Infrastructure Specialist Contracts in England

Infrastructure Specialist
UK > England

The median Infrastructure Specialist daily rate in England is £500 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 498 591 702
Rank change year-on-year +93 +111 -116
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Specialist 33 55 75
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.091% 0.11% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.098% 0.12% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 39 58
10th Percentile £263 £395 £224
25th Percentile £389 £425 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £513
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% -1.46% +16.48%
75th Percentile £597 £600 £625
90th Percentile £653 £640 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £21.78
UK median hourly rate - - £21.78
% change year-on-year - - -63.70%

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 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 Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Specialist in England

Infrastructure Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Specialist in England

Infrastructure Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Specialist in England

Infrastructure Specialist
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Specialist in England

Infrastructure Specialist
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 Specialist 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 +87 17 £500 -4.76% 4
East Midlands +22 6 £416 -12.37% 1
Midlands +22 6 £416 -2.06% 2
South East +21 5 £275 -54.17% 4
East of England +15 5 £625 +25.00% 1
Infrastructure Specialist
UK

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

For the 6 months to 20 May 2024, 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 across the England region featuring Infrastructure Specialist in the job title.

1 17 (51.52%) Windows
2 16 (48.48%) VMware
3 15 (45.45%) Microsoft
3 15 (45.45%) Windows Server
4 14 (42.42%) AWS
4 14 (42.42%) Active Directory
5 13 (39.39%) Linux
6 12 (36.36%) ITIL
6 12 (36.36%) VMware Infrastructure
7 11 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
8 10 (30.30%) Ansible
9 9 (27.27%) Azure
9 9 (27.27%) Citrix
9 9 (27.27%) Finance
9 9 (27.27%) SCCM
10 7 (21.21%) SLA
10 7 (21.21%) Disaster Recovery
10 7 (21.21%) Windows 10
10 7 (21.21%) Problem-Solving
10 7 (21.21%) ServiceNow
10 7 (21.21%) Security Cleared
11 6 (18.18%) Qualys
11 6 (18.18%) Virtual Infrastructure
11 6 (18.18%) Security Patching
11 6 (18.18%) Unix
11 6 (18.18%) Social Skills
12 5 (15.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 5 (15.15%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (15.15%) Management Information System
12 5 (15.15%) Analytical Skills

Infrastructure Specialist 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 2 (6.06%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 14 (42.42%) AWS
2 11 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (27.27%) Azure
4 4 (12.12%) Entra ID
5 2 (6.06%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (3.03%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.06%) LAN
1 2 (6.06%) NetScaler
1 2 (6.06%) WAN
2 1 (3.03%) Firewall
2 1 (3.03%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (3.03%) NAS
2 1 (3.03%) Network Security
2 1 (3.03%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.09%) SQL Server
2 2 (6.06%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 2 (6.06%) GitLab
General
1 9 (27.27%) Finance
2 6 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 5 (15.15%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (15.15%) Organisational Skills
4 4 (12.12%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (9.09%) Telecoms
6 1 (3.03%) Banking
6 1 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (3.03%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.06%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (3.03%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.15%) Management Information System
2 4 (12.12%) Data Centre
2 4 (12.12%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (9.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (3.03%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.03%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (51.52%) Windows
2 15 (45.45%) Windows Server
3 13 (39.39%) Linux
4 7 (21.21%) Windows 10
5 6 (18.18%) Unix
6 3 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (3.03%) CentOS
7 1 (3.03%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (36.36%) ITIL
2 7 (21.21%) Disaster Recovery
2 7 (21.21%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (18.18%) Security Patching
3 6 (18.18%) Virtual Infrastructure
4 5 (15.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 5 (15.15%) Time Management
4 5 (15.15%) Vulnerability Management
5 4 (12.12%) Computer Science
5 4 (12.12%) Configuration Management
5 4 (12.12%) Customer Service
6 3 (9.09%) Agile
6 3 (9.09%) Migration
6 3 (9.09%) Project Delivery
6 3 (9.09%) Roadmaps
6 3 (9.09%) Technology Roadmap
7 2 (6.06%) Asset Management
7 2 (6.06%) Infrastructure as Code
7 2 (6.06%) Problem Management
7 2 (6.06%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 2 (6.06%) PowerShell
2 1 (3.03%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (21.21%) Security Cleared
2 4 (12.12%) Azure Certification
2 4 (12.12%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (12.12%) Degree
2 4 (12.12%) SC Cleared
3 3 (9.09%) DV Cleared
4 2 (6.06%) Citrix Certification
4 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (3.03%) CEH
5 1 (3.03%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (21.21%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (42.42%) Active Directory
2 12 (36.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (12.12%) vSphere
4 2 (6.06%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 2 (6.06%) Hyper-V
4 2 (6.06%) XenApp
4 2 (6.06%) XenDesktop
5 1 (3.03%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (30.30%) Ansible
2 9 (27.27%) SCCM
3 3 (9.09%) Progress Chef
3 3 (9.09%) SCOM
4 2 (6.06%) Puppet
4 2 (6.06%) SCSM
4 2 (6.06%) Terraform
5 1 (3.03%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 16 (48.48%) VMware
2 15 (45.45%) Microsoft
3 9 (27.27%) Citrix
4 7 (21.21%) ServiceNow
5 6 (18.18%) Qualys
6 4 (12.12%) Red Hat
7 1 (3.03%) Oracle
7 1 (3.03%) Sybase