7 (0.68%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 333 (32.55%) VMware
2 293 (28.64%) Microsoft
3 83 (8.11%) Cisco
4 69 (6.74%) Veeam
5 61 (5.96%) Citrix
6 48 (4.69%) Dell
7 42 (4.11%) HP
8 37 (3.62%) Red Hat
9 34 (3.32%) Palo Alto
10 33 (3.23%) Juniper
11 27 (2.64%) Google
12 25 (2.44%) Atlassian
13 24 (2.35%) Oracle
13 24 (2.35%) ServiceNow
13 24 (2.35%) Symantec
14 21 (2.05%) Extreme Networks
15 19 (1.86%) CA
16 18 (1.76%) 3PAR
16 18 (1.76%) Fortinet
17 16 (1.56%) SolarWinds