IT Infrastructure Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

IT Infrastructure Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median IT Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £408 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 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
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 361 418 473
Rank change year-on-year +57 +55 -39
Contract jobs requiring an IT Infrastructure Engineer 17 17 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.083% 0.074% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.090% 0.079% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 11 22
10th Percentile £243 £350 £160
25th Percentile £277 £425 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £408 £475 £385
Median % change year-on-year -14.21% +23.38% +14.07%
75th Percentile £598 £494 -
90th Percentile £638 £543 £469
UK median daily rate £408 £475 £385
% change year-on-year -14.21% +23.38% +18.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £65.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £65.00 -

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 18,835 21,601 29,071
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.47% 94.28% 95.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,498 15,031 20,385
10th Percentile £213 £225 £205
25th Percentile £363 £394 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.31% +3.43% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,316 1,097 1,445
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.40
25th Percentile £15.75 £17.72 £14.50
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.16 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.11% +110.78% +5.26%
75th Percentile £61.64 £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% +6.44%

IT Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London

IT Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for IT Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London

IT Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IT Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for IT Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London

IT Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for IT Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London

IT 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 IT Infrastructure Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 23 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
Midlands +30 5 £275 -40.54% 7
East of England +14 5 £625 +78.57% 1
North of England +29 3 £340 -32.00% 13
West Midlands +17 3 £275 -31.25% 1
North West +23 2 - - 6
South East +15 2 £365 +26.99% 2
East Midlands +12 2 £338 -28.95% 6
South West +12 1 - - 1
Wales - 1 £365 - 1
Yorkshire - 1 £340 - 6
IT Infrastructure Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 23 May 2024, IT 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 IT Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 17 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 10 (58.82%) Microsoft
2 10 (58.82%) Active Directory
3 9 (52.94%) Windows
4 7 (41.18%) VMware
5 6 (35.29%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (35.29%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (35.29%) Public Sector
5 6 (35.29%) Azure
6 5 (29.41%) Security Cleared
6 5 (29.41%) Hyper-V
7 4 (23.53%) Migration
7 4 (23.53%) Telecoms
7 4 (23.53%) DHCP
7 4 (23.53%) DNS
7 4 (23.53%) Social Skills
7 4 (23.53%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (23.53%) Windows Server
8 3 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (17.65%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure Management
8 3 (17.65%) Roadmaps
8 3 (17.65%) Technology Roadmap
8 3 (17.65%) Project Delivery
8 3 (17.65%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (17.65%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (17.65%) CrowdStrike
8 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (17.65%) Linux
8 3 (17.65%) Firewall

IT 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 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (5.88%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 6 (35.29%) Azure
2 4 (23.53%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (11.76%) Entra ID
4 1 (5.88%) AWS
4 1 (5.88%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 4 (23.53%) DHCP
1 4 (23.53%) DNS
2 3 (17.65%) Firewall
2 3 (17.65%) SAN
3 1 (5.88%) Network Security
3 1 (5.88%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (5.88%) TCP/IP
3 1 (5.88%) VLAN
3 1 (5.88%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (5.88%) Wireless
General
1 6 (35.29%) Public Sector
2 4 (23.53%) Social Skills
2 4 (23.53%) Telecoms
3 3 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (11.76%) Finance
5 1 (5.88%) Banking
5 1 (5.88%) Financial Institution
5 1 (5.88%) Local Government
5 1 (5.88%) Manufacturing
5 1 (5.88%) Military
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Fat Client
1 2 (11.76%) NHS
1 2 (11.76%) Self-Motivation
1 2 (11.76%) Team-Oriented Environment
1 2 (11.76%) Thin Client
2 1 (5.88%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 9 (52.94%) Windows
2 4 (23.53%) Windows Server
3 3 (17.65%) Linux
3 3 (17.65%) Windows Server 2012
3 3 (17.65%) Windows Server 2016
3 3 (17.65%) Windows Server 2019
4 2 (11.76%) Windows 10
5 1 (5.88%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (35.29%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (23.53%) Migration
4 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure Management
4 3 (17.65%) Project Delivery
4 3 (17.65%) Roadmaps
4 3 (17.65%) Technology Roadmap
5 2 (11.76%) Configuration Management
5 2 (11.76%) Data Migration
5 2 (11.76%) ITIL
5 2 (11.76%) Server Management
6 1 (5.88%) Business Intelligence
6 1 (5.88%) Change Control
6 1 (5.88%) Critical Thinking
6 1 (5.88%) E-Commerce
6 1 (5.88%) Information Security
6 1 (5.88%) PRINCE2
6 1 (5.88%) Service Delivery
6 1 (5.88%) SIEM
6 1 (5.88%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.76%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (29.41%) Security Cleared
2 3 (17.65%) DV Cleared
3 2 (11.76%) SC Cleared
4 1 (5.88%) A+ Certification
4 1 (5.88%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (5.88%) CCNA
4 1 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (5.88%) Degree
4 1 (5.88%) Network+ Certification
4 1 (5.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) COBIT
1 1 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (5.88%) PCI DSS
1 1 (5.88%) QA
System Software
1 10 (58.82%) Active Directory
2 6 (35.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (29.41%) Hyper-V
4 2 (11.76%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (5.88%) KVM
5 1 (5.88%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (5.88%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (5.88%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (5.88%) VMware Workstation
5 1 (5.88%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (17.65%) SCCM
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (5.88%) Nessus
2 1 (5.88%) SCOM
2 1 (5.88%) vCenter Server
2 1 (5.88%) WSUS
Vendors
1 10 (58.82%) Microsoft
2 7 (41.18%) VMware
3 3 (17.65%) CrowdStrike
4 2 (11.76%) Cisco
4 2 (11.76%) Citrix
5 1 (5.88%) Avaya
5 1 (5.88%) Dell
5 1 (5.88%) Fortinet
5 1 (5.88%) Netskope
5 1 (5.88%) Qualys
5 1 (5.88%) SolarWinds