Infrastructure Specialist Contracts in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Specialist
UK > UK excluding London

The median Infrastructure Specialist daily rate in the UK excluding London is £525 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 373 426 466
Rank change year-on-year +53 +40 -49
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Specialist 21 20 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.10% 0.086% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.092% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 13 27
10th Percentile £263 £290 £209
25th Percentile £304 £363 £228
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% +11.76% +13.33%
75th Percentile £638 £550 £633
90th Percentile £656 £600 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £21.78
UK median hourly rate - - £21.78
% change year-on-year - - -63.70%

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 18,742 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 Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Specialist in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Specialist in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Specialist in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Specialist
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Specialist in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Specialist
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 Specialist 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 Midlands +22 6 £416 -12.37% 1
Midlands +22 6 £416 -2.06% 2
Scotland +44 5 £340 +0.74% 7
South East +21 5 £275 -54.17% 4
East of England +15 5 £625 +25.00% 1
Infrastructure Specialist
UK

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

For the 6 months to 20 May 2024, Infrastructure Specialist 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 Specialist in the job title.

1 13 (61.90%) Windows
2 12 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 12 (57.14%) Windows Server
3 11 (52.38%) Active Directory
3 11 (52.38%) Security Cleared
4 8 (38.10%) Azure
4 8 (38.10%) SC Cleared
4 8 (38.10%) Social Skills
5 7 (33.33%) Customer Service
5 7 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 7 (33.33%) SCCM
6 5 (23.81%) WSUS
6 5 (23.81%) Network Management
6 5 (23.81%) Linux
6 5 (23.81%) ITIL
6 5 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (19.05%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (19.05%) Citrix
7 4 (19.05%) VMware
8 3 (14.29%) Degree
8 3 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
8 3 (14.29%) Telecoms
8 3 (14.29%) Migration
8 3 (14.29%) vSphere
8 3 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (14.29%) Entra ID
8 3 (14.29%) Computer Science
8 3 (14.29%) SCOM
8 3 (14.29%) DV Cleared

Infrastructure Specialist 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 2 (9.52%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 8 (38.10%) Azure
2 3 (14.29%) AWS
2 3 (14.29%) Entra ID
2 3 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (9.52%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.52%) LAN
1 2 (9.52%) NetScaler
1 2 (9.52%) WAN
2 1 (4.76%) NAS
2 1 (4.76%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.52%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (9.52%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (9.52%) GitLab
General
1 8 (38.10%) Social Skills
2 3 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
2 3 (14.29%) Telecoms
3 2 (9.52%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.76%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.52%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 3 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (4.76%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (61.90%) Windows
2 12 (57.14%) Windows Server
3 5 (23.81%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (33.33%) Customer Service
1 7 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (23.81%) ITIL
2 5 (23.81%) Network Management
2 5 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (14.29%) Computer Science
3 3 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (14.29%) Migration
3 3 (14.29%) Project Delivery
3 3 (14.29%) Roadmaps
3 3 (14.29%) Technology Roadmap
4 2 (9.52%) Asset Management
4 2 (9.52%) Change Control
4 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (9.52%) Mentoring
4 2 (9.52%) Problem Management
5 1 (4.76%) Change Management
5 1 (4.76%) Release Management
5 1 (4.76%) Security Architecture
5 1 (4.76%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 2 (9.52%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 11 (52.38%) Security Cleared
2 8 (38.10%) SC Cleared
3 4 (19.05%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (14.29%) Azure Certification
4 3 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (14.29%) Degree
4 3 (14.29%) DV Cleared
5 2 (9.52%) Citrix Certification
5 2 (9.52%) MCP
5 2 (9.52%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.52%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (52.38%) Active Directory
2 3 (14.29%) vSphere
3 2 (9.52%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 2 (9.52%) XenApp
3 2 (9.52%) XenDesktop
4 1 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (33.33%) SCCM
2 5 (23.81%) WSUS
3 3 (14.29%) SCOM
4 2 (9.52%) Ansible
4 2 (9.52%) SCSM
4 2 (9.52%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 4 (19.05%) Citrix
2 4 (19.05%) VMware