Infrastructure Engineer Contracts

Infrastructure Engineer
UK

The median Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in the UK is £450 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 May 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 153 181 214
Rank change year-on-year +28 +33 +24
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 669 816 1,197
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.57% 1.43% 1.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.70% 1.51% 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 508 605 900
10th Percentile £300 £338 £306
25th Percentile £375 £411 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £556
90th Percentile £646 £675 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -2.63% +5.56% +23.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 8 8
10th Percentile £20.99 £34.23 £17.09
25th Percentile £21.25 £53.13 £34.81
Median hourly rate £22.50 £61.62 £45.48
Median % change year-on-year -63.48% +35.48% +13.70%
75th Percentile £77.00 £65.00 £67.07
90th Percentile £77.20 £71.99 £68.02
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.50 £59.03 £65.50
% change year-on-year -61.88% -9.89% +120.17%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 UK with a recognized job title 39,468 54,175 84,246
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.79% 94.61% 95.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,716 37,826 59,224
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +8.47%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.20% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,674 1,504 2,051
10th Percentile £12.83 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.82
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +4.19%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Infrastructure Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Infrastructure Engineer
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 20 May 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
England +26 589 £450 -10.00% 333
UK excluding London +24 441 £463 -2.63% 286
London +74 199 £450 -19.32% 78
South East +32 161 £450 -1.10% 79
Work from Home -1 146 £450 -10.00% 125
North of England -3 81 £425 -5.56% 48
South West -5 77 £525 -0.94% 56
Scotland +70 52 £475 +8.57% 23
North West -12 51 £425 -10.53% 22
Midlands -3 44 £425 -5.03% 50
West Midlands +16 33 £425 -5.56% 28
Yorkshire +9 26 £450 +5.88% 23
East of England -11 20 £625 +25.00% 30
East Midlands -4 10 £375 -15.25% 22
Wales +4 7 £365 -30.48% 4
North East +8 4 £438 +9.38% 4

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

For the 6 months to 20 May 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 featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 641 (95.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 302 (45.14%) Windows
3 262 (39.16%) VMware
4 249 (37.22%) Security Cleared
5 246 (36.77%) Active Directory
6 212 (31.69%) Azure
7 193 (28.85%) Microsoft
8 185 (27.65%) VMware Infrastructure
9 183 (27.35%) Windows Server
10 168 (25.11%) Linux
11 142 (21.23%) SC Cleared
12 128 (19.13%) Social Skills
13 125 (18.68%) DNS
13 125 (18.68%) Firewall
14 119 (17.79%) DV Cleared
15 117 (17.49%) PowerShell
16 106 (15.84%) AWS
17 101 (15.10%) Microsoft 365
18 97 (14.50%) Migration
18 97 (14.50%) DHCP
19 88 (13.15%) Public Sector
20 87 (13.00%) SCCM
21 82 (12.26%) SAN
22 79 (11.81%) Problem-Solving
23 70 (10.46%) DevOps
23 70 (10.46%) Data Centre
24 67 (10.01%) Hyper-V
25 65 (9.72%) ITIL
26 63 (9.42%) Microsoft Exchange
26 63 (9.42%) Cisco

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 63 (9.42%) Microsoft Exchange
2 32 (4.78%) SharePoint
3 12 (1.79%) Confluence
4 8 (1.20%) IIS
5 7 (1.05%) Apache
6 5 (0.75%) SharePoint Server
6 5 (0.75%) Tomcat
7 4 (0.60%) OpenStack
7 4 (0.60%) SAS
8 3 (0.45%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.45%) WordPress
9 2 (0.30%) WebLogic
Applications
1 17 (2.54%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.60%) AutoCAD
2 4 (0.60%) Revit
3 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.15%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.15%) Eikon
2 1 (0.15%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.15%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 212 (31.69%) Azure
2 106 (15.84%) AWS
3 101 (15.10%) Microsoft 365
4 60 (8.97%) Entra ID
5 30 (4.48%) IaaS
6 19 (2.84%) SaaS
7 18 (2.69%) OCI
8 16 (2.39%) GCP
8 16 (2.39%) PaaS
9 15 (2.24%) Cloud Computing
10 13 (1.94%) Power Platform
11 11 (1.64%) Amazon S3
12 10 (1.49%) Amazon EC2
12 10 (1.49%) Azure DevOps
12 10 (1.49%) OneDrive
12 10 (1.49%) OpenShift
13 9 (1.35%) Mimecast
13 9 (1.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 7 (1.05%) Dynamics 365
15 6 (0.90%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 125 (18.68%) DNS
1 125 (18.68%) Firewall
2 97 (14.50%) DHCP
3 82 (12.26%) SAN
4 39 (5.83%) WAN
5 32 (4.78%) LAN
6 29 (4.33%) NAS
7 25 (3.74%) TCP/IP
7 25 (3.74%) VPN
8 22 (3.29%) Network Security
9 16 (2.39%) Wi-Fi
10 15 (2.24%) VSAN
11 13 (1.94%) iSCSI
11 13 (1.94%) VLAN
11 13 (1.94%) Wireless
12 12 (1.79%) Fibre Channel
13 11 (1.64%) MPLS
14 9 (1.35%) BGP
14 9 (1.35%) OSPF
15 8 (1.20%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (8.67%) SQL Server
2 11 (1.64%) Power BI
3 8 (1.20%) MySQL
4 7 (1.05%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (0.90%) DB2
6 5 (0.75%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (0.75%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (0.60%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (0.30%) Adabas
8 2 (0.30%) SAP HANA
8 2 (0.30%) Sisense
9 1 (0.15%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (0.15%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.15%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.15%) Redis
Development Applications
1 18 (2.69%) Git
2 17 (2.54%) JIRA
3 13 (1.94%) Jenkins
4 7 (1.05%) GitLab
5 5 (0.75%) Hudson
6 2 (0.30%) Artifactory
6 2 (0.30%) CA Gen
6 2 (0.30%) Robot Framework
6 2 (0.30%) Selenium
6 2 (0.30%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.15%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.15%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.15%) VisualWorks
General
1 128 (19.13%) Social Skills
2 88 (13.15%) Public Sector
3 55 (8.22%) Finance
4 37 (5.53%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (3.74%) Banking
6 21 (3.14%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (1.35%) Manufacturing
7 9 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
8 7 (1.05%) Telecoms
9 5 (0.75%) Financial Institution
9 5 (0.75%) Legal
9 5 (0.75%) Local Government
9 5 (0.75%) Military
10 4 (0.60%) Front Office
10 4 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (0.45%) French Language
11 3 (0.45%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.30%) Law
13 1 (0.15%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (3.14%) Flash
2 4 (0.60%) .NET
2 4 (0.60%) AWS CDK
2 4 (0.60%) JSON
2 4 (0.60%) POSIX
3 3 (0.45%) Jinja
3 3 (0.45%) LAMP
3 3 (0.45%) LDAP
3 3 (0.45%) NETCONF
3 3 (0.45%) Redfish
3 3 (0.45%) RESTful
3 3 (0.45%) XML
3 3 (0.45%) YANG
4 2 (0.30%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (0.30%) J2EE
4 2 (0.30%) Middleware
4 2 (0.30%) Spring Boot
4 2 (0.30%) Web Services
4 2 (0.30%) YAML
5 1 (0.15%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 70 (10.46%) Data Centre
2 33 (4.93%) PKI
3 25 (3.74%) Replication
4 19 (2.84%) Clustering
5 18 (2.69%) Private Cloud
6 14 (2.09%) Management Information System
7 12 (1.79%) Driving Licence
8 9 (1.35%) Client/Server
9 8 (1.20%) Public Cloud
10 7 (1.05%) Onboarding
11 5 (0.75%) Linux Command Line
11 5 (0.75%) NHS
11 5 (0.75%) Video Conferencing
12 4 (0.60%) Fat Client
12 4 (0.60%) NVMe
12 4 (0.60%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (0.60%) Thin Client
13 3 (0.45%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 3 (0.45%) Security Posture
13 3 (0.45%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 302 (45.14%) Windows
2 183 (27.35%) Windows Server
3 168 (25.11%) Linux
4 61 (9.12%) Windows Server 2016
5 58 (8.67%) Windows Server 2019
6 54 (8.07%) Windows 10
7 46 (6.88%) Windows Server 2012
8 40 (5.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 38 (5.68%) Unix
10 14 (2.09%) Windows 7
10 14 (2.09%) Windows XP
11 13 (1.94%) AIX
11 13 (1.94%) Ubuntu
12 12 (1.79%) Mac OS
13 11 (1.64%) VMS
14 10 (1.49%) Windows Server 2008
15 7 (1.05%) CentOS
15 7 (1.05%) Windows Server 2003
16 6 (0.90%) Apple iOS
16 6 (0.90%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 641 (95.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 97 (14.50%) Migration
3 79 (11.81%) Problem-Solving
4 70 (10.46%) DevOps
5 65 (9.72%) ITIL
6 49 (7.32%) Agile
7 43 (6.43%) Cybersecurity
8 40 (5.98%) Infrastructure as Code
9 39 (5.83%) Disaster Recovery
10 30 (4.48%) Project Delivery
11 29 (4.33%) CI/CD
12 26 (3.89%) Storage Management
13 23 (3.44%) Computer Science
13 23 (3.44%) Server Management
14 22 (3.29%) Containerisation
14 22 (3.29%) Customer Service
14 22 (3.29%) Vulnerability Management
15 21 (3.14%) Change Management
15 21 (3.14%) Virtual Environments
15 21 (3.14%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 117 (17.49%) PowerShell
2 54 (8.07%) Python
3 37 (5.53%) SQL
4 18 (2.69%) Java
5 15 (2.24%) Bash
6 11 (1.64%) C#
7 10 (1.49%) VBScript
8 9 (1.35%) Perl
9 7 (1.05%) C
10 4 (0.60%) C++
10 4 (0.60%) TypeScript
11 3 (0.45%) Go
11 3 (0.45%) PHP
11 3 (0.45%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.45%) VB.NET
12 2 (0.30%) Bicep
12 2 (0.30%) JavaScript
12 2 (0.30%) Natural
12 2 (0.30%) Ruby
13 1 (0.15%) Smalltalk
Qualifications
1 249 (37.22%) Security Cleared
2 142 (21.23%) SC Cleared
3 119 (17.79%) DV Cleared
4 54 (8.07%) Degree
5 40 (5.98%) Cisco Certification
6 38 (5.68%) CCNA
7 30 (4.48%) Microsoft Certification
8 20 (2.99%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 19 (2.84%) CCNP
10 18 (2.69%) Azure Certification
11 15 (2.24%) MCSE
12 8 (1.20%) AWS Certification
12 8 (1.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 8 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
13 6 (0.90%) ITIL Certification
14 5 (0.75%) Master's Degree
14 5 (0.75%) RHCE
15 4 (0.60%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 4 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
15 4 (0.60%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (1.79%) SLA
2 8 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (1.20%) NIST
3 6 (0.90%) GDPR
3 6 (0.90%) PCI DSS
3 6 (0.90%) QA
4 5 (0.75%) NCSC
5 4 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.45%) COBIT
6 3 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 3 (0.45%) Government Security Classifications
6 3 (0.45%) ISO 9001
6 3 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 2 (0.30%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.15%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.15%) NIST 800
System Software
1 246 (36.77%) Active Directory
2 185 (27.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 67 (10.01%) Hyper-V
4 57 (8.52%) vSphere
5 52 (7.77%) VMware ESXi
6 30 (4.48%) VMware NSX
7 26 (3.89%) Docker
8 23 (3.44%) Virtual Machines
8 23 (3.44%) XenApp
9 8 (1.20%) Firmware
9 8 (1.20%) Virtual Desktop
10 7 (1.05%) XenDesktop
11 6 (0.90%) KVM
12 4 (0.60%) GPFS
12 4 (0.60%) NFS
13 3 (0.45%) Virtual Servers
14 2 (0.30%) VMware Workstation
15 1 (0.15%) Terminal Services
15 1 (0.15%) vCloud
15 1 (0.15%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 87 (13.00%) SCCM
2 62 (9.27%) vCenter Server
3 47 (7.03%) Terraform
4 36 (5.38%) Kubernetes
5 33 (4.93%) Microsoft Intune
6 32 (4.78%) Ansible
7 31 (4.63%) WSUS
8 24 (3.59%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 23 (3.44%) SCOM
10 16 (2.39%) NetBackup
11 14 (2.09%) EMC NetWorker
12 13 (1.94%) Single Sign-On
13 5 (0.75%) FortiGate
13 5 (0.75%) Nessus
13 5 (0.75%) Puppet
13 5 (0.75%) VxRail
14 4 (0.60%) Microsoft Clustering
14 4 (0.60%) Red Hat Satellite
14 4 (0.60%) Veritas Storage Foundation
14 4 (0.60%) vRealize
Vendors
1 262 (39.16%) VMware
2 193 (28.85%) Microsoft
3 63 (9.42%) Cisco
4 51 (7.62%) Veeam
5 50 (7.47%) Citrix
6 36 (5.38%) Dell
7 34 (5.08%) HP
8 30 (4.48%) Red Hat
9 25 (3.74%) Palo Alto
10 23 (3.44%) Juniper
11 21 (3.14%) Oracle
11 21 (3.14%) Symantec
12 20 (2.99%) EMC
13 18 (2.69%) Brocade
13 18 (2.69%) IBM
14 16 (2.39%) 3PAR
14 16 (2.39%) CA
14 16 (2.39%) ServiceNow
15 15 (2.24%) Aruba
15 15 (2.24%) Ivanti