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 in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 129 165
Rank change year-on-year +21 +36 +41
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Specialist 3 4 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.16% 0.15% 0.058%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.16% 0.061%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 2
10th Percentile - - £373
25th Percentile £513 £513 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £425
Median % change year-on-year - +23.53% -16.05%
75th Percentile £538 £644 £463
90th Percentile - £708 £478
England median daily rate £550 £520 £505
% change year-on-year +5.77% +2.97% -1.46%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 1,725 2,532 3,256
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.13% 91.84% 94.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,147 1,707 2,290
10th Percentile £200 £213 £223
25th Percentile £356 £325 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.26%
75th Percentile £552 £588 £588
90th Percentile £638 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 213 128
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.84 £12.35
25th Percentile £14.00 £14.27 £15.21
Median hourly rate £18.82 £19.59 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.94% -2.05% +16.33%
75th Percentile £28.18 £35.00 £28.88
90th Percentile £35.58 £54.60 £61.50
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

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
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 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 +15 2 - - 3
East Midlands +8 1 £525 -14.29% 2
Infrastructure Specialist
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 2 (66.67%) Windows
1 2 (66.67%) VMware
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (33.33%) Windows 7
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Confluence
2 1 (33.33%) Change Control
2 1 (33.33%) IaaS
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (33.33%) Windows 10
2 1 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (33.33%) ScriptRunner
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
2 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
2 1 (33.33%) JIRA
2 1 (33.33%) Atlassian
2 1 (33.33%) SCOM
2 1 (33.33%) Groovy
2 1 (33.33%) Windows XP
2 1 (33.33%) LAN
2 1 (33.33%) WAN
2 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (33.33%) Biometrics
2 1 (33.33%) Law

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) LAN
1 1 (33.33%) WAN
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
1 1 (33.33%) ScriptRunner
General
1 1 (33.33%) Law
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Windows 10
2 1 (33.33%) Windows 7
2 1 (33.33%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Agile
1 1 (33.33%) Biometrics
1 1 (33.33%) Change Control
1 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (33.33%) Migration
1 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (33.33%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Groovy
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) SCOM
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) Atlassian