Infrastructure Support Contracts in England

Infrastructure Support
UK > England

The median Infrastructure Support daily rate in England is £375 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 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
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 501 600 700
Rank change year-on-year +99 +100 -125
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Support 32 40 74
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.088% 0.083% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.095% 0.087% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 27 45
10th Percentile £155 £231 £240
25th Percentile £214 £294 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £400 £400
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% - +6.67%
75th Percentile £500 £509 £425
90th Percentile £522 £588 £571
UK median daily rate £340 £400 £400
% change year-on-year -15.00% - +14.29%

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 33,765 45,858 67,296
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.60% 95.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,417 32,568 47,999
10th Percentile £282 £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% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,442 1,343 1,842
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.27 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.72
Median hourly rate £36.92 £45.00 £23.03
Median % change year-on-year -17.97% +95.42% +5.92%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £64.98
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -18.89% +87.50% +6.67%

Infrastructure Support
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Support in England

Infrastructure Support
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Support in England

Infrastructure Support
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Support in England over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Support in England

Infrastructure Support
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Support in England

Infrastructure Support
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 Support within the England region over the 6 months to 19 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 +102 19 £385 -14.44% 8
South East +24 8 £210 -64.26% 10
North of England +24 2 £188 -21.05% 3
West Midlands +21 1 £320 -8.57% 1
Midlands +19 1 £320 -8.57% 2
Yorkshire +18 1 £215 -33.85% 3
North West +13 1 £160 -54.29%
East of England +12 1 £250 -35.48% 1
South West +6 1 £300 -39.09% 7
Infrastructure Support
UK

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

For the 6 months to 19 May 2024, Infrastructure Support 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 Support in the job title.

1 21 (65.63%) Windows
2 20 (62.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 18 (56.25%) Microsoft
4 16 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
4 16 (50.00%) Windows 10
5 15 (46.88%) Active Directory
6 13 (40.63%) VMware
6 13 (40.63%) Disaster Recovery
6 13 (40.63%) Windows Server
7 12 (37.50%) SCCM
7 12 (37.50%) VMware Infrastructure
8 11 (34.38%) Firewall
9 10 (31.25%) Finance
9 10 (31.25%) Azure
10 8 (25.00%) Citrix
10 8 (25.00%) Windows Server 2019
11 7 (21.88%) ITIL
11 7 (21.88%) SQL Server
11 7 (21.88%) ServiceNow
11 7 (21.88%) Windows 7
11 7 (21.88%) AWS
12 6 (18.75%) Security Cleared
12 6 (18.75%) Bloomberg
12 6 (18.75%) Refinitiv
12 6 (18.75%) Virtual Infrastructure
13 5 (15.63%) Data Centre
13 5 (15.63%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (15.63%) Windows Server 2016
13 5 (15.63%) SLA
13 5 (15.63%) Entra ID

Infrastructure Support 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:

Applications
1 3 (9.38%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.13%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 16 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 10 (31.25%) Azure
3 7 (21.88%) AWS
4 5 (15.63%) Entra ID
5 1 (3.13%) Google Sheets
5 1 (3.13%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 11 (34.38%) Firewall
2 3 (9.38%) Network Security
2 3 (9.38%) SAN
2 3 (9.38%) WAN
3 2 (6.25%) DHCP
3 2 (6.25%) DNS
4 1 (3.13%) LAN
4 1 (3.13%) NAS
4 1 (3.13%) Structured Cabling
4 1 (3.13%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (21.88%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.13%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (3.13%) MySQL
2 1 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
General
1 10 (31.25%) Finance
2 5 (15.63%) Organisational Skills
3 3 (9.38%) Banking
4 1 (3.13%) Retail
4 1 (3.13%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.63%) Data Centre
2 2 (6.25%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.13%) Fat Client
3 1 (3.13%) PKI
3 1 (3.13%) Public Cloud
3 1 (3.13%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 21 (65.63%) Windows
2 16 (50.00%) Windows 10
3 13 (40.63%) Windows Server
4 8 (25.00%) Windows Server 2019
5 7 (21.88%) Windows 7
6 5 (15.63%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (12.50%) Linux
8 3 (9.38%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (6.25%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (3.13%) Mac OS
10 1 (3.13%) Ubuntu
10 1 (3.13%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (62.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 13 (40.63%) Disaster Recovery
3 7 (21.88%) ITIL
4 6 (18.75%) Virtual Infrastructure
5 5 (15.63%) Time Management
6 3 (9.38%) Open Source
7 2 (6.25%) Business Continuity
7 2 (6.25%) Deployment Automation
7 2 (6.25%) Patch Management
7 2 (6.25%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (6.25%) Project Management
8 1 (3.13%) Antivirus Management
8 1 (3.13%) Break/Fix
8 1 (3.13%) Customer Service
8 1 (3.13%) Order Management
8 1 (3.13%) Proactive Monitoring
8 1 (3.13%) Project Delivery
8 1 (3.13%) Prototyping
8 1 (3.13%) Server Management
8 1 (3.13%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (9.38%) SQL
2 2 (6.25%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 4 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 3 (9.38%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (3.13%) CCNA
4 1 (3.13%) CCNP
4 1 (3.13%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (3.13%) Degree
4 1 (3.13%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (15.63%) SLA
2 1 (3.13%) PMO
System Software
1 15 (46.88%) Active Directory
2 12 (37.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (6.25%) Hyper-V
3 2 (6.25%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (3.13%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (3.13%) XenApp
4 1 (3.13%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 12 (37.50%) SCCM
2 3 (9.38%) WSUS
3 2 (6.25%) vCenter Server
4 1 (3.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (3.13%) Ansible
4 1 (3.13%) EMC NetWorker
4 1 (3.13%) McAfee ePO
4 1 (3.13%) Nessus
4 1 (3.13%) NetBackup
4 1 (3.13%) Red Hat Satellite
4 1 (3.13%) SCOM
4 1 (3.13%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 18 (56.25%) Microsoft
2 13 (40.63%) VMware
3 8 (25.00%) Citrix
4 7 (21.88%) ServiceNow
5 6 (18.75%) Bloomberg
5 6 (18.75%) Refinitiv
6 2 (6.25%) Oracle
6 2 (6.25%) Veeam
7 1 (3.13%) 3PAR
7 1 (3.13%) Cisco
7 1 (3.13%) Dell
7 1 (3.13%) EMC
7 1 (3.13%) Extreme Networks
7 1 (3.13%) Google
7 1 (3.13%) HP
7 1 (3.13%) Juniper
7 1 (3.13%) McAfee
7 1 (3.13%) Palo Alto
7 1 (3.13%) Red Hat
7 1 (3.13%) Symantec