Infrastructure Engineer Contracts in the Midlands

Infrastructure Engineer
England > Midlands

The median Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in the Midlands is £400 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 12 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
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 97 98 113
Rank change year-on-year +1 +15 -6
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 41 70 89
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.51% 2.08% 1.80%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.64% 2.20% 1.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 59 66
10th Percentile £310 £335 £272
25th Percentile £357 £363 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £445 £400
Median % change year-on-year -10.11% +11.18% +32.31%
75th Percentile £568 £475 £476
90th Percentile £575 £579 £520
England median daily rate £450 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £19.95 - -
England median hourly rate £22.50 £63.84 £47.34
% change year-on-year -64.76% +34.85% +22.17%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the 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 Midlands with a recognized job title 2,498 3,180 4,757
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.97% 94.70% 95.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,687 2,235 3,467
10th Percentile £213 £220 £210
25th Percentile £325 £363 £362
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year - +2.70% +15.63%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £556
90th Percentile £688 £685 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 215 119 165
10th Percentile £11.83 £12.40 £10.93
25th Percentile £14.27 £15.12 £14.50
Median hourly rate £19.13 £20.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.38% +14.29% +16.67%
75th Percentile £35.00 £29.00 £22.75
90th Percentile £52.56 £65.00 £35.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £44.06 £23.00
% change year-on-year -14.88% +91.54% +3.00%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the Midlands

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the Midlands

Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in the Midlands over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in the Midlands

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the Midlands

Infrastructure Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 12 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
West Midlands +10 33 £425 -5.56% 28
East Midlands -3 7 £338 -23.30% 21
Infrastructure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 12 May 2024, 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 Midlands region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 40 (97.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 25 (60.98%) Windows
3 22 (53.66%) VMware
4 21 (51.22%) Active Directory
5 19 (46.34%) Windows Server
6 17 (41.46%) DNS
7 15 (36.59%) DHCP
7 15 (36.59%) SCCM
8 14 (34.15%) Security Cleared
8 14 (34.15%) Microsoft 365
9 13 (31.71%) Microsoft
10 12 (29.27%) Linux
10 12 (29.27%) VMware Infrastructure
11 11 (26.83%) Azure
11 11 (26.83%) VMware ESXi
12 10 (24.39%) vCenter Server
12 10 (24.39%) Virtual Environments
13 9 (21.95%) Microsoft Exchange
13 9 (21.95%) TCP/IP
14 8 (19.51%) C#
14 8 (19.51%) Java
14 8 (19.51%) DV Cleared
14 8 (19.51%) Infrastructure as Code
14 8 (19.51%) Public Sector
15 7 (17.07%) VMware NSX
15 7 (17.07%) SIEM
15 7 (17.07%) Veeam
16 6 (14.63%) Visualisation
16 6 (14.63%) SC Cleared
16 6 (14.63%) Unix

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the 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 9 (21.95%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (12.20%) SharePoint
3 2 (4.88%) IIS
3 2 (4.88%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 14 (34.15%) Microsoft 365
2 11 (26.83%) Azure
3 5 (12.20%) Entra ID
4 2 (4.88%) AWS
4 2 (4.88%) OneDrive
4 2 (4.88%) SaaS
5 1 (2.44%) Azure AKS
5 1 (2.44%) Azure Functions
5 1 (2.44%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (2.44%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (2.44%) GitHub
5 1 (2.44%) IaaS
5 1 (2.44%) PaaS
5 1 (2.44%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 17 (41.46%) DNS
2 15 (36.59%) DHCP
3 9 (21.95%) TCP/IP
4 5 (12.20%) Firewall
5 4 (9.76%) LAN
5 4 (9.76%) SAN
5 4 (9.76%) WAN
6 3 (7.32%) Wireless
7 2 (4.88%) Fibre Channel
7 2 (4.88%) iSCSI
7 2 (4.88%) NAS
7 2 (4.88%) VoIP
7 2 (4.88%) VPN
8 1 (2.44%) FTP
8 1 (2.44%) HTTP
8 1 (2.44%) Network Security
8 1 (2.44%) SMTP
8 1 (2.44%) SNMP
8 1 (2.44%) SSL
8 1 (2.44%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.32%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.88%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (2.44%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (2.44%) Data Lake
3 1 (2.44%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Hudson
1 1 (2.44%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 8 (19.51%) Public Sector
2 5 (12.20%) Social Skills
3 2 (4.88%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (4.88%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.44%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.88%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (4.88%) LAMP
2 1 (2.44%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.32%) Linux Command Line
1 3 (7.32%) Replication
2 2 (4.88%) IVR
2 2 (4.88%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (2.44%) Clustering
3 1 (2.44%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.44%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 25 (60.98%) Windows
2 19 (46.34%) Windows Server
3 12 (29.27%) Linux
4 6 (14.63%) Unix
5 5 (12.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (9.76%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (7.32%) Ubuntu
7 3 (7.32%) Windows Server 2012
7 3 (7.32%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (4.88%) VMS
9 1 (2.44%) CentOS
9 1 (2.44%) Debian
9 1 (2.44%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (97.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 10 (24.39%) Virtual Environments
3 8 (19.51%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (17.07%) SIEM
5 6 (14.63%) Visualisation
6 5 (12.20%) Cybersecurity
6 5 (12.20%) Information Management
6 5 (12.20%) Security Hardening
6 5 (12.20%) Security Monitoring
6 5 (12.20%) Server Patching
6 5 (12.20%) Systems Engineering
7 3 (7.32%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (7.32%) Server Management
8 2 (4.88%) ITIL
8 2 (4.88%) PRINCE2
8 2 (4.88%) WFM
9 1 (2.44%) B2C
9 1 (2.44%) Computer Science
9 1 (2.44%) Network Design
9 1 (2.44%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 8 (19.51%) C#
1 8 (19.51%) Java
2 3 (7.32%) PowerShell
3 2 (4.88%) SQL
4 1 (2.44%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 14 (34.15%) Security Cleared
2 8 (19.51%) DV Cleared
3 6 (14.63%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.44%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.44%) Degree
4 1 (2.44%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (12.20%) NIST
2 1 (2.44%) QA
System Software
1 21 (51.22%) Active Directory
2 12 (29.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (26.83%) VMware ESXi
4 7 (17.07%) VMware NSX
5 5 (12.20%) Hyper-V
6 2 (4.88%) vSphere
7 1 (2.44%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (2.44%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (2.44%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (2.44%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 15 (36.59%) SCCM
2 10 (24.39%) vCenter Server
3 2 (4.88%) Kibana
3 2 (4.88%) logstash
3 2 (4.88%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (2.44%) McAfee ePO
4 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Clustering
4 1 (2.44%) SCOM
4 1 (2.44%) VxRail
Vendors
1 22 (53.66%) VMware
2 13 (31.71%) Microsoft
3 7 (17.07%) Veeam
4 2 (4.88%) Aruba
4 2 (4.88%) Cisco
4 2 (4.88%) Genesys
4 2 (4.88%) Palo Alto
4 2 (4.88%) ProCurve
4 2 (4.88%) ServiceNow
4 2 (4.88%) Synology
4 2 (4.88%) Zerto
5 1 (2.44%) Commvault
5 1 (2.44%) Dell
5 1 (2.44%) EMC
5 1 (2.44%) LogicMonitor
5 1 (2.44%) McAfee
5 1 (2.44%) NetApp
5 1 (2.44%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.44%) Sophos