Infrastructure Engineering Contracts in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Engineering
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 57 71 90
Rank change year-on-year +14 +19 +44
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 646 727 889
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.10% 3.17% 2.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.72% 3.56% 3.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 499 541 704
10th Percentile £300 £325 £288
25th Percentile £363 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% +11.11% +20.00%
75th Percentile £581 £575 £538
90th Percentile £650 £690 £625
UK median daily rate £475 £513 £475
% change year-on-year -7.32% +7.89% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 20 8
10th Percentile £37.63 £42.61 £16.91
25th Percentile £45.00 £55.00 £19.94
Median hourly rate £54.88 £62.78 £27.36
Median % change year-on-year -12.58% +129.42% +8.37%
75th Percentile £70.00 £76.13 £67.07
90th Percentile - £78.00 £68.02
UK median hourly rate £54.88 £65.00 £36.11
% change year-on-year -15.58% +79.99% -9.72%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,354 20,436 27,272
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.24% 89.17% 89.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,295 14,024 19,087
10th Percentile £250 £260 £240
25th Percentile £375 £400 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £579
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,139 1,241 1,336
10th Percentile £12.47 £10.63 £12.43
25th Percentile £15.39 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.88%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.50 £47.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £62.38
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +9.70%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Infrastructure Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineering in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Engineering in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Engineering in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Engineering
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Engineering
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London 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
South East +27 235 £475 -5.00% 94
South West 0 123 £494 -10.23% 72
North of England -12 108 £450 -5.26% 98
North West -7 79 £438 -7.89% 52
Scotland +73 75 £420 -20.00% 37
Midlands -4 63 £450 -0.11% 61
West Midlands +5 49 £525 +16.67% 40
East of England -20 38 £513 +2.50% 38
Yorkshire -11 25 £450 +4.65% 40
East Midlands -11 13 £449 +0.90% 21
Wales -3 5 £433 -17.62% 15
North East +5 4 £438 -2.78% 6
Infrastructure Engineering
UK

Infrastructure Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Application Platforms
1 48 (7.43%) Microsoft Exchange
2 32 (4.95%) SharePoint
3 26 (4.02%) Confluence
4 8 (1.24%) SharePoint Server
5 6 (0.93%) IIS
5 6 (0.93%) SharePoint 2010
6 3 (0.46%) Apache
6 3 (0.46%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.31%) WordPress
8 1 (0.15%) WebLogic
Applications
1 17 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.08%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.93%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.62%) AutoCAD
4 4 (0.62%) Revit
Business Applications
1 1 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 166 (25.70%) Azure
2 70 (10.84%) Microsoft 365
3 68 (10.53%) AWS
4 34 (5.26%) Entra ID
5 18 (2.79%) SaaS
6 16 (2.48%) Cloud Computing
7 15 (2.32%) IaaS
7 15 (2.32%) OCI
7 15 (2.32%) OpenShift
7 15 (2.32%) Power Platform
8 13 (2.01%) GCP
8 13 (2.01%) PaaS
9 9 (1.39%) Amazon EKS
10 8 (1.24%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (1.08%) Amazon EC2
11 7 (1.08%) Dynamics 365
12 6 (0.93%) Amazon S3
12 6 (0.93%) Azure Logic Apps
12 6 (0.93%) Mimecast
12 6 (0.93%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 104 (16.10%) Firewall
2 93 (14.40%) DNS
3 84 (13.00%) DHCP
4 78 (12.07%) SAN
5 31 (4.80%) WAN
6 30 (4.64%) NAS
7 29 (4.49%) LAN
8 25 (3.87%) VPN
9 24 (3.72%) TCP/IP
10 23 (3.56%) Software-Defined Radio
10 23 (3.56%) Wireless
11 17 (2.63%) SNMP
12 15 (2.32%) VSAN
13 13 (2.01%) Network Security
13 13 (2.01%) OSPF
14 11 (1.70%) Wireless Security
15 10 (1.55%) Ethernet
16 9 (1.39%) Wi-Fi
17 8 (1.24%) iSCSI
17 8 (1.24%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (4.95%) SQL Server
2 14 (2.17%) Power BI
3 7 (1.08%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (1.08%) MySQL
4 6 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (0.93%) Metadata
4 6 (0.93%) Microsoft Power View
4 6 (0.93%) PowerPivot
4 6 (0.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 5 (0.77%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (0.62%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.15%) Adabas
7 1 (0.15%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.15%) InfluxDB
7 1 (0.15%) Redis
7 1 (0.15%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 29 (4.49%) Git
2 27 (4.18%) JIRA
3 18 (2.79%) Robot Framework
4 17 (2.63%) Eclipse
5 16 (2.48%) Bitbucket
5 16 (2.48%) GoogleTest
6 10 (1.55%) Jenkins
7 7 (1.08%) Hudson
7 7 (1.08%) Maven
8 6 (0.93%) Gradle
9 3 (0.46%) GitLab
9 3 (0.46%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.31%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.31%) Selenium
11 1 (0.15%) CA Gen
11 1 (0.15%) MSI
11 1 (0.15%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 117 (18.11%) Social Skills
2 62 (9.60%) Public Sector
3 35 (5.42%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (3.72%) Finance
5 13 (2.01%) Documentation Skills
6 12 (1.86%) Manufacturing
7 9 (1.39%) Aerospace
8 8 (1.24%) Telecoms
9 7 (1.08%) Military
10 6 (0.93%) Banking
10 6 (0.93%) Publishing
11 5 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.62%) Back Office
12 4 (0.62%) German Language
12 4 (0.62%) Local Government
13 3 (0.46%) Front Office
14 2 (0.31%) Legal
14 2 (0.31%) Presentation Skills
15 1 (0.15%) Automotive
15 1 (0.15%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 440 (68.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 55 (8.51%) Senior
3 53 (8.20%) Network Engineer
4 44 (6.81%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 36 (5.57%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
6 31 (4.80%) Infrastructure Support
7 30 (4.64%) Support Engineer
8 28 (4.33%) Storage Engineer
8 28 (4.33%) VMware Engineer
9 22 (3.41%) Architect
9 22 (3.41%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
9 22 (3.41%) Infrastructure Technician
10 21 (3.25%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 21 (3.25%) Cloud Engineer
11 20 (3.10%) Software Engineer
11 20 (3.10%) Windows Engineer
12 18 (2.79%) Azure Engineer
12 18 (2.79%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
13 17 (2.63%) IT Engineer
13 17 (2.63%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (3.56%) CSS
1 23 (3.56%) HTML
2 18 (2.79%) Flash
3 6 (0.93%) .NET
4 3 (0.46%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (0.31%) LAMP
5 2 (0.31%) Middleware
5 2 (0.31%) Node.js
5 2 (0.31%) Pandas
6 1 (0.15%) JSON
6 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Graph
6 1 (0.15%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (0.15%) React
6 1 (0.15%) Redfish
6 1 (0.15%) XML
6 1 (0.15%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 65 (10.06%) Data Centre
2 30 (4.64%) PKI
3 23 (3.56%) Private Cloud
4 17 (2.63%) Clustering
5 14 (2.17%) NHS
6 11 (1.70%) Driving Licence
7 7 (1.08%) Fat Client
7 7 (1.08%) Replication
7 7 (1.08%) Thin Client
8 6 (0.93%) Linux Command Line
8 6 (0.93%) Management Information System
9 5 (0.77%) Client/Server
9 5 (0.77%) Cloud Native
9 5 (0.77%) Grid Computing
9 5 (0.77%) Public Cloud
10 4 (0.62%) Onboarding
11 3 (0.46%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (0.46%) Operational Technology
11 3 (0.46%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (0.46%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 254 (39.32%) Windows
2 163 (25.23%) Linux
3 142 (21.98%) Windows Server
4 47 (7.28%) Windows Server 2012
5 39 (6.04%) Windows Server 2019
6 38 (5.88%) Windows Server 2016
7 36 (5.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 36 (5.57%) Unix
8 31 (4.80%) Windows 10
9 14 (2.17%) AIX
9 14 (2.17%) Windows XP
10 12 (1.86%) Mac OS
11 10 (1.55%) Ubuntu
12 9 (1.39%) VMS
13 8 (1.24%) Windows 7
13 8 (1.24%) Windows Server 2003
13 8 (1.24%) Windows Server 2008
14 6 (0.93%) Solaris
15 5 (0.77%) Apple iOS
16 2 (0.31%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (13.78%) Problem-Solving
2 76 (11.76%) Agile
3 71 (10.99%) Migration
4 61 (9.44%) ITIL
5 53 (8.20%) DevOps
6 47 (7.28%) Cybersecurity
7 37 (5.73%) Software Engineering
8 32 (4.95%) Project Delivery
9 29 (4.49%) Customer Service
10 27 (4.18%) Disaster Recovery
11 25 (3.87%) Network Management
12 24 (3.72%) Virtual Infrastructure
13 22 (3.41%) Validation
14 21 (3.25%) Change Management
14 21 (3.25%) Infrastructure as Code
14 21 (3.25%) Scrum
14 21 (3.25%) Server Management
14 21 (3.25%) Virtual Environments
15 20 (3.10%) High Availability
16 19 (2.94%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 108 (16.72%) PowerShell
2 40 (6.19%) SQL
3 35 (5.42%) Python
4 24 (3.72%) JavaScript
5 19 (2.94%) Java
6 18 (2.79%) C++
7 16 (2.48%) Bash
8 11 (1.70%) C#
8 11 (1.70%) VBScript
9 9 (1.39%) Ruby
9 9 (1.39%) Shell Script
10 7 (1.08%) Groovy
11 3 (0.46%) VB.NET
12 2 (0.31%) C
12 2 (0.31%) Perl
13 1 (0.15%) Bicep
13 1 (0.15%) Go
13 1 (0.15%) Natural
13 1 (0.15%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 298 (46.13%) Security Cleared
2 176 (27.24%) SC Cleared
3 132 (20.43%) DV Cleared
4 62 (9.60%) Degree
5 43 (6.66%) Cisco Certification
6 42 (6.50%) CCNA
7 26 (4.02%) Microsoft Certification
8 21 (3.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 17 (2.63%) CCNP
9 17 (2.63%) MCSE
10 12 (1.86%) Azure Certification
11 8 (1.24%) Computer Science Degree
12 7 (1.08%) Master's Degree
12 7 (1.08%) MCP
13 6 (0.93%) MCSA
13 6 (0.93%) RHCE
13 6 (0.93%) VCAP
14 5 (0.77%) AWS Certification
14 5 (0.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 5 (0.77%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (2.17%) SLA
2 8 (1.24%) NIST
3 7 (1.08%) QA
4 6 (0.93%) GDPR
5 3 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 3 (0.46%) ISO 9001
5 3 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 3 (0.46%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.31%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.31%) Government Security Classifications
6 2 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.15%) COBIT
7 1 (0.15%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.15%) NIST 800
System Software
1 183 (28.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 179 (27.71%) Active Directory
3 57 (8.82%) Hyper-V
4 52 (8.05%) vSphere
5 49 (7.59%) VMware ESXi
6 29 (4.49%) Firmware
7 28 (4.33%) VMware NSX
8 25 (3.87%) Virtual Machines
9 19 (2.94%) XenApp
10 16 (2.48%) Docker
11 7 (1.08%) KVM
12 6 (0.93%) Virtual Desktop
13 4 (0.62%) Virtual Servers
13 4 (0.62%) XenDesktop
14 1 (0.15%) DFS Replication
14 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 1 (0.15%) Terminal Services
14 1 (0.15%) VMware Server
14 1 (0.15%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 77 (11.92%) SCCM
2 60 (9.29%) vCenter Server
3 41 (6.35%) WSUS
4 31 (4.80%) Terraform
5 25 (3.87%) Ansible
6 24 (3.72%) SCOM
7 22 (3.41%) Microsoft Intune
8 18 (2.79%) Kubernetes
9 17 (2.63%) NetBackup
10 14 (2.17%) EMC NetWorker
11 10 (1.55%) Single Sign-On
12 8 (1.24%) Red Hat Satellite
13 7 (1.08%) Nessus
14 6 (0.93%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 5 (0.77%) VxRail
15 5 (0.77%) ZABBIX
16 4 (0.62%) vRealize
17 3 (0.46%) FortiGate
17 3 (0.46%) Kibana
17 3 (0.46%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 259 (40.09%) VMware
2 175 (27.09%) Microsoft
3 56 (8.67%) Cisco
4 43 (6.66%) Veeam
5 38 (5.88%) Citrix
6 32 (4.95%) Red Hat
7 31 (4.80%) Dell
8 26 (4.02%) Atlassian
8 26 (4.02%) HP
9 22 (3.41%) Google
9 22 (3.41%) Symantec
10 21 (3.25%) Palo Alto
11 19 (2.94%) Oracle
12 18 (2.79%) Juniper
13 16 (2.48%) 3PAR
13 16 (2.48%) Brocade
14 15 (2.32%) EMC
14 15 (2.32%) Ivanti
15 14 (2.17%) Extreme Networks
15 14 (2.17%) IBM