Infrastructure Engineering Contracts in Manchester

Infrastructure Engineering
North West > Manchester

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester with a requirement for Infrastructure Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Infrastructure Engineering over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 57 35 74
Rank change year-on-year -22 +39 -5
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 40 85 72
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 2.83% 4.67% 2.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.26% 5.13% 3.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 64 59
10th Percentile £313 £316 £245
25th Percentile £350 £413 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -13.16% +5.56% +22.45%
75th Percentile £531 £525 £538
90th Percentile £609 £538 £628
North West median daily rate £425 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -10.53% +5.56% +22.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £25.00
North West median hourly rate £45.59 - £22.50
% change year-on-year - - -40.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

Infrastructure Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,228 1,656 2,341
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 87.03% 91.04% 88.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 841 1,210 1,821
10th Percentile £325 £318 £265
25th Percentile £413 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £598 £588
90th Percentile £694 £675 £663
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 49 58
10th Percentile £12.44 £16.44 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.50 £20.00 £13.00
Median hourly rate £26.00 £35.00 £18.06
Median % change year-on-year -25.71% +93.83% +11.26%
75th Percentile £60.63 £43.75 £34.69
90th Percentile £73.70 £70.00 £75.00
North West median hourly rate £24.19 £35.02 £23.06
% change year-on-year -30.92% +51.88% +26.48%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing Infrastructure Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineering in Manchester

Infrastructure Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in Manchester.

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Engineering in Manchester

Infrastructure Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

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

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in Manchester

Infrastructure Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in Manchester.

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Engineering in Manchester

Infrastructure Engineering
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering within the Manchester 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
Wigan -1 6 £400 -
Bolton - 1 £480 -
Infrastructure Engineering
North West

Infrastructure Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 7 (17.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (10.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (5.00%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 28 (70.00%) Azure
2 16 (40.00%) AWS
3 9 (22.50%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (15.00%) Mimecast
5 5 (12.50%) GCP
5 5 (12.50%) Power Platform
6 2 (5.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (5.00%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (5.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (5.00%) Nutanix
6 2 (5.00%) SaaS
7 1 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.50%) Cohesity
7 1 (2.50%) Entra ID
7 1 (2.50%) IaaS
7 1 (2.50%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (27.50%) LAN
1 11 (27.50%) OSPF
1 11 (27.50%) WAN
1 11 (27.50%) Wireless
1 11 (27.50%) Wireless Security
2 10 (25.00%) Ethernet
2 10 (25.00%) VPN
3 4 (10.00%) Firewall
4 3 (7.50%) DHCP
4 3 (7.50%) DNS
5 2 (5.00%) SAN
5 2 (5.00%) TCP/IP
6 1 (2.50%) BGP
6 1 (2.50%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (2.50%) NAS
6 1 (2.50%) VLAN
6 1 (2.50%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (12.50%) Power BI
2 4 (10.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.50%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 6 (15.00%) Hudson
General
1 10 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (5.00%) German Language
2 2 (5.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (2.50%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 25 (62.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 11 (27.50%) Network Engineer
3 7 (17.50%) Azure Engineer
4 6 (15.00%) Senior
5 5 (12.50%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (12.50%) Lead
6 4 (10.00%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (10.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (10.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
6 4 (10.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (7.50%) Server Engineer
8 2 (5.00%) Architect
8 2 (5.00%) Azure Architect
8 2 (5.00%) Windows Engineer
8 2 (5.00%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (5.00%) Windows Server Engineer
9 1 (2.50%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 1 (2.50%) NetBackup Engineer
9 1 (2.50%) Senior DevOps
9 1 (2.50%) Server Migration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.50%) Node.js
1 1 (2.50%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.00%) Clustering
1 2 (5.00%) Private Cloud
2 1 (2.50%) Data Centre
2 1 (2.50%) Onboarding
2 1 (2.50%) Replication
2 1 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 13 (32.50%) Windows
2 12 (30.00%) Linux
3 5 (12.50%) Apple iOS
3 5 (12.50%) Windows Server
4 4 (10.00%) Mac OS
5 2 (5.00%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (2.50%) Android
6 1 (2.50%) Unix
6 1 (2.50%) VMS
6 1 (2.50%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (2.50%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (22.50%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (20.00%) Customer Service
3 6 (15.00%) Migration
4 5 (12.50%) CI/CD
4 5 (12.50%) DevOps
4 5 (12.50%) Network Virtualisation
5 4 (10.00%) Agile
5 4 (10.00%) Open Source
6 3 (7.50%) Project Delivery
6 3 (7.50%) Time Management
7 2 (5.00%) API Management
7 2 (5.00%) Data Architecture
7 2 (5.00%) Data Migration
7 2 (5.00%) ITIL
7 2 (5.00%) Load Balancing
7 2 (5.00%) Mentoring
7 2 (5.00%) Software Engineering
8 1 (2.50%) E-Commerce
8 1 (2.50%) Information Security
8 1 (2.50%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 5 (12.50%) SQL
3 1 (2.50%) JavaScript
3 1 (2.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 13 (32.50%) SC Cleared
3 7 (17.50%) CCNA
3 7 (17.50%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (7.50%) Degree
5 3 (7.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 2 (5.00%) Azure Certification
6 2 (5.00%) MCITP
6 2 (5.00%) VCAP
7 1 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (2.50%) DV Cleared
7 1 (2.50%) MCSA
7 1 (2.50%) MCSE
System Software
1 10 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 10 (25.00%) Hyper-V
1 10 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (7.50%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (7.50%) VMware NSX
3 2 (5.00%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (2.50%) Docker
4 1 (2.50%) Firmware
4 1 (2.50%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 7 (17.50%) Terraform
2 6 (15.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (2.50%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Clustering
3 1 (2.50%) NetBackup
3 1 (2.50%) vCenter Server
3 1 (2.50%) VxRail
Vendors
1 15 (37.50%) VMware
2 11 (27.50%) Microsoft
3 6 (15.00%) Sophos
4 4 (10.00%) Dell
5 3 (7.50%) Cisco
5 3 (7.50%) Nimble Storage
5 3 (7.50%) Red Hat
5 3 (7.50%) Veeam
6 2 (5.00%) 3PAR
6 2 (5.00%) Dell Compellent
6 2 (5.00%) HP
7 1 (2.50%) Brocade
7 1 (2.50%) Citrix
7 1 (2.50%) CyberArk
7 1 (2.50%) EMC
7 1 (2.50%) Meraki
7 1 (2.50%) NetApp
7 1 (2.50%) SolarWinds