Infrastructure Management Contracts in England

Infrastructure Management
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Infrastructure Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Infrastructure Management over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 418 558 680
Rank change year-on-year +140 +122 -128
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Management 113 88 97
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.31% 0.18% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 0.20% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 60 64
10th Percentile £183 £415 £363
25th Percentile £350 £500 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £581
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% -5.38% +29.17%
75th Percentile £593 £659 £750
90th Percentile £675 £728 £775
UK median daily rate £456 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -17.05% +3.77% +17.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £34.25 £20.75
Median hourly rate £23.80 £35.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -32.96% +65.12% -41.10%
75th Percentile - £36.75 £22.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £23.80 £35.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -32.96% +65.12% -41.10%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Infrastructure Management 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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,426 43,648 64,496
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.34% 90.08% 90.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,611 30,630 45,872
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £450 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,247 1,533 1,757
10th Percentile £12.92 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.13 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.54 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.11% +46.16% +8.70%
75th Percentile £60.13 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +7.00%

Infrastructure Management
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Infrastructure Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Management in England

Infrastructure Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Management in England

Infrastructure Management
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Management in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Management in England

Infrastructure Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Management in England

Infrastructure Management
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 Management within the England region over the 6 months to 20 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 +97 41 £475 -17.39% 37
South East +41 31 £433 -13.50% 22
West Midlands +31 16 £550 +25.71% 10
Midlands +24 16 £550 +10.00% 11
North of England +34 14 £463 -13.95% 23
North West +22 11 £500 -4.76% 9
South West +14 8 £183 -75.67% 6
Yorkshire +17 3 £450 -35.71% 11
East of England +6 2 - - 6
Infrastructure Management
UK

Infrastructure Management
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 8 (7.08%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (5.31%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (4.42%) Apache
4 4 (3.54%) Confluence
4 4 (3.54%) SharePoint
5 3 (2.65%) CMS
6 2 (1.77%) IIS
7 1 (0.88%) SharePoint 2010
7 1 (0.88%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 2 (1.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.88%) AutoCAD
2 1 (0.88%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 44 (38.94%) AWS
2 28 (24.78%) Azure
3 16 (14.16%) Amazon S3
3 16 (14.16%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 15 (13.27%) Amazon EC2
5 10 (8.85%) Entra ID
6 9 (7.96%) AWS Lambda
6 9 (7.96%) Serverless
7 7 (6.19%) Cloud Computing
7 7 (6.19%) GCP
7 7 (6.19%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (6.19%) Power Platform
8 6 (5.31%) GitHub
9 5 (4.42%) CloudFront
10 4 (3.54%) IaaS
10 4 (3.54%) PaaS
10 4 (3.54%) SaaS
11 3 (2.65%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (2.65%) Google Workspace
11 3 (2.65%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 16 (14.16%) DNS
2 15 (13.27%) VPN
3 12 (10.62%) Firewall
3 12 (10.62%) Network Security
4 8 (7.08%) LAN
4 8 (7.08%) TCP/IP
4 8 (7.08%) Wi-Fi
5 7 (6.19%) SAN
6 6 (5.31%) NAS
6 6 (5.31%) Wireless
7 5 (4.42%) Radio Access Network
8 4 (3.54%) DHCP
8 4 (3.54%) Fibre Channel
8 4 (3.54%) iSCSI
8 4 (3.54%) SSL
8 4 (3.54%) VLAN
8 4 (3.54%) VoIP
8 4 (3.54%) WAN
9 3 (2.65%) Internet
10 2 (1.77%) Extranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.96%) Amazon Redshift
2 7 (6.19%) Power BI
3 5 (4.42%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (3.54%) MySQL
4 4 (3.54%) Tableau
5 3 (2.65%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.77%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.77%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.88%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.88%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.88%) Bigtable
7 1 (0.88%) CockroachDB
7 1 (0.88%) Couchbase
7 1 (0.88%) CouchDB
7 1 (0.88%) Metadata
7 1 (0.88%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.88%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.88%) PowerPivot
7 1 (0.88%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 15 (13.27%) Git
2 10 (8.85%) GitLab
3 6 (5.31%) Bitbucket
3 6 (5.31%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.65%) Cypress.io
4 3 (2.65%) JIRA
5 1 (0.88%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.88%) Jaeger
5 1 (0.88%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.88%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.88%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.88%) Spinnaker
5 1 (0.88%) TeamCity
General
1 43 (38.05%) Social Skills
2 22 (19.47%) Telecoms
3 17 (15.04%) Finance
4 15 (13.27%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (12.39%) Public Sector
6 13 (11.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (4.42%) Retail
8 4 (3.54%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (3.54%) Legal
9 3 (2.65%) Marketing
10 2 (1.77%) Electronics
10 2 (1.77%) Law
10 2 (1.77%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.88%) Advertising
11 1 (0.88%) Front Office
11 1 (0.88%) Military
11 1 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (15.93%) Senior
2 14 (12.39%) Analyst
3 13 (11.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 13 (11.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 8 (7.08%) Cloud Engineer
5 7 (6.19%) Architect
5 7 (6.19%) AWS DevOps
5 7 (6.19%) Security Engineer
5 7 (6.19%) Senior Analyst
6 6 (5.31%) AWS Engineer
6 6 (5.31%) IT Engineer
6 6 (5.31%) Lead
6 6 (5.31%) Network Engineer
6 6 (5.31%) Platform Engineer
6 6 (5.31%) Support Engineer
7 5 (4.42%) Applications Engineer
7 5 (4.42%) AWS Developer
7 5 (4.42%) Developer
7 5 (4.42%) Senior DevOps
8 4 (3.54%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (6.19%) SAML
2 5 (4.42%) OAuth
2 5 (4.42%) OAuth2
3 3 (2.65%) Next.js
3 3 (2.65%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (1.77%) NETCONF
4 2 (1.77%) PySpark
4 2 (1.77%) Software Packaging
5 1 (0.88%) CSS
5 1 (0.88%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.88%) HTML
5 1 (0.88%) Laravel
5 1 (0.88%) Node.js
5 1 (0.88%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (0.88%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (9.73%) Enterprise Software
2 8 (7.08%) Data Centre
2 8 (7.08%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (4.42%) Cloud Native
3 5 (4.42%) Virtual Team
4 4 (3.54%) Fat Client
4 4 (3.54%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.54%) Thin Client
5 3 (2.65%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (2.65%) Replication
6 2 (1.77%) IoT
6 2 (1.77%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.77%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.77%) PKI
6 2 (1.77%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.88%) Clustering
7 1 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.88%) Digital Media
7 1 (0.88%) HP Storage
7 1 (0.88%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 28 (24.78%) Windows
2 18 (15.93%) Linux
3 8 (7.08%) Unix
4 6 (5.31%) Windows Server
5 3 (2.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (2.65%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (1.77%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (27.43%) CI/CD
2 30 (26.55%) Problem-Solving
3 23 (20.35%) Agile
4 21 (18.58%) DevOps
5 20 (17.70%) Infrastructure as Code
6 19 (16.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 18 (15.93%) Customer-Centricity
8 15 (13.27%) Migration
9 14 (12.39%) Collaborative Working
10 12 (10.62%) Containerisation
10 12 (10.62%) Task Automation
11 11 (9.73%) Computer Science
11 11 (9.73%) Continuous Improvement
11 11 (9.73%) Project Management
12 10 (8.85%) Configuration Management
12 10 (8.85%) Data Migration
13 9 (7.96%) Business Intelligence
13 9 (7.96%) Incident Response
13 9 (7.96%) Server Management
13 9 (7.96%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 28 (24.78%) Python
2 13 (11.50%) PowerShell
3 12 (10.62%) Bash
4 10 (8.85%) SQL
5 6 (5.31%) Go
6 4 (3.54%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.77%) Java
7 2 (1.77%) PHP
7 2 (1.77%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.88%) VBA
Qualifications
1 17 (15.04%) Degree
2 14 (12.39%) Security Cleared
3 12 (10.62%) Cisco Certification
3 12 (10.62%) SC Cleared
4 8 (7.08%) CCNA
5 7 (6.19%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (6.19%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (5.31%) MCSE
7 5 (4.42%) AWS Certification
7 5 (4.42%) CCNP
7 5 (4.42%) DV Cleared
8 4 (3.54%) CCIE
8 4 (3.54%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 1 (0.88%) CTC Cleared
9 1 (0.88%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.88%) MCITP
9 1 (0.88%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.88%) PMP
9 1 (0.88%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 1 (0.88%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.19%) QA
2 6 (5.31%) Data Quality
2 6 (5.31%) SLA
3 3 (2.65%) NIST
3 3 (2.65%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.77%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 20 (17.70%) Active Directory
2 18 (15.93%) Docker
3 12 (10.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (5.31%) Hyper-V
5 4 (3.54%) Firmware
5 4 (3.54%) vSphere
6 2 (1.77%) BitLocker
6 2 (1.77%) Microsoft App-V
6 2 (1.77%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.88%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 23 (20.35%) Terraform
2 19 (16.81%) Ansible
3 18 (15.93%) Kubernetes
4 5 (4.42%) SCCM
5 4 (3.54%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 4 (3.54%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (2.65%) SCOM
7 2 (1.77%) Grafana
7 2 (1.77%) NetBackup
7 2 (1.77%) Nmap
7 2 (1.77%) OpenNMS
7 2 (1.77%) Prometheus
7 2 (1.77%) SCVMM
7 2 (1.77%) VxRail
8 1 (0.88%) Argo
8 1 (0.88%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.88%) Istio
8 1 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.88%) vRealize
Vendors
1 19 (16.81%) Microsoft
2 17 (15.04%) VMware
3 9 (7.96%) Cisco
4 4 (3.54%) Dell
4 4 (3.54%) Google
4 4 (3.54%) Red Hat
4 4 (3.54%) Salesforce
5 3 (2.65%) Atlassian
5 3 (2.65%) BT
5 3 (2.65%) HP
5 3 (2.65%) Informatica
5 3 (2.65%) Juniper
5 3 (2.65%) SAP
5 3 (2.65%) SolarWinds
5 3 (2.65%) Splunk
6 2 (1.77%) Dell Compellent
6 2 (1.77%) Equitrac
6 2 (1.77%) F5
6 2 (1.77%) Meraki
6 2 (1.77%) MobileIron