Infrastructure Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £463 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 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
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 90 119 124
Rank change year-on-year +29 +5 +27
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 445 491 650
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.17% 2.10% 2.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.35% 2.23% 2.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 349 375 512
10th Percentile £310 £325 £283
25th Percentile £375 £363 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £470 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% +4.44% +21.62%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £538
90th Percentile £650 £650 £600
UK median daily rate £463 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -7.50% +11.11% +12.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 5
10th Percentile £20.73 £27.88 £14.17
25th Percentile £21.25 £46.88 £20.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £59.03 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year -61.88% -9.89% +120.17%
75th Percentile £47.50 £63.89 £68.02
90th Percentile £73.95 £65.00 -
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £61.62 £45.48
% change year-on-year -63.48% +35.48% +13.70%

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 18,943 22,066 29,076
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.50% 94.30% 95.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,549 15,423 20,326
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £598 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,262 1,138 1,451
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.08 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £43.99
90th Percentile £73.98 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £37.34 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -17.02% +88.21% +6.27%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Engineer
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 Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 10 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
South East +39 158 £450 -0.55% 67
North of England 0 85 £425 -5.56% 38
South West +11 81 £530 +0.95% 54
Scotland +70 53 £475 +5.56% 19
North West -7 53 £425 -10.53% 22
Midlands -2 41 £400 -10.11% 46
West Midlands +11 33 £425 -5.56% 25
Yorkshire +7 28 £380 -10.59% 13
East of England -11 21 £625 +35.14% 27
Wales +3 7 £365 -32.09% 4
East Midlands -3 7 £338 -23.30% 21
North East +12 4 £438 +9.38% 5
Infrastructure Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 10 May 2024, 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 UK excluding London region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 431 (96.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 201 (45.17%) Security Cleared
3 191 (42.92%) VMware
4 188 (42.25%) Windows
5 155 (34.83%) Active Directory
6 142 (31.91%) VMware Infrastructure
7 129 (28.99%) Microsoft
8 127 (28.54%) Azure
9 120 (26.97%) SC Cleared
10 112 (25.17%) Linux
11 109 (24.49%) Windows Server
12 100 (22.47%) DNS
13 94 (21.12%) DV Cleared
14 93 (20.90%) Firewall
14 93 (20.90%) Social Skills
15 82 (18.43%) DHCP
16 78 (17.53%) PowerShell
17 70 (15.73%) SAN
18 63 (14.16%) Problem-Solving
19 62 (13.93%) Data Centre
20 61 (13.71%) SCCM
21 60 (13.48%) vCenter Server
22 56 (12.58%) Migration
23 55 (12.36%) Cisco
23 55 (12.36%) ITIL
24 51 (11.46%) Hyper-V
24 51 (11.46%) Microsoft 365
25 48 (10.79%) VMware ESXi
26 46 (10.34%) Degree
27 45 (10.11%) Public Sector

Infrastructure Engineer 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:

Application Platforms
1 39 (8.76%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (3.15%) SharePoint
3 10 (2.25%) Confluence
4 4 (0.90%) SAS
5 3 (0.67%) Apache
5 3 (0.67%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.67%) CMS
5 3 (0.67%) IIS
5 3 (0.67%) SharePoint Server
6 2 (0.45%) WordPress
7 1 (0.22%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.22%) WebLogic
Applications
1 12 (2.70%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.90%) AutoCAD
2 4 (0.90%) Revit
3 1 (0.22%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.22%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 127 (28.54%) Azure
2 51 (11.46%) Microsoft 365
3 42 (9.44%) AWS
4 29 (6.52%) Entra ID
5 15 (3.37%) IaaS
5 15 (3.37%) OCI
6 13 (2.92%) SaaS
7 12 (2.70%) Cloud Computing
8 11 (2.47%) GCP
9 10 (2.25%) OpenShift
10 9 (2.02%) PaaS
10 9 (2.02%) Power Platform
11 6 (1.35%) Azure Logic Apps
12 5 (1.12%) Amazon EC2
12 5 (1.12%) Amazon S3
12 5 (1.12%) Dynamics 365
12 5 (1.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 4 (0.90%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (0.90%) Mimecast
13 4 (0.90%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 100 (22.47%) DNS
2 93 (20.90%) Firewall
3 82 (18.43%) DHCP
4 70 (15.73%) SAN
5 26 (5.84%) NAS
6 24 (5.39%) WAN
7 23 (5.17%) TCP/IP
8 21 (4.72%) LAN
9 19 (4.27%) Network Security
10 15 (3.37%) VPN
11 14 (3.15%) VSAN
12 12 (2.70%) iSCSI
13 11 (2.47%) Fibre Channel
14 10 (2.25%) Wireless
15 9 (2.02%) VLAN
15 9 (2.02%) Wi-Fi
16 7 (1.57%) VoIP
17 5 (1.12%) SSL
18 4 (0.90%) OSPF
18 4 (0.90%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (5.62%) SQL Server
2 9 (2.02%) Power BI
3 6 (1.35%) MySQL
4 5 (1.12%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (1.12%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (0.90%) DB2
5 4 (0.90%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (0.67%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.22%) Adabas
7 1 (0.22%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.22%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.22%) Redis
Development Applications
1 12 (2.70%) JIRA
2 6 (1.35%) Git
3 5 (1.12%) Hudson
4 2 (0.45%) Artifactory
4 2 (0.45%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.45%) Robot Framework
4 2 (0.45%) Selenium
5 1 (0.22%) CA Gen
5 1 (0.22%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 93 (20.90%) Social Skills
2 45 (10.11%) Public Sector
3 29 (6.52%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (5.39%) Finance
5 12 (2.70%) Banking
5 12 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (1.80%) Manufacturing
7 7 (1.57%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (1.12%) Military
9 4 (0.90%) Telecoms
10 3 (0.67%) Front Office
10 3 (0.67%) Investment Banking
10 3 (0.67%) Local Government
10 3 (0.67%) Retail Banking
11 2 (0.45%) Legal
12 1 (0.22%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.22%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (4.72%) Flash
2 4 (0.90%) POSIX
3 3 (0.67%) .NET
3 3 (0.67%) Redfish
4 2 (0.45%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (0.45%) LAMP
4 2 (0.45%) Middleware
5 1 (0.22%) JSON
5 1 (0.22%) REST
5 1 (0.22%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 62 (13.93%) Data Centre
2 24 (5.39%) PKI
3 18 (4.04%) Private Cloud
4 14 (3.15%) Clustering
5 11 (2.47%) Driving Licence
6 9 (2.02%) Client/Server
7 5 (1.12%) Management Information System
7 5 (1.12%) Public Cloud
8 4 (0.90%) Fat Client
8 4 (0.90%) NVMe
8 4 (0.90%) Replication
8 4 (0.90%) Thin Client
9 3 (0.67%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (0.67%) NHS
9 3 (0.67%) Video Conferencing
10 2 (0.45%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.45%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.45%) IVR
10 2 (0.45%) Tandem
10 2 (0.45%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 188 (42.25%) Windows
2 112 (25.17%) Linux
3 109 (24.49%) Windows Server
4 42 (9.44%) Windows Server 2012
5 38 (8.54%) Windows Server 2016
5 38 (8.54%) Windows Server 2019
6 35 (7.87%) Unix
7 33 (7.42%) Windows 10
8 26 (5.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 14 (3.15%) Windows XP
10 12 (2.70%) AIX
10 12 (2.70%) Windows 7
11 9 (2.02%) Ubuntu
11 9 (2.02%) VMS
11 9 (2.02%) Windows Server 2008
12 8 (1.80%) Mac OS
13 7 (1.57%) Windows Server 2003
14 6 (1.35%) Data ONTAP
15 5 (1.12%) CentOS
16 4 (0.90%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 431 (96.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 63 (14.16%) Problem-Solving
3 56 (12.58%) Migration
4 55 (12.36%) ITIL
5 38 (8.54%) Agile
6 34 (7.64%) Cybersecurity
7 33 (7.42%) DevOps
8 23 (5.17%) Change Management
9 22 (4.94%) Customer Service
9 22 (4.94%) Project Delivery
10 21 (4.72%) Server Management
10 21 (4.72%) Storage Management
11 20 (4.49%) Disaster Recovery
12 19 (4.27%) Virtual Environments
13 18 (4.04%) Computer Science
13 18 (4.04%) High Availability
14 17 (3.82%) Infrastructure as Code
14 17 (3.82%) Project Management
14 17 (3.82%) Virtual Infrastructure
15 15 (3.37%) Proactive Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 78 (17.53%) PowerShell
2 29 (6.52%) Python
2 29 (6.52%) SQL
3 14 (3.15%) Java
4 10 (2.25%) C#
4 10 (2.25%) VBScript
5 9 (2.02%) Bash
5 9 (2.02%) Perl
6 3 (0.67%) C
6 3 (0.67%) VB.NET
7 2 (0.45%) C++
8 1 (0.22%) Bicep
8 1 (0.22%) Elixir
8 1 (0.22%) Go
8 1 (0.22%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.22%) Natural
8 1 (0.22%) Ruby
8 1 (0.22%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 201 (45.17%) Security Cleared
2 120 (26.97%) SC Cleared
3 94 (21.12%) DV Cleared
4 46 (10.34%) Degree
5 42 (9.44%) CCNA
5 42 (9.44%) Cisco Certification
6 24 (5.39%) CCNP
7 20 (4.49%) Microsoft Certification
8 18 (4.04%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 11 (2.47%) MCSE
10 7 (1.57%) Azure Certification
11 5 (1.12%) AWS Certification
11 5 (1.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (1.12%) ITIL Certification
11 5 (1.12%) Master's Degree
12 4 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (0.90%) Chartered Engineer
12 4 (0.90%) RHCE
12 4 (0.90%) VCAP
13 3 (0.67%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (2.47%) SLA
2 8 (1.80%) NIST
3 3 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 3 (0.67%) GDPR
3 3 (0.67%) Government Security Classifications
3 3 (0.67%) ISO 9001
3 3 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 3 (0.67%) QA
4 2 (0.45%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.22%) COBIT
5 1 (0.22%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.22%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.22%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 155 (34.83%) Active Directory
2 142 (31.91%) VMware Infrastructure
3 51 (11.46%) Hyper-V
4 48 (10.79%) VMware ESXi
5 43 (9.66%) vSphere
6 24 (5.39%) VMware NSX
7 21 (4.72%) Virtual Machines
7 21 (4.72%) XenApp
8 11 (2.47%) Docker
9 7 (1.57%) XenDesktop
10 6 (1.35%) Firmware
11 5 (1.12%) KVM
12 4 (0.90%) GPFS
12 4 (0.90%) NFS
12 4 (0.90%) Virtual Desktop
12 4 (0.90%) Virtual Servers
13 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 1 (0.22%) Terminal Services
13 1 (0.22%) VMware Server
13 1 (0.22%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 61 (13.71%) SCCM
2 60 (13.48%) vCenter Server
3 28 (6.29%) WSUS
4 18 (4.04%) Microsoft Intune
5 17 (3.82%) SCOM
6 16 (3.60%) NetBackup
7 15 (3.37%) Terraform
8 14 (3.15%) EMC NetWorker
9 11 (2.47%) Kubernetes
10 9 (2.02%) Ansible
11 8 (1.80%) Single Sign-On
12 4 (0.90%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (0.90%) Veritas Storage Foundation
12 4 (0.90%) VxRail
13 3 (0.67%) Microsoft Clustering
13 3 (0.67%) Nessus
13 3 (0.67%) vRealize
13 3 (0.67%) ZABBIX
14 2 (0.45%) Grafana
14 2 (0.45%) logstash
Vendors
1 191 (42.92%) VMware
2 129 (28.99%) Microsoft
3 55 (12.36%) Cisco
4 33 (7.42%) Citrix
5 32 (7.19%) Veeam
6 29 (6.52%) Dell
7 26 (5.84%) HP
8 21 (4.72%) Symantec
9 20 (4.49%) EMC
10 19 (4.27%) Oracle
10 19 (4.27%) Red Hat
11 18 (4.04%) Brocade
11 18 (4.04%) Palo Alto
12 16 (3.60%) 3PAR
12 16 (3.60%) IBM
13 15 (3.37%) Juniper
14 14 (3.15%) Extreme Networks
15 13 (2.92%) Ivanti
16 11 (2.47%) Atlassian
17 10 (2.25%) CA