Infrastructure Engineer Contracts in the South West

Infrastructure Engineer
England > South West

The median Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in the South West is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 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
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 81 67 70
Rank change year-on-year -14 +3 +10
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 78 108 111
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 2.36% 3.19% 3.04%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.55% 3.44% 3.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 84 80
10th Percentile £383 £325 £310
25th Percentile £483 £463 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £588 £616 £588
90th Percentile £625 £663 £638
England median daily rate £463 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -7.50% +11.11% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £65.18 - £25.48
25th Percentile £67.31 - £34.06
Median hourly rate £72.75 £80.00 £49.25
Median % change year-on-year -9.06% +62.44% -
75th Percentile £76.31 - £63.56
90th Percentile £77.33 - £71.63
England median hourly rate £22.50 £65.00 £43.06
% change year-on-year -65.38% +50.95% +14.83%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the South West. 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 the South West with a recognized job title 3,056 3,142 3,474
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.63% 92.74% 95.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,896 2,308 2,517
10th Percentile £216 £284 £225
25th Percentile £400 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% +5.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £620 £644 £600
90th Percentile £700 £721 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 456 252 212
10th Percentile £13.85 £17.70 £15.90
25th Percentile £27.50 £48.68 £18.49
Median hourly rate £55.00 £63.23 £47.64
Median % change year-on-year -13.02% +32.74% +10.78%
75th Percentile £71.25 £75.13 £63.60
90th Percentile £75.00 £83.40 £68.29
England median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -12.22% +87.50% +14.01%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the South West

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in the South West.

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the South West

Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in the South West over the 6 months to 13 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in the South West

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the South West

Infrastructure Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 South West region over the 6 months to 13 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
Wiltshire -25 28 £525 -4.55% 8
Bristol -6 21 £494 -10.23% 5
Gloucestershire -1 11 £500 - 10
Devon +5 10 £600 +150.00% 6
Dorset +5 4 £650 +23.81% 4
Somerset -2 4 £600 +77.78% 6
Infrastructure Engineer
England

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West

For the 6 months to 13 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 South West region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 78 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 62 (79.49%) Security Cleared
3 38 (48.72%) VMware
4 35 (44.87%) SC Cleared
5 32 (41.03%) VMware Infrastructure
6 29 (37.18%) DV Cleared
7 24 (30.77%) Firewall
8 23 (29.49%) vCenter Server
9 21 (26.92%) Azure
10 17 (21.79%) vSphere
10 17 (21.79%) Windows
10 17 (21.79%) Active Directory
10 17 (21.79%) Public Sector
11 16 (20.51%) Linux
11 16 (20.51%) Cybersecurity
12 15 (19.23%) Private Cloud
12 15 (19.23%) Data Centre
13 14 (17.95%) Social Skills
14 13 (16.67%) Virtual Infrastructure
14 13 (16.67%) Resource Management
14 13 (16.67%) Microsoft
15 12 (15.38%) Penetration Testing
15 12 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
16 11 (14.10%) Docker
16 11 (14.10%) Windows Server
16 11 (14.10%) Service Management
16 11 (14.10%) DNS
16 11 (14.10%) PKI
16 11 (14.10%) VMware ESXi
17 10 (12.82%) Vulnerability Scanning

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 8 (10.26%) Confluence
1 8 (10.26%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (5.13%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.56%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 5 (6.41%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 21 (26.92%) Azure
2 10 (12.82%) Entra ID
3 9 (11.54%) AWS
4 6 (7.69%) Power Platform
5 5 (6.41%) Azure Logic Apps
5 5 (6.41%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (3.85%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (3.85%) PaaS
7 2 (2.56%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (2.56%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (1.28%) Azure Stack
8 1 (1.28%) IaaS
8 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (1.28%) OneDrive
8 1 (1.28%) OpenShift
8 1 (1.28%) Power Automate
8 1 (1.28%) PowerApps
8 1 (1.28%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (30.77%) Firewall
2 11 (14.10%) DNS
3 8 (10.26%) DHCP
4 6 (7.69%) VSAN
5 5 (6.41%) NAS
5 5 (6.41%) SAN
6 2 (2.56%) BGP
6 2 (2.56%) Network Security
6 2 (2.56%) TCP/IP
6 2 (2.56%) Wireless
7 1 (1.28%) IPv4
7 1 (1.28%) LAN
7 1 (1.28%) OSPF
7 1 (1.28%) SD-WAN
7 1 (1.28%) Unified Communications
7 1 (1.28%) VLAN
7 1 (1.28%) VoIP
7 1 (1.28%) VPN
7 1 (1.28%) Wireshark
7 1 (1.28%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.69%) Power BI
2 4 (5.13%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 8 (10.26%) JIRA
2 2 (2.56%) Artifactory
General
1 17 (21.79%) Public Sector
2 14 (17.95%) Social Skills
3 7 (8.97%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (5.13%) Military
5 2 (2.56%) Local Government
5 2 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.28%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.28%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.13%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 15 (19.23%) Data Centre
1 15 (19.23%) Private Cloud
2 11 (14.10%) PKI
3 5 (6.41%) Clustering
3 5 (6.41%) Hackathon
4 1 (1.28%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (1.28%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 1 (1.28%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (1.28%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (1.28%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (1.28%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 17 (21.79%) Windows
2 16 (20.51%) Linux
3 11 (14.10%) Windows Server
4 6 (7.69%) VMS
5 3 (3.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (3.85%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (2.56%) Unix
6 2 (2.56%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (1.28%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 16 (20.51%) Cybersecurity
3 13 (16.67%) Resource Management
3 13 (16.67%) Virtual Infrastructure
4 12 (15.38%) Penetration Testing
4 12 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (14.10%) Service Management
6 10 (12.82%) Infrastructure as Code
6 10 (12.82%) Vulnerability Scanning
7 9 (11.54%) Agile
8 8 (10.26%) Containerisation
9 7 (8.97%) Critical Thinking
9 7 (8.97%) Migration
10 6 (7.69%) Business Intelligence
10 6 (7.69%) Information Security
10 6 (7.69%) Virtual Environments
11 5 (6.41%) Validation
12 4 (5.13%) Network Management
12 4 (5.13%) System Testing
12 4 (5.13%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 9 (11.54%) SQL
2 3 (3.85%) PowerShell
2 3 (3.85%) Python
3 2 (2.56%) Bash
3 2 (2.56%) C#
3 2 (2.56%) Java
4 1 (1.28%) C
Qualifications
1 62 (79.49%) Security Cleared
2 35 (44.87%) SC Cleared
3 29 (37.18%) DV Cleared
4 7 (8.97%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 6 (7.69%) Degree
6 4 (5.13%) CCNA
6 4 (5.13%) Chartered Engineer
6 4 (5.13%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (5.13%) Master's Degree
7 2 (2.56%) Azure Certification
7 2 (2.56%) MCSA
7 2 (2.56%) MCSE
7 2 (2.56%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.28%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.85%) NIST
2 2 (2.56%) Government Security Classifications
3 1 (1.28%) NIST 800
System Software
1 32 (41.03%) VMware Infrastructure
2 17 (21.79%) Active Directory
2 17 (21.79%) vSphere
3 11 (14.10%) Docker
3 11 (14.10%) VMware ESXi
4 8 (10.26%) VMware NSX
5 6 (7.69%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (6.41%) Hyper-V
7 3 (3.85%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (1.28%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 23 (29.49%) vCenter Server
2 6 (7.69%) Single Sign-On
3 5 (6.41%) Kubernetes
4 4 (5.13%) SCCM
5 3 (3.85%) Ansible
6 2 (2.56%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Clustering
7 1 (1.28%) Puppet
7 1 (1.28%) SCOM
7 1 (1.28%) Terraform
7 1 (1.28%) VxRail
7 1 (1.28%) WSUS
Vendors
1 38 (48.72%) VMware
2 13 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 8 (10.26%) Atlassian
4 7 (8.97%) Dell
5 6 (7.69%) CA
6 5 (6.41%) Cisco
7 3 (3.85%) Veeam
8 1 (1.28%) Palo Alto
8 1 (1.28%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.28%) SolarWinds
8 1 (1.28%) Splunk
8 1 (1.28%) Veritas