Infrastructure Engineering Contracts in the Midlands

Infrastructure Engineering
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for Infrastructure Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Infrastructure Engineering over the 6 months to 17 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 78 73 87
Rank change year-on-year -5 +14 +7
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 54 106 133
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.98% 3.03% 2.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.41% 3.44% 2.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 84 101
10th Percentile £313 £315 £231
25th Percentile £363 £363 £310
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £450 £400
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +12.50% +23.08%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £475
90th Percentile £600 £700 £520
England median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £19.95 - -
England median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £55.24
% change year-on-year -28.95% +17.67% +42.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

Infrastructure Engineering 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 Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,237 3,085 4,562
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 81.94% 88.04% 87.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,498 2,149 3,383
10th Percentile £235 £250 £232
25th Percentile £358 £373 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +18.75%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £564
90th Percentile £700 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 180 118 153
10th Percentile £11.12 £11.80 £9.80
25th Percentile £14.00 £15.13 £13.38
Median hourly rate £18.50 £17.72 £17.28
Median % change year-on-year +4.40% +2.55% +1.65%
75th Percentile £35.00 £26.33 £22.10
90th Percentile £55.00 £55.75 £34.50
England median hourly rate £34.25 £36.65 £23.96
% change year-on-year -6.55% +53.01% -0.19%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineering in the Midlands

Infrastructure Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Engineering in the Midlands

Infrastructure Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in the Midlands over the 6 months to 17 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in the Midlands

Infrastructure Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Engineering in the Midlands

Infrastructure Engineering
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 Engineering within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 17 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
West Midlands +16 46 £425 -5.56% 36
East Midlands -8 7 £338 -23.73% 22
Infrastructure Engineering
England

Infrastructure Engineering
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 11 (20.37%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (9.26%) SharePoint
3 2 (3.70%) IIS
3 2 (3.70%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (3.70%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 20 (37.04%) Azure
2 16 (29.63%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (9.26%) AWS
3 5 (9.26%) Entra ID
4 2 (3.70%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 2 (3.70%) Azure Service Bus
4 2 (3.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (3.70%) Nutanix
4 2 (3.70%) OneDrive
4 2 (3.70%) SaaS
5 1 (1.85%) Azure AKS
5 1 (1.85%) Azure Functions
5 1 (1.85%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (1.85%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (1.85%) GitHub
5 1 (1.85%) IaaS
5 1 (1.85%) PaaS
5 1 (1.85%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 19 (35.19%) DNS
2 15 (27.78%) DHCP
3 10 (18.52%) Firewall
4 9 (16.67%) TCP/IP
5 7 (12.96%) SAN
6 4 (7.41%) LAN
6 4 (7.41%) Network Security
6 4 (7.41%) WAN
7 3 (5.56%) Cisco Nexus
7 3 (5.56%) Wireless
8 2 (3.70%) Fibre Channel
8 2 (3.70%) iSCSI
8 2 (3.70%) NAS
8 2 (3.70%) VoIP
8 2 (3.70%) VPN
9 1 (1.85%) FTP
9 1 (1.85%) HTTP
9 1 (1.85%) SMTP
9 1 (1.85%) SNMP
9 1 (1.85%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (9.26%) SQL Server
2 3 (5.56%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.85%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.85%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.85%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (5.56%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (1.85%) Hudson
2 1 (1.85%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 11 (20.37%) Public Sector
2 4 (7.41%) Social Skills
3 2 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (3.70%) German Language
3 2 (3.70%) Manufacturing
4 1 (1.85%) Finance
Job Titles
1 44 (81.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (11.11%) Network Engineer
2 6 (11.11%) Principal Engineer
3 5 (9.26%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (7.41%) IT Engineer
4 4 (7.41%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (5.56%) Architect
5 3 (5.56%) Senior
5 3 (5.56%) SIEM Engineer
5 3 (5.56%) Windows Engineer
5 3 (5.56%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (3.70%) Azure Architect
6 2 (3.70%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (3.70%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (3.70%) Elasticsearch Engineer
6 2 (3.70%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
6 2 (3.70%) Operations Engineer
6 2 (3.70%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (3.70%) Server Engineer
6 2 (3.70%) Windows Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (3.70%) LAMP
3 1 (1.85%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 5 (9.26%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (5.56%) Replication
3 2 (3.70%) IVR
3 2 (3.70%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (1.85%) Clustering
4 1 (1.85%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.85%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 31 (57.41%) Windows
2 24 (44.44%) Windows Server
3 14 (25.93%) Linux
4 6 (11.11%) Unix
5 5 (9.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (9.26%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (7.41%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (5.56%) Ubuntu
7 3 (5.56%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (3.70%) VMS
9 1 (1.85%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (18.52%) Virtual Environments
2 8 (14.81%) Infrastructure as Code
2 8 (14.81%) SIEM
2 8 (14.81%) Visualisation
3 7 (12.96%) Agile
4 6 (11.11%) Project Delivery
5 5 (9.26%) Cybersecurity
5 5 (9.26%) Information Management
5 5 (9.26%) Migration
5 5 (9.26%) Security Hardening
5 5 (9.26%) Security Monitoring
5 5 (9.26%) Server Patching
5 5 (9.26%) Systems Engineering
6 4 (7.41%) API Management
6 4 (7.41%) Server Management
7 3 (5.56%) Incident Management
7 3 (5.56%) Infrastructure Monitoring
7 3 (5.56%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (5.56%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 3 (5.56%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (14.81%) C#
1 8 (14.81%) Java
2 4 (7.41%) SQL
3 3 (5.56%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.85%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 18 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 10 (18.52%) DV Cleared
3 9 (16.67%) SC Cleared
4 4 (7.41%) Azure Certification
4 4 (7.41%) Degree
5 3 (5.56%) CCNA
5 3 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.85%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.26%) NIST
2 2 (3.70%) QA
System Software
1 27 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 12 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (20.37%) VMware ESXi
4 7 (12.96%) VMware NSX
5 5 (9.26%) Hyper-V
5 5 (9.26%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (3.70%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (3.70%) vSphere
7 1 (1.85%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (1.85%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 17 (31.48%) SCCM
2 10 (18.52%) vCenter Server
3 3 (5.56%) Ansible
3 3 (5.56%) Kibana
3 3 (5.56%) logstash
3 3 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (5.56%) SCOM
3 3 (5.56%) Terraform
4 1 (1.85%) McAfee ePO
4 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Clustering
4 1 (1.85%) VxRail
Vendors
1 24 (44.44%) VMware
2 14 (25.93%) Microsoft
3 7 (12.96%) Veeam
4 6 (11.11%) ServiceNow
5 5 (9.26%) Cisco
6 3 (5.56%) CheckPoint
6 3 (5.56%) F5
7 2 (3.70%) Aruba
7 2 (3.70%) Genesys
7 2 (3.70%) Palo Alto
7 2 (3.70%) ProCurve
7 2 (3.70%) Synology
7 2 (3.70%) Zerto
8 1 (1.85%) Commvault
8 1 (1.85%) Dell
8 1 (1.85%) EMC
8 1 (1.85%) LogicMonitor
8 1 (1.85%) McAfee
8 1 (1.85%) NetApp
8 1 (1.85%) Sophos