Infrastructure Support Contracts in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Support
UK > UK excluding London

The median Infrastructure Support daily rate in the UK excluding London is £340 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 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
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 362 412 458
Rank change year-on-year +50 +46 -56
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Support 29 32 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.14% 0.14% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.15% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 22 29
10th Percentile £143 £136 £157
25th Percentile £250 £231 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £340 £300 £290
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% +3.45% -10.77%
75th Percentile - £466 £425
90th Percentile £362 £588 £515
UK median daily rate £340 £400 £400
% change year-on-year -15.00% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £10.29
UK median hourly rate - - £10.29
% change year-on-year - - -47.23%

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 18,752 21,824 29,184
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.48% 94.30% 95.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,467 15,208 20,476
10th Percentile £213 £225 £204
25th Percentile £363 £394 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +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% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,268 1,112 1,441
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.38
25th Percentile £15.74 £18.07 £14.51
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 £45.00
90th Percentile £73.83 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -18.89% +87.50% +6.67%

Infrastructure Support
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Support in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Support
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Support in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Support
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Support in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Support in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Support
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Support in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Support
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 Support within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 19 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
Scotland +48 15 £340 +150.92% 10
South East +24 8 £210 -64.26% 10
North of England +24 2 £188 -21.05% 3
West Midlands +21 1 £320 -8.57% 1
Midlands +19 1 £320 -8.57% 2
Yorkshire +18 1 £215 -33.85% 3
North West +13 1 £160 -54.29%
East of England +12 1 £250 -35.48% 1
South West +6 1 £300 -39.09% 7
Wales - 1 £350 -
Infrastructure Support
UK

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

For the 6 months to 19 May 2024, Infrastructure Support 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 Support in the job title.

1 24 (82.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 20 (68.97%) Windows
3 18 (62.07%) Security Cleared
4 16 (55.17%) SC Cleared
5 15 (51.72%) Microsoft
6 13 (44.83%) Active Directory
6 13 (44.83%) Windows Server
7 12 (41.38%) Social Skills
8 11 (37.93%) Customer Service
9 10 (34.48%) SCCM
9 10 (34.48%) Linux
9 10 (34.48%) WSUS
10 8 (27.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 8 (27.59%) Windows Server 2019
11 7 (24.14%) Azure
11 7 (24.14%) Network Management
11 7 (24.14%) Windows 10
11 7 (24.14%) VMware
11 7 (24.14%) Red Hat
12 6 (20.69%) ITIL
12 6 (20.69%) SQL Server
12 6 (20.69%) Microsoft 365
12 6 (20.69%) VMware Infrastructure
13 5 (17.24%) Compliance Management
13 5 (17.24%) Windows Server 2016
13 5 (17.24%) High Availability
13 5 (17.24%) KVM
13 5 (17.24%) Windows 7
13 5 (17.24%) Clustering
13 5 (17.24%) Citrix

Infrastructure Support 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:

Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (3.45%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 7 (24.14%) Azure
2 6 (20.69%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (6.90%) Entra ID
4 1 (3.45%) AWS
4 1 (3.45%) Google Sheets
4 1 (3.45%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.34%) Firewall
1 3 (10.34%) Network Security
1 3 (10.34%) SAN
2 2 (6.90%) DHCP
2 2 (6.90%) DNS
2 2 (6.90%) WAN
3 1 (3.45%) LAN
3 1 (3.45%) NAS
3 1 (3.45%) VPN
3 1 (3.45%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (20.69%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.45%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (3.45%) MySQL
2 1 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
General
1 12 (41.38%) Social Skills
2 2 (6.90%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.45%) Banking
3 1 (3.45%) Finance
3 1 (3.45%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.24%) Clustering
2 1 (3.45%) Data Centre
2 1 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (3.45%) Driving Licence
2 1 (3.45%) Fat Client
2 1 (3.45%) PKI
2 1 (3.45%) Public Cloud
2 1 (3.45%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 20 (68.97%) Windows
2 13 (44.83%) Windows Server
3 10 (34.48%) Linux
4 8 (27.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (27.59%) Windows Server 2019
5 7 (24.14%) Windows 10
6 5 (17.24%) Solaris
6 5 (17.24%) Windows 7
6 5 (17.24%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (10.34%) Windows Server 2008
8 2 (6.90%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (3.45%) Ubuntu
9 1 (3.45%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (82.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 11 (37.93%) Customer Service
3 7 (24.14%) Network Management
4 6 (20.69%) ITIL
5 5 (17.24%) Compliance Management
5 5 (17.24%) High Availability
6 3 (10.34%) Disaster Recovery
6 3 (10.34%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (6.90%) Business Continuity
7 2 (6.90%) Deployment Automation
7 2 (6.90%) Open Source
7 2 (6.90%) Patch Management
7 2 (6.90%) Server Management
8 1 (3.45%) Antivirus Management
8 1 (3.45%) Break/Fix
8 1 (3.45%) Converged Infrastructure
8 1 (3.45%) Data Protection
8 1 (3.45%) Incident Management
8 1 (3.45%) Proactive Monitoring
8 1 (3.45%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (10.34%) SQL
2 2 (6.90%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 18 (62.07%) Security Cleared
2 16 (55.17%) SC Cleared
3 5 (17.24%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (17.24%) RHCE
4 4 (13.79%) MCP
4 4 (13.79%) MCSE
5 1 (3.45%) CCNA
5 1 (3.45%) CCNP
5 1 (3.45%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (3.45%) Degree
5 1 (3.45%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (17.24%) SLA
2 1 (3.45%) PMO
System Software
1 13 (44.83%) Active Directory
2 6 (20.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (17.24%) KVM
4 2 (6.90%) Hyper-V
4 2 (6.90%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (3.45%) BitLocker
5 1 (3.45%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (3.45%) XenApp
5 1 (3.45%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 10 (34.48%) SCCM
1 10 (34.48%) WSUS
2 2 (6.90%) vCenter Server
3 1 (3.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (3.45%) Ansible
3 1 (3.45%) EMC NetWorker
3 1 (3.45%) McAfee ePO
3 1 (3.45%) Nessus
3 1 (3.45%) NetBackup
3 1 (3.45%) Red Hat Satellite
3 1 (3.45%) SCOM
3 1 (3.45%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 15 (51.72%) Microsoft
2 7 (24.14%) Red Hat
2 7 (24.14%) VMware
3 5 (17.24%) Citrix
4 2 (6.90%) Oracle
4 2 (6.90%) Veeam
5 1 (3.45%) 3PAR
5 1 (3.45%) Cisco
5 1 (3.45%) Dell
5 1 (3.45%) EMC
5 1 (3.45%) Extreme Networks
5 1 (3.45%) Google
5 1 (3.45%) HP
5 1 (3.45%) Juniper
5 1 (3.45%) McAfee
5 1 (3.45%) New Relic
5 1 (3.45%) PagerDuty
5 1 (3.45%) Palo Alto
5 1 (3.45%) Rackspace
5 1 (3.45%) Symantec