Infrastructure Engineer Contracts in the Midlands

Infrastructure Engineer
England > Midlands

The median Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in the Midlands is £413, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 June 2024.

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

6 months to
20 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 88 96 119
Rank change year-on-year +8 +23 0
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 53 62 92
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.80% 1.93% 1.84%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.95% 2.04% 1.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 53 66
10th Percentile £312 £315 £281
25th Percentile £363 £363 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £450 £416
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +8.11% +37.60%
75th Percentile £547 £488 £500
90th Percentile £575 £590 £520
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 £43.06
% change year-on-year -65.38% +50.95% +14.83%

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 2,719 3,042 4,799
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.23% 94.50% 95.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,809 2,147 3,499
10th Percentile £213 £225 £208
25th Percentile £338 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £480 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% +1.05% +15.85%
75th Percentile £588 £595 £569
90th Percentile £675 £692 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 236 113 146
10th Percentile £11.83 £12.50 £11.63
25th Percentile £14.09 £15.00 £14.67
Median hourly rate £19.00 £20.71 £18.25
Median % change year-on-year -8.23% +13.45% +21.67%
75th Percentile £35.00 £30.00 £23.75
90th Percentile £51.91 £65.00 £35.00
England median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -12.22% +87.50% +14.01%

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 20 June 2024.

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 20 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
West Midlands +14 35 £400 -11.11% 22
East Midlands -1 17 £449 +0.90% 16
Infrastructure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 20 June 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 Midlands region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 52 (98.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 36 (67.92%) Windows
3 33 (62.26%) VMware
4 29 (54.72%) Windows Server
5 27 (50.94%) Active Directory
6 21 (39.62%) DNS
6 21 (39.62%) Microsoft
6 21 (39.62%) SCCM
6 21 (39.62%) VMware Infrastructure
7 19 (35.85%) DHCP
8 18 (33.96%) Microsoft 365
9 17 (32.08%) Linux
10 15 (28.30%) Public Sector
11 14 (26.42%) Security Cleared
12 13 (24.53%) Microsoft Exchange
13 11 (20.75%) Azure
14 10 (18.87%) VMware ESXi
14 10 (18.87%) Virtual Environments
15 9 (16.98%) vCenter Server
15 9 (16.98%) PowerShell
15 9 (16.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 9 (16.98%) SCOM
15 9 (16.98%) TCP/IP
16 8 (15.09%) C#
16 8 (15.09%) Java
16 8 (15.09%) DV Cleared
16 8 (15.09%) Infrastructure as Code
16 8 (15.09%) Social Skills
17 7 (13.21%) Windows Server 2016
17 7 (13.21%) VMware NSX

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 13 (24.53%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (9.43%) SharePoint
3 2 (3.77%) IIS
3 2 (3.77%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (9.43%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 18 (33.96%) Microsoft 365
2 11 (20.75%) Azure
3 5 (9.43%) Entra ID
4 2 (3.77%) AWS
4 2 (3.77%) OneDrive
4 2 (3.77%) SaaS
5 1 (1.89%) Azure AKS
5 1 (1.89%) Azure Functions
5 1 (1.89%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (1.89%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (1.89%) GitHub
5 1 (1.89%) IaaS
5 1 (1.89%) PaaS
5 1 (1.89%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 21 (39.62%) DNS
2 19 (35.85%) DHCP
3 9 (16.98%) TCP/IP
4 5 (9.43%) Firewall
5 4 (7.55%) LAN
5 4 (7.55%) SAN
5 4 (7.55%) WAN
6 3 (5.66%) Wireless
7 2 (3.77%) Fibre Channel
7 2 (3.77%) iSCSI
7 2 (3.77%) NAS
7 2 (3.77%) VoIP
7 2 (3.77%) VPN
8 1 (1.89%) FTP
8 1 (1.89%) HTTP
8 1 (1.89%) Network Security
8 1 (1.89%) SMTP
8 1 (1.89%) SNMP
8 1 (1.89%) SSH
8 1 (1.89%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (13.21%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.77%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.89%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.89%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.89%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (7.55%) GitLab
2 1 (1.89%) Hudson
2 1 (1.89%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 15 (28.30%) Public Sector
2 8 (15.09%) Social Skills
3 3 (5.66%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (5.66%) Local Government
4 2 (3.77%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (3.77%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.89%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.77%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (3.77%) LAMP
2 1 (1.89%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.55%) Grid Computing
2 3 (5.66%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (5.66%) Replication
3 2 (3.77%) IVR
3 2 (3.77%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (1.89%) Clustering
4 1 (1.89%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.89%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.89%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 36 (67.92%) Windows
2 29 (54.72%) Windows Server
3 17 (32.08%) Linux
4 9 (16.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (13.21%) Windows Server 2016
6 6 (11.32%) Unix
6 6 (11.32%) Windows Server 2012
6 6 (11.32%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (5.66%) Ubuntu
8 2 (3.77%) VMS
8 2 (3.77%) Windows 10
9 1 (1.89%) CentOS
9 1 (1.89%) Debian
9 1 (1.89%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (98.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 10 (18.87%) Virtual Environments
3 8 (15.09%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (13.21%) SIEM
5 6 (11.32%) Infrastructure Monitoring
5 6 (11.32%) Migration
5 6 (11.32%) Server Patching
5 6 (11.32%) Visualisation
6 5 (9.43%) Cybersecurity
6 5 (9.43%) Information Management
6 5 (9.43%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (9.43%) Security Hardening
6 5 (9.43%) Security Monitoring
6 5 (9.43%) Systems Engineering
7 4 (7.55%) Performance Tuning
7 4 (7.55%) Task Automation
8 3 (5.66%) ITIL
8 3 (5.66%) Server Management
9 2 (3.77%) PRINCE2
9 2 (3.77%) WFM
Programming Languages
1 9 (16.98%) PowerShell
2 8 (15.09%) C#
2 8 (15.09%) Java
3 2 (3.77%) SQL
4 1 (1.89%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 14 (26.42%) Security Cleared
2 8 (15.09%) DV Cleared
3 6 (11.32%) SC Cleared
4 2 (3.77%) Degree
5 1 (1.89%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.89%) MCP
5 1 (1.89%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.43%) NIST
2 1 (1.89%) QA
System Software
1 27 (50.94%) Active Directory
2 21 (39.62%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (18.87%) VMware ESXi
4 7 (13.21%) VMware NSX
5 6 (11.32%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (9.43%) Hyper-V
7 2 (3.77%) vSphere
8 1 (1.89%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (1.89%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (1.89%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 21 (39.62%) SCCM
2 9 (16.98%) SCOM
2 9 (16.98%) vCenter Server
3 4 (7.55%) Red Hat Satellite
3 4 (7.55%) SCSM
4 3 (5.66%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (3.77%) Kibana
5 2 (3.77%) logstash
6 1 (1.89%) McAfee ePO
6 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Clustering
6 1 (1.89%) Nessus
6 1 (1.89%) VxRail
6 1 (1.89%) WSUS
Vendors
1 33 (62.26%) VMware
2 21 (39.62%) Microsoft
3 7 (13.21%) Veeam
4 5 (9.43%) Red Hat
5 4 (7.55%) SolarWinds
6 3 (5.66%) Citrix
7 2 (3.77%) Aruba
7 2 (3.77%) Cisco
7 2 (3.77%) Genesys
7 2 (3.77%) Palo Alto
7 2 (3.77%) ProCurve
7 2 (3.77%) ServiceNow
7 2 (3.77%) Synology
7 2 (3.77%) Zerto
8 1 (1.89%) Commvault
8 1 (1.89%) Dell
8 1 (1.89%) EMC
8 1 (1.89%) LogicMonitor
8 1 (1.89%) NetApp
8 1 (1.89%) Netskope