Infrastructure Engineering Contracts in Birmingham

Infrastructure Engineering
West Midlands > Birmingham

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham with a requirement for Infrastructure Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Infrastructure Engineering over the 6 months to 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 55 46 67
Rank change year-on-year -9 +21 -10
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 12 34 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 1.57% 3.71% 2.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.89% 4.20% 2.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 27 24
10th Percentile £342 £313 £279
25th Percentile £375 £344 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £525 £425
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +23.53% +41.67%
75th Percentile £600 £713 £488
90th Percentile £1,000 £731 £538
West Midlands median daily rate £425 £450 £413
% change year-on-year -5.56% +9.09% +36.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £19.95 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £19.95 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

Infrastructure Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 635 810 1,235
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 83.33% 88.43% 92.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 415 544 898
10th Percentile £238 £263 £213
25th Percentile £368 £388 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £518 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.63% +8.95% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £627 £593
90th Percentile £675 £700 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £512 £488
% change year-on-year -2.25% +4.92% +17.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 28 24
10th Percentile £13.20 £11.00 £12.15
25th Percentile £17.75 £12.50 £13.94
Median hourly rate £27.25 £14.44 £17.24
Median % change year-on-year +88.74% -16.26% -4.22%
75th Percentile £48.75 £26.19 £18.00
90th Percentile £56.25 £66.88 £20.00
West Midlands median hourly rate £22.50 £17.72 £16.66
% change year-on-year +26.98% +6.35% -4.79%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings citing Infrastructure Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineering in Birmingham

Infrastructure Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Engineering in Birmingham

Infrastructure Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in Birmingham over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in Birmingham

Infrastructure Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Engineering in Birmingham

Infrastructure Engineering
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 (41.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (16.67%) IIS
2 2 (16.67%) SharePoint
2 2 (16.67%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (16.67%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 10 (83.33%) Azure
2 4 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (16.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 2 (16.67%) Azure Service Bus
3 2 (16.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 2 (16.67%) Nutanix
3 2 (16.67%) OneDrive
4 1 (8.33%) AWS
4 1 (8.33%) Azure AKS
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Functions
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (8.33%) Entra ID
4 1 (8.33%) GitHub
4 1 (8.33%) IaaS
4 1 (8.33%) PaaS
4 1 (8.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (41.67%) DNS
1 5 (41.67%) Firewall
2 3 (25.00%) SAN
3 2 (16.67%) Fibre Channel
3 2 (16.67%) iSCSI
3 2 (16.67%) NAS
3 2 (16.67%) VPN
3 2 (16.67%) Wireless
4 1 (8.33%) DHCP
4 1 (8.33%) LAN
4 1 (8.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (8.33%) Data Lake
2 1 (8.33%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Hudson
1 1 (8.33%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 2 (16.67%) German Language
1 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (83.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Architect
2 2 (16.67%) Azure Architect
2 2 (16.67%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Network Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Support
3 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) IT Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Operations Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) LAMP
2 1 (8.33%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Replication
2 2 (16.67%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 7 (58.33%) Windows
2 5 (41.67%) Windows Server
3 4 (33.33%) Windows Server 2019
4 3 (25.00%) Linux
5 2 (16.67%) Ubuntu
5 2 (16.67%) VMS
5 2 (16.67%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (8.33%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (33.33%) Migration
2 3 (25.00%) API Management
2 3 (25.00%) Server Management
3 2 (16.67%) Agile
3 2 (16.67%) Data Architecture
3 2 (16.67%) Data Migration
3 2 (16.67%) Load Balancing
3 2 (16.67%) Project Delivery
3 2 (16.67%) Time Management
4 1 (8.33%) Antivirus Management
4 1 (8.33%) B2C
4 1 (8.33%) CI/CD
4 1 (8.33%) Data Protection
4 1 (8.33%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (8.33%) ITIL
4 1 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (8.33%) Server Monitoring
4 1 (8.33%) Server Patching
4 1 (8.33%) Server Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (8.33%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) Azure Certification
2 2 (16.67%) Degree
System Software
1 7 (58.33%) Active Directory
2 5 (41.67%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (16.67%) vSphere
4 1 (8.33%) Hyper-V
4 1 (8.33%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (8.33%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (8.33%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (41.67%) SCCM
2 3 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (16.67%) SCOM
4 1 (8.33%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (33.33%) VMware
3 2 (16.67%) Aruba
3 2 (16.67%) Palo Alto
3 2 (16.67%) ProCurve
3 2 (16.67%) Synology
3 2 (16.67%) Veeam
3 2 (16.67%) Zerto
4 1 (8.33%) Commvault
4 1 (8.33%) LogicMonitor
4 1 (8.33%) McAfee
4 1 (8.33%) NetApp
4 1 (8.33%) Sophos