Senior Infrastructure Engineer Contracts

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
UK

The median Senior Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in the UK is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 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
1 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 524 616 723
Rank change year-on-year +92 +107 -86
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 74 96 130
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.16% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.17% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 82 94
10th Percentile £403 £389 £375
25th Percentile £450 £450 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £508
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +8.27% +12.89%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £575
90th Percentile £743 £700 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £465 £525 £460
% change year-on-year -11.43% +14.13% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £78.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £78.00 - -

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 40,362 56,304 84,700
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.61% 95.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,261 39,350 59,476
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £735
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.60% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,668 1,565 2,099
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.40 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.02 £45.00 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.95% +91.49% +3.14%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.75 £48.88
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.75 £63.32
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.50 £42.43 £19.50
% change year-on-year -6.91% +117.60% +2.63%

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Infrastructure Engineer over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Infrastructure Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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 +114 62 £475 -12.64% 49
UK excluding London +31 47 £465 -11.43% 36
Work from Home +128 33 £475 -13.64% 36
South East +23 24 £464 +3.05% 8
London +98 21 £606 +10.23% 18
North West +24 9 £450 -14.29% 4
North of England +20 9 £450 -18.18% 5
Scotland - 7 £475 - 5
Wales +12 3 £650 +18.18%
West Midlands +25 2 £300 -57.14% 4
Midlands +22 2 £300 -29.41% 5
South West +11 2 - - 9

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2024, Senior Infrastructure 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 Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 73 (98.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 35 (47.30%) Windows
3 33 (44.59%) Active Directory
4 29 (39.19%) Azure
5 28 (37.84%) VMware
6 25 (33.78%) Microsoft
7 19 (25.68%) DNS
7 19 (25.68%) Social Skills
8 18 (24.32%) DHCP
8 18 (24.32%) Firewall
9 17 (22.97%) ITIL
9 17 (22.97%) AWS
9 17 (22.97%) PowerShell
10 15 (20.27%) Security Cleared
10 15 (20.27%) VMware Infrastructure
11 14 (18.92%) Windows Server
12 13 (17.57%) Linux
13 12 (16.22%) SAN
13 12 (16.22%) SC Cleared
13 12 (16.22%) vSphere
13 12 (16.22%) Microsoft 365
14 11 (14.86%) Degree
15 10 (13.51%) DevOps
15 10 (13.51%) Continuous Improvement
15 10 (13.51%) Public Sector
16 9 (12.16%) Problem-Solving
16 9 (12.16%) NAS
16 9 (12.16%) Migration
16 9 (12.16%) Cisco
17 8 (10.81%) Microsoft Certification

Senior Infrastructure 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 6 (8.11%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.35%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.35%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 3 (4.05%) AutoCAD
1 3 (4.05%) Revit
2 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 29 (39.19%) Azure
2 17 (22.97%) AWS
3 12 (16.22%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (8.11%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (8.11%) GCP
5 3 (4.05%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (4.05%) Azure AKS
5 3 (4.05%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (4.05%) IaaS
5 3 (4.05%) Nutanix
6 2 (2.70%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.35%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (1.35%) Azure Pipelines
7 1 (1.35%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 19 (25.68%) DNS
2 18 (24.32%) DHCP
2 18 (24.32%) Firewall
3 12 (16.22%) SAN
4 9 (12.16%) NAS
5 5 (6.76%) Network Security
6 4 (5.41%) SD-WAN
6 4 (5.41%) TCP/IP
6 4 (5.41%) WAN
7 3 (4.05%) BGP
7 3 (4.05%) DMVPN
7 3 (4.05%) HSRP
7 3 (4.05%) LAN
7 3 (4.05%) MPLS
7 3 (4.05%) OSPF
7 3 (4.05%) SNMP
7 3 (4.05%) Spanning Tree
7 3 (4.05%) SSL
7 3 (4.05%) VPN
7 3 (4.05%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.41%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.35%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 3 (4.05%) Git
2 1 (1.35%) Artifactory
General
1 19 (25.68%) Social Skills
2 10 (13.51%) Public Sector
3 8 (10.81%) Documentation Skills
3 8 (10.81%) Finance
4 6 (8.11%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.70%) Banking
5 2 (2.70%) Front Office
6 1 (1.35%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.35%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.05%) Jinja
1 3 (4.05%) JSON
1 3 (4.05%) NETCONF
1 3 (4.05%) RESTful
1 3 (4.05%) XML
1 3 (4.05%) YAML
1 3 (4.05%) YANG
2 2 (2.70%) .NET
2 2 (2.70%) Middleware
3 1 (1.35%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.81%) Data Centre
2 7 (9.46%) PKI
3 3 (4.05%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (4.05%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.70%) NHS
4 2 (2.70%) Private Cloud
4 2 (2.70%) Tandem
5 1 (1.35%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.35%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.35%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 35 (47.30%) Windows
2 14 (18.92%) Windows Server
3 13 (17.57%) Linux
4 7 (9.46%) Unix
5 6 (8.11%) Windows 10
6 4 (5.41%) Windows Server 2003
6 4 (5.41%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (5.41%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (4.05%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (2.70%) Data ONTAP
8 2 (2.70%) Ubuntu
8 2 (2.70%) Windows 7
8 2 (2.70%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (1.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (98.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 17 (22.97%) ITIL
3 10 (13.51%) Continuous Improvement
3 10 (13.51%) DevOps
4 9 (12.16%) Migration
4 9 (12.16%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (9.46%) Roadmaps
5 7 (9.46%) Stakeholder Management
6 6 (8.11%) Project Delivery
7 5 (6.76%) Agile
7 5 (6.76%) Disaster Recovery
7 5 (6.76%) Root Cause Analysis
8 4 (5.41%) Customer Service
8 4 (5.41%) Infrastructure as Code
8 4 (5.41%) Kalman Filter
8 4 (5.41%) Line Management
8 4 (5.41%) Service Delivery
8 4 (5.41%) Software Deployment
9 3 (4.05%) Incident Response
9 3 (4.05%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 17 (22.97%) PowerShell
2 8 (10.81%) Python
3 5 (6.76%) SQL
4 4 (5.41%) VBScript
5 2 (2.70%) Bash
5 2 (2.70%) VB.NET
6 1 (1.35%) Bicep
6 1 (1.35%) C
6 1 (1.35%) C#
6 1 (1.35%) C++
6 1 (1.35%) Java
Qualifications
1 15 (20.27%) Security Cleared
2 12 (16.22%) SC Cleared
3 11 (14.86%) Degree
4 8 (10.81%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (5.41%) Azure Certification
6 3 (4.05%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (2.70%) AWS Certification
7 2 (2.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (2.70%) DBS Check
7 2 (2.70%) MCITP
7 2 (2.70%) VCAP
7 2 (2.70%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 1 (1.35%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (4.05%) GDPR
2 3 (4.05%) NCSC
2 3 (4.05%) QA
3 2 (2.70%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (2.70%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 2 (2.70%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (2.70%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 2 (2.70%) ISO 9001
3 2 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 2 (2.70%) SLA
4 1 (1.35%) NIST
System Software
1 33 (44.59%) Active Directory
2 15 (20.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (16.22%) vSphere
4 8 (10.81%) Hyper-V
5 7 (9.46%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (5.41%) XenApp
7 3 (4.05%) VMware NSX
8 2 (2.70%) Docker
9 1 (1.35%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 7 (9.46%) SCCM
1 7 (9.46%) Terraform
2 6 (8.11%) WSUS
3 5 (6.76%) vCenter Server
4 4 (5.41%) Ansible
4 4 (5.41%) Kubernetes
5 3 (4.05%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (2.70%) NetBackup
6 2 (2.70%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (1.35%) Kibana
7 1 (1.35%) logstash
7 1 (1.35%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 28 (37.84%) VMware
2 25 (33.78%) Microsoft
3 9 (12.16%) Cisco
4 5 (6.76%) Palo Alto
4 5 (6.76%) Symantec
5 4 (5.41%) Citrix
5 4 (5.41%) Dell
5 4 (5.41%) Google
5 4 (5.41%) Ivanti
5 4 (5.41%) Veeam
6 3 (4.05%) Aruba
6 3 (4.05%) Juniper
6 3 (4.05%) Meraki
6 3 (4.05%) Red Hat
6 3 (4.05%) ServiceNow
6 3 (4.05%) SolarWinds
7 2 (2.70%) 3PAR
7 2 (2.70%) Dell Compellent
7 2 (2.70%) NetApp
7 2 (2.70%) Nimble Storage
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