Infrastructure Support Engineer Contracts

Infrastructure Support Engineer
UK

The median Infrastructure Support Engineer daily rate in the UK is £340 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 14 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
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 556 676 774
Rank change year-on-year +120 +98 -98
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Support Engineer 31 30 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.073% 0.052% 0.065%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.078% 0.055% 0.068%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 16 31
10th Percentile £153 £294 £263
25th Percentile £293 £347 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £340 £450 £400
Median % change year-on-year -24.44% +12.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile £400 £559 £450
90th Percentile £463 £591 £575
UK excluding London median daily rate £340 £400 £363
% change year-on-year -15.00% +10.34% +11.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £10.29
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £10.29
% change year-on-year - - -47.23%

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 39,586 54,569 84,106
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.66% 95.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,744 38,105 59,089
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% +10.01%
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 2,669 1,523 2,070
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.45 £15.75
Median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -17.38% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.02 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Infrastructure Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Support Engineer in the UK

Infrastructure Support Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Support Engineer in the UK

Infrastructure Support Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Support Engineer over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Support Engineer in the UK

Infrastructure Support Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Support Engineer in the UK

Infrastructure Support Engineer
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 Support Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 14 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 +107 22 £375 -16.67% 18
UK excluding London +63 19 £340 -15.00% 16
London +88 12 £375 -16.67% 4
South East +22 8 £210 -64.26% 8
Scotland - 8 £340 - 3
Work from Home +108 3 £320 -28.89% 6
North West +27 1 £160 -54.29%
North of England +23 1 £160 -52.59%
Midlands +21 1 £320 -8.57% 1
West Midlands +19 1 £320 -8.57% 1
Wales - 1 £350 -

Infrastructure Support Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 14 May 2024, Infrastructure Support Engineer 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 Support Engineer in the job title.

1 28 (90.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 16 (51.61%) Windows
3 14 (45.16%) Security Cleared
4 12 (38.71%) SC Cleared
4 12 (38.71%) Microsoft
5 11 (35.48%) Firewall
6 10 (32.26%) Active Directory
6 10 (32.26%) Windows 10
7 9 (29.03%) SCCM
7 9 (29.03%) Linux
8 8 (25.81%) SQL Server
8 8 (25.81%) Disaster Recovery
8 8 (25.81%) Windows Server
8 8 (25.81%) Microsoft 365
8 8 (25.81%) Windows Server 2019
9 7 (22.58%) Social Skills
9 7 (22.58%) VMware Infrastructure
9 7 (22.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 7 (22.58%) Windows 7
9 7 (22.58%) Azure
9 7 (22.58%) VMware
10 6 (19.35%) Red Hat
10 6 (19.35%) Bloomberg
10 6 (19.35%) Refinitiv
10 6 (19.35%) Customer Service
11 5 (16.13%) Windows Server 2016
11 5 (16.13%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (16.13%) Citrix
11 5 (16.13%) Finance
12 4 (12.90%) Clustering

Infrastructure Support Engineer 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:

Applications
1 3 (9.68%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (25.81%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (22.58%) Azure
3 3 (9.68%) AWS
3 3 (9.68%) Entra ID
4 1 (3.23%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 11 (35.48%) Firewall
2 3 (9.68%) Network Security
3 2 (6.45%) DHCP
3 2 (6.45%) DNS
3 2 (6.45%) SAN
4 1 (3.23%) NAS
4 1 (3.23%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (25.81%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.23%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (3.23%) MySQL
2 1 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
General
1 7 (22.58%) Social Skills
2 5 (16.13%) Finance
3 3 (9.68%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.90%) Clustering
2 2 (6.45%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.23%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.23%) Fat Client
3 1 (3.23%) PKI
3 1 (3.23%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 16 (51.61%) Windows
2 10 (32.26%) Windows 10
3 9 (29.03%) Linux
4 8 (25.81%) Windows Server
4 8 (25.81%) Windows Server 2019
5 7 (22.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (22.58%) Windows 7
6 5 (16.13%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (12.90%) Solaris
8 3 (9.68%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (6.45%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (3.23%) Ubuntu
10 1 (3.23%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (90.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 8 (25.81%) Disaster Recovery
3 6 (19.35%) Customer Service
4 4 (12.90%) Compliance Management
4 4 (12.90%) High Availability
5 3 (9.68%) ITIL
5 3 (9.68%) Open Source
6 2 (6.45%) Deployment Automation
6 2 (6.45%) Network Management
6 2 (6.45%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (6.45%) Server Management
6 2 (6.45%) Virtual Infrastructure
7 1 (3.23%) Break/Fix
7 1 (3.23%) Data Protection
7 1 (3.23%) Performance Monitoring
7 1 (3.23%) Performance Tuning
7 1 (3.23%) Proactive Monitoring
7 1 (3.23%) Prototyping
7 1 (3.23%) Software Distribution
7 1 (3.23%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (9.68%) SQL
2 2 (6.45%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 14 (45.16%) Security Cleared
2 12 (38.71%) SC Cleared
3 5 (16.13%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (12.90%) RHCE
5 2 (6.45%) MCP
5 2 (6.45%) MCSE
6 1 (3.23%) CCNA
6 1 (3.23%) CCNP
6 1 (3.23%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (3.23%) Degree
6 1 (3.23%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.90%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (32.26%) Active Directory
2 7 (22.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (12.90%) KVM
4 2 (6.45%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (3.23%) Hyper-V
5 1 (3.23%) XenApp
5 1 (3.23%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 9 (29.03%) SCCM
2 4 (12.90%) WSUS
3 2 (6.45%) vCenter Server
4 1 (3.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (3.23%) Ansible
4 1 (3.23%) EMC NetWorker
4 1 (3.23%) McAfee ePO
4 1 (3.23%) Nessus
4 1 (3.23%) NetBackup
4 1 (3.23%) Red Hat Satellite
4 1 (3.23%) SCOM
4 1 (3.23%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 12 (38.71%) Microsoft
2 7 (22.58%) VMware
3 6 (19.35%) Bloomberg
3 6 (19.35%) Red Hat
3 6 (19.35%) Refinitiv
4 5 (16.13%) Citrix
5 2 (6.45%) Oracle
5 2 (6.45%) ServiceNow
5 2 (6.45%) Veeam
6 1 (3.23%) 3PAR
6 1 (3.23%) Dell
6 1 (3.23%) EMC
6 1 (3.23%) Extreme Networks
6 1 (3.23%) HP
6 1 (3.23%) McAfee
6 1 (3.23%) New Relic
6 1 (3.23%) PagerDuty
6 1 (3.23%) Palo Alto
6 1 (3.23%) Rackspace
6 1 (3.23%) Symantec