InfiniBand Contracts

InfiniBand
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for InfiniBand skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited InfiniBand over the 6 months to 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 558 698 854
Rank change year-on-year +140 +156 -165
Contract jobs citing InfiniBand 15 2 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.035% 0.004% 0.003%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.28% 0.028% 0.031%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 1 1
10th Percentile £578 - -
25th Percentile £600 £573 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £601 £645 £495
Median % change year-on-year -6.90% +30.30% +10.00%
75th Percentile £632 £718 -
90th Percentile £748 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 - £495
% change year-on-year - - +182.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £47.00 - -
25th Percentile £48.13 £48.50 -
Median hourly rate £50.00 £49.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% - -
75th Percentile £52.50 £49.50 -
90th Percentile £54.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £48.75 £49.00 -
% change year-on-year -0.51% - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

InfiniBand is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,394 7,082 9,559
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.68% 12.40% 10.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,215 4,571 6,235
10th Percentile £205 £235 £232
25th Percentile £350 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.68% +3.90% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £613
90th Percentile £694 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £450
% change year-on-year - +5.56% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 417 464 368
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £15.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £28.33
Median % change year-on-year +116.22% -34.70% +6.91%
75th Percentile £63.75 £59.85 £50.77
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.54
UK excluding London median hourly rate £46.14 £18.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year +156.31% -16.28% -8.99%

InfiniBand
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing InfiniBand as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for InfiniBand in the UK

InfiniBand
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for InfiniBand in the UK

InfiniBand
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing InfiniBand over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for InfiniBand in the UK

InfiniBand
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for InfiniBand in the UK

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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 InfiniBand within the UK over the 6 months to 15 May 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 +108 14 £601 -6.90% 1
London +111 10 £601 -6.90%
Work from Home - 7 £601 - 2
UK excluding London +53 4 £575 - 2
South East +21 2 - - 1
East Midlands - 1 £500 -
Midlands - 1 £500 -
North West - 1 £650 -
North of England - 1 £650 -

InfiniBand
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 1 (6.67%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 6 (40.00%) Cloud Computing
2 3 (20.00%) AWS
3 2 (13.33%) Azure
3 2 (13.33%) GCP
3 2 (13.33%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 5 (33.33%) Network Security
2 2 (13.33%) DHCP
2 2 (13.33%) NAS
2 2 (13.33%) SAN
2 2 (13.33%) TCP/IP
2 2 (13.33%) VLAN
3 1 (6.67%) BGP
3 1 (6.67%) DNS
3 1 (6.67%) Firewall
3 1 (6.67%) iSCSI
3 1 (6.67%) Kerberos
3 1 (6.67%) LAN
3 1 (6.67%) OSPF
3 1 (6.67%) Spanning Tree
3 1 (6.67%) SSH
3 1 (6.67%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) MySQL
1 1 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
General
1 8 (53.33%) Manufacturing
2 3 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Electronics
3 1 (6.67%) Finance
3 1 (6.67%) Marketing
3 1 (6.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) Network Engineer
1 7 (46.67%) Senior
1 7 (46.67%) Senior Network Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Architect
2 2 (13.33%) Storage Architect
3 1 (6.67%) Administrator
3 1 (6.67%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (6.67%) Consultant
3 1 (6.67%) Lead
3 1 (6.67%) Network Administrator
3 1 (6.67%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) LAMP
1 1 (6.67%) LAPP Stack
1 1 (6.67%) LDAP
1 1 (6.67%) libvirt
1 1 (6.67%) OpenMP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Grid Computing
2 1 (6.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (6.67%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 6 (40.00%) Linux
2 2 (13.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) Network Design
2 5 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (26.67%) Containerisation
3 4 (26.67%) Knowledge Transfer
3 4 (26.67%) Low Latency
3 4 (26.67%) Network Optimisation
4 2 (13.33%) Capacity Planning
4 2 (13.33%) Cloud Security
4 2 (13.33%) Decision-Making
4 2 (13.33%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (13.33%) High Availability
4 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Automation
4 2 (13.33%) Performance Metrics
4 2 (13.33%) Virtual Environments
5 1 (6.67%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (6.67%) Computer Science
5 1 (6.67%) Configuration Management
5 1 (6.67%) Digital Marketing
5 1 (6.67%) Programme Management
5 1 (6.67%) Stress Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (13.33%) Perl
1 2 (13.33%) Python
2 1 (6.67%) Bash
2 1 (6.67%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) Degree
1 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) CCNA
2 1 (6.67%) CCNP
2 1 (6.67%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 4 (26.67%) Slurm Workload Manager
2 3 (20.00%) Hyper-V
2 3 (20.00%) KVM
2 3 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (13.33%) Docker
3 2 (13.33%) Lustre
3 2 (13.33%) NFS
3 2 (13.33%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (6.67%) Active Directory
4 1 (6.67%) Ceph
4 1 (6.67%) Firmware
4 1 (6.67%) iptables
4 1 (6.67%) Samba
Systems Management
1 4 (26.67%) Ansible
1 4 (26.67%) Kubernetes
2 3 (20.00%) Terraform
3 1 (6.67%) CFEngine
3 1 (6.67%) Dell DRAC
3 1 (6.67%) HAProxy
3 1 (6.67%) Puppet
3 1 (6.67%) SELinux
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) Red Hat
1 3 (20.00%) VMware
2 2 (13.33%) Google
2 2 (13.33%) NVIDIA
3 1 (6.67%) BMC
3 1 (6.67%) Dell
3 1 (6.67%) Isilon
3 1 (6.67%) SAP