Infrastructure Engineer Contracts in England

Infrastructure Engineer
UK > England

The median Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in England is £450 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 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
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 151 175 211
Rank change year-on-year +24 +36 +10
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 596 728 991
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.62% 1.49% 1.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.75% 1.57% 1.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 459 554 737
10th Percentile £300 £334 £306
25th Percentile £375 £405 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £550
90th Percentile £638 £675 £625
UK median daily rate £463 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -7.50% +11.11% +12.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 7
10th Percentile £20.73 £27.88 £31.85
25th Percentile £21.25 £48.48 £40.12
Median hourly rate £22.50 £63.84 £47.34
Median % change year-on-year -64.76% +34.85% +22.17%
75th Percentile £47.50 £65.00 £67.39
90th Percentile £73.95 £76.65 £68.02
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £61.62 £45.48
% change year-on-year -63.48% +35.48% +13.70%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 34,080 46,338 66,904
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.71% 94.61% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,599 32,894 47,614
10th Percentile £281 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £645 £663 £644
90th Percentile £750 £760 £740
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,444 1,371 1,856
10th Percentile £12.87 £14.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.96 £15.50
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +95.65% +4.55%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.30 £48.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £64.88
UK median hourly rate £37.34 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -17.02% +88.21% +6.27%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in England

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in England

Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in England over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in England

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in England

Infrastructure Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in England over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in England

Infrastructure Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 10 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
London +65 204 £450 -21.74% 68
South East +39 158 £450 -0.55% 66
North of England 0 85 £425 -5.56% 38
South West +11 81 £530 +0.95% 53
North West -7 53 £425 -10.53% 22
Midlands -2 41 £400 -10.11% 48
West Midlands +11 33 £425 -5.56% 25
Yorkshire +7 28 £380 -10.59% 13
East of England -11 21 £625 +35.14% 28
East Midlands -3 7 £338 -23.30% 23
North East +12 4 £438 +9.38% 5
Infrastructure Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 10 May 2024, 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 across the England region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 578 (96.98%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 266 (44.63%) Windows
3 248 (41.61%) VMware
4 236 (39.60%) Security Cleared
5 233 (39.09%) Active Directory
6 188 (31.54%) Azure
7 173 (29.03%) Microsoft
8 172 (28.86%) VMware Infrastructure
9 170 (28.52%) Windows Server
10 133 (22.32%) Linux
11 131 (21.98%) SC Cleared
12 124 (20.81%) DNS
13 118 (19.80%) Firewall
14 117 (19.63%) DV Cleared
15 100 (16.78%) Social Skills
16 98 (16.44%) PowerShell
16 98 (16.44%) Microsoft 365
17 93 (15.60%) DHCP
18 91 (15.27%) Migration
19 89 (14.93%) AWS
20 76 (12.75%) Public Sector
21 73 (12.25%) SCCM
22 70 (11.74%) SAN
23 66 (11.07%) Data Centre
24 63 (10.57%) ITIL
25 62 (10.40%) Hyper-V
26 61 (10.23%) Problem-Solving
26 61 (10.23%) vCenter Server
26 61 (10.23%) Cisco
27 60 (10.07%) Microsoft Exchange

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 60 (10.07%) Microsoft Exchange
2 31 (5.20%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.51%) Confluence
4 7 (1.17%) Apache
5 6 (1.01%) IIS
6 4 (0.67%) SharePoint Server
6 4 (0.67%) Tomcat
7 3 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.50%) WordPress
8 2 (0.34%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.17%) WebLogic
Applications
1 14 (2.35%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.67%) AutoCAD
2 4 (0.67%) Revit
3 1 (0.17%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.17%) Eikon
2 1 (0.17%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.17%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 188 (31.54%) Azure
2 98 (16.44%) Microsoft 365
3 89 (14.93%) AWS
4 52 (8.72%) Entra ID
5 29 (4.87%) IaaS
6 20 (3.36%) SaaS
7 17 (2.85%) PaaS
8 16 (2.68%) OCI
9 12 (2.01%) Azure DevOps
9 12 (2.01%) GCP
9 12 (2.01%) Power Platform
10 11 (1.85%) Amazon S3
10 11 (1.85%) Cloud Computing
11 10 (1.68%) Amazon EC2
11 10 (1.68%) OneDrive
12 9 (1.51%) Mimecast
13 8 (1.34%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 7 (1.17%) Dynamics 365
15 6 (1.01%) Azure AKS
15 6 (1.01%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 124 (20.81%) DNS
2 118 (19.80%) Firewall
3 93 (15.60%) DHCP
4 70 (11.74%) SAN
5 35 (5.87%) WAN
6 29 (4.87%) LAN
7 28 (4.70%) Network Security
8 26 (4.36%) NAS
9 23 (3.86%) VPN
10 22 (3.69%) TCP/IP
11 13 (2.18%) VSAN
12 12 (2.01%) Wi-Fi
12 12 (2.01%) Wireless
13 10 (1.68%) MPLS
14 9 (1.51%) iSCSI
14 9 (1.51%) SD-WAN
14 9 (1.51%) VLAN
15 8 (1.34%) Fibre Channel
15 8 (1.34%) OSPF
16 7 (1.17%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (9.56%) SQL Server
2 10 (1.68%) Power BI
3 7 (1.17%) MySQL
4 6 (1.01%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (0.84%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (0.67%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (0.67%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (0.34%) DB2
7 2 (0.34%) SAP HANA
7 2 (0.34%) Sisense
8 1 (0.17%) Adabas
8 1 (0.17%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (0.17%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.17%) Redis
Development Applications
1 13 (2.18%) Git
2 11 (1.85%) JIRA
3 9 (1.51%) Jenkins
4 7 (1.17%) GitLab
5 5 (0.84%) Hudson
6 2 (0.34%) Artifactory
6 2 (0.34%) Robot Framework
6 2 (0.34%) Selenium
6 2 (0.34%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.17%) CA Gen
7 1 (0.17%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.17%) VisualWorks
General
1 100 (16.78%) Social Skills
2 76 (12.75%) Public Sector
3 43 (7.21%) Finance
4 28 (4.70%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (3.36%) Documentation Skills
6 18 (3.02%) Banking
7 6 (1.01%) Legal
7 6 (1.01%) Manufacturing
8 5 (0.84%) Military
8 5 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (0.67%) Financial Institution
9 4 (0.67%) Front Office
9 4 (0.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (0.67%) Telecoms
10 3 (0.50%) French Language
10 3 (0.50%) Local Government
10 3 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.34%) Law
12 1 (0.17%) Advertising
12 1 (0.17%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (2.85%) Flash
2 4 (0.67%) .NET
2 4 (0.67%) AWS CDK
2 4 (0.67%) YAML
3 3 (0.50%) JSON
3 3 (0.50%) LAMP
4 2 (0.34%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (0.34%) Jinja
4 2 (0.34%) LDAP
4 2 (0.34%) Middleware
4 2 (0.34%) NETCONF
4 2 (0.34%) Redfish
4 2 (0.34%) RESTful
4 2 (0.34%) XML
4 2 (0.34%) YANG
5 1 (0.17%) EDI
5 1 (0.17%) SAML
5 1 (0.17%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 66 (11.07%) Data Centre
2 30 (5.03%) PKI
3 25 (4.19%) Replication
4 17 (2.85%) Private Cloud
5 14 (2.35%) Clustering
6 12 (2.01%) Driving Licence
7 8 (1.34%) Management Information System
7 8 (1.34%) Onboarding
7 8 (1.34%) Public Cloud
8 5 (0.84%) Client/Server
8 5 (0.84%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (0.84%) Linux Command Line
8 5 (0.84%) NHS
8 5 (0.84%) Video Conferencing
9 4 (0.67%) Fat Client
9 4 (0.67%) Thin Client
10 3 (0.50%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (0.34%) Cyber Threat
11 2 (0.34%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 2 (0.34%) LPAR
Operating Systems
1 266 (44.63%) Windows
2 170 (28.52%) Windows Server
3 133 (22.32%) Linux
4 58 (9.73%) Windows Server 2016
4 58 (9.73%) Windows Server 2019
5 53 (8.89%) Windows 10
6 44 (7.38%) Windows Server 2012
7 26 (4.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 22 (3.69%) Unix
9 15 (2.52%) Windows 7
10 14 (2.35%) Windows XP
11 12 (2.01%) AIX
11 12 (2.01%) Ubuntu
12 11 (1.85%) VMS
13 10 (1.68%) Windows Server 2008
14 7 (1.17%) Windows Server 2003
15 5 (0.84%) Apple iOS
15 5 (0.84%) CentOS
15 5 (0.84%) Mac OS
16 2 (0.34%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 578 (96.98%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 91 (15.27%) Migration
3 63 (10.57%) ITIL
4 61 (10.23%) Problem-Solving
5 54 (9.06%) DevOps
6 36 (6.04%) Infrastructure as Code
7 34 (5.70%) Disaster Recovery
8 33 (5.54%) Agile
8 33 (5.54%) Cybersecurity
9 30 (5.03%) Project Delivery
10 27 (4.53%) CI/CD
11 22 (3.69%) Storage Management
12 21 (3.52%) Change Management
12 21 (3.52%) Virtual Infrastructure
13 20 (3.36%) Containerisation
14 19 (3.19%) Server Management
14 19 (3.19%) Virtual Environments
15 18 (3.02%) Computer Science
15 18 (3.02%) Project Management
16 17 (2.85%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 98 (16.44%) PowerShell
2 33 (5.54%) Python
3 32 (5.37%) SQL
4 14 (2.35%) Bash
5 11 (1.85%) C#
5 11 (1.85%) Java
6 9 (1.51%) VBScript
7 4 (0.67%) TypeScript
8 3 (0.50%) C
8 3 (0.50%) PHP
8 3 (0.50%) VB.NET
9 2 (0.34%) Bicep
9 2 (0.34%) C++
9 2 (0.34%) Ruby
10 1 (0.17%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.17%) Korn
10 1 (0.17%) Natural
10 1 (0.17%) Perl
10 1 (0.17%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.17%) Smalltalk
Qualifications
1 236 (39.60%) Security Cleared
2 131 (21.98%) SC Cleared
3 117 (19.63%) DV Cleared
4 52 (8.72%) Degree
5 46 (7.72%) Cisco Certification
6 45 (7.55%) CCNA
7 25 (4.19%) CCNP
8 24 (4.03%) Microsoft Certification
9 20 (3.36%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 17 (2.85%) Azure Certification
11 10 (1.68%) MCSE
12 8 (1.34%) AWS Certification
12 8 (1.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 7 (1.17%) Computer Science Degree
14 5 (0.84%) Master's Degree
15 4 (0.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 4 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
15 4 (0.67%) Chartered Engineer
15 4 (0.67%) ITIL Certification
15 4 (0.67%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 8 (1.34%) NIST
2 6 (1.01%) QA
2 6 (1.01%) SLA
3 4 (0.67%) GDPR
4 3 (0.50%) Government Security Classifications
4 3 (0.50%) ISO 9001
4 3 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 3 (0.50%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.34%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.34%) NCSC
6 1 (0.17%) COBIT
6 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.17%) NIST 800
System Software
1 233 (39.09%) Active Directory
2 172 (28.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 62 (10.40%) Hyper-V
4 55 (9.23%) vSphere
5 46 (7.72%) VMware ESXi
6 26 (4.36%) VMware NSX
7 24 (4.03%) XenApp
8 22 (3.69%) Virtual Machines
9 16 (2.68%) Docker
10 8 (1.34%) Firmware
10 8 (1.34%) XenDesktop
11 4 (0.67%) Virtual Desktop
12 3 (0.50%) Virtual Servers
13 1 (0.17%) KVM
13 1 (0.17%) Terminal Services
13 1 (0.17%) VMware Server
13 1 (0.17%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 73 (12.25%) SCCM
2 61 (10.23%) vCenter Server
3 42 (7.05%) Terraform
4 33 (5.54%) Microsoft Intune
5 29 (4.87%) Ansible
5 29 (4.87%) WSUS
6 27 (4.53%) Kubernetes
7 26 (4.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 21 (3.52%) SCOM
9 14 (2.35%) EMC NetWorker
9 14 (2.35%) NetBackup
10 11 (1.85%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (0.84%) Puppet
11 5 (0.84%) VxRail
12 4 (0.67%) FortiGate
12 4 (0.67%) Microsoft Clustering
12 4 (0.67%) Nessus
13 3 (0.50%) Jamf Pro
13 3 (0.50%) Red Hat Satellite
13 3 (0.50%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 248 (41.61%) VMware
2 173 (29.03%) Microsoft
3 61 (10.23%) Cisco
4 52 (8.72%) Veeam
5 42 (7.05%) Citrix
6 30 (5.03%) Dell
6 30 (5.03%) HP
7 23 (3.86%) Palo Alto
7 23 (3.86%) Red Hat
8 21 (3.52%) Symantec
9 20 (3.36%) Juniper
10 19 (3.19%) Oracle
11 16 (2.68%) 3PAR
11 16 (2.68%) EMC
12 15 (2.52%) Ivanti
13 14 (2.35%) CA
13 14 (2.35%) Extreme Networks
13 14 (2.35%) IBM
14 13 (2.18%) Aruba
14 13 (2.18%) ServiceNow