Infrastructure Engineer Contracts in the North of England

Infrastructure Engineer
England > North of England

The median Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in the North of England is £425 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 101 100 108
Rank change year-on-year -1 +8 +17
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 86 124 156
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.84% 2.18% 2.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.97% 2.29% 2.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 84 111
10th Percentile £285 £308 £258
25th Percentile £344 £341 £328
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +5.88% +21.43%
75th Percentile £500 £500 £500
90th Percentile £615 £550 £600
England median daily rate £463 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -7.50% +11.11% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £21.25 - -
Median hourly rate £22.50 - £20.00
75th Percentile £23.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £22.50 £63.84 £53.91
% change year-on-year -64.76% +18.43% +39.12%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 4,358 5,423 6,862
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.20% 95.37% 96.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,728 3,821 5,048
10th Percentile £263 £281 £200
25th Percentile £387 £411 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.80% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £580 £600 £556
90th Percentile £672 £684 £640
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 399 154 276
10th Percentile £11.06 £14.08 £11.00
25th Percentile £12.53 £18.52 £14.25
Median hourly rate £20.74 £30.65 £18.69
Median % change year-on-year -32.33% +63.96% +4.43%
75th Percentile £46.18 £51.66 £29.88
90th Percentile £62.50 £66.48 £51.60
England median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £22.55
% change year-on-year -17.38% +99.60% +2.48%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the North of England

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the North of England

Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in the North of England over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in the North of England

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the North of England

Infrastructure Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 9 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
North West -7 53 £425 -10.53% 23
Yorkshire +9 29 £380 -10.59% 12
North East +9 4 £438 +9.38% 5
Infrastructure Engineer
England

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 9 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 North of England region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 84 (97.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 35 (40.70%) Azure
3 33 (38.37%) Windows
4 32 (37.21%) Microsoft
5 30 (34.88%) VMware
6 27 (31.40%) Active Directory
7 21 (24.42%) Migration
8 20 (23.26%) VMware Infrastructure
9 19 (22.09%) Security Cleared
9 19 (22.09%) Windows Server
10 17 (19.77%) AWS
11 14 (16.28%) SC Cleared
12 13 (15.12%) Linux
12 13 (15.12%) Microsoft 365
13 12 (13.95%) Hyper-V
14 11 (12.79%) DNS
15 10 (11.63%) DHCP
15 10 (11.63%) SQL
15 10 (11.63%) Finance
15 10 (11.63%) Social Skills
16 9 (10.47%) Public Sector
16 9 (10.47%) Data Centre
16 9 (10.47%) SQL Server
17 8 (9.30%) LAN
17 8 (9.30%) WAN
17 8 (9.30%) Cisco
17 8 (9.30%) Firewall
17 8 (9.30%) PowerShell
17 8 (9.30%) Problem-Solving
18 7 (8.14%) Terraform

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 7 (8.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (6.98%) SharePoint
3 3 (3.49%) Apache
3 3 (3.49%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 6 (6.98%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (4.65%) AutoCAD
2 4 (4.65%) Revit
Business Applications
1 1 (1.16%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 35 (40.70%) Azure
2 17 (19.77%) AWS
3 13 (15.12%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (6.98%) Cloud Computing
4 6 (6.98%) Entra ID
5 5 (5.81%) IaaS
5 5 (5.81%) SaaS
6 4 (4.65%) GCP
6 4 (4.65%) Mimecast
6 4 (4.65%) Power Platform
7 3 (3.49%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (3.49%) Amazon S3
7 3 (3.49%) PaaS
7 3 (3.49%) Snowflake
7 3 (3.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (2.33%) Nutanix
9 1 (1.16%) AWS KMS
9 1 (1.16%) Azure AKS
9 1 (1.16%) Azure Key Vault
9 1 (1.16%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 11 (12.79%) DNS
2 10 (11.63%) DHCP
3 8 (9.30%) Firewall
3 8 (9.30%) LAN
3 8 (9.30%) WAN
4 6 (6.98%) SAN
5 4 (4.65%) Wi-Fi
5 4 (4.65%) Wireless
5 4 (4.65%) Wireless Security
6 3 (3.49%) Ethernet
6 3 (3.49%) OSPF
6 3 (3.49%) VPN
7 2 (2.33%) VSAN
8 1 (1.16%) Cisco ASA
8 1 (1.16%) Internet
8 1 (1.16%) iSCSI
8 1 (1.16%) NetScaler
8 1 (1.16%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (1.16%) TCP/IP
8 1 (1.16%) WAAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (10.47%) SQL Server
2 4 (4.65%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (4.65%) Power BI
3 3 (3.49%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (4.65%) Hudson
2 3 (3.49%) Git
General
1 10 (11.63%) Finance
1 10 (11.63%) Social Skills
2 9 (10.47%) Public Sector
3 6 (6.98%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (4.65%) Banking
5 2 (2.33%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.33%) Legal
5 2 (2.33%) Military
6 1 (1.16%) Back Office
6 1 (1.16%) Local Government
6 1 (1.16%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.33%) Redfish
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.47%) Data Centre
2 3 (3.49%) PKI
3 2 (2.33%) Clustering
3 2 (2.33%) Management Information System
3 2 (2.33%) NHS
3 2 (2.33%) Onboarding
3 2 (2.33%) Private Cloud
3 2 (2.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (1.16%) Client/Server
4 1 (1.16%) CMDB
4 1 (1.16%) Driving Licence
4 1 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.16%) LIMS
4 1 (1.16%) Operational Technology
4 1 (1.16%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.16%) Replication
4 1 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 33 (38.37%) Windows
2 19 (22.09%) Windows Server
3 13 (15.12%) Linux
4 6 (6.98%) Windows Server 2012
5 4 (4.65%) Apple iOS
5 4 (4.65%) CentOS
5 4 (4.65%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (3.49%) Mac OS
6 3 (3.49%) Windows 10
7 2 (2.33%) Unix
7 2 (2.33%) Windows 7
7 2 (2.33%) Windows Server 2008
7 2 (2.33%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (1.16%) Android
8 1 (1.16%) Debian
8 1 (1.16%) Ubuntu
8 1 (1.16%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (97.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 21 (24.42%) Migration
3 8 (9.30%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (8.14%) CI/CD
5 6 (6.98%) DevOps
6 5 (5.81%) Customer Service
6 5 (5.81%) Network Virtualisation
6 5 (5.81%) Open Source
7 4 (4.65%) 3D Modelling
7 4 (4.65%) CAE
7 4 (4.65%) Computer Science
7 4 (4.65%) Due Diligence
7 4 (4.65%) Information Security
7 4 (4.65%) Service Delivery
7 4 (4.65%) Strategic Planning
7 4 (4.65%) Task Automation
8 3 (3.49%) Change Management
8 3 (3.49%) Data Integration
8 3 (3.49%) Data Migration
8 3 (3.49%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 10 (11.63%) SQL
2 8 (9.30%) PowerShell
3 3 (3.49%) Bash
3 3 (3.49%) Python
Qualifications
1 19 (22.09%) Security Cleared
2 14 (16.28%) SC Cleared
3 6 (6.98%) CCNA
3 6 (6.98%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (5.81%) Degree
4 5 (5.81%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (4.65%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 2 (2.33%) A+ Certification
6 2 (2.33%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.33%) DV Cleared
6 2 (2.33%) MCITP
6 2 (2.33%) Network+ Certification
6 2 (2.33%) VCAP
7 1 (1.16%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.16%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.16%) MCSA
7 1 (1.16%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.33%) Accessibility
1 2 (2.33%) QA
System Software
1 27 (31.40%) Active Directory
2 20 (23.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (13.95%) Hyper-V
4 4 (4.65%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (3.49%) VMware NSX
6 2 (2.33%) Firmware
6 2 (2.33%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (2.33%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (2.33%) vSphere
7 1 (1.16%) KVM
7 1 (1.16%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (1.16%) VMware Workstation
7 1 (1.16%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 7 (8.14%) Terraform
2 6 (6.98%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (4.65%) vCenter Server
4 3 (3.49%) SCCM
5 2 (2.33%) Grafana
5 2 (2.33%) MaaS360
6 1 (1.16%) Avamar
6 1 (1.16%) CA Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.16%) FortiGate
6 1 (1.16%) Kubernetes
6 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Clustering
6 1 (1.16%) Nessus
6 1 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.16%) SolarWinds Orion
6 1 (1.16%) VxRail
6 1 (1.16%) WSUS
6 1 (1.16%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 32 (37.21%) Microsoft
2 30 (34.88%) VMware
3 8 (9.30%) Cisco
4 5 (5.81%) Dell
4 5 (5.81%) Sophos
5 4 (4.65%) Red Hat
5 4 (4.65%) Veeam
6 3 (3.49%) CA
6 3 (3.49%) Citrix
6 3 (3.49%) HP
6 3 (3.49%) Informatica
6 3 (3.49%) MEDITECH
6 3 (3.49%) Nimble Storage
7 2 (2.33%) 3PAR
7 2 (2.33%) CyberArk
7 2 (2.33%) Dell Compellent
7 2 (2.33%) Dell KACE
7 2 (2.33%) Meraki
8 1 (1.16%) Aruba
8 1 (1.16%) ServiceNow