Senior Infrastructure Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £465 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 21 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
21 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 352 391 443
Rank change year-on-year +39 +52 -22
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 43 46 63
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.21% 0.20% 0.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.21% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 35 49
10th Percentile £405 £396 £396
25th Percentile £450 £451 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -15.46% +15.79% +15.15%
75th Percentile £475 £650 £550
90th Percentile £525 £700 £615
UK median daily rate £475 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £78.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £78.00 - -

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 18,731 21,611 29,386
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.50% 94.29% 95.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,452 15,051 20,618
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 2,272 1,106 1,459
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.36
25th Percentile £15.74 £18.04 £14.50
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 £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -18.89% +87.50% +6.67%

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

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

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

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

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 21 May 2024.

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

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

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

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

Senior 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 Senior Infrastructure Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 21 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 +27 23 £464 +1.92% 9
North of England +26 10 £463 -33.93% 7
North West +29 9 £450 - 2
Scotland - 4 £475 - 4
Midlands +16 2 £300 -29.41% 10
Wales +13 2 - -
West Midlands +12 2 £300 -57.14% 8
South West +8 2 - - 10
Yorkshire +17 1 £475 -32.14% 3
Senior Infrastructure Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 21 May 2024, Senior 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 Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 43 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 24 (55.81%) Active Directory
3 23 (53.49%) Windows
3 23 (53.49%) VMware
4 20 (46.51%) Microsoft
5 13 (30.23%) DHCP
5 13 (30.23%) DNS
6 12 (27.91%) SAN
6 12 (27.91%) Security Cleared
6 12 (27.91%) VMware Infrastructure
6 12 (27.91%) Azure
6 12 (27.91%) vSphere
7 11 (25.58%) Degree
7 11 (25.58%) ITIL
7 11 (25.58%) Social Skills
8 10 (23.26%) Linux
8 10 (23.26%) Firewall
9 9 (20.93%) SC Cleared
9 9 (20.93%) PowerShell
9 9 (20.93%) NAS
9 9 (20.93%) Problem-Solving
10 7 (16.28%) Hyper-V
10 7 (16.28%) AWS
10 7 (16.28%) Unix
10 7 (16.28%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (13.95%) Migration
11 6 (13.95%) SCCM
11 6 (13.95%) Virtual Machines
11 6 (13.95%) Windows Server
12 5 (11.63%) WSUS

Senior 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 5 (11.63%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.33%) Apache
2 1 (2.33%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 3 (6.98%) AutoCAD
1 3 (6.98%) Revit
2 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 12 (27.91%) Azure
2 7 (16.28%) AWS
3 4 (9.30%) GCP
3 4 (9.30%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (6.98%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (4.65%) IaaS
5 2 (4.65%) Nutanix
6 1 (2.33%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (2.33%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.33%) Entra ID
6 1 (2.33%) Snowflake
6 1 (2.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 13 (30.23%) DHCP
1 13 (30.23%) DNS
2 12 (27.91%) SAN
3 10 (23.26%) Firewall
4 9 (20.93%) NAS
5 3 (6.98%) TCP/IP
6 1 (2.33%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.98%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.33%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (2.33%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (2.33%) Artifactory
1 1 (2.33%) Git
General
1 11 (25.58%) Social Skills
2 4 (9.30%) Public Sector
3 3 (6.98%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.65%) Banking
4 2 (4.65%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (4.65%) Finance
4 2 (4.65%) Front Office
5 1 (2.33%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.65%) .NET
1 2 (4.65%) Middleware
2 1 (2.33%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.30%) Data Centre
1 4 (9.30%) PKI
2 2 (4.65%) Private Cloud
2 2 (4.65%) Tandem
3 1 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.33%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 23 (53.49%) Windows
2 10 (23.26%) Linux
3 7 (16.28%) Unix
4 6 (13.95%) Windows Server
5 4 (9.30%) Windows Server 2003
6 3 (6.98%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (6.98%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (4.65%) Data ONTAP
7 2 (4.65%) Ubuntu
7 2 (4.65%) Windows 10
7 2 (4.65%) Windows 7
7 2 (4.65%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (2.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (2.33%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 11 (25.58%) ITIL
3 9 (20.93%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (13.95%) Migration
5 4 (9.30%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (9.30%) Roadmaps
5 4 (9.30%) Software Deployment
6 3 (6.98%) 3D Modelling
6 3 (6.98%) Agile
6 3 (6.98%) CAE
6 3 (6.98%) Computer Science
6 3 (6.98%) Creative Thinking
6 3 (6.98%) Cybersecurity
6 3 (6.98%) Incident Management
6 3 (6.98%) Information Security
6 3 (6.98%) Problem Management
6 3 (6.98%) Project Delivery
6 3 (6.98%) Security Hardening
6 3 (6.98%) Service Delivery
6 3 (6.98%) Strategic Planning
Programming Languages
1 9 (20.93%) PowerShell
2 4 (9.30%) SQL
2 4 (9.30%) VBScript
3 3 (6.98%) Bash
3 3 (6.98%) Python
4 2 (4.65%) VB.NET
5 1 (2.33%) C
5 1 (2.33%) C#
5 1 (2.33%) C++
5 1 (2.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 12 (27.91%) Security Cleared
2 11 (25.58%) Degree
3 9 (20.93%) SC Cleared
4 7 (16.28%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (6.98%) Azure Certification
5 3 (6.98%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (4.65%) AWS Certification
6 2 (4.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (4.65%) MCITP
6 2 (4.65%) VCAP
6 2 (4.65%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (2.33%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.65%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (4.65%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 2 (4.65%) GDPR
1 2 (4.65%) ISO 9001
1 2 (4.65%) ISO/IEC 20000
1 2 (4.65%) SLA
2 1 (2.33%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (2.33%) NIST
System Software
1 24 (55.81%) Active Directory
2 12 (27.91%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (27.91%) vSphere
3 7 (16.28%) Hyper-V
4 6 (13.95%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (9.30%) XenApp
6 3 (6.98%) VMware NSX
7 2 (4.65%) Docker
8 1 (2.33%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 6 (13.95%) SCCM
2 5 (11.63%) WSUS
3 4 (9.30%) vCenter Server
4 2 (4.65%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (4.65%) NetBackup
5 1 (2.33%) Ansible
5 1 (2.33%) Kibana
5 1 (2.33%) Kubernetes
5 1 (2.33%) logstash
5 1 (2.33%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (2.33%) SolarWinds Orion
5 1 (2.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 23 (53.49%) VMware
2 20 (46.51%) Microsoft
3 5 (11.63%) Cisco
3 5 (11.63%) Symantec
4 4 (9.30%) Citrix
4 4 (9.30%) Dell
4 4 (9.30%) Ivanti
4 4 (9.30%) Veeam
5 3 (6.98%) SolarWinds
6 2 (4.65%) 3PAR
6 2 (4.65%) Brocade
6 2 (4.65%) Dell Compellent
6 2 (4.65%) Google
6 2 (4.65%) NetApp
6 2 (4.65%) Nimble Storage
6 2 (4.65%) Veritas
7 1 (2.33%) Atlassian
7 1 (2.33%) Informatica
7 1 (2.33%) Palo Alto
7 1 (2.33%) ServiceNow