Engineering Specialist Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Engineering Specialist
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median Engineering Specialist daily rate in Birmingham is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 November 2025.

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

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 61 -
Rank change year-on-year -7 - -
Contract jobs requiring an Engineering Specialist 1 7 0
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.14% 0.99% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 1.04% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 0
10th Percentile - £303 -
25th Percentile £513 £322 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £355 -
Median % change year-on-year +47.89% - -
75th Percentile £538 £374 -
90th Percentile - £384 -
West Midlands median daily rate £525 £355 -
% change year-on-year +47.89% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 621 672 751
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.74% 95.18% 94.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 417 434 522
10th Percentile £227 £200 £254
25th Percentile £363 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £575 £613 £600
90th Percentile £644 £738 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -4.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 14 22
10th Percentile - £16.80 £14.60
25th Percentile £12.62 £22.89 £15.75
Median hourly rate £18.00 £30.23 £28.02
Median % change year-on-year -40.45% +7.87% +47.47%
75th Percentile £26.51 £51.88 £67.50
90th Percentile £33.72 £56.65 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £25.15 £23.82 £22.29
% change year-on-year +5.58% +6.86% +25.79%

Engineering Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Engineering Specialist' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Engineering Specialist job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Engineering Specialist
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Engineering Specialist job vacancies in Birmingham.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Engineering Specialist job vacancies in Birmingham

Engineering Specialist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham

For the 6 months to 18 November 2025, Engineering Specialist 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 Engineering Specialist in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Argo
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) CircleCI
1 1 (100.00%) Coaching
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Go
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) OpenStack
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Product Backlog
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) QA
1 1 (100.00%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architecture

Engineering Specialist 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%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) CircleCI
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Coaching
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Product Backlog
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Software Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Go
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Argo
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform