Infrastructure Engineering Contracts in the South East

Infrastructure Engineering
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring Infrastructure Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Infrastructure Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 43 69 78
Rank change year-on-year +26 +9 +23
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 233 171 236
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 4.05% 3.02% 3.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.90% 3.39% 3.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 171 129 197
10th Percentile £363 £345 £306
25th Percentile £405 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £608 £550 £538
90th Percentile £675 £675 £653
England median daily rate £500 £505 £475
% change year-on-year -0.99% +6.32% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 9 2
10th Percentile - £37.40 £29.88
25th Percentile £51.06 £51.25 £33.65
Median hourly rate £62.50 £57.50 £42.36
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% +35.73% +67.77%
75th Percentile £70.00 £58.75 £51.15
90th Percentile - £65.00 £54.96
England median hourly rate £54.88 £72.50 £36.11
% change year-on-year -24.31% +100.76% -3.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

Infrastructure Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,758 5,043 6,873
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 82.70% 89.05% 89.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,760 3,463 4,677
10th Percentile £260 £250 £246
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £505 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.79% +1.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £600
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 468 218 275
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.25 £12.31
25th Percentile £18.32 £25.95 £15.50
Median hourly rate £49.50 £52.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% +133.33% -10.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.16 £48.67
90th Percentile £76.90 £75.00 £64.90
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%

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 12 June 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 12 June 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 12 June 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 +7 100 £575 +15.00% 35
Thames Valley +29 74 £513 +5.13% 20
Berkshire +7 46 £605 +2.98% 9
West Sussex - 25 £450 -
Buckinghamshire +39 23 £465 -7.01% 4
Surrey +19 17 £403 -10.56% 8
Kent +5 11 £388 +10.71% 12
Oxfordshire -5 5 £375 -11.76% 7
East Sussex +3 4 £475 +11.76% 4
Sussex - 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 16 (6.87%) Confluence
2 14 (6.01%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.86%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.86%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.86%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 40 (17.17%) Azure
2 15 (6.44%) AWS
2 15 (6.44%) Microsoft 365
3 14 (6.01%) OCI
4 7 (3.00%) SaaS
5 5 (2.15%) GCP
5 5 (2.15%) OpenShift
6 4 (1.72%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (1.72%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (1.72%) IaaS
6 4 (1.72%) PaaS
7 3 (1.29%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (0.86%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (0.86%) Amazon EMR
8 2 (0.86%) Amazon S3
8 2 (0.86%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (0.86%) Entra ID
8 2 (0.86%) Google Workspace
8 2 (0.86%) Serverless
8 2 (0.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 50 (21.46%) SAN
2 49 (21.03%) DNS
3 45 (19.31%) DHCP
4 41 (17.60%) Firewall
5 23 (9.87%) Software-Defined Radio
6 17 (7.30%) NAS
7 16 (6.87%) SNMP
8 10 (4.29%) VPN
9 9 (3.86%) LAN
9 9 (3.86%) TCP/IP
9 9 (3.86%) WAN
10 6 (2.58%) VSAN
10 6 (2.58%) Wi-Fi
11 5 (2.15%) Fibre Channel
11 5 (2.15%) iSCSI
11 5 (2.15%) Network Security
11 5 (2.15%) VLAN
11 5 (2.15%) Wireless
12 4 (1.72%) SSL
12 4 (1.72%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (4.29%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.72%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (1.72%) MySQL
2 4 (1.72%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 19 (8.15%) Git
2 18 (7.73%) Robot Framework
3 17 (7.30%) Eclipse
3 17 (7.30%) JIRA
4 16 (6.87%) Bitbucket
4 16 (6.87%) GoogleTest
5 2 (0.86%) MSI
5 2 (0.86%) Selenium
6 1 (0.43%) GitLab
General
1 41 (17.60%) Social Skills
2 12 (5.15%) Public Sector
3 8 (3.43%) Aerospace
4 6 (2.58%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (1.72%) Finance
5 4 (1.72%) Manufacturing
6 3 (1.29%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (1.29%) Front Office
7 2 (0.86%) Back Office
7 2 (0.86%) Electronics
7 2 (0.86%) Marketing
7 2 (0.86%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.43%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.43%) Legal
8 1 (0.43%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 165 (70.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 25 (10.73%) Senior
3 21 (9.01%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 21 (9.01%) Software Engineer
4 18 (7.73%) Storage Engineer
4 18 (7.73%) VMware Engineer
5 15 (6.44%) C++ Software Engineer
6 13 (5.58%) Architect
6 13 (5.58%) Embedded Engineer
6 13 (5.58%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 11 (4.72%) Infrastructure Architect
8 9 (3.86%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 9 (3.86%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
9 8 (3.43%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
9 8 (3.43%) Operations Engineer
9 8 (3.43%) Support Engineer
10 7 (3.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
10 7 (3.00%) Embedded C++ Engineer
10 7 (3.00%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
10 7 (3.00%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (7.30%) CSS
1 17 (7.30%) HTML
2 13 (5.58%) Flash
3 3 (1.29%) .NET
4 2 (0.86%) Middleware
5 1 (0.43%) Node.js
5 1 (0.43%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 27 (11.59%) Data Centre
2 11 (4.72%) PKI
3 10 (4.29%) Driving Licence
4 4 (1.72%) Client/Server
4 4 (1.72%) Fat Client
4 4 (1.72%) Thin Client
5 3 (1.29%) Grid Computing
6 2 (0.86%) Clustering
6 2 (0.86%) Management Information System
6 2 (0.86%) Public Cloud
6 2 (0.86%) Tandem
7 1 (0.43%) CCTV
7 1 (0.43%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.43%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.43%) IBM Storwize
7 1 (0.43%) Replication
7 1 (0.43%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.43%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 100 (42.92%) Windows
2 82 (35.19%) Linux
3 56 (24.03%) Windows Server
4 27 (11.59%) Windows Server 2019
5 25 (10.73%) Windows Server 2012
6 24 (10.30%) Windows 10
7 21 (9.01%) Windows Server 2016
8 14 (6.01%) AIX
8 14 (6.01%) Windows XP
9 12 (5.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 10 (4.29%) Unix
11 8 (3.43%) Ubuntu
12 6 (2.58%) Windows 7
12 6 (2.58%) Windows Server 2003
13 5 (2.15%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.43%) CentOS
14 1 (0.43%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (18.45%) Agile
2 32 (13.73%) ITIL
3 25 (10.73%) Problem-Solving
3 25 (10.73%) Software Engineering
4 18 (7.73%) Scrum
5 17 (7.30%) Disaster Recovery
5 17 (7.30%) Performance Tuning
5 17 (7.30%) Storage Management
5 17 (7.30%) SysML
5 17 (7.30%) UML
6 16 (6.87%) DevOps
6 16 (6.87%) Proactive Monitoring
6 16 (6.87%) Project Delivery
6 16 (6.87%) Project Management
6 16 (6.87%) Server Management
7 15 (6.44%) Prototyping
8 14 (6.01%) Break/Fix
8 14 (6.01%) Converged Infrastructure
8 14 (6.01%) Migration
8 14 (6.01%) Performance Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 64 (27.47%) PowerShell
2 18 (7.73%) C++
3 17 (7.30%) JavaScript
4 10 (4.29%) VBScript
5 8 (3.43%) Java
6 7 (3.00%) Python
7 6 (2.58%) SQL
8 3 (1.29%) VB.NET
9 2 (0.86%) Bash
10 1 (0.43%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 126 (54.08%) Security Cleared
2 70 (30.04%) SC Cleared
3 69 (29.61%) DV Cleared
4 35 (15.02%) Degree
5 22 (9.44%) Cisco Certification
6 21 (9.01%) CCNA
7 17 (7.30%) CCNP
8 10 (4.29%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (3.43%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 5 (2.15%) MCSE
11 4 (1.72%) AWS Certification
11 4 (1.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (1.72%) VCAP
12 3 (1.29%) Azure Certification
12 3 (1.29%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.86%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 2 (0.86%) CCDP
13 2 (0.86%) Computer Science Degree
13 2 (0.86%) Master's Degree
13 2 (0.86%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.58%) GDPR
1 6 (2.58%) SLA
2 3 (1.29%) ISO 9001
2 3 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 3 (1.29%) PCI DSS
3 2 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.43%) COBIT
4 1 (0.43%) QA
System Software
1 81 (34.76%) VMware Infrastructure
2 75 (32.19%) Active Directory
3 27 (11.59%) Firmware
3 27 (11.59%) Hyper-V
4 26 (11.16%) vSphere
5 22 (9.44%) VMware ESXi
6 16 (6.87%) XenApp
7 9 (3.86%) VMware NSX
8 7 (3.00%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (0.86%) XenDesktop
10 1 (0.43%) DFS Replication
10 1 (0.43%) Docker
10 1 (0.43%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 31 (13.30%) SCCM
2 28 (12.02%) WSUS
3 21 (9.01%) vCenter Server
4 15 (6.44%) SCOM
5 14 (6.01%) EMC NetWorker
5 14 (6.01%) NetBackup
6 7 (3.00%) Ansible
6 7 (3.00%) Terraform
7 6 (2.58%) Nessus
7 6 (2.58%) Red Hat Satellite
8 4 (1.72%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (1.72%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (1.72%) ZABBIX
9 3 (1.29%) vRealize
9 3 (1.29%) VxRail
9 3 (1.29%) WMI
10 2 (0.86%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.86%) Kubernetes
10 2 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.43%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 109 (46.78%) VMware
2 68 (29.18%) Microsoft
3 25 (10.73%) Cisco
4 21 (9.01%) Google
4 21 (9.01%) Symantec
5 20 (8.58%) Citrix
6 19 (8.15%) HP
7 18 (7.73%) Juniper
7 18 (7.73%) Oracle
7 18 (7.73%) Veeam
8 16 (6.87%) Atlassian
8 16 (6.87%) Dell
9 15 (6.44%) Palo Alto
9 15 (6.44%) Red Hat
10 14 (6.01%) 3PAR
10 14 (6.01%) EMC
10 14 (6.01%) Extreme Networks
10 14 (6.01%) IBM
10 14 (6.01%) Ivanti
11 13 (5.58%) Brocade