Infrastructure Specialist Contracts in the Midlands

Infrastructure Specialist
England > Midlands

The median Infrastructure Specialist daily rate in the Midlands is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 131 167 207
Rank change year-on-year +36 +40 -52
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Specialist 3 2 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.11% 0.057% 0.077%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.061% 0.080%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 4
10th Percentile - £373 £435
25th Percentile £513 £388 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £425 £506
Median % change year-on-year +23.53% -16.05% +68.75%
75th Percentile £644 £463 £543
90th Percentile £708 £478 £586
England median daily rate £523 £513 £500
% change year-on-year +1.95% +2.50% +14.29%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the Midlands. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the Midlands with a recognized job title 2,507 3,290 4,984
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.03% 94.40% 96.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,697 2,318 3,662
10th Percentile £211 £223 £205
25th Percentile £325 £363 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.50% +12.56%
75th Percentile £588 £586 £550
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 214 133 177
10th Percentile £11.97 £12.00 £10.50
25th Percentile £14.33 £15.25 £13.73
Median hourly rate £19.59 £20.00 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% +17.65% +10.03%
75th Percentile £35.00 £28.00 £22.10
90th Percentile £52.67 £59.50 £34.50
England median hourly rate £35.00 £43.86 £22.40
% change year-on-year -20.20% +95.80% -0.09%

Infrastructure Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings that featured Infrastructure Specialist in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Specialist in the Midlands

Infrastructure Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Specialist in the Midlands

Infrastructure Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Specialist in the Midlands over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Specialist in the Midlands

Infrastructure Specialist
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Specialist in the Midlands

Infrastructure Specialist
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 Specialist within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 19 April 2024. 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
East Midlands +15 2 £613 +28.95%
West Midlands +27 1 £525 +40.00%
Infrastructure Specialist
England

Infrastructure Specialist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands

For the 6 months to 19 April 2024, Infrastructure Specialist contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Midlands region featuring Infrastructure Specialist in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) LAN
1 3 (100.00%) WAN
2 2 (66.67%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 2 (66.67%) Project Management
2 2 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (66.67%) VMware
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (33.33%) Hyper-V
3 1 (33.33%) NAS
3 1 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (33.33%) RBAC
3 1 (33.33%) Business Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (33.33%) AWS
3 1 (33.33%) Security Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (33.33%) High Availability
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
3 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
3 1 (33.33%) Virtual Team Management
3 1 (33.33%) Virtual Team
3 1 (33.33%) Privileged Access Management
3 1 (33.33%) IT Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) Contract Negotiation

Infrastructure Specialist Skill Set
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 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) LAN
1 3 (100.00%) WAN
2 1 (33.33%) DHCP
2 1 (33.33%) DNS
2 1 (33.33%) NAS
2 1 (33.33%) SAN
2 1 (33.33%) VPN
General
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (66.67%) Project Management
2 1 (33.33%) Business Continuity
2 1 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (33.33%) Change Management
2 1 (33.33%) Contract Negotiation
2 1 (33.33%) High Availability
2 1 (33.33%) Information Security
2 1 (33.33%) IT Strategy
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) PRINCE2
2 1 (33.33%) Privileged Access Management
2 1 (33.33%) RBAC
2 1 (33.33%) Release Management
2 1 (33.33%) Security Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
1 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (33.33%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) SCOM
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft