Birmingham Infrastructure Engineer Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Infrastructure Engineer role in IT contracts within the Birmingham region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Infrastructure Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Infrastructure Engineer
Location Basingstoke Bath Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff City of London Crawley Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England England Essex Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Hackney Hampshire Hertfordshire Ipswich Kent King's Lynn Lancashire Leeds Lincoln Lincolnshire London M4 Corridor Midlands Norfolk North West Oxford Oxfordshire Reading Scotland Shropshire Somerset South East South Wales South West Staffordshire Suffolk Surrey Swindon Telford UK Uxbridge Wales Wembley West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	52	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	2	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.300 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£330	£334
% change on same period last year	-1.23 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.50	£21.37
% change on same period last year	+19.35 %
Job Titles Birmingham
Matching contract IT job ads	666	972
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.879 %	0.968 %
Daily rates quoted	165	236
Average minimum daily rate	£296	£329
Average daily rate	£321	£357
% change on same period last year	-10.03 %
Average maximum daily rate	£346	£386
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£354
% change on same period last year	+0.35 %
Hourly rates quoted	62	148
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.58	£15.86
Average hourly rate	£22.24	£16.85
% change on same period last year	+32.00 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.90	£17.84
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.68	£25.69
% change on same period last year	-7.85 %
Infrastructure Engineer West Midlands

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer across the Birmingham region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer across the Birmingham region.

Infrastructure Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer across the Birmingham region.

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Top 15 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region that cited Infrastructure Engineer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with Infrastructure Engineer in their job title.

1 3 (100.00 %) VMware 2 2 (66.67 %) Active Directory 2 2 (66.67 %) HP 2 2 (66.67 %) Citrix 2 2 (66.67 %) Migration 3 1 (33.33 %) Windows Server 2003 3 1 (33.33 %) C 3 1 (33.33 %) Windows 3 1 (33.33 %) MS Exchange 3 1 (33.33 %) Microsoft 3 1 (33.33 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 1 (33.33 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 3 1 (33.33 %) Citrix Presentation Server 3 1 (33.33 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 1 (33.33 %) VMware ESX

Infrastructure Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region that cited Infrastructure Engineer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with Infrastructure Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 1 (33.33 %) MS Exchange 1 1 (33.33 %) Exchange Server 2003	Operating Systems 1 1 (33.33 %) Windows Server 2003 1 1 (33.33 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (66.67 %) Migration	Programming Languages 1 1 (33.33 %) C
System Software 1 2 (66.67 %) Active Directory 2 1 (33.33 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 2 1 (33.33 %) Citrix Presentation Server 2 1 (33.33 %) VMware Infrastructure 2 1 (33.33 %) VMware ESX	Vendors 1 3 (100.00 %) VMware 2 2 (66.67 %) HP 2 2 (66.67 %) Citrix 3 1 (33.33 %) Microsoft