Infrastructure Management Contracts

Infrastructure Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Infrastructure Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Infrastructure Management over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 469 608 716
Rank change year-on-year +139 +108 -109
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Management 123 97 131
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.29% 0.17% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.19% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 61 87
10th Percentile £143 £400 £363
25th Percentile £350 £500 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -15.68% +3.77% +17.78%
75th Percentile £594 £688 £675
90th Percentile £675 £725 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £500 £451
% change year-on-year -10.00% +10.86% +12.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £34.25 £20.75
Median hourly rate £23.80 £35.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -32.96% +65.12% -41.10%
75th Percentile - £36.75 £22.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £21.50
% change year-on-year - - -50.57%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Infrastructure Management 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 37,140 52,105 79,027
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.25% 89.83% 90.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,924 36,124 55,482
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,439 1,724 1,874
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.17 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.18
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +42.97% +2.78%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.98%

Infrastructure Management
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Management in the UK

Infrastructure Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Management in the UK

Infrastructure Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Management over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Management in the UK

Infrastructure Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Management in the UK

Infrastructure Management
Top 13 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Management within the UK over the 6 months to 9 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 +142 113 £450 -18.18% 86
UK excluding London +86 73 £450 -10.00% 55
Work from Home +126 40 £531 -3.41% 36
London +81 40 £475 -17.21% 33
South East +48 31 £433 -13.50% 18
Midlands +42 16 £550 +16.40% 11
West Midlands +32 16 £550 +25.71% 6
North of England +34 15 £475 -11.63% 16
North West +21 11 £500 -4.76% 7
South West +20 8 £183 -75.67% 6
Yorkshire +18 4 £463 -33.93% 7
East of England +3 2 - - 3
Northern Ireland - 1 £140 - 1

Infrastructure Management
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 7 (5.69%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (4.88%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (4.07%) Apache
4 4 (3.25%) Confluence
4 4 (3.25%) SharePoint
5 3 (2.44%) CMS
6 2 (1.63%) IIS
7 1 (0.81%) SharePoint 2010
7 1 (0.81%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 2 (1.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.81%) AutoCAD
2 1 (0.81%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 44 (35.77%) AWS
2 33 (26.83%) Azure
3 16 (13.01%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 14 (11.38%) Amazon S3
5 13 (10.57%) Amazon EC2
6 10 (8.13%) Entra ID
6 10 (8.13%) Serverless
7 9 (7.32%) AWS Lambda
7 9 (7.32%) GCP
8 8 (6.50%) Cloud Computing
8 8 (6.50%) Microsoft 365
9 7 (5.69%) Power Platform
10 6 (4.88%) GitHub
11 5 (4.07%) CloudFront
12 4 (3.25%) IaaS
12 4 (3.25%) PaaS
12 4 (3.25%) SaaS
13 3 (2.44%) GitHub Actions
13 3 (2.44%) Google Workspace
13 3 (2.44%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 17 (13.82%) DNS
2 16 (13.01%) VPN
3 14 (11.38%) Firewall
3 14 (11.38%) Network Security
4 10 (8.13%) LAN
4 10 (8.13%) TCP/IP
5 9 (7.32%) Wi-Fi
6 7 (5.69%) SAN
7 6 (4.88%) NAS
7 6 (4.88%) Wireless
8 5 (4.07%) DHCP
8 5 (4.07%) Radio Access Network
8 5 (4.07%) WAN
9 4 (3.25%) Fibre Channel
9 4 (3.25%) iSCSI
9 4 (3.25%) SSL
9 4 (3.25%) VLAN
9 4 (3.25%) VoIP
10 3 (2.44%) Internet
10 3 (2.44%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.32%) Amazon Redshift
2 7 (5.69%) Power BI
3 5 (4.07%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (3.25%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (3.25%) MySQL
4 4 (3.25%) Tableau
5 2 (1.63%) Data Lake
5 2 (1.63%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.63%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.81%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.81%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.81%) Bigtable
6 1 (0.81%) CockroachDB
6 1 (0.81%) Couchbase
6 1 (0.81%) Metadata
6 1 (0.81%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.81%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.81%) PowerPivot
6 1 (0.81%) Redis
6 1 (0.81%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 17 (13.82%) Git
2 10 (8.13%) GitLab
3 8 (6.50%) Jenkins
4 6 (4.88%) Bitbucket
5 4 (3.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 3 (2.44%) Cypress.io
6 3 (2.44%) JIRA
7 1 (0.81%) Jaeger
7 1 (0.81%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.81%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.81%) Spinnaker
7 1 (0.81%) TeamCity
General
1 44 (35.77%) Social Skills
2 22 (17.89%) Telecoms
3 20 (16.26%) Finance
4 16 (13.01%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (11.38%) Public Sector
6 13 (10.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (4.07%) Retail
8 4 (3.25%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (3.25%) Legal
9 3 (2.44%) Marketing
10 2 (1.63%) Electronics
10 2 (1.63%) Law
10 2 (1.63%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.81%) Advertising
11 1 (0.81%) French Language
11 1 (0.81%) Front Office
11 1 (0.81%) German Language
11 1 (0.81%) Military
11 1 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (15.45%) Senior
2 14 (11.38%) Analyst
2 14 (11.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 13 (10.57%) DevOps Engineer
4 8 (6.50%) Cloud Engineer
4 8 (6.50%) Lead
5 7 (5.69%) Architect
5 7 (5.69%) AWS DevOps
5 7 (5.69%) Security Engineer
5 7 (5.69%) Senior Analyst
5 7 (5.69%) Support Engineer
6 6 (4.88%) Desktop Engineer
6 6 (4.88%) IT Engineer
6 6 (4.88%) Network Engineer
7 5 (4.07%) Applications Engineer
7 5 (4.07%) AWS Developer
7 5 (4.07%) Desktop Support
7 5 (4.07%) Desktop Support Engineer
7 5 (4.07%) Developer
7 5 (4.07%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.69%) SAML
2 5 (4.07%) OAuth
2 5 (4.07%) OAuth2
3 4 (3.25%) Loki
4 3 (2.44%) Next.js
5 2 (1.63%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (1.63%) NETCONF
5 2 (1.63%) PySpark
5 2 (1.63%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (1.63%) Software Packaging
6 1 (0.81%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.81%) CSS
6 1 (0.81%) HTML
6 1 (0.81%) Kafka
6 1 (0.81%) Laravel
6 1 (0.81%) Node.js
6 1 (0.81%) OpenTelemetry
6 1 (0.81%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (9.76%) Data Centre
2 11 (8.94%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (4.88%) Cloud Native
3 6 (4.88%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (3.25%) CCTV
4 4 (3.25%) Fat Client
4 4 (3.25%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.25%) Thin Client
4 4 (3.25%) Virtual Team
5 3 (2.44%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (2.44%) Replication
6 2 (1.63%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.63%) IoT
6 2 (1.63%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.63%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.63%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.63%) PKI
6 2 (1.63%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.81%) Clustering
7 1 (0.81%) HP Storage
Operating Systems
1 34 (27.64%) Windows
2 21 (17.07%) Linux
3 12 (9.76%) Unix
4 7 (5.69%) Windows Server
5 3 (2.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (2.44%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (1.63%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.81%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.81%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (24.39%) CI/CD
1 30 (24.39%) Problem-Solving
2 24 (19.51%) DevOps
3 21 (17.07%) Agile
3 21 (17.07%) Infrastructure as Code
4 20 (16.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 18 (14.63%) Customer-Centricity
6 17 (13.82%) Containerisation
7 16 (13.01%) Migration
8 14 (11.38%) Task Automation
9 12 (9.76%) Collaborative Working
10 11 (8.94%) Continuous Improvement
10 11 (8.94%) Project Management
11 10 (8.13%) Computer Science
11 10 (8.13%) Data Migration
12 9 (7.32%) Business Intelligence
12 9 (7.32%) Identity Access Management
12 9 (7.32%) Incident Response
12 9 (7.32%) Server Management
12 9 (7.32%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 32 (26.02%) Python
2 18 (14.63%) PowerShell
3 16 (13.01%) Bash
4 8 (6.50%) SQL
5 7 (5.69%) Go
6 5 (4.07%) JavaScript
7 3 (2.44%) PHP
8 2 (1.63%) Java
9 1 (0.81%) Bicep
9 1 (0.81%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.81%) VBA
Qualifications
1 16 (13.01%) Degree
2 14 (11.38%) Security Cleared
3 12 (9.76%) Cisco Certification
3 12 (9.76%) SC Cleared
4 8 (6.50%) CCNA
4 8 (6.50%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (4.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (4.88%) MCSE
6 5 (4.07%) AWS Certification
6 5 (4.07%) CCNP
6 5 (4.07%) DV Cleared
7 4 (3.25%) CCIE
7 4 (3.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 2 (1.63%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.81%) CTC Cleared
9 1 (0.81%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.81%) MCITP
9 1 (0.81%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.81%) PMP
9 1 (0.81%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.69%) QA
2 6 (4.88%) Data Quality
2 6 (4.88%) SLA
3 3 (2.44%) NIST
3 3 (2.44%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.63%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 23 (18.70%) Active Directory
1 23 (18.70%) Docker
2 13 (10.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (4.88%) Hyper-V
4 4 (3.25%) Firmware
4 4 (3.25%) vSphere
5 2 (1.63%) BitLocker
5 2 (1.63%) Microsoft App-V
5 2 (1.63%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.81%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.81%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 22 (17.89%) Ansible
1 22 (17.89%) Terraform
2 20 (16.26%) Kubernetes
3 7 (5.69%) Grafana
3 7 (5.69%) Prometheus
4 5 (4.07%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 5 (4.07%) SCCM
5 4 (3.25%) Graylog
5 4 (3.25%) Icinga
5 4 (3.25%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (3.25%) Nagios
5 4 (3.25%) Puppet
5 4 (3.25%) ZABBIX
6 3 (2.44%) SCOM
7 2 (1.63%) NetBackup
7 2 (1.63%) Nmap
7 2 (1.63%) OpenNMS
7 2 (1.63%) SCVMM
7 2 (1.63%) VxRail
8 1 (0.81%) Argo
Vendors
1 21 (17.07%) Microsoft
2 18 (14.63%) VMware
3 10 (8.13%) Cisco
4 6 (4.88%) Google
5 5 (4.07%) Splunk
6 4 (3.25%) Dell
6 4 (3.25%) Red Hat
6 4 (3.25%) Salesforce
6 4 (3.25%) SolarWinds
7 3 (2.44%) Atlassian
7 3 (2.44%) BT
7 3 (2.44%) HP
7 3 (2.44%) Informatica
7 3 (2.44%) Juniper
7 3 (2.44%) SAP
8 2 (1.63%) Brocade
8 2 (1.63%) Forcepoint
8 2 (1.63%) Mitel
8 2 (1.63%) Proofpoint
8 2 (1.63%) Wyse