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 10 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 62 72 110
Rank change year-on-year +10 +38 -12
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 52 58 68
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.57% 2.62% 1.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.13% 2.99% 2.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 44 49
10th Percentile £342 £300 £256
25th Percentile £380 £405 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +5.88% +42.86%
75th Percentile £581 £700 £480
90th Percentile £590 £731 £588
England median daily rate £500 £507 £475
% change year-on-year -1.38% +6.74% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £19.95 - -
England median hourly rate £54.88 £68.75 £36.11
% change year-on-year -20.18% +90.38% -3.70%

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 1,659 1,939 3,222
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 82.13% 87.66% 90.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,106 1,313 2,342
10th Percentile £263 £263 £275
25th Percentile £363 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £495
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +5.00% +16.53%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £587
90th Percentile £731 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 118 51 58
10th Percentile £11.11 £12.50 £12.18
25th Percentile £14.31 £14.03 £13.90
Median hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £17.25
Median % change year-on-year - +30.43% +15.00%
75th Percentile £40.38 £28.75 £19.97
90th Percentile £58.75 £47.50 £24.50
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%

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 10 June 2024.

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 10 June 2024. 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
Worcestershire +13 18 £550 +22.22% 4
Coventry +14 10 £388 -13.89% 4
Birmingham -6 10 £500 -18.37% 7
Staffordshire +12 6 £374 -46.51% 6
Herefordshire -8 4 £538 -2.27% 1
Warwickshire -5 2 - - 4
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 9 (17.31%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (7.69%) SharePoint
3 2 (3.85%) IIS
3 2 (3.85%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (3.85%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 13 (25.00%) Azure
2 10 (19.23%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (7.69%) AWS
4 2 (3.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 2 (3.85%) Azure Service Bus
4 2 (3.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (3.85%) Entra ID
4 2 (3.85%) OneDrive
4 2 (3.85%) SaaS
5 1 (1.92%) Azure AKS
5 1 (1.92%) Azure Functions
5 1 (1.92%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (1.92%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (1.92%) GitHub
5 1 (1.92%) IaaS
5 1 (1.92%) PaaS
5 1 (1.92%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 17 (32.69%) DNS
2 15 (28.85%) DHCP
3 9 (17.31%) Firewall
3 9 (17.31%) TCP/IP
4 7 (13.46%) SAN
5 4 (7.69%) Network Security
6 3 (5.77%) Cisco Nexus
6 3 (5.77%) LAN
6 3 (5.77%) WAN
6 3 (5.77%) Wireless
7 2 (3.85%) Fibre Channel
7 2 (3.85%) iSCSI
7 2 (3.85%) NAS
7 2 (3.85%) VoIP
7 2 (3.85%) VPN
8 1 (1.92%) FTP
8 1 (1.92%) HTTP
8 1 (1.92%) SNMP
8 1 (1.92%) SSL
8 1 (1.92%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.77%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (3.85%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.92%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.92%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.92%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (5.77%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (1.92%) Hudson
2 1 (1.92%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 9 (17.31%) Public Sector
2 4 (7.69%) Social Skills
3 3 (5.77%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.85%) German Language
5 1 (1.92%) Back Office
5 1 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.92%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 34 (65.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 10 (19.23%) DevOps Engineer
3 7 (13.46%) Network Engineer
4 6 (11.54%) Principal Engineer
5 5 (9.62%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (5.77%) Architect
6 3 (5.77%) IT Engineer
6 3 (5.77%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (5.77%) Senior
6 3 (5.77%) SIEM Engineer
7 2 (3.85%) Azure Architect
7 2 (3.85%) Elasticsearch Engineer
7 2 (3.85%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
7 2 (3.85%) Operations Engineer
7 2 (3.85%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 1 (1.92%) Infrastructure Architect
8 1 (1.92%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
8 1 (1.92%) Support Engineer
8 1 (1.92%) Windows Engineer
8 1 (1.92%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.77%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (3.85%) LAMP
3 1 (1.92%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 5 (9.62%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (5.77%) Replication
3 2 (3.85%) IVR
3 2 (3.85%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (1.92%) CMDB
4 1 (1.92%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.92%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.92%) Operational Technology
4 1 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 23 (44.23%) Windows
2 16 (30.77%) Windows Server
3 13 (25.00%) Linux
4 6 (11.54%) Unix
5 5 (9.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (5.77%) Ubuntu
6 3 (5.77%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (5.77%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (3.85%) VMS
7 2 (3.85%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (19.23%) DevOps
1 10 (19.23%) Virtual Environments
2 8 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
2 8 (15.38%) SIEM
2 8 (15.38%) Visualisation
3 6 (11.54%) Computer Science
3 6 (11.54%) Decision-Making
3 6 (11.54%) Project Delivery
3 6 (11.54%) Server Patching
3 6 (11.54%) Software Engineering
3 6 (11.54%) User Experience
3 6 (11.54%) Workflow
4 5 (9.62%) Agile
4 5 (9.62%) Cybersecurity
4 5 (9.62%) Information Management
4 5 (9.62%) Security Hardening
4 5 (9.62%) Security Monitoring
4 5 (9.62%) Systems Engineering
5 4 (7.69%) Migration
6 3 (5.77%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 8 (15.38%) C#
1 8 (15.38%) Java
2 4 (7.69%) PowerShell
2 4 (7.69%) SQL
3 1 (1.92%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 23 (44.23%) Security Cleared
2 18 (34.62%) DV Cleared
3 8 (15.38%) Degree
4 6 (11.54%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (11.54%) SC Cleared
5 3 (5.77%) Azure Certification
5 3 (5.77%) CCNA
5 3 (5.77%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.92%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (11.54%) QA
2 5 (9.62%) NIST
3 1 (1.92%) SLA
System Software
1 18 (34.62%) Active Directory
2 9 (17.31%) VMware ESXi
2 9 (17.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (11.54%) VMware NSX
4 3 (5.77%) Hyper-V
4 3 (5.77%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (3.85%) vSphere
6 1 (1.92%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 17 (32.69%) SCCM
2 8 (15.38%) vCenter Server
3 3 (5.77%) Ansible
3 3 (5.77%) Kibana
3 3 (5.77%) logstash
3 3 (5.77%) Terraform
4 2 (3.85%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.92%) McAfee ePO
5 1 (1.92%) Nessus
5 1 (1.92%) SCOM
5 1 (1.92%) WSUS
Vendors
1 20 (38.46%) VMware
2 12 (23.08%) Microsoft
3 7 (13.46%) Veeam
4 5 (9.62%) Cisco
4 5 (9.62%) ServiceNow
5 3 (5.77%) CheckPoint
5 3 (5.77%) F5
6 2 (3.85%) Aruba
6 2 (3.85%) Genesys
6 2 (3.85%) NetApp
6 2 (3.85%) Palo Alto
6 2 (3.85%) ProCurve
6 2 (3.85%) Synology
6 2 (3.85%) Zerto
7 1 (1.92%) Citrix
7 1 (1.92%) Commvault
7 1 (1.92%) LogicMonitor
7 1 (1.92%) McAfee
7 1 (1.92%) Netskope
7 1 (1.92%) Sophos