Infrastructure Engineering Contracts in the Midlands

Infrastructure Engineering
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring Infrastructure Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Infrastructure Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 71 70 99
Rank change year-on-year -1 +29 +5
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 71 94 120
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.41% 2.92% 2.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.99% 3.34% 2.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 73 87
10th Percentile £313 £313 £263
25th Percentile £369 £363 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £413
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% +36.93%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £501
90th Percentile £588 £713 £538
England median daily rate £500 £505 £475
% change year-on-year -0.99% +6.32% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £19.95 - -
England median hourly rate £54.88 £72.50 £36.11
% change year-on-year -24.31% +100.76% -3.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

Infrastructure Engineering 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 Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,373 2,816 4,402
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 80.50% 87.48% 87.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,577 1,978 3,231
10th Percentile £234 £258 £250
25th Percentile £358 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £700 £669
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 178 101 130
10th Percentile £11.11 £12.50 £10.68
25th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £14.00
Median hourly rate £19.00 £24.00 £18.25
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +31.51% +24.91%
75th Percentile £35.00 £46.25 £24.50
90th Percentile £55.00 £65.00 £35.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing Infrastructure Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineering in the Midlands

Infrastructure Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Engineering in the Midlands

Infrastructure Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in the Midlands

Infrastructure Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Engineering in the Midlands

Infrastructure Engineering
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 Engineering within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 12 June 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 +11 52 £525 +16.67% 34
East Midlands -6 18 £449 +0.90% 20
Infrastructure Engineering
England

Infrastructure Engineering
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 14 (19.72%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (7.04%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.82%) IIS
3 2 (2.82%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (7.04%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.82%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 19 (26.76%) Microsoft 365
2 17 (23.94%) Azure
3 5 (7.04%) AWS
3 5 (7.04%) Entra ID
4 2 (2.82%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 2 (2.82%) Azure Service Bus
4 2 (2.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (2.82%) OneDrive
4 2 (2.82%) SaaS
5 1 (1.41%) Azure AKS
5 1 (1.41%) Azure Functions
5 1 (1.41%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (1.41%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (1.41%) GitHub
5 1 (1.41%) IaaS
5 1 (1.41%) PaaS
5 1 (1.41%) Rubrik
5 1 (1.41%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 21 (29.58%) DNS
2 19 (26.76%) DHCP
3 10 (14.08%) Firewall
4 9 (12.68%) TCP/IP
5 8 (11.27%) SAN
6 5 (7.04%) LAN
6 5 (7.04%) WAN
7 4 (5.63%) Network Security
8 3 (4.23%) Cisco Nexus
8 3 (4.23%) Wireless
9 2 (2.82%) Fibre Channel
9 2 (2.82%) iSCSI
9 2 (2.82%) NAS
9 2 (2.82%) VoIP
9 2 (2.82%) VPN
10 1 (1.41%) DSL
10 1 (1.41%) Internet
10 1 (1.41%) MPLS
10 1 (1.41%) SSL
10 1 (1.41%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (9.86%) SQL Server
2 3 (4.23%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.41%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.41%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.41%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (5.63%) GitLab
2 3 (4.23%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (1.41%) Hudson
3 1 (1.41%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.41%) JIRA
3 1 (1.41%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 17 (23.94%) Public Sector
2 7 (9.86%) Social Skills
3 3 (4.23%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (4.23%) Local Government
4 2 (2.82%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (2.82%) Finance
4 2 (2.82%) German Language
4 2 (2.82%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.41%) Back Office
5 1 (1.41%) Banking
Job Titles
1 52 (73.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 10 (14.08%) DevOps Engineer
3 7 (9.86%) IT Engineer
3 7 (9.86%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (9.86%) Network Engineer
4 6 (8.45%) Principal Engineer
5 5 (7.04%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (5.63%) Windows Engineer
7 3 (4.23%) Architect
7 3 (4.23%) Senior
7 3 (4.23%) SIEM Engineer
7 3 (4.23%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (2.82%) Azure Architect
8 2 (2.82%) Elasticsearch Engineer
8 2 (2.82%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
8 2 (2.82%) Operations Engineer
8 2 (2.82%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (2.82%) Server Engineer
8 2 (2.82%) Windows Server Engineer
9 1 (1.41%) Exchange Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.23%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (2.82%) LAMP
3 1 (1.41%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.04%) Linux Command Line
2 4 (5.63%) Grid Computing
3 3 (4.23%) Replication
4 2 (2.82%) IVR
4 2 (2.82%) Video Conferencing
5 1 (1.41%) Clustering
5 1 (1.41%) CMDB
5 1 (1.41%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.41%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.41%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 39 (54.93%) Windows
2 31 (43.66%) Windows Server
3 18 (25.35%) Linux
4 9 (12.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (9.86%) Windows Server 2016
6 6 (8.45%) Unix
6 6 (8.45%) Windows Server 2012
6 6 (8.45%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (4.23%) Ubuntu
8 2 (2.82%) VMS
8 2 (2.82%) Windows 10
9 1 (1.41%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (15.49%) DevOps
2 10 (14.08%) Virtual Environments
3 9 (12.68%) Migration
4 8 (11.27%) Infrastructure as Code
4 8 (11.27%) Infrastructure Monitoring
4 8 (11.27%) SIEM
4 8 (11.27%) Visualisation
5 7 (9.86%) Agile
6 6 (8.45%) Computer Science
6 6 (8.45%) Decision-Making
6 6 (8.45%) Project Delivery
6 6 (8.45%) Server Patching
6 6 (8.45%) Software Engineering
6 6 (8.45%) User Experience
6 6 (8.45%) Workflow
7 5 (7.04%) Cybersecurity
7 5 (7.04%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (7.04%) Security Hardening
7 5 (7.04%) Security Monitoring
7 5 (7.04%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 10 (14.08%) PowerShell
2 9 (12.68%) C#
3 8 (11.27%) Java
4 5 (7.04%) SQL
5 1 (1.41%) Bicep
5 1 (1.41%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 25 (35.21%) Security Cleared
2 18 (25.35%) DV Cleared
3 9 (12.68%) Degree
4 8 (11.27%) SC Cleared
5 6 (8.45%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (4.23%) Azure Certification
6 3 (4.23%) CCNA
6 3 (4.23%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.41%) MCP
7 1 (1.41%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.45%) QA
2 5 (7.04%) NIST
3 1 (1.41%) SLA
System Software
1 30 (42.25%) Active Directory
2 21 (29.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (14.08%) VMware ESXi
4 7 (9.86%) VMware NSX
5 6 (8.45%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (7.04%) Hyper-V
7 3 (4.23%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (2.82%) vSphere
9 1 (1.41%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (1.41%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 21 (29.58%) SCCM
2 10 (14.08%) SCOM
3 9 (12.68%) vCenter Server
4 4 (5.63%) Red Hat Satellite
4 4 (5.63%) SCSM
5 3 (4.23%) Ansible
5 3 (4.23%) Kibana
5 3 (4.23%) logstash
5 3 (4.23%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (4.23%) Terraform
6 1 (1.41%) McAfee ePO
6 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Clustering
6 1 (1.41%) Nessus
6 1 (1.41%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.41%) VxRail
6 1 (1.41%) WSUS
Vendors
1 34 (47.89%) VMware
2 22 (30.99%) Microsoft
3 7 (9.86%) Veeam
4 5 (7.04%) Cisco
4 5 (7.04%) ServiceNow
5 4 (5.63%) Citrix
5 4 (5.63%) Red Hat
5 4 (5.63%) SolarWinds
6 3 (4.23%) CheckPoint
6 3 (4.23%) F5
7 2 (2.82%) Aruba
7 2 (2.82%) Genesys
7 2 (2.82%) NetApp
7 2 (2.82%) Palo Alto
7 2 (2.82%) ProCurve
7 2 (2.82%) Synology
7 2 (2.82%) Zerto
8 1 (1.41%) Commvault
8 1 (1.41%) LogicMonitor
8 1 (1.41%) Netskope