Infrastructure Management Contracts in the West Midlands

Infrastructure Management
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 96 136 164
Rank change year-on-year +40 +28 -
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Management 16 7 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.83% 0.29% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.99% 0.33% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 7 4
10th Percentile £397 £323 £332
25th Percentile £425 £376 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £430 £421
Median % change year-on-year +27.91% +2.08% -
75th Percentile £675 £584 £427
90th Percentile - £700 -
England median daily rate £475 £525 £588
% change year-on-year -9.52% -10.64% +30.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,619 2,117 3,206
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.97% 88.50% 90.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,067 1,453 2,361
10th Percentile £275 £263 £263
25th Percentile £375 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £488
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +4.62% +17.47%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £575
90th Percentile £750 £694 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 45 73
10th Percentile £11.09 £12.20 £12.00
25th Percentile £14.00 £13.31 £13.75
Median hourly rate £22.50 £17.72 £16.83
Median % change year-on-year +26.98% +5.32% -1.03%
75th Percentile £41.13 £23.75 £19.86
90th Percentile £57.75 £51.25 £22.20
England median hourly rate £35.65 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -4.93% +56.25% -

Infrastructure Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Infrastructure Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Management in the West Midlands

Infrastructure Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Management in the West Midlands

Infrastructure Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Management in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Management in the West Midlands

Infrastructure Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Management in the West Midlands

Infrastructure Management
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 Management within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 26 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
Birmingham +12 7 £450 -20.35%
Coventry - 5 £650 -
Solihull - 2 £145 - 1
Infrastructure Management
England

Infrastructure Management
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 1 (6.25%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 7 (43.75%) Azure
2 6 (37.50%) Entra ID
3 5 (31.25%) AWS
3 5 (31.25%) CloudFront
3 5 (31.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (6.25%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (6.25%) IaaS
4 1 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (6.25%) PaaS
4 1 (6.25%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (56.25%) Network Security
2 5 (31.25%) DNS
2 5 (31.25%) VPN
General
1 11 (68.75%) Social Skills
2 9 (56.25%) Finance
3 6 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (37.50%) Public Sector
4 5 (31.25%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) Applications Engineer
1 5 (31.25%) Cloud Engineer
1 5 (31.25%) Security Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) Architect
2 4 (25.00%) Infrastructure Architect
2 4 (25.00%) Lead
2 4 (25.00%) Network Manager
3 3 (18.75%) Lead Architect
3 3 (18.75%) Lead Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Desktop Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Desktop Support
4 1 (6.25%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) IT Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Network Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Network Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Operations Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (31.25%) OAuth
1 5 (31.25%) OAuth2
1 5 (31.25%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (31.25%) Cloud Native
2 1 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (43.75%) Windows
2 1 (6.25%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) Incident Response
2 6 (37.50%) Identity Access Management
3 5 (31.25%) Agile
3 5 (31.25%) Application Security
3 5 (31.25%) CI/CD
3 5 (31.25%) Cloud Security
3 5 (31.25%) Data Security
3 5 (31.25%) Defensive Programming
3 5 (31.25%) DevSecOps
3 5 (31.25%) Penetration Testing
3 5 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (31.25%) Task Automation
3 5 (31.25%) The Twelve-Factor App
4 4 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
4 4 (25.00%) Collaborative Culture
4 4 (25.00%) Configuration Management
4 4 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (25.00%) Network Design
4 4 (25.00%) Network Monitoring
4 4 (25.00%) Strategic Planning
Qualifications
1 5 (31.25%) AWS Certification
2 4 (25.00%) CCIE
2 4 (25.00%) CCNP
2 4 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared
4 1 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (6.25%) Degree
4 1 (6.25%) PMI Certification
4 1 (6.25%) PMP
System Software
1 6 (37.50%) Active Directory
2 5 (31.25%) Docker
3 1 (6.25%) Hyper-V
3 1 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.25%) Fujitsu
2 1 (6.25%) VMware