Infrastructure Engineering Contracts in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Engineering
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Infrastructure Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Infrastructure Engineering over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 58 79 97
Rank change year-on-year +21 +18 +25
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 631 695 842
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.08% 2.97% 2.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.65% 3.32% 3.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 481 522 657
10th Percentile £275 £313 £276
25th Percentile £363 £375 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £488 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.62% +8.33% +20.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £550
90th Percentile £650 £694 £625
UK median daily rate £478 £520 £475
% change year-on-year -8.17% +9.47% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 15 7
10th Percentile £21.25 £36.94 £16.12
25th Percentile £45.00 £52.00 £22.50
Median hourly rate £54.88 £57.50 £29.73
Median % change year-on-year -4.57% +93.44% -9.92%
75th Percentile £63.75 £70.25 £67.39
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.00 £68.02
UK median hourly rate £54.88 £61.62 £42.50
% change year-on-year -10.94% +44.98% +6.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Infrastructure Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,295 20,910 27,075
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.44% 89.50% 88.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,314 14,450 18,900
10th Percentile £250 £256 £235
25th Percentile £380 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £651
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,056 1,280 1,343
10th Percentile £12.32 £10.99 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.25 £15.50 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.06 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.74% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £61.26 £65.00 £47.11
90th Percentile £72.90 £73.75 £61.45
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.29% +41.73% +4.82%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Infrastructure Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineering in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Engineering in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Engineering in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Engineering
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Engineering
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 Engineering within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 11 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 +34 225 £463 +1.65% 95
South West +10 124 £500 -9.09% 77
North of England -5 118 £425 -10.53% 69
North West -5 79 £425 -10.53% 39
Scotland +70 69 £475 -12.84% 34
Midlands -16 53 £425 -5.56% 69
West Midlands -3 44 £525 +16.67% 40
East of England -12 37 £525 +5.00% 41
Yorkshire -8 34 £380 -10.59% 25
East Midlands -10 8 £338 -23.73% 29
Wales +4 6 £365 -30.48% 10
North East +9 5 £438 +9.38% 7
Infrastructure Engineering
UK

Infrastructure Engineering
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 41 (6.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 29 (4.60%) SharePoint
3 24 (3.80%) Confluence
4 9 (1.43%) SharePoint Server
5 7 (1.11%) IIS
6 6 (0.95%) SharePoint 2010
7 3 (0.48%) Apache
7 3 (0.48%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.48%) CMS
8 2 (0.32%) WordPress
9 1 (0.16%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.16%) WebLogic
Applications
1 12 (1.90%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.95%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.79%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.63%) AutoCAD
4 4 (0.63%) Revit
Business Applications
1 1 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 170 (26.94%) Azure
2 72 (11.41%) Microsoft 365
3 65 (10.30%) AWS
4 32 (5.07%) Entra ID
5 17 (2.69%) SaaS
6 15 (2.38%) Cloud Computing
6 15 (2.38%) IaaS
6 15 (2.38%) OCI
6 15 (2.38%) OpenShift
7 14 (2.22%) Power Platform
8 13 (2.06%) PaaS
9 12 (1.90%) GCP
10 9 (1.43%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (1.27%) Amazon EKS
12 7 (1.11%) Amazon EC2
12 7 (1.11%) Dynamics 365
13 6 (0.95%) Azure Logic Apps
13 6 (0.95%) Mimecast
13 6 (0.95%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 5 (0.79%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 117 (18.54%) Firewall
2 107 (16.96%) DNS
3 88 (13.95%) DHCP
4 79 (12.52%) SAN
5 37 (5.86%) WAN
6 33 (5.23%) LAN
7 28 (4.44%) NAS
8 26 (4.12%) VPN
9 25 (3.96%) TCP/IP
10 23 (3.65%) Network Security
10 23 (3.65%) Wireless
11 22 (3.49%) Software-Defined Radio
12 16 (2.54%) SNMP
12 16 (2.54%) VSAN
13 13 (2.06%) OSPF
14 11 (1.74%) Wireless Security
15 10 (1.58%) Ethernet
15 10 (1.58%) VLAN
15 10 (1.58%) Wi-Fi
16 8 (1.27%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (5.23%) SQL Server
2 13 (2.06%) Power BI
3 7 (1.11%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (1.11%) MySQL
4 6 (0.95%) Metadata
4 6 (0.95%) Microsoft Power View
4 6 (0.95%) PowerPivot
4 6 (0.95%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 5 (0.79%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (0.79%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (0.63%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.16%) Adabas
7 1 (0.16%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.16%) Redis
Development Applications
1 29 (4.60%) Git
2 28 (4.44%) JIRA
3 17 (2.69%) Robot Framework
4 16 (2.54%) Bitbucket
4 16 (2.54%) Eclipse
5 15 (2.38%) GoogleTest
6 13 (2.06%) Jenkins
7 8 (1.27%) Maven
8 7 (1.11%) Hudson
9 6 (0.95%) Gradle
10 3 (0.48%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.32%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.32%) Selenium
12 1 (0.16%) CA Gen
12 1 (0.16%) Octopus Deploy
12 1 (0.16%) SonarQube
General
1 106 (16.80%) Social Skills
2 53 (8.40%) Public Sector
3 32 (5.07%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (3.96%) Finance
5 12 (1.90%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (1.27%) Banking
6 8 (1.27%) Manufacturing
6 8 (1.27%) Telecoms
7 7 (1.11%) Aerospace
8 6 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (0.95%) Publishing
9 5 (0.79%) Military
10 4 (0.63%) German Language
11 3 (0.48%) Back Office
11 3 (0.48%) Front Office
11 3 (0.48%) Local Government
11 3 (0.48%) Retail Banking
12 2 (0.32%) Legal
12 2 (0.32%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.16%) Retail
Job Titles
1 431 (68.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 56 (8.87%) Network Engineer
3 55 (8.72%) Senior
4 44 (6.97%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 38 (6.02%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
6 29 (4.60%) Support Engineer
7 27 (4.28%) Storage Engineer
8 23 (3.65%) Infrastructure Support
8 23 (3.65%) VMware Engineer
9 22 (3.49%) Infrastructure Technician
10 21 (3.33%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 20 (3.17%) Azure Engineer
11 20 (3.17%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
11 20 (3.17%) Windows Engineer
12 19 (3.01%) Architect
12 19 (3.01%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
12 19 (3.01%) Server Engineer
13 18 (2.85%) Cloud Engineer
13 18 (2.85%) Software Engineer
13 18 (2.85%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (3.49%) CSS
1 22 (3.49%) HTML
2 18 (2.85%) Flash
3 7 (1.11%) .NET
4 3 (0.48%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (0.48%) Redfish
5 2 (0.32%) LAMP
5 2 (0.32%) Middleware
6 1 (0.16%) JSON
6 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Graph
6 1 (0.16%) Node.js
6 1 (0.16%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 74 (11.73%) Data Centre
2 28 (4.44%) PKI
3 25 (3.96%) Private Cloud
4 16 (2.54%) Clustering
5 14 (2.22%) NHS
6 11 (1.74%) Driving Licence
7 8 (1.27%) Management Information System
8 7 (1.11%) Replication
9 6 (0.95%) Fat Client
9 6 (0.95%) Public Cloud
9 6 (0.95%) Thin Client
10 5 (0.79%) Client/Server
10 5 (0.79%) Cloud Native
10 5 (0.79%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (0.79%) Linux Command Line
11 3 (0.48%) CMDB
11 3 (0.48%) Enterprise Storage
11 3 (0.48%) Onboarding
11 3 (0.48%) Operational Technology
11 3 (0.48%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 255 (40.41%) Windows
2 150 (23.77%) Linux
3 142 (22.50%) Windows Server
4 50 (7.92%) Windows Server 2012
5 42 (6.66%) Windows Server 2016
6 41 (6.50%) Windows Server 2019
7 39 (6.18%) Unix
8 36 (5.71%) Windows 10
9 25 (3.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 14 (2.22%) Windows XP
11 13 (2.06%) AIX
12 12 (1.90%) Windows 7
13 10 (1.58%) Ubuntu
13 10 (1.58%) Windows Server 2008
14 9 (1.43%) Mac OS
14 9 (1.43%) VMS
14 9 (1.43%) Windows Server 2003
15 5 (0.79%) Apple iOS
16 4 (0.63%) Solaris
17 3 (0.48%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (14.10%) Problem-Solving
2 76 (12.04%) Agile
3 73 (11.57%) Migration
4 68 (10.78%) ITIL
5 50 (7.92%) DevOps
6 45 (7.13%) Cybersecurity
7 35 (5.55%) Project Delivery
8 34 (5.39%) Software Engineering
9 32 (5.07%) Customer Service
10 26 (4.12%) Validation
11 25 (3.96%) Change Management
11 25 (3.96%) Server Management
12 23 (3.65%) Disaster Recovery
12 23 (3.65%) Network Management
12 23 (3.65%) Virtual Infrastructure
13 22 (3.49%) Mentoring
13 22 (3.49%) Scrum
13 22 (3.49%) Virtual Environments
14 20 (3.17%) Infrastructure as Code
14 20 (3.17%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 101 (16.01%) PowerShell
2 37 (5.86%) SQL
3 36 (5.71%) Python
4 22 (3.49%) JavaScript
5 19 (3.01%) Java
6 17 (2.69%) C++
7 16 (2.54%) Bash
8 11 (1.74%) C#
8 11 (1.74%) VBScript
9 9 (1.43%) Ruby
10 8 (1.27%) Shell Script
11 7 (1.11%) Groovy
12 4 (0.63%) Perl
13 3 (0.48%) C
13 3 (0.48%) VB.NET
14 1 (0.16%) Bicep
14 1 (0.16%) Natural
Qualifications
1 271 (42.95%) Security Cleared
2 162 (25.67%) SC Cleared
3 122 (19.33%) DV Cleared
4 61 (9.67%) Degree
5 55 (8.72%) Cisco Certification
6 54 (8.56%) CCNA
7 26 (4.12%) CCNP
8 23 (3.65%) Microsoft Certification
9 20 (3.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 13 (2.06%) MCSE
11 11 (1.74%) Azure Certification
12 7 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
12 7 (1.11%) Master's Degree
13 6 (0.95%) MCSA
13 6 (0.95%) VCAP
14 5 (0.79%) AWS Certification
14 5 (0.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 5 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
14 5 (0.79%) ITIL Certification
15 4 (0.63%) Chartered Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (1.90%) SLA
2 8 (1.27%) NIST
3 6 (0.95%) GDPR
3 6 (0.95%) QA
4 3 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 3 (0.48%) Government Security Classifications
4 3 (0.48%) ISO 9001
4 3 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 3 (0.48%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.32%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.32%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.16%) COBIT
6 1 (0.16%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.16%) PMO
System Software
1 181 (28.68%) Active Directory
2 178 (28.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 58 (9.19%) Hyper-V
4 53 (8.40%) VMware ESXi
5 51 (8.08%) vSphere
6 30 (4.75%) VMware NSX
7 28 (4.44%) Firmware
8 26 (4.12%) Virtual Machines
9 22 (3.49%) XenApp
10 12 (1.90%) Docker
11 7 (1.11%) XenDesktop
12 5 (0.79%) KVM
12 5 (0.79%) Virtual Servers
13 4 (0.63%) Virtual Desktop
14 1 (0.16%) DFS Replication
14 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 1 (0.16%) Terminal Services
14 1 (0.16%) VMware Server
14 1 (0.16%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 73 (11.57%) SCCM
2 65 (10.30%) vCenter Server
3 40 (6.34%) WSUS
4 29 (4.60%) Terraform
5 25 (3.96%) Ansible
6 21 (3.33%) Microsoft Intune
6 21 (3.33%) SCOM
7 17 (2.69%) NetBackup
8 15 (2.38%) Kubernetes
9 14 (2.22%) EMC NetWorker
10 10 (1.58%) Single Sign-On
11 8 (1.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 7 (1.11%) VxRail
13 6 (0.95%) vRealize
14 5 (0.79%) Nessus
14 5 (0.79%) ZABBIX
15 4 (0.63%) Microsoft Clustering
15 4 (0.63%) Red Hat Satellite
16 3 (0.48%) FortiGate
16 3 (0.48%) logstash
Vendors
1 250 (39.62%) VMware
2 170 (26.94%) Microsoft
3 63 (9.98%) Cisco
4 46 (7.29%) Veeam
5 37 (5.86%) Citrix
6 35 (5.55%) Dell
7 29 (4.60%) HP
8 26 (4.12%) Atlassian
9 24 (3.80%) Red Hat
10 23 (3.65%) Symantec
11 21 (3.33%) Google
12 20 (3.17%) Oracle
13 18 (2.85%) 3PAR
13 18 (2.85%) Juniper
13 18 (2.85%) Palo Alto
14 16 (2.54%) Brocade
14 16 (2.54%) EMC
15 14 (2.22%) Extreme Networks
15 14 (2.22%) IBM
15 14 (2.22%) Ivanti