Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in Birmingham is £425, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.11% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £438 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £425 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Birmingham

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 840 456 698
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.71% 89.76% 93.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 504 317 485
10th Percentile £313 £156 £254
25th Percentile £413 £375 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £483 £463
Median % change year-on-year +3.52% +4.43% -7.50%
75th Percentile £588 £572 £575
90th Percentile £687 £668 £675
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £483 £492
% change year-on-year -1.66% -1.73% -1.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 31 40
10th Percentile £16.17 - £13.10
25th Percentile £17.12 £12.62 £15.88
Median hourly rate £20.43 £14.00 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +45.93% -50.88% +42.50%
75th Percentile £29.52 £22.08 £48.75
90th Percentile £63.13 £26.51 £57.91
West Midlands median hourly rate £33.49 £17.62 £22.00
% change year-on-year +90.07% -19.91% +10.00%

Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham

For the 6 months to 12 May 2026, Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Birmingham region featuring Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (100.00%) BCP
1 1 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (100.00%) Business Continuity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) CCNP
1 1 (100.00%) Check_MK
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) CloudStack
1 1 (100.00%) Commvault
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre Operations
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) IaaS
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Migration

Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) CloudStack
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) NAS
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
1 1 (100.00%) Structured Cabling
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Ubuntu
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) BCP
1 1 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (100.00%) Business Continuity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre Operations
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Network Design
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Security Hardening
1 1 (100.00%) Server Management
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (100.00%) CCNP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Check_MK
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Commvault
1 1 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Veeam
1 1 (100.00%) VMware