Infrastructure Engineer Contracts in the Midlands

Infrastructure Engineer
England > Midlands

The median Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in the Midlands is £375, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 90 97
Rank change year-on-year +1 +7 +17
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 22 43 71
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.15% 1.56% 2.06%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.28% 1.70% 2.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 33 60
10th Percentile £271 £311 £336
25th Percentile £293 £359 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £400 £448
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -10.61% +10.49%
75th Percentile £425 £565 £488
90th Percentile £535 £575 £597
England median daily rate £525 £463 £500
% change year-on-year +13.51% -7.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £19.95 -
England median hourly rate £112.09 £22.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +398.18% -65.38% +3.20%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the 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 Midlands with a recognized job title 1,725 2,532 3,256
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.13% 91.84% 94.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,147 1,707 2,290
10th Percentile £200 £213 £223
25th Percentile £356 £325 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.26%
75th Percentile £552 £588 £588
90th Percentile £638 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 213 128
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.84 £12.35
25th Percentile £14.00 £14.27 £15.21
Median hourly rate £18.82 £19.59 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.94% -2.05% +16.33%
75th Percentile £28.18 £35.00 £28.88
90th Percentile £35.58 £54.60 £61.50
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the Midlands

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the Midlands

Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in the Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in the Midlands

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the Midlands

Infrastructure Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the 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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
West Midlands -5 16 £300 -29.41% 22
East Midlands +9 6 £400 +18.52% 15
Infrastructure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 Midlands region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 22 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 17 (77.27%) Windows
3 13 (59.09%) VMware
4 12 (54.55%) Windows Server
5 9 (40.91%) VMware Infrastructure
6 8 (36.36%) Security Cleared
7 7 (31.82%) Active Directory
8 6 (27.27%) Linux
8 6 (27.27%) SC Cleared
9 5 (22.73%) Hyper-V
9 5 (22.73%) SCCM
9 5 (22.73%) LAN
9 5 (22.73%) SAN
9 5 (22.73%) Dell
9 5 (22.73%) Microsoft
9 5 (22.73%) Migration
9 5 (22.73%) Entra ID
9 5 (22.73%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (18.18%) Storage Management
10 4 (18.18%) Windows Server 2012
10 4 (18.18%) Cisco ISE
10 4 (18.18%) Virtual Servers
10 4 (18.18%) Data Centre
10 4 (18.18%) Cisco
10 4 (18.18%) Manufacturing
10 4 (18.18%) NAS
11 3 (13.64%) Azure
11 3 (13.64%) AWS
11 3 (13.64%) JIRA
11 3 (13.64%) ITIL

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the 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 3 (13.64%) Confluence
1 3 (13.64%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (4.55%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (22.73%) Entra ID
1 5 (22.73%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (13.64%) AWS
2 3 (13.64%) Azure
3 2 (9.09%) IaaS
3 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (4.55%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 5 (22.73%) LAN
1 5 (22.73%) SAN
2 4 (18.18%) Cisco ISE
2 4 (18.18%) NAS
3 1 (4.55%) DHCP
3 1 (4.55%) DNS
3 1 (4.55%) Firewall
3 1 (4.55%) HTTP
3 1 (4.55%) OpenLDAP
3 1 (4.55%) SSL
3 1 (4.55%) VLAN
3 1 (4.55%) WAN
Development Applications
1 3 (13.64%) JIRA
2 2 (9.09%) ScriptRunner
3 1 (4.55%) Git
3 1 (4.55%) Jenkins
3 1 (4.55%) Maven
3 1 (4.55%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (18.18%) Manufacturing
2 3 (13.64%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.55%) Advertising
3 1 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (4.55%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.55%) LDAP
1 1 (4.55%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (18.18%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.55%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (4.55%) Onboarding
2 1 (4.55%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 17 (77.27%) Windows
2 12 (54.55%) Windows Server
3 6 (27.27%) Linux
4 4 (18.18%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (9.09%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (4.55%) CentOS
6 1 (4.55%) Debian
6 1 (4.55%) Rocky
6 1 (4.55%) Ubuntu
6 1 (4.55%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (22.73%) Migration
3 4 (18.18%) Storage Management
4 3 (13.64%) Agile
4 3 (13.64%) ITIL
5 2 (9.09%) Data Loss Prevention
5 2 (9.09%) Incident Management
5 2 (9.09%) Performance Tuning
5 2 (9.09%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 1 (4.55%) Actionable Insight
6 1 (4.55%) API Integration
6 1 (4.55%) Capacity Management
6 1 (4.55%) Collaborative Working
6 1 (4.55%) DevOps
6 1 (4.55%) Infrastructure Maintenance
6 1 (4.55%) Log Aggregation
6 1 (4.55%) Patch Management
6 1 (4.55%) Root Cause Analysis
6 1 (4.55%) Server Management
6 1 (4.55%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 2 (9.09%) Groovy
2 1 (4.55%) PowerShell
2 1 (4.55%) Python
2 1 (4.55%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 6 (27.27%) SC Cleared
3 2 (9.09%) Azure Certification
4 1 (4.55%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (4.55%) Degree
4 1 (4.55%) DV Cleared
4 1 (4.55%) MCSE
4 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (4.55%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.55%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (4.55%) QA
System Software
1 9 (40.91%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (31.82%) Active Directory
3 5 (22.73%) Hyper-V
4 4 (18.18%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (4.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (22.73%) SCCM
2 2 (9.09%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (4.55%) Kubernetes
3 1 (4.55%) Nessus
3 1 (4.55%) Puppet
3 1 (4.55%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 13 (59.09%) VMware
2 5 (22.73%) Dell
2 5 (22.73%) Microsoft
3 4 (18.18%) Cisco
4 2 (9.09%) Atlassian
4 2 (9.09%) Workday
5 1 (4.55%) SolarWinds
5 1 (4.55%) Sophos
5 1 (4.55%) Veeam