Infrastructure Engineer Contracts in the West Midlands

Infrastructure Engineer
England > West Midlands

The median Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in the West Midlands is £425 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 74 98 117
Rank change year-on-year +24 +19 -10
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 35 41 60
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.82% 1.72% 1.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.99% 1.81% 1.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 33 43
10th Percentile £334 £338 £279
25th Percentile £369 £388 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +5.88% +40.50%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £450
90th Percentile - £700 £526
England median daily rate £463 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -7.50% +11.11% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £19.95 - -
England median hourly rate £22.50 £65.00 £62.99
% change year-on-year -65.38% +3.20% +62.55%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands. 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 West Midlands with a recognized job title 1,758 2,260 3,434
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.32% 94.96% 96.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,183 1,555 2,513
10th Percentile £259 £250 £213
25th Percentile £363 £388 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +17.28%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £700 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 134 66 83
10th Percentile £12.01 £12.50 £12.38
25th Percentile £15.00 £15.02 £14.16
Median hourly rate £22.25 £19.50 £17.28
Median % change year-on-year +14.10% +12.85% +9.71%
75th Percentile £42.31 £26.82 £20.00
90th Percentile £55.88 £55.63 £23.45
England median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.22%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the West Midlands

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the West Midlands

Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in the West Midlands

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the West Midlands

Infrastructure Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Worcestershire +11 9 £550 +22.22%
Birmingham -3 9 £406 -4.41% 3
Coventry +18 7 £400 -28.89% 3
Staffordshire +11 6 £369 -29.75% 9
Herefordshire -6 2 - - 1
Infrastructure Engineer
England

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, 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 across the West Midlands region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 34 (97.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 20 (57.14%) Windows
3 17 (48.57%) DNS
3 17 (48.57%) VMware
4 16 (45.71%) SCCM
4 16 (45.71%) Active Directory
5 15 (42.86%) Windows Server
6 14 (40.00%) DHCP
7 13 (37.14%) Microsoft
8 12 (34.29%) Security Cleared
8 12 (34.29%) Linux
9 10 (28.57%) Microsoft Exchange
9 10 (28.57%) Virtual Environments
9 10 (28.57%) VMware ESXi
9 10 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
10 9 (25.71%) Azure
10 9 (25.71%) vCenter Server
10 9 (25.71%) TCP/IP
10 9 (25.71%) VMware Infrastructure
11 8 (22.86%) DV Cleared
11 8 (22.86%) C#
11 8 (22.86%) Java
11 8 (22.86%) Infrastructure as Code
11 8 (22.86%) Public Sector
12 7 (20.00%) Veeam
12 7 (20.00%) SIEM
13 6 (17.14%) Visualisation
13 6 (17.14%) VMware NSX
13 6 (17.14%) Unix
14 5 (14.29%) Information Management

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 10 (28.57%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (11.43%) SharePoint
3 2 (5.71%) IIS
3 2 (5.71%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 10 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
2 9 (25.71%) Azure
3 2 (5.71%) Entra ID
3 2 (5.71%) OneDrive
3 2 (5.71%) SaaS
4 1 (2.86%) AWS
4 1 (2.86%) Azure AKS
4 1 (2.86%) Azure Functions
4 1 (2.86%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (2.86%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (2.86%) GitHub
4 1 (2.86%) IaaS
4 1 (2.86%) Nutanix
4 1 (2.86%) PaaS
4 1 (2.86%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 17 (48.57%) DNS
2 14 (40.00%) DHCP
3 9 (25.71%) TCP/IP
4 4 (11.43%) Firewall
4 4 (11.43%) SAN
5 3 (8.57%) Wireless
6 2 (5.71%) Fibre Channel
6 2 (5.71%) iSCSI
6 2 (5.71%) LAN
6 2 (5.71%) NAS
6 2 (5.71%) VoIP
6 2 (5.71%) VPN
6 2 (5.71%) WAN
7 1 (2.86%) FTP
7 1 (2.86%) HTTP
7 1 (2.86%) Network Security
7 1 (2.86%) SMTP
7 1 (2.86%) SNMP
7 1 (2.86%) SSL
7 1 (2.86%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.57%) SQL Server
2 2 (5.71%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (2.86%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (2.86%) Data Lake
3 1 (2.86%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Hudson
1 1 (2.86%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 8 (22.86%) Public Sector
2 4 (11.43%) Social Skills
3 2 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.86%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.71%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (5.71%) LAMP
2 1 (2.86%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.57%) Linux Command Line
1 3 (8.57%) Replication
2 2 (5.71%) IVR
2 2 (5.71%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (2.86%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 20 (57.14%) Windows
2 15 (42.86%) Windows Server
3 12 (34.29%) Linux
4 6 (17.14%) Unix
5 5 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (11.43%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (8.57%) Ubuntu
7 3 (8.57%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (5.71%) VMS
8 2 (5.71%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (2.86%) CentOS
9 1 (2.86%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (97.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 10 (28.57%) Virtual Environments
3 8 (22.86%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (20.00%) SIEM
5 6 (17.14%) Visualisation
6 5 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
6 5 (14.29%) Information Management
6 5 (14.29%) Security Hardening
6 5 (14.29%) Security Monitoring
6 5 (14.29%) Server Patching
6 5 (14.29%) Systems Engineering
7 4 (11.43%) Server Management
8 2 (5.71%) ITIL
8 2 (5.71%) Migration
8 2 (5.71%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (5.71%) WFM
9 1 (2.86%) B2C
9 1 (2.86%) Computer Science
9 1 (2.86%) Data Protection
9 1 (2.86%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 8 (22.86%) C#
1 8 (22.86%) Java
2 3 (8.57%) PowerShell
3 1 (2.86%) Bicep
3 1 (2.86%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (34.29%) Security Cleared
2 8 (22.86%) DV Cleared
3 4 (11.43%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.86%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.86%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (14.29%) NIST
2 1 (2.86%) QA
System Software
1 16 (45.71%) Active Directory
2 10 (28.57%) VMware ESXi
3 9 (25.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (17.14%) VMware NSX
5 3 (8.57%) Hyper-V
6 2 (5.71%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (5.71%) vSphere
7 1 (2.86%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (2.86%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 16 (45.71%) SCCM
2 9 (25.71%) vCenter Server
3 3 (8.57%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (5.71%) Kibana
4 2 (5.71%) logstash
5 1 (2.86%) McAfee ePO
5 1 (2.86%) SCOM
Vendors
1 17 (48.57%) VMware
2 13 (37.14%) Microsoft
3 7 (20.00%) Veeam
4 2 (5.71%) Aruba
4 2 (5.71%) Cisco
4 2 (5.71%) Genesys
4 2 (5.71%) Palo Alto
4 2 (5.71%) ProCurve
4 2 (5.71%) ServiceNow
4 2 (5.71%) Synology
4 2 (5.71%) Zerto
5 1 (2.86%) Commvault
5 1 (2.86%) LogicMonitor
5 1 (2.86%) McAfee
5 1 (2.86%) NetApp
5 1 (2.86%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.86%) Sophos