Senior Infrastructure Specialist Contracts

Senior Infrastructure Specialist
UK

The median Senior Infrastructure Specialist daily rate in the UK is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 583 717 828
Rank change year-on-year +134 +111 -154
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Specialist 3 5 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.007% 0.008% 0.003%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.007% 0.009% 0.004%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £418
25th Percentile £513 - £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - £450
Median % change year-on-year - - +52.54%
75th Percentile £538 - £475
90th Percentile - - £483
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 - £425
% change year-on-year - - +44.07%

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 40,482 56,783 84,604
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.58% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,407 39,621 59,331
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 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,642 1,607 2,111
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.28 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.45 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.68 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.71% +95.65% +1.41%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.60 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.63%

Senior Infrastructure Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Infrastructure Specialist in the UK

Senior Infrastructure Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Infrastructure Specialist in the UK

Senior Infrastructure Specialist
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Infrastructure Specialist in the UK

Senior Infrastructure Specialist
Top 5 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 Specialist within the UK over the 6 months to 25 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
Work from Home +124 3 £525 -
England +116 1 £525 -
UK excluding London +66 1 £525 -
Midlands - 1 £525 -
West Midlands - 1 £525 -

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, Senior 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 Senior Infrastructure Specialist in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 2 (66.67%) Brocade
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Puppet
2 2 (66.67%) Enterprise Storage
2 2 (66.67%) Fibre Channel
2 2 (66.67%) Data Centre
2 2 (66.67%) Terraform
2 2 (66.67%) SAN
2 2 (66.67%) Linux
3 1 (33.33%) LDAP
3 1 (33.33%) LAN
3 1 (33.33%) WAN
3 1 (33.33%) DHCP
3 1 (33.33%) VPN
3 1 (33.33%) DNS
3 1 (33.33%) Project Management
3 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (33.33%) Windows Server

Senior 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Fibre Channel
1 2 (66.67%) SAN
2 1 (33.33%) DHCP
2 1 (33.33%) DNS
2 1 (33.33%) LAN
2 1 (33.33%) VPN
2 1 (33.33%) WAN
General
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Data Centre
1 2 (66.67%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (33.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) Linux
3 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (33.33%) High Availability
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Privileged Access Management
3 1 (33.33%) Project Management
3 1 (33.33%) RBAC
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (33.33%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Puppet
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (66.67%) Brocade