3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer Contracts

Third Line Infrastructure Engineer
UK

The median Third Line Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in the UK is £375 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 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 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 557 635 760
Rank change year-on-year +78 +125 -78
Contract jobs requiring a 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer 18 47 78
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.042% 0.084% 0.089%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.045% 0.089% 0.093%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 34 49
10th Percentile £228 £325 £265
25th Percentile £263 £372 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £450 £398
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +13.21% +16.91%
75th Percentile £400 £525 £438
90th Percentile £485 £588 £458
UK excluding London median daily rate £375 £475 £385
% change year-on-year -21.05% +23.38% +14.07%

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 39,969 53,015 83,520
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.83% 94.58% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,870 37,031 58,844
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
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% +10.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,841 1,476 1,963
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +83.67% +12.28%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.75 £49.33
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.13 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

3rd Line 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 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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
England +56 16 £375 -16.67% 7
UK excluding London +21 16 £375 -21.05% 6
South East +12 7 £375 -34.78%
North of England +20 4 £325 -13.33% 1
East of England +6 3 £213 -
London +84 2 £500 +11.11% 1
North East +12 2 £275 -31.25%
Work from Home +103 1 £365 -8.75% 3
North West +19 1 £425 -0.58% 1
Yorkshire +17 1 £375 +20.00%
Wales - 1 £365 -
Scotland - 1 £340 -

3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, 3rd Line 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 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 18 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 11 (61.11%) VMware
2 11 (61.11%) Windows
3 8 (44.44%) Windows Server
4 7 (38.89%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (33.33%) Microsoft
5 6 (33.33%) Active Directory
6 5 (27.78%) SAN
6 5 (27.78%) Linux
6 5 (27.78%) Firewall
7 4 (22.22%) DHCP
7 4 (22.22%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (22.22%) Citrix
7 4 (22.22%) DNS
7 4 (22.22%) NAS
7 4 (22.22%) Azure
7 4 (22.22%) Patch Management
7 4 (22.22%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (16.67%) vSphere
8 3 (16.67%) VPN
8 3 (16.67%) Oracle
8 3 (16.67%) SQL Server
8 3 (16.67%) Red Hat
9 2 (11.11%) Firmware
9 2 (11.11%) Thin Client
9 2 (11.11%) Sophos
9 2 (11.11%) Change Management
9 2 (11.11%) Security Management
9 2 (11.11%) Nessus

3rd Line 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 4 (22.22%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 7 (38.89%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (22.22%) Azure
3 1 (5.56%) AWS
3 1 (5.56%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (5.56%) Entra ID
3 1 (5.56%) IaaS
3 1 (5.56%) OCI
3 1 (5.56%) PaaS
3 1 (5.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (27.78%) Firewall
1 5 (27.78%) SAN
2 4 (22.22%) DHCP
2 4 (22.22%) DNS
2 4 (22.22%) NAS
3 3 (16.67%) VPN
4 2 (11.11%) Fibre Channel
4 2 (11.11%) iSCSI
4 2 (11.11%) LAN
4 2 (11.11%) SSL
4 2 (11.11%) TCP/IP
4 2 (11.11%) VLAN
4 2 (11.11%) VoIP
4 2 (11.11%) WAN
5 1 (5.56%) NetScaler
5 1 (5.56%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 2 (11.11%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (11.11%) MySQL
2 2 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
General
1 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
1 2 (11.11%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (5.56%) Back Office
2 1 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (5.56%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Fat Client
1 2 (11.11%) PKI
1 2 (11.11%) Thin Client
2 1 (5.56%) Client/Server
2 1 (5.56%) Clustering
2 1 (5.56%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.56%) LIMS
2 1 (5.56%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 11 (61.11%) Windows
2 8 (44.44%) Windows Server
3 5 (27.78%) Linux
4 4 (22.22%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (11.11%) Ubuntu
5 2 (11.11%) Unix
5 2 (11.11%) Windows 10
5 2 (11.11%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (11.11%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (5.56%) Mac OS
6 1 (5.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (5.56%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (22.22%) Patch Management
3 2 (11.11%) Change Management
3 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Management
3 2 (11.11%) Mentoring
3 2 (11.11%) Security Management
3 2 (11.11%) Virtual Infrastructure
4 1 (5.56%) Business Continuity
4 1 (5.56%) Compliance Management
4 1 (5.56%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (5.56%) High Availability
4 1 (5.56%) Incident Management
4 1 (5.56%) ITIL
4 1 (5.56%) Logistics
4 1 (5.56%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (5.56%) Project Delivery
4 1 (5.56%) Secure Coding
4 1 (5.56%) Server Management
4 1 (5.56%) Service Delivery
4 1 (5.56%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.11%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) CCNA
1 2 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (11.11%) Degree
1 2 (11.11%) MCSE
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 2 (11.11%) Security Cleared
1 2 (11.11%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 1 (5.56%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 6 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (16.67%) vSphere
3 2 (11.11%) Firmware
3 2 (11.11%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (5.56%) Hyper-V
4 1 (5.56%) KVM
4 1 (5.56%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (5.56%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 2 (11.11%) Ansible
1 2 (11.11%) Nessus
1 2 (11.11%) Red Hat Satellite
1 2 (11.11%) vCenter Server
1 2 (11.11%) WSUS
1 2 (11.11%) ZABBIX
2 1 (5.56%) FortiGate
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 11 (61.11%) VMware
2 6 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 4 (22.22%) Citrix
4 3 (16.67%) Oracle
4 3 (16.67%) Red Hat
5 2 (11.11%) Aruba
5 2 (11.11%) HP
5 2 (11.11%) Sophos
5 2 (11.11%) Veeam
6 1 (5.56%) Cisco
6 1 (5.56%) Fortinet
6 1 (5.56%) NetApp