Infrastructure Engineer Contracts in Birmingham

Infrastructure Engineer
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in Birmingham is £413 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 April 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
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 53 55 72
Rank change year-on-year +2 +17 -12
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 10 22 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 1.32% 2.38% 1.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.43% 2.49% 1.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 18 18
10th Percentile £334 £307 £247
25th Percentile £363 £338 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year -2.94% - +41.67%
75th Percentile £716 £659 £447
90th Percentile £1,000 £704 £497
West Midlands median daily rate £425 £450 £409
% change year-on-year -5.56% +10.09% +27.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £19.95 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £19.95 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Birmingham

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Birmingham. 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 Birmingham with a recognized job title 697 883 1,288
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.83% 95.67% 95.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 490 597 956
10th Percentile £250 £263 £205
25th Percentile £325 £375 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +8.11% +8.82%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £575
90th Percentile £675 £700 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +18.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 32 20
10th Percentile £13.10 £11.10 £12.45
25th Percentile £17.75 £12.50 £13.94
Median hourly rate £28.50 £20.00 £16.99
Median % change year-on-year +42.50% +17.72% -5.61%
75th Percentile £48.75 £24.47 £18.00
90th Percentile £57.91 £63.13 £20.23
West Midlands median hourly rate £22.50 £19.00 £17.28
% change year-on-year +18.42% +9.95% +6.34%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in Birmingham

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in Birmingham

Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in Birmingham over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in Birmingham

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in Birmingham

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

For the 6 months to 19 April 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 Birmingham region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 8 (80.00%) Azure
3 7 (70.00%) Windows
3 7 (70.00%) Active Directory
4 6 (60.00%) Microsoft
5 5 (50.00%) SCCM
5 5 (50.00%) DNS
5 5 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (50.00%) Windows Server
6 4 (40.00%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (40.00%) SQL Server
6 4 (40.00%) VMware
6 4 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (30.00%) PowerShell
7 3 (30.00%) Replication
7 3 (30.00%) Firewall
7 3 (30.00%) Linux
7 3 (30.00%) SAN
7 3 (30.00%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (30.00%) Server Management
8 2 (20.00%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (20.00%) Nutanix
8 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
8 2 (20.00%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (20.00%) ProCurve
8 2 (20.00%) VPN
8 2 (20.00%) SharePoint
8 2 (20.00%) IIS
8 2 (20.00%) VMS

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 5 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (20.00%) IIS
2 2 (20.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (20.00%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 8 (80.00%) Azure
2 4 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (20.00%) Nutanix
3 2 (20.00%) OneDrive
4 1 (10.00%) AWS
4 1 (10.00%) Azure AKS
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Functions
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (10.00%) GitHub
4 1 (10.00%) IaaS
4 1 (10.00%) PaaS
4 1 (10.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (50.00%) DNS
2 3 (30.00%) Firewall
2 3 (30.00%) SAN
3 2 (20.00%) Fibre Channel
3 2 (20.00%) iSCSI
3 2 (20.00%) NAS
3 2 (20.00%) VPN
3 2 (20.00%) Wireless
4 1 (10.00%) DHCP
4 1 (10.00%) LAN
4 1 (10.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (10.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (10.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Hudson
1 1 (10.00%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) LAMP
2 1 (10.00%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Replication
2 2 (20.00%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 7 (70.00%) Windows
2 5 (50.00%) Windows Server
3 4 (40.00%) Windows Server 2019
4 3 (30.00%) Linux
5 2 (20.00%) Ubuntu
5 2 (20.00%) VMS
5 2 (20.00%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (30.00%) Server Management
3 2 (20.00%) Migration
4 1 (10.00%) Antivirus Management
4 1 (10.00%) API Management
4 1 (10.00%) B2C
4 1 (10.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (10.00%) Cost Management
4 1 (10.00%) Data Protection
4 1 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (10.00%) ITIL
4 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (10.00%) Server Monitoring
4 1 (10.00%) Server Patching
4 1 (10.00%) Server Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (10.00%) Bicep
2 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 7 (70.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (30.00%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (20.00%) vSphere
4 1 (10.00%) Hyper-V
4 1 (10.00%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (10.00%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (10.00%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (50.00%) SCCM
2 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (20.00%) SCOM
4 1 (10.00%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (40.00%) VMware
3 2 (20.00%) Aruba
3 2 (20.00%) Palo Alto
3 2 (20.00%) ProCurve
3 2 (20.00%) Synology
3 2 (20.00%) Veeam
3 2 (20.00%) Zerto
4 1 (10.00%) Commvault
4 1 (10.00%) LogicMonitor
4 1 (10.00%) McAfee
4 1 (10.00%) NetApp
4 1 (10.00%) Sophos