Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer
England > West Midlands

The median Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in the West Midlands is £425, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2026.

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

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 159 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.032% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.034% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £438 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £450 - £463

All Contract IT Job Roles
West Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the West 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 West Midlands with a recognized job title 2,925 1,237 1,747
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 90.89% 91.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,837 809 1,180
10th Percentile £313 £195 £259
25th Percentile £404 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £483 £492
Median % change year-on-year -1.66% -1.73% -1.70%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £600
90th Percentile £688 £650 £713
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 162 76 135
10th Percentile £14.88 £12.62 £12.04
25th Percentile £22.50 £14.00 £15.00
Median hourly rate £33.49 £17.62 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +90.07% -19.91% +10.00%
75th Percentile £59.50 £24.33 £41.13
90th Percentile £68.00 £35.58 £55.75
England median hourly rate £47.00 £30.32 £37.50
% change year-on-year +55.01% -19.15% -16.23%

Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 12 May 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
Birmingham - 1 £425 -
Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer
England

Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 12 May 2026, Data Centre 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 West Midlands region featuring Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (100.00%) BCP
1 1 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (100.00%) Business Continuity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) CCNP
1 1 (100.00%) Check_MK
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) CloudStack
1 1 (100.00%) Commvault
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre Operations
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) IaaS
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Migration

Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) CloudStack
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) NAS
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
1 1 (100.00%) Structured Cabling
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Ubuntu
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) BCP
1 1 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (100.00%) Business Continuity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre Operations
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Network Design
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Security Hardening
1 1 (100.00%) Server Management
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (100.00%) CCNP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Check_MK
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Commvault
1 1 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Veeam
1 1 (100.00%) VMware