Infrastructure Engineer Contracts in Birmingham

Infrastructure Engineer
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in Birmingham is £425, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 28 June 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 57 58
Rank change year-on-year +12 +1 +9
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 8 8 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 1.55% 1.04% 2.02%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.77% 1.11% 2.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 15
10th Percentile £295 £330 £302
25th Percentile £363 £356 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £390 £430
Median % change year-on-year +8.97% -9.30% +1.18%
75th Percentile £500 £856 £700
90th Percentile £545 £1,000 £708
West Midlands median daily rate £388 £400 £450
% change year-on-year -3.13% -11.11% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £19.95 -
West Midlands median hourly rate - £19.95 -

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 453 722 860
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 87.62% 94.26% 96.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 299 501 587
10th Percentile £162 £235 £263
25th Percentile £363 £325 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £474 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.49% -7.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £545 £575 £600
90th Percentile £641 £675 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 38 33
10th Percentile - £13.69 £12.50
25th Percentile £12.62 £18.50 £13.70
Median hourly rate £14.00 £28.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -50.88% +42.50% +17.65%
75th Percentile £24.44 £48.75 £25.88
90th Percentile £29.16 £56.25 £62.75
West Midlands median hourly rate £24.34 £19.00 £20.99
% change year-on-year +28.11% -9.46% +19.91%

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 28 June 2025.

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 28 June 2025, 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 8 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (62.50%) Windows
3 4 (50.00%) Migration
3 4 (50.00%) VMware
4 3 (37.50%) JIRA
4 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
4 3 (37.50%) Azure
4 3 (37.50%) AWS
4 3 (37.50%) Windows Server
4 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
5 2 (25.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 2 (25.00%) Confluence
5 2 (25.00%) ScriptRunner
5 2 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
5 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
5 2 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (25.00%) IaaS
5 2 (25.00%) Atlassian
5 2 (25.00%) Groovy
5 2 (25.00%) Incident Management
5 2 (25.00%) Agile
5 2 (25.00%) DNS
5 2 (25.00%) Active Directory
6 1 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (12.50%) Commvault
6 1 (12.50%) Red Hat
6 1 (12.50%) OSPF
6 1 (12.50%) BGP
6 1 (12.50%) Service Management
6 1 (12.50%) Firewall

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 2 (25.00%) Confluence
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (12.50%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) AWS
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) IaaS
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
3 1 (12.50%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) DNS
2 1 (12.50%) BGP
2 1 (12.50%) Broadband
2 1 (12.50%) DHCP
2 1 (12.50%) Firewall
2 1 (12.50%) IP Telephony
2 1 (12.50%) Network Security
2 1 (12.50%) OSPF
2 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
2 1 (12.50%) VoIP
2 1 (12.50%) VPN
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) JIRA
2 2 (25.00%) ScriptRunner
General
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Advertising
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
2 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (12.50%) Educational Technology
1 1 (12.50%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) Windows
2 3 (37.50%) Windows Server
3 1 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (50.00%) Migration
3 2 (25.00%) Agile
3 2 (25.00%) Incident Management
3 2 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (25.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 1 (12.50%) Acceptance Criteria
4 1 (12.50%) Actionable Insight
4 1 (12.50%) Cloud Security
4 1 (12.50%) Containerisation
4 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (12.50%) Data Protection
4 1 (12.50%) High Availability
4 1 (12.50%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (12.50%) ITIL
4 1 (12.50%) ITSM
4 1 (12.50%) Load Balancing
4 1 (12.50%) Service Management
4 1 (12.50%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Groovy
2 1 (12.50%) Bash
2 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
2 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Certification
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
3 1 (12.50%) CCNA
3 1 (12.50%) CCNP
3 1 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (12.50%) Degree
3 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (12.50%) Hyper-V
2 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Grafana
1 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
1 1 (12.50%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) VMware
2 2 (25.00%) Atlassian
3 1 (12.50%) Commvault
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 1 (12.50%) Red Hat
3 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow
3 1 (12.50%) Veeam