Infrastructure Security Engineer Contracts

Infrastructure Security Engineer
UK

The median Infrastructure Security Engineer daily rate in the UK is £475 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 544 669 817
Rank change year-on-year +125 +148 -128
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Security Engineer 27 27 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.064% 0.048% 0.052%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.069% 0.050% 0.055%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 21 30
10th Percentile £335 - £306
25th Percentile £416 £600 £316
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £615 £388
Median % change year-on-year -22.76% +58.71% -20.51%
75th Percentile £575 £650 £447
90th Percentile £613 - £538
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £615 £313
% change year-on-year -18.70% +96.80% -9.42%

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 39,413 53,669 84,232
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.81% 94.62% 95.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,677 37,466 59,216
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.31% +3.43% +8.25%
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% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,675 1,499 2,051
10th Percentile £12.82 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.82
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +87.50% +6.67%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.74 £76.00 £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 Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Security Engineer in the UK

Infrastructure Security Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Security Engineer in the UK

Infrastructure Security Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Security Engineer over the 6 months to 21 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Security Engineer in the UK

Infrastructure Security Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Security Engineer in the UK

Infrastructure Security Engineer
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Security Engineer within the UK 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
England +93 17 £438 -30.83% 17
London +94 13 £450 -30.77% 7
Work from Home +110 12 £500 -23.08% 11
UK excluding London +52 11 £500 -18.70% 12
Scotland - 7 £575 -
South East - 4 £431 - 8

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

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

1 25 (92.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 14 (51.85%) Windows
3 12 (44.44%) SCCM
3 12 (44.44%) Cybersecurity
4 11 (40.74%) Azure
4 11 (40.74%) Microsoft
4 11 (40.74%) Social Skills
5 10 (37.04%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (37.04%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (33.33%) VMware
7 8 (29.63%) Active Directory
7 8 (29.63%) Firewall
7 8 (29.63%) VMware Infrastructure
7 8 (29.63%) PowerShell
8 7 (25.93%) DevOps
8 7 (25.93%) Windows Server
8 7 (25.93%) Python
8 7 (25.93%) Agile
9 5 (18.52%) Disk Encryption
9 5 (18.52%) Vulnerability Management
9 5 (18.52%) Mac OS
9 5 (18.52%) AWS
9 5 (18.52%) Splunk
9 5 (18.52%) Information Security
9 5 (18.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 5 (18.52%) Refactoring
9 5 (18.52%) Linux
9 5 (18.52%) Unix
9 5 (18.52%) Microsoft Exchange
9 5 (18.52%) Management Information System

Infrastructure Security 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 5 (18.52%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 11 (40.74%) Azure
2 5 (18.52%) AWS
3 4 (14.81%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (11.11%) Entra ID
5 2 (7.41%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (7.41%) Azure AKS
5 2 (7.41%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (7.41%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (7.41%) Mimecast
6 1 (3.70%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 8 (29.63%) Firewall
2 4 (14.81%) Network Security
3 2 (7.41%) Internet
3 2 (7.41%) VSAN
3 2 (7.41%) WAN
3 2 (7.41%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (3.70%) BGP
4 1 (3.70%) DNS
4 1 (3.70%) EIGRP
4 1 (3.70%) HTTPS
4 1 (3.70%) IGRP
4 1 (3.70%) OSPF
4 1 (3.70%) RIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (3.70%) JIRA
General
1 11 (40.74%) Social Skills
2 10 (37.04%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (11.11%) Banking
3 3 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.70%) Finance
4 1 (3.70%) Local Government
4 1 (3.70%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.41%) YAML
2 1 (3.70%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (18.52%) Management Information System
2 4 (14.81%) Data Centre
3 2 (7.41%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (7.41%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.70%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (3.70%) PKI
4 1 (3.70%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 14 (51.85%) Windows
2 7 (25.93%) Windows Server
3 5 (18.52%) Linux
3 5 (18.52%) Mac OS
3 5 (18.52%) Unix
4 1 (3.70%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (92.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 12 (44.44%) Cybersecurity
3 10 (37.04%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (25.93%) Agile
4 7 (25.93%) DevOps
5 5 (18.52%) Disk Encryption
5 5 (18.52%) Information Security
5 5 (18.52%) Refactoring
5 5 (18.52%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 5 (18.52%) Vulnerability Management
6 4 (14.81%) Cloud Security
6 4 (14.81%) ITIL
6 4 (14.81%) Process Improvement
6 4 (14.81%) Security Operations
7 3 (11.11%) Patch Management
7 3 (11.11%) Security Monitoring
7 3 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (11.11%) Vulnerability Remediation
8 2 (7.41%) Data Loss Prevention
8 2 (7.41%) Knowledge Transfer
Programming Languages
1 8 (29.63%) PowerShell
2 7 (25.93%) Python
3 1 (3.70%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (14.81%) Degree
2 2 (7.41%) SC Cleared
2 2 (7.41%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.41%) VCAP
2 2 (7.41%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.70%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (3.70%) MCSE
3 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (18.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (11.11%) COBIT
2 3 (11.11%) PCI DSS
3 2 (7.41%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (7.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 2 (7.41%) GDPR
3 2 (7.41%) NCSC
4 1 (3.70%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 8 (29.63%) Active Directory
1 8 (29.63%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (14.81%) vSphere
3 2 (7.41%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (7.41%) VMware NSX
3 2 (7.41%) XenApp
4 1 (3.70%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 12 (44.44%) SCCM
2 2 (7.41%) CASB
2 2 (7.41%) FortiGate
2 2 (7.41%) Kubernetes
2 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (7.41%) Nexpose
2 2 (7.41%) SCOrch
2 2 (7.41%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (3.70%) vRealize
3 1 (3.70%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 11 (40.74%) Microsoft
2 9 (33.33%) VMware
3 5 (18.52%) CrowdStrike
3 5 (18.52%) Splunk
4 3 (11.11%) Netskope
5 2 (7.41%) Citrix
5 2 (7.41%) Imperva
5 2 (7.41%) Palo Alto
5 2 (7.41%) Rapid7
5 2 (7.41%) Red Hat
6 1 (3.70%) CA
6 1 (3.70%) Cisco
6 1 (3.70%) Google
6 1 (3.70%) Okta
6 1 (3.70%) Qualys
6 1 (3.70%) ServiceNow
6 1 (3.70%) Veeam