Infrastructure Manager Contracts in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Manager
UK > UK excluding London

The median Infrastructure Manager daily rate in the UK excluding London is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 313 262 243
Rank change year-on-year -51 -19 +41
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Manager 81 192 302
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.40% 0.82% 0.99%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.43% 0.87% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 134 232
10th Percentile £325 £379 £361
25th Percentile £450 £413 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £475 £484
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -1.81% +5.16%
75th Percentile £600 £550 £561
90th Percentile £650 £600 £638
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 12 0
Median hourly rate - £65.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £65.00 £46.15
% change year-on-year - +40.86% +74.59%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 18,943 22,066 29,076
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.50% 94.30% 95.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,549 15,423 20,326
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £598 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,262 1,138 1,451
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.08 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £43.99
90th Percentile £73.98 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £37.34 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -17.02% +88.21% +6.27%

Infrastructure Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Infrastructure Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Manager in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Manager in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Manager in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Manager in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Manager in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Manager in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Manager in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Manager
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Manager within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 10 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +14 20 £550 +20.55% 8
Midlands +8 20 £550 +22.22% 11
North of England -32 20 £425 -17.07% 14
West Midlands +2 12 £550 +22.22% 5
South West +12 10 £550 +12.82% 1
North West -1 10 £350 -22.22% 8
Yorkshire -21 9 £488 -11.36% 4
East Midlands +19 7 £625 +21.95% 6
East of England +10 4 £488 -20.41% 1
Wales +17 3 £600 +37.14%
Scotland +28 2 £550 +29.41% 1
Northern Ireland - 2 - -
North East +16 1 - - 2
Infrastructure Manager
UK

Infrastructure Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 10 May 2024, Infrastructure Manager 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 UK excluding London region featuring Infrastructure Manager in the job title.

1 29 (35.80%) Project Management
2 26 (32.10%) Social Skills
3 18 (22.22%) Finance
4 17 (20.99%) Stakeholder Management
5 16 (19.75%) Windows
6 15 (18.52%) Agile
6 15 (18.52%) Azure
7 14 (17.28%) Migration
8 13 (16.05%) Data Centre
9 12 (14.81%) Active Directory
10 10 (12.35%) PRINCE2
10 10 (12.35%) Public Sector
10 10 (12.35%) Project Delivery
11 9 (11.11%) Waterfall
12 8 (9.88%) Microsoft 365
12 8 (9.88%) Microsoft
13 7 (8.64%) Risk Management
13 7 (8.64%) ITIL
13 7 (8.64%) Problem-Solving
14 6 (7.41%) Budget Management
14 6 (7.41%) WAN
14 6 (7.41%) Cisco
14 6 (7.41%) SharePoint
14 6 (7.41%) Firewall
14 6 (7.41%) Change Management
14 6 (7.41%) Citrix
14 6 (7.41%) Degree
15 5 (6.17%) Security Cleared
15 5 (6.17%) Telecoms
15 5 (6.17%) Linux

Infrastructure Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 6 (7.41%) SharePoint
2 5 (6.17%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (3.70%) nginx
4 2 (2.47%) OpenStack
5 1 (1.23%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (2.47%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (3.70%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 15 (18.52%) Azure
2 8 (9.88%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (3.70%) Entra ID
3 3 (3.70%) SaaS
4 2 (2.47%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (2.47%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (2.47%) Amazon S3
4 2 (2.47%) AWS
4 2 (2.47%) CloudFront
4 2 (2.47%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (1.23%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.41%) Firewall
1 6 (7.41%) WAN
2 3 (3.70%) Cisco IOS
2 3 (3.70%) LAN
2 3 (3.70%) SAN
2 3 (3.70%) Wireless
3 2 (2.47%) Network Security
3 2 (2.47%) SD-WAN
3 2 (2.47%) VPN
3 2 (2.47%) WLAN
4 1 (1.23%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.23%) VLAN
4 1 (1.23%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.94%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.70%) MySQL
3 2 (2.47%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (2.47%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 4 (4.94%) JIRA
General
1 26 (32.10%) Social Skills
2 18 (22.22%) Finance
3 10 (12.35%) Public Sector
4 5 (6.17%) Telecoms
5 4 (4.94%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (4.94%) Manufacturing
5 4 (4.94%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (3.70%) Law
7 2 (2.47%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.47%) Legal
7 2 (2.47%) Retail
8 1 (1.23%) Banking
8 1 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.23%) Electronics
8 1 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.23%) Local Government
8 1 (1.23%) Marketing
8 1 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.23%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.70%) EDI
2 2 (2.47%) LDAP
2 2 (2.47%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 13 (16.05%) Data Centre
2 3 (3.70%) CCTV
2 3 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.23%) BYOD
3 1 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.23%) Operational Technology
3 1 (1.23%) PKI
3 1 (1.23%) Security Posture
3 1 (1.23%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (19.75%) Windows
2 5 (6.17%) Linux
2 5 (6.17%) Windows Server 2012
3 4 (4.94%) Windows Server
3 4 (4.94%) Windows Server 2019
4 3 (3.70%) Android
4 3 (3.70%) Mac OS
4 3 (3.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (3.70%) Ubuntu
4 3 (3.70%) Unix
4 3 (3.70%) Windows 10
4 3 (3.70%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (2.47%) VMS
5 2 (2.47%) Windows 2000
5 2 (2.47%) Windows XP
6 1 (1.23%) AIX
6 1 (1.23%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (35.80%) Project Management
2 17 (20.99%) Stakeholder Management
3 15 (18.52%) Agile
4 14 (17.28%) Migration
5 10 (12.35%) PRINCE2
5 10 (12.35%) Project Delivery
6 9 (11.11%) Waterfall
7 7 (8.64%) ITIL
7 7 (8.64%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (8.64%) Risk Management
8 6 (7.41%) Budget Management
8 6 (7.41%) Change Management
9 5 (6.17%) Change Control
9 5 (6.17%) Cybersecurity
9 5 (6.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 4 (4.94%) Scrum
11 3 (3.70%) Business Continuity
11 3 (3.70%) Disaster Recovery
11 3 (3.70%) Resource Management
11 3 (3.70%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (3.70%) SQL
2 2 (2.47%) PowerShell
2 2 (2.47%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (7.41%) Degree
2 5 (6.17%) Security Cleared
3 3 (3.70%) DV Cleared
3 3 (3.70%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.23%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.23%) PMP
4 1 (1.23%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.70%) PMO
2 2 (2.47%) QA
3 1 (1.23%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (1.23%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 12 (14.81%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.47%) vSphere
3 1 (1.23%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (1.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (3.70%) Kubernetes
1 3 (3.70%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (3.70%) PaperCut
1 3 (3.70%) SCCM
2 2 (2.47%) Ansible
2 2 (2.47%) Terraform
3 1 (1.23%) OPNET
Vendors
1 8 (9.88%) Microsoft
2 6 (7.41%) Cisco
2 6 (7.41%) Citrix
3 4 (4.94%) VMware
4 3 (3.70%) Aruba
4 3 (3.70%) HP
4 3 (3.70%) Nimble Storage
4 3 (3.70%) Red Hat
4 3 (3.70%) Sage
4 3 (3.70%) Veeam
4 3 (3.70%) WatchGuard
5 2 (2.47%) Fortinet
5 2 (2.47%) Juniper
6 1 (1.23%) CA Agile Central
6 1 (1.23%) Dell
6 1 (1.23%) EMC
6 1 (1.23%) Fujitsu
6 1 (1.23%) IBM
6 1 (1.23%) Nokia
6 1 (1.23%) SAP