Infrastructure Support Contracts

Infrastructure Support
UK

The median Infrastructure Support daily rate in the UK is £340, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 September 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
20 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 515 563 770
Rank change year-on-year +48 +207 -52
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Support 51 83 83
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.17% 0.097%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.18% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 56 62
10th Percentile £224 £153 £210
25th Percentile £309 £275 £257
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £340 £350 £388
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -9.68% -8.82%
75th Percentile - £489 £497
90th Percentile £444 £575 £603
UK excluding London median daily rate £340 £325 £325
% change year-on-year +4.62% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
10th Percentile - £19.89 £77.03
25th Percentile - £20.95 £77.06
Median hourly rate - £23.34 £77.25
Median % change year-on-year - -69.79% +296.15%
75th Percentile - £26.36 £77.56
90th Percentile - £27.79 £77.68
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £23.34 £77.25
% change year-on-year - -69.79% +296.15%

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 35,672 46,944 81,846
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.92% 94.15% 95.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,921 32,148 57,528
10th Percentile £300 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £419 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,658 1,511 1,784
10th Percentile £14.73 £14.93 £13.02
25th Percentile £20.30 £19.06 £16.25
Median hourly rate £43.00 £44.50 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.37% +71.15% +30.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.50 £70.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.90 £43.75 £22.00
% change year-on-year +0.34% +98.86% +22.22%

Infrastructure Support
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Support in the UK

Infrastructure Support
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Support in the UK

Infrastructure Support
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Support over the 6 months to 20 September 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Support in the UK

Infrastructure Support
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Support in the UK

Infrastructure Support
Top 11 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 within the UK over the 6 months to 20 September 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 +35 42 £340 +4.62% 15
Scotland +52 26 £340 +150.74%
England +23 24 £288 -20.69% 19
London +48 8 £275 -37.14% 4
South West +14 8 £288 -51.68% 6
Work from Home +76 6 £333 -16.88% 4
North of England +30 4 £333 +15.65% 4
South East +19 3 £375 +63.93% 4
North West +19 2 £463 +32.14% 3
Yorkshire +14 2 £215 -21.82%
East of England +14 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 20 September 2024, Infrastructure Support 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 in the job title.

1 37 (72.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 33 (64.71%) Security Cleared
3 27 (52.94%) SC Cleared
4 25 (49.02%) Windows
5 23 (45.10%) Active Directory
6 21 (41.18%) Linux
7 20 (39.22%) Microsoft
8 18 (35.29%) Windows Server
9 15 (29.41%) Social Skills
10 14 (27.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 14 (27.45%) SCCM
11 13 (25.49%) Customer Service
12 12 (23.53%) Red Hat
13 11 (21.57%) DNS
14 10 (19.61%) Clustering
14 10 (19.61%) WSUS
15 9 (17.65%) Network Management
16 8 (15.69%) VMware
16 8 (15.69%) Microsoft Exchange
17 7 (13.73%) ITIL
17 7 (13.73%) DHCP
17 7 (13.73%) Microsoft 365
17 7 (13.73%) KVM
18 6 (11.76%) Entra ID
18 6 (11.76%) Compliance Management
18 6 (11.76%) High Availability
18 6 (11.76%) Azure
18 6 (11.76%) SLA
18 6 (11.76%) Microsoft Certification
18 6 (11.76%) RHCE

Infrastructure Support 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 8 (15.69%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (9.80%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (3.92%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.96%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 7 (13.73%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (11.76%) Azure
2 6 (11.76%) Entra ID
3 2 (3.92%) Power Platform
4 1 (1.96%) AWS
4 1 (1.96%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (1.96%) Google Sheets
4 1 (1.96%) Google Workspace
4 1 (1.96%) OneDrive
4 1 (1.96%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (21.57%) DNS
2 7 (13.73%) DHCP
3 4 (7.84%) Firewall
3 4 (7.84%) VPN
4 3 (5.88%) SNMP
5 2 (3.92%) IPsec
5 2 (3.92%) NAS
5 2 (3.92%) SAN
5 2 (3.92%) SSH
5 2 (3.92%) SSL
5 2 (3.92%) WAN
6 1 (1.96%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (1.96%) IP Telephony
6 1 (1.96%) LAN
6 1 (1.96%) Skype
6 1 (1.96%) Structured Cabling
6 1 (1.96%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (9.80%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.92%) MySQL
3 1 (1.96%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.96%) MS Access
3 1 (1.96%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (1.96%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 15 (29.41%) Social Skills
2 5 (9.80%) Manufacturing
3 4 (7.84%) Public Sector
4 3 (5.88%) Finance
5 2 (3.92%) Automotive
5 2 (3.92%) Banking
5 2 (3.92%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.96%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.96%) Electronics
6 1 (1.96%) Marketing
6 1 (1.96%) Military
6 1 (1.96%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 10 (19.61%) Clustering
2 4 (7.84%) PKI
3 2 (3.92%) Fat Client
3 2 (3.92%) Thin Client
4 1 (1.96%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 25 (49.02%) Windows
2 21 (41.18%) Linux
3 18 (35.29%) Windows Server
4 14 (27.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (11.76%) Solaris
6 4 (7.84%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (5.88%) Apple iOS
7 3 (5.88%) Windows 10
7 3 (5.88%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (3.92%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (1.96%) Android
9 1 (1.96%) Mac OS X
9 1 (1.96%) Ubuntu
9 1 (1.96%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (72.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 13 (25.49%) Customer Service
3 9 (17.65%) Network Management
4 7 (13.73%) ITIL
5 6 (11.76%) Compliance Management
5 6 (11.76%) High Availability
6 3 (5.88%) Infrastructure Monitoring
6 3 (5.88%) Migration
6 3 (5.88%) Service Delivery
6 3 (5.88%) Zero Trust
7 2 (3.92%) Deployment Automation
7 2 (3.92%) Incident Management
7 2 (3.92%) Open Source
7 2 (3.92%) Project Delivery
8 1 (1.96%) Collaborative Working
8 1 (1.96%) Customer Requirements
8 1 (1.96%) Escalation Management
8 1 (1.96%) Patch Management
8 1 (1.96%) Problem-Solving
8 1 (1.96%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (9.80%) PowerShell
2 2 (3.92%) SQL
Qualifications
1 33 (64.71%) Security Cleared
2 27 (52.94%) SC Cleared
3 6 (11.76%) Microsoft Certification
3 6 (11.76%) RHCE
4 5 (9.80%) DV Cleared
4 5 (9.80%) MCP
4 5 (9.80%) MCSE
5 1 (1.96%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (11.76%) SLA
2 1 (1.96%) PMO
System Software
1 23 (45.10%) Active Directory
2 7 (13.73%) KVM
3 5 (9.80%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (5.88%) Hyper-V
4 3 (5.88%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (3.92%) vSphere
6 1 (1.96%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (1.96%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 14 (27.45%) SCCM
2 10 (19.61%) WSUS
3 4 (7.84%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 4 (7.84%) Ansible
3 4 (7.84%) Failover Clustering
4 3 (5.88%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Clustering
5 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
5 1 (1.96%) Nessus
5 1 (1.96%) Red Hat Satellite
5 1 (1.96%) vCenter Server
5 1 (1.96%) VxRail
5 1 (1.96%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 20 (39.22%) Microsoft
2 12 (23.53%) Red Hat
3 8 (15.69%) VMware
4 5 (9.80%) Citrix
5 2 (3.92%) Google
5 2 (3.92%) Zscaler
6 1 (1.96%) Apple
6 1 (1.96%) Barracuda Networks
6 1 (1.96%) Cisco
6 1 (1.96%) Dell
6 1 (1.96%) Infoblox
6 1 (1.96%) Oracle
6 1 (1.96%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.96%) SAP
6 1 (1.96%) Veeam