Infrastructure Engineer Contracts in the South East

Infrastructure Engineer
England > South East

The median Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in the South East is £463 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 61 87 109
Rank change year-on-year +26 +22 +30
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 170 132 166
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 3.01% 2.33% 2.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.27% 2.46% 2.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 107 143
10th Percentile £350 £345 £306
25th Percentile £387 £400 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £488 £428
Median % change year-on-year -5.13% +14.04% +17.12%
75th Percentile £598 £550 £531
90th Percentile £638 £630 £629
England median daily rate £450 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 3
10th Percentile - £21.53 £65.00
25th Percentile - £35.81 £66.14
Median hourly rate - £54.38 £68.02
Median % change year-on-year - -20.06% +209.18%
75th Percentile - £65.00 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £22.50 £65.00 £45.48
% change year-on-year -65.38% +42.92% +21.28%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 5,205 5,364 7,367
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 94.62% 95.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,082 3,717 5,057
10th Percentile £234 £217 £206
25th Percentile £400 £388 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £625 £604 £590
90th Percentile £688 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 524 238 311
10th Percentile £12.88 £16.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £18.32 £22.18 £16.18
Median hourly rate £48.20 £50.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.60% +150.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.00 £45.56
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £61.50
England median hourly rate £37.75 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.11% +88.21% +11.47%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the South East

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the South East

Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in the South East over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in the South East

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the South East

Infrastructure Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 2 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
Thames Valley +40 61 £501 +10.11% 9
Hampshire -4 55 £575 +15.00% 20
Berkshire +14 42 £605 +6.37% 1
West Sussex - 25 £450 -
Buckinghamshire +34 15 £431 -5.23% 4
Surrey +24 15 £400 -11.11% 4
Kent -1 9 £388 +10.71% 10
Oxfordshire -2 4 £375 -16.67% 4
East Sussex +3 3 £475 +5.56% 5
Middlesex - 1 £425 -
Sussex - 1 - -
Infrastructure Engineer
England

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 2 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 South East region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 168 (98.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 91 (53.53%) Security Cleared
3 90 (52.94%) VMware
4 79 (46.47%) Windows
5 69 (40.59%) Active Directory
5 69 (40.59%) VMware Infrastructure
6 56 (32.94%) Linux
7 55 (32.35%) SC Cleared
8 52 (30.59%) Microsoft
9 49 (28.82%) PowerShell
9 49 (28.82%) Windows Server
10 48 (28.24%) DV Cleared
11 46 (27.06%) DNS
12 44 (25.88%) DHCP
12 44 (25.88%) SAN
13 39 (22.94%) Azure
14 37 (21.76%) Social Skills
15 36 (21.18%) Firewall
16 32 (18.82%) Degree
17 29 (17.06%) ITIL
17 29 (17.06%) SCCM
18 26 (15.29%) Windows Server 2019
19 24 (14.12%) Hyper-V
19 24 (14.12%) Windows Server 2012
19 24 (14.12%) Data Centre
20 23 (13.53%) vSphere
21 22 (12.94%) Windows 10
21 22 (12.94%) Cisco
21 22 (12.94%) WSUS
22 21 (12.35%) Problem-Solving

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 14 (8.24%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (1.18%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 39 (22.94%) Azure
2 14 (8.24%) Microsoft 365
2 14 (8.24%) OCI
3 9 (5.29%) AWS
4 6 (3.53%) SaaS
5 5 (2.94%) GCP
5 5 (2.94%) OpenShift
6 4 (2.35%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (2.35%) IaaS
7 3 (1.76%) PaaS
8 2 (1.18%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (1.18%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (1.18%) Amazon EMR
8 2 (1.18%) Amazon S3
8 2 (1.18%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (1.18%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (1.18%) Entra ID
8 2 (1.18%) Serverless
8 2 (1.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (0.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 46 (27.06%) DNS
2 44 (25.88%) DHCP
2 44 (25.88%) SAN
3 36 (21.18%) Firewall
4 15 (8.82%) NAS
5 9 (5.29%) TCP/IP
6 8 (4.71%) LAN
6 8 (4.71%) WAN
7 7 (4.12%) VPN
8 6 (3.53%) Network Security
9 5 (2.94%) Fibre Channel
9 5 (2.94%) iSCSI
9 5 (2.94%) VLAN
9 5 (2.94%) Wi-Fi
10 4 (2.35%) SSL
10 4 (2.35%) VoIP
11 3 (1.76%) VSAN
12 2 (1.18%) Wireless
13 1 (0.59%) MPLS
13 1 (0.59%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.29%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.18%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (1.18%) MySQL
2 2 (1.18%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (1.18%) Git
1 2 (1.18%) Robot Framework
1 2 (1.18%) Selenium
2 1 (0.59%) GitLab
2 1 (0.59%) MSI
General
1 37 (21.76%) Social Skills
2 8 (4.71%) Public Sector
3 6 (3.53%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (1.76%) Front Office
5 3 (1.76%) Manufacturing
6 2 (1.18%) Finance
7 1 (0.59%) Electronics
7 1 (0.59%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.59%) Marketing
7 1 (0.59%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (7.06%) Flash
2 3 (1.76%) .NET
3 2 (1.18%) Middleware
4 1 (0.59%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (14.12%) Data Centre
2 10 (5.88%) Driving Licence
3 9 (5.29%) PKI
4 4 (2.35%) Client/Server
5 3 (1.76%) Grid Computing
6 2 (1.18%) Fat Client
6 2 (1.18%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.18%) Tandem
6 2 (1.18%) Thin Client
7 1 (0.59%) Clustering
7 1 (0.59%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.59%) IBM Storwize
7 1 (0.59%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.59%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 79 (46.47%) Windows
2 56 (32.94%) Linux
3 49 (28.82%) Windows Server
4 26 (15.29%) Windows Server 2019
5 24 (14.12%) Windows Server 2012
6 22 (12.94%) Windows 10
7 20 (11.76%) Windows Server 2016
8 14 (8.24%) Windows XP
9 13 (7.65%) AIX
10 12 (7.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 10 (5.88%) Unix
12 6 (3.53%) Windows 7
13 5 (2.94%) Ubuntu
13 5 (2.94%) Windows Server 2003
13 5 (2.94%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.59%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 168 (98.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 29 (17.06%) ITIL
3 21 (12.35%) Problem-Solving
4 17 (10.00%) Performance Tuning
4 17 (10.00%) Storage Management
5 16 (9.41%) Disaster Recovery
6 15 (8.82%) Change Management
6 15 (8.82%) Proactive Monitoring
6 15 (8.82%) Project Delivery
6 15 (8.82%) Project Management
6 15 (8.82%) Server Management
7 14 (8.24%) Agile
7 14 (8.24%) Break/Fix
7 14 (8.24%) Converged Infrastructure
7 14 (8.24%) Performance Monitoring
8 13 (7.65%) DevOps
9 12 (7.06%) Migration
10 11 (6.47%) Vulnerability Management
11 8 (4.71%) Release Management
12 7 (4.12%) Software Distribution
Programming Languages
1 49 (28.82%) PowerShell
2 9 (5.29%) VBScript
3 6 (3.53%) Python
4 5 (2.94%) SQL
5 3 (1.76%) VB.NET
6 2 (1.18%) Bash
6 2 (1.18%) C++
7 1 (0.59%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 91 (53.53%) Security Cleared
2 55 (32.35%) SC Cleared
3 48 (28.24%) DV Cleared
4 32 (18.82%) Degree
5 20 (11.76%) CCNA
5 20 (11.76%) Cisco Certification
6 16 (9.41%) CCNP
7 10 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (3.53%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 5 (2.94%) MCSE
10 4 (2.35%) AWS Certification
10 4 (2.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (1.76%) Azure Certification
11 3 (1.76%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (1.18%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 2 (1.18%) CCDP
12 2 (1.18%) Computer Science Degree
12 2 (1.18%) VCAP
13 1 (0.59%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.94%) SLA
2 3 (1.76%) GDPR
2 3 (1.76%) ISO 9001
2 3 (1.76%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 1 (0.59%) COBIT
3 1 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.59%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 69 (40.59%) Active Directory
1 69 (40.59%) VMware Infrastructure
2 24 (14.12%) Hyper-V
3 23 (13.53%) vSphere
4 19 (11.18%) VMware ESXi
5 17 (10.00%) XenApp
6 8 (4.71%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (2.35%) Firmware
7 4 (2.35%) XenDesktop
8 3 (1.76%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.59%) Docker
9 1 (0.59%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 29 (17.06%) SCCM
2 22 (12.94%) WSUS
3 19 (11.18%) vCenter Server
4 15 (8.82%) SCOM
5 14 (8.24%) EMC NetWorker
5 14 (8.24%) NetBackup
6 6 (3.53%) Terraform
7 5 (2.94%) Ansible
7 5 (2.94%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (2.35%) Red Hat Satellite
9 3 (1.76%) Nessus
10 2 (1.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (1.18%) ZABBIX
11 1 (0.59%) Failover Clustering
11 1 (0.59%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.59%) Kubernetes
11 1 (0.59%) SCSM
11 1 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.59%) vRealize
11 1 (0.59%) VxRail
Vendors
1 90 (52.94%) VMware
2 52 (30.59%) Microsoft
3 22 (12.94%) Cisco
4 21 (12.35%) Citrix
5 20 (11.76%) Symantec
6 19 (11.18%) HP
7 16 (9.41%) Oracle
7 16 (9.41%) Veeam
8 15 (8.82%) Dell
8 15 (8.82%) Juniper
8 15 (8.82%) Palo Alto
9 14 (8.24%) 3PAR
9 14 (8.24%) EMC
9 14 (8.24%) Extreme Networks
10 13 (7.65%) Ivanti
11 12 (7.06%) Brocade
11 12 (7.06%) IBM
12 11 (6.47%) Red Hat
13 6 (3.53%) Aruba
14 4 (2.35%) ServiceNow