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 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 76 58
Rank change year-on-year -3 -18 +34
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 39 56 104
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.97% 2.08% 3.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.23% 2.54% 3.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 43 76
10th Percentile £263 £311 £313
25th Percentile £300 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £449 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.91% -0.22% +12.50%
75th Percentile £450 £570 £550
90th Percentile £515 £575 £713
England median daily rate £525 £475 £511
% change year-on-year +10.53% -7.09% +7.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £19.95 -
England median hourly rate £62.50 £54.88 £62.68
% change year-on-year +13.90% -12.45% +45.56%

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 1,747 2,205 2,872
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 88.28% 81.91% 88.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,151 1,487 2,014
10th Percentile £200 £235 £250
25th Percentile £358 £356 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £468 £498
Median % change year-on-year +1.60% -6.03% +4.74%
75th Percentile £558 £596 £595
90th Percentile £650 £700 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 169 102
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.06 £12.05
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.91 £14.64
Median hourly rate £18.75 £18.00 £22.34
Median % change year-on-year +4.18% -19.41% +27.41%
75th Percentile £25.11 £33.25 £38.96
90th Percentile £48.20 £55.00 £57.25
England median hourly rate £28.75 £36.50 £36.77
% change year-on-year -21.23% -0.73% +47.08%

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 22 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 22 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 -4 27 £360 -31.43% 57
East Midlands +6 12 £450 +9.22% 41
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 (7.69%) Confluence
1 3 (7.69%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.56%) Apache
2 1 (2.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 9 (23.08%) AWS
2 6 (15.38%) Entra ID
3 5 (12.82%) Azure
3 5 (12.82%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (5.13%) IaaS
4 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (2.56%) Azure Stack
5 1 (2.56%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (15.38%) LAN
1 6 (15.38%) SAN
2 4 (10.26%) Cisco ISE
2 4 (10.26%) NAS
3 2 (5.13%) DHCP
3 2 (5.13%) DNS
3 2 (5.13%) Firewall
3 2 (5.13%) WAN
4 1 (2.56%) HTTP
4 1 (2.56%) OpenLDAP
4 1 (2.56%) SSL
4 1 (2.56%) VLAN
4 1 (2.56%) VPN
Development Applications
1 3 (7.69%) JIRA
2 2 (5.13%) Jenkins
2 2 (5.13%) ScriptRunner
3 1 (2.56%) Cypress.io
3 1 (2.56%) Git
3 1 (2.56%) Maven
3 1 (2.56%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 12 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 4 (10.26%) Banking
2 4 (10.26%) Manufacturing
3 3 (7.69%) Finance
4 2 (5.13%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.56%) Advertising
5 1 (2.56%) Legal
Job Titles
1 25 (64.10%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (15.38%) Linux Engineer
2 6 (15.38%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (12.82%) Windows Engineer
3 5 (12.82%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (10.26%) Architect
4 4 (10.26%) Solutions Architect
4 4 (10.26%) Storage Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) AWS Architect
5 3 (7.69%) AWS Solution Architect
5 3 (7.69%) IT Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) Senior
6 2 (5.13%) Applications Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Automation Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Systems Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) VMware Engineer
7 1 (2.56%) Infrastructure Consultant
7 1 (2.56%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.56%) Apache Axis
1 1 (2.56%) LDAP
1 1 (2.56%) PySpark
1 1 (2.56%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.26%) Data Centre
2 1 (2.56%) CCTV
2 1 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (2.56%) Educational Technology
2 1 (2.56%) Fibre Optics
2 1 (2.56%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (2.56%) Management Information System
2 1 (2.56%) Onboarding
2 1 (2.56%) Operational Technology
2 1 (2.56%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 21 (53.85%) Windows
2 15 (38.46%) Windows Server
3 7 (17.95%) Linux
4 4 (10.26%) Windows Server 2012
5 3 (7.69%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (7.69%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (2.56%) CentOS
6 1 (2.56%) Debian
6 1 (2.56%) Rocky
6 1 (2.56%) Ubuntu
6 1 (2.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (17.95%) Agile
2 6 (15.38%) ITIL
3 5 (12.82%) Migration
4 4 (10.26%) BPR
4 4 (10.26%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
4 4 (10.26%) Data Modelling
4 4 (10.26%) IT Governance
4 4 (10.26%) Requirements Analysis
4 4 (10.26%) Scrum
4 4 (10.26%) Storage Management
4 4 (10.26%) Strategic Thinking
5 3 (7.69%) Break/Fix
5 3 (7.69%) Project Management
6 2 (5.13%) Computer Science
6 2 (5.13%) Data Loss Prevention
6 2 (5.13%) Incident Management
6 2 (5.13%) Penetration Testing
6 2 (5.13%) Risk Management
6 2 (5.13%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 2 (5.13%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (12.82%) Python
2 4 (10.26%) PowerShell
3 2 (5.13%) Groovy
4 1 (2.56%) C#
4 1 (2.56%) Java
4 1 (2.56%) Ruby
4 1 (2.56%) Shell Script
4 1 (2.56%) SQL
4 1 (2.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 10 (25.64%) SC Cleared
3 3 (7.69%) CompTIA Security+
4 2 (5.13%) Azure Certification
4 2 (5.13%) Degree
4 2 (5.13%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.56%) CCNA
5 1 (2.56%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.56%) CISSP
5 1 (2.56%) MCSE
5 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.56%) Network+ Certification
5 1 (2.56%) NVQ Level 3
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.26%) QA
2 3 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.56%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 9 (23.08%) Active Directory
1 9 (23.08%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (12.82%) Hyper-V
3 4 (10.26%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (5.13%) Docker
4 2 (5.13%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (5.13%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (12.82%) SCCM
2 3 (7.69%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (2.56%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.56%) Nessus
3 1 (2.56%) Puppet
3 1 (2.56%) SolarWinds Orion
3 1 (2.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 18 (46.15%) VMware
2 7 (17.95%) Microsoft
3 6 (15.38%) Cisco
4 5 (12.82%) Dell
5 2 (5.13%) Atlassian
5 2 (5.13%) Veeam
5 2 (5.13%) Workday
6 1 (2.56%) Ab Initio
6 1 (2.56%) Aruba
6 1 (2.56%) EMC
6 1 (2.56%) Meraki
6 1 (2.56%) SolarWinds
6 1 (2.56%) Sophos