Infrastructure Engineering Contracts in the West Midlands

Infrastructure Engineering
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for Infrastructure Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Infrastructure Engineering over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 70 73 96
Rank change year-on-year +3 +23 -3
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 44 69 77
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.28% 2.87% 2.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.71% 3.25% 2.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 52 59
10th Percentile £352 £313 £230
25th Percentile £363 £388 £311
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £413
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +9.09% +36.93%
75th Percentile £575 £602 £456
90th Percentile £595 £731 £538
England median daily rate £480 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -4.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £19.95 - -
England median hourly rate £46.18 £63.84 £50.00
% change year-on-year -27.66% +27.68% +25.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Infrastructure Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,621 2,126 3,201
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.95% 88.55% 89.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,069 1,460 2,360
10th Percentile £275 £263 £263
25th Percentile £375 £400 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £484
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +5.43% +16.75%
75th Percentile £623 £600 £575
90th Percentile £738 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 46 72
10th Percentile £11.09 £12.25 £12.00
25th Percentile £14.00 £13.31 £13.70
Median hourly rate £22.50 £17.72 £16.66
Median % change year-on-year +26.98% +6.35% -4.79%
75th Percentile £41.13 £23.62 £19.59
90th Percentile £57.75 £50.63 £21.85
England median hourly rate £35.25 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -6.00% +56.25% -

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 25 April 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 25 April 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 -12 11 £506 -3.57% 6
Coventry +13 10 £400 -11.11% 6
Worcestershire +11 10 £538 +19.44% 3
Staffordshire +11 7 £375 -46.43% 11
Herefordshire -4 4 £538 -2.27% 1
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 10 (22.73%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (9.09%) SharePoint
3 2 (4.55%) IIS
3 2 (4.55%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (4.55%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 14 (31.82%) Azure
2 12 (27.27%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (9.09%) AWS
4 2 (4.55%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 2 (4.55%) Azure Service Bus
4 2 (4.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (4.55%) Entra ID
4 2 (4.55%) OneDrive
4 2 (4.55%) SaaS
5 1 (2.27%) Azure AKS
5 1 (2.27%) Azure Functions
5 1 (2.27%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (2.27%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (2.27%) GitHub
5 1 (2.27%) IaaS
5 1 (2.27%) Nutanix
5 1 (2.27%) PaaS
5 1 (2.27%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 17 (38.64%) DNS
2 14 (31.82%) DHCP
3 9 (20.45%) Firewall
3 9 (20.45%) TCP/IP
4 7 (15.91%) SAN
5 4 (9.09%) Network Security
6 3 (6.82%) Cisco Nexus
6 3 (6.82%) Wireless
7 2 (4.55%) Fibre Channel
7 2 (4.55%) iSCSI
7 2 (4.55%) LAN
7 2 (4.55%) NAS
7 2 (4.55%) VoIP
7 2 (4.55%) VPN
7 2 (4.55%) WAN
8 1 (2.27%) FTP
8 1 (2.27%) HTTP
8 1 (2.27%) SMTP
8 1 (2.27%) SNMP
8 1 (2.27%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.82%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (6.82%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.27%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (2.27%) Data Lake
2 1 (2.27%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (6.82%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (2.27%) Hudson
2 1 (2.27%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 9 (20.45%) Public Sector
2 3 (6.82%) Social Skills
3 2 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (4.55%) German Language
4 1 (2.27%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 34 (77.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (13.64%) Network Engineer
2 6 (13.64%) Principal Engineer
3 5 (11.36%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (6.82%) Architect
4 3 (6.82%) IT Engineer
4 3 (6.82%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (6.82%) Senior
4 3 (6.82%) SIEM Engineer
5 2 (4.55%) Azure Architect
5 2 (4.55%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (4.55%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (4.55%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (4.55%) Elasticsearch Engineer
5 2 (4.55%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
5 2 (4.55%) Operations Engineer
5 2 (4.55%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (2.27%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (2.27%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 1 (2.27%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.82%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (4.55%) LAMP
3 1 (2.27%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.36%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (6.82%) Replication
3 2 (4.55%) IVR
3 2 (4.55%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (2.27%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 23 (52.27%) Windows
2 17 (38.64%) Windows Server
3 13 (29.55%) Linux
4 6 (13.64%) Unix
5 5 (11.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (9.09%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (6.82%) Ubuntu
7 3 (6.82%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (4.55%) VMS
8 2 (4.55%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (22.73%) Virtual Environments
2 8 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
2 8 (18.18%) SIEM
2 8 (18.18%) Visualisation
3 6 (13.64%) Project Delivery
4 5 (11.36%) Agile
4 5 (11.36%) Cybersecurity
4 5 (11.36%) Information Management
4 5 (11.36%) Security Hardening
4 5 (11.36%) Security Monitoring
4 5 (11.36%) Server Patching
4 5 (11.36%) Systems Engineering
5 4 (9.09%) Migration
5 4 (9.09%) Server Management
6 3 (6.82%) API Management
6 3 (6.82%) Incident Management
6 3 (6.82%) Infrastructure Monitoring
6 3 (6.82%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 2 (4.55%) Load Balancing
7 2 (4.55%) WFM
Programming Languages
1 8 (18.18%) C#
1 8 (18.18%) Java
2 3 (6.82%) PowerShell
2 3 (6.82%) SQL
3 1 (2.27%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 16 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 10 (22.73%) DV Cleared
3 7 (15.91%) SC Cleared
4 4 (9.09%) Degree
5 3 (6.82%) Azure Certification
5 3 (6.82%) CCNA
5 3 (6.82%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.36%) NIST
2 2 (4.55%) QA
System Software
1 19 (43.18%) Active Directory
2 10 (22.73%) VMware ESXi
3 9 (20.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (13.64%) VMware NSX
5 4 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (6.82%) Hyper-V
7 2 (4.55%) vSphere
8 1 (2.27%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (2.27%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 16 (36.36%) SCCM
2 9 (20.45%) vCenter Server
3 3 (6.82%) Ansible
3 3 (6.82%) Kibana
3 3 (6.82%) logstash
3 3 (6.82%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (6.82%) Terraform
4 1 (2.27%) McAfee ePO
4 1 (2.27%) SCOM
Vendors
1 19 (43.18%) VMware
2 13 (29.55%) Microsoft
3 7 (15.91%) Veeam
4 5 (11.36%) Cisco
4 5 (11.36%) ServiceNow
5 3 (6.82%) CheckPoint
5 3 (6.82%) F5
6 2 (4.55%) Aruba
6 2 (4.55%) Genesys
6 2 (4.55%) Palo Alto
6 2 (4.55%) ProCurve
6 2 (4.55%) Synology
6 2 (4.55%) Zerto
7 1 (2.27%) Commvault
7 1 (2.27%) LogicMonitor
7 1 (2.27%) McAfee
7 1 (2.27%) NetApp
7 1 (2.27%) Sophos