Infrastructure Engineer Contracts in the West Midlands

Infrastructure Engineer
England > West Midlands

The median Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in the West Midlands is £300, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 77 98
Rank change year-on-year -3 +21 +18
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 16 35 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.19% 1.80% 1.76%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.31% 1.98% 1.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 27 34
10th Percentile £264 £334 £338
25th Percentile £285 £369 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year -29.41% -5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £375 £575 £538
90th Percentile £570 - £700
England median daily rate £525 £463 £500
% change year-on-year +13.51% -7.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £19.95 -
England median hourly rate £112.09 £22.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +398.18% -65.38% +3.20%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 1,222 1,771 2,262
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.72% 91.24% 94.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 817 1,195 1,556
10th Percentile £200 £259 £250
25th Percentile £375 £363 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -2.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £700 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 134 66
10th Percentile £12.62 £12.01 £12.50
25th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £15.02
Median hourly rate £18.00 £22.25 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.10% +14.10% +12.85%
75th Percentile £28.18 £42.31 £26.82
90th Percentile £35.91 £55.88 £55.63
England median hourly rate £31.64 £35.96 £45.00
% change year-on-year -12.01% -20.09% +100.00%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the West Midlands

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the West Midlands

Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in the West Midlands

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the West Midlands

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 Infrastructure Engineer within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 30 April 2025. 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
Solihull - 6 £375 - 2
Birmingham +10 5 £250 -38.46% 3
Coventry +4 3 £290 -27.50% 4
Worcestershire -8 1 £700 +27.27% 2
Warwickshire - 1 £300 - 1
Infrastructure Engineer
England

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 30 April 2025, 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 West Midlands region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 16 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 13 (81.25%) Windows
3 9 (56.25%) VMware
4 8 (50.00%) Windows Server
5 6 (37.50%) Linux
6 5 (31.25%) LAN
6 5 (31.25%) SAN
6 5 (31.25%) Microsoft
6 5 (31.25%) Dell
6 5 (31.25%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (31.25%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (25.00%) Entra ID
7 4 (25.00%) Data Centre
7 4 (25.00%) Virtual Servers
7 4 (25.00%) Security Cleared
7 4 (25.00%) Storage Management
7 4 (25.00%) NAS
7 4 (25.00%) Manufacturing
7 4 (25.00%) Migration
8 3 (18.75%) Agile
8 3 (18.75%) ITIL
8 3 (18.75%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (18.75%) JIRA
8 3 (18.75%) Confluence
8 3 (18.75%) Azure
8 3 (18.75%) AWS
8 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
9 2 (12.50%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (12.50%) Azure Certification
9 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Purview

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 3 (18.75%) Confluence
1 3 (18.75%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (6.25%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (31.25%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (25.00%) Entra ID
3 3 (18.75%) AWS
3 3 (18.75%) Azure
4 2 (12.50%) IaaS
4 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 5 (31.25%) LAN
1 5 (31.25%) SAN
2 4 (25.00%) NAS
3 1 (6.25%) DHCP
3 1 (6.25%) DNS
3 1 (6.25%) Firewall
3 1 (6.25%) HTTP
3 1 (6.25%) OpenLDAP
3 1 (6.25%) SSL
3 1 (6.25%) VLAN
3 1 (6.25%) WAN
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) JIRA
2 2 (12.50%) ScriptRunner
3 1 (6.25%) Git
3 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
3 1 (6.25%) Maven
3 1 (6.25%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (25.00%) Manufacturing
2 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Advertising
3 1 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) LDAP
1 1 (6.25%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (6.25%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 13 (81.25%) Windows
2 8 (50.00%) Windows Server
3 6 (37.50%) Linux
4 2 (12.50%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (6.25%) CentOS
5 1 (6.25%) Debian
5 1 (6.25%) Rocky
5 1 (6.25%) Ubuntu
5 1 (6.25%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (25.00%) Migration
2 4 (25.00%) Storage Management
3 3 (18.75%) Agile
3 3 (18.75%) ITIL
4 2 (12.50%) Data Loss Prevention
4 2 (12.50%) Incident Management
4 2 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (12.50%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 1 (6.25%) Actionable Insight
5 1 (6.25%) Capacity Management
5 1 (6.25%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (6.25%) Containerisation
5 1 (6.25%) DevOps
5 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Maintenance
5 1 (6.25%) Log Aggregation
5 1 (6.25%) Patch Management
5 1 (6.25%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (6.25%) Server Management
5 1 (6.25%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 2 (12.50%) Groovy
2 1 (6.25%) Python
2 1 (6.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (12.50%) Azure Certification
2 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 1 (6.25%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (6.25%) Degree
3 1 (6.25%) DV Cleared
3 1 (6.25%) MCSE
3 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (6.25%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (6.25%) QA
System Software
1 5 (31.25%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (25.00%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (12.50%) Active Directory
4 1 (6.25%) Docker
4 1 (6.25%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.25%) Nessus
2 1 (6.25%) Puppet
2 1 (6.25%) SCCM
2 1 (6.25%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 9 (56.25%) VMware
2 5 (31.25%) Dell
2 5 (31.25%) Microsoft
3 2 (12.50%) Atlassian
4 1 (6.25%) SolarWinds
4 1 (6.25%) Sophos
4 1 (6.25%) Veeam