Infrastructure Support Engineer Contracts

Infrastructure Support Engineer
UK

The median Infrastructure Support Engineer daily rate in the UK is £340 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 June 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 544 648 787
Rank change year-on-year +104 +139 -91
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Support Engineer 35 36 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.081% 0.064% 0.062%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.087% 0.068% 0.065%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 20 29
10th Percentile £162 £320 £273
25th Percentile £338 £347 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £340 £450 £400
Median % change year-on-year -24.44% +12.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile £387 £554 £450
90th Percentile £425 £595 £575
UK excluding London median daily rate £340 £470 £425
% change year-on-year -27.66% +10.59% +30.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £10.29
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £10.29
% change year-on-year - - -47.23%

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 40,001 53,325 83,708
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.83% 94.58% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,880 37,256 59,003
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
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% +9.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,851 1,473 1,957
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +14.34%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.75 £49.41
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.45 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Infrastructure Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Support Engineer in the UK

Infrastructure Support Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Support Engineer in the UK

Infrastructure Support Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Support Engineer over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Support Engineer in the UK

Infrastructure Support Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Support Engineer in the UK

Infrastructure Support Engineer
Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Support Engineer within the UK 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
UK excluding London +49 23 £340 -27.66% 11
England +83 21 £375 -16.67% 10
Scotland - 14 £340 - 3
London +100 12 £375 -14.29% 2
South East +11 7 £260 -55.74% 7
Work from Home +95 2 £423 -6.11% 2
North of England +29 1 £160 -54.29%
Midlands +21 1 £320 -8.57%
North West +16 1 £160 -54.29%
West Midlands +12 1 £320 -8.57%

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

For the 6 months to 2 June 2024, Infrastructure Support 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 Support Engineer in the job title.

1 32 (91.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 21 (60.00%) Security Cleared
3 18 (51.43%) SC Cleared
4 16 (45.71%) Linux
5 14 (40.00%) Windows
5 14 (40.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 12 (34.29%) Red Hat
7 11 (31.43%) Microsoft
7 11 (31.43%) Firewall
8 9 (25.71%) Social Skills
8 9 (25.71%) Windows Server
8 9 (25.71%) Active Directory
9 8 (22.86%) Disaster Recovery
9 8 (22.86%) Windows 10
9 8 (22.86%) SCCM
9 8 (22.86%) Customer Service
10 7 (20.00%) Windows Server 2019
10 7 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
10 7 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
10 7 (20.00%) VMware
11 6 (17.14%) Clustering
11 6 (17.14%) RHCE
11 6 (17.14%) Bloomberg
11 6 (17.14%) SLA
11 6 (17.14%) Solaris
11 6 (17.14%) SQL Server
11 6 (17.14%) KVM
11 6 (17.14%) High Availability
11 6 (17.14%) Azure
11 6 (17.14%) Refinitiv

Infrastructure Support 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:

Applications
1 3 (8.57%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (17.14%) Azure
3 3 (8.57%) Entra ID
4 2 (5.71%) AWS
5 1 (2.86%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 11 (31.43%) Firewall
2 2 (5.71%) DHCP
2 2 (5.71%) DNS
2 2 (5.71%) Network Security
2 2 (5.71%) SAN
3 1 (2.86%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (17.14%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.86%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (2.86%) MySQL
2 1 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
General
1 9 (25.71%) Social Skills
2 5 (14.29%) Finance
3 3 (8.57%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 6 (17.14%) Clustering
2 2 (5.71%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.86%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.86%) Fat Client
3 1 (2.86%) PKI
3 1 (2.86%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 16 (45.71%) Linux
2 14 (40.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 14 (40.00%) Windows
3 9 (25.71%) Windows Server
4 8 (22.86%) Windows 10
5 7 (20.00%) Windows Server 2019
6 6 (17.14%) Solaris
7 5 (14.29%) Windows 7
8 3 (8.57%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (5.71%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (2.86%) Ubuntu
10 1 (2.86%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (2.86%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (91.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 8 (22.86%) Customer Service
2 8 (22.86%) Disaster Recovery
3 6 (17.14%) Compliance Management
3 6 (17.14%) High Availability
4 4 (11.43%) Open Source
5 3 (8.57%) Deployment Automation
5 3 (8.57%) ITIL
6 2 (5.71%) Network Management
6 2 (5.71%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (5.71%) Server Management
6 2 (5.71%) Virtual Infrastructure
7 1 (2.86%) Converged Infrastructure
7 1 (2.86%) Cybersecurity
7 1 (2.86%) Data Protection
7 1 (2.86%) Mentoring
7 1 (2.86%) Patch Management
7 1 (2.86%) Performance Monitoring
7 1 (2.86%) Performance Tuning
7 1 (2.86%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 2 (5.71%) PowerShell
1 2 (5.71%) SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 18 (51.43%) SC Cleared
3 6 (17.14%) RHCE
4 5 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (5.71%) MCP
5 2 (5.71%) MCSE
6 1 (2.86%) CCNA
6 1 (2.86%) CCNP
6 1 (2.86%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (2.86%) Degree
6 1 (2.86%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (17.14%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (25.71%) Active Directory
2 7 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (17.14%) KVM
4 2 (5.71%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (2.86%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 8 (22.86%) SCCM
2 4 (11.43%) WSUS
3 2 (5.71%) vCenter Server
4 1 (2.86%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (2.86%) Ansible
4 1 (2.86%) EMC NetWorker
4 1 (2.86%) McAfee ePO
4 1 (2.86%) Nessus
4 1 (2.86%) NetBackup
4 1 (2.86%) Red Hat Satellite
4 1 (2.86%) SCOM
4 1 (2.86%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 12 (34.29%) Red Hat
2 11 (31.43%) Microsoft
3 7 (20.00%) VMware
4 6 (17.14%) Bloomberg
4 6 (17.14%) Refinitiv
5 4 (11.43%) Citrix
6 2 (5.71%) Oracle
6 2 (5.71%) ServiceNow
6 2 (5.71%) Veeam
7 1 (2.86%) 3PAR
7 1 (2.86%) Cisco
7 1 (2.86%) Dell
7 1 (2.86%) EMC
7 1 (2.86%) Extreme Networks
7 1 (2.86%) HP
7 1 (2.86%) Juniper
7 1 (2.86%) McAfee
7 1 (2.86%) Palo Alto
7 1 (2.86%) Symantec