Infrastructure Engineer Contracts in Leicestershire

Infrastructure Engineer
East Midlands > Leicestershire

The median Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in Leicestershire is £449 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 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
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 20 32 32
Rank change year-on-year +12 0 -6
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 6 5 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leicestershire 3.82% 3.09% 2.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.14% 3.16% 2.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 7
10th Percentile - £333 £300
25th Percentile £319 £363 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £449 £375 £373
Median % change year-on-year +19.73% +0.67% -21.58%
75th Percentile £474 £388 £394
90th Percentile £528 - £415
East Midlands median daily rate £412 £440 £398
% change year-on-year -6.36% +10.69% +38.26%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Leicestershire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Leicestershire. 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 Leicestershire with a recognized job title 145 158 292
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.36% 97.53% 93.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 140 242
10th Percentile £154 £212 £193
25th Percentile £258 £325 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £415 £400
Median % change year-on-year -9.64% +3.75% +18.52%
75th Percentile £563 £469 £485
90th Percentile £625 £578 £575
East Midlands median daily rate £411 £455 £425
% change year-on-year -9.76% +7.16% +13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 7 11
10th Percentile £14.98 £12.98 £14.82
25th Percentile £19.81 £14.08 £14.91
Median hourly rate £25.00 £18.38 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +36.02% -0.65% +15.63%
75th Percentile £27.81 £21.65 £31.38
90th Percentile £28.38 £22.53 £46.67
East Midlands median hourly rate £17.60 £20.71 £18.88
% change year-on-year -15.00% +9.70% +28.40%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in Leicestershire

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leicestershire

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in Leicestershire

Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Leicestershire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in Leicestershire over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in Leicestershire

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Leicestershire

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in Leicestershire

Infrastructure Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Leicestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer within the Leicestershire region over the 6 months to 23 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
Leicester +7 6 £449 +19.73% 2
Infrastructure Engineer
East Midlands

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

For the 6 months to 23 May 2024, 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 Leicestershire region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (66.67%) Windows
2 4 (66.67%) Active Directory
3 3 (50.00%) Public Sector
3 3 (50.00%) VMware
3 3 (50.00%) Windows Server
4 2 (33.33%) Entra ID
4 2 (33.33%) Hyper-V
4 2 (33.33%) Azure
4 2 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (33.33%) Linux
4 2 (33.33%) SCOM
4 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
4 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
4 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (16.67%) VMware Server
5 1 (16.67%) Release Management
5 1 (16.67%) SCCM
5 1 (16.67%) LAN
5 1 (16.67%) WAN
5 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
5 1 (16.67%) Red Hat
5 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
5 1 (16.67%) PRINCE2
5 1 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
5 1 (16.67%) SCSM
5 1 (16.67%) GitLab
5 1 (16.67%) Public Cloud
5 1 (16.67%) Red Hat Satellite

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leicestershire 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
1 2 (33.33%) Entra ID
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) LAN
1 1 (16.67%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) GitLab
General
1 3 (50.00%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Grid Computing
1 1 (16.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Windows
2 3 (50.00%) Windows Server
3 2 (33.33%) Linux
4 1 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (16.67%) PRINCE2
2 1 (16.67%) Release Management
2 1 (16.67%) Task Automation
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 2 (33.33%) Hyper-V
2 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (16.67%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) SCOM
2 1 (16.67%) Red Hat Satellite
2 1 (16.67%) SCCM
2 1 (16.67%) SCSM
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Red Hat