Infrastructure Engineering Contracts in the West Midlands

Infrastructure Engineering
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring Infrastructure Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Infrastructure Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 64 65
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 +40
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 31 47 63
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.22% 2.42% 2.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.50% 2.91% 3.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 34 44
10th Percentile £263 £322 £313
25th Percentile £293 £376 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% +16.67% +5.88%
75th Percentile £444 £575 £700
90th Percentile £620 £596 £731
England median daily rate £525 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +9.38% -4.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £19.95 -
England median hourly rate £67.50 £54.88 £68.75
% change year-on-year +23.01% -20.18% +61.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,241 1,617 1,961
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.77% 83.09% 87.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 807 1,076 1,329
10th Percentile £200 £266 £263
25th Percentile £375 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.40% -4.76% +6.06%
75th Percentile £578 £625 £610
90th Percentile £665 £750 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 117 50
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.10 £12.50
25th Percentile £13.78 £14.13 £13.87
Median hourly rate £19.50 £22.50 £21.69
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +3.73% +28.92%
75th Percentile £30.05 £40.50 £28.75
90th Percentile £50.00 £58.75 £48.13
England median hourly rate £28.17 £37.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -24.89% - +50.00%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Infrastructure Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineering in the West Midlands

Infrastructure Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Engineering in the West Midlands

Infrastructure Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in the West Midlands

Infrastructure Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Engineering in the West Midlands

Infrastructure Engineering
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 Engineering within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 30 May 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
Birmingham +8 9 £400 -20.00% 26
Coventry +1 8 £275 -29.03% 11
Solihull - 6 £375 -
Warwickshire 0 5 £400 - 1
Worcestershire -12 2 £650 +18.18% 10
Infrastructure Engineering
England

Infrastructure Engineering
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 (9.68%) Confluence
1 3 (9.68%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.23%) Apache
2 1 (3.23%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 6 (19.35%) Azure
2 5 (16.13%) AWS
2 5 (16.13%) Entra ID
2 5 (16.13%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (6.45%) IaaS
3 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (3.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (3.23%) Azure Stack
4 1 (3.23%) OpenShift
4 1 (3.23%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (19.35%) LAN
1 6 (19.35%) SAN
2 5 (16.13%) Firewall
3 4 (12.90%) NAS
4 3 (9.68%) BIG-IP
4 3 (9.68%) Cisco ASA
4 3 (9.68%) Cisco ISE
4 3 (9.68%) DNS
5 2 (6.45%) DHCP
5 2 (6.45%) Network Security
5 2 (6.45%) WAN
6 1 (3.23%) HTTP
6 1 (3.23%) OpenLDAP
6 1 (3.23%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (3.23%) SSL
6 1 (3.23%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 7 (22.58%) JIRA
2 2 (6.45%) ScriptRunner
3 1 (3.23%) Cypress.io
3 1 (3.23%) Git
3 1 (3.23%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.23%) Maven
3 1 (3.23%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 11 (35.48%) Social Skills
2 4 (12.90%) Manufacturing
3 2 (6.45%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.23%) Advertising
4 1 (3.23%) Legal
4 1 (3.23%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 22 (70.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (19.35%) Linux Engineer
2 6 (19.35%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (16.13%) Windows Engineer
3 5 (16.13%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (12.90%) Storage Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) Network Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) Senior
6 2 (6.45%) Applications Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) IT Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Systems Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) VMware Engineer
7 1 (3.23%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 1 (3.23%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (3.23%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (3.23%) Data Engineer
7 1 (3.23%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (3.23%) Linux/Unix DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.23%) Apache Axis
1 1 (3.23%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (3.23%) LDAP
1 1 (3.23%) PySpark
1 1 (3.23%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.90%) Data Centre
2 1 (3.23%) CCTV
2 1 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (3.23%) Educational Technology
2 1 (3.23%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (3.23%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.23%) Operational Technology
2 1 (3.23%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.23%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 18 (58.06%) Windows
2 12 (38.71%) Windows Server
3 8 (25.81%) Linux
4 3 (9.68%) Windows Server 2016
4 3 (9.68%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (3.23%) CentOS
5 1 (3.23%) Debian
5 1 (3.23%) Rocky
5 1 (3.23%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (29.03%) ITIL
2 7 (22.58%) Agile
3 6 (19.35%) Migration
4 4 (12.90%) Asset Management
4 4 (12.90%) Storage Management
5 3 (9.68%) Break/Fix
5 3 (9.68%) Load Balancing
6 2 (6.45%) Computer Science
6 2 (6.45%) Containerisation
6 2 (6.45%) Customer Service
6 2 (6.45%) Data Loss Prevention
6 2 (6.45%) DevOps
6 2 (6.45%) Incident Management
6 2 (6.45%) Infrastructure Maintenance
6 2 (6.45%) Penetration Testing
6 2 (6.45%) Performance Tuning
6 2 (6.45%) Project Management
6 2 (6.45%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 2 (6.45%) Validation
7 1 (3.23%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (22.58%) PowerShell
2 6 (19.35%) Python
3 2 (6.45%) Groovy
4 1 (3.23%) Bash
4 1 (3.23%) C#
4 1 (3.23%) Java
4 1 (3.23%) Ruby
4 1 (3.23%) Shell Script
4 1 (3.23%) SQL
4 1 (3.23%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (32.26%) Security Cleared
2 7 (22.58%) SC Cleared
3 3 (9.68%) CompTIA Security+
3 3 (9.68%) Degree
3 3 (9.68%) DV Cleared
4 2 (6.45%) Azure Certification
5 1 (3.23%) AWS Certification
5 1 (3.23%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
5 1 (3.23%) CISSP
5 1 (3.23%) MCSE
5 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (3.23%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.90%) QA
2 3 (9.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (3.23%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 5 (16.13%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (12.90%) Active Directory
2 4 (12.90%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (6.45%) Docker
3 2 (6.45%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (6.45%) vSphere
4 1 (3.23%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (9.68%) Ansible
1 3 (9.68%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (6.45%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.23%) Grafana
3 1 (3.23%) Nessus
3 1 (3.23%) Prometheus
3 1 (3.23%) Puppet
3 1 (3.23%) SCCM
3 1 (3.23%) SolarWinds Orion
3 1 (3.23%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (45.16%) VMware
2 6 (19.35%) Microsoft
3 5 (16.13%) Dell
4 4 (12.90%) Cisco
4 4 (12.90%) ServiceNow
4 4 (12.90%) SolarWinds
5 3 (9.68%) CheckPoint
5 3 (9.68%) F5
5 3 (9.68%) Palo Alto
5 3 (9.68%) Veeam
6 2 (6.45%) Atlassian
7 1 (3.23%) Aruba
7 1 (3.23%) Commvault
7 1 (3.23%) EMC
7 1 (3.23%) Meraki
7 1 (3.23%) Red Hat
7 1 (3.23%) Sophos