IT Infrastructure Engineer Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

IT Infrastructure Engineer
England > West Midlands

The median IT Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in the West Midlands is £430, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 11 September 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 171 118 104
Rank change year-on-year -53 -14 +11
Contract jobs requiring an IT Infrastructure Engineer 1 7 6
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.028% 0.39% 0.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.031% 0.43% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 7 4
10th Percentile - £590 £560
25th Percentile £425 - £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £700 £700
Median % change year-on-year -38.57% - +75.00%
75th Percentile £435 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £300 £700 £490
% change year-on-year -57.14% +42.86% +8.89%

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 3,212 1,624 1,781
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.35% 89.33% 93.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,900 1,055 1,165
10th Percentile £330 £235 £250
25th Percentile £413 £375 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £481 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.87% -3.80% -
75th Percentile £588 £581 £625
90th Percentile £675 £650 £723
England median daily rate £525 £506 £525
% change year-on-year +3.75% -3.62% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 240 110 64
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.62 £12.63
25th Percentile £19.34 £14.00 £14.75
Median hourly rate £30.00 £25.15 £19.59
Median % change year-on-year +19.28% +28.38% -6.65%
75th Percentile £53.75 £39.39 £32.60
90th Percentile £67.84 £50.00 £49.63
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £47.50
% change year-on-year +68.99% -47.05% +8.20%

IT Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'IT Infrastructure Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

IT Infrastructure Engineer job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

IT Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for IT Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in the West Midlands.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for IT Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in the West Midlands

IT Infrastructure Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for IT Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in the West Midlands.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for IT Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in the West Midlands

IT 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 IT Infrastructure Engineer within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 11 September 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
Birmingham -9 1 £430 -4.44%
IT Infrastructure Engineer
England

IT Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 17 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 11 September 2026, IT Infrastructure Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the West Midlands region featuring IT Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server

IT Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
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 (100.00%) Azure
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft