Infrastructure Management Contracts in the Midlands

Infrastructure Management
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring Infrastructure Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Infrastructure Management 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 106 117 158
Rank change year-on-year +11 +41 +47
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Management 5 16 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.26% 0.58% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.71% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 10 8
10th Percentile - £397 £326
25th Percentile £413 £425 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £550 £438
Median % change year-on-year -20.45% +25.71% +3.86%
75th Percentile £450 £675 £550
90th Percentile - - £700
England median daily rate £550 £465 £538
% change year-on-year +18.28% -13.49% -6.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

Infrastructure Management 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 Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Management in the Midlands

Infrastructure Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Management in the Midlands

Infrastructure Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Management in the Midlands

Infrastructure Management
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 Management 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 +3 5 £438 -20.45% 9
Infrastructure Management
England

Infrastructure Management
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) Azure Monitor
1 2 (40.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (20.00%) AWS CodeBuild
2 1 (20.00%) AWS CodePipeline
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (20.00%) Serverless
2 1 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Applications Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Azure Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Security Architect
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Apache Axis
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Onboarding
1 2 (40.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
1 2 (40.00%) Windows Server
1 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (60.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Business Continuity
2 2 (40.00%) Cloud Security
2 2 (40.00%) Cost Reduction
2 2 (40.00%) Design Patterns
2 2 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (40.00%) ITIL
2 2 (40.00%) Microservices
2 2 (40.00%) Migration
2 2 (40.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) SOA
2 2 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (20.00%) Configuration Management
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) C#
1 2 (40.00%) Java
1 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (40.00%) Python
1 2 (40.00%) Ruby
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Azure Certification
1 2 (40.00%) CISSP
1 2 (40.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (40.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (40.00%) Single Sign-On
1 2 (40.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft