Senior Infrastructure Engineer Contracts in the South East

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
England > South East

The median Senior Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in the South East is £464 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 21 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
21 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 175 202 256
Rank change year-on-year +27 +54 -40
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 23 14 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.42% 0.25% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.46% 0.26% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 12 9
10th Percentile £413 £414 £411
25th Percentile £456 £444 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £455 £460
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% -1.09% +15.00%
75th Percentile £475 £536 £488
90th Percentile - £641 £511
England median daily rate £475 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% +20.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 5,045 5,292 7,401
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.31% 94.58% 95.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,031 3,691 5,067
10th Percentile £215 £220 £205
25th Percentile £400 £390 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year - +1.01% +10.00%
75th Percentile £619 £601 £588
90th Percentile £688 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +6.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 488 234 319
10th Percentile £12.81 £16.25 £12.24
25th Percentile £18.20 £21.95 £15.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £48.70 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.46% +143.49% -20.00%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £43.25
90th Percentile £77.14 £75.00 £58.46
England median hourly rate £36.65 £44.77 £23.03
% change year-on-year -18.13% +94.40% +5.92%

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings that featured Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the South East

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the South East

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the South East over the 6 months to 21 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the South East

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the South East

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
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 Senior Infrastructure Engineer within the South East region over the 6 months to 21 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
West Sussex +18 14 £463 +8.82%
Thames Valley +1 5 £465 +2.19% 2
Buckinghamshire +19 3 £465 +2.19% 1
East Sussex +5 2 £475 -32.14%
Berkshire - 2 £363 -
Surrey +14 1 £500 -23.08% 2
Middlesex - 1 £425 -
Senior Infrastructure Engineer
England

Senior Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 21 May 2024, Senior 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 South East region featuring Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 23 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 18 (78.26%) Active Directory
3 16 (69.57%) VMware
3 16 (69.57%) Windows
4 14 (60.87%) Microsoft
5 11 (47.83%) DNS
5 11 (47.83%) DHCP
5 11 (47.83%) vSphere
6 10 (43.48%) ITIL
7 9 (39.13%) SAN
7 9 (39.13%) VMware Infrastructure
7 9 (39.13%) PowerShell
7 9 (39.13%) NAS
7 9 (39.13%) Degree
8 7 (30.43%) Azure
8 7 (30.43%) Social Skills
9 6 (26.09%) Virtual Machines
9 6 (26.09%) Firewall
10 5 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
11 4 (17.39%) Hyper-V
11 4 (17.39%) GCP
11 4 (17.39%) Data Centre
11 4 (17.39%) Roadmaps
11 4 (17.39%) Windows Server 2003
11 4 (17.39%) Symantec
11 4 (17.39%) Citrix
11 4 (17.39%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (17.39%) Unix
11 4 (17.39%) Linux
11 4 (17.39%) VBScript

Senior Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
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 3 (13.04%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 7 (30.43%) Azure
2 4 (17.39%) AWS
2 4 (17.39%) GCP
3 2 (8.70%) IaaS
4 1 (4.35%) Entra ID
4 1 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 11 (47.83%) DHCP
1 11 (47.83%) DNS
2 9 (39.13%) NAS
2 9 (39.13%) SAN
3 6 (26.09%) Firewall
4 2 (8.70%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.04%) SQL Server
General
1 7 (30.43%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.70%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (8.70%) Front Office
3 1 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.70%) .NET
1 2 (8.70%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 4 (17.39%) Data Centre
2 3 (13.04%) PKI
3 2 (8.70%) Tandem
4 1 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 16 (69.57%) Windows
2 4 (17.39%) Linux
2 4 (17.39%) Unix
2 4 (17.39%) Windows Server 2003
3 3 (13.04%) Windows Server
3 3 (13.04%) Windows Server 2016
3 3 (13.04%) Windows Server 2019
4 2 (8.70%) Ubuntu
4 2 (8.70%) Windows 10
4 2 (8.70%) Windows 7
4 2 (8.70%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (4.35%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 10 (43.48%) ITIL
3 5 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (17.39%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (17.39%) Roadmaps
5 3 (13.04%) Agile
5 3 (13.04%) Creative Thinking
5 3 (13.04%) Incident Management
5 3 (13.04%) Migration
5 3 (13.04%) Problem Management
5 3 (13.04%) Project Delivery
6 2 (8.70%) Data Loss Prevention
6 2 (8.70%) High Availability
6 2 (8.70%) Line Management
6 2 (8.70%) Matrix Organization
6 2 (8.70%) Mobile Device Management
6 2 (8.70%) Remediation Plan
6 2 (8.70%) Runbook
6 2 (8.70%) Service Delivery Management
6 2 (8.70%) Software Distribution
Programming Languages
1 9 (39.13%) PowerShell
2 4 (17.39%) VBScript
3 3 (13.04%) SQL
4 2 (8.70%) Bash
4 2 (8.70%) Python
4 2 (8.70%) VB.NET
5 1 (4.35%) C++
Qualifications
1 9 (39.13%) Degree
2 4 (17.39%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (13.04%) Azure Certification
3 3 (13.04%) SC Cleared
3 3 (13.04%) Security Cleared
4 2 (8.70%) AWS Certification
4 2 (8.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (8.70%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.70%) GDPR
1 2 (8.70%) ISO 9001
1 2 (8.70%) ISO/IEC 20000
1 2 (8.70%) SLA
System Software
1 18 (78.26%) Active Directory
2 11 (47.83%) vSphere
3 9 (39.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (26.09%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (17.39%) Hyper-V
5 4 (17.39%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 4 (17.39%) SCCM
1 4 (17.39%) WSUS
2 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (8.70%) vCenter Server
3 1 (4.35%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (69.57%) VMware
2 14 (60.87%) Microsoft
3 4 (17.39%) Citrix
3 4 (17.39%) Ivanti
3 4 (17.39%) Symantec
4 2 (8.70%) Google
4 2 (8.70%) SolarWinds
5 1 (4.35%) ServiceNow