IT Infrastructure Engineer Contracts

IT Infrastructure Engineer
UK

The median IT Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in the UK is £408, 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 563 671 788
Rank change year-on-year +108 +117 -82
Contract jobs requiring an IT Infrastructure Engineer 21 26 60
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.048% 0.047% 0.069%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.052% 0.050% 0.072%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 16 46
10th Percentile £247 £388 £300
25th Percentile £306 £440 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £408 £475 £411
Median % change year-on-year -14.21% +15.50% +26.54%
75th Percentile £638 £550 £450
90th Percentile - £666 £531
UK excluding London median daily rate £408 £463 £385
% change year-on-year -11.89% +20.13% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £68.75 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £68.75 -

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%

IT Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

IT Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for IT Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

IT Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for IT Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

IT Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for IT Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

IT Infrastructure Engineer
Top 14 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IT Infrastructure 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 +82 20 £450 -5.26% 30
UK excluding London +28 19 £408 -11.89% 31
Work from Home +115 8 £358 -20.56% 8
Midlands +14 7 £275 -38.89% 5
East of England +6 5 £625 +78.57% 2
East Midlands +5 4 £338 -28.95% 3
West Midlands +17 3 £275 -38.89% 2
North of England +17 3 £340 -32.00% 12
London +81 2 £489 -26.54% 5
North West +14 2 - - 7
South East +13 2 £365 +26.99% 5
South West +1 1 - - 3
Wales - 1 £365 - 4
Yorkshire - 1 £340 - 4

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

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

1 21 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 14 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 14 (66.67%) Active Directory
3 13 (61.90%) Windows
4 11 (52.38%) VMware
5 9 (42.86%) VMware Infrastructure
6 8 (38.10%) Windows Server
7 7 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (33.33%) Hyper-V
7 7 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (33.33%) Azure
7 7 (33.33%) DHCP
7 7 (33.33%) DNS
8 6 (28.57%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (28.57%) Migration
8 6 (28.57%) PowerShell
8 6 (28.57%) Public Sector
9 5 (23.81%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (23.81%) Windows Server 2019
9 5 (23.81%) Social Skills
9 5 (23.81%) Windows Server 2012
9 5 (23.81%) Linux
9 5 (23.81%) Security Cleared
10 4 (19.05%) Microsoft Office
10 4 (19.05%) Telecoms
10 4 (19.05%) Firewall
10 4 (19.05%) SAN
10 4 (19.05%) Infrastructure Management
10 4 (19.05%) Analytical Skills
10 4 (19.05%) SolarWinds

IT Infrastructure 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 6 (28.57%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (4.76%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (19.05%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 7 (33.33%) Azure
1 7 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (9.52%) AWS
2 2 (9.52%) Entra ID
3 1 (4.76%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (4.76%) GCP
3 1 (4.76%) IaaS
3 1 (4.76%) Mimecast
3 1 (4.76%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (33.33%) DHCP
1 7 (33.33%) DNS
2 4 (19.05%) Firewall
2 4 (19.05%) SAN
3 1 (4.76%) LAN
3 1 (4.76%) Network Security
3 1 (4.76%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (4.76%) TCP/IP
3 1 (4.76%) VLAN
3 1 (4.76%) VPN
3 1 (4.76%) WAN
3 1 (4.76%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (4.76%) Wireless
General
1 6 (28.57%) Public Sector
2 5 (23.81%) Social Skills
3 4 (19.05%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (19.05%) Telecoms
4 3 (14.29%) Local Government
5 2 (9.52%) Finance
6 1 (4.76%) Banking
6 1 (4.76%) Financial Institution
6 1 (4.76%) Front Office
6 1 (4.76%) Manufacturing
6 1 (4.76%) Military
6 1 (4.76%) Presentation Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.52%) Fat Client
1 2 (9.52%) NHS
1 2 (9.52%) Self-Motivation
1 2 (9.52%) Team-Oriented Environment
1 2 (9.52%) Thin Client
2 1 (4.76%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.76%) HP Storage
2 1 (4.76%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 13 (61.90%) Windows
2 8 (38.10%) Windows Server
3 5 (23.81%) Linux
3 5 (23.81%) Windows Server 2012
3 5 (23.81%) Windows Server 2016
3 5 (23.81%) Windows Server 2019
4 2 (9.52%) Windows 10
5 1 (4.76%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 7 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (28.57%) Migration
4 4 (19.05%) Infrastructure Management
5 3 (14.29%) Infrastructure Monitoring
5 3 (14.29%) ITIL
5 3 (14.29%) Project Delivery
5 3 (14.29%) Roadmaps
5 3 (14.29%) Technology Roadmap
6 2 (9.52%) Configuration Management
6 2 (9.52%) Data Migration
6 2 (9.52%) Information Security
6 2 (9.52%) Server Management
7 1 (4.76%) Capacity Planning
7 1 (4.76%) Change Control
7 1 (4.76%) Critical Thinking
7 1 (4.76%) Customer Service
7 1 (4.76%) Infrastructure as Code
7 1 (4.76%) Network Monitoring
7 1 (4.76%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 6 (28.57%) PowerShell
2 1 (4.76%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (23.81%) Security Cleared
2 3 (14.29%) DV Cleared
3 2 (9.52%) SC Cleared
4 1 (4.76%) A+ Certification
4 1 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (4.76%) CCNA
4 1 (4.76%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (4.76%) Degree
4 1 (4.76%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (4.76%) Network+ Certification
4 1 (4.76%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) COBIT
1 1 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (4.76%) PCI DSS
1 1 (4.76%) QA
System Software
1 14 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 9 (42.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (33.33%) Hyper-V
4 3 (14.29%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (14.29%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (4.76%) KVM
5 1 (4.76%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (4.76%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (4.76%) VMware Workstation
5 1 (4.76%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (14.29%) SCCM
1 3 (14.29%) SCOM
2 2 (9.52%) Nessus
3 1 (4.76%) Kubernetes
3 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (4.76%) Terraform
3 1 (4.76%) vCenter Server
3 1 (4.76%) WSUS
Vendors
1 14 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 11 (52.38%) VMware
3 4 (19.05%) CrowdStrike
3 4 (19.05%) SolarWinds
4 3 (14.29%) Citrix
5 2 (9.52%) Cisco
5 2 (9.52%) Dell
5 2 (9.52%) HP
6 1 (4.76%) Avaya
6 1 (4.76%) CyberArk
6 1 (4.76%) Fortinet
6 1 (4.76%) Netskope
6 1 (4.76%) Qualys
6 1 (4.76%) Sun