Infrastructure Management Contracts

Infrastructure Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Infrastructure Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Infrastructure Management over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 448 588 713
Rank change year-on-year +140 +125 -82
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Management 123 99 132
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.29% 0.17% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 0.19% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 62 84
10th Percentile £149 £415 £363
25th Percentile £350 £500 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -17.05% +3.77% +17.78%
75th Percentile £584 £678 £681
90th Percentile £675 £748 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% +26.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £34.25 £20.75
Median hourly rate £23.80 £35.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -32.96% +65.12% -41.10%
75th Percentile - £36.75 £22.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £21.50
% change year-on-year - - -50.57%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Infrastructure Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,673 51,121 79,325
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.13% 89.77% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,631 35,432 55,673
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £438 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,440 1,683 1,892
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.99 £16.01 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.54
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -4.99%

Infrastructure Management
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Management in the UK

Infrastructure Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Management in the UK

Infrastructure Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Management over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Management in the UK

Infrastructure Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Management in the UK

Infrastructure Management
Top 13 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Management within the UK over the 6 months to 18 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 +134 113 £450 -18.18% 92
UK excluding London +89 72 £450 -10.00% 64
Work from Home +105 41 £538 -2.27% 36
London +95 41 £475 -17.39% 37
South East +53 31 £433 -13.50% 23
West Midlands +33 16 £550 +25.71% 6
Midlands +29 16 £550 +10.00% 8
North of England +37 14 £463 -13.95% 22
North West +27 11 £500 -4.76% 9
South West +12 8 £183 -75.67% 6
Yorkshire +13 3 £450 -35.71% 10
East of England -1 2 - - 5
Northern Ireland - 1 £140 -

Infrastructure Management
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 8 (6.50%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (4.88%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (4.07%) Apache
4 4 (3.25%) Confluence
4 4 (3.25%) SharePoint
5 3 (2.44%) CMS
6 2 (1.63%) IIS
7 1 (0.81%) SharePoint 2010
7 1 (0.81%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 2 (1.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.81%) AutoCAD
2 1 (0.81%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 46 (37.40%) AWS
2 31 (25.20%) Azure
3 16 (13.01%) Amazon S3
3 16 (13.01%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 15 (12.20%) Amazon EC2
5 10 (8.13%) Entra ID
5 10 (8.13%) Serverless
6 9 (7.32%) AWS Lambda
7 8 (6.50%) Cloud Computing
7 8 (6.50%) GCP
8 7 (5.69%) Microsoft 365
8 7 (5.69%) Power Platform
9 6 (4.88%) GitHub
10 5 (4.07%) CloudFront
11 4 (3.25%) IaaS
11 4 (3.25%) PaaS
11 4 (3.25%) SaaS
12 3 (2.44%) GitHub Actions
12 3 (2.44%) Google Workspace
12 3 (2.44%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 16 (13.01%) DNS
1 16 (13.01%) VPN
2 13 (10.57%) Network Security
3 12 (9.76%) Firewall
4 9 (7.32%) LAN
4 9 (7.32%) TCP/IP
4 9 (7.32%) Wi-Fi
5 7 (5.69%) SAN
6 6 (4.88%) NAS
6 6 (4.88%) Wireless
7 5 (4.07%) Radio Access Network
8 4 (3.25%) DHCP
8 4 (3.25%) Fibre Channel
8 4 (3.25%) iSCSI
8 4 (3.25%) SSL
8 4 (3.25%) VLAN
8 4 (3.25%) VoIP
8 4 (3.25%) WAN
9 3 (2.44%) HTTP
9 3 (2.44%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.32%) Amazon Redshift
2 7 (5.69%) Power BI
3 5 (4.07%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (3.25%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (3.25%) MySQL
4 4 (3.25%) Tableau
5 3 (2.44%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.63%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.63%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.81%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.81%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.81%) CockroachDB
7 1 (0.81%) CouchDB
7 1 (0.81%) Metadata
7 1 (0.81%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.81%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.81%) PowerPivot
7 1 (0.81%) Redis
7 1 (0.81%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 17 (13.82%) Git
2 11 (8.94%) GitLab
2 11 (8.94%) Jenkins
3 6 (4.88%) Bitbucket
4 4 (3.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 3 (2.44%) Cypress.io
5 3 (2.44%) JIRA
6 1 (0.81%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.81%) Jaeger
6 1 (0.81%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.81%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.81%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.81%) Spinnaker
6 1 (0.81%) TeamCity
General
1 45 (36.59%) Social Skills
2 22 (17.89%) Telecoms
3 18 (14.63%) Finance
4 15 (12.20%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (11.38%) Public Sector
6 13 (10.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (4.07%) Retail
8 4 (3.25%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (3.25%) Legal
9 3 (2.44%) Marketing
10 2 (1.63%) Electronics
10 2 (1.63%) Law
10 2 (1.63%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.81%) Advertising
11 1 (0.81%) French Language
11 1 (0.81%) Front Office
11 1 (0.81%) German Language
11 1 (0.81%) Military
11 1 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (14.63%) Senior
2 14 (11.38%) Analyst
3 13 (10.57%) DevOps Engineer
3 13 (10.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 8 (6.50%) Cloud Engineer
4 8 (6.50%) Lead
5 7 (5.69%) Architect
5 7 (5.69%) AWS DevOps
5 7 (5.69%) Security Engineer
5 7 (5.69%) Senior Analyst
5 7 (5.69%) Support Engineer
6 6 (4.88%) AWS Engineer
6 6 (4.88%) Desktop Engineer
6 6 (4.88%) IT Engineer
6 6 (4.88%) Network Engineer
6 6 (4.88%) Platform Engineer
7 5 (4.07%) Applications Engineer
7 5 (4.07%) AWS Developer
7 5 (4.07%) Desktop Support Engineer
7 5 (4.07%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.69%) SAML
2 5 (4.07%) OAuth
2 5 (4.07%) OAuth2
3 4 (3.25%) Loki
4 3 (2.44%) Next.js
4 3 (2.44%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (1.63%) NETCONF
5 2 (1.63%) PySpark
5 2 (1.63%) Software Packaging
6 1 (0.81%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.81%) CSS
6 1 (0.81%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.81%) HTML
6 1 (0.81%) Laravel
6 1 (0.81%) Node.js
6 1 (0.81%) OpenTelemetry
6 1 (0.81%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (9.76%) Data Centre
2 11 (8.94%) Enterprise Software
3 8 (6.50%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (4.88%) Cloud Native
5 5 (4.07%) Virtual Team
6 4 (3.25%) CCTV
6 4 (3.25%) Fat Client
6 4 (3.25%) Product Ownership
6 4 (3.25%) Thin Client
7 3 (2.44%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (2.44%) Replication
8 2 (1.63%) IoT
8 2 (1.63%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.63%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.63%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.63%) PKI
8 2 (1.63%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.81%) Blockchain
9 1 (0.81%) Distributed Applications
9 1 (0.81%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 33 (26.83%) Windows
2 22 (17.89%) Linux
3 12 (9.76%) Unix
4 6 (4.88%) Windows Server
5 3 (2.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (2.44%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (1.63%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (26.02%) Problem-Solving
2 31 (25.20%) CI/CD
3 24 (19.51%) DevOps
4 23 (18.70%) Agile
4 23 (18.70%) Infrastructure as Code
5 19 (15.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 18 (14.63%) Customer-Centricity
7 17 (13.82%) Containerisation
8 16 (13.01%) Migration
9 14 (11.38%) Collaborative Working
9 14 (11.38%) Task Automation
10 11 (8.94%) Computer Science
10 11 (8.94%) Continuous Improvement
10 11 (8.94%) Project Management
11 10 (8.13%) Configuration Management
11 10 (8.13%) Data Migration
12 9 (7.32%) Business Intelligence
12 9 (7.32%) Incident Response
12 9 (7.32%) Server Management
12 9 (7.32%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 33 (26.83%) Python
2 18 (14.63%) PowerShell
3 16 (13.01%) Bash
4 10 (8.13%) SQL
5 7 (5.69%) Go
6 5 (4.07%) JavaScript
7 3 (2.44%) PHP
8 2 (1.63%) Java
8 2 (1.63%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.81%) Bicep
9 1 (0.81%) VBA
Qualifications
1 17 (13.82%) Degree
2 14 (11.38%) Security Cleared
3 12 (9.76%) Cisco Certification
3 12 (9.76%) SC Cleared
4 8 (6.50%) CCNA
4 8 (6.50%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (5.69%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (4.88%) MCSE
7 5 (4.07%) AWS Certification
7 5 (4.07%) CCNP
7 5 (4.07%) DV Cleared
8 4 (3.25%) CCIE
8 4 (3.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 2 (1.63%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.81%) APMP
10 1 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.81%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.81%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.81%) RHCE
10 1 (0.81%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.69%) QA
2 6 (4.88%) Data Quality
2 6 (4.88%) SLA
3 3 (2.44%) NIST
3 3 (2.44%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.63%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 23 (18.70%) Docker
2 21 (17.07%) Active Directory
3 12 (9.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (4.88%) Hyper-V
5 4 (3.25%) Firmware
5 4 (3.25%) vSphere
6 2 (1.63%) BitLocker
6 2 (1.63%) Microsoft App-V
6 2 (1.63%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.81%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.81%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 25 (20.33%) Terraform
2 24 (19.51%) Ansible
3 22 (17.89%) Kubernetes
4 6 (4.88%) Grafana
4 6 (4.88%) Prometheus
5 5 (4.07%) SCCM
6 4 (3.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 4 (3.25%) Graylog
6 4 (3.25%) Icinga
6 4 (3.25%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (3.25%) Nagios
6 4 (3.25%) Puppet
6 4 (3.25%) ZABBIX
7 3 (2.44%) SCOM
8 2 (1.63%) NetBackup
8 2 (1.63%) Nmap
8 2 (1.63%) OpenNMS
8 2 (1.63%) SCVMM
8 2 (1.63%) VxRail
9 1 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 21 (17.07%) Microsoft
2 17 (13.82%) VMware
3 9 (7.32%) Cisco
4 7 (5.69%) Splunk
5 5 (4.07%) Google
6 4 (3.25%) Dell
6 4 (3.25%) Red Hat
6 4 (3.25%) Salesforce
7 3 (2.44%) Atlassian
7 3 (2.44%) BT
7 3 (2.44%) HP
7 3 (2.44%) Informatica
7 3 (2.44%) Juniper
7 3 (2.44%) SAP
7 3 (2.44%) SolarWinds
8 2 (1.63%) Commvault
8 2 (1.63%) F5
8 2 (1.63%) Mitel
8 2 (1.63%) Proofpoint
8 2 (1.63%) Wyse