Infrastructure Management Contracts in England

Infrastructure Management
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Infrastructure Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Infrastructure Management over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 340 430 568
Rank change year-on-year +90 +138 +116
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Management 145 112 85
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.60% 0.30% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.65% 0.35% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 53 59
10th Percentile £396 £156 £363
25th Percentile £450 £350 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £465 £538
Median % change year-on-year +18.28% -13.49% -6.52%
75th Percentile £620 £600 £638
90th Percentile £700 £675 £725
UK median daily rate £550 £475 £538
% change year-on-year +15.79% -11.63% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £34.25
Median hourly rate - £23.80 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year - -32.96% -
75th Percentile - - £36.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £23.80 £35.50
% change year-on-year - -32.96% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Infrastructure Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Infrastructure Management
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Infrastructure Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Management in England

Infrastructure Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Management in England

Infrastructure Management
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Management in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Management in England

Infrastructure Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Management in England

Infrastructure Management
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 Management within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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 +90 90 £570 +20.00% 73
South East +34 18 £500 +15.61% 35
East of England +36 8 £465 - 18
North of England +11 7 £573 -11.92% 43
South West +42 5 £425 +93.18% 20
Midlands +11 5 £438 -20.45% 22
West Midlands +3 5 £438 -20.45% 10
Yorkshire +10 4 £400 -38.46% 8
North West +7 3 £573 +14.50% 30
Infrastructure Management
UK

Infrastructure Management
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 5 (3.45%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.38%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.69%) Apache
3 1 (0.69%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.38%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.38%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 65 (44.83%) Azure
2 60 (41.38%) AWS
3 20 (13.79%) Microsoft 365
4 15 (10.34%) GCP
4 15 (10.34%) Serverless
5 14 (9.66%) GitHub
6 13 (8.97%) AWS Lambda
7 12 (8.28%) AWS CloudFormation
7 12 (8.28%) GitHub Actions
8 11 (7.59%) Amazon S3
9 10 (6.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 10 (6.90%) Entra ID
9 10 (6.90%) IaaS
9 10 (6.90%) SaaS
10 9 (6.21%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (6.21%) PaaS
11 8 (5.52%) Azure Monitor
11 8 (5.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 7 (4.83%) Amazon EC2
13 5 (3.45%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 21 (14.48%) DNS
2 18 (12.41%) Firewall
3 16 (11.03%) TCP/IP
4 11 (7.59%) VPN
5 9 (6.21%) DHCP
6 8 (5.52%) LAN
6 8 (5.52%) Network Security
6 8 (5.52%) SAN
6 8 (5.52%) WAN
7 6 (4.14%) NAS
8 4 (2.76%) InfiniBand
8 4 (2.76%) Wireless
9 3 (2.07%) 4G
10 2 (1.38%) BGP
10 2 (1.38%) Cisco Nexus
10 2 (1.38%) Fibre Channel
10 2 (1.38%) OSPF
10 2 (1.38%) Spanning Tree
10 2 (1.38%) TACACS
10 2 (1.38%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (11.03%) Amazon RDS
2 10 (6.90%) SQL Server
3 8 (5.52%) Oracle Database
4 5 (3.45%) Amazon Athena
4 5 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (2.07%) Data Lake
5 3 (2.07%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (2.07%) Power BI
6 2 (1.38%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (1.38%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.38%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.38%) Hadoop
6 2 (1.38%) MySQL
6 2 (1.38%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.69%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.69%) Big Data
7 1 (0.69%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.69%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 22 (15.17%) Jenkins
2 20 (13.79%) GitLab
3 7 (4.83%) Git
4 5 (3.45%) CircleCI
5 2 (1.38%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.38%) JIRA
6 1 (0.69%) Snyk
6 1 (0.69%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.69%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.69%) Terragrunt
General
1 55 (37.93%) Social Skills
2 20 (13.79%) Finance
3 18 (12.41%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (9.66%) Public Sector
5 6 (4.14%) Telecoms
6 4 (2.76%) Banking
6 4 (2.76%) Law
6 4 (2.76%) Legal
6 4 (2.76%) Manufacturing
6 4 (2.76%) Military
6 4 (2.76%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (2.76%) Retail
7 3 (2.07%) Multimedia
8 2 (1.38%) Electronics
8 2 (1.38%) Local Government
8 2 (1.38%) Marketing
9 1 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 28 (19.31%) Senior
2 22 (15.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 19 (13.10%) Architect
4 18 (12.41%) DevOps Engineer
5 13 (8.97%) Consultant
5 13 (8.97%) Developer
6 12 (8.28%) Infrastructure Architect
7 11 (7.59%) Azure Engineer
8 9 (6.21%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 8 (5.52%) AWS Engineer
9 8 (5.52%) Cloud Engineer
10 7 (4.83%) Platform Engineer
10 7 (4.83%) Software Engineer
11 6 (4.14%) Administrator
11 6 (4.14%) Senior Architect
11 6 (4.14%) Senior Infrastructure Architect
12 5 (3.45%) Lead
12 5 (3.45%) Senior Developer
13 4 (2.76%) IT Manager
13 4 (2.76%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (6.21%) Kafka
2 7 (4.83%) Node.js
3 5 (3.45%) LDAP
4 4 (2.76%) YAML
5 3 (2.07%) CSS
5 3 (2.07%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (2.07%) HTML
5 3 (2.07%) JPA
6 2 (1.38%) .NET
6 2 (1.38%) Apache Axis
6 2 (1.38%) AWS CDK
6 2 (1.38%) boto
6 2 (1.38%) React
6 2 (1.38%) Spring
7 1 (0.69%) ADO
7 1 (0.69%) ARM Templates
7 1 (0.69%) Azure Blueprints
7 1 (0.69%) OAuth
7 1 (0.69%) Redfish
7 1 (0.69%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 21 (14.48%) Data Centre
2 16 (11.03%) Public Cloud
3 12 (8.28%) Management Information System
4 11 (7.59%) Private Cloud
5 10 (6.90%) Onboarding
6 9 (6.21%) Cloud Native
7 6 (4.14%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (2.76%) Distributed Computing
9 4 (2.76%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (2.76%) PKI
10 3 (2.07%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (2.07%) Educational Technology
10 3 (2.07%) Legacy Applications
10 3 (2.07%) Podcast
10 3 (2.07%) Replication
10 3 (2.07%) Security Operations Centre
11 2 (1.38%) Clustering
11 2 (1.38%) Distributed Systems
12 1 (0.69%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 35 (24.14%) Windows
2 33 (22.76%) Linux
3 23 (15.86%) Windows Server
4 6 (4.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (3.45%) Ubuntu
6 4 (2.76%) CentOS
6 4 (2.76%) Windows 10
7 3 (2.07%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (2.07%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (1.38%) Unix
9 1 (0.69%) Amazon Linux
9 1 (0.69%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (45.52%) CI/CD
2 62 (42.76%) DevOps
3 40 (27.59%) Infrastructure as Code
4 36 (24.83%) Problem-Solving
5 28 (19.31%) Infrastructure Automation
6 26 (17.93%) Agile
6 26 (17.93%) Containerisation
7 25 (17.24%) Mentoring
8 24 (16.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 23 (15.86%) High Availability
10 19 (13.10%) Configuration Management
11 18 (12.41%) ITIL
12 17 (11.72%) Roadmaps
13 16 (11.03%) Capacity Planning
14 15 (10.34%) Cloud Security
14 15 (10.34%) Software Engineering
15 14 (9.66%) Incident Management
16 13 (8.97%) Artificial Intelligence
16 13 (8.97%) Test Automation
17 12 (8.28%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 45 (31.03%) Python
2 22 (15.17%) Bash
3 19 (13.10%) PowerShell
4 14 (9.66%) Java
4 14 (9.66%) SQL
5 7 (4.83%) Go
6 6 (4.14%) Kotlin
7 5 (3.45%) TypeScript
8 3 (2.07%) C#
8 3 (2.07%) JavaScript
8 3 (2.07%) Ruby
9 2 (1.38%) Bicep
9 2 (1.38%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.69%) C-shell
10 1 (0.69%) Groovy
10 1 (0.69%) Scala
10 1 (0.69%) X++
Qualifications
1 24 (16.55%) Security Cleared
2 21 (14.48%) SC Cleared
3 18 (12.41%) Degree
4 11 (7.59%) AWS Certification
5 10 (6.90%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (5.52%) Azure Certification
7 7 (4.83%) CCNA
7 7 (4.83%) Cisco Certification
8 6 (4.14%) CCNP
9 5 (3.45%) CISSP
10 4 (2.76%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 2 (1.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (1.38%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (1.38%) DV Cleared
11 2 (1.38%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (1.38%) VCAP
11 2 (1.38%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 1 (0.69%) OCP
12 1 (0.69%) Oracle Certification
12 1 (0.69%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.83%) GDPR
2 4 (2.76%) NCSC
2 4 (2.76%) QA
3 3 (2.07%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.38%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (1.38%) HIPAA
4 2 (1.38%) NIST
4 2 (1.38%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.69%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.69%) SLA
System Software
1 24 (16.55%) Docker
2 20 (13.79%) Active Directory
3 12 (8.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (6.90%) Virtual Desktop
4 10 (6.90%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (4.83%) Hyper-V
6 6 (4.14%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (2.07%) VMware NSX
7 3 (2.07%) vSphere
8 2 (1.38%) Ceph
8 2 (1.38%) NFS
9 1 (0.69%) Firmware
9 1 (0.69%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 58 (40.00%) Terraform
2 46 (31.72%) Kubernetes
3 27 (18.62%) Ansible
4 9 (6.21%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (5.52%) Puppet
6 7 (4.83%) Prometheus
7 5 (3.45%) FortiGate
7 5 (3.45%) Grafana
8 4 (2.76%) SCCM
9 3 (2.07%) Argo
9 3 (2.07%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (2.07%) vRealize
10 2 (1.38%) Dell DRAC
10 2 (1.38%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 2 (1.38%) Progress Chef
10 2 (1.38%) vCenter Server
10 2 (1.38%) vRealize Orchestrator
10 2 (1.38%) VxRail
11 1 (0.69%) Cilium
11 1 (0.69%) Podman
Vendors
1 28 (19.31%) Microsoft
2 18 (12.41%) Red Hat
3 16 (11.03%) VMware
4 14 (9.66%) Oracle
5 9 (6.21%) ServiceNow
6 7 (4.83%) Fortinet
6 7 (4.83%) Google
7 6 (4.14%) Cisco
7 6 (4.14%) Dell
8 5 (3.45%) Databricks
9 4 (2.76%) Infoblox
9 4 (2.76%) NetApp
9 4 (2.76%) NVIDIA
9 4 (2.76%) Splunk
10 3 (2.07%) F5
10 3 (2.07%) HP
10 3 (2.07%) Salesforce
11 2 (1.38%) Confluent
11 2 (1.38%) EMC
11 2 (1.38%) Mellanox