Senior Infrastructure Engineer Contract Job Trends in Staffordshire

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
West Midlands > Staffordshire

The median Senior Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in Staffordshire is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 September 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 - 20
Rank change year-on-year - - +9
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 4 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Staffordshire 2.30% - 0.76%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.92% - 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - £300
Median % change year-on-year - - -57.14%
75th Percentile £488 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £700 £500
% change year-on-year -32.14% +40.00% -13.04%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Staffordshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 137 54 125
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 78.74% 94.74% 94.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 23 74
10th Percentile £184 £140 £114
25th Percentile £295 £174 £218
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £350 £371
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% -5.77% -25.72%
75th Percentile £609 £493 £476
90th Percentile £850 £590 £594
West Midlands median daily rate £490 £485 £500
% change year-on-year +1.03% -3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 12 4
10th Percentile £13.10 £24.50 £18.76
25th Percentile £17.74 £29.00 £28.51
Median hourly rate £19.41 £30.00 £34.47
Median % change year-on-year -35.30% -12.96% +37.86%
75th Percentile £21.08 £40.25 £37.19
90th Percentile £21.36 £42.95 £41.13
West Midlands median hourly rate £30.00 £25.15 £19.59
% change year-on-year +19.28% +28.38% -6.65%

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Staffordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Senior Infrastructure Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Staffordshire.

Senior Infrastructure Engineer job vacancy trend in Staffordshire

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Staffordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in Staffordshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in Staffordshire

Senior Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 13 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Staffordshire

For the 6 months to 12 September 2026, Senior Infrastructure Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Staffordshire region featuring Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Certification
2 2 (50.00%) DNS
2 2 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 2 (50.00%) Hyper-V
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (50.00%) SSL
2 2 (50.00%) VMware
2 2 (50.00%) Windows Server

Senior Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
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 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) DNS
1 2 (50.00%) SSL
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (50.00%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (50.00%) VMware