Infrastructure Engineer Contracts in Manchester

Infrastructure Engineer
North West > Manchester

The median Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in Manchester is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 27 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
27 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 61 54 83
Rank change year-on-year -7 +29 -4
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 32 62 64
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 2.21% 3.48% 2.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.32% 3.61% 2.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 44 51
10th Percentile £313 £313 £258
25th Percentile £375 £361 £357
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - +29.25%
75th Percentile £613 £500 £550
90th Percentile £655 £526 £600
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +25.52%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Manchester. 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 Manchester with a recognized job title 1,377 1,716 2,588
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.23% 96.35% 97.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 931 1,276 2,012
10th Percentile £306 £313 £250
25th Percentile £400 £410 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £493
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +1.52% +15.88%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £588
90th Percentile £675 £675 £663
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 46 61
10th Percentile £12.40 £14.13 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.50 £16.85 £14.25
Median hourly rate £30.00 £20.35 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +47.40% +10.01% +9.63%
75th Percentile £62.50 £36.88 £33.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £66.00 £75.00
North West median hourly rate £32.70 £29.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +12.75% +16.00% +35.14%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in Manchester

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in Manchester

Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in Manchester over the 6 months to 27 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in Manchester

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in Manchester

Infrastructure Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 27 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
Wigan -1 4 £400 -
Infrastructure Engineer
North West

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

For the 6 months to 27 June 2024, 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 across the Manchester region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 32 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 25 (78.13%) Azure
3 17 (53.13%) Active Directory
4 15 (46.88%) Microsoft
5 13 (40.63%) Microsoft Exchange
6 12 (37.50%) VMware
7 11 (34.38%) Microsoft 365
8 10 (31.25%) AWS
8 10 (31.25%) Terraform
8 10 (31.25%) Windows
8 10 (31.25%) SharePoint
9 9 (28.13%) Hyper-V
10 8 (25.00%) Network Virtualisation
11 7 (21.88%) CI/CD
11 7 (21.88%) DevOps
11 7 (21.88%) Security Cleared
11 7 (21.88%) Linux
12 6 (18.75%) VMware Infrastructure
12 6 (18.75%) PowerShell
12 6 (18.75%) Power Platform
13 5 (15.63%) Public Sector
13 5 (15.63%) SC Cleared
13 5 (15.63%) SQL Server
14 4 (12.50%) DNS
14 4 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
14 4 (12.50%) Sophos
14 4 (12.50%) Wireless Security
14 4 (12.50%) Wireless
14 4 (12.50%) Migration
14 4 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 13 (40.63%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (31.25%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 25 (78.13%) Azure
2 11 (34.38%) Microsoft 365
3 10 (31.25%) AWS
4 6 (18.75%) Power Platform
5 4 (12.50%) Mimecast
6 3 (9.38%) GCP
7 2 (6.25%) Nutanix
8 1 (3.13%) Entra ID
8 1 (3.13%) Rubrik
8 1 (3.13%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.50%) DNS
1 4 (12.50%) Wireless
1 4 (12.50%) Wireless Security
2 3 (9.38%) Ethernet
2 3 (9.38%) LAN
2 3 (9.38%) OSPF
2 3 (9.38%) SAN
2 3 (9.38%) VPN
2 3 (9.38%) WAN
3 2 (6.25%) DHCP
3 2 (6.25%) NAS
4 1 (3.13%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (3.13%) Firewall
4 1 (3.13%) TCP/IP
4 1 (3.13%) VLAN
4 1 (3.13%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (15.63%) SQL Server
2 4 (12.50%) Power BI
3 1 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 4 (12.50%) Hudson
General
1 5 (15.63%) Public Sector
2 3 (9.38%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (3.13%) Finance
3 1 (3.13%) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.25%) Private Cloud
2 1 (3.13%) Clustering
2 1 (3.13%) Data Centre
2 1 (3.13%) Replication
2 1 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (31.25%) Windows
2 7 (21.88%) Linux
3 4 (12.50%) Apple iOS
3 4 (12.50%) Windows Server
4 3 (9.38%) Mac OS
5 2 (6.25%) Windows 10
6 1 (3.13%) Android
6 1 (3.13%) VMS
6 1 (3.13%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (3.13%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 8 (25.00%) Network Virtualisation
3 7 (21.88%) CI/CD
3 7 (21.88%) DevOps
4 4 (12.50%) Migration
4 4 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (9.38%) Customer Service
5 3 (9.38%) Open Source
6 2 (6.25%) Change Management
6 2 (6.25%) Cybersecurity
6 2 (6.25%) Disaster Recovery
7 1 (3.13%) Database Security
7 1 (3.13%) Mentoring
7 1 (3.13%) Mobile Device Management
7 1 (3.13%) Performance Metrics
7 1 (3.13%) Remediation Plan
7 1 (3.13%) Security Management
7 1 (3.13%) Server Virtualisation
7 1 (3.13%) Task Automation
7 1 (3.13%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (18.75%) PowerShell
2 2 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (21.88%) Security Cleared
2 5 (15.63%) SC Cleared
3 4 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (9.38%) CCNA
4 3 (9.38%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (6.25%) MCITP
5 2 (6.25%) VCAP
5 2 (6.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (3.13%) Degree
6 1 (3.13%) MCSA
6 1 (3.13%) MCSE
System Software
1 17 (53.13%) Active Directory
2 9 (28.13%) Hyper-V
3 6 (18.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (6.25%) VMware NSX
5 1 (3.13%) Firmware
5 1 (3.13%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (3.13%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 10 (31.25%) Terraform
2 4 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 15 (46.88%) Microsoft
2 12 (37.50%) VMware
3 4 (12.50%) Sophos
4 3 (9.38%) Cisco
4 3 (9.38%) Dell
4 3 (9.38%) Nimble Storage
4 3 (9.38%) Veeam
5 2 (6.25%) 3PAR
5 2 (6.25%) Dell Compellent
5 2 (6.25%) HP
5 2 (6.25%) Red Hat
6 1 (3.13%) Citrix
6 1 (3.13%) CyberArk
6 1 (3.13%) Meraki
6 1 (3.13%) Zerto