Senior Infrastructure Engineer Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median Senior Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in Birmingham is £538, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 August 2026.

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

 6 months to
19 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 55 -
Rank change year-on-year -16 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 4 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.44% 0.35% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.48% 0.39% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £506 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 - -
75th Percentile £569 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £700 £300
% change year-on-year -32.14% +133.33% -47.83%

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 832 515 659
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.24% 89.41% 95.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 463 341 459
10th Percentile £325 £165 £230
25th Percentile £406 £320 £368
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £538 £600
90th Percentile £688 £639 £725
West Midlands median daily rate £488 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 50 21
10th Percentile £16.09 - £15.22
25th Percentile £17.20 £12.62 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.12 £14.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +79.43% -62.67% +82.93%
75th Percentile £55.00 £23.33 £50.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £30.86 £56.25
West Midlands median hourly rate £31.55 £24.83 £19.59
% change year-on-year +27.06% +26.75% -5.52%

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Senior Infrastructure Engineer job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in Birmingham

Senior Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham

For the 6 months to 19 August 2026, Senior Infrastructure Engineer 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 Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Ansible
2 3 (75.00%) Arista
2 3 (75.00%) Aruba
2 3 (75.00%) AWS
2 3 (75.00%) BGP
2 3 (75.00%) BIG-IP
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Ethernet VPN
2 3 (75.00%) F5
2 3 (75.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 3 (75.00%) Firewall
2 3 (75.00%) GitLab
2 3 (75.00%) High Availability
2 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (75.00%) Load Balancing
2 3 (75.00%) Network Architecture
2 3 (75.00%) Network Design
2 3 (75.00%) OCI
2 3 (75.00%) OSPF
2 3 (75.00%) Palo Alto
2 3 (75.00%) Python
2 3 (75.00%) SaaS
2 3 (75.00%) SD-WAN
2 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (75.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Terraform
2 3 (75.00%) VXLAN

Senior Infrastructure Engineer 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) AWS
2 3 (75.00%) OCI
2 3 (75.00%) SaaS
3 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) BGP
1 3 (75.00%) BIG-IP
1 3 (75.00%) Ethernet VPN
1 3 (75.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 3 (75.00%) Firewall
1 3 (75.00%) OSPF
1 3 (75.00%) SD-WAN
1 3 (75.00%) VXLAN
1 3 (75.00%) WAN
1 3 (75.00%) Wi-Fi
1 3 (75.00%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) GitLab
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (75.00%) Data Centre
1 3 (75.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) High Availability
2 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (75.00%) Load Balancing
2 3 (75.00%) Network Architecture
2 3 (75.00%) Network Design
2 3 (75.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Zero Trust
3 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (25.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Ansible
1 3 (75.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (25.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Arista
1 3 (75.00%) Aruba
1 3 (75.00%) F5
1 3 (75.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (25.00%) Citrix
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) VMware
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