Infrastructure Specialist Contracts

Infrastructure Specialist
UK

The median Infrastructure Specialist daily rate in the UK is £475 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 532 628 751
Rank change year-on-year +96 +123 -77
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Specialist 47 56 90
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.099% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.11% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 42 68
10th Percentile £263 £363 £296
25th Percentile £340 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% +30.18%
75th Percentile £536 £600 £643
90th Percentile £638 £649 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £340 £450 £563
% change year-on-year -24.44% -20.00% +50.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £21.78
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £21.78

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 40,001 53,325 83,708
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.83% 94.58% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,880 37,256 59,003
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
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% +9.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,851 1,473 1,957
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +14.34%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.75 £49.41
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.45 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Infrastructure Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Specialist in the UK

Infrastructure Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Specialist in the UK

Infrastructure Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Specialist over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Specialist in the UK

Infrastructure Specialist
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Specialist in the UK

Infrastructure Specialist
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Specialist within the UK 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
England +76 33 £500 -1.23% 12
UK excluding London +54 24 £340 -24.44% 11
Work from Home +105 19 £500 -9.09% 4
London +86 18 £500 -2.44% 5
Scotland +48 9 £340 +0.74% 5
Midlands +28 6 £416 +11.00%
East Midlands +15 6 £416 -12.37%
East of England - 5 £625 - 1
South East +10 4 £275 -54.17% 3

Infrastructure Specialist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 2 June 2024, Infrastructure Specialist 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 Specialist in the job title.

1 26 (55.32%) Windows
2 23 (48.94%) Microsoft
3 22 (46.81%) Windows Server
4 20 (42.55%) Active Directory
5 18 (38.30%) VMware
6 16 (34.04%) Security Cleared
7 15 (31.91%) SCCM
7 15 (31.91%) AWS
7 15 (31.91%) Linux
7 15 (31.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 14 (29.79%) ITIL
8 14 (29.79%) VMware Infrastructure
9 13 (27.66%) SC Cleared
10 12 (25.53%) Citrix
11 11 (23.40%) Microsoft 365
11 11 (23.40%) Social Skills
12 10 (21.28%) Azure
12 10 (21.28%) Ansible
13 9 (19.15%) Finance
13 9 (19.15%) Customer Service
14 7 (14.89%) Windows 10
14 7 (14.89%) Problem-Solving
14 7 (14.89%) ServiceNow
15 6 (12.77%) Security Patching
15 6 (12.77%) Data Centre
15 6 (12.77%) Qualys
15 6 (12.77%) Network Management
15 6 (12.77%) Disaster Recovery
15 6 (12.77%) WSUS
15 6 (12.77%) Unix

Infrastructure Specialist 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 2 (4.26%) Apache
2 1 (2.13%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 15 (31.91%) AWS
2 11 (23.40%) Microsoft 365
3 10 (21.28%) Azure
4 4 (8.51%) Entra ID
5 2 (4.26%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (2.13%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (2.13%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.38%) SAN
2 2 (4.26%) Fibre Channel
2 2 (4.26%) LAN
2 2 (4.26%) NetScaler
2 2 (4.26%) WAN
3 1 (2.13%) Firewall
3 1 (2.13%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (2.13%) NAS
3 1 (2.13%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.51%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.26%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 2 (4.26%) GitLab
General
1 11 (23.40%) Social Skills
2 9 (19.15%) Finance
3 5 (10.64%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (10.64%) Organisational Skills
4 4 (8.51%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (8.51%) Telecoms
5 2 (4.26%) Banking
5 2 (4.26%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.26%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (2.13%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.77%) Data Centre
2 5 (10.64%) Management Information System
3 4 (8.51%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (6.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (4.26%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (2.13%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.13%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 26 (55.32%) Windows
2 22 (46.81%) Windows Server
3 15 (31.91%) Linux
4 7 (14.89%) Windows 10
5 6 (12.77%) Unix
6 3 (6.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (2.13%) CentOS
7 1 (2.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (31.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 14 (29.79%) ITIL
3 9 (19.15%) Customer Service
4 7 (14.89%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (12.77%) Disaster Recovery
5 6 (12.77%) Network Management
5 6 (12.77%) Security Patching
5 6 (12.77%) Virtual Infrastructure
6 5 (10.64%) Agile
6 5 (10.64%) Migration
6 5 (10.64%) Time Management
6 5 (10.64%) Vulnerability Management
7 4 (8.51%) Computer Science
7 4 (8.51%) Configuration Management
8 3 (6.38%) Infrastructure Automation
8 3 (6.38%) Project Delivery
8 3 (6.38%) Roadmaps
8 3 (6.38%) Technology Roadmap
9 2 (4.26%) Infrastructure as Code
9 2 (4.26%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 4 (8.51%) PowerShell
2 1 (2.13%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 16 (34.04%) Security Cleared
2 13 (27.66%) SC Cleared
3 5 (10.64%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (8.51%) Azure Certification
4 4 (8.51%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (8.51%) Degree
5 3 (6.38%) DV Cleared
5 3 (6.38%) MCP
5 3 (6.38%) MCSE
6 2 (4.26%) Citrix Certification
7 1 (2.13%) CEH
7 1 (2.13%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (12.77%) SLA
System Software
1 20 (42.55%) Active Directory
2 14 (29.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (8.51%) vSphere
4 2 (4.26%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 2 (4.26%) Hyper-V
4 2 (4.26%) XenApp
4 2 (4.26%) XenDesktop
5 1 (2.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (31.91%) SCCM
2 10 (21.28%) Ansible
3 6 (12.77%) WSUS
4 4 (8.51%) Puppet
4 4 (8.51%) Terraform
5 3 (6.38%) Progress Chef
5 3 (6.38%) SCOM
6 2 (4.26%) SCSM
7 1 (2.13%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 23 (48.94%) Microsoft
2 18 (38.30%) VMware
3 12 (25.53%) Citrix
4 7 (14.89%) ServiceNow
5 6 (12.77%) Qualys
6 4 (8.51%) Red Hat
7 2 (4.26%) Brocade
8 1 (2.13%) Oracle
8 1 (2.13%) Sybase