Infrastructure Engineering Contracts in the East Midlands

Infrastructure Engineering
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands requiring Infrastructure Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Infrastructure Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 14 November 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 40 49 75
Rank change year-on-year +9 +26 -15
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 23 16 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 3.15% 2.00% 1.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.73% 2.39% 1.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 11 19
10th Percentile - £350 £311
25th Percentile £425 £378 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £375
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% +13.33% +3.45%
75th Percentile £518 £486 £440
90th Percentile £525 £500 £508
England median daily rate £525 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Midlands

Infrastructure Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 616 670 1,114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 84.38% 83.75% 86.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 373 486 822
10th Percentile £267 £213 £200
25th Percentile £356 £363 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -6.32% - +12.69%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £570
90th Percentile £625 £700 £650
England median daily rate £525 £547 £550
% change year-on-year -4.02% -0.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 52 67
10th Percentile £14.90 £13.00 £10.20
25th Percentile £17.00 £16.56 £14.70
Median hourly rate £23.25 £22.39 £16.83
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +33.02% +12.20%
75th Percentile £50.00 £52.06 £20.75
90th Percentile £51.50 £69.50 £35.15
England median hourly rate £36.90 £44.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -17.08% +27.14% +67.54%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing Infrastructure Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineering in the East Midlands

Infrastructure Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Engineering in the East Midlands

Infrastructure Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 14 November 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in the East Midlands

Infrastructure Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in the East Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Engineering in the East Midlands

Infrastructure Engineering
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 14 November 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
Northamptonshire +3 8 £500 +5.82% 2
Nottinghamshire +5 7 - - 2
Leicestershire +12 5 £449 +12.25% 2
Derbyshire -11 2 £413 +6.45%
Infrastructure Engineering
England

Infrastructure Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 (34.78%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (4.35%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (26.09%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 8 (34.78%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (8.70%) AWS
2 2 (8.70%) Azure
3 1 (4.35%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 7 (30.43%) Cisco ISE
2 5 (21.74%) DHCP
2 5 (21.74%) DNS
3 2 (8.70%) Firewall
3 2 (8.70%) LAN
3 2 (8.70%) VPN
4 1 (4.35%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (17.39%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (17.39%) GitLab
General
1 10 (43.48%) Public Sector
2 3 (13.04%) Local Government
3 2 (8.70%) Social Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 22 (95.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (13.04%) IT Engineer
2 3 (13.04%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (4.35%) Exchange Engineer
3 1 (4.35%) Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (4.35%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 1 (4.35%) Lead
3 1 (4.35%) Messaging Engineer
3 1 (4.35%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 1 (4.35%) Network Engineer
3 1 (4.35%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (4.35%) Senior
3 1 (4.35%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (4.35%) VMware Engineer
3 1 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (4.35%) VMware Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 4 (17.39%) Grid Computing
2 2 (8.70%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (8.70%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 20 (86.96%) Windows
1 20 (86.96%) Windows Server
2 9 (39.13%) Windows Server 2012
3 5 (21.74%) Linux
4 4 (17.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (13.04%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (13.04%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (8.70%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (26.09%) Migration
2 5 (21.74%) Infrastructure Monitoring
3 4 (17.39%) Performance Tuning
3 4 (17.39%) Task Automation
4 2 (8.70%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (4.35%) Incident Management
5 1 (4.35%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (4.35%) Release Management
5 1 (4.35%) Resource Allocation
5 1 (4.35%) Server Migrations
Programming Languages
1 7 (30.43%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (34.78%) SC Cleared
1 8 (34.78%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.35%) Degree
2 1 (4.35%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.70%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (69.57%) VMware Infrastructure
2 14 (60.87%) Active Directory
3 7 (30.43%) Hyper-V
4 5 (21.74%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (8.70%) Terminal Services
5 2 (8.70%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (4.35%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (4.35%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (39.13%) SCCM
2 8 (34.78%) SCOM
3 4 (17.39%) Red Hat Satellite
3 4 (17.39%) SCSM
4 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 19 (82.61%) VMware
2 11 (47.83%) Microsoft
3 8 (34.78%) Cisco
4 4 (17.39%) Citrix
4 4 (17.39%) Red Hat
4 4 (17.39%) SolarWinds
5 1 (4.35%) Dell
5 1 (4.35%) Meraki
5 1 (4.35%) Veeam