Infrastructure Engineering Contract Job Trends in Staffordshire

Infrastructure Engineering
West Midlands > Staffordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Staffordshire requiring Infrastructure Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 - 14
Rank change year-on-year - - +11
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 2 0 5
As % of all contract jobs in Staffordshire 1.98% - 4.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.41% - 5.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 5
10th Percentile £226 - £278
25th Percentile £266 - £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £338 - £369
Median % change year-on-year - - -13.22%
75th Percentile £416 - £380
90th Percentile £459 - £497
West Midlands median daily rate £525 £400 £531
% change year-on-year +31.25% -24.71% +18.06%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Staffordshire

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 Staffordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 83 53 99
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Staffordshire 82.18% 85.48% 80.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 26 61
10th Percentile £180 £140 £133
25th Percentile £210 £150 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 £195 £375
Median % change year-on-year +85.90% -48.00% -25.00%
75th Percentile £497 £488 £488
90th Percentile £759 £556 £575
West Midlands median daily rate £483 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +1.68% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 11 9
10th Percentile - £12.25 £14.29
25th Percentile - £19.00 £15.13
Median hourly rate £13.10 £30.00 £33.93
Median % change year-on-year -56.33% -11.58% +23.38%
75th Percentile £20.93 £31.00 £43.75
90th Percentile £25.62 £37.25 £54.50
West Midlands median hourly rate £33.99 £22.28 £19.00
% change year-on-year +52.59% +17.24% -24.00%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Staffordshire

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

Infrastructure Engineering job vacancy trend in Staffordshire

Infrastructure Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Staffordshire

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

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

Infrastructure Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Staffordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in Staffordshire over the 6 months to 10 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in Staffordshire

Infrastructure Engineering
Hourly Rate Trend in Staffordshire

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

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

Infrastructure Engineering
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 Engineering within the Staffordshire region over the 6 months to 10 July 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
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Infrastructure Engineering
West Midlands

Infrastructure Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Staffordshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) SSL
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Windows Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (50.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) NetApp