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 2 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 116 147
Rank change year-on-year +2 +31 +60
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Management 10 17 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.49% 0.61% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% 0.75% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 11 7
10th Percentile £220 - £369
25th Percentile £268 £425 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £520 £445
Median % change year-on-year -18.27% +16.85% +7.10%
75th Percentile £447 £675 £500
90th Percentile £450 - £504
England median daily rate £550 £458 £544
% change year-on-year +20.22% -15.86% -7.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £16.11 - -
25th Percentile £17.59 - -
Median hourly rate £20.13 - -
75th Percentile £22.59 - -
90th Percentile £24.04 - -
England median hourly rate £20.13 £23.80 £35.50
% change year-on-year -15.44% -32.96% +65.12%

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 1,815 2,273 2,848
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 88.45% 81.44% 87.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,188 1,529 1,999
10th Percentile £206 £231 £262
25th Percentile £358 £358 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £551 £600 £600
90th Percentile £644 £688 £694
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +0.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 109 173 97
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.07 £12.30
25th Percentile £13.81 £14.00 £14.50
Median hourly rate £18.74 £19.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.37% -15.56% +26.05%
75th Percentile £26.51 £35.00 £46.25
90th Percentile £50.00 £55.00 £60.50
England median hourly rate £28.30 £37.50 £37.32
% change year-on-year -24.55% +0.48% +49.28%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Management in the Midlands over the 6 months to 2 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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 2 June 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 +12 10 £425 -22.73% 68
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) Apache
1 1 (10.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 2 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (20.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (20.00%) AWS
1 2 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (20.00%) Azure
1 2 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
1 2 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (20.00%) Serverless
1 2 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 1 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (10.00%) AWS CodeBuild
2 1 (10.00%) AWS CodePipeline
2 1 (10.00%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) Firewall
1 2 (20.00%) Telepresence
1 2 (20.00%) Unified Communications
1 2 (20.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (20.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (10.00%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (10.00%) Bitbucket
2 1 (10.00%) Git
General
1 7 (70.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Automotive
3 1 (10.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Support Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Applications Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Desktop Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Desktop Support
2 2 (20.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) SCCM Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Security Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Administrator
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) Apache Axis
1 2 (20.00%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Replication
2 2 (20.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 6 (60.00%) Windows
2 2 (20.00%) Mac OS
2 2 (20.00%) Windows 10
2 2 (20.00%) Windows Server
2 2 (20.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (40.00%) DevOps
2 4 (40.00%) ITIL
3 3 (30.00%) Computer Science
4 2 (20.00%) Business Continuity
4 2 (20.00%) Cloud Security
4 2 (20.00%) Cost Reduction
4 2 (20.00%) Customer Service
4 2 (20.00%) Design Patterns
4 2 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (20.00%) High Availability
4 2 (20.00%) Information Management
4 2 (20.00%) Microservices
4 2 (20.00%) Migration
4 2 (20.00%) Network Virtualisation
4 2 (20.00%) Patch Management
4 2 (20.00%) Process Improvement
4 2 (20.00%) SOA
4 2 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) SQL
2 4 (40.00%) PowerShell
3 3 (30.00%) Python
4 2 (20.00%) C#
4 2 (20.00%) Java
4 2 (20.00%) Ruby
4 2 (20.00%) VBScript
5 1 (10.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (30.00%) Degree
2 2 (20.00%) Azure Certification
2 2 (20.00%) CISSP
2 2 (20.00%) CompTIA Security+
2 2 (20.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (20.00%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Terraform
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (20.00%) SCCM
2 2 (20.00%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (10.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) Cisco
3 1 (10.00%) Databricks