Infrastructure Consultant Contracts in England

Infrastructure Consultant
UK > England

The median Infrastructure Consultant daily rate in England is £521, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 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
15 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 487 511 581
Rank change year-on-year +24 +70 +163
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Consultant 20 17 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.072% 0.051% 0.079%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.079% 0.055% 0.084%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 15 28
10th Percentile £339 - £388
25th Percentile £433 £350 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £475 £539
Median % change year-on-year +9.74% -11.83% -6.30%
75th Percentile £615 £538 £594
90th Percentile £660 £571 £641
UK median daily rate £500 £488 £538
% change year-on-year +2.56% -9.30% -2.27%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 25,356 30,888 41,894
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.58% 92.86% 94.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,377 20,261 29,558
10th Percentile £285 £300 £305
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -0.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,342 1,792 1,303
10th Percentile £13.51 £14.25 £14.67
25th Percentile £17.48 £21.25 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.23 £45.00 £42.00
Median % change year-on-year -43.94% +7.14% +63.55%
75th Percentile £55.00 £65.01 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.16
% change year-on-year -41.51% +2.00% +64.15%

Infrastructure Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Consultant in England

Infrastructure Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Consultant in England.

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Consultant in England

Infrastructure Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Consultant in England over the 6 months to 15 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Consultant in England

Infrastructure Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Consultant in England.

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Consultant in England

Infrastructure Consultant
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Consultant within the England region over the 6 months to 15 August 2025. 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
London +16 7 £543 +2.84% 4
North of England - 5 £350 - 3
South East +27 3 - - 1
Midlands -9 3 £473 -14.09%
Yorkshire - 3 £350 -
West Midlands - 3 £473 -
North West - 2 - - 3
South West +33 1 - -
Infrastructure Consultant
UK

Infrastructure Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 15 August 2025, Infrastructure Consultant 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 England region featuring Infrastructure Consultant in the job title.

1 9 (45.00%) SC Cleared
1 9 (45.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (40.00%) EntireX
2 8 (40.00%) Software AG
2 8 (40.00%) webMethods
2 8 (40.00%) IBM
2 8 (40.00%) Project Delivery
3 5 (25.00%) VMware
3 5 (25.00%) Finance
4 4 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (20.00%) Microsoft
4 4 (20.00%) Windows
5 3 (15.00%) Linux
5 3 (15.00%) Active Directory
5 3 (15.00%) DNS
5 3 (15.00%) PowerShell
5 3 (15.00%) Identity Management
5 3 (15.00%) Windows Server
5 3 (15.00%) Azure
5 3 (15.00%) AWS
5 3 (15.00%) Roadmaps
6 2 (10.00%) Agile
6 2 (10.00%) Bash
6 2 (10.00%) Entra ID
6 2 (10.00%) Enterprise Storage
6 2 (10.00%) Identity Access Management
6 2 (10.00%) Terraform
6 2 (10.00%) CentOS
6 2 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (10.00%) NAS

Infrastructure Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (5.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (5.00%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 3 (15.00%) AWS
1 3 (15.00%) Azure
2 2 (10.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (5.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (5.00%) Mimecast
3 1 (5.00%) Nutanix
3 1 (5.00%) OCI
3 1 (5.00%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.00%) DNS
2 2 (10.00%) DHCP
2 2 (10.00%) Firewall
2 2 (10.00%) NAS
2 2 (10.00%) SAN
2 2 (10.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (10.00%) VLAN
2 2 (10.00%) VPN
3 1 (5.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) Oracle Database
1 1 (5.00%) Oracle Reports
General
1 5 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (5.00%) Electronics
2 1 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (5.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (5.00%) Marketing
2 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (5.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.00%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (40.00%) EntireX
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (5.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (5.00%) Hedge funds
2 1 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (5.00%) Mainframe
2 1 (5.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (5.00%) PKI
2 1 (5.00%) Renewable Energy
2 1 (5.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (20.00%) Windows
2 3 (15.00%) Linux
2 3 (15.00%) Windows Server
3 2 (10.00%) CentOS
3 2 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (5.00%) VMS
4 1 (5.00%) Windows 7
4 1 (5.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (5.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (40.00%) Project Delivery
2 3 (15.00%) Identity Management
2 3 (15.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (10.00%) Agile
3 2 (10.00%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (5.00%) Backlog Management
4 1 (5.00%) Break/Fix
4 1 (5.00%) Business Case
4 1 (5.00%) Contract Negotiation
4 1 (5.00%) Due Diligence
4 1 (5.00%) GitOps
4 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
4 1 (5.00%) Observability
4 1 (5.00%) Presales
4 1 (5.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (5.00%) Remediation Plan
4 1 (5.00%) Resource Allocation
4 1 (5.00%) Threat Management
4 1 (5.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 3 (15.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (10.00%) Bash
3 1 (5.00%) Assembly Language
3 1 (5.00%) C
3 1 (5.00%) JCL
3 1 (5.00%) Natural
3 1 (5.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (45.00%) SC Cleared
1 9 (45.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) MCP
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (5.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) RMADS
System Software
1 4 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (15.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (5.00%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (5.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (10.00%) Terraform
2 1 (5.00%) Argo
2 1 (5.00%) Grafana
2 1 (5.00%) Istio
2 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (5.00%) SCCM
2 1 (5.00%) SCOM
2 1 (5.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (40.00%) IBM
1 8 (40.00%) Software AG
1 8 (40.00%) webMethods
2 5 (25.00%) VMware
3 4 (20.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (10.00%) Cisco
4 2 (10.00%) Oracle
4 2 (10.00%) Red Hat
5 1 (5.00%) Dynatrace
5 1 (5.00%) Fujitsu
5 1 (5.00%) LogicMonitor
5 1 (5.00%) SAP
5 1 (5.00%) Veeam