Infrastructure Specialist Contracts in Birmingham

Infrastructure Specialist
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median Infrastructure Specialist daily rate in Birmingham is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 22 August 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
22 Aug 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 - 67
Rank change year-on-year - - -
DemandTrendContract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Specialist 3 0 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.52% - 0.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.58% - 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £550
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £600 - £550
% change year-on-year - - +15.79%

All DemandTrendContract 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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies in Birmingham with a recognized job title 514 665 822
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.24% 95.41% 95.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 339 462 568
10th Percentile £165 £225 £263
25th Percentile £323 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £622 £600
90th Percentile £639 £725 £708
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 21 26
10th Percentile - £15.22 £13.10
25th Percentile £12.62 £18.50 £16.30
Median hourly rate £14.00 £37.50 £20.74
Median % change year-on-year -62.67% +80.85% +15.19%
75th Percentile £24.31 £50.00 £29.75
90th Percentile £32.00 £56.25 £81.25
West Midlands median hourly rate £25.00 £19.59 £20.99
% change year-on-year +27.62% -6.65% +16.58%

Infrastructure Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings that featured Infrastructure Specialist in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Specialist in Birmingham

Infrastructure Specialist
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

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

Infrastructure Specialist Skill Set
Top 23 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham

For the 6 months to 22 August 2025, Infrastructure Specialist 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 Specialist in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) WAN
2 2 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (66.67%) Data Protection
2 2 (66.67%) Data Strategy
2 2 (66.67%) SD-WAN
2 2 (66.67%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (66.67%) Knowledge Transfer
2 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (33.33%) ScriptRunner
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 1 (33.33%) AWS
3 1 (33.33%) Confluence
3 1 (33.33%) IaaS
3 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
3 1 (33.33%) JIRA
3 1 (33.33%) Atlassian
3 1 (33.33%) Groovy
3 1 (33.33%) Agile

Infrastructure Specialist 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 1 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) SD-WAN
1 2 (66.67%) WAN
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
1 1 (33.33%) ScriptRunner
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (66.67%) Data Protection
2 2 (66.67%) Data Strategy
2 2 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (66.67%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (33.33%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Atlassian
3 Infrastructure Specialist jobs in the West Midlands