Infrastructure Engineer Contracts in Staffordshire

Infrastructure Engineer
West Midlands > Staffordshire

The median Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in Staffordshire is £369 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 13 22 24
Rank change year-on-year +9 +2 -
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 6 2 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Staffordshire 5.77% 1.38% 1.08%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.38% 1.46% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 1
10th Percentile £278 £385 -
25th Percentile £300 £438 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £369 £525 £200
Median % change year-on-year -29.75% +162.50% -
75th Percentile £400 £613 -
90th Percentile £505 £665 -
West Midlands median daily rate £425 £450 £413
% change year-on-year -5.56% +9.09% +36.36%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Staffordshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Staffordshire. 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 Staffordshire with a recognized job title 94 137 173
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.38% 94.48% 93.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 100 128
10th Percentile £248 £162 £150
25th Percentile £325 £263 £203
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £372 £438 £375
Median % change year-on-year -14.99% +16.67% -4.76%
75th Percentile £472 £543 £502
90th Percentile £529 £663 £588
West Midlands median daily rate £486 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.75% +5.26% +17.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 8 10
10th Percentile - £17.62 £13.43
25th Percentile £14.71 £19.97 £16.65
Median hourly rate £26.60 £22.41 £19.05
Median % change year-on-year +18.71% +17.64% +31.38%
75th Percentile £42.50 £51.19 £19.77
90th Percentile £51.25 £52.50 £20.37
West Midlands median hourly rate £22.50 £19.00 £17.00
% change year-on-year +18.42% +11.76% +6.25%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Staffordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in Staffordshire

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Staffordshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in Staffordshire.

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in Staffordshire

Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Staffordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in Staffordshire over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in Staffordshire

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Staffordshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in Staffordshire.

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in Staffordshire

Infrastructure Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Staffordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer within the Staffordshire region over the 6 months to 25 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
Stoke-on-Trent - 5 £384 - 4
Infrastructure Engineer
West Midlands

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Staffordshire

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, Infrastructure Engineer 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 Staffordshire region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (83.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
3 2 (33.33%) VMware
3 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
4 1 (16.67%) Ubuntu
4 1 (16.67%) Network Security
4 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (16.67%) Windows
4 1 (16.67%) Linux
4 1 (16.67%) SharePoint
4 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (16.67%) Cisco
4 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
4 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
4 1 (16.67%) SAN
4 1 (16.67%) Red Hat
4 1 (16.67%) Firewall
4 1 (16.67%) Manufacturing
4 1 (16.67%) Debian
4 1 (16.67%) CentOS
4 1 (16.67%) Hyper-V
4 1 (16.67%) Azure
4 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
4 1 (16.67%) Virtual Environments

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Staffordshire 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 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (16.67%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
1 1 (16.67%) Network Security
1 1 (16.67%) SAN
General
1 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Manufacturing
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) CentOS
1 1 (16.67%) Debian
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Ubuntu
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
1 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
1 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2012
1 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (16.67%) Innovative Thinking
2 1 (16.67%) Virtual Environments
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (16.67%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) VMware
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Red Hat