Infrastructure Security Engineer Contracts

Infrastructure Security Engineer
UK

The median Infrastructure Security Engineer daily rate in the UK is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 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
12 Jun 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 555 672 794
Rank change year-on-year +117 +122 -89
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Security Engineer 29 25 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.066% 0.045% 0.062%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.072% 0.048% 0.065%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 20 37
10th Percentile £293 £319 £306
25th Percentile £373 £600 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £633 £400
Median % change year-on-year -28.85% +58.13% -15.79%
75th Percentile £538 £650 £525
90th Percentile £613 - £538
UK excluding London median daily rate £478 £476 £313
% change year-on-year +0.26% +52.40% -14.38%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 UK with a recognized job title 40,557 52,491 83,111
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 94.51% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,070 36,644 58,616
10th Percentile £280 £313 £318
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,936 1,486 1,938
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.42 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.81 £65.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%

Infrastructure Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Security Engineer in the UK

Infrastructure Security Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Security Engineer in the UK

Infrastructure Security Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Security Engineer over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Security Engineer in the UK

Infrastructure Security Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Security Engineer in the UK

Infrastructure Security Engineer
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Security Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 12 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
England +85 19 £413 -36.54% 14
UK excluding London +41 14 £478 +0.26% 10
London +80 12 £425 -34.62% 5
Work from Home +111 10 £500 -23.08% 7
Scotland - 7 £575 - 1
South East - 4 £431 - 2
East of England - 3 £300 -

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, Infrastructure Security 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 featuring Infrastructure Security Engineer in the job title.

1 27 (93.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 15 (51.72%) Cybersecurity
3 13 (44.83%) Windows
4 12 (41.38%) Microsoft
4 12 (41.38%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (41.38%) SCCM
4 12 (41.38%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (37.93%) Social Skills
6 9 (31.03%) Azure
6 9 (31.03%) Firewall
6 9 (31.03%) VMware
7 8 (27.59%) VMware Infrastructure
8 7 (24.14%) Agile
8 7 (24.14%) Active Directory
9 6 (20.69%) PowerShell
9 6 (20.69%) Vulnerability Management
10 5 (17.24%) Splunk
10 5 (17.24%) Mac OS
10 5 (17.24%) Refactoring
10 5 (17.24%) DevOps
10 5 (17.24%) Unix
10 5 (17.24%) Python
10 5 (17.24%) Microsoft Exchange
10 5 (17.24%) Linux
10 5 (17.24%) Information Security
10 5 (17.24%) Management Information System
10 5 (17.24%) CrowdStrike
10 5 (17.24%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 5 (17.24%) Windows Server
10 5 (17.24%) Disk Encryption

Infrastructure Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 5 (17.24%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 9 (31.03%) Azure
2 4 (13.79%) AWS
2 4 (13.79%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (10.34%) Entra ID
4 2 (6.90%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (6.90%) Mimecast
5 1 (3.45%) Google Workspace
5 1 (3.45%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (31.03%) Firewall
2 4 (13.79%) Network Security
3 3 (10.34%) Extranet
4 2 (6.90%) Internet
4 2 (6.90%) Intranet
4 2 (6.90%) VPN
4 2 (6.90%) VSAN
4 2 (6.90%) WAN
4 2 (6.90%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (3.45%) BGP
5 1 (3.45%) DNS
5 1 (3.45%) EIGRP
5 1 (3.45%) IGRP
5 1 (3.45%) OSPF
5 1 (3.45%) RIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (3.45%) JIRA
General
1 12 (41.38%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (37.93%) Social Skills
3 4 (13.79%) Banking
4 3 (10.34%) Manufacturing
4 3 (10.34%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (6.90%) Finance
6 1 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (3.45%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.24%) Management Information System
2 2 (6.90%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.45%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (3.45%) PKI
3 1 (3.45%) Private Cloud
3 1 (3.45%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 13 (44.83%) Windows
2 5 (17.24%) Linux
2 5 (17.24%) Mac OS
2 5 (17.24%) Unix
2 5 (17.24%) Windows Server
3 1 (3.45%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (93.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 15 (51.72%) Cybersecurity
3 12 (41.38%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (24.14%) Agile
5 6 (20.69%) Vulnerability Management
6 5 (17.24%) DevOps
6 5 (17.24%) Disk Encryption
6 5 (17.24%) Information Security
6 5 (17.24%) Refactoring
6 5 (17.24%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 4 (13.79%) Cloud Security
7 4 (13.79%) Disaster Recovery
7 4 (13.79%) ITIL
7 4 (13.79%) Process Improvement
7 4 (13.79%) Security Operations
8 3 (10.34%) Data Security
8 3 (10.34%) Patch Management
8 3 (10.34%) Security Monitoring
8 3 (10.34%) Vulnerability Remediation
9 2 (6.90%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (20.69%) PowerShell
2 5 (17.24%) Python
3 1 (3.45%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (13.79%) Degree
2 2 (6.90%) SC Cleared
2 2 (6.90%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.90%) VCAP
2 2 (6.90%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (3.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (3.45%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.45%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (3.45%) CISSP
3 1 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.45%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (3.45%) MCSE
3 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.34%) COBIT
1 3 (10.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (10.34%) PCI DSS
2 2 (6.90%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (6.90%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 2 (6.90%) GDPR
2 2 (6.90%) NCSC
3 1 (3.45%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 8 (27.59%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (24.14%) Active Directory
3 3 (10.34%) vSphere
4 2 (6.90%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (6.90%) VMware NSX
4 2 (6.90%) XenApp
5 1 (3.45%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 12 (41.38%) SCCM
2 2 (6.90%) CASB
2 2 (6.90%) FortiGate
2 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (6.90%) Nexpose
2 2 (6.90%) SCOrch
2 2 (6.90%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (3.45%) vRealize
3 1 (3.45%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 12 (41.38%) Microsoft
2 9 (31.03%) VMware
3 5 (17.24%) CrowdStrike
3 5 (17.24%) Splunk
4 4 (13.79%) Palo Alto
5 3 (10.34%) Cisco
5 3 (10.34%) Netskope
6 2 (6.90%) Citrix
6 2 (6.90%) Imperva
6 2 (6.90%) Rapid7
7 1 (3.45%) CA
7 1 (3.45%) Google
7 1 (3.45%) Okta
7 1 (3.45%) Qualys
7 1 (3.45%) ServiceNow
7 1 (3.45%) Veeam
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