Microsoft Infrastructure Engineer Contracts

Microsoft Infrastructure Engineer
UK

The median Microsoft Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in the UK is £588 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 567 695 847
Rank change year-on-year +128 +152 -181
Contract jobs requiring a Microsoft Infrastructure Engineer 12 5 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.028% 0.008% 0.015%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.030% 0.009% 0.015%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 3 11
10th Percentile £143 - £213
25th Percentile £317 £338 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £350 £425
Median % change year-on-year +67.86% -17.65% +6.25%
75th Percentile £594 £456 £506
90th Percentile £622 £513 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £145 £550 £325
% change year-on-year -73.64% +69.23% +7.44%

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 40,413 56,730 84,732
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.61% 95.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,320 39,605 59,435
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £408 £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 £726
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,653 1,602 2,109
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.28 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.09% +95.65% +0.24%
75th Percentile £60.25 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.50 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £42.37 £19.50
% change year-on-year -10.30% +117.26% +2.47%

Microsoft Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Microsoft Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Microsoft Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Infrastructure Engineer over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Microsoft Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Microsoft Infrastructure Engineer
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft Infrastructure Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 26 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 +124 11 £588 - 6
London +117 7 £588 -
Work from Home +124 5 £588 +67.86% 3
UK excluding London +72 4 £145 -73.64% 6
South East - 3 £145 -
South West - 1 £600 - 4

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

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, Microsoft Infrastructure 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 Microsoft Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 12 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 11 (91.67%) Windows
3 8 (66.67%) Azure
3 8 (66.67%) Windows Server
4 7 (58.33%) Active Directory
5 6 (50.00%) Microsoft
6 5 (41.67%) vSphere
6 5 (41.67%) DevOps
6 5 (41.67%) HP
7 4 (33.33%) SQL
7 4 (33.33%) Windows 7
7 4 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (33.33%) Windows 10
8 3 (25.00%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (25.00%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (25.00%) SQL Server
8 3 (25.00%) Network Security
8 3 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (16.67%) DV Cleared
9 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
9 2 (16.67%) SharePoint
10 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
10 1 (8.33%) Requirements Gathering
10 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
10 1 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (8.33%) DHCP
10 1 (8.33%) DNS
10 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
10 1 (8.33%) ITIL

Microsoft Infrastructure 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (16.67%) SharePoint
2 1 (8.33%) Confluence
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (8.33%) SharePoint Server
2 1 (8.33%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (66.67%) Azure
2 4 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (8.33%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 3 (25.00%) Network Security
2 1 (8.33%) DHCP
2 1 (8.33%) DNS
2 1 (8.33%) Skype
2 1 (8.33%) Software-Defined Networking
2 1 (8.33%) Unified Communications
2 1 (8.33%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Bitbucket
1 1 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) .NET
1 1 (8.33%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 11 (91.67%) Windows
2 8 (66.67%) Windows Server
3 4 (33.33%) Windows 10
3 4 (33.33%) Windows 7
4 3 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 3 (25.00%) Windows Server 2016
4 3 (25.00%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (8.33%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (41.67%) DevOps
3 1 (8.33%) Agile
3 1 (8.33%) Converged Infrastructure
3 1 (8.33%) Critical Thinking
3 1 (8.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (8.33%) Information Security
3 1 (8.33%) ITIL
3 1 (8.33%) Migration
3 1 (8.33%) Multi-Factor Authentication
3 1 (8.33%) NsoIT
3 1 (8.33%) Open Source
3 1 (8.33%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (8.33%) Service Management
3 1 (8.33%) System Testing
3 1 (8.33%) Two-Factor Authentication
3 1 (8.33%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) DV Cleared
1 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) Degree
2 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 7 (58.33%) Active Directory
2 5 (41.67%) vSphere
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 1 (8.33%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (8.33%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (8.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Ansible
1 1 (8.33%) Progress Chef
1 1 (8.33%) Puppet
1 1 (8.33%) vCenter Server
1 1 (8.33%) WSUS
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (41.67%) HP
3 1 (8.33%) Atlassian
3 1 (8.33%) Citrix
3 1 (8.33%) SolarWinds
3 1 (8.33%) Splunk
3 1 (8.33%) Veeam
3 1 (8.33%) VMware