Infrastructure Consultant Contracts in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Consultant
UK > UK excluding London

The median Infrastructure Consultant daily rate in the UK excluding London is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 372 433 481
Rank change year-on-year +61 +48 -54
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Consultant 22 13 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.11% 0.056% 0.059%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.060% 0.061%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 11 16
10th Percentile £350 £385 £305
25th Percentile £361 £420 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +16.67% -14.29%
75th Percentile £638 £613 £570
90th Percentile £650 £638 £678
UK median daily rate £538 £575 £556
% change year-on-year -6.52% +3.37% +23.61%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 18,742 21,812 29,390
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.48% 94.30% 95.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,456 15,203 20,621
10th Percentile £213 £225 £205
25th Percentile £363 £394 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.20% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +8.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,269 1,109 1,458
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.36
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.03 £14.50
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +4.19%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Infrastructure Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Infrastructure Consultant in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Consultant in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Consultant in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Consultant in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Consultant in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Consultant in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Consultant in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Consultant in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Consultant
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Consultant within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 20 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
East of England - 7 £400 -
North of England +34 5 £625 - 1
North West - 5 £625 -
Scotland +43 4 £650 +43.65%
Midlands +18 3 £550 -12.00%
East Midlands - 3 £550 -
South East +18 2 £350 -33.33% 1
South West +9 1 £360 -28.00%
Infrastructure Consultant
UK

Infrastructure Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 20 May 2024, Infrastructure Consultant 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 UK excluding London region featuring Infrastructure Consultant in the job title.

1 9 (40.91%) PowerShell
1 9 (40.91%) Azure
2 8 (36.36%) Active Directory
3 6 (27.27%) VMware
3 6 (27.27%) SC Cleared
3 6 (27.27%) Security Cleared
4 5 (22.73%) Azure Data Factory
4 5 (22.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 4 (18.18%) Citrix
5 4 (18.18%) Windows
6 3 (13.64%) Microsoft
6 3 (13.64%) Software Engineering
6 3 (13.64%) Telecoms
6 3 (13.64%) Wireless
6 3 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (13.64%) Windows Server
6 3 (13.64%) 4G
6 3 (13.64%) 5G
7 2 (9.09%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (9.09%) Hyper-V
7 2 (9.09%) XenApp
7 2 (9.09%) XenDesktop
7 2 (9.09%) Data Centre
7 2 (9.09%) NetScaler
7 2 (9.09%) Migration
7 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (9.09%) Citrix Certification
8 1 (4.55%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (4.55%) PBX
8 1 (4.55%) VPN

Infrastructure Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Cloud Services
1 9 (40.91%) Azure
2 5 (22.73%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (9.09%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (4.55%) AWS
4 1 (4.55%) Entra ID
4 1 (4.55%) IaaS
4 1 (4.55%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.64%) 4G
1 3 (13.64%) 5G
1 3 (13.64%) Wireless
2 2 (9.09%) NetScaler
3 1 (4.55%) DNS
3 1 (4.55%) Firewall
3 1 (4.55%) MPLS
3 1 (4.55%) PBX
3 1 (4.55%) SAN
3 1 (4.55%) VPLS
3 1 (4.55%) VPN
General
1 3 (13.64%) Telecoms
2 1 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (4.55%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.09%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.55%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (18.18%) Windows
2 3 (13.64%) Windows Server
3 1 (4.55%) Windows 10
3 1 (4.55%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (22.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (13.64%) Software Engineering
3 2 (9.09%) Migration
4 1 (4.55%) Compliance Audit
4 1 (4.55%) Data Protection
4 1 (4.55%) Patch Management
4 1 (4.55%) Presales
4 1 (4.55%) Process Improvement
4 1 (4.55%) Programme Management
4 1 (4.55%) Risk Management
4 1 (4.55%) Server Management
4 1 (4.55%) Time Management
4 1 (4.55%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (40.91%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (27.27%) SC Cleared
1 6 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 2 (9.09%) Citrix Certification
2 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (4.55%) CCIE
3 1 (4.55%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 8 (36.36%) Active Directory
2 2 (9.09%) Hyper-V
2 2 (9.09%) XenApp
2 2 (9.09%) XenDesktop
3 1 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 6 (27.27%) VMware
2 4 (18.18%) Citrix
3 3 (13.64%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.55%) Remedy