Infrastructure Specialist Contracts in London

Infrastructure Specialist
England > London

The median Infrastructure Specialist daily rate in London is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 381 451 557
Rank change year-on-year +70 +106 -76
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Specialist 19 31 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.11% 0.12% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.13% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 26 36
10th Percentile £454 £400 -
25th Percentile £481 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £519 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.61% +3.75% -1.96%
75th Percentile £511 £600 £625
90th Percentile £565 £644 £640
England median daily rate £505 £506 £524
% change year-on-year -0.25% -3.34% +17.04%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 16,560 23,906 36,699
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.67% 95.05% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,921 17,459 27,030
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £440 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 324 281 404
10th Percentile £16.00 £17.98 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.17 £22.63 £23.75
Median hourly rate £27.81 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.75% +2.86% +7.12%
75th Percentile £46.59 £63.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £66.85 £82.25 £67.50
England median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -12.22% +87.50% +14.01%

Infrastructure Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Specialist in London

Infrastructure Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Specialist in London

Infrastructure Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Specialist in London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Specialist in London

Infrastructure Specialist
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Specialist in London

Infrastructure Specialist
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Specialist within the London region over the 6 months to 12 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
East London - 4 £500 -
Central London +35 1 £850 +88.89%
Infrastructure Specialist
England

Infrastructure Specialist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, Infrastructure Specialist 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 London region featuring Infrastructure Specialist in the job title.

1 13 (68.42%) AWS
2 12 (63.16%) VMware
3 11 (57.89%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (52.63%) Finance
5 9 (47.37%) ITIL
5 9 (47.37%) Windows
5 9 (47.37%) Ansible
6 8 (42.11%) Windows Server
6 8 (42.11%) Linux
6 8 (42.11%) Microsoft
6 8 (42.11%) Active Directory
6 8 (42.11%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (36.84%) ServiceNow
7 7 (36.84%) SCCM
7 7 (36.84%) Citrix
7 7 (36.84%) Windows 10
8 6 (31.58%) Security Patching
8 6 (31.58%) Virtual Infrastructure
8 6 (31.58%) Unix
8 6 (31.58%) Qualys
9 5 (26.32%) Time Management
9 5 (26.32%) SLA
9 5 (26.32%) Management Information System
9 5 (26.32%) Data Centre
9 5 (26.32%) Vulnerability Management
9 5 (26.32%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (21.05%) Disaster Recovery
10 4 (21.05%) Configuration Management
10 4 (21.05%) Red Hat
11 3 (15.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)

Infrastructure Specialist Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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:

Cloud Services
1 13 (68.42%) AWS
2 8 (42.11%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (5.26%) Azure
3 1 (5.26%) Entra ID
3 1 (5.26%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.26%) Firewall
1 1 (5.26%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (5.26%) Network Security
1 1 (5.26%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Git
General
1 10 (52.63%) Finance
2 5 (26.32%) Organisational Skills
3 3 (15.79%) Social Skills
4 2 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (10.53%) Banking
5 1 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.26%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 5 (26.32%) Data Centre
1 5 (26.32%) Management Information System
2 3 (15.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (5.26%) Hedge funds
3 1 (5.26%) Onboarding
3 1 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (47.37%) Windows
2 8 (42.11%) Linux
2 8 (42.11%) Windows Server
3 7 (36.84%) Windows 10
4 6 (31.58%) Unix
5 3 (15.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (5.26%) CentOS
6 1 (5.26%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (47.37%) ITIL
2 6 (31.58%) Security Patching
2 6 (31.58%) Virtual Infrastructure
3 5 (26.32%) Time Management
3 5 (26.32%) Vulnerability Management
4 4 (21.05%) Configuration Management
4 4 (21.05%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (10.53%) Agile
6 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Automation
6 2 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (10.53%) Vulnerability Remediation
7 1 (5.26%) CI/CD
7 1 (5.26%) Computer Science
7 1 (5.26%) Cost Optimisation
7 1 (5.26%) Customer Service
7 1 (5.26%) Knowledge Transfer
7 1 (5.26%) Requirements Management
7 1 (5.26%) Vulnerability Assessment
7 1 (5.26%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.26%) Python
1 1 (5.26%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (10.53%) Degree
2 1 (5.26%) Azure Certification
2 1 (5.26%) CEH
2 1 (5.26%) CISSP
2 1 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared
2 1 (5.26%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (26.32%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (57.89%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (42.11%) Active Directory
3 2 (10.53%) Docker
3 2 (10.53%) Hyper-V
4 1 (5.26%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (47.37%) Ansible
2 7 (36.84%) SCCM
3 3 (15.79%) Progress Chef
4 2 (10.53%) Kubernetes
4 2 (10.53%) Puppet
5 1 (5.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (63.16%) VMware
2 8 (42.11%) Microsoft
3 7 (36.84%) Citrix
3 7 (36.84%) ServiceNow
4 6 (31.58%) Qualys
5 4 (21.05%) Red Hat
6 1 (5.26%) Oracle
6 1 (5.26%) Sybase