Infrastructure Monitoring Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Infrastructure Monitoring
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Infrastructure Monitoring skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 161 101 94
Rank change year-on-year -60 -7 +32
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Monitoring 3 7 18
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.088% 0.44% 0.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.10% 0.49% 1.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 7 9
10th Percentile £470 - £493
25th Percentile £481 - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £375 £550
Median % change year-on-year +36.53% -31.82% +27.91%
75th Percentile £531 £439 -
90th Percentile £535 £503 -
England median daily rate £494 £413 £530
% change year-on-year +19.64% -22.17% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £21.25
Median hourly rate - - £22.50
75th Percentile - - £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £50.00 - £22.50

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Infrastructure Monitoring 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 2,919 1,421 1,654
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 85.98% 88.70% 80.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,903 894 1,103
10th Percentile £313 £209 £264
25th Percentile £405 £364 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.53% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £584 £625
90th Percentile £674 £688 £725
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 149 99 107
10th Percentile £14.82 £12.62 £11.06
25th Percentile £21.25 £13.74 £14.00
Median hourly rate £33.99 £22.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.07% +18.42% -24.75%
75th Percentile £59.50 £32.82 £36.25
90th Percentile £72.54 £50.00 £57.25
England median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +88.87% -34.02% -8.14%

Infrastructure Monitoring
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Infrastructure Monitoring relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Infrastructure Monitoring job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Infrastructure Monitoring
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Infrastructure Monitoring.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Infrastructure Monitoring

Infrastructure Monitoring
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Infrastructure Monitoring.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Infrastructure Monitoring

Infrastructure Monitoring
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 Monitoring within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 16 July 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
Warwickshire - 2 £512 - 2
Birmingham -30 1 - -
Infrastructure Monitoring
England

Infrastructure Monitoring
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
1 2 (66.67%) ICMP
1 2 (66.67%) SNMP
2 1 (33.33%) NAS
2 1 (33.33%) SAN
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Project Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
1 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Unix
1 1 (33.33%) VMS
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Capacity Management
1 2 (66.67%) Capacity Planning
1 2 (66.67%) Dashboard Development
1 2 (66.67%) Knowledge Transfer
1 2 (66.67%) Observability
1 2 (66.67%) Performance Monitoring
1 2 (66.67%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (66.67%) Root Cause Analysis
1 2 (66.67%) Runbook
2 1 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
2 1 (33.33%) Dependency Management
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Project Management
2 1 (33.33%) Project Planning
2 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
2 1 (33.33%) Server Management
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (66.67%) VMware NSX
3 1 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (33.33%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) VMware