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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 346 420 553
Rank change year-on-year +74 +133 +137
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Management 140 116 85
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.58% 0.32% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.63% 0.37% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 58 57
10th Percentile £402 £210 £420
25th Percentile £450 £350 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £458 £550
Median % change year-on-year +20.22% -16.82% -6.38%
75th Percentile £628 £598 £638
90th Percentile £700 £675 £735
UK median daily rate £558 £465 £550
% change year-on-year +19.89% -15.45% +2.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile £16.11 - -
25th Percentile £17.59 - £34.25
Median hourly rate £20.13 £23.80 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.44% -32.96% +65.12%
75th Percentile £22.59 - £36.75
90th Percentile £24.04 - -
UK median hourly rate £23.00 £23.80 £35.50
% change year-on-year -3.36% -32.96% +65.12%

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 22,122 31,544 42,731
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.29% 85.81% 89.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,378 20,598 30,002
10th Percentile £305 £300 £325
25th Percentile £410 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £769
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 964 2,306 1,516
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.84 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.04 £16.00 £15.61
Median hourly rate £28.53 £37.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.93% - +50.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.85 £36.50 £36.77
% change year-on-year -23.70% -0.73% +43.19%

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 31 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 31 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 +95 87 £575 +21.05% 79
South East +26 15 £475 +9.83% 27
West Midlands +7 10 £425 -22.73% 11
Midlands +6 10 £425 -18.27% 22
North of England +12 8 £573 +23.78% 22
East of England +29 7 £430 - 19
Yorkshire +16 5 £400 -11.11% 5
South West +41 3 £525 +138.64% 13
North West +2 3 £573 +14.50% 13
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 7 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.43%) Apache
2 2 (1.43%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.43%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.43%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 62 (44.29%) Azure
2 60 (42.86%) AWS
3 19 (13.57%) Microsoft 365
4 14 (10.00%) GCP
5 13 (9.29%) Serverless
6 12 (8.57%) AWS CloudFormation
6 12 (8.57%) GitHub
7 11 (7.86%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (7.14%) Entra ID
8 10 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
8 10 (7.14%) IaaS
8 10 (7.14%) SaaS
9 9 (6.43%) Azure Monitor
10 8 (5.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 8 (5.71%) Amazon S3
10 8 (5.71%) PaaS
11 7 (5.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 6 (4.29%) Amazon EC2
13 5 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
13 5 (3.57%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 22 (15.71%) Firewall
2 18 (12.86%) DNS
3 16 (11.43%) TCP/IP
4 11 (7.86%) LAN
4 11 (7.86%) VPN
5 10 (7.14%) DHCP
5 10 (7.14%) WAN
6 9 (6.43%) Network Security
6 9 (6.43%) SAN
7 8 (5.71%) Wireless
8 6 (4.29%) NAS
9 5 (3.57%) 4G
10 4 (2.86%) InfiniBand
11 2 (1.43%) Fibre Channel
11 2 (1.43%) Spanning Tree
11 2 (1.43%) Telepresence
11 2 (1.43%) Unified Communications
11 2 (1.43%) VLAN
11 2 (1.43%) VSAN
11 2 (1.43%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (10.71%) Amazon RDS
2 10 (7.14%) SQL Server
3 8 (5.71%) Oracle Database
3 8 (5.71%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.14%) Amazon Athena
4 3 (2.14%) Big Data
5 2 (1.43%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (1.43%) MySQL
5 2 (1.43%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (1.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.71%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.71%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.71%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.71%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.71%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.71%) Flink
6 1 (0.71%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.71%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.71%) Power BI
6 1 (0.71%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 19 (13.57%) GitLab
1 19 (13.57%) Jenkins
2 8 (5.71%) Git
3 5 (3.57%) CircleCI
4 2 (1.43%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.71%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.71%) JUnit
5 1 (0.71%) Maven
5 1 (0.71%) Snyk
5 1 (0.71%) Terragrunt
General
1 62 (44.29%) Social Skills
2 19 (13.57%) Analytical Skills
2 19 (13.57%) Finance
3 9 (6.43%) Public Sector
4 5 (3.57%) Banking
4 5 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (2.86%) Legal
5 4 (2.86%) Military
5 4 (2.86%) Retail
5 4 (2.86%) Telecoms
6 3 (2.14%) Law
6 3 (2.14%) Multimedia
7 2 (1.43%) Automotive
7 2 (1.43%) Front Office
7 2 (1.43%) Local Government
7 2 (1.43%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.71%) Aviation
8 1 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 31 (22.14%) Senior
2 22 (15.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 18 (12.86%) Architect
4 13 (9.29%) Consultant
4 13 (9.29%) Developer
5 12 (8.57%) DevOps Engineer
5 12 (8.57%) Infrastructure Architect
6 11 (7.86%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 9 (6.43%) Cloud Engineer
7 9 (6.43%) Platform Engineer
8 8 (5.71%) Azure Engineer
9 7 (5.00%) Administrator
9 7 (5.00%) Software Engineer
10 6 (4.29%) AWS Engineer
10 6 (4.29%) Senior Architect
10 6 (4.29%) Senior Infrastructure Architect
11 5 (3.57%) Lead
11 5 (3.57%) Senior Developer
11 5 (3.57%) VMware Engineer
11 5 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (6.43%) Kafka
2 6 (4.29%) Node.js
3 5 (3.57%) LDAP
4 3 (2.14%) CSS
4 3 (2.14%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (2.14%) GraphQL
4 3 (2.14%) HTML
4 3 (2.14%) JPA
4 3 (2.14%) OAuth
4 3 (2.14%) Spring
5 2 (1.43%) .NET
5 2 (1.43%) Apache Axis
5 2 (1.43%) ARM Templates
5 2 (1.43%) AWS CDK
5 2 (1.43%) JWT
5 2 (1.43%) RESTful
5 2 (1.43%) Software Packaging
5 2 (1.43%) YAML
6 1 (0.71%) ADO
6 1 (0.71%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 21 (15.00%) Data Centre
2 16 (11.43%) Public Cloud
3 13 (9.29%) Management Information System
4 11 (7.86%) Private Cloud
5 10 (7.14%) Cloud Native
5 10 (7.14%) Onboarding
6 7 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (4.29%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (3.57%) Replication
8 5 (3.57%) Security Operations Centre
9 4 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (2.86%) Distributed Computing
9 4 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (2.86%) Legacy Applications
9 4 (2.86%) PKI
10 3 (2.14%) Educational Technology
10 3 (2.14%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (2.14%) Podcast
11 2 (1.43%) Clustering
12 1 (0.71%) CUDA
Operating Systems
1 38 (27.14%) Windows
2 32 (22.86%) Linux
3 21 (15.00%) Windows Server
4 7 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (3.57%) Ubuntu
6 4 (2.86%) CentOS
7 3 (2.14%) Windows 10
7 3 (2.14%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (1.43%) Mac OS
8 2 (1.43%) Unix
9 1 (0.71%) Amazon Linux
9 1 (0.71%) VMS
9 1 (0.71%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (42.86%) CI/CD
2 56 (40.00%) DevOps
3 38 (27.14%) Problem-Solving
4 36 (25.71%) Infrastructure as Code
5 28 (20.00%) Mentoring
6 27 (19.29%) Agile
7 26 (18.57%) Containerisation
7 26 (18.57%) High Availability
8 23 (16.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 21 (15.00%) Infrastructure Automation
10 19 (13.57%) ITIL
11 18 (12.86%) Capacity Planning
11 18 (12.86%) Configuration Management
11 18 (12.86%) Incident Management
12 16 (11.43%) Roadmaps
12 16 (11.43%) Software Engineering
13 14 (10.00%) Cloud Security
13 14 (10.00%) Test Automation
14 13 (9.29%) Artificial Intelligence
14 13 (9.29%) Business Continuity
Programming Languages
1 42 (30.00%) Python
2 19 (13.57%) Bash
2 19 (13.57%) PowerShell
3 15 (10.71%) Java
3 15 (10.71%) SQL
4 9 (6.43%) Go
5 6 (4.29%) Kotlin
6 4 (2.86%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.14%) C#
7 3 (2.14%) JavaScript
7 3 (2.14%) Ruby
8 2 (1.43%) Bicep
8 2 (1.43%) Scala
8 2 (1.43%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.43%) VBScript
9 1 (0.71%) C-shell
9 1 (0.71%) Groovy
9 1 (0.71%) X++
Qualifications
1 19 (13.57%) Degree
2 17 (12.14%) Security Cleared
3 16 (11.43%) SC Cleared
4 11 (7.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (5.00%) AWS Certification
5 7 (5.00%) Azure Certification
5 7 (5.00%) CCNA
5 7 (5.00%) CCNP
5 7 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (3.57%) CISSP
7 2 (1.43%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (1.43%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (1.43%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 2 (1.43%) VCAP
7 2 (1.43%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 1 (0.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.71%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.71%) OCP
8 1 (0.71%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.14%) GDPR
2 5 (3.57%) QA
3 4 (2.86%) NCSC
4 3 (2.14%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.14%) NIST
4 3 (2.14%) SLA
5 2 (1.43%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.43%) HIPAA
5 2 (1.43%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.71%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 19 (13.57%) Docker
2 18 (12.86%) Active Directory
3 10 (7.14%) Virtual Desktop
4 8 (5.71%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (5.00%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (2.86%) Hyper-V
6 4 (2.86%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (2.14%) vSphere
8 2 (1.43%) Ceph
9 1 (0.71%) Firmware
9 1 (0.71%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 56 (40.00%) Terraform
2 39 (27.86%) Kubernetes
3 27 (19.29%) Ansible
4 9 (6.43%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (5.71%) FortiGate
6 7 (5.00%) Grafana
6 7 (5.00%) Prometheus
6 7 (5.00%) Puppet
7 3 (2.14%) Argo
7 3 (2.14%) Kibana
7 3 (2.14%) SCCM
7 3 (2.14%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (1.43%) Dell DRAC
8 2 (1.43%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 2 (1.43%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.43%) vCenter Server
8 2 (1.43%) VxRail
9 1 (0.71%) Cilium
9 1 (0.71%) Podman
9 1 (0.71%) vRealize
Vendors
1 33 (23.57%) Microsoft
2 19 (13.57%) Red Hat
3 14 (10.00%) Oracle
4 13 (9.29%) VMware
5 9 (6.43%) ServiceNow
6 7 (5.00%) Cisco
6 7 (5.00%) Dell
6 7 (5.00%) Fortinet
6 7 (5.00%) Google
7 5 (3.57%) Databricks
8 4 (2.86%) Infoblox
8 4 (2.86%) NetApp
8 4 (2.86%) NVIDIA
9 3 (2.14%) F5
9 3 (2.14%) Salesforce
9 3 (2.14%) Sun
10 2 (1.43%) Confluent
10 2 (1.43%) HP
10 2 (1.43%) Mellanox
10 2 (1.43%) Splunk