Infrastructure Manager Contracts in England

Infrastructure Manager
UK > England

The median Infrastructure Manager daily rate in England is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 382 324 352
Rank change year-on-year -58 +28 +56
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Manager 153 386 534
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.41% 0.76% 0.75%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.45% 0.81% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 268 412
10th Percentile £363 £385 £381
25th Percentile £450 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - +11.70%
75th Percentile £638 £620 £600
90th Percentile £693 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 16 4
10th Percentile - - £44.21
25th Percentile - - £44.84
Median hourly rate - £65.00 £46.15
Median % change year-on-year - +40.86% +74.59%
75th Percentile - £65.75 £47.52
90th Percentile - - £48.27
UK median hourly rate - £65.00 £46.15
% change year-on-year - +40.86% +74.59%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 34,271 47,824 67,952
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.72% 94.61% 95.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,751 33,955 48,268
10th Percentile £275 £312 £313
25th Percentile £412 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £640 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,410 1,422 1,902
10th Percentile £12.92 £14.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.22%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.71 £48.70
90th Percentile £72.54 £77.00 £62.24
UK median hourly rate £35.83 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.38% +95.65% -

Infrastructure Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Manager in England

Infrastructure Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Manager in England

Infrastructure Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Manager in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Manager in England

Infrastructure Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Manager in England

Infrastructure Manager
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 Manager within the England region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
London -17 70 £563 -6.25% 23
South East +24 26 £550 +20.55% 13
North of England -31 21 £450 -10.00% 12
Midlands +2 20 £550 +22.15% 10
West Midlands +10 12 £550 +22.22% 8
South West +15 11 £525 +7.69% 7
Yorkshire -18 11 £500 -9.09% 4
North West -11 9 £350 -23.29% 7
East Midlands +16 7 £625 +19.05% 2
East of England +10 4 £488 -7.14% 1
North East +19 1 - - 1
Infrastructure Manager
UK

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 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 England region featuring Infrastructure Manager in the job title.

1 55 (35.95%) Project Management
2 48 (31.37%) Finance
3 42 (27.45%) Social Skills
4 36 (23.53%) Stakeholder Management
5 28 (18.30%) Azure
6 25 (16.34%) Agile
6 25 (16.34%) Windows
6 25 (16.34%) Project Delivery
6 25 (16.34%) Data Centre
7 21 (13.73%) Microsoft
8 19 (12.42%) Migration
8 19 (12.42%) Change Management
9 17 (11.11%) Banking
10 16 (10.46%) Public Sector
11 15 (9.80%) Microsoft 365
12 14 (9.15%) PRINCE2
12 14 (9.15%) Active Directory
13 13 (8.50%) WAN
14 12 (7.84%) Risk Management
14 12 (7.84%) Waterfall
14 12 (7.84%) Problem-Solving
15 11 (7.19%) Cisco
15 11 (7.19%) SharePoint
16 10 (6.54%) Degree
16 10 (6.54%) Security Cleared
17 9 (5.88%) ITIL
17 9 (5.88%) Microsoft Exchange
17 9 (5.88%) Telecoms
18 8 (5.23%) Firewall
18 8 (5.23%) Scrum

Infrastructure Manager 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 11 (7.19%) SharePoint
2 9 (5.88%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.96%) nginx
4 2 (1.31%) Confluence
4 2 (1.31%) OpenStack
Applications
1 5 (3.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (2.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.61%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.61%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (1.96%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.96%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 28 (18.30%) Azure
2 15 (9.80%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (2.61%) Entra ID
4 3 (1.96%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (1.96%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (1.96%) SaaS
5 2 (1.31%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (1.31%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (1.31%) Amazon S3
5 2 (1.31%) AWS
5 2 (1.31%) CloudFront
6 1 (0.65%) OneDrive
6 1 (0.65%) Power Automate
6 1 (0.65%) Power Platform
6 1 (0.65%) PowerApps
6 1 (0.65%) ShareGate
6 1 (0.65%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 13 (8.50%) WAN
2 8 (5.23%) Firewall
3 7 (4.58%) LAN
4 5 (3.27%) Wi-Fi
4 5 (3.27%) Wireless
5 4 (2.61%) SAN
5 4 (2.61%) SD-WAN
6 3 (1.96%) Cisco IOS
6 3 (1.96%) WLAN
7 2 (1.31%) Network Security
7 2 (1.31%) Structured Cabling
7 2 (1.31%) VoIP
7 2 (1.31%) VPN
8 1 (0.65%) MPLS
8 1 (0.65%) Skype
8 1 (0.65%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.65%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.61%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.96%) MySQL
3 2 (1.31%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (1.31%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.65%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.65%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (3.27%) JIRA
General
1 48 (31.37%) Finance
2 42 (27.45%) Social Skills
3 17 (11.11%) Banking
4 16 (10.46%) Public Sector
5 9 (5.88%) Telecoms
6 8 (5.23%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (3.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (3.27%) Manufacturing
7 5 (3.27%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (2.61%) Law
8 4 (2.61%) Marketing
8 4 (2.61%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.96%) Electronics
9 3 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.96%) Legal
10 2 (1.31%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.31%) Local Government
10 2 (1.31%) Retail
11 1 (0.65%) French Language
11 1 (0.65%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.96%) EDI
2 2 (1.31%) LDAP
2 2 (1.31%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 25 (16.34%) Data Centre
2 5 (3.27%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (1.96%) CCTV
3 3 (1.96%) Virtual Team
4 2 (1.31%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.31%) PMI
5 1 (0.65%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.65%) BYOD
5 1 (0.65%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.65%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.65%) EPoS
5 1 (0.65%) HACMP
5 1 (0.65%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.65%) Mainframe
5 1 (0.65%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.65%) PKI
5 1 (0.65%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.65%) Robotics
5 1 (0.65%) Security Posture
5 1 (0.65%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 25 (16.34%) Windows
2 6 (3.92%) Linux
3 5 (3.27%) Windows Server 2012
4 4 (2.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (2.61%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (1.96%) Android
5 3 (1.96%) Mac OS
5 3 (1.96%) Ubuntu
5 3 (1.96%) Unix
5 3 (1.96%) Windows 10
5 3 (1.96%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.96%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (1.31%) AIX
6 2 (1.31%) VMS
6 2 (1.31%) Windows 2000
6 2 (1.31%) Windows XP
7 1 (0.65%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (35.95%) Project Management
2 36 (23.53%) Stakeholder Management
3 25 (16.34%) Agile
3 25 (16.34%) Project Delivery
4 19 (12.42%) Change Management
4 19 (12.42%) Migration
5 14 (9.15%) PRINCE2
6 12 (7.84%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (7.84%) Risk Management
6 12 (7.84%) Waterfall
7 9 (5.88%) ITIL
8 8 (5.23%) Scrum
9 7 (4.58%) Budget Management
9 7 (4.58%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 6 (3.92%) Acceptance Criteria
10 6 (3.92%) Continuous Improvement
10 6 (3.92%) Cybersecurity
10 6 (3.92%) Disaster Recovery
10 6 (3.92%) Line Management
10 6 (3.92%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 4 (2.61%) SQL
2 2 (1.31%) PowerShell
2 2 (1.31%) R
2 2 (1.31%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (6.54%) Degree
1 10 (6.54%) Security Cleared
2 7 (4.58%) PMP
3 6 (3.92%) PMI Certification
3 6 (3.92%) SC Cleared
4 4 (2.61%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.96%) CCNA
5 3 (1.96%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.31%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.31%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 2 (1.31%) Six Sigma Black Belt
6 2 (1.31%) Six Sigma Green Belt
7 1 (0.65%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.65%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.65%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.92%) QA
2 4 (2.61%) PMO
3 1 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (0.65%) NIST
3 1 (0.65%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 14 (9.15%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.31%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (1.31%) vSphere
3 1 (0.65%) Citrix Presentation Server
3 1 (0.65%) PowerHA
3 1 (0.65%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.65%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 3 (1.96%) Kubernetes
1 3 (1.96%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (1.96%) PaperCut
1 3 (1.96%) SCCM
2 2 (1.31%) Ansible
2 2 (1.31%) Terraform
3 1 (0.65%) OPNET
3 1 (0.65%) SCOM
3 1 (0.65%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 21 (13.73%) Microsoft
2 11 (7.19%) Cisco
3 6 (3.92%) Citrix
4 5 (3.27%) VMware
5 4 (2.61%) Red Hat
6 3 (1.96%) Arista
6 3 (1.96%) Aruba
6 3 (1.96%) Fortinet
6 3 (1.96%) HP
6 3 (1.96%) Nimble Storage
6 3 (1.96%) Sage
6 3 (1.96%) SAP
6 3 (1.96%) ServiceNow
6 3 (1.96%) Veeam
6 3 (1.96%) WatchGuard
7 2 (1.31%) Bloomberg
7 2 (1.31%) Juniper
7 2 (1.31%) Refinitiv
7 2 (1.31%) Reuters
7 2 (1.31%) SolarWinds