Network Infrastructure Engineer Contracts in the West Midlands

Network Infrastructure Engineer
England > West Midlands

The median Network Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in the West Midlands is £425 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 110 133 169
Rank change year-on-year +23 +36 -44
Contract jobs requiring a Network Infrastructure Engineer 6 1 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.31% 0.043% 0.057%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.34% 0.046% 0.059%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £363 £445 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £225
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +100.00% -19.64%
75th Percentile £1,000 £455 £238
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £506 £525 £375
% change year-on-year -3.57% +40.00% +25.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 1,746 2,191 3,394
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.41% 94.89% 96.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,180 1,497 2,464
10th Percentile £259 £250 £230
25th Percentile £363 £381 £368
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.70% +5.26% +15.85%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £713 £699 £669
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 135 63 77
10th Percentile £12.04 £12.50 £12.38
25th Percentile £15.00 £14.75 £14.50
Median hourly rate £22.00 £20.00 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +17.65% +9.68%
75th Percentile £41.13 £27.57 £20.00
90th Percentile £55.75 £56.75 £22.25
England median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +95.65% +4.55%

Network Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings that featured Network Infrastructure Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Network Infrastructure Engineer in the West Midlands

Network Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Network Infrastructure Engineer in the West Midlands

Network Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Infrastructure Engineer in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Network Infrastructure Engineer in the West Midlands

Network Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Network Infrastructure Engineer in the West Midlands

Network 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 Network Infrastructure Engineer within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 10 May 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
Birmingham +14 2 £1,000 +122.22% 1
Coventry - 2 £375 -
Staffordshire - 1 - - 1
Network Infrastructure Engineer
England

Network Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 10 May 2024, Network Infrastructure Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the West Midlands region featuring Network Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (83.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (66.67%) Active Directory
3 3 (50.00%) Wireless
3 3 (50.00%) Ubuntu
3 3 (50.00%) Linux
3 3 (50.00%) VMware
4 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2019
4 2 (33.33%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (33.33%) IVR
4 2 (33.33%) Palo Alto
4 2 (33.33%) Windows Server
4 2 (33.33%) NAS
4 2 (33.33%) Veeam
4 2 (33.33%) Azure
4 2 (33.33%) vSphere
4 2 (33.33%) SaaS
4 2 (33.33%) Aruba
4 2 (33.33%) Fibre Channel
4 2 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (33.33%) ServiceNow
4 2 (33.33%) Synology
4 2 (33.33%) OneDrive
4 2 (33.33%) Zerto
4 2 (33.33%) SharePoint
4 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
4 2 (33.33%) IIS
4 2 (33.33%) Windows

Network Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
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 2 (33.33%) IIS
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (33.33%) SharePoint
1 2 (33.33%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (33.33%) OneDrive
1 2 (33.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) Wireless
2 2 (33.33%) DNS
2 2 (33.33%) Fibre Channel
2 2 (33.33%) Firewall
2 2 (33.33%) iSCSI
2 2 (33.33%) NAS
2 2 (33.33%) SAN
2 2 (33.33%) VoIP
2 2 (33.33%) VPN
3 1 (16.67%) LAN
3 1 (16.67%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) IVR
1 2 (33.33%) Linux Command Line
1 2 (33.33%) Replication
1 2 (33.33%) Video Conferencing
2 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Linux
1 3 (50.00%) Ubuntu
2 2 (33.33%) VMS
2 2 (33.33%) Windows
2 2 (33.33%) Windows Server
2 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2016
2 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (16.67%) CentOS
3 1 (16.67%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) WFM
3 1 (16.67%) Architectural Design
3 1 (16.67%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 1 (16.67%) Migration
3 1 (16.67%) Network Design
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 2 (33.33%) vSphere
3 1 (16.67%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (33.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) VMware
2 2 (33.33%) Aruba
2 2 (33.33%) Genesys
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (33.33%) Palo Alto
2 2 (33.33%) ProCurve
2 2 (33.33%) ServiceNow
2 2 (33.33%) Synology
2 2 (33.33%) Veeam
2 2 (33.33%) Zerto
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco
3 1 (16.67%) Red Hat