Infrastructure Monitoring Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Infrastructure Monitoring
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Infrastructure Monitoring skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 157 125 138
Rank change year-on-year -32 +13 -
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Monitoring 4 7 5
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.14% 0.26% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.31% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 5
10th Percentile - - £470
25th Percentile £375 - £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £450 £625
Median % change year-on-year -4.44% -28.00% -
75th Percentile £503 £475 £640
90th Percentile - £490 £642
England median daily rate £493 £500 £543
% change year-on-year -1.50% -7.92% -2.60%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

Infrastructure Monitoring 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 2,629 2,244 2,330
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 89.12% 83.67% 84.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,694 1,407 1,599
10th Percentile £250 £250 £250
25th Percentile £366 £375 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +2.56% -1.52%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £653 £688 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 205 72 107
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.70 £14.38
25th Percentile £17.14 £17.00 £17.61
Median hourly rate £21.30 £24.18 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.91% -10.44% +59.43%
75th Percentile £26.51 £35.00 £51.50
90th Percentile £38.18 £52.25 £68.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £37.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -32.03% -16.85% +27.14%

Infrastructure Monitoring
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Infrastructure Monitoring relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Infrastructure Monitoring job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Infrastructure Monitoring
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Infrastructure Monitoring.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Infrastructure Monitoring

Infrastructure Monitoring
Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Infrastructure Monitoring.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Infrastructure Monitoring

Infrastructure Monitoring
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 Monitoring within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 8 November 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 -27 4 £430 - 1
Infrastructure Monitoring
England

Infrastructure Monitoring
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

General
1 1 (25.00%) Military
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) SIEM Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Site Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) SIEM
2 2 (50.00%) Anomaly Detection
2 2 (50.00%) Data Ingestion
2 2 (50.00%) Observability
2 2 (50.00%) Patch Management
2 2 (50.00%) Security Monitoring
2 2 (50.00%) Server Management
2 2 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Operations Management
3 1 (25.00%) Service Management
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) SLA
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Splunk