Infrastructure Engineer Contracts in England

Infrastructure Engineer
UK > England

The median Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in England is £450 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 142 172 197
Rank change year-on-year +30 +25 +38
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 603 744 1,072
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.63% 1.56% 1.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.76% 1.65% 1.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 470 555 820
10th Percentile £300 £344 £306
25th Percentile £375 £413 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £550
90th Percentile £638 £675 £625
UK median daily rate £450 £500 £455
% change year-on-year -10.00% +9.89% +10.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 8 8
10th Percentile £20.47 £34.23 £19.93
25th Percentile £21.25 £57.95 £34.81
Median hourly rate £22.50 £65.00 £45.48
Median % change year-on-year -65.38% +42.92% +21.28%
75th Percentile £71.25 £73.75 £67.07
90th Percentile £75.30 £78.11 £68.02
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £63.84 £43.62
% change year-on-year +5.73% +46.35% +8.82%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 34,255 45,148 67,437
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.56% 95.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,555 32,138 48,275
10th Percentile £285 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.00%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,585 1,311 1,778
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.54
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.75
Median hourly rate £37.75 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -16.11% +88.21% +11.47%
75th Percentile £62.00 £65.38 £49.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £77.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +14.34%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in England

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in England

Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in England over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in England

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in England

Infrastructure Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in England over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in England

Infrastructure Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 2 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
London +65 200 £450 -18.18% 75
South East +26 170 £463 -5.13% 58
North of England -7 77 £438 -7.89% 67
South West -8 75 £525 -3.23% 54
North West -11 52 £425 -10.53% 37
Midlands +9 48 £413 -8.33% 48
West Midlands +11 35 £400 -11.11% 31
East of England -19 24 £363 -27.50% 33
Yorkshire +7 21 £450 +4.65% 25
East Midlands -6 12 £449 +1.47% 17
North East +7 4 £438 +9.38% 5
Infrastructure Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 2 June 2024, 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 across the England region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 586 (97.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 264 (43.78%) Windows
3 260 (43.12%) VMware
4 242 (40.13%) Security Cleared
5 230 (38.14%) Active Directory
6 181 (30.02%) Microsoft
6 181 (30.02%) VMware Infrastructure
6 181 (30.02%) Azure
7 169 (28.03%) Windows Server
8 140 (23.22%) Linux
9 134 (22.22%) SC Cleared
10 121 (20.07%) DV Cleared
11 114 (18.91%) DNS
12 110 (18.24%) Firewall
13 98 (16.25%) Social Skills
14 96 (15.92%) PowerShell
15 93 (15.42%) Microsoft 365
16 92 (15.26%) DHCP
17 90 (14.93%) AWS
18 85 (14.10%) Migration
19 84 (13.93%) Public Sector
20 79 (13.10%) SCCM
21 69 (11.44%) SAN
22 66 (10.95%) Microsoft Exchange
23 61 (10.12%) Hyper-V
24 60 (9.95%) Problem-Solving
25 59 (9.78%) Data Centre
26 57 (9.45%) vSphere
26 57 (9.45%) ITIL
26 57 (9.45%) vCenter Server

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 66 (10.95%) Microsoft Exchange
2 31 (5.14%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.49%) Confluence
4 7 (1.16%) Apache
5 5 (0.83%) IIS
6 4 (0.66%) Tomcat
7 3 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.50%) SharePoint Server
8 2 (0.33%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.33%) WordPress
9 1 (0.17%) WebLogic
Applications
1 17 (2.82%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.66%) AutoCAD
2 4 (0.66%) Revit
3 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.17%) Eikon
2 1 (0.17%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.17%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 181 (30.02%) Azure
2 93 (15.42%) Microsoft 365
3 90 (14.93%) AWS
4 50 (8.29%) Entra ID
5 26 (4.31%) IaaS
6 18 (2.99%) SaaS
7 16 (2.65%) OCI
7 16 (2.65%) PaaS
8 13 (2.16%) Power Platform
9 12 (1.99%) Cloud Computing
9 12 (1.99%) GCP
10 10 (1.66%) Amazon S3
10 10 (1.66%) Mimecast
11 9 (1.49%) Amazon EC2
11 9 (1.49%) OneDrive
12 8 (1.33%) Azure DevOps
12 8 (1.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 7 (1.16%) Dynamics 365
14 6 (1.00%) Azure Logic Apps
14 6 (1.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 114 (18.91%) DNS
2 110 (18.24%) Firewall
3 92 (15.26%) DHCP
4 69 (11.44%) SAN
5 33 (5.47%) WAN
6 27 (4.48%) LAN
7 26 (4.31%) NAS
8 25 (4.15%) VPN
9 23 (3.81%) TCP/IP
10 18 (2.99%) Network Security
11 14 (2.32%) Wi-Fi
12 13 (2.16%) Wireless
13 12 (1.99%) VSAN
14 9 (1.49%) MPLS
14 9 (1.49%) VLAN
15 8 (1.33%) iSCSI
15 8 (1.33%) OSPF
16 7 (1.16%) Fibre Channel
16 7 (1.16%) SSL
16 7 (1.16%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (8.62%) SQL Server
2 10 (1.66%) Power BI
3 7 (1.16%) MySQL
4 6 (1.00%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (0.83%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (0.66%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (0.66%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (0.33%) DB2
7 2 (0.33%) SAP HANA
7 2 (0.33%) Sisense
8 1 (0.17%) Adabas
8 1 (0.17%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (0.17%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.17%) Redis
Development Applications
1 13 (2.16%) Git
2 12 (1.99%) JIRA
3 11 (1.82%) GitLab
3 11 (1.82%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.83%) Hudson
5 2 (0.33%) Artifactory
5 2 (0.33%) Robot Framework
5 2 (0.33%) Selenium
5 2 (0.33%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.17%) CA Gen
6 1 (0.17%) MSI
6 1 (0.17%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.17%) VisualWorks
General
1 98 (16.25%) Social Skills
2 84 (13.93%) Public Sector
3 43 (7.13%) Finance
4 29 (4.81%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (3.65%) Documentation Skills
6 18 (2.99%) Banking
7 11 (1.82%) Manufacturing
8 6 (1.00%) Legal
8 6 (1.00%) Military
9 5 (0.83%) Financial Institution
9 5 (0.83%) Telecoms
10 4 (0.66%) Front Office
10 4 (0.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (0.66%) Local Government
10 4 (0.66%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.33%) French Language
12 2 (0.33%) Law
13 1 (0.17%) Advertising
13 1 (0.17%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (2.82%) Flash
2 4 (0.66%) .NET
2 4 (0.66%) AWS CDK
3 3 (0.50%) J2EE
3 3 (0.50%) JSON
3 3 (0.50%) Spring Boot
4 2 (0.33%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (0.33%) Jinja
4 2 (0.33%) LAMP
4 2 (0.33%) LDAP
4 2 (0.33%) Middleware
4 2 (0.33%) NETCONF
4 2 (0.33%) RESTful
4 2 (0.33%) XML
4 2 (0.33%) YANG
5 1 (0.17%) EDI
5 1 (0.17%) SAML
5 1 (0.17%) Web Services
5 1 (0.17%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 59 (9.78%) Data Centre
2 33 (5.47%) PKI
3 21 (3.48%) Replication
4 16 (2.65%) Private Cloud
5 13 (2.16%) Clustering
6 12 (1.99%) Driving Licence
7 11 (1.82%) Management Information System
8 7 (1.16%) Public Cloud
9 5 (0.83%) Client/Server
9 5 (0.83%) Grid Computing
9 5 (0.83%) NHS
9 5 (0.83%) Video Conferencing
10 4 (0.66%) Fat Client
10 4 (0.66%) Linux Command Line
10 4 (0.66%) Onboarding
10 4 (0.66%) Thin Client
11 3 (0.50%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 3 (0.50%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (0.50%) Security Posture
11 3 (0.50%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 264 (43.78%) Windows
2 169 (28.03%) Windows Server
3 140 (23.22%) Linux
4 51 (8.46%) Windows Server 2016
4 51 (8.46%) Windows Server 2019
5 50 (8.29%) Windows 10
6 42 (6.97%) Windows Server 2012
7 33 (5.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 20 (3.32%) Unix
9 14 (2.32%) Windows XP
10 13 (2.16%) AIX
11 11 (1.82%) Ubuntu
11 11 (1.82%) Windows 7
12 10 (1.66%) VMS
13 8 (1.33%) Windows Server 2008
14 7 (1.16%) Windows Server 2003
15 6 (1.00%) Mac OS
16 4 (0.66%) Apple iOS
16 4 (0.66%) CentOS
17 2 (0.33%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 586 (97.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 85 (14.10%) Migration
3 60 (9.95%) Problem-Solving
4 57 (9.45%) ITIL
5 55 (9.12%) DevOps
6 38 (6.30%) Infrastructure as Code
7 37 (6.14%) Cybersecurity
7 37 (6.14%) Disaster Recovery
8 33 (5.47%) Agile
9 32 (5.31%) Project Delivery
10 30 (4.98%) CI/CD
11 22 (3.65%) Change Management
11 22 (3.65%) Containerisation
11 22 (3.65%) Storage Management
11 22 (3.65%) Virtual Infrastructure
12 21 (3.48%) Performance Tuning
12 21 (3.48%) Vulnerability Management
13 20 (3.32%) Computer Science
13 20 (3.32%) Server Management
14 19 (3.15%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 96 (15.92%) PowerShell
2 32 (5.31%) Python
3 31 (5.14%) SQL
4 14 (2.32%) Java
5 12 (1.99%) Bash
6 11 (1.82%) C#
7 9 (1.49%) VBScript
8 6 (1.00%) C
9 5 (0.83%) C++
10 4 (0.66%) TypeScript
11 3 (0.50%) PHP
11 3 (0.50%) VB.NET
12 2 (0.33%) Bicep
13 1 (0.17%) Go
13 1 (0.17%) JavaScript
13 1 (0.17%) Natural
13 1 (0.17%) Ruby
13 1 (0.17%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.17%) Smalltalk
Qualifications
1 242 (40.13%) Security Cleared
2 134 (22.22%) SC Cleared
3 121 (20.07%) DV Cleared
4 53 (8.79%) Degree
5 38 (6.30%) Cisco Certification
6 37 (6.14%) CCNA
7 29 (4.81%) Microsoft Certification
8 21 (3.48%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 18 (2.99%) Azure Certification
10 17 (2.82%) CCNP
11 12 (1.99%) MCSE
12 9 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
13 8 (1.33%) AWS Certification
13 8 (1.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 5 (0.83%) Master's Degree
15 4 (0.66%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 4 (0.66%) BPSS Clearance
15 4 (0.66%) Chartered Engineer
15 4 (0.66%) MCSA
15 4 (0.66%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (1.33%) NIST
2 6 (1.00%) GDPR
2 6 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (1.00%) SLA
3 5 (0.83%) PCI DSS
3 5 (0.83%) QA
4 4 (0.66%) NCSC
5 3 (0.50%) COBIT
5 3 (0.50%) ISO 9001
5 3 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 2 (0.33%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.33%) Government Security Classifications
7 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.17%) NIST 800
System Software
1 230 (38.14%) Active Directory
2 181 (30.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 61 (10.12%) Hyper-V
4 57 (9.45%) vSphere
5 45 (7.46%) VMware ESXi
6 24 (3.98%) VMware NSX
7 23 (3.81%) Virtual Machines
8 21 (3.48%) XenApp
9 19 (3.15%) Docker
10 8 (1.33%) Firmware
11 7 (1.16%) Virtual Desktop
12 6 (1.00%) XenDesktop
13 2 (0.33%) Virtual Servers
14 1 (0.17%) KVM
14 1 (0.17%) Terminal Services
14 1 (0.17%) VMware Server
14 1 (0.17%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 79 (13.10%) SCCM
2 57 (9.45%) vCenter Server
3 47 (7.79%) Terraform
4 30 (4.98%) Ansible
4 30 (4.98%) Microsoft Intune
5 27 (4.48%) WSUS
6 26 (4.31%) SCOM
7 25 (4.15%) Kubernetes
8 20 (3.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 14 (2.32%) EMC NetWorker
9 14 (2.32%) NetBackup
10 13 (2.16%) Single Sign-On
11 6 (1.00%) Nessus
11 6 (1.00%) Red Hat Satellite
12 4 (0.66%) FortiGate
12 4 (0.66%) Puppet
12 4 (0.66%) VxRail
13 3 (0.50%) CASB
13 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Clustering
13 3 (0.50%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 260 (43.12%) VMware
2 181 (30.02%) Microsoft
3 56 (9.29%) Cisco
4 46 (7.63%) Veeam
5 44 (7.30%) Citrix
6 32 (5.31%) Dell
7 29 (4.81%) HP
8 26 (4.31%) Palo Alto
9 23 (3.81%) Red Hat
10 21 (3.48%) Juniper
10 21 (3.48%) Symantec
11 18 (2.99%) Oracle
12 16 (2.65%) 3PAR
13 15 (2.49%) CA
13 15 (2.49%) EMC
13 15 (2.49%) Ivanti
14 14 (2.32%) Extreme Networks
14 14 (2.32%) IBM
14 14 (2.32%) ServiceNow
15 13 (2.16%) Aruba