Infrastructure Specialist Contracts in London

Infrastructure Specialist
England > London

The median Infrastructure Specialist daily rate in London 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 369 456 573
Rank change year-on-year +87 +117 -110
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Specialist 17 31 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.097% 0.12% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.10% 0.13% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 25 33
10th Percentile £433 £418 £367
25th Percentile £475 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -1.96%
75th Percentile - £600 £625
90th Percentile £518 £645 £637
England median daily rate £500 £505 £513
% change year-on-year -0.99% -1.46% +16.48%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 16,330 24,760 37,101
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.44% 95.17% 95.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,815 17,998 27,187
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £443 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 318 281 441
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.07 £22.50 £23.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% - +13.45%
75th Percentile £46.05 £60.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.32 £82.25 £67.50
England median hourly rate £37.18 £44.77 £23.00
% change year-on-year -16.94% +94.63% +5.80%

Infrastructure Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Specialist in London

Infrastructure Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Specialist in London

Infrastructure Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Specialist in London

Infrastructure Specialist
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Specialist in London

Infrastructure Specialist
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London 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 London - 4 £500 - 1
Infrastructure Specialist
England

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

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 London region featuring Infrastructure Specialist in the job title.

1 12 (70.59%) VMware
2 11 (64.71%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (64.71%) AWS
3 9 (52.94%) Finance
3 9 (52.94%) ITIL
3 9 (52.94%) Windows
4 8 (47.06%) Linux
4 8 (47.06%) Microsoft
4 8 (47.06%) Active Directory
4 8 (47.06%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (47.06%) Ansible
4 8 (47.06%) Windows Server
5 7 (41.18%) Windows 10
5 7 (41.18%) ServiceNow
5 7 (41.18%) SCCM
5 7 (41.18%) Citrix
6 6 (35.29%) Unix
6 6 (35.29%) Qualys
6 6 (35.29%) Virtual Infrastructure
6 6 (35.29%) Security Patching
7 5 (29.41%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (29.41%) Vulnerability Management
7 5 (29.41%) Time Management
7 5 (29.41%) SLA
7 5 (29.41%) Management Information System
8 4 (23.53%) Disaster Recovery
8 4 (23.53%) Red Hat
8 4 (23.53%) Configuration Management
8 4 (23.53%) Data Centre
9 3 (17.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)

Infrastructure Specialist Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 11 (64.71%) AWS
2 8 (47.06%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (5.88%) Azure
3 1 (5.88%) Entra ID
3 1 (5.88%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) Firewall
1 1 (5.88%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (5.88%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
General
1 9 (52.94%) Finance
2 5 (29.41%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Social Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Banking
4 1 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 5 (29.41%) Management Information System
2 4 (23.53%) Data Centre
3 3 (17.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (5.88%) Onboarding
4 1 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (52.94%) Windows
2 8 (47.06%) Linux
2 8 (47.06%) Windows Server
3 7 (41.18%) Windows 10
4 6 (35.29%) Unix
5 3 (17.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (5.88%) CentOS
6 1 (5.88%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (52.94%) ITIL
2 6 (35.29%) Security Patching
2 6 (35.29%) Virtual Infrastructure
3 5 (29.41%) Time Management
3 5 (29.41%) Vulnerability Management
4 4 (23.53%) Configuration Management
4 4 (23.53%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (11.76%) Agile
5 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (11.76%) Vulnerability Remediation
6 1 (5.88%) Computer Science
6 1 (5.88%) Customer Service
6 1 (5.88%) Knowledge Transfer
6 1 (5.88%) Matrix Organization
6 1 (5.88%) Requirements Management
6 1 (5.88%) Vulnerability Assessment
6 1 (5.88%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.88%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (5.88%) Azure Certification
1 1 (5.88%) CEH
1 1 (5.88%) CISSP
1 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (5.88%) Degree
1 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
1 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (29.41%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (64.71%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (47.06%) Active Directory
3 2 (11.76%) Hyper-V
4 1 (5.88%) Docker
4 1 (5.88%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (47.06%) Ansible
2 7 (41.18%) SCCM
3 3 (17.65%) Progress Chef
4 2 (11.76%) Puppet
5 1 (5.88%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (70.59%) VMware
2 8 (47.06%) Microsoft
3 7 (41.18%) Citrix
3 7 (41.18%) ServiceNow
4 6 (35.29%) Qualys
5 4 (23.53%) Red Hat
6 1 (5.88%) Oracle
6 1 (5.88%) Sybase