Infrastructure Specialist Contracts

Infrastructure Specialist
UK

The median Infrastructure Specialist daily rate in the UK is £505 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 545 643 769
Rank change year-on-year +98 +126 -130
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Specialist 46 62 78
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.11% 0.089%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.11% 0.094%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 43 61
10th Percentile £263 £365 £215
25th Percentile £396 £425 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% -2.44% +20.59%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £615
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 39,936 54,901 83,261
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 94.65% 95.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,997 38,348 58,485
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% +10.53%
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 2,673 1,536 2,031
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.25 £19.06 £15.75
Median hourly rate £36.65 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.56% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.13 £64.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.43 £19.67
% change year-on-year -5.73% +115.78% +3.50%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 +92 37 £520 +4.00% 19
London +75 22 £500 -3.61% 3
Work from Home +121 21 £500 - 3
UK excluding London +49 19 £538 +13.16% 20
South East +25 6 £456 -23.96% 3
East of England +12 5 £625 +25.00% 2
Scotland +43 4 £355 +5.19% 4
Midlands +37 4 £613 +44.12% 1
East Midlands +27 4 £613 +28.95% 1

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

For the 6 months to 9 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 (56.52%) Windows
2 22 (47.83%) Active Directory
2 22 (47.83%) Windows Server
3 19 (41.30%) Microsoft
3 19 (41.30%) VMware
3 19 (41.30%) AWS
4 16 (34.78%) Linux
5 15 (32.61%) Azure
6 14 (30.43%) Security Cleared
6 14 (30.43%) VMware Infrastructure
6 14 (30.43%) ITIL
7 13 (28.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 11 (23.91%) Microsoft 365
8 11 (23.91%) SC Cleared
8 11 (23.91%) SCCM
9 10 (21.74%) Citrix
9 10 (21.74%) Ansible
10 9 (19.57%) Problem-Solving
10 9 (19.57%) Social Skills
10 9 (19.57%) Finance
11 8 (17.39%) Migration
11 8 (17.39%) Disaster Recovery
11 8 (17.39%) SLA
12 7 (15.22%) Agile
12 7 (15.22%) ServiceNow
12 7 (15.22%) Customer Service
12 7 (15.22%) Terraform
12 7 (15.22%) Analytical Skills
12 7 (15.22%) Entra ID
12 7 (15.22%) Windows 10

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 (2.17%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 19 (41.30%) AWS
2 15 (32.61%) Azure
3 11 (23.91%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (15.22%) Entra ID
5 4 (8.70%) Amazon S3
5 4 (8.70%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (6.52%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (6.52%) IaaS
6 3 (6.52%) Route 53
6 3 (6.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (2.17%) Amazon Glacier
7 1 (2.17%) Cohesity
7 1 (2.17%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 6 (13.04%) Firewall
2 5 (10.87%) LAN
2 5 (10.87%) WAN
3 3 (6.52%) SAN
3 3 (6.52%) VPN
3 3 (6.52%) Wireless
3 3 (6.52%) WLAN
4 2 (4.35%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (4.35%) Fibre Channel
4 2 (4.35%) NetScaler
5 1 (2.17%) BGP
5 1 (2.17%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (2.17%) iSCSI
5 1 (2.17%) NAS
5 1 (2.17%) Network Security
5 1 (2.17%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.52%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (4.35%) SQL Server
General
1 9 (19.57%) Finance
1 9 (19.57%) Social Skills
2 7 (15.22%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (10.87%) Organisational Skills
4 4 (8.70%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (8.70%) Public Sector
4 4 (8.70%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.17%) Banking
5 1 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.17%) .NET
1 1 (2.17%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.04%) Data Centre
2 5 (10.87%) Management Information System
3 4 (8.70%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (6.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (4.35%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (2.17%) Client/Server
6 1 (2.17%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.17%) PKI
6 1 (2.17%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 26 (56.52%) Windows
2 22 (47.83%) Windows Server
3 16 (34.78%) Linux
4 7 (15.22%) Windows 10
5 6 (13.04%) Unix
6 3 (6.52%) CentOS
6 3 (6.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (6.52%) Ubuntu
7 2 (4.35%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (30.43%) ITIL
2 13 (28.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 9 (19.57%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (17.39%) Disaster Recovery
4 8 (17.39%) Migration
5 7 (15.22%) Agile
5 7 (15.22%) Customer Service
6 6 (13.04%) Change Control
6 6 (13.04%) Infrastructure as Code
6 6 (13.04%) Security Patching
6 6 (13.04%) Virtual Infrastructure
7 5 (10.87%) Network Management
7 5 (10.87%) Time Management
7 5 (10.87%) Vulnerability Management
8 4 (8.70%) Change Management
8 4 (8.70%) Computer Science
8 4 (8.70%) Configuration Management
8 4 (8.70%) Technical Leadership
9 3 (6.52%) Project Delivery
9 3 (6.52%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 2 (4.35%) PowerShell
2 1 (2.17%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 14 (30.43%) Security Cleared
2 11 (23.91%) SC Cleared
3 4 (8.70%) Azure Certification
3 4 (8.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (8.70%) Degree
4 3 (6.52%) DV Cleared
4 3 (6.52%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (4.35%) Citrix Certification
6 1 (2.17%) CEH
6 1 (2.17%) CISSP
6 1 (2.17%) MCP
6 1 (2.17%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (17.39%) SLA
2 1 (2.17%) NCSC
System Software
1 22 (47.83%) Active Directory
2 14 (30.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (8.70%) vSphere
4 2 (4.35%) Hyper-V
4 2 (4.35%) XenApp
4 2 (4.35%) XenDesktop
5 1 (2.17%) Docker
5 1 (2.17%) NFS
5 1 (2.17%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 11 (23.91%) SCCM
2 10 (21.74%) Ansible
3 7 (15.22%) Terraform
4 6 (13.04%) Puppet
5 4 (8.70%) WSUS
6 3 (6.52%) Progress Chef
7 2 (4.35%) FortiGate
8 1 (2.17%) Kubernetes
8 1 (2.17%) SCOM
8 1 (2.17%) vRealize
Vendors
1 19 (41.30%) Microsoft
1 19 (41.30%) VMware
2 10 (21.74%) Citrix
3 7 (15.22%) ServiceNow
4 6 (13.04%) Qualys
5 4 (8.70%) Red Hat
6 2 (4.35%) Brocade
6 2 (4.35%) Cisco
6 2 (4.35%) Palo Alto
7 1 (2.17%) Aruba
7 1 (2.17%) Nimble Storage
7 1 (2.17%) Oracle
7 1 (2.17%) Sybase