Senior Infrastructure Engineer Contracts in the North West

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
England > North West

The median Senior Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in the North West is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 November 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
15 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 112 122 159
Rank change year-on-year +10 +37 +12
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 6 23 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.25% 0.83% 0.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.90% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 22 21
10th Percentile - - £380
25th Percentile £450 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -18.18% +29.41%
75th Percentile £638 £500 £600
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £550 £500 £545
% change year-on-year +10.00% -8.26% +21.11%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North West. 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 West with a recognized job title 2,198 2,559 3,787
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.18% 92.22% 94.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,168 1,779 2,841
10th Percentile £263 £275 £255
25th Percentile £388 £405 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £575 £591 £588
90th Percentile £650 £674 £669
England median daily rate £525 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 156 174 160
10th Percentile £15.56 £15.83 £10.09
25th Percentile £18.00 £17.75 £15.43
Median hourly rate £32.00 £31.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.59% +57.50% +10.41%
75th Percentile £51.22 £46.18 £45.05
90th Percentile £70.90 £63.75 £66.25
England median hourly rate £40.00 £45.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -11.11% +50.00% +50.00%

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the North West

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the North West

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the North West over the 6 months to 15 November 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the North West

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the North West

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Infrastructure Engineer within the North West region over the 6 months to 15 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
Manchester +1 3 £450 - 4
Cheshire +2 2 £625 +25.00% 2
Cumbria - 1 - -
Senior Infrastructure Engineer
England

Senior Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West

For the 6 months to 15 November 2024, Senior 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 West region featuring Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (50.00%) Terraform
3 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (33.33%) VMware
3 2 (33.33%) Azure
3 2 (33.33%) Kafka
3 2 (33.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
3 2 (33.33%) Progress Chef
3 2 (33.33%) OpenShift
3 2 (33.33%) Ansible
3 2 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 2 (33.33%) Microservices
3 2 (33.33%) GitLab
3 2 (33.33%) Python
3 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
3 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 2 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
3 2 (33.33%) Observability
3 2 (33.33%) Event-Driven
3 2 (33.33%) Cloud Native
3 2 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (16.67%) Rubrik
4 1 (16.67%) Windows
4 1 (16.67%) SAN
4 1 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (16.67%) Finance
4 1 (16.67%) Migration

Senior Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (16.67%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
1 2 (33.33%) OpenShift
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (16.67%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) NAS
1 1 (16.67%) SAN
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) GitLab
1 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (16.67%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
1 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 2 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
2 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (33.33%) Event-Driven
2 2 (33.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 2 (33.33%) Microservices
2 2 (33.33%) Observability
2 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (16.67%) Migration
3 1 (16.67%) Presales
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Terraform
2 2 (33.33%) Ansible
2 2 (33.33%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) VMware
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Zerto