IT Infrastructure Engineer Contracts in England

IT Infrastructure Engineer
UK > England

The median IT Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in England is £450 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 513 627 728
Rank change year-on-year +114 +101 -115
Contract jobs requiring an IT Infrastructure Engineer 18 19 49
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.049% 0.039% 0.069%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.053% 0.041% 0.072%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 15 38
10th Percentile £245 £380 £300
25th Percentile £291 £435 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £396
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +19.87% +21.92%
75th Percentile £638 £556 £438
90th Percentile - £670 £529
UK median daily rate £408 £475 £385
% change year-on-year -14.21% +23.38% +18.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £54.38 -
UK median hourly rate - £54.38 -

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%

IT Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Infrastructure Engineer in England

IT Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for IT Infrastructure Engineer in England

IT Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for IT Infrastructure Engineer in England

IT Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for IT Infrastructure Engineer in England

IT 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 IT Infrastructure 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
East of England +15 5 £625 +78.57% 5
Midlands +14 5 £275 -40.54% 9
North of England +31 3 £340 -32.00% 9
West Midlands +21 3 £275 -31.25% 1
London +100 2 £489 -26.54% 10
South East +19 2 £365 +26.99% 3
North West +16 2 - - 5
East Midlands +13 2 £338 -28.95% 8
South West +8 1 - - 2
Yorkshire - 1 £340 - 3
IT Infrastructure Engineer
UK

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

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

1 18 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 12 (66.67%) Microsoft
3 11 (61.11%) Active Directory
4 10 (55.56%) Windows
5 8 (44.44%) VMware
6 7 (38.89%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (38.89%) VMware Infrastructure
6 7 (38.89%) Hyper-V
7 6 (33.33%) Azure
7 6 (33.33%) Public Sector
8 5 (27.78%) Social Skills
8 5 (27.78%) Windows Server
8 5 (27.78%) Security Cleared
8 5 (27.78%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (27.78%) Linux
8 5 (27.78%) DHCP
8 5 (27.78%) DNS
9 4 (22.22%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (22.22%) Migration
9 4 (22.22%) Infrastructure Management
9 4 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
9 4 (22.22%) PowerShell
9 4 (22.22%) CrowdStrike
10 3 (16.67%) Roadmaps
10 3 (16.67%) DV Cleared
10 3 (16.67%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (16.67%) Technology Roadmap
10 3 (16.67%) Project Delivery
10 3 (16.67%) Telecoms
10 3 (16.67%) Firewall

IT 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 4 (22.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (5.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 6 (33.33%) Azure
2 5 (27.78%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (11.11%) AWS
3 2 (11.11%) Entra ID
4 1 (5.56%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (5.56%) GCP
4 1 (5.56%) IaaS
4 1 (5.56%) Mimecast
4 1 (5.56%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (27.78%) DHCP
1 5 (27.78%) DNS
2 3 (16.67%) Firewall
2 3 (16.67%) SAN
3 1 (5.56%) LAN
3 1 (5.56%) Network Security
3 1 (5.56%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (5.56%) TCP/IP
3 1 (5.56%) VLAN
3 1 (5.56%) VPN
3 1 (5.56%) WAN
3 1 (5.56%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (5.56%) Wireless
General
1 6 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 5 (27.78%) Social Skills
3 4 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (16.67%) Telecoms
5 2 (11.11%) Finance
6 1 (5.56%) Banking
6 1 (5.56%) Financial Institution
6 1 (5.56%) Front Office
6 1 (5.56%) Local Government
6 1 (5.56%) Manufacturing
6 1 (5.56%) Military
6 1 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Fat Client
1 2 (11.11%) NHS
1 2 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
1 2 (11.11%) Team-Oriented Environment
1 2 (11.11%) Thin Client
2 1 (5.56%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.56%) HP Storage
2 1 (5.56%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 10 (55.56%) Windows
2 5 (27.78%) Linux
2 5 (27.78%) Windows Server
3 2 (11.11%) Windows 10
3 2 (11.11%) Windows Server 2012
3 2 (11.11%) Windows Server 2016
3 2 (11.11%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (5.56%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 7 (38.89%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (22.22%) Infrastructure Management
3 4 (22.22%) Migration
4 3 (16.67%) Project Delivery
4 3 (16.67%) Roadmaps
4 3 (16.67%) Technology Roadmap
5 2 (11.11%) Configuration Management
5 2 (11.11%) Data Migration
5 2 (11.11%) Information Security
5 2 (11.11%) ITIL
5 2 (11.11%) Server Management
6 1 (5.56%) Agile
6 1 (5.56%) Business Intelligence
6 1 (5.56%) E-business
6 1 (5.56%) E-Commerce
6 1 (5.56%) Informatics
6 1 (5.56%) PRINCE2
6 1 (5.56%) Service Delivery
6 1 (5.56%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (22.22%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.56%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (27.78%) Security Cleared
2 3 (16.67%) DV Cleared
3 2 (11.11%) SC Cleared
4 1 (5.56%) A+ Certification
4 1 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (5.56%) CCNA
4 1 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (5.56%) Degree
4 1 (5.56%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (5.56%) Network+ Certification
4 1 (5.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) COBIT
1 1 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (5.56%) PCI DSS
1 1 (5.56%) QA
System Software
1 11 (61.11%) Active Directory
2 7 (38.89%) Hyper-V
2 7 (38.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (16.67%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (5.56%) KVM
4 1 (5.56%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (5.56%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (5.56%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (5.56%) VMware Workstation
4 1 (5.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (16.67%) SCCM
2 2 (11.11%) Nessus
3 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (5.56%) SCOM
3 1 (5.56%) Terraform
3 1 (5.56%) vCenter Server
3 1 (5.56%) WSUS
Vendors
1 12 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 8 (44.44%) VMware
3 4 (22.22%) CrowdStrike
4 3 (16.67%) Citrix
5 2 (11.11%) Cisco
5 2 (11.11%) Dell
5 2 (11.11%) HP
5 2 (11.11%) SolarWinds
6 1 (5.56%) Avaya
6 1 (5.56%) CyberArk
6 1 (5.56%) Fortinet
6 1 (5.56%) Netskope
6 1 (5.56%) Qualys
6 1 (5.56%) Sun