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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 94 115 143
Rank change year-on-year +21 +28 +31
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 1,012 1,239 1,660
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.35% 2.21% 1.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.75% 2.46% 2.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 762 914 1,249
10th Percentile £300 £338 £306
25th Percentile £375 £415 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £514 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.54% +8.16% +11.24%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £575
90th Percentile £700 £700 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £468 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -6.50% +11.11% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 24 12
10th Percentile £37.63 £46.00 £19.78
25th Percentile £45.30 £56.25 £23.75
Median hourly rate £54.88 £65.00 £36.11
Median % change year-on-year -15.58% +79.99% -9.72%
75th Percentile £70.00 £78.00 £53.13
90th Percentile £70.88 £85.21 £67.89
UK excluding London median hourly rate £54.88 £62.78 £27.36
% change year-on-year -12.58% +129.42% +8.37%

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 36,802 50,277 79,372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.47% 89.69% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,632 34,811 55,790
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +9.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,530 1,673 1,868
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.72 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.76%

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 1 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 1 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 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 +19 883 £486 -2.85% 489
UK excluding London +14 645 £468 -6.50% 394
London +42 307 £515 -6.79% 131
South East +26 234 £475 -5.00% 97
Work from Home -31 214 £450 -14.29% 233
South West 0 123 £494 -10.23% 67
North of England -16 108 £450 -5.26% 96
North West -5 79 £438 -7.89% 49
Scotland +68 75 £420 -20.00% 35
Midlands -6 63 £450 -0.11% 56
West Midlands +3 49 £525 +16.67% 34
East of England -25 38 £513 +2.50% 40
Yorkshire -13 25 £450 +4.65% 41
East Midlands -9 13 £449 +0.90% 22
Wales -3 5 £433 -17.62% 14
North East +5 4 £438 -2.78% 6

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 86 (8.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 53 (5.24%) SharePoint
3 29 (2.87%) 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 13 (1.28%) 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%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.099%) Eikon
2 1 (0.099%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.099%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 280 (27.67%) Azure
2 166 (16.40%) AWS
3 138 (13.64%) Microsoft 365
4 86 (8.50%) Entra ID
5 36 (3.56%) IaaS
6 28 (2.77%) Power Platform
7 26 (2.57%) SaaS
8 25 (2.47%) PaaS
9 22 (2.17%) Cloud Computing
9 22 (2.17%) GCP
10 18 (1.78%) Azure DevOps
10 18 (1.78%) OCI
11 17 (1.68%) Mimecast
12 15 (1.48%) Amazon EC2
12 15 (1.48%) OpenShift
12 15 (1.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 13 (1.28%) Amazon S3
13 13 (1.28%) OneDrive
14 12 (1.19%) Serverless
15 11 (1.09%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 163 (16.11%) Firewall
2 136 (13.44%) DNS
3 107 (10.57%) DHCP
4 95 (9.39%) SAN
5 59 (5.83%) WAN
6 49 (4.84%) LAN
7 48 (4.74%) VPN
8 39 (3.85%) Wireless
9 38 (3.75%) NAS
10 29 (2.87%) OSPF
10 29 (2.87%) TCP/IP
11 24 (2.37%) Network Security
12 23 (2.27%) Software-Defined Radio
13 20 (1.98%) SNMP
14 19 (1.88%) VSAN
15 18 (1.78%) BGP
16 16 (1.58%) Wi-Fi
17 15 (1.48%) Wireless Security
18 14 (1.38%) MPLS
18 14 (1.38%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (6.13%) SQL Server
2 19 (1.88%) Power BI
3 11 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
4 10 (0.99%) MongoDB
5 9 (0.89%) MySQL
6 7 (0.69%) Elasticsearch
6 7 (0.69%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (0.69%) Sybase ASE
7 6 (0.59%) Metadata
7 6 (0.59%) Microsoft Power View
7 6 (0.59%) PowerPivot
7 6 (0.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 5 (0.49%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (0.40%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.20%) Adabas
10 2 (0.20%) DB2
10 2 (0.20%) SAP HANA
10 2 (0.20%) Sisense
11 1 (0.099%) BusinessObjects
11 1 (0.099%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 51 (5.04%) Git
2 40 (3.95%) Jenkins
3 35 (3.46%) JIRA
4 24 (2.37%) 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%) VisualWorks
General
1 186 (18.38%) Social Skills
2 121 (11.96%) Public Sector
3 70 (6.92%) Finance
4 65 (6.42%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (2.57%) Documentation Skills
6 23 (2.27%) Banking
7 14 (1.38%) Manufacturing
7 14 (1.38%) Telecoms
8 9 (0.89%) Aerospace
9 8 (0.79%) Legal
9 8 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
10 7 (0.69%) Military
11 6 (0.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (0.59%) Publishing
11 6 (0.59%) Retail
12 5 (0.49%) Financial Institution
12 5 (0.49%) German Language
12 5 (0.49%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (0.40%) Front Office
13 4 (0.40%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 659 (65.12%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 90 (8.89%) Senior
3 70 (6.92%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 65 (6.42%) Network Engineer
5 50 (4.94%) Cloud Engineer
6 41 (4.05%) Infrastructure Support
6 41 (4.05%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
6 41 (4.05%) Support Engineer
7 36 (3.56%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 35 (3.46%) Azure Engineer
8 35 (3.46%) VMware Engineer
9 33 (3.26%) Architect
9 33 (3.26%) DevOps Engineer
10 32 (3.16%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
11 31 (3.06%) AWS Engineer
11 31 (3.06%) Storage Engineer
12 28 (2.77%) Security Engineer
12 28 (2.77%) Windows Engineer
13 27 (2.67%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
14 26 (2.57%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (2.27%) CSS
1 23 (2.27%) HTML
2 18 (1.78%) Flash
3 14 (1.38%) OAuth
3 14 (1.38%) SAML
4 13 (1.28%) OpenID
4 13 (1.28%) RabbitMQ
5 12 (1.19%) Kafka
5 12 (1.19%) RESTful
6 9 (0.89%) SOAP
7 7 (0.69%) .NET
8 4 (0.40%) AWS CDK
8 4 (0.40%) JSON
8 4 (0.40%) XML
8 4 (0.40%) YAML
9 3 (0.30%) Elastic Stack
9 3 (0.30%) J2EE
9 3 (0.30%) Jinja
9 3 (0.30%) Middleware
9 3 (0.30%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 87 (8.60%) Data Centre
2 47 (4.64%) PKI
3 26 (2.57%) Replication
4 24 (2.37%) Private Cloud
5 22 (2.17%) Clustering
5 22 (2.17%) Management Information System
6 18 (1.78%) NHS
7 12 (1.19%) Distributed Systems
7 12 (1.19%) Driving Licence
8 9 (0.89%) Algorithms
8 9 (0.89%) Data Structures
8 9 (0.89%) Linux Command Line
8 9 (0.89%) Mobile App
9 8 (0.79%) Public Cloud
9 8 (0.79%) Self-Motivation
9 8 (0.79%) Video Conferencing
10 7 (0.69%) Fat Client
10 7 (0.69%) Onboarding
10 7 (0.69%) Thin Client
11 6 (0.59%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 396 (39.13%) Windows
2 248 (24.51%) Linux
3 227 (22.43%) Windows Server
4 60 (5.93%) Windows Server 2016
5 57 (5.63%) Windows Server 2019
6 55 (5.43%) Windows 10
6 55 (5.43%) Windows Server 2012
7 53 (5.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 44 (4.35%) Unix
9 20 (1.98%) Mac OS
10 14 (1.38%) AIX
10 14 (1.38%) Windows XP
11 13 (1.28%) Ubuntu
12 11 (1.09%) VMS
13 9 (0.89%) Windows 7
13 9 (0.89%) Windows Server 2008
14 8 (0.79%) Apple iOS
14 8 (0.79%) Windows Server 2003
15 6 (0.59%) Solaris
16 5 (0.49%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 150 (14.82%) DevOps
2 131 (12.94%) Migration
3 129 (12.75%) Problem-Solving
4 108 (10.67%) Agile
5 95 (9.39%) ITIL
6 83 (8.20%) CI/CD
7 69 (6.82%) Cybersecurity
8 59 (5.83%) Infrastructure as Code
9 50 (4.94%) Disaster Recovery
10 47 (4.64%) Software Engineering
11 45 (4.45%) Project Delivery
12 40 (3.95%) Configuration Management
13 39 (3.85%) Change Management
14 36 (3.56%) Customer Service
14 36 (3.56%) Scrum
15 32 (3.16%) Microservices
16 29 (2.87%) Containerisation
17 28 (2.77%) Computer Science
17 28 (2.77%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 28 (2.77%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 149 (14.72%) PowerShell
2 89 (8.79%) Python
3 54 (5.34%) SQL
4 39 (3.85%) JavaScript
5 35 (3.46%) Java
6 27 (2.67%) C++
6 27 (2.67%) Shell Script
7 24 (2.37%) C#
8 23 (2.27%) Bash
9 11 (1.09%) VBScript
10 10 (0.99%) Go
10 10 (0.99%) Ruby
11 7 (0.69%) Groovy
11 7 (0.69%) Perl
12 6 (0.59%) TypeScript
13 5 (0.49%) C
14 4 (0.40%) Bicep
15 3 (0.30%) PHP
15 3 (0.30%) VB.NET
16 2 (0.20%) Natural
Qualifications
1 385 (38.04%) Security Cleared
2 236 (23.32%) SC Cleared
3 172 (17.00%) DV Cleared
4 79 (7.81%) Degree
5 50 (4.94%) Cisco Certification
6 46 (4.55%) CCNA
7 38 (3.75%) Microsoft Certification
8 31 (3.06%) Azure Certification
9 23 (2.27%) MCSE
10 22 (2.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 19 (1.88%) CCNP
12 14 (1.38%) Computer Science Degree
13 9 (0.89%) AWS Certification
14 8 (0.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 8 (0.79%) MCSA
15 7 (0.69%) ITIL Certification
15 7 (0.69%) Master's Degree
15 7 (0.69%) MCP
16 6 (0.59%) RHCE
16 6 (0.59%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (1.88%) SLA
2 10 (0.99%) GDPR
2 10 (0.99%) QA
3 8 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (0.79%) NIST
3 8 (0.79%) PCI DSS
4 5 (0.49%) NCSC
5 4 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.30%) COBIT
6 3 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 3 (0.30%) ISO 9001
6 3 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 2 (0.20%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.20%) Government Security Classifications
8 1 (0.099%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.099%) NIST 800
System Software
1 288 (28.46%) Active Directory
2 236 (23.32%) VMware Infrastructure
3 81 (8.00%) Hyper-V
4 64 (6.32%) vSphere
5 55 (5.43%) VMware ESXi
6 37 (3.66%) Docker
7 35 (3.46%) VMware NSX
8 31 (3.06%) Virtual Machines
9 29 (2.87%) Firmware
10 22 (2.17%) XenApp
11 10 (0.99%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 10 (0.99%) KVM
12 9 (0.89%) Virtual Desktop
13 6 (0.59%) XenDesktop
14 4 (0.40%) Virtual Servers
15 2 (0.20%) Terminal Services
15 2 (0.20%) VMware Workstation
16 1 (0.099%) DFS Replication
16 1 (0.099%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 1 (0.099%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 107 (10.57%) SCCM
2 93 (9.19%) Terraform
3 73 (7.21%) Ansible
4 65 (6.42%) vCenter Server
5 60 (5.93%) Kubernetes
6 47 (4.64%) WSUS
7 46 (4.55%) Microsoft Intune
8 29 (2.87%) SCOM
9 24 (2.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 19 (1.88%) Single Sign-On
11 17 (1.68%) NetBackup
11 17 (1.68%) Puppet
12 14 (1.38%) EMC NetWorker
12 14 (1.38%) Grafana
12 14 (1.38%) Prometheus
13 10 (0.99%) Consul
14 9 (0.89%) FortiGate
15 8 (0.79%) Nessus
15 8 (0.79%) Red Hat Satellite
15 8 (0.79%) vRealize
Vendors
1 345 (34.09%) VMware
2 284 (28.06%) Microsoft
3 73 (7.21%) Cisco
4 61 (6.03%) Citrix
5 60 (5.93%) Veeam
6 45 (4.45%) Dell
7 41 (4.05%) Red Hat
8 37 (3.66%) HP
9 33 (3.26%) Palo Alto
10 32 (3.16%) Juniper
11 30 (2.96%) Google
12 26 (2.57%) Atlassian
13 23 (2.27%) Oracle
13 23 (2.27%) Symantec
14 22 (2.17%) ServiceNow
15 20 (1.98%) CA
16 19 (1.88%) Extreme Networks
17 17 (1.68%) Ivanti
18 16 (1.58%) 3PAR
18 16 (1.58%) Brocade