Infrastructure Engineering Contracts in the Midlands

Infrastructure Engineering
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring Infrastructure Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Infrastructure Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 80 72
Rank change year-on-year +3 -8 +21
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 34 53 107
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.78% 1.92% 3.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.03% 2.34% 3.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 40 82
10th Percentile £263 £312 £314
25th Percentile £300 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £419 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.48% -6.94% +11.73%
75th Percentile £450 £568 £547
90th Percentile £545 £578 £711
England median daily rate £525 £475 £507
% change year-on-year +10.53% -6.31% +6.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £19.95 -
England median hourly rate £62.50 £46.18 £63.84
% change year-on-year +35.34% -27.66% +27.68%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

Infrastructure Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,676 2,266 3,045
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.57% 82.19% 88.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,099 1,510 2,125
10th Percentile £200 £237 £250
25th Percentile £358 £356 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year - -4.04% +4.21%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 172 119
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.07 £11.96
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.81 £15.05
Median hourly rate £18.13 £19.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% +7.22% +1.37%
75th Percentile £24.22 £35.00 £26.81
90th Percentile £36.55 £55.00 £55.50
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

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 1 May 2025.

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 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 -7 23 £323 -24.12% 38
East Midlands +13 11 £450 +33.33% 20
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 3 (8.82%) Confluence
1 3 (8.82%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.94%) Apache
2 1 (2.94%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 9 (26.47%) AWS
2 5 (14.71%) Entra ID
2 5 (14.71%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (11.76%) Azure
4 2 (5.88%) IaaS
4 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (2.94%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 6 (17.65%) LAN
1 6 (17.65%) SAN
2 4 (11.76%) Cisco ISE
2 4 (11.76%) NAS
3 2 (5.88%) WAN
4 1 (2.94%) DHCP
4 1 (2.94%) DNS
4 1 (2.94%) Firewall
4 1 (2.94%) HTTP
4 1 (2.94%) OpenLDAP
4 1 (2.94%) SSL
4 1 (2.94%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 3 (8.82%) JIRA
2 2 (5.88%) Jenkins
2 2 (5.88%) ScriptRunner
3 1 (2.94%) Cypress.io
3 1 (2.94%) Git
3 1 (2.94%) Maven
3 1 (2.94%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 7 (20.59%) Social Skills
2 4 (11.76%) Banking
2 4 (11.76%) Manufacturing
3 3 (8.82%) Finance
4 2 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.94%) Advertising
5 1 (2.94%) Legal
Job Titles
1 22 (64.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (14.71%) Linux Engineer
2 5 (14.71%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (11.76%) Architect
3 4 (11.76%) Solutions Architect
3 4 (11.76%) Storage Engineer
3 4 (11.76%) Windows Engineer
3 4 (11.76%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (8.82%) AWS Architect
4 3 (8.82%) AWS Solution Architect
4 3 (8.82%) Senior
5 2 (5.88%) Applications Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Automation Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) IT Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Systems Engineer
6 1 (2.94%) Cloud Architect
6 1 (2.94%) Cloud Solutions Architect
6 1 (2.94%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (2.94%) Senior QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.94%) Apache Axis
1 1 (2.94%) LDAP
1 1 (2.94%) PySpark
1 1 (2.94%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.76%) Data Centre
2 1 (2.94%) CCTV
2 1 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (2.94%) Educational Technology
2 1 (2.94%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (2.94%) Management Information System
2 1 (2.94%) Onboarding
2 1 (2.94%) Operational Technology
2 1 (2.94%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 19 (55.88%) Windows
2 14 (41.18%) Windows Server
3 6 (17.65%) Linux
4 4 (11.76%) Windows Server 2012
5 3 (8.82%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (8.82%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (2.94%) CentOS
6 1 (2.94%) Debian
6 1 (2.94%) Rocky
6 1 (2.94%) Ubuntu
6 1 (2.94%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (17.65%) Agile
2 5 (14.71%) ITIL
2 5 (14.71%) Migration
3 4 (11.76%) BPR
3 4 (11.76%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
3 4 (11.76%) Data Modelling
3 4 (11.76%) IT Governance
3 4 (11.76%) Requirements Analysis
3 4 (11.76%) Scrum
3 4 (11.76%) Storage Management
3 4 (11.76%) Strategic Thinking
4 3 (8.82%) Break/Fix
5 2 (5.88%) Business Strategy
5 2 (5.88%) Cost Reduction
5 2 (5.88%) Data Loss Prevention
5 2 (5.88%) Decision-Making
5 2 (5.88%) DevOps
5 2 (5.88%) Infrastructure Maintenance
5 2 (5.88%) Performance Tuning
5 2 (5.88%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 4 (11.76%) Python
2 3 (8.82%) PowerShell
3 2 (5.88%) Groovy
4 1 (2.94%) C#
4 1 (2.94%) Java
4 1 (2.94%) Ruby
4 1 (2.94%) Shell Script
4 1 (2.94%) SQL
4 1 (2.94%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (32.35%) Security Cleared
2 9 (26.47%) SC Cleared
3 3 (8.82%) CompTIA Security+
4 2 (5.88%) Azure Certification
4 2 (5.88%) Degree
5 1 (2.94%) CISSP
5 1 (2.94%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.94%) MCSE
5 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.94%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.76%) QA
2 3 (8.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.94%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 9 (26.47%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (23.53%) Active Directory
3 5 (14.71%) Hyper-V
4 4 (11.76%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (5.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (14.71%) SCCM
2 3 (8.82%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (2.94%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.94%) Nessus
3 1 (2.94%) Puppet
3 1 (2.94%) SolarWinds Orion
3 1 (2.94%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (44.12%) VMware
2 7 (20.59%) Microsoft
3 5 (14.71%) Cisco
3 5 (14.71%) Dell
4 2 (5.88%) Atlassian
4 2 (5.88%) Veeam
4 2 (5.88%) Workday
5 1 (2.94%) Ab Initio
5 1 (2.94%) Aruba
5 1 (2.94%) EMC
5 1 (2.94%) Meraki
5 1 (2.94%) SolarWinds
5 1 (2.94%) Sophos