Infrastructure Engineering Contracts

Infrastructure Engineering
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Infrastructure Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Infrastructure Engineering over the 6 months to 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 95 117 145
Rank change year-on-year +22 +28 +24
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 1,012 1,231 1,675
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.34% 2.22% 1.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.74% 2.47% 2.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 765 911 1,266
10th Percentile £304 £331 £307
25th Percentile £375 £418 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £520 £475
Median % change year-on-year -6.16% +9.37% +11.76%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £575
90th Percentile £700 £700 £656
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 24 11
10th Percentile £37.63 £46.00 £19.75
25th Percentile £45.89 £56.25 £22.50
Median hourly rate £54.88 £65.00 £29.73
Median % change year-on-year -15.58% +118.67% -25.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £78.00 £47.67
90th Percentile £71.13 £85.21 £57.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £54.88 £62.78 £25.00
% change year-on-year -12.58% +151.10% -12.28%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Infrastructure Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,914 49,809 79,437
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.21% 89.64% 90.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,592 34,469 55,846
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £649
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,564 1,687 1,868
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.70 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.75
Median hourly rate £36.50 £35.80 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% +39.41% +11.65%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.51
% change year-on-year +8.91% +70.69% -2.36%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Infrastructure Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineering in the UK

Infrastructure Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Engineering in the UK

Infrastructure Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in the UK

Infrastructure Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Engineering in the UK

Infrastructure Engineering
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in the UK

Infrastructure Engineering
Top 16 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering within the UK over the 6 months to 9 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 +18 882 £500 -1.38% 448
UK excluding London +19 643 £475 -5.00% 369
London +27 309 £515 -6.36% 112
South East +32 232 £475 -5.00% 79
Work from Home -22 217 £450 -14.29% 208
South West -2 121 £488 -11.36% 63
North of England -17 102 £425 -10.53% 98
Scotland +74 77 £425 -20.09% 32
North West -12 75 £425 -10.53% 50
Midlands 0 69 £450 - 58
West Midlands +7 52 £525 +16.67% 35
East of England -26 38 £513 +2.50% 38
Yorkshire -18 23 £450 +5.26% 39
East Midlands -4 16 £449 +0.90% 23
Wales -3 5 £433 -15.61% 12
North East +6 4 £438 -2.78% 9

Infrastructure Engineering
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 90 (8.89%) Microsoft Exchange
2 54 (5.34%) SharePoint
3 28 (2.77%) Confluence
4 12 (1.19%) IIS
5 10 (0.99%) Apache
6 9 (0.89%) SharePoint Server
7 8 (0.79%) Tomcat
8 6 (0.59%) SharePoint 2010
9 3 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.30%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.20%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.20%) WordPress
11 1 (0.099%) Apache Spark
11 1 (0.099%) Exchange Server 2007
11 1 (0.099%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 17 (1.68%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (0.99%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.69%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.40%) AutoCAD
4 4 (0.40%) Revit
5 2 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
1 2 (0.20%) Shopify
2 1 (0.099%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.099%) Eikon
2 1 (0.099%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.099%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 279 (27.57%) Azure
2 169 (16.70%) AWS
3 141 (13.93%) Microsoft 365
4 87 (8.60%) Entra ID
5 36 (3.56%) IaaS
6 29 (2.87%) Power Platform
7 26 (2.57%) SaaS
8 25 (2.47%) PaaS
9 21 (2.08%) GCP
10 20 (1.98%) Amazon EC2
10 20 (1.98%) Cloud Computing
11 18 (1.78%) Azure DevOps
11 18 (1.78%) Mimecast
11 18 (1.78%) OpenShift
12 17 (1.68%) Amazon S3
12 17 (1.68%) OCI
13 16 (1.58%) Serverless
14 14 (1.38%) OneDrive
14 14 (1.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 13 (1.28%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 157 (15.51%) Firewall
2 132 (13.04%) DNS
3 101 (9.98%) DHCP
4 93 (9.19%) SAN
5 53 (5.24%) WAN
6 45 (4.45%) VPN
7 43 (4.25%) LAN
8 37 (3.66%) NAS
8 37 (3.66%) Wireless
9 27 (2.67%) TCP/IP
10 25 (2.47%) OSPF
11 23 (2.27%) Network Security
11 23 (2.27%) Software-Defined Radio
12 20 (1.98%) SNMP
13 18 (1.78%) VSAN
14 15 (1.48%) MPLS
14 15 (1.48%) Wi-Fi
14 15 (1.48%) Wireless Security
15 14 (1.38%) BGP
15 14 (1.38%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (5.93%) SQL Server
2 20 (1.98%) Power BI
3 17 (1.68%) MongoDB
4 15 (1.48%) Amazon RDS
5 11 (1.09%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (0.99%) Elasticsearch
7 9 (0.89%) MySQL
8 7 (0.69%) Sybase ASE
9 6 (0.59%) Metadata
9 6 (0.59%) Microsoft Power View
9 6 (0.59%) PowerPivot
9 6 (0.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 5 (0.49%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (0.40%) Data Lake
11 4 (0.40%) Informix
12 3 (0.30%) InfluxDB
13 2 (0.20%) Adabas
13 2 (0.20%) Amazon Aurora
13 2 (0.20%) DB2
13 2 (0.20%) Sisense
Development Applications
1 52 (5.14%) Git
2 40 (3.95%) Jenkins
3 35 (3.46%) JIRA
4 25 (2.47%) GitLab
5 18 (1.78%) Robot Framework
6 17 (1.68%) Bitbucket
6 17 (1.68%) Eclipse
7 16 (1.58%) GoogleTest
8 9 (0.89%) Postman
8 9 (0.89%) SoapUI
9 7 (0.69%) Hudson
9 7 (0.69%) Maven
10 6 (0.59%) Gradle
11 3 (0.30%) Selenium
11 3 (0.30%) Sonatype Nexus
12 2 (0.20%) Artifactory
12 2 (0.20%) CA Gen
12 2 (0.20%) Visual Studio Code
13 1 (0.099%) Octopus Deploy
13 1 (0.099%) TeamCity
General
1 183 (18.08%) Social Skills
2 124 (12.25%) Public Sector
3 68 (6.72%) Finance
4 59 (5.83%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (2.37%) Documentation Skills
6 22 (2.17%) Banking
7 15 (1.48%) Manufacturing
8 14 (1.38%) Telecoms
9 9 (0.89%) Aerospace
9 9 (0.89%) Legal
10 8 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
11 7 (0.69%) Military
12 6 (0.59%) Publishing
13 5 (0.49%) Financial Institution
13 5 (0.49%) German Language
13 5 (0.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 5 (0.49%) Local Government
13 5 (0.49%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (0.49%) Retail
14 4 (0.40%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 667 (65.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 89 (8.79%) Senior
3 69 (6.82%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 64 (6.32%) Network Engineer
5 49 (4.84%) Cloud Engineer
6 41 (4.05%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
7 40 (3.95%) Infrastructure Support
7 40 (3.95%) Support Engineer
8 36 (3.56%) Azure Engineer
8 36 (3.56%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
9 35 (3.46%) DevOps Engineer
9 35 (3.46%) VMware Engineer
10 33 (3.26%) Architect
11 32 (3.16%) AWS Engineer
12 31 (3.06%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
13 30 (2.96%) Storage Engineer
14 29 (2.87%) Windows Engineer
15 28 (2.77%) Security Engineer
16 27 (2.67%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
17 26 (2.57%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (2.27%) CSS
1 23 (2.27%) HTML
2 17 (1.68%) Flash
3 13 (1.28%) Kafka
3 13 (1.28%) OAuth
3 13 (1.28%) RabbitMQ
3 13 (1.28%) SAML
4 12 (1.19%) OpenID
4 12 (1.19%) RESTful
5 9 (0.89%) SOAP
6 8 (0.79%) AWS CDK
7 7 (0.69%) .NET
8 4 (0.40%) JSON
8 4 (0.40%) Middleware
8 4 (0.40%) YAML
9 3 (0.30%) Elastic Stack
9 3 (0.30%) Jinja
9 3 (0.30%) NETCONF
9 3 (0.30%) Spring Boot
9 3 (0.30%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 87 (8.60%) Data Centre
2 44 (4.35%) PKI
3 28 (2.77%) Replication
4 23 (2.27%) Private Cloud
5 21 (2.08%) Clustering
6 20 (1.98%) Management Information System
7 19 (1.88%) NHS
8 12 (1.19%) Distributed Systems
8 12 (1.19%) Driving Licence
9 9 (0.89%) Algorithms
9 9 (0.89%) Cloud Native
9 9 (0.89%) Data Structures
9 9 (0.89%) Linux Command Line
9 9 (0.89%) Mobile App
9 9 (0.89%) Public Cloud
10 7 (0.69%) Fat Client
10 7 (0.69%) Onboarding
10 7 (0.69%) Thin Client
10 7 (0.69%) Video Conferencing
11 6 (0.59%) Grid Computing
Operating Systems
1 392 (38.74%) Windows
2 249 (24.60%) Linux
3 227 (22.43%) Windows Server
4 57 (5.63%) Windows 10
4 57 (5.63%) Windows Server 2016
5 56 (5.53%) Windows Server 2019
6 55 (5.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 55 (5.43%) Windows Server 2012
7 40 (3.95%) Unix
8 18 (1.78%) Mac OS
9 14 (1.38%) AIX
9 14 (1.38%) Windows XP
10 13 (1.28%) Ubuntu
11 11 (1.09%) VMS
12 8 (0.79%) Apple iOS
12 8 (0.79%) Windows 7
12 8 (0.79%) Windows Server 2003
12 8 (0.79%) Windows Server 2008
13 6 (0.59%) Solaris
14 5 (0.49%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 153 (15.12%) DevOps
2 128 (12.65%) Migration
3 125 (12.35%) Problem-Solving
4 114 (11.26%) Agile
5 93 (9.19%) ITIL
6 87 (8.60%) CI/CD
7 68 (6.72%) Cybersecurity
8 61 (6.03%) Infrastructure as Code
9 50 (4.94%) Disaster Recovery
10 46 (4.55%) Project Delivery
10 46 (4.55%) Software Engineering
11 41 (4.05%) Scrum
12 39 (3.85%) Configuration Management
13 36 (3.56%) Change Management
14 35 (3.46%) Customer Service
15 32 (3.16%) Microservices
16 29 (2.87%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 28 (2.77%) Computer Science
17 28 (2.77%) Containerisation
17 28 (2.77%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 153 (15.12%) PowerShell
2 89 (8.79%) Python
3 56 (5.53%) SQL
4 39 (3.85%) JavaScript
5 35 (3.46%) Java
6 28 (2.77%) Shell Script
7 27 (2.67%) C++
8 24 (2.37%) C#
9 22 (2.17%) Bash
10 11 (1.09%) Go
10 11 (1.09%) VBScript
11 10 (0.99%) Ruby
11 10 (0.99%) TypeScript
12 7 (0.69%) Groovy
13 6 (0.59%) Perl
14 5 (0.49%) C
15 4 (0.40%) Bicep
16 3 (0.30%) PHP
16 3 (0.30%) VB.NET
17 2 (0.20%) Natural
Qualifications
1 385 (38.04%) Security Cleared
2 230 (22.73%) SC Cleared
3 177 (17.49%) DV Cleared
4 78 (7.71%) Degree
5 49 (4.84%) Cisco Certification
6 45 (4.45%) CCNA
7 38 (3.75%) Microsoft Certification
8 31 (3.06%) Azure Certification
9 24 (2.37%) MCSE
10 22 (2.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 19 (1.88%) CCNP
12 15 (1.48%) Computer Science Degree
13 9 (0.89%) AWS Certification
14 8 (0.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 7 (0.69%) ITIL Certification
15 7 (0.69%) MCP
15 7 (0.69%) MCSA
16 6 (0.59%) Master's Degree
16 6 (0.59%) RHCE
16 6 (0.59%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (1.88%) SLA
2 12 (1.19%) QA
3 10 (0.99%) GDPR
4 8 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (0.79%) NIST
4 8 (0.79%) PCI DSS
5 5 (0.49%) NCSC
6 4 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.30%) COBIT
7 3 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 3 (0.30%) ISO 9001
7 3 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 2 (0.20%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.20%) Government Security Classifications
9 1 (0.099%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.099%) NIST 800
System Software
1 288 (28.46%) Active Directory
2 234 (23.12%) VMware Infrastructure
3 82 (8.10%) Hyper-V
4 62 (6.13%) vSphere
5 55 (5.43%) VMware ESXi
6 38 (3.75%) Docker
7 34 (3.36%) VMware NSX
8 31 (3.06%) Virtual Machines
9 29 (2.87%) Firmware
10 19 (1.88%) XenApp
11 11 (1.09%) Virtual Desktop
12 10 (0.99%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 10 (0.99%) KVM
13 4 (0.40%) Virtual Servers
13 4 (0.40%) XenDesktop
14 2 (0.20%) Terminal Services
14 2 (0.20%) VMware Workstation
15 1 (0.099%) DFS Replication
15 1 (0.099%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 1 (0.099%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 108 (10.67%) SCCM
2 92 (9.09%) Terraform
3 78 (7.71%) Ansible
4 63 (6.23%) vCenter Server
5 60 (5.93%) Kubernetes
6 50 (4.94%) Microsoft Intune
7 47 (4.64%) WSUS
8 32 (3.16%) SCOM
9 22 (2.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 19 (1.88%) Single Sign-On
11 18 (1.78%) Grafana
12 17 (1.68%) Puppet
13 16 (1.58%) NetBackup
14 14 (1.38%) EMC NetWorker
14 14 (1.38%) Prometheus
15 10 (0.99%) Consul
16 9 (0.89%) Red Hat Satellite
16 9 (0.89%) vRealize
17 8 (0.79%) Nessus
18 6 (0.59%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 343 (33.89%) VMware
2 285 (28.16%) Microsoft
3 69 (6.82%) Cisco
4 60 (5.93%) Citrix
5 59 (5.83%) Veeam
6 46 (4.55%) Dell
7 44 (4.35%) Red Hat
8 37 (3.66%) HP
9 30 (2.96%) Palo Alto
10 29 (2.87%) Google
10 29 (2.87%) Juniper
11 26 (2.57%) Oracle
12 25 (2.47%) Atlassian
13 23 (2.27%) Symantec
14 21 (2.08%) ServiceNow
15 20 (1.98%) CA
16 17 (1.68%) Ivanti
17 16 (1.58%) 3PAR
17 16 (1.58%) Extreme Networks
17 16 (1.58%) IBM