Network Infrastructure Engineer Contracts

Network Infrastructure Engineer
UK

The median Network Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in the UK is £405 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 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
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 554 662 816
Rank change year-on-year +108 +154 -110
Contract jobs requiring a Network Infrastructure Engineer 48 33 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.059% 0.046%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.063% 0.048%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 27 27
10th Percentile £295 £345 £310
25th Percentile £313 £429 £322
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £525 £363
Median % change year-on-year -22.86% +44.83% +20.83%
75th Percentile £537 £581 £438
90th Percentile £544 £638 £525
UK excluding London median daily rate £405 £525 £350
% change year-on-year -22.86% +50.00% +16.67%

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 40,232 52,519 83,570
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.87% 94.52% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,887 36,654 58,907
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +6.60%
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% +8.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,899 1,488 1,954
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.60
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.39 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.88 £65.75 £49.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.33 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +7.17%

Network Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Network Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Network Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Network Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Infrastructure Engineer over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Network Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Network Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Network Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Network Infrastructure Engineer
Top 13 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Network Infrastructure Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 9 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 +113 46 £405 -22.86% 17
UK excluding London +62 38 £405 -22.86% 15
South West +25 15 £516 -13.96% 3
London +85 9 £325 -48.00% 7
East of England +8 7 £300 -44.19% 2
Work from Home +102 6 £513 +17.14% 5
Midlands +25 6 £425 -5.56% 4
West Midlands +17 6 £425 -2.86% 2
North of England +28 5 £325 -7.14% 1
North West +17 5 £325 -7.14%
South East +8 4 £405 -22.86% 2
Wales - 1 - -
Scotland - 1 - - 3

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

For the 6 months to 9 June 2024, Network 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 Network Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 41 (85.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 26 (54.17%) VMware
3 24 (50.00%) Data Centre
4 21 (43.75%) Firewall
5 19 (39.58%) SC Cleared
5 19 (39.58%) Security Cleared
6 18 (37.50%) VMware Infrastructure
7 16 (33.33%) Cisco
7 16 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
8 15 (31.25%) Social Skills
8 15 (31.25%) vSphere
8 15 (31.25%) Cybersecurity
9 14 (29.17%) WAN
10 13 (27.08%) LAN
10 13 (27.08%) Virtual Infrastructure
10 13 (27.08%) vCenter Server
11 12 (25.00%) Private Cloud
11 12 (25.00%) Resource Management
12 11 (22.92%) Penetration Testing
13 10 (20.83%) Windows
13 10 (20.83%) Linux
14 9 (18.75%) VPN
14 9 (18.75%) Wireless
14 9 (18.75%) Vulnerability Scanning
15 8 (16.67%) Azure
15 8 (16.67%) CCNA
15 8 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
15 8 (16.67%) Public Sector
16 7 (14.58%) Microsoft 365
16 7 (14.58%) Aruba

Network 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 2 (4.17%) IIS
1 2 (4.17%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (4.17%) SharePoint
1 2 (4.17%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 8 (16.67%) Azure
2 7 (14.58%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (12.50%) AWS
4 2 (4.17%) OneDrive
4 2 (4.17%) SaaS
5 1 (2.08%) Cloudflare
5 1 (2.08%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.08%) Fastly
5 1 (2.08%) IaaS
5 1 (2.08%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 21 (43.75%) Firewall
2 14 (29.17%) WAN
3 13 (27.08%) LAN
4 9 (18.75%) VPN
4 9 (18.75%) Wireless
5 6 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
6 5 (10.42%) OSPF
6 5 (10.42%) Wireless Security
7 4 (8.33%) Ethernet
7 4 (8.33%) Extranet
8 3 (6.25%) Network Security
8 3 (6.25%) VoIP
9 2 (4.17%) DNS
9 2 (4.17%) Fibre Channel
9 2 (4.17%) Intranet
9 2 (4.17%) iSCSI
9 2 (4.17%) NAS
9 2 (4.17%) SAN
9 2 (4.17%) SD-WAN
9 2 (4.17%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Git
1 1 (2.08%) Jenkins
General
1 15 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 8 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 3 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (6.25%) Finance
3 3 (6.25%) Manufacturing
4 2 (4.17%) Banking
5 1 (2.08%) Automotive
5 1 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.17%) LAMP
2 1 (2.08%) Redfish
Miscellaneous
1 24 (50.00%) Data Centre
2 12 (25.00%) Private Cloud
3 4 (8.33%) Driving Licence
4 3 (6.25%) Video Conferencing
5 2 (4.17%) IVR
5 2 (4.17%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (4.17%) Replication
6 1 (2.08%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (2.08%) Management Information System
6 1 (2.08%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (20.83%) Linux
1 10 (20.83%) Windows
2 4 (8.33%) Ubuntu
2 4 (8.33%) Windows Server
3 3 (6.25%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (4.17%) CentOS
4 2 (4.17%) Debian
4 2 (4.17%) VMS
4 2 (4.17%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (2.08%) Unix
5 1 (2.08%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (85.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 16 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 15 (31.25%) Cybersecurity
4 13 (27.08%) Virtual Infrastructure
5 12 (25.00%) Resource Management
6 11 (22.92%) Penetration Testing
7 9 (18.75%) Vulnerability Scanning
8 4 (8.33%) Customer Service
9 3 (6.25%) Disaster Recovery
9 3 (6.25%) High Availability
10 2 (4.17%) Agile
10 2 (4.17%) Budget Management
10 2 (4.17%) Investment Management
10 2 (4.17%) Network Management
10 2 (4.17%) People Management
10 2 (4.17%) Platform Engineering
10 2 (4.17%) Server Management
10 2 (4.17%) WFM
11 1 (2.08%) Infrastructure as Code
11 1 (2.08%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (4.17%) PowerShell
2 1 (2.08%) C
2 1 (2.08%) Go
2 1 (2.08%) Perl
2 1 (2.08%) Python
Qualifications
1 19 (39.58%) SC Cleared
1 19 (39.58%) Security Cleared
2 8 (16.67%) CCNA
2 8 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (6.25%) DBS Check
4 1 (2.08%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 18 (37.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (31.25%) vSphere
3 5 (10.42%) Active Directory
3 5 (10.42%) Hyper-V
4 1 (2.08%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 13 (27.08%) vCenter Server
2 2 (4.17%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (4.17%) SCCM
3 1 (2.08%) Terraform
Vendors
1 26 (54.17%) VMware
2 16 (33.33%) Cisco
3 7 (14.58%) Aruba
4 6 (12.50%) Microsoft
4 6 (12.50%) Palo Alto
5 5 (10.42%) HP
6 2 (4.17%) F5
6 2 (4.17%) Genesys
6 2 (4.17%) ProCurve
6 2 (4.17%) Red Hat
6 2 (4.17%) ServiceNow
6 2 (4.17%) Splunk
6 2 (4.17%) Synology
6 2 (4.17%) Veeam
6 2 (4.17%) Zerto
7 1 (2.08%) Arista
7 1 (2.08%) Commvault
7 1 (2.08%) Dell
7 1 (2.08%) Fortinet
7 1 (2.08%) SolarWinds