Infrastructure Engineer Contracts in the North of England

Infrastructure Engineer
England > North of England

The median Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in the North of England 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 102 95 81
Rank change year-on-year -7 -14 +42
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 79 118 219
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.64% 2.15% 3.01%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.77% 2.25% 3.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 76 166
10th Percentile £301 £313 £291
25th Percentile £366 £350 £327
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +11.76% +17.24%
75th Percentile £531 £500 £517
90th Percentile £643 £638 £572
England median daily rate £475 £500 £454
% change year-on-year -5.00% +10.13% +10.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £21.25 - -
Median hourly rate £22.50 - £20.00
75th Percentile £23.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £45.00 £72.50 £61.67
% change year-on-year -37.93% +17.56% +59.15%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North of England. 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 North of England with a recognized job title 4,475 5,238 7,022
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 95.60% 96.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,725 3,627 5,135
10th Percentile £263 £263 £213
25th Percentile £388 £406 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +7.95%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £575
90th Percentile £650 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 431 176 265
10th Percentile £11.11 £14.13 £11.32
25th Percentile £13.25 £17.65 £15.00
Median hourly rate £24.10 £26.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.06% +32.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile £47.50 £43.75 £33.75
90th Percentile £66.61 £56.39 £64.20
England median hourly rate £39.55 £44.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -10.11% +76.00% +18.76%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the North of England

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the North of England

Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in the North of England

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the North of England

Infrastructure Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England 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
North West -14 56 £450 -5.26% 32
Yorkshire +4 19 £450 +6.82% 11
North East +6 4 £438 +9.38% 4
Infrastructure Engineer
England

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

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 North of England region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 77 (97.47%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 38 (48.10%) Azure
3 30 (37.97%) Microsoft
3 30 (37.97%) Active Directory
4 29 (36.71%) Windows
5 26 (32.91%) VMware
6 19 (24.05%) Security Cleared
7 17 (21.52%) VMware Infrastructure
7 17 (21.52%) AWS
7 17 (21.52%) Migration
8 16 (20.25%) Windows Server
9 14 (17.72%) Microsoft 365
9 14 (17.72%) SC Cleared
10 13 (16.46%) SharePoint
10 13 (16.46%) Microsoft Exchange
10 13 (16.46%) Public Sector
11 12 (15.19%) Hyper-V
12 11 (13.92%) Linux
12 11 (13.92%) DNS
12 11 (13.92%) CI/CD
12 11 (13.92%) Terraform
13 10 (12.66%) Social Skills
14 9 (11.39%) DevOps
14 9 (11.39%) Cisco
14 9 (11.39%) SQL
14 9 (11.39%) SQL Server
14 9 (11.39%) Finance
15 8 (10.13%) PowerShell
15 8 (10.13%) Problem-Solving
15 8 (10.13%) Network Virtualisation

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 (16.46%) Microsoft Exchange
1 13 (16.46%) SharePoint
2 3 (3.80%) Apache
2 3 (3.80%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 6 (7.59%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (5.06%) AutoCAD
2 4 (5.06%) Revit
Cloud Services
1 38 (48.10%) Azure
2 17 (21.52%) AWS
3 14 (17.72%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (7.59%) Cloud Computing
4 6 (7.59%) IaaS
4 6 (7.59%) Power Platform
5 5 (6.33%) SaaS
6 4 (5.06%) Entra ID
6 4 (5.06%) GCP
6 4 (5.06%) Mimecast
7 3 (3.80%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (3.80%) Amazon S3
7 3 (3.80%) PaaS
7 3 (3.80%) Snowflake
7 3 (3.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (2.53%) Nutanix
9 1 (1.27%) AWS KMS
9 1 (1.27%) Azure AKS
9 1 (1.27%) Azure Key Vault
9 1 (1.27%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 11 (13.92%) DNS
2 7 (8.86%) DHCP
3 6 (7.59%) SAN
4 5 (6.33%) LAN
4 5 (6.33%) WAN
5 4 (5.06%) Firewall
5 4 (5.06%) Wireless
5 4 (5.06%) Wireless Security
6 3 (3.80%) Ethernet
6 3 (3.80%) OSPF
6 3 (3.80%) VPN
7 2 (2.53%) NAS
7 2 (2.53%) VSAN
7 2 (2.53%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (1.27%) Cisco ASA
8 1 (1.27%) iSCSI
8 1 (1.27%) Network Security
8 1 (1.27%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (1.27%) TCP/IP
8 1 (1.27%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (11.39%) SQL Server
2 4 (5.06%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (5.06%) Power BI
3 3 (3.80%) MySQL
4 1 (1.27%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 4 (5.06%) Hudson
2 3 (3.80%) Git
General
1 13 (16.46%) Public Sector
2 10 (12.66%) Social Skills
3 9 (11.39%) Finance
4 5 (6.33%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (2.53%) Banking
5 2 (2.53%) Legal
5 2 (2.53%) Military
6 1 (1.27%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.27%) Law
6 1 (1.27%) Local Government
6 1 (1.27%) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.33%) Data Centre
2 3 (3.80%) PKI
3 2 (2.53%) Management Information System
3 2 (2.53%) NHS
3 2 (2.53%) Onboarding
3 2 (2.53%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.27%) Clustering
4 1 (1.27%) CMDB
4 1 (1.27%) Driving Licence
4 1 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.27%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.27%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.27%) Replication
4 1 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.27%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 29 (36.71%) Windows
2 16 (20.25%) Windows Server
3 11 (13.92%) Linux
4 5 (6.33%) Windows Server 2012
5 4 (5.06%) Apple iOS
5 4 (5.06%) Windows 10
6 3 (3.80%) Mac OS
7 2 (2.53%) CentOS
7 2 (2.53%) Windows 7
7 2 (2.53%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (2.53%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (1.27%) Android
8 1 (1.27%) Debian
8 1 (1.27%) Ubuntu
8 1 (1.27%) Unix
8 1 (1.27%) VMS
8 1 (1.27%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (97.47%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 17 (21.52%) Migration
3 11 (13.92%) CI/CD
4 9 (11.39%) DevOps
5 8 (10.13%) Network Virtualisation
5 8 (10.13%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (6.33%) Change Management
6 5 (6.33%) Open Source
7 4 (5.06%) 3D Modelling
7 4 (5.06%) CAE
7 4 (5.06%) Computer Science
7 4 (5.06%) Cybersecurity
7 4 (5.06%) Information Security
7 4 (5.06%) Infrastructure Management
7 4 (5.06%) Service Delivery
7 4 (5.06%) Strategic Planning
7 4 (5.06%) Task Automation
8 3 (3.80%) Mentoring
8 3 (3.80%) Network Segmentation
8 3 (3.80%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 9 (11.39%) SQL
2 8 (10.13%) PowerShell
3 4 (5.06%) Bash
4 3 (3.80%) Python
5 1 (1.27%) Perl
5 1 (1.27%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (24.05%) Security Cleared
2 14 (17.72%) SC Cleared
3 6 (7.59%) Cisco Certification
3 6 (7.59%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (6.33%) CCNA
4 5 (6.33%) Degree
5 3 (3.80%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 2 (2.53%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.53%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.53%) DV Cleared
6 2 (2.53%) MCITP
6 2 (2.53%) MCSE
6 2 (2.53%) VCAP
7 1 (1.27%) A+ Certification
7 1 (1.27%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.27%) MCSA
7 1 (1.27%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.53%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.27%) GDPR
2 1 (1.27%) QA
System Software
1 30 (37.97%) Active Directory
2 17 (21.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (15.19%) Hyper-V
4 3 (3.80%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (2.53%) Firmware
5 2 (2.53%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (2.53%) VMware NSX
6 1 (1.27%) KVM
6 1 (1.27%) VMware Workstation
6 1 (1.27%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (13.92%) Terraform
2 5 (6.33%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (3.80%) vCenter Server
4 2 (2.53%) SCCM
5 1 (1.27%) Ansible
5 1 (1.27%) Avamar
5 1 (1.27%) CA Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.27%) Kubernetes
5 1 (1.27%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.27%) SolarWinds Orion
5 1 (1.27%) WSUS
Vendors
1 30 (37.97%) Microsoft
2 26 (32.91%) VMware
3 9 (11.39%) Cisco
4 4 (5.06%) Dell
4 4 (5.06%) Sophos
4 4 (5.06%) Veeam
5 3 (3.80%) CA
5 3 (3.80%) Informatica
5 3 (3.80%) Meraki
5 3 (3.80%) Nimble Storage
5 3 (3.80%) Red Hat
6 2 (2.53%) 3PAR
6 2 (2.53%) Citrix
6 2 (2.53%) CyberArk
6 2 (2.53%) Dell Compellent
6 2 (2.53%) HP
7 1 (1.27%) MEDITECH
7 1 (1.27%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.27%) SolarWinds
7 1 (1.27%) Zerto