Infrastructure Engineer Contracts

Infrastructure Engineer
UK

The median Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in the UK is £450 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 151 173 204
Rank change year-on-year +22 +31 +48
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 682 842 1,228
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.58% 1.50% 1.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.71% 1.59% 1.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 519 619 938
10th Percentile £308 £338 £310
25th Percentile £375 £413 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £455
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +9.89% +10.64%
75th Percentile £575 £591 £550
90th Percentile £638 £675 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +22.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 10 9
10th Percentile £20.73 £40.58 £17.86
25th Percentile £21.25 £57.33 £20.00
Median hourly rate £67.50 £63.84 £43.62
Median % change year-on-year +5.73% +46.35% +8.82%
75th Percentile £77.00 £71.56 £66.75
90th Percentile £77.40 £75.20 £68.02
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.50 £62.78 £43.50
% change year-on-year -64.16% +44.31% +97.73%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 39,969 53,015 83,520
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.83% 94.58% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,870 37,031 58,844
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +10.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,841 1,476 1,963
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +83.67% +12.28%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.75 £49.33
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.13 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer.

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer.

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Infrastructure Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Infrastructure Engineer
Top 16 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 1 June 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
England +23 603 £450 -10.00% 328
UK excluding London +19 449 £450 -5.26% 287
London +66 200 £450 -18.18% 73
South East +30 170 £463 -5.13% 61
Work from Home -12 148 £450 -10.00% 166
North of England -15 77 £438 -7.89% 66
South West -13 75 £525 -3.23% 52
North West -8 52 £425 -10.53% 35
Scotland +61 50 £420 -6.67% 27
Midlands +8 48 £413 -8.33% 45
West Midlands +10 35 £400 -11.11% 27
East of England -22 24 £363 -27.50% 35
Yorkshire +4 21 £450 +4.65% 26
East Midlands -4 12 £449 +1.47% 18
Wales -1 6 £433 -17.62% 9
North East +7 4 £438 +9.38% 5

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, 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 featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 659 (96.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 303 (44.43%) Windows
3 269 (39.44%) VMware
4 263 (38.56%) Security Cleared
5 243 (35.63%) Active Directory
6 204 (29.91%) Azure
7 197 (28.89%) Microsoft
8 188 (27.57%) VMware Infrastructure
9 181 (26.54%) Windows Server
10 171 (25.07%) Linux
11 153 (22.43%) SC Cleared
12 127 (18.62%) Social Skills
13 123 (18.04%) DV Cleared
14 120 (17.60%) Firewall
15 119 (17.45%) DNS
16 113 (16.57%) PowerShell
17 104 (15.25%) AWS
18 99 (14.52%) Microsoft 365
19 97 (14.22%) DHCP
20 93 (13.64%) Migration
21 91 (13.34%) SCCM
22 90 (13.20%) Public Sector
23 79 (11.58%) Problem-Solving
24 78 (11.44%) SAN
25 68 (9.97%) Data Centre
25 68 (9.97%) DevOps
26 67 (9.82%) Hyper-V
27 66 (9.68%) Microsoft Exchange
27 66 (9.68%) ITIL
28 65 (9.53%) Cisco

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 66 (9.68%) Microsoft Exchange
2 32 (4.69%) SharePoint
3 12 (1.76%) Confluence
4 8 (1.17%) IIS
5 7 (1.03%) Apache
6 5 (0.73%) Tomcat
7 4 (0.59%) SharePoint Server
8 3 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.44%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.29%) SAS
9 2 (0.29%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.29%) WordPress
Applications
1 17 (2.49%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.59%) AutoCAD
2 4 (0.59%) Revit
3 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.29%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.15%) Eikon
2 1 (0.15%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.15%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 204 (29.91%) Azure
2 104 (15.25%) AWS
3 99 (14.52%) Microsoft 365
4 58 (8.50%) Entra ID
5 27 (3.96%) IaaS
6 19 (2.79%) SaaS
7 18 (2.64%) OCI
8 17 (2.49%) Cloud Computing
9 16 (2.35%) PaaS
10 15 (2.20%) GCP
11 13 (1.91%) Power Platform
12 10 (1.47%) Amazon S3
12 10 (1.47%) Mimecast
12 10 (1.47%) OneDrive
13 9 (1.32%) Amazon EC2
13 9 (1.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 8 (1.17%) Azure DevOps
14 8 (1.17%) OpenShift
15 7 (1.03%) Dynamics 365
16 6 (0.88%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 120 (17.60%) Firewall
2 119 (17.45%) DNS
3 97 (14.22%) DHCP
4 78 (11.44%) SAN
5 35 (5.13%) WAN
6 29 (4.25%) NAS
7 28 (4.11%) LAN
8 26 (3.81%) VPN
9 23 (3.37%) TCP/IP
10 19 (2.79%) Network Security
11 15 (2.20%) Wi-Fi
12 14 (2.05%) VSAN
13 13 (1.91%) Wireless
14 11 (1.61%) MPLS
15 10 (1.47%) iSCSI
15 10 (1.47%) VLAN
16 9 (1.32%) Fibre Channel
16 9 (1.32%) OSPF
17 8 (1.17%) BGP
17 8 (1.17%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (7.77%) SQL Server
2 10 (1.47%) Power BI
3 7 (1.03%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (1.03%) MySQL
4 5 (0.73%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (0.59%) DB2
5 4 (0.59%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (0.59%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.29%) Adabas
6 2 (0.29%) SAP HANA
6 2 (0.29%) Sisense
7 1 (0.15%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.15%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.15%) Redis
Development Applications
1 18 (2.64%) Git
2 17 (2.49%) JIRA
3 14 (2.05%) Jenkins
4 11 (1.61%) GitLab
5 5 (0.73%) Hudson
6 2 (0.29%) Artifactory
6 2 (0.29%) CA Gen
6 2 (0.29%) Robot Framework
6 2 (0.29%) Selenium
6 2 (0.29%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.15%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.15%) MSI
7 1 (0.15%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.15%) VisualWorks
General
1 127 (18.62%) Social Skills
2 90 (13.20%) Public Sector
3 54 (7.92%) Finance
4 41 (6.01%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (3.37%) Banking
6 22 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (2.05%) Manufacturing
8 8 (1.17%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (1.17%) Telecoms
9 6 (0.88%) Legal
9 6 (0.88%) Military
10 5 (0.73%) Financial Institution
11 4 (0.59%) Front Office
11 4 (0.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (0.59%) Local Government
11 4 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.29%) French Language
12 2 (0.29%) Law
13 1 (0.15%) Advertising
13 1 (0.15%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (2.79%) Flash
2 4 (0.59%) .NET
2 4 (0.59%) AWS CDK
2 4 (0.59%) JSON
3 3 (0.44%) J2EE
3 3 (0.44%) Jinja
3 3 (0.44%) NETCONF
3 3 (0.44%) RESTful
3 3 (0.44%) Spring Boot
3 3 (0.44%) XML
3 3 (0.44%) YANG
4 2 (0.29%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (0.29%) LAMP
4 2 (0.29%) LDAP
4 2 (0.29%) Middleware
4 2 (0.29%) Pandas
4 2 (0.29%) POSIX
4 2 (0.29%) Web Services
5 1 (0.15%) Redfish
5 1 (0.15%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 68 (9.97%) Data Centre
2 36 (5.28%) PKI
3 22 (3.23%) Replication
4 19 (2.79%) Clustering
5 17 (2.49%) Private Cloud
6 13 (1.91%) Management Information System
7 12 (1.76%) Driving Licence
8 7 (1.03%) Client/Server
8 7 (1.03%) Public Cloud
9 5 (0.73%) Grid Computing
9 5 (0.73%) NHS
9 5 (0.73%) Onboarding
9 5 (0.73%) Video Conferencing
10 4 (0.59%) Fat Client
10 4 (0.59%) Linux Command Line
10 4 (0.59%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (0.59%) Thin Client
11 3 (0.44%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (0.44%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 3 (0.44%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 303 (44.43%) Windows
2 181 (26.54%) Windows Server
3 171 (25.07%) Linux
4 55 (8.06%) Windows Server 2016
5 53 (7.77%) Windows Server 2019
6 51 (7.48%) Windows 10
7 49 (7.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 44 (6.45%) Windows Server 2012
9 33 (4.84%) Unix
10 14 (2.05%) Mac OS
10 14 (2.05%) Windows XP
11 13 (1.91%) AIX
12 12 (1.76%) Ubuntu
13 11 (1.61%) VMS
13 11 (1.61%) Windows 7
14 8 (1.17%) Windows Server 2008
15 7 (1.03%) CentOS
15 7 (1.03%) Windows Server 2003
16 6 (0.88%) Solaris
17 5 (0.73%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 659 (96.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 93 (13.64%) Migration
3 79 (11.58%) Problem-Solving
4 68 (9.97%) DevOps
5 66 (9.68%) ITIL
6 46 (6.74%) Agile
7 45 (6.60%) Cybersecurity
8 41 (6.01%) Disaster Recovery
9 39 (5.72%) Infrastructure as Code
10 32 (4.69%) Project Delivery
11 31 (4.55%) CI/CD
12 24 (3.52%) Storage Management
12 24 (3.52%) Vulnerability Management
13 23 (3.37%) Containerisation
14 22 (3.23%) Change Management
14 22 (3.23%) Computer Science
14 22 (3.23%) Server Management
14 22 (3.23%) Virtual Infrastructure
15 21 (3.08%) High Availability
15 21 (3.08%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 113 (16.57%) PowerShell
2 48 (7.04%) Python
3 34 (4.99%) SQL
4 17 (2.49%) Java
5 13 (1.91%) Bash
6 11 (1.61%) C#
7 10 (1.47%) VBScript
8 7 (1.03%) C
9 5 (0.73%) C++
10 4 (0.59%) Perl
10 4 (0.59%) TypeScript
11 3 (0.44%) Go
11 3 (0.44%) PHP
11 3 (0.44%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.44%) VB.NET
12 2 (0.29%) Bicep
12 2 (0.29%) Natural
13 1 (0.15%) JavaScript
13 1 (0.15%) Ruby
13 1 (0.15%) Smalltalk
Qualifications
1 263 (38.56%) Security Cleared
2 153 (22.43%) SC Cleared
3 123 (18.04%) DV Cleared
4 54 (7.92%) Degree
5 40 (5.87%) Cisco Certification
6 37 (5.43%) CCNA
7 35 (5.13%) Microsoft Certification
8 21 (3.08%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 18 (2.64%) Azure Certification
9 18 (2.64%) CCNP
9 18 (2.64%) MCSE
10 9 (1.32%) AWS Certification
10 9 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
11 8 (1.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 6 (0.88%) ITIL Certification
12 6 (0.88%) RHCE
13 5 (0.73%) Master's Degree
13 5 (0.73%) MCSA
14 4 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
14 4 (0.59%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (1.76%) SLA
2 8 (1.17%) NIST
3 6 (0.88%) GDPR
3 6 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (0.88%) PCI DSS
4 5 (0.73%) NCSC
4 5 (0.73%) QA
5 4 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.44%) COBIT
6 3 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 3 (0.44%) ISO 9001
6 3 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 2 (0.29%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.29%) Government Security Classifications
8 1 (0.15%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.15%) NIST 800
System Software
1 243 (35.63%) Active Directory
2 188 (27.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 67 (9.82%) Hyper-V
4 58 (8.50%) vSphere
5 48 (7.04%) VMware ESXi
6 28 (4.11%) VMware NSX
7 24 (3.52%) Docker
7 24 (3.52%) Virtual Machines
8 21 (3.08%) XenApp
9 8 (1.17%) Firmware
9 8 (1.17%) Virtual Desktop
10 7 (1.03%) KVM
11 6 (0.88%) XenDesktop
12 3 (0.44%) Virtual Servers
13 2 (0.29%) GPFS
13 2 (0.29%) NFS
13 2 (0.29%) VMware Workstation
14 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 1 (0.15%) Terminal Services
14 1 (0.15%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 91 (13.34%) SCCM
2 59 (8.65%) vCenter Server
3 50 (7.33%) Terraform
4 34 (4.99%) Ansible
5 32 (4.69%) Kubernetes
5 32 (4.69%) Microsoft Intune
6 31 (4.55%) WSUS
7 26 (3.81%) SCOM
8 20 (2.93%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 16 (2.35%) NetBackup
10 14 (2.05%) EMC NetWorker
11 13 (1.91%) Single Sign-On
12 6 (0.88%) Nessus
12 6 (0.88%) Red Hat Satellite
13 5 (0.73%) FortiGate
13 5 (0.73%) Puppet
14 4 (0.59%) VxRail
15 3 (0.44%) CASB
15 3 (0.44%) Microsoft Clustering
15 3 (0.44%) vRealize
Vendors
1 269 (39.44%) VMware
2 197 (28.89%) Microsoft
3 65 (9.53%) Cisco
4 52 (7.62%) Citrix
5 46 (6.74%) Veeam
6 37 (5.43%) Dell
7 35 (5.13%) Red Hat
8 34 (4.99%) HP
9 27 (3.96%) Palo Alto
10 23 (3.37%) Juniper
11 22 (3.23%) Symantec
12 20 (2.93%) Oracle
13 17 (2.49%) EMC
14 16 (2.35%) 3PAR
14 16 (2.35%) Brocade
14 16 (2.35%) CA
14 16 (2.35%) IBM
14 16 (2.35%) ServiceNow
15 15 (2.20%) Ivanti
16 14 (2.05%) Aruba