Infrastructure Specialist Contracts

Infrastructure Specialist
UK

The median Infrastructure Specialist daily rate in the UK is £488, 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 535 642 755
Rank change year-on-year +107 +113 -85
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Specialist 49 55 93
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.099% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.10% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 40 73
10th Percentile £263 £363 £325
25th Percentile £340 £422 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -2.44% +17.82%
75th Percentile £556 £600 £640
90th Percentile £660 £652 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £340 £450 £550
% change year-on-year -24.44% -18.18% +41.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £21.78
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £21.78

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 40,557 52,491 83,111
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 94.51% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,070 36,644 58,616
10th Percentile £280 £313 £318
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,936 1,486 1,938
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.42 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.81 £65.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%

Infrastructure Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Specialist in the UK

Infrastructure Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Specialist in the UK

Infrastructure Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Specialist in the UK

Infrastructure Specialist
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Specialist in the UK

Infrastructure Specialist
Top 12 Contract Locations

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 UK 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
England +68 35 £505 -0.25% 11
UK excluding London +35 25 £340 -24.44% 11
Work from Home +111 19 £500 -9.09% 5
London +70 19 £500 -3.61% 5
Scotland +56 9 £340 +0.74% 6
Midlands +20 6 £416 +11.00%
East Midlands +12 6 £416 -12.37%
East of England - 5 £625 -
South East +13 3 £275 -54.17% 1
North West +11 1 £650 - 1
North of England +11 1 £650 +113.11% 2
South West +1 1 £625 +6.38% 2

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

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 featuring Infrastructure Specialist in the job title.

1 26 (53.06%) Windows
2 25 (51.02%) Microsoft
3 22 (44.90%) Windows Server
4 20 (40.82%) Active Directory
5 18 (36.73%) VMware
6 16 (32.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 16 (32.65%) AWS
6 16 (32.65%) Security Cleared
7 15 (30.61%) SCCM
7 15 (30.61%) Linux
8 14 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
9 13 (26.53%) SC Cleared
9 13 (26.53%) ITIL
10 12 (24.49%) Citrix
10 12 (24.49%) Social Skills
11 11 (22.45%) Finance
11 11 (22.45%) Azure
11 11 (22.45%) Microsoft 365
11 11 (22.45%) Ansible
12 9 (18.37%) Customer Service
13 7 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
13 7 (14.29%) Data Centre
13 7 (14.29%) Windows 10
13 7 (14.29%) ServiceNow
13 7 (14.29%) Migration
14 6 (12.24%) WSUS
14 6 (12.24%) Qualys
14 6 (12.24%) Unix
14 6 (12.24%) Network Management
14 6 (12.24%) Security Patching

Infrastructure Specialist 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 2 (4.08%) Apache
2 1 (2.04%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 16 (32.65%) AWS
2 11 (22.45%) Azure
2 11 (22.45%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (8.16%) Entra ID
4 2 (4.08%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (4.08%) IaaS
4 2 (4.08%) PaaS
4 2 (4.08%) SaaS
5 1 (2.04%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (2.04%) Azure Pipelines
5 1 (2.04%) Azure Storage
5 1 (2.04%) OpenShift
5 1 (2.04%) Power Platform
5 1 (2.04%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.12%) Firewall
1 3 (6.12%) SAN
2 2 (4.08%) Fibre Channel
2 2 (4.08%) LAN
2 2 (4.08%) NetScaler
2 2 (4.08%) WAN
3 1 (2.04%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (2.04%) NAS
3 1 (2.04%) Network Security
3 1 (2.04%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.16%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.08%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 2 (4.08%) GitLab
2 1 (2.04%) Git
General
1 12 (24.49%) Social Skills
2 11 (22.45%) Finance
3 5 (10.20%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (10.20%) Organisational Skills
4 4 (8.16%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (8.16%) Telecoms
5 2 (4.08%) Banking
5 2 (4.08%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.08%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (2.04%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.29%) Data Centre
2 5 (10.20%) Management Information System
3 4 (8.16%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (6.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (4.08%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (2.04%) Hedge funds
6 1 (2.04%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.04%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 26 (53.06%) Windows
2 22 (44.90%) Windows Server
3 15 (30.61%) Linux
4 7 (14.29%) Windows 10
5 6 (12.24%) Unix
6 3 (6.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (2.04%) CentOS
7 1 (2.04%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (32.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 13 (26.53%) ITIL
3 9 (18.37%) Customer Service
4 7 (14.29%) Migration
4 7 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (12.24%) Network Management
5 6 (12.24%) Security Patching
5 6 (12.24%) Virtual Infrastructure
6 5 (10.20%) Agile
6 5 (10.20%) Disaster Recovery
6 5 (10.20%) Infrastructure Automation
6 5 (10.20%) Time Management
6 5 (10.20%) Vulnerability Management
7 4 (8.16%) Computer Science
7 4 (8.16%) Configuration Management
8 3 (6.12%) Project Delivery
8 3 (6.12%) Roadmaps
8 3 (6.12%) Technology Roadmap
9 2 (4.08%) Network Virtualisation
9 2 (4.08%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 5 (10.20%) PowerShell
2 1 (2.04%) Python
2 1 (2.04%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 16 (32.65%) Security Cleared
2 13 (26.53%) SC Cleared
3 5 (10.20%) Degree
3 5 (10.20%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (8.16%) Azure Certification
4 4 (8.16%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (6.12%) DV Cleared
5 3 (6.12%) MCP
5 3 (6.12%) MCSE
6 2 (4.08%) Citrix Certification
7 1 (2.04%) CEH
7 1 (2.04%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.20%) SLA
System Software
1 20 (40.82%) Active Directory
2 14 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (8.16%) vSphere
4 2 (4.08%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 2 (4.08%) Docker
4 2 (4.08%) Hyper-V
4 2 (4.08%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (4.08%) XenApp
4 2 (4.08%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 15 (30.61%) SCCM
2 11 (22.45%) Ansible
3 6 (12.24%) WSUS
4 4 (8.16%) Puppet
4 4 (8.16%) Terraform
5 3 (6.12%) Progress Chef
5 3 (6.12%) SCOM
6 2 (4.08%) Kubernetes
6 2 (4.08%) SCSM
Vendors
1 25 (51.02%) Microsoft
2 18 (36.73%) VMware
3 12 (24.49%) Citrix
4 7 (14.29%) ServiceNow
5 6 (12.24%) Qualys
6 4 (8.16%) Red Hat
7 2 (4.08%) Brocade
8 1 (2.04%) Oracle
8 1 (2.04%) Sybase