Infrastructure Engineering Contract Job Trends in Shropshire

Infrastructure Engineering
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Shropshire requiring Infrastructure Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 34 -
Rank change year-on-year -41 - -
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 11 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in Shropshire 1.47% 1.69% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.65% 1.82% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile £658 - -
25th Percentile £663 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £671 £325 -
Median % change year-on-year +106.46% - -
75th Percentile £671 - -
90th Percentile £671 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £400 £531
% change year-on-year +18.75% -24.71% +18.06%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Shropshire

Infrastructure Engineering 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 Shropshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 666 165 84
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 89.04% 92.70% 74.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 578 116 60
10th Percentile £358 £308 £196
25th Percentile £413 £400 £333
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £463 £358
Median % change year-on-year +1.41% +29.19% -33.15%
75th Percentile £535 £538 £499
90th Percentile £626 £549 £519
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 2 1
10th Percentile £18.30 £26.13 -
25th Percentile £44.82 £27.59 -
Median hourly rate £52.50 £31.31 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.70% +123.61% -
75th Percentile £53.75 £36.30 -
90th Percentile £60.62 £38.53 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £33.99 £23.42 £18.50
% change year-on-year +45.13% +26.59% -32.73%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

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

Infrastructure Engineering job vacancy trend in Shropshire

Infrastructure Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing Infrastructure Engineering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing Infrastructure Engineering

Infrastructure Engineering
Hourly Rate Trend in Shropshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing Infrastructure Engineering.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing Infrastructure Engineering

Infrastructure Engineering
Contract Job Locations in Shropshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering within the Shropshire region over the 6 months to 4 August 2026. 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
Telford -37 11 £671 +106.46% 5
Infrastructure Engineering
West Midlands

Infrastructure Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Shropshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (36.36%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 7 (63.64%) OCI
2 4 (36.36%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (63.64%) Oracle Exadata
2 4 (36.36%) Data Lake
2 4 (36.36%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (36.36%) Metadata
2 4 (36.36%) NoSQL
2 4 (36.36%) Pentaho
2 4 (36.36%) Power BI
General
1 4 (36.36%) Influencing Skills
1 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) Cloud Engineer
1 7 (63.64%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
1 7 (63.64%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 7 (63.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 7 (63.64%) Oracle Infrastructure Engineer
1 7 (63.64%) Platform Engineer
2 4 (36.36%) Architect
2 4 (36.36%) Data Architect
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Autonomous Agent
1 4 (36.36%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) Platform Engineering
2 4 (36.36%) Agile
2 4 (36.36%) AI
2 4 (36.36%) Architecture Governance
2 4 (36.36%) Business Analytics
2 4 (36.36%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (36.36%) CI/CD
2 4 (36.36%) Data Architecture
2 4 (36.36%) Data Management
2 4 (36.36%) Data Modelling
2 4 (36.36%) Data Pipeline
2 4 (36.36%) Decision-Making
2 4 (36.36%) DevOps
2 4 (36.36%) ETL
2 4 (36.36%) Migration
2 4 (36.36%) Problem Management
2 4 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (36.36%) Storage Management
2 4 (36.36%) Technical Leadership
2 4 (36.36%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) SC Cleared
1 4 (36.36%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (36.36%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 7 (63.64%) Oracle
2 4 (36.36%) Denodo