Infrastructure Engineering Contracts in the North of England

Infrastructure Engineering
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring Infrastructure Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Infrastructure Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 89 67 73
Rank change year-on-year -22 +6 +31
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 102 170 232
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 2.11% 3.12% 3.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.52% 3.47% 3.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 119 182
10th Percentile £312 £323 £281
25th Percentile £350 £363 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% +11.76% +13.33%
75th Percentile £531 £538 £511
90th Percentile £613 £618 £575
England median daily rate £500 £505 £475
% change year-on-year -0.99% +6.32% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 0 2
10th Percentile £22.89 - £20.50
25th Percentile £37.63 - £21.25
Median hourly rate £45.00 - £22.50
75th Percentile £46.18 - £23.75
90th Percentile - - £24.50
England median hourly rate £54.88 £72.50 £36.11
% change year-on-year -24.31% +100.76% -3.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

Infrastructure Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,055 4,902 6,324
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 83.69% 90.08% 88.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,411 3,372 4,591
10th Percentile £300 £300 £241
25th Percentile £400 £413 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £669 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 395 209 251
10th Percentile £11.09 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.55 £15.75 £13.57
Median hourly rate £21.00 £25.00 £19.09
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +30.96% +7.43%
75th Percentile £46.18 £43.39 £34.00
90th Percentile £63.75 £56.38 £63.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Infrastructure Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineering in the North of England

Infrastructure Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Engineering in the North of England

Infrastructure Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in the North of England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in the North of England

Infrastructure Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Engineering in the North of England

Infrastructure Engineering
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in the North of England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in the North of England

Infrastructure Engineering
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England 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
North West -5 76 £425 -10.53% 49
Yorkshire -18 22 £450 +4.65% 40
North East +2 4 £438 -2.78% 7
Infrastructure Engineering
England

Infrastructure Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 18 (17.65%) SharePoint
2 9 (8.82%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (5.88%) SharePoint 2010
3 6 (5.88%) SharePoint Server
4 3 (2.94%) Apache
4 3 (2.94%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 6 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (4.90%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (3.92%) AutoCAD
3 4 (3.92%) Revit
4 2 (1.96%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 44 (43.14%) Azure
2 24 (23.53%) AWS
3 12 (11.76%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (6.86%) IaaS
4 7 (6.86%) SaaS
5 6 (5.88%) Cloud Computing
5 6 (5.88%) GCP
5 6 (5.88%) Mimecast
6 5 (4.90%) PaaS
6 5 (4.90%) Power Platform
7 3 (2.94%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (2.94%) Amazon S3
7 3 (2.94%) Entra ID
7 3 (2.94%) Snowflake
7 3 (2.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (1.96%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 2 (1.96%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (1.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (1.96%) Nutanix
9 1 (0.98%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (11.76%) OSPF
2 11 (10.78%) LAN
2 11 (10.78%) WAN
2 11 (10.78%) Wireless
2 11 (10.78%) Wireless Security
3 10 (9.80%) Ethernet
3 10 (9.80%) VPN
4 8 (7.84%) DNS
5 7 (6.86%) DHCP
6 6 (5.88%) SAN
7 5 (4.90%) Firewall
8 3 (2.94%) TCP/IP
9 2 (1.96%) BGP
9 2 (1.96%) NAS
9 2 (1.96%) VSAN
9 2 (1.96%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (0.98%) Cisco ASA
10 1 (0.98%) iSCSI
10 1 (0.98%) Remote Desktop
10 1 (0.98%) WAAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (12.75%) SQL Server
2 6 (5.88%) Metadata
2 6 (5.88%) Microsoft Power View
2 6 (5.88%) PowerPivot
2 6 (5.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 5 (4.90%) Power BI
4 4 (3.92%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (2.94%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 6 (5.88%) Hudson
2 3 (2.94%) Git
General
1 12 (11.76%) Social Skills
2 9 (8.82%) Public Sector
3 8 (7.84%) Finance
4 6 (5.88%) Publishing
5 5 (4.90%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.96%) German Language
7 2 (1.96%) Military
8 1 (0.98%) Banking
8 1 (0.98%) Legal
8 1 (0.98%) Local Government
8 1 (0.98%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 72 (70.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 15 (14.71%) Senior
3 13 (12.75%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 11 (10.78%) Network Engineer
4 11 (10.78%) SharePoint Engineer
5 10 (9.80%) Azure Engineer
6 7 (6.86%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
6 7 (6.86%) Lead
7 5 (4.90%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (4.90%) Server Engineer
8 4 (3.92%) Cloud Engineer
8 4 (3.92%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (3.92%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
9 3 (2.94%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (2.94%) Design Engineer
9 3 (2.94%) Senior Design Engineer
9 3 (2.94%) VMware Engineer
9 3 (2.94%) Windows Engineer
9 3 (2.94%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (2.94%) Windows Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.88%) CSS
1 6 (5.88%) HTML
2 1 (0.98%) Middleware
2 1 (0.98%) Node.js
2 1 (0.98%) React
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.88%) Data Centre
2 3 (2.94%) Onboarding
2 3 (2.94%) PKI
3 2 (1.96%) Clustering
3 2 (1.96%) Management Information System
3 2 (1.96%) NHS
3 2 (1.96%) Private Cloud
4 1 (0.98%) CMDB
4 1 (0.98%) Driving Licence
4 1 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (0.98%) Public Cloud
4 1 (0.98%) Replication
4 1 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (0.98%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 32 (31.37%) Windows
2 16 (15.69%) Linux
3 15 (14.71%) Windows Server
4 5 (4.90%) Apple iOS
4 5 (4.90%) Windows Server 2012
5 4 (3.92%) Mac OS
6 2 (1.96%) CentOS
6 2 (1.96%) Unix
6 2 (1.96%) Windows 10
6 2 (1.96%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (1.96%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.98%) Android
7 1 (0.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.98%) VMS
7 1 (0.98%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.98%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (19.61%) Migration
2 12 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (8.82%) CI/CD
4 8 (7.84%) DevOps
5 7 (6.86%) Customer Service
5 7 (6.86%) ITIL
6 6 (5.88%) Information Architecture
6 6 (5.88%) Metadata Management
6 6 (5.88%) Open Source
6 6 (5.88%) Statistics
7 5 (4.90%) Agile
7 5 (4.90%) Data Migration
7 5 (4.90%) Information Security
7 5 (4.90%) Mentoring
7 5 (4.90%) Network Virtualisation
8 4 (3.92%) 3D Modelling
8 4 (3.92%) CAE
8 4 (3.92%) Computer Science
8 4 (3.92%) Service Delivery
8 4 (3.92%) Strategic Planning
Programming Languages
1 17 (16.67%) SQL
2 16 (15.69%) PowerShell
3 7 (6.86%) JavaScript
4 3 (2.94%) Bash
4 3 (2.94%) Python
5 1 (0.98%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 29 (28.43%) Security Cleared
2 24 (23.53%) SC Cleared
3 11 (10.78%) Degree
4 10 (9.80%) CCNA
4 10 (9.80%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (4.90%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (3.92%) Azure Certification
7 3 (2.94%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 2 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.96%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.96%) MCITP
8 2 (1.96%) MCSE
8 2 (1.96%) VCAP
9 1 (0.98%) A+ Certification
9 1 (0.98%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.98%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.98%) MCSA
9 1 (0.98%) Microsoft Certified Master
9 1 (0.98%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.96%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.98%) QA
System Software
1 26 (25.49%) VMware Infrastructure
2 23 (22.55%) Active Directory
3 13 (12.75%) Hyper-V
4 5 (4.90%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (3.92%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.96%) Firmware
6 2 (1.96%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.98%) Docker
7 1 (0.98%) KVM
7 1 (0.98%) VMware Workstation
7 1 (0.98%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (8.82%) Terraform
2 7 (6.86%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (2.94%) SCCM
3 3 (2.94%) vCenter Server
4 2 (1.96%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.98%) Ansible
5 1 (0.98%) Avamar
5 1 (0.98%) CA Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.98%) SolarWinds Orion
5 1 (0.98%) WSUS
Vendors
1 37 (36.27%) VMware
2 24 (23.53%) Microsoft
3 7 (6.86%) Cisco
4 6 (5.88%) Sophos
5 4 (3.92%) Dell
5 4 (3.92%) Veeam
6 3 (2.94%) CA
6 3 (2.94%) Informatica
6 3 (2.94%) Nimble Storage
6 3 (2.94%) Red Hat
6 3 (2.94%) SolarWinds
7 2 (1.96%) 3PAR
7 2 (1.96%) Citrix
7 2 (1.96%) CyberArk
7 2 (1.96%) Dell Compellent
7 2 (1.96%) HP
7 2 (1.96%) Meraki
8 1 (0.98%) MEDITECH
8 1 (0.98%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.98%) Zerto