Infrastructure Consultant Contracts

Infrastructure Consultant
UK

The median Infrastructure Consultant daily rate in the UK is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 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
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 574 642 797
Rank change year-on-year +68 +155 -115
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Consultant 28 53 59
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.065% 0.095% 0.067%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.070% 0.10% 0.071%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 46 42
10th Percentile £350 £383 £413
25th Percentile £413 £430 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +22.22%
75th Percentile £638 £622 £613
90th Percentile £645 £700 £622
UK excluding London median daily rate £538 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +2.38% +5.00% -4.76%

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 40,232 52,519 83,570
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.87% 94.52% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,887 36,654 58,907
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +6.60%
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% +8.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,899 1,488 1,954
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.60
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.39 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.88 £65.75 £49.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.33 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +7.17%

Infrastructure Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Consultant in the UK

Infrastructure Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Consultant in the UK

Infrastructure Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Consultant over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Consultant in the UK

Infrastructure Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Consultant in the UK

Infrastructure Consultant
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Consultant within the UK over the 6 months to 9 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 +87 26 £525 -8.70% 8
UK excluding London +47 21 £538 +2.38% 7
Work from Home +99 13 £525 -
East of England +9 8 £463 -33.93%
London +73 7 £500 -14.53% 2
North of England +28 5 £625 +19.05% 3
North West +17 5 £625 +19.05%
Midlands +21 3 £550 -10.20%
East Midlands +14 3 £550 -8.33%
Scotland +40 2 £650 +43.65%
South East +12 2 £350 -33.33% 1
South West +12 1 £360 -28.00% 2

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

For the 6 months to 9 June 2024, Infrastructure Consultant 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 Consultant in the job title.

1 12 (42.86%) Azure
2 9 (32.14%) PowerShell
3 6 (21.43%) VMware
4 5 (17.86%) Azure Data Factory
4 5 (17.86%) Active Directory
4 5 (17.86%) Telecoms
5 4 (14.29%) Windows
5 4 (14.29%) Microsoft
5 4 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
5 4 (14.29%) SC Cleared
5 4 (14.29%) Security Cleared
5 4 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 3 (10.71%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (10.71%) 5G
6 3 (10.71%) Social Skills
6 3 (10.71%) Windows Server
6 3 (10.71%) Data Centre
6 3 (10.71%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (10.71%) Software Engineering
6 3 (10.71%) 4G
6 3 (10.71%) Citrix
6 3 (10.71%) Firewall
6 3 (10.71%) Wireless
7 2 (7.14%) Migration
7 2 (7.14%) Citrix Certification
7 2 (7.14%) WAN
7 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (7.14%) OpenStack
7 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Intune

Infrastructure Consultant 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 (7.14%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 12 (42.86%) Azure
2 5 (17.86%) Azure Data Factory
3 4 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (3.57%) AWS
5 1 (3.57%) Entra ID
5 1 (3.57%) IaaS
5 1 (3.57%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.71%) 4G
1 3 (10.71%) 5G
1 3 (10.71%) Firewall
1 3 (10.71%) Wireless
2 2 (7.14%) NetScaler
2 2 (7.14%) SD-WAN
2 2 (7.14%) WAN
3 1 (3.57%) DNS
3 1 (3.57%) MPLS
3 1 (3.57%) PBX
3 1 (3.57%) SAN
3 1 (3.57%) VPLS
3 1 (3.57%) VPN
General
1 5 (17.86%) Telecoms
2 3 (10.71%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.57%) Finance
3 1 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.71%) Data Centre
2 2 (7.14%) Onboarding
2 2 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.57%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (3.57%) Hedge funds
3 1 (3.57%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (14.29%) Windows
2 3 (10.71%) Windows Server
3 1 (3.57%) Windows 10
3 1 (3.57%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (10.71%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (10.71%) Software Engineering
3 2 (7.14%) Customer Experience
3 2 (7.14%) Migration
3 2 (7.14%) Network Virtualisation
3 2 (7.14%) Performance Optimisation
3 2 (7.14%) Project Delivery
4 1 (3.57%) Cloud Security
4 1 (3.57%) Compliance Audit
4 1 (3.57%) Data Strategy
4 1 (3.57%) DevSecOps
4 1 (3.57%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (3.57%) Information Security
4 1 (3.57%) Penetration Testing
4 1 (3.57%) Programme Management
4 1 (3.57%) Project Management
4 1 (3.57%) Risk Management
4 1 (3.57%) Server Management
4 1 (3.57%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 9 (32.14%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 4 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.14%) Citrix Certification
2 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (3.57%) CCIE
3 1 (3.57%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 5 (17.86%) Active Directory
2 3 (10.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (7.14%) Hyper-V
3 2 (7.14%) KVM
3 2 (7.14%) QEMU
3 2 (7.14%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (7.14%) XenApp
3 2 (7.14%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 6 (21.43%) VMware
2 4 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 3 (10.71%) Citrix
4 2 (7.14%) ServiceNow