Infrastructure Management Contracts in the West Midlands

Infrastructure Management
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring Infrastructure Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Infrastructure Management over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 96 133
Rank change year-on-year +6 +37 +37
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Management 7 16 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.52% 0.82% 0.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.59% 0.98% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 10 7
10th Percentile - £397 £323
25th Percentile £413 £425 £376
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £550 £430
Median % change year-on-year -20.45% +27.91% +2.08%
75th Percentile £450 £675 £584
90th Percentile - - £700
England median daily rate £550 £465 £544
% change year-on-year +18.28% -14.48% -5.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £15.13 - -
Median hourly rate £15.25 - -
75th Percentile £15.38 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £15.25 £23.80 £35.50
% change year-on-year -35.92% -32.96% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Infrastructure Management 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 1,188 1,637 2,110
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.26% 83.91% 88.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 781 1,085 1,445
10th Percentile £195 £275 £263
25th Percentile £381 £375 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% +5.13%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £750 £694
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 115 45
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.09 £12.20
25th Percentile £13.96 £14.00 £13.31
Median hourly rate £18.07 £22.50 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -19.71% +26.98% +4.24%
75th Percentile £24.10 £41.13 £23.75
90th Percentile £38.67 £57.75 £51.25
England median hourly rate £29.15 £35.96 £37.50
% change year-on-year -18.93% -4.12% +53.06%

Infrastructure Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Management in the West Midlands

Infrastructure Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Management in the West Midlands

Infrastructure Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Management in the West Midlands

Infrastructure Management
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 Management within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 2 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
Warwickshire - 3 £450 - 1
Birmingham +7 2 £425 -5.56% 2
Coventry +6 1 - - 1
Herefordshire - 1 - - 1
Infrastructure Management
England

Infrastructure Management
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 1 (14.29%) Apache
1 1 (14.29%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 2 (28.57%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (28.57%) Amazon S3
1 2 (28.57%) AWS
1 2 (28.57%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
1 2 (28.57%) Azure Monitor
1 2 (28.57%) Azure Sentinel
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (28.57%) Serverless
1 2 (28.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 1 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (14.29%) AWS CodeBuild
2 1 (14.29%) AWS CodePipeline
2 1 (14.29%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Firewall
1 1 (14.29%) Telepresence
1 1 (14.29%) Unified Communications
1 1 (14.29%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (14.29%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
2 1 (14.29%) Bitbucket
2 1 (14.29%) Git
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Legal
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Applications Architect
1 2 (28.57%) Architect
1 2 (28.57%) Azure Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Cloud Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Security Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Administrator
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Desktop Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Desktop Support
2 1 (14.29%) Desktop Support Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Apache Axis
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Onboarding
1 2 (28.57%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Windows
2 2 (28.57%) Windows Server
2 2 (28.57%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (14.29%) Mac OS
3 1 (14.29%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
1 4 (57.14%) DevOps
1 4 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (28.57%) Business Continuity
2 2 (28.57%) Cloud Security
2 2 (28.57%) Computer Science
2 2 (28.57%) Cost Reduction
2 2 (28.57%) Design Patterns
2 2 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (28.57%) ITIL
2 2 (28.57%) Microservices
2 2 (28.57%) Migration
2 2 (28.57%) Network Virtualisation
2 2 (28.57%) SOA
2 2 (28.57%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (14.29%) Configuration Management
3 1 (14.29%) Data Security
3 1 (14.29%) ETL
3 1 (14.29%) Information Management
3 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Python
1 3 (42.86%) SQL
2 2 (28.57%) C#
2 2 (28.57%) Java
2 2 (28.57%) PowerShell
2 2 (28.57%) Ruby
3 1 (14.29%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Azure Certification
1 2 (28.57%) CISSP
1 2 (28.57%) CompTIA Security+
1 2 (28.57%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (28.57%) Degree
1 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
1 2 (28.57%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Terraform
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (28.57%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (14.29%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco
2 1 (14.29%) Databricks