Infrastructure Project Manager Contracts in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Project Manager
UK > UK excluding London

The median Infrastructure Project Manager daily rate in the UK excluding London is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 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
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 341 326 290
Rank change year-on-year -15 -36 +26
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Project Manager 56 106 241
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.27% 0.46% 0.79%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% 0.49% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 82 183
10th Percentile £408 £358 £350
25th Percentile £500 £424 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year +12.82% +2.63% +2.43%
75th Percentile £615 £550 £538
90th Percentile £650 £575 £600
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% +10.50%

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 19,038 21,534 29,349
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.39% 94.27% 95.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,591 14,985 20,591
10th Percentile £213 £225 £205
25th Percentile £363 £394 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +10.47%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,364 1,082 1,440
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.75 £17.81 £14.64
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £62.14 £65.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.96
UK median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -17.38% +87.50% +6.90%

Infrastructure Project Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Project Manager in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Project Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Project Manager in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Project Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Project Manager in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Project Manager in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Project Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Project Manager in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Project 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 Project Manager within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 28 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 17 £563 +18.42% 5
North of England 0 13 £425 -18.27% 6
Midlands +7 11 £550 +22.09% 2
South West +6 8 £550 +12.82%
Yorkshire +1 8 £425 -22.73% 3
East Midlands +14 6 £638 +27.50% 1
West Midlands -7 5 £550 +22.22% 1
North West +9 4 £455 -6.67% 3
Wales +15 3 £600 +41.18%
East of England +6 2 £541 -25.34%
Northern Ireland - 2 - -
North East +12 1 - -
Infrastructure Project Manager
UK

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

For the 6 months to 28 May 2024, Infrastructure Project 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 Project Manager in the job title.

1 22 (39.29%) Project Management
2 20 (35.71%) Social Skills
3 18 (32.14%) Finance
4 13 (23.21%) Stakeholder Management
5 12 (21.43%) Migration
6 11 (19.64%) Agile
7 10 (17.86%) PRINCE2
7 10 (17.86%) Azure
7 10 (17.86%) Project Delivery
8 9 (16.07%) Data Centre
9 8 (14.29%) Windows
10 7 (12.50%) Risk Management
10 7 (12.50%) Waterfall
11 6 (10.71%) Change Control
12 5 (8.93%) Degree
12 5 (8.93%) Line Management
12 5 (8.93%) Citrix
12 5 (8.93%) Public Sector
12 5 (8.93%) Problem-Solving
12 5 (8.93%) Budget Management
13 4 (7.14%) Telecoms
13 4 (7.14%) PMO
13 4 (7.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 4 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
13 4 (7.14%) Security Cleared
14 3 (5.36%) Resource Management
14 3 (5.36%) SaaS
14 3 (5.36%) SC Cleared
14 3 (5.36%) Entra ID
14 3 (5.36%) Windows 10

Infrastructure Project 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 3 (5.36%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.57%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.79%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (3.57%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 10 (17.86%) Azure
2 4 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (5.36%) Entra ID
3 3 (5.36%) SaaS
4 1 (1.79%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (1.79%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.57%) WAN
2 1 (1.79%) LAN
2 1 (1.79%) Network Security
2 1 (1.79%) SD-WAN
2 1 (1.79%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.79%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.79%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 2 (3.57%) JIRA
General
1 20 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 18 (32.14%) Finance
3 5 (8.93%) Public Sector
4 4 (7.14%) Telecoms
5 3 (5.36%) Manufacturing
6 2 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (3.57%) Legal
6 2 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.79%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.79%) Banking
7 1 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.79%) Electronics
7 1 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.79%) Law
7 1 (1.79%) Marketing
7 1 (1.79%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 9 (16.07%) Data Centre
2 1 (1.79%) BYOD
2 1 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (14.29%) Windows
2 3 (5.36%) Windows 10
3 2 (3.57%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.79%) AIX
4 1 (1.79%) Unix
4 1 (1.79%) Windows 7
4 1 (1.79%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (1.79%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (39.29%) Project Management
2 13 (23.21%) Stakeholder Management
3 12 (21.43%) Migration
4 11 (19.64%) Agile
5 10 (17.86%) PRINCE2
5 10 (17.86%) Project Delivery
6 7 (12.50%) Risk Management
6 7 (12.50%) Waterfall
7 6 (10.71%) Change Control
8 5 (8.93%) Budget Management
8 5 (8.93%) Line Management
8 5 (8.93%) Problem-Solving
9 4 (7.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 3 (5.36%) Business Case
10 3 (5.36%) Resource Management
10 3 (5.36%) Workshop Facilitation
11 2 (3.57%) Budget Responsibility
11 2 (3.57%) Data Migration
11 2 (3.57%) Impact Assessments
11 2 (3.57%) Service Migration
Qualifications
1 5 (8.93%) Degree
2 4 (7.14%) Security Cleared
3 3 (5.36%) SC Cleared
4 2 (3.57%) DV Cleared
4 2 (3.57%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 1 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.79%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.79%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.14%) PMO
2 1 (1.79%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.79%) QA
System Software
1 3 (5.36%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 5 (8.93%) Citrix
2 3 (5.36%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.57%) Cisco
4 1 (1.79%) CA Agile Central
4 1 (1.79%) Dell
4 1 (1.79%) EMC
4 1 (1.79%) IBM
4 1 (1.79%) Isilon
4 1 (1.79%) Nokia
4 1 (1.79%) SAP