3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer Contracts

Third Line Infrastructure Engineer
UK

The median Third Line Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in the UK is £375 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 585 648 780
Rank change year-on-year +63 +132 -97
Contract jobs requiring a 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer 17 47 76
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.039% 0.085% 0.087%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.042% 0.089% 0.091%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 34 47
10th Percentile £222 £325 £264
25th Percentile £263 £372 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £450 £398
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +13.21% +14.39%
75th Percentile £409 £525 £444
90th Percentile £488 £588 £465
UK excluding London median daily rate £370 £475 £391
% change year-on-year -22.11% +21.41% +11.79%

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%

3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer 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 +64 15 £375 -16.67% 3
UK excluding London +25 15 £370 -22.11% 2
South East +16 7 £375 -34.78%
North of England +21 3 £275 -26.67%
East of England +3 3 £213 -
London +74 2 £500 +11.11% 1
North East +13 2 £275 -31.25%
Work from Home +102 1 £365 -8.75%
North West +11 1 £425 -0.58%
Wales - 1 £365 -
Scotland - 1 £340 -

3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 9 June 2024, 3rd Line 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 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 17 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 10 (58.82%) VMware
2 10 (58.82%) Windows
3 7 (41.18%) Windows Server
4 6 (35.29%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (35.29%) Active Directory
5 5 (29.41%) SAN
5 5 (29.41%) Microsoft
5 5 (29.41%) Linux
5 5 (29.41%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (23.53%) NAS
6 4 (23.53%) Azure
6 4 (23.53%) Firewall
6 4 (23.53%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (23.53%) Patch Management
7 3 (17.65%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (17.65%) VPN
7 3 (17.65%) DNS
7 3 (17.65%) DHCP
7 3 (17.65%) Citrix
7 3 (17.65%) Red Hat
8 2 (11.76%) Firmware
8 2 (11.76%) Thin Client
8 2 (11.76%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (11.76%) TCP/IP
8 2 (11.76%) CCNA
8 2 (11.76%) SSL
8 2 (11.76%) VoIP
8 2 (11.76%) MCSE

3rd Line 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 4 (23.53%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (35.29%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (23.53%) Azure
3 1 (5.88%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (5.88%) IaaS
3 1 (5.88%) PaaS
3 1 (5.88%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (29.41%) SAN
2 4 (23.53%) Firewall
2 4 (23.53%) NAS
3 3 (17.65%) DHCP
3 3 (17.65%) DNS
3 3 (17.65%) VPN
4 2 (11.76%) Fibre Channel
4 2 (11.76%) iSCSI
4 2 (11.76%) SSL
4 2 (11.76%) TCP/IP
4 2 (11.76%) VLAN
4 2 (11.76%) VoIP
5 1 (5.88%) LAN
5 1 (5.88%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (11.76%) MySQL
1 2 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (11.76%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (11.76%) Public Sector
1 2 (11.76%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.88%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Fat Client
1 2 (11.76%) PKI
1 2 (11.76%) Thin Client
2 1 (5.88%) Clustering
2 1 (5.88%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 10 (58.82%) Windows
2 7 (41.18%) Windows Server
3 5 (29.41%) Linux
4 3 (17.65%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (11.76%) Ubuntu
5 2 (11.76%) Unix
5 2 (11.76%) Windows 10
6 1 (5.88%) Mac OS
6 1 (5.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (5.88%) Solaris
6 1 (5.88%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (5.88%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (23.53%) Patch Management
3 2 (11.76%) Change Management
3 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Management
3 2 (11.76%) Mentoring
3 2 (11.76%) Security Management
3 2 (11.76%) Virtual Infrastructure
4 1 (5.88%) Business Continuity
4 1 (5.88%) Compliance Management
4 1 (5.88%) Containerisation
4 1 (5.88%) Customer Service
4 1 (5.88%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (5.88%) Incident Management
4 1 (5.88%) ITIL
4 1 (5.88%) Logistics
4 1 (5.88%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (5.88%) Project Delivery
4 1 (5.88%) Server Management
4 1 (5.88%) Service Delivery
4 1 (5.88%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.76%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) CCNA
1 2 (11.76%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (11.76%) Degree
1 2 (11.76%) MCSE
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (11.76%) SC Cleared
1 2 (11.76%) Security Cleared
1 2 (11.76%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 1 (5.88%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (35.29%) Active Directory
2 5 (29.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (11.76%) Firmware
3 2 (11.76%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (11.76%) vSphere
4 1 (5.88%) Hyper-V
4 1 (5.88%) KVM
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 2 (11.76%) Ansible
1 2 (11.76%) Nessus
1 2 (11.76%) Red Hat Satellite
1 2 (11.76%) vCenter Server
1 2 (11.76%) WSUS
1 2 (11.76%) ZABBIX
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 10 (58.82%) VMware
2 5 (29.41%) Microsoft
3 3 (17.65%) Citrix
3 3 (17.65%) Red Hat
4 2 (11.76%) Oracle
4 2 (11.76%) Veeam
5 1 (5.88%) Aruba
5 1 (5.88%) HP
5 1 (5.88%) Sophos