Infrastructure Support Contracts

Infrastructure Support
UK

The median Infrastructure Support daily rate in the UK is £340, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 10 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 533 623 758
Rank change year-on-year +90 +135 -113
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Support 57 63 90
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.11% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.12% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 41 59
10th Percentile £196 £136 £216
25th Percentile £310 £231 £273
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £340 £375 £400
Median % change year-on-year -9.33% -6.25% +5.96%
75th Percentile £388 £473 £431
90th Percentile £500 £588 £581
UK excluding London median daily rate £340 £300 £290
% change year-on-year +13.33% +3.45% -9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
10th Percentile - £19.89 £16.96
25th Percentile - £20.95 £26.97
Median hourly rate - £23.34 £43.65
Median % change year-on-year - -46.52% +123.82%
75th Percentile - £26.36 £60.32
90th Percentile - £27.79 £70.33
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £23.34 £43.65
% change year-on-year - -46.52% +123.82%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 40,530 52,517 83,153
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.88% 94.52% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,076 36,648 58,643
10th Percentile £280 £313 £316
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £539 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.64% +2.71% +6.06%
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% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,932 1,488 1,934
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.39 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.75 £49.96
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.33 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +7.99%

Infrastructure Support
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Support in the UK

Infrastructure Support
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Support in the UK

Infrastructure Support
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Support over the 6 months to 10 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Support in the UK

Infrastructure Support
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Support in the UK

Infrastructure Support
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 Support within the UK over the 6 months to 10 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
UK excluding London +28 35 £340 +13.33% 18
England +80 32 £375 -6.25% 14
Scotland +54 24 £340 +150.74% 7
London +92 21 £380 -15.56% 4
Work from Home +97 8 £500 +11.11% 4
South East +17 6 £375 -36.17% 6
North of England +25 2 £188 -21.05% 2
North West +13 1 £160 -54.29% 1
West Midlands +12 1 £320 -8.57% 1
Midlands +11 1 £320 -8.57% 2
East of England 0 1 £250 -41.18% 1
South West -4 1 £300 -43.93%
Yorkshire - 1 £215 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 10 June 2024, Infrastructure Support 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 Support in the job title.

1 40 (70.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 30 (52.63%) Security Cleared
2 30 (52.63%) Windows
3 27 (47.37%) SC Cleared
4 25 (43.86%) Microsoft
5 24 (42.11%) Active Directory
5 24 (42.11%) Windows Server
6 19 (33.33%) SCCM
7 17 (29.82%) Linux
8 15 (26.32%) Microsoft 365
8 15 (26.32%) Social Skills
9 14 (24.56%) Customer Service
9 14 (24.56%) Windows 10
9 14 (24.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 14 (24.56%) VMware
10 13 (22.81%) Disaster Recovery
10 13 (22.81%) VMware Infrastructure
11 12 (21.05%) Red Hat
11 12 (21.05%) ITIL
11 12 (21.05%) Citrix
12 11 (19.30%) SLA
12 11 (19.30%) Firewall
12 11 (19.30%) Finance
12 11 (19.30%) WSUS
13 8 (14.04%) Azure
13 8 (14.04%) Network Management
13 8 (14.04%) Microsoft Certification
14 7 (12.28%) AWS
14 7 (12.28%) ServiceNow
15 6 (10.53%) KVM

Infrastructure Support 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 1 (1.75%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.75%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 15 (26.32%) Microsoft 365
2 8 (14.04%) Azure
3 7 (12.28%) AWS
4 5 (8.77%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.75%) Google Sheets
5 1 (1.75%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 11 (19.30%) Firewall
2 3 (5.26%) SAN
2 3 (5.26%) WAN
3 2 (3.51%) DHCP
3 2 (3.51%) DNS
4 1 (1.75%) LAN
4 1 (1.75%) NAS
4 1 (1.75%) Network Security
4 1 (1.75%) Structured Cabling
4 1 (1.75%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.53%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.75%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (1.75%) MySQL
2 1 (1.75%) PostgreSQL
General
1 15 (26.32%) Social Skills
2 11 (19.30%) Finance
3 5 (8.77%) Organisational Skills
4 4 (7.02%) Banking
5 2 (3.51%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.75%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.75%) Retail
6 1 (1.75%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.53%) Clustering
2 5 (8.77%) Data Centre
3 2 (3.51%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.75%) Driving Licence
4 1 (1.75%) Fat Client
4 1 (1.75%) PKI
4 1 (1.75%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.75%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 30 (52.63%) Windows
2 24 (42.11%) Windows Server
3 17 (29.82%) Linux
4 14 (24.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 14 (24.56%) Windows 10
5 6 (10.53%) Solaris
5 6 (10.53%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (7.02%) Windows 7
7 2 (3.51%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (1.75%) Mac OS
8 1 (1.75%) Ubuntu
8 1 (1.75%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (1.75%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (1.75%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (70.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 14 (24.56%) Customer Service
3 13 (22.81%) Disaster Recovery
4 12 (21.05%) ITIL
5 8 (14.04%) Network Management
6 6 (10.53%) Compliance Management
6 6 (10.53%) High Availability
6 6 (10.53%) Virtual Infrastructure
7 5 (8.77%) Time Management
8 4 (7.02%) Open Source
9 3 (5.26%) Deployment Automation
9 3 (5.26%) Problem-Solving
10 2 (3.51%) Business Continuity
10 2 (3.51%) Patch Management
10 2 (3.51%) Project Management
10 2 (3.51%) Server Management
11 1 (1.75%) BCP
11 1 (1.75%) Investment Management
11 1 (1.75%) Service Delivery
11 1 (1.75%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (3.51%) PowerShell
2 1 (1.75%) SQL
Qualifications
1 30 (52.63%) Security Cleared
2 27 (47.37%) SC Cleared
3 8 (14.04%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (10.53%) RHCE
5 5 (8.77%) MCP
5 5 (8.77%) MCSE
6 1 (1.75%) CCNA
6 1 (1.75%) CCNP
6 1 (1.75%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.75%) Degree
6 1 (1.75%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (19.30%) SLA
2 1 (1.75%) PMO
System Software
1 24 (42.11%) Active Directory
2 13 (22.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (10.53%) KVM
4 2 (3.51%) Hyper-V
4 2 (3.51%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.75%) BitLocker
5 1 (1.75%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 19 (33.33%) SCCM
2 11 (19.30%) WSUS
3 2 (3.51%) vCenter Server
4 1 (1.75%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (1.75%) Ansible
4 1 (1.75%) EMC NetWorker
4 1 (1.75%) McAfee ePO
4 1 (1.75%) Nessus
4 1 (1.75%) NetBackup
4 1 (1.75%) Red Hat Satellite
4 1 (1.75%) SCOM
4 1 (1.75%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 25 (43.86%) Microsoft
2 14 (24.56%) VMware
3 12 (21.05%) Citrix
3 12 (21.05%) Red Hat
4 7 (12.28%) ServiceNow
5 6 (10.53%) Bloomberg
5 6 (10.53%) Refinitiv
6 2 (3.51%) Oracle
6 2 (3.51%) Veeam
7 1 (1.75%) 3PAR
7 1 (1.75%) Cisco
7 1 (1.75%) Dell
7 1 (1.75%) EMC
7 1 (1.75%) Extreme Networks
7 1 (1.75%) Google
7 1 (1.75%) HP
7 1 (1.75%) Juniper
7 1 (1.75%) McAfee
7 1 (1.75%) Palo Alto
7 1 (1.75%) Symantec