Infrastructure Engineering Contracts in Birmingham

Infrastructure Engineering
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham requiring Infrastructure Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Infrastructure Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 53 47
Rank change year-on-year +11 -6 +12
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 9 10 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 1.81% 1.35% 3.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.07% 1.64% 3.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 23
10th Percentile £280 £338 £313
25th Percentile £325 £369 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -9.09% +29.41%
75th Percentile £488 £700 £722
90th Percentile £540 £1,000 £731
West Midlands median daily rate £375 £525 £450
% change year-on-year -28.57% +16.67% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £19.95 -
West Midlands median hourly rate - £19.95 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

Infrastructure Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 434 608 780
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 87.32% 81.94% 87.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 298 404 511
10th Percentile £163 £236 £300
25th Percentile £375 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £520
Median % change year-on-year - -8.65% +6.67%
75th Percentile £588 £577 £638
90th Percentile £689 £696 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £483 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -3.40% -4.76% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 43 31
10th Percentile - £13.25 £12.00
25th Percentile £12.62 £18.50 £12.50
Median hourly rate £16.00 £26.00 £20.71
Median % change year-on-year -38.46% +25.57% +23.61%
75th Percentile £25.13 £47.13 £29.38
90th Percentile £35.77 £56.25 £53.75
West Midlands median hourly rate £19.00 £22.50 £21.69
% change year-on-year -15.56% +3.73% +28.92%

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 29 May 2025.

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 2 (22.22%) Confluence
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (11.11%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) AWS
1 3 (33.33%) Azure
2 2 (22.22%) IaaS
2 2 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (11.11%) Entra ID
3 1 (11.11%) OpenShift
3 1 (11.11%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) DNS
2 1 (11.11%) DHCP
2 1 (11.11%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) JIRA
2 2 (22.22%) ScriptRunner
General
1 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Advertising
2 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Senior
2 2 (22.22%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) VMware Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) 2nd Line Support
3 1 (11.11%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Support
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) JIRA Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) JIRA Specialist
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Infrastructure Specialist
3 1 (11.11%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (11.11%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (44.44%) Windows
2 2 (22.22%) Windows Server
3 1 (11.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Migration
2 2 (22.22%) Agile
2 2 (22.22%) Incident Management
2 2 (22.22%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (22.22%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
2 2 (22.22%) Validation
3 1 (11.11%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Security
3 1 (11.11%) Containerisation
3 1 (11.11%) Data Protection
3 1 (11.11%) High Availability
3 1 (11.11%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (11.11%) ITIL
3 1 (11.11%) ITSM
3 1 (11.11%) Load Balancing
3 1 (11.11%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) Groovy
2 1 (11.11%) Bash
2 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
2 1 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 2 (22.22%) DV Cleared
2 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Certification
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (22.22%) vSphere
2 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Grafana
1 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
1 1 (11.11%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) VMware
2 2 (22.22%) Atlassian
3 1 (11.11%) Commvault
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 1 (11.11%) Red Hat
3 1 (11.11%) ServiceNow
3 1 (11.11%) Veeam