Infrastructure Engineering Contracts in the South West

Infrastructure Engineering
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 11 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 49 46 58
Rank change year-on-year -3 +12 +15
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 121 150 132
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 3.69% 4.44% 3.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.50% 4.99% 4.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 115 99
10th Percentile £175 £318 £259
25th Percentile £363 £450 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £569 £625 £588
90th Percentile £625 £717 £638
England median daily rate £500 £507 £475
% change year-on-year -1.38% +6.74% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 2
10th Percentile £65.18 £55.26 £25.48
25th Percentile £67.31 £74.25 £34.06
Median hourly rate £72.75 £78.00 £49.25
Median % change year-on-year -6.73% +58.38% -
75th Percentile £76.31 - £63.56
90th Percentile £77.33 - £71.63
England median hourly rate £54.88 £68.75 £36.11
% change year-on-year -20.18% +90.38% -3.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,687 3,009 3,228
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 81.95% 89.08% 88.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,681 2,170 2,322
10th Percentile £238 £313 £300
25th Percentile £400 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £600
90th Percentile £700 £725 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 370 313 205
10th Percentile £13.83 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £28.44 £15.25 £23.75
Median hourly rate £55.00 £57.50 £48.74
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +17.97% +8.31%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £63.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £83.31 £68.81
England median hourly rate £37.50 £35.25 £25.68
% change year-on-year +6.38% +37.27% +14.13%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineering in the South West

Infrastructure Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Engineering in the South West

Infrastructure Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in the South West

Infrastructure Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Engineering in the South West

Infrastructure Engineering
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 11 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
Wiltshire -21 41 £525 -8.70% 10
Dorset +25 27 £185 -64.80% 8
Bristol -3 24 £450 -18.18% 7
Gloucestershire -15 14 £500 -13.04% 16
Devon +4 10 £600 +112.39% 8
Somerset -4 4 £600 +60.00% 9
Infrastructure Engineering
England

Infrastructure Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 10 (8.26%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (7.44%) Confluence
3 6 (4.96%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.65%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 5 (4.13%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 36 (29.75%) Azure
2 17 (14.05%) Microsoft 365
3 14 (11.57%) Entra ID
4 9 (7.44%) AWS
4 9 (7.44%) Power Platform
5 7 (5.79%) Dynamics 365
6 5 (4.13%) Azure Logic Apps
7 4 (3.31%) PowerApps
8 3 (2.48%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (2.48%) PaaS
9 2 (1.65%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (1.65%) IaaS
9 2 (1.65%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (1.65%) OneDrive
9 2 (1.65%) OpenShift
9 2 (1.65%) Power Automate
10 1 (0.83%) Azure Stack
10 1 (0.83%) SaaS
10 1 (0.83%) Serverless
10 1 (0.83%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 32 (26.45%) Firewall
2 12 (9.92%) DNS
3 9 (7.44%) DHCP
4 7 (5.79%) SAN
5 6 (4.96%) NAS
5 6 (4.96%) VSAN
6 3 (2.48%) Network Security
6 3 (2.48%) WAN
6 3 (2.48%) Wireless
7 2 (1.65%) BGP
7 2 (1.65%) LAN
7 2 (1.65%) TCP/IP
7 2 (1.65%) WLAN
8 1 (0.83%) AMQP
8 1 (0.83%) Internet
8 1 (0.83%) IPv4
8 1 (0.83%) MPLS
8 1 (0.83%) OSPF
8 1 (0.83%) VoIP
8 1 (0.83%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.44%) Power BI
2 4 (3.31%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.83%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.83%) InfluxDB
3 1 (0.83%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (7.44%) JIRA
2 2 (1.65%) Artifactory
3 1 (0.83%) Jenkins
General
1 17 (14.05%) Public Sector
2 16 (13.22%) Social Skills
3 8 (6.61%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (4.13%) Military
5 2 (1.65%) Local Government
5 2 (1.65%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (0.83%) Aerospace
6 1 (0.83%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (0.83%) Finance
6 1 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 76 (62.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 23 (19.01%) Network Engineer
3 21 (17.36%) Infrastructure Technician
4 16 (13.22%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 12 (9.92%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
6 10 (8.26%) Cloud Engineer
6 10 (8.26%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (4.13%) Azure Engineer
7 5 (4.13%) Backup Engineer
7 5 (4.13%) Backup Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (4.13%) Storage and Backup Engineer
7 5 (4.13%) Storage Engineer
7 5 (4.13%) Virtualisation Engineer
7 5 (4.13%) VMware Engineer
7 5 (4.13%) Wintel Engineer
8 4 (3.31%) Wintel Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (2.48%) 3rd Line Support
9 3 (2.48%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (2.48%) Test Engineer
10 2 (1.65%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.31%) Flash
2 1 (0.83%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 22 (18.18%) Data Centre
2 21 (17.36%) Private Cloud
3 13 (10.74%) PKI
4 11 (9.09%) NHS
5 6 (4.96%) Clustering
6 4 (3.31%) Hackathon
7 1 (0.83%) CMDB
7 1 (0.83%) Cyber Defence
7 1 (0.83%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 1 (0.83%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.83%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (0.83%) Fat Client
7 1 (0.83%) IoT
7 1 (0.83%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.83%) Operational Technology
7 1 (0.83%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.83%) Replication
7 1 (0.83%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (0.83%) Thin Client
7 1 (0.83%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 34 (28.10%) Windows
2 25 (20.66%) Windows Server
3 16 (13.22%) Linux
4 10 (8.26%) Windows Server 2012
5 6 (4.96%) VMS
6 3 (2.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (1.65%) Unix
7 2 (1.65%) Windows 10
7 2 (1.65%) Windows Server 2003
8 1 (0.83%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (19.83%) Cybersecurity
2 19 (15.70%) Resource Management
2 19 (15.70%) Virtual Infrastructure
3 16 (13.22%) Penetration Testing
3 16 (13.22%) Problem-Solving
4 15 (12.40%) Network Management
5 14 (11.57%) Vulnerability Scanning
6 12 (9.92%) Service Management
7 11 (9.09%) Agile
7 11 (9.09%) Migration
8 9 (7.44%) Business Intelligence
8 9 (7.44%) Infrastructure as Code
9 8 (6.61%) Containerisation
9 8 (6.61%) Critical Thinking
10 6 (4.96%) Validation
10 6 (4.96%) Virtual Environments
11 4 (3.31%) Computer Science
11 4 (3.31%) Information Security
11 4 (3.31%) ITIL
11 4 (3.31%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 12 (9.92%) SQL
2 4 (3.31%) PowerShell
2 4 (3.31%) Python
3 3 (2.48%) Java
4 2 (1.65%) Bash
4 2 (1.65%) C#
5 1 (0.83%) C
5 1 (0.83%) Go
5 1 (0.83%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 78 (64.46%) Security Cleared
2 46 (38.02%) SC Cleared
3 32 (26.45%) DV Cleared
4 8 (6.61%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 6 (4.96%) Degree
6 5 (4.13%) CCNA
6 5 (4.13%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (3.31%) Chartered Engineer
7 4 (3.31%) Master's Degree
8 3 (2.48%) MCSA
8 3 (2.48%) MCSE
8 3 (2.48%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (1.65%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.83%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.48%) NIST
2 2 (1.65%) Government Security Classifications
3 1 (0.83%) NIST 800
System Software
1 43 (35.54%) VMware Infrastructure
2 23 (19.01%) Active Directory
2 23 (19.01%) vSphere
3 11 (9.09%) Docker
3 11 (9.09%) VMware ESXi
4 9 (7.44%) VMware NSX
5 6 (4.96%) Hyper-V
5 6 (4.96%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (2.48%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (1.65%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 25 (20.66%) vCenter Server
2 8 (6.61%) Single Sign-On
3 6 (4.96%) Kubernetes
4 5 (4.13%) SCCM
5 4 (3.31%) Ansible
6 3 (2.48%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (1.65%) Microsoft Clustering
7 2 (1.65%) Terraform
7 2 (1.65%) WSUS
8 1 (0.83%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.83%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.83%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.83%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.83%) Grafana
8 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
8 1 (0.83%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.83%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.83%) Puppet
8 1 (0.83%) SCOM
8 1 (0.83%) VxRail
Vendors
1 63 (52.07%) VMware
2 29 (23.97%) Microsoft
3 14 (11.57%) Veeam
4 9 (7.44%) Dell
5 8 (6.61%) Atlassian
5 8 (6.61%) CA
6 5 (4.13%) Cisco
7 1 (0.83%) Aruba
7 1 (0.83%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (0.83%) Fortinet
7 1 (0.83%) Meraki
7 1 (0.83%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.83%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.83%) SolarWinds
7 1 (0.83%) Sophos
7 1 (0.83%) Splunk
7 1 (0.83%) Veritas