Infrastructure Maintenance Contracts

Infrastructure Maintenance
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Infrastructure Maintenance skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Infrastructure Maintenance over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 564 667 827
Rank change year-on-year +103 +160 -141
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Maintenance 7 20 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.016% 0.035% 0.019%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.019% 0.039% 0.021%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 9 12
10th Percentile £590 £437 -
25th Percentile £613 £613 £140
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £695 £283
Median % change year-on-year -6.47% +145.58% -29.25%
75th Percentile £688 £718 £481
90th Percentile £710 £770 £534
UK excluding London median daily rate - £435 £140
% change year-on-year - +210.71% -44.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Infrastructure Maintenance is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,673 51,121 79,325
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.13% 89.77% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,631 35,432 55,673
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £438 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,440 1,683 1,892
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.99 £16.01 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.54
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -4.99%

Infrastructure Maintenance
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Infrastructure Maintenance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Maintenance in the UK

Infrastructure Maintenance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Maintenance in the UK

Infrastructure Maintenance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Maintenance in the UK

Infrastructure Maintenance
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Maintenance within the UK over the 6 months to 18 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
England +98 6 £650 -6.47% 7
Work from Home +105 5 £675 -6.57% 15
London +90 5 £675 -2.88% 1

Infrastructure Maintenance
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 1 (14.29%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) Azure
2 3 (42.86%) AWS
2 3 (42.86%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (42.86%) GCP
3 2 (28.57%) GitHub
3 2 (28.57%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (14.29%) Anthos
4 1 (14.29%) Apigee
4 1 (14.29%) Datadog
4 1 (14.29%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (14.29%) IaaS
4 1 (14.29%) PaaS
4 1 (14.29%) SaaS
4 1 (14.29%) Stackdriver
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) BigQuery
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) GitLab
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle APEX
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Aviation
3 1 (14.29%) Banking
3 1 (14.29%) Finance
3 1 (14.29%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Cloud Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Automation Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Cloud Automation Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) DevOps Automation Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) GCP Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Tandem
2 1 (14.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Solaris
1 1 (14.29%) Unix
1 1 (14.29%) VMS
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) DevOps
1 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (42.86%) Agile
2 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
2 3 (42.86%) Code Quality
2 3 (42.86%) Migration
3 2 (28.57%) Computer Science
3 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (28.57%) Storage Management
4 1 (14.29%) Availability Management
4 1 (14.29%) Containerisation
4 1 (14.29%) Cost Reduction
4 1 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (14.29%) Incident Management
4 1 (14.29%) Knowledge Transfer
4 1 (14.29%) Load Balancing
4 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
4 1 (14.29%) Observability
4 1 (14.29%) Performance Management
4 1 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) PowerShell
2 2 (28.57%) Bicep
2 2 (28.57%) Python
3 1 (14.29%) Bash
3 1 (14.29%) C#
3 1 (14.29%) Go
3 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Azure Certification
1 2 (28.57%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (28.57%) Degree
1 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) Terraform
2 1 (14.29%) Ansible
2 1 (14.29%) Grafana
2 1 (14.29%) Prometheus
2 1 (14.29%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Google
2 1 (14.29%) New Relic
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle
2 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow
2 1 (14.29%) Splunk
2 1 (14.29%) webMethods