Infrastructure Security Engineer Contracts in England

Infrastructure Security Engineer
UK > England

The median Infrastructure Security Engineer daily rate in England is £438 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 514 624 735
Rank change year-on-year +110 +111 -129
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Security Engineer 17 22 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.047% 0.045% 0.059%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.050% 0.048% 0.062%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 20 27
10th Percentile £255 £595 £306
25th Percentile £406 £600 £309
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £633 £400
Median % change year-on-year -30.83% +58.13% -20.00%
75th Percentile £538 £650 £444
90th Percentile £630 - £530
UK median daily rate £475 £615 £388
% change year-on-year -22.76% +58.71% -22.50%

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 33,767 45,838 67,777
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.60% 95.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,422 32,556 48,342
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% +7.14%
75th Percentile £644 £663 £644
90th Percentile £750 £760 £744
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +8.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,441 1,340 1,860
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.63
Median hourly rate £37.18 £44.77 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.94% +94.63% +5.80%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.05 £64.78
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Infrastructure Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Security Engineer in England

Infrastructure Security Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Security Engineer in England

Infrastructure Security Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Security Engineer in England

Infrastructure Security Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Security Engineer in England

Infrastructure Security 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 Security Engineer 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 13 £450 -30.77% 7
South East - 4 £431 - 6
Infrastructure Security Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 20 May 2024, Infrastructure Security 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 Security Engineer in the job title.

1 15 (88.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 8 (47.06%) VMware
2 8 (47.06%) Azure
3 7 (41.18%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (35.29%) Firewall
4 6 (35.29%) Windows
4 6 (35.29%) Active Directory
4 6 (35.29%) Social Skills
4 6 (35.29%) Windows Server
5 5 (29.41%) Cybersecurity
5 5 (29.41%) Microsoft
5 5 (29.41%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (29.41%) Management Information System
5 5 (29.41%) Information Security
5 5 (29.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (23.53%) SCCM
6 4 (23.53%) Network Security
6 4 (23.53%) Process Improvement
6 4 (23.53%) Data Centre
6 4 (23.53%) Cloud Security
7 3 (17.65%) CrowdStrike
7 3 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (17.65%) Netskope
7 3 (17.65%) Security Monitoring
7 3 (17.65%) Patch Management
7 3 (17.65%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (17.65%) Entra ID
7 3 (17.65%) Vulnerability Management
7 3 (17.65%) vSphere
7 3 (17.65%) AWS

Infrastructure Security 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 5 (29.41%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 8 (47.06%) Azure
2 3 (17.65%) AWS
2 3 (17.65%) Entra ID
2 3 (17.65%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (11.76%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (11.76%) Azure AKS
3 2 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (11.76%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (11.76%) Mimecast
4 1 (5.88%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 6 (35.29%) Firewall
2 4 (23.53%) Network Security
3 2 (11.76%) Internet
3 2 (11.76%) VSAN
3 2 (11.76%) WAN
3 2 (11.76%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (5.88%) BGP
4 1 (5.88%) DNS
4 1 (5.88%) EIGRP
4 1 (5.88%) IGRP
4 1 (5.88%) OSPF
4 1 (5.88%) RIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) JIRA
General
1 6 (35.29%) Social Skills
2 3 (17.65%) Banking
3 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (29.41%) Management Information System
2 4 (23.53%) Data Centre
3 2 (11.76%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (11.76%) Onboarding
4 1 (5.88%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (5.88%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 6 (35.29%) Windows
1 6 (35.29%) Windows Server
2 3 (17.65%) Linux
3 1 (5.88%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (88.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (29.41%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (29.41%) Information Security
3 4 (23.53%) Cloud Security
3 4 (23.53%) Process Improvement
4 3 (17.65%) ITIL
4 3 (17.65%) Patch Management
4 3 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (17.65%) Security Monitoring
4 3 (17.65%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (17.65%) Vulnerability Management
5 2 (11.76%) Agile
5 2 (11.76%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (11.76%) Incident Management
5 2 (11.76%) Investment Management
5 2 (11.76%) ISMS
5 2 (11.76%) OWASP
5 2 (11.76%) Problem Management
5 2 (11.76%) Release Management
5 2 (11.76%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 3 (17.65%) PowerShell
2 2 (11.76%) Python
3 1 (5.88%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (17.65%) Degree
2 2 (11.76%) SC Cleared
2 2 (11.76%) Security Cleared
2 2 (11.76%) VCAP
2 2 (11.76%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (29.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (17.65%) COBIT
2 3 (17.65%) PCI DSS
3 2 (11.76%) GDPR
3 2 (11.76%) NCSC
System Software
1 7 (41.18%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (35.29%) Active Directory
3 3 (17.65%) vSphere
4 2 (11.76%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (11.76%) VMware NSX
4 2 (11.76%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 4 (23.53%) SCCM
2 2 (11.76%) CASB
2 2 (11.76%) FortiGate
2 2 (11.76%) Kubernetes
2 2 (11.76%) SCOrch
2 2 (11.76%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (5.88%) vRealize
3 1 (5.88%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 8 (47.06%) VMware
2 5 (29.41%) Microsoft
3 3 (17.65%) CrowdStrike
3 3 (17.65%) Netskope
4 2 (11.76%) Citrix
4 2 (11.76%) Imperva
4 2 (11.76%) Palo Alto
4 2 (11.76%) Red Hat
5 1 (5.88%) CA
5 1 (5.88%) Cisco
5 1 (5.88%) Google
5 1 (5.88%) Okta
5 1 (5.88%) Qualys
5 1 (5.88%) ServiceNow
5 1 (5.88%) Veeam