Infrastructure Specialist Contracts

Infrastructure Specialist
UK

The median Infrastructure Specialist daily rate in the UK is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 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
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 533 626 769
Rank change year-on-year +93 +143 -146
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Specialist 43 58 80
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.10% 0.10% 0.091%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.11% 0.096%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 42 63
10th Percentile £263 £364 £217
25th Percentile £322 £425 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +18.34%
75th Percentile £556 £600 £624
90th Percentile £645 £638 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £475 £425
% change year-on-year +10.53% +11.76% +13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £21.78
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £21.78

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 39,484 53,902 83,447
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.62% 95.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,682 37,660 58,636
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,662 1,503 2,044
10th Percentile £12.82 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.38 £15.76
Median hourly rate £36.58 £45.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.72% +87.50% +6.67%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.44 £76.20 £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 Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Specialist in the UK

Infrastructure Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Specialist in the UK

Infrastructure Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Specialist over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Specialist in the UK

Infrastructure Specialist
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Specialist in the UK

Infrastructure Specialist
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Specialist within the UK over the 6 months to 16 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 +91 33 £500 -0.50% 18
UK excluding London +56 21 £525 +10.53% 17
Work from Home +115 19 £500 -0.50% 6
London +88 17 £500 -3.61% 5
Midlands +31 6 £416 -2.06% 2
East Midlands +18 6 £416 -12.37% 1
Scotland +38 5 £340 +0.74% 5
East of England +14 5 £625 +25.00% 1
South East +13 5 £275 -54.17% 4

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

For the 6 months to 16 May 2024, Infrastructure Specialist 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 Specialist in the job title.

1 25 (58.14%) Windows
2 22 (51.16%) Microsoft
3 21 (48.84%) Windows Server
4 19 (44.19%) Active Directory
5 18 (41.86%) VMware
6 15 (34.88%) Linux
7 14 (32.56%) ITIL
7 14 (32.56%) SCCM
7 14 (32.56%) AWS
7 14 (32.56%) VMware Infrastructure
8 12 (27.91%) Security Cleared
9 11 (25.58%) Microsoft 365
9 11 (25.58%) Azure
9 11 (25.58%) Citrix
9 11 (25.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 10 (23.26%) Social Skills
10 10 (23.26%) Ansible
11 9 (20.93%) SC Cleared
11 9 (20.93%) Finance
12 8 (18.60%) Customer Service
13 7 (16.28%) Problem-Solving
13 7 (16.28%) Windows 10
13 7 (16.28%) Disaster Recovery
13 7 (16.28%) SLA
13 7 (16.28%) ServiceNow
14 6 (13.95%) Security Patching
14 6 (13.95%) Data Centre
14 6 (13.95%) Qualys
14 6 (13.95%) Unix
14 6 (13.95%) Virtual Infrastructure

Infrastructure Specialist 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 2 (4.65%) Apache
2 1 (2.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 14 (32.56%) AWS
2 11 (25.58%) Azure
2 11 (25.58%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (9.30%) Entra ID
4 2 (4.65%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (2.33%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.98%) SAN
2 2 (4.65%) Fibre Channel
2 2 (4.65%) LAN
2 2 (4.65%) NetScaler
2 2 (4.65%) WAN
3 1 (2.33%) Firewall
3 1 (2.33%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (2.33%) NAS
3 1 (2.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.30%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.65%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 2 (4.65%) GitLab
General
1 10 (23.26%) Social Skills
2 9 (20.93%) Finance
3 5 (11.63%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (11.63%) Organisational Skills
4 4 (9.30%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (9.30%) Telecoms
5 2 (4.65%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.33%) Banking
6 1 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.65%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (2.33%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.95%) Data Centre
2 5 (11.63%) Management Information System
3 4 (9.30%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (6.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (4.65%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (2.33%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 25 (58.14%) Windows
2 21 (48.84%) Windows Server
3 15 (34.88%) Linux
4 7 (16.28%) Windows 10
5 6 (13.95%) Unix
6 3 (6.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (2.33%) CentOS
7 1 (2.33%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (32.56%) ITIL
2 11 (25.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 8 (18.60%) Customer Service
4 7 (16.28%) Disaster Recovery
4 7 (16.28%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (13.95%) Security Patching
5 6 (13.95%) Virtual Infrastructure
6 5 (11.63%) Agile
6 5 (11.63%) Migration
6 5 (11.63%) Network Management
6 5 (11.63%) Time Management
6 5 (11.63%) Vulnerability Management
7 4 (9.30%) Computer Science
7 4 (9.30%) Configuration Management
8 3 (6.98%) Project Delivery
8 3 (6.98%) Roadmaps
8 3 (6.98%) Technology Roadmap
9 2 (4.65%) Infrastructure as Code
9 2 (4.65%) Infrastructure Automation
9 2 (4.65%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 4 (9.30%) PowerShell
2 1 (2.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (27.91%) Security Cleared
2 9 (20.93%) SC Cleared
3 4 (9.30%) Azure Certification
3 4 (9.30%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (9.30%) Degree
3 4 (9.30%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (6.98%) DV Cleared
5 2 (4.65%) Citrix Certification
5 2 (4.65%) MCP
5 2 (4.65%) MCSE
6 1 (2.33%) CEH
6 1 (2.33%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (16.28%) SLA
System Software
1 19 (44.19%) Active Directory
2 14 (32.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (9.30%) vSphere
4 2 (4.65%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 2 (4.65%) Hyper-V
4 2 (4.65%) XenApp
4 2 (4.65%) XenDesktop
5 1 (2.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (32.56%) SCCM
2 10 (23.26%) Ansible
3 5 (11.63%) WSUS
4 4 (9.30%) Puppet
4 4 (9.30%) Terraform
5 3 (6.98%) Progress Chef
5 3 (6.98%) SCOM
6 2 (4.65%) SCSM
7 1 (2.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 22 (51.16%) Microsoft
2 18 (41.86%) VMware
3 11 (25.58%) Citrix
4 7 (16.28%) ServiceNow
5 6 (13.95%) Qualys
6 4 (9.30%) Red Hat
7 2 (4.65%) Brocade
8 1 (2.33%) Oracle
8 1 (2.33%) Sybase