Infrastructure Engineering Contracts in the South East

Infrastructure Engineering
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 42 76 86
Rank change year-on-year +34 +10 +6
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 225 159 229
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 4.08% 2.81% 3.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.83% 3.15% 3.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 127 189
10th Percentile £314 £333 £306
25th Percentile £381 £355 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £455 £450
Median % change year-on-year +1.65% +1.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £608 £550 £550
90th Percentile £674 £680 £651
England median daily rate £475 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 8 4
10th Percentile - £34.23 £38.43
25th Percentile £51.06 £49.38 £55.03
Median hourly rate £61.25 £56.50 £66.76
Median % change year-on-year +8.41% -15.37% +134.25%
75th Percentile £68.75 £60.31 £68.02
90th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 -
England median hourly rate £54.88 £63.84 £43.06
% change year-on-year -14.04% +48.26% +11.12%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,658 5,044 6,836
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 84.40% 89.18% 89.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,721 3,504 4,640
10th Percentile £250 £250 £226
25th Percentile £400 £400 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.86% +2.00% +9.29%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £594
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 436 222 278
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.31 £12.24
25th Percentile £18.20 £22.16 £15.50
Median hourly rate £47.50 £49.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% +130.23% -19.63%
75th Percentile £62.50 £64.63 £47.50
90th Percentile £76.86 £75.00 £60.45
England median hourly rate £37.18 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.85% +50.00% +6.38%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Infrastructure Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineering in the South East

Infrastructure Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Engineering in the South East

Infrastructure Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in the South East over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in the South East

Infrastructure Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Engineering in the South East

Infrastructure Engineering
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in the South East over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in the South East

Infrastructure Engineering
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 11 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
Hampshire +16 83 £600 +20.00% 28
Thames Valley +20 82 £465 +3.33% 28
Berkshire +16 59 £550 -6.38% 14
West Sussex +32 27 £450 +5.88% 2
Buckinghamshire +27 17 £465 -1.33% 5
Surrey +18 16 £405 -19.00% 10
Kent -1 11 £388 +10.71% 19
Oxfordshire -6 6 £375 -6.25% 9
East Sussex +5 4 £475 - 2
Sussex -3 1 - -
Middlesex - 1 £425 -
Infrastructure Engineering
England

Infrastructure Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 15 (6.67%) Confluence
2 13 (5.78%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.89%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.44%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 47 (20.89%) Azure
2 18 (8.00%) Microsoft 365
3 14 (6.22%) AWS
3 14 (6.22%) OCI
4 6 (2.67%) IaaS
4 6 (2.67%) OpenShift
4 6 (2.67%) SaaS
5 5 (2.22%) GCP
6 4 (1.78%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (1.78%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (1.78%) PaaS
7 3 (1.33%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (0.89%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (0.89%) Amazon EMR
8 2 (0.89%) Amazon S3
8 2 (0.89%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (0.89%) Entra ID
8 2 (0.89%) Google Workspace
8 2 (0.89%) Serverless
8 2 (0.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 55 (24.44%) DNS
2 51 (22.67%) DHCP
3 50 (22.22%) SAN
4 43 (19.11%) Firewall
5 22 (9.78%) Software-Defined Radio
6 17 (7.56%) NAS
7 15 (6.67%) SNMP
8 10 (4.44%) VPN
9 9 (4.00%) LAN
9 9 (4.00%) WAN
10 8 (3.56%) TCP/IP
11 7 (3.11%) Network Security
12 6 (2.67%) Wi-Fi
13 5 (2.22%) Fibre Channel
13 5 (2.22%) iSCSI
13 5 (2.22%) VSAN
14 4 (1.78%) SSL
14 4 (1.78%) VLAN
14 4 (1.78%) VoIP
14 4 (1.78%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (5.33%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.78%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (1.78%) MySQL
2 4 (1.78%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 17 (7.56%) Git
1 17 (7.56%) JIRA
1 17 (7.56%) Robot Framework
2 16 (7.11%) Bitbucket
2 16 (7.11%) Eclipse
3 15 (6.67%) GoogleTest
4 2 (0.89%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.89%) Selenium
5 1 (0.44%) Maven
5 1 (0.44%) SonarQube
General
1 39 (17.33%) Social Skills
2 7 (3.11%) Public Sector
3 6 (2.67%) Aerospace
4 5 (2.22%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (1.33%) Front Office
6 2 (0.89%) Back Office
6 2 (0.89%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.44%) Finance
7 1 (0.44%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.44%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 156 (69.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 28 (12.44%) Senior
3 24 (10.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 18 (8.00%) Software Engineer
5 17 (7.56%) Storage Engineer
6 13 (5.78%) VMware Engineer
7 11 (4.89%) Support Engineer
8 10 (4.44%) Architect
8 10 (4.44%) C++ Software Engineer
8 10 (4.44%) Embedded Engineer
8 10 (4.44%) Embedded Software Engineer
9 9 (4.00%) Infrastructure Support
9 9 (4.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
10 8 (3.56%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 8 (3.56%) Analyst
10 8 (3.56%) Infrastructure Architect
10 8 (3.56%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
10 8 (3.56%) Operations Engineer
10 8 (3.56%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
11 7 (3.11%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (7.11%) CSS
1 16 (7.11%) HTML
2 13 (5.78%) Flash
3 3 (1.33%) .NET
4 2 (0.89%) Middleware
5 1 (0.44%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 28 (12.44%) Data Centre
2 11 (4.89%) PKI
3 10 (4.44%) Driving Licence
4 4 (1.78%) Client/Server
4 4 (1.78%) Fat Client
4 4 (1.78%) Thin Client
5 3 (1.33%) Management Information System
6 2 (0.89%) Clustering
6 2 (0.89%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (0.89%) Enterprise Storage
6 2 (0.89%) Public Cloud
6 2 (0.89%) Tandem
7 1 (0.44%) CCTV
7 1 (0.44%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.44%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.44%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 105 (46.67%) Windows
2 76 (33.78%) Linux
3 58 (25.78%) Windows Server
4 31 (13.78%) Windows Server 2019
5 30 (13.33%) Windows 10
6 28 (12.44%) Windows Server 2012
7 25 (11.11%) Windows Server 2016
8 14 (6.22%) Windows XP
9 13 (5.78%) AIX
10 11 (4.89%) Unix
10 11 (4.89%) Windows 7
11 9 (4.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 7 (3.11%) Ubuntu
12 7 (3.11%) Windows Server 2008
13 6 (2.67%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (17.33%) Agile
2 32 (14.22%) ITIL
3 25 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
3 25 (11.11%) Software Engineering
4 19 (8.44%) Scrum
5 18 (8.00%) Project Delivery
6 17 (7.56%) Prototyping
6 17 (7.56%) Server Management
6 17 (7.56%) Storage Management
7 16 (7.11%) Disaster Recovery
7 16 (7.11%) Migration
7 16 (7.11%) Project Management
7 16 (7.11%) SysML
7 16 (7.11%) UML
8 15 (6.67%) Change Management
8 15 (6.67%) DevOps
8 15 (6.67%) Performance Tuning
8 15 (6.67%) Proactive Monitoring
9 14 (6.22%) Break/Fix
9 14 (6.22%) Performance Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 56 (24.89%) PowerShell
2 17 (7.56%) C++
3 16 (7.11%) JavaScript
4 10 (4.44%) VBScript
5 9 (4.00%) Java
5 9 (4.00%) Python
6 8 (3.56%) SQL
7 3 (1.33%) VB.NET
8 2 (0.89%) Bash
9 1 (0.44%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 111 (49.33%) Security Cleared
2 63 (28.00%) SC Cleared
3 62 (27.56%) DV Cleared
4 35 (15.56%) Degree
5 21 (9.33%) Cisco Certification
6 20 (8.89%) CCNA
7 16 (7.11%) CCNP
8 10 (4.44%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (3.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 5 (2.22%) MCSE
11 4 (1.78%) AWS Certification
11 4 (1.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (1.78%) VCAP
12 3 (1.33%) Azure Certification
12 3 (1.33%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.89%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 2 (0.89%) Computer Science Degree
13 2 (0.89%) Master's Degree
13 2 (0.89%) PhD
14 1 (0.44%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.67%) GDPR
1 6 (2.67%) SLA
2 3 (1.33%) ISO 9001
2 3 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 3 (1.33%) PCI DSS
3 2 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.44%) COBIT
4 1 (0.44%) PMO
4 1 (0.44%) QA
System Software
1 78 (34.67%) Active Directory
1 78 (34.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 26 (11.56%) Firmware
3 25 (11.11%) Hyper-V
4 24 (10.67%) vSphere
5 21 (9.33%) VMware ESXi
5 21 (9.33%) XenApp
6 9 (4.00%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (4.00%) VMware NSX
7 7 (3.11%) XenDesktop
8 2 (0.89%) Docker
9 1 (0.44%) DFS Replication
9 1 (0.44%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 36 (16.00%) SCCM
2 31 (13.78%) WSUS
3 23 (10.22%) vCenter Server
4 14 (6.22%) EMC NetWorker
4 14 (6.22%) NetBackup
4 14 (6.22%) SCOM
5 8 (3.56%) Ansible
6 7 (3.11%) Microsoft Intune
6 7 (3.11%) Terraform
7 4 (1.78%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 4 (1.78%) Nessus
7 4 (1.78%) Red Hat Satellite
7 4 (1.78%) vRealize
7 4 (1.78%) VxRail
7 4 (1.78%) ZABBIX
8 2 (0.89%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.89%) Kubernetes
9 1 (0.44%) Failover Clustering
9 1 (0.44%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 100 (44.44%) VMware
2 65 (28.89%) Microsoft
3 24 (10.67%) Cisco
3 24 (10.67%) Citrix
4 21 (9.33%) HP
4 21 (9.33%) Symantec
5 20 (8.89%) Google
6 19 (8.44%) Veeam
7 18 (8.00%) Dell
7 18 (8.00%) Juniper
7 18 (8.00%) Oracle
8 16 (7.11%) 3PAR
9 15 (6.67%) Atlassian
9 15 (6.67%) Palo Alto
10 14 (6.22%) EMC
10 14 (6.22%) Extreme Networks
10 14 (6.22%) IBM
10 14 (6.22%) Ivanti
11 13 (5.78%) Brocade
11 13 (5.78%) Red Hat