Infrastructure Engineering Contracts in the East of England

Infrastructure Engineering
England > East of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England with a requirement for Infrastructure Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Infrastructure Engineering over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 70 58 96
Rank change year-on-year -12 +38 -31
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 37 66 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 1.96% 3.30% 1.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.30% 3.77% 2.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 49 38
10th Percentile £268 £333 £313
25th Percentile £350 £413 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £506
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -1.23% +35.00%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £606
90th Percentile £725 £758 £706
England median daily rate £475 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +11.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

Infrastructure Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,612 1,749 2,247
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 85.34% 87.58% 87.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 678 1,014 1,279
10th Percentile £204 £205 £185
25th Percentile £332 £325 £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £571
90th Percentile £678 £700 £667
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 610 334 374
10th Percentile £14.16 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.39 £14.25 £13.25
Median hourly rate £40.14 £24.62 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year +63.03% +58.84% -15.16%
75th Percentile £61.88 £65.00 £43.29
90th Percentile £75.25 £70.00 £60.00
England median hourly rate £37.18 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.85% +50.00% +6.38%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Infrastructure Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineering in the East of England

Infrastructure Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Engineering in the East of England

Infrastructure Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in the East of England over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in the East of England

Infrastructure Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Engineering in the East of England

Infrastructure Engineering
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering within the East of England region over the 6 months to 11 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
Hertfordshire -7 21 £625 +8.70% 11
Bedfordshire +3 8 £525 - 3
Essex +5 6 £500 +11.11% 5
Suffolk +8 2 - -
Infrastructure Engineering
England

Infrastructure Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 5 (13.51%) IIS
2 3 (8.11%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 5 (13.51%) Azure
2 4 (10.81%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (5.41%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.11%) 4G
1 3 (8.11%) 5G
1 3 (8.11%) Wireless
2 1 (2.70%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.11%) SQL Server
General
1 6 (16.22%) Social Skills
1 6 (16.22%) Telecoms
2 2 (5.41%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 21 (56.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 9 (24.32%) Consultant
3 7 (18.92%) Design Engineer
3 7 (18.92%) Infrastructure Design Engineer
4 5 (13.51%) IT Engineer
4 5 (13.51%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (10.81%) Applications Engineer
5 4 (10.81%) Applications Support
5 4 (10.81%) Applications Support Engineer
5 4 (10.81%) Infrastructure Consultant
5 4 (10.81%) Support Engineer
5 4 (10.81%) Systems Support Engineer
5 4 (10.81%) Web Applications Engineer
5 4 (10.81%) Web Applications Support
5 4 (10.81%) Web Engineer
5 4 (10.81%) Web Support Engineer
6 3 (8.11%) Infrastructure Specialist
6 3 (8.11%) Network Engineer
6 3 (8.11%) Network Infrastructure Consultant
6 3 (8.11%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.81%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.51%) Data Centre
2 3 (8.11%) PKI
3 2 (5.41%) Fat Client
3 2 (5.41%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 8 (21.62%) Linux
2 7 (18.92%) Windows
3 4 (10.81%) Windows Server 2019
4 3 (8.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (8.11%) Windows Server
4 3 (8.11%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (5.41%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (29.73%) Migration
2 6 (16.22%) Project Delivery
2 6 (16.22%) Roadmaps
2 6 (16.22%) Technology Roadmap
3 5 (13.51%) IT Asset Management
3 5 (13.51%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (13.51%) Service Management
4 4 (10.81%) DevOps
4 4 (10.81%) Load Balancing
5 3 (8.11%) High Availability
5 3 (8.11%) Software Engineering
6 2 (5.41%) Data Migration
6 2 (5.41%) Infrastructure Management
7 1 (2.70%) Containerisation
7 1 (2.70%) Presales
7 1 (2.70%) Server Migrations
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.70%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 15 (40.54%) DV Cleared
1 15 (40.54%) Security Cleared
2 3 (8.11%) CCNA
2 3 (8.11%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (8.11%) DBS Check
3 1 (2.70%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.70%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (40.54%) Active Directory
2 9 (24.32%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (10.81%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (2.70%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 5 (13.51%) SCCM
2 4 (10.81%) SCOM
3 1 (2.70%) WSUS
Vendors
1 12 (32.43%) VMware
2 10 (27.03%) Microsoft
3 3 (8.11%) Cisco
3 3 (8.11%) Citrix
3 3 (8.11%) Red Hat
4 2 (5.41%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (2.70%) Remedy