Senior Infrastructure Engineer Contracts

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
UK

The median Senior Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in the UK is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 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
5 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 529 622 736
Rank change year-on-year +93 +114 -84
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 71 94 127
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.16% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.17% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 80 94
10th Percentile £403 £406 £378
25th Percentile £450 £453 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £521
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +5.67% +18.97%
75th Percentile £606 £638 £575
90th Percentile £743 £700 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £465 £544 £464
% change year-on-year -14.49% +17.25% +12.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £78.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £78.00 - -

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 40,029 55,895 84,701
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 94.62% 95.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,060 39,048 59,505
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 2,665 1,566 2,078
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.11 £15.72
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.60
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +90.68% +4.89%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.00 £19.52
% change year-on-year -4.76% +115.16% +2.74%

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Infrastructure Engineer over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Top 13 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Infrastructure Engineer 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 +104 62 £475 -13.64% 50
UK excluding London +44 45 £465 -14.49% 41
Work from Home +130 31 £475 -24.00% 42
South East +30 24 £464 +3.05% 10
London +109 21 £606 +2.75% 14
North of England +23 10 £463 -15.91% 4
North West +24 9 £450 -14.29% 3
Scotland - 4 £475 - 5
Wales +9 3 £650 +18.18%
Midlands +23 2 £300 -29.41% 7
West Midlands +20 2 £300 -57.14% 5
South West +18 2 - - 11
Yorkshire +14 1 £475 -24.00% 1

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

For the 6 months to 5 May 2024, Senior 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 Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 70 (98.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 35 (49.30%) Windows
3 33 (46.48%) Active Directory
4 28 (39.44%) VMware
5 25 (35.21%) Azure
6 24 (33.80%) Microsoft
7 19 (26.76%) DNS
7 19 (26.76%) Social Skills
8 18 (25.35%) DHCP
8 18 (25.35%) Firewall
9 17 (23.94%) AWS
9 17 (23.94%) PowerShell
10 16 (22.54%) ITIL
11 15 (21.13%) Security Cleared
11 15 (21.13%) VMware Infrastructure
12 14 (19.72%) Windows Server
13 13 (18.31%) Linux
14 12 (16.90%) SAN
14 12 (16.90%) SC Cleared
14 12 (16.90%) vSphere
14 12 (16.90%) Degree
15 10 (14.08%) Migration
16 9 (12.68%) Python
16 9 (12.68%) Cisco
16 9 (12.68%) NAS
16 9 (12.68%) Public Sector
16 9 (12.68%) Problem-Solving
16 9 (12.68%) Microsoft 365
16 9 (12.68%) DevOps
17 8 (11.27%) Data Centre

Senior 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 6 (8.45%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.41%) Apache
2 1 (1.41%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.41%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.41%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 3 (4.23%) AutoCAD
1 3 (4.23%) Revit
2 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 25 (35.21%) Azure
2 17 (23.94%) AWS
3 9 (12.68%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (7.04%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (7.04%) GCP
5 4 (5.63%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (4.23%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (4.23%) Azure AKS
6 3 (4.23%) IaaS
6 3 (4.23%) Nutanix
7 2 (2.82%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.41%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.41%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.41%) Azure Pipelines
8 1 (1.41%) OCI
8 1 (1.41%) Snowflake
8 1 (1.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 19 (26.76%) DNS
2 18 (25.35%) DHCP
2 18 (25.35%) Firewall
3 12 (16.90%) SAN
4 9 (12.68%) NAS
5 5 (7.04%) Network Security
6 4 (5.63%) SD-WAN
6 4 (5.63%) TCP/IP
6 4 (5.63%) WAN
7 3 (4.23%) BGP
7 3 (4.23%) DMVPN
7 3 (4.23%) HSRP
7 3 (4.23%) LAN
7 3 (4.23%) MPLS
7 3 (4.23%) OSPF
7 3 (4.23%) SNMP
7 3 (4.23%) SSL
7 3 (4.23%) VLAN
7 3 (4.23%) VPN
7 3 (4.23%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.63%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.41%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.41%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (1.41%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (5.63%) Git
2 1 (1.41%) Artifactory
General
1 19 (26.76%) Social Skills
2 9 (12.68%) Public Sector
3 8 (11.27%) Documentation Skills
3 8 (11.27%) Finance
4 6 (8.45%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.82%) Banking
5 2 (2.82%) Front Office
6 1 (1.41%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.41%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.23%) Jinja
1 3 (4.23%) JSON
1 3 (4.23%) NETCONF
1 3 (4.23%) RESTful
1 3 (4.23%) XML
1 3 (4.23%) YAML
1 3 (4.23%) YANG
2 2 (2.82%) .NET
2 2 (2.82%) Middleware
3 1 (1.41%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 8 (11.27%) Data Centre
2 7 (9.86%) PKI
3 3 (4.23%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (4.23%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.82%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.82%) NHS
4 2 (2.82%) Private Cloud
4 2 (2.82%) Tandem
5 1 (1.41%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.41%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.41%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 35 (49.30%) Windows
2 14 (19.72%) Windows Server
3 13 (18.31%) Linux
4 7 (9.86%) Unix
5 6 (8.45%) Windows 10
6 4 (5.63%) Windows Server 2003
6 4 (5.63%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (5.63%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (4.23%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (2.82%) Data ONTAP
8 2 (2.82%) Ubuntu
8 2 (2.82%) Windows 7
8 2 (2.82%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (1.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (98.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 16 (22.54%) ITIL
3 10 (14.08%) Migration
4 9 (12.68%) DevOps
4 9 (12.68%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (9.86%) Stakeholder Management
6 6 (8.45%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (8.45%) Roadmaps
7 5 (7.04%) Disaster Recovery
7 5 (7.04%) Project Delivery
7 5 (7.04%) Root Cause Analysis
8 4 (5.63%) Agile
8 4 (5.63%) Customer Service
8 4 (5.63%) Kalman Filter
8 4 (5.63%) Service Delivery
8 4 (5.63%) Software Deployment
9 3 (4.23%) Incident Response
9 3 (4.23%) Infrastructure as Code
9 3 (4.23%) Line Management
9 3 (4.23%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 17 (23.94%) PowerShell
2 9 (12.68%) Python
3 6 (8.45%) SQL
4 4 (5.63%) VBScript
5 3 (4.23%) Bash
6 2 (2.82%) VB.NET
7 1 (1.41%) Bicep
7 1 (1.41%) C
7 1 (1.41%) C#
7 1 (1.41%) C++
7 1 (1.41%) Java
Qualifications
1 15 (21.13%) Security Cleared
2 12 (16.90%) Degree
2 12 (16.90%) SC Cleared
3 8 (11.27%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (5.63%) Azure Certification
5 3 (4.23%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (2.82%) AWS Certification
6 2 (2.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (2.82%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.82%) DBS Check
6 2 (2.82%) MCITP
6 2 (2.82%) VCAP
6 2 (2.82%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (1.41%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (4.23%) GDPR
2 3 (4.23%) NCSC
2 3 (4.23%) QA
3 2 (2.82%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (2.82%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 2 (2.82%) ISO 9001
3 2 (2.82%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 2 (2.82%) SLA
4 1 (1.41%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (1.41%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 1 (1.41%) NIST
System Software
1 33 (46.48%) Active Directory
2 15 (21.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (16.90%) vSphere
4 8 (11.27%) Hyper-V
5 7 (9.86%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (5.63%) XenApp
7 3 (4.23%) VMware NSX
8 2 (2.82%) Docker
9 1 (1.41%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 7 (9.86%) SCCM
2 6 (8.45%) Terraform
2 6 (8.45%) WSUS
3 5 (7.04%) vCenter Server
4 4 (5.63%) Ansible
4 4 (5.63%) Kubernetes
5 3 (4.23%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (2.82%) NetBackup
6 2 (2.82%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (1.41%) Kibana
7 1 (1.41%) logstash
7 1 (1.41%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 28 (39.44%) VMware
2 24 (33.80%) Microsoft
3 9 (12.68%) Cisco
4 5 (7.04%) Palo Alto
4 5 (7.04%) Symantec
5 4 (5.63%) Citrix
5 4 (5.63%) Dell
5 4 (5.63%) Ivanti
5 4 (5.63%) Veeam
6 3 (4.23%) Aruba
6 3 (4.23%) Google
6 3 (4.23%) Juniper
6 3 (4.23%) Meraki
6 3 (4.23%) Red Hat
6 3 (4.23%) ServiceNow
6 3 (4.23%) SolarWinds
7 2 (2.82%) 3PAR
7 2 (2.82%) Dell Compellent
7 2 (2.82%) NetApp
7 2 (2.82%) Nimble Storage
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