Infrastructure Manager Contracts in England

Infrastructure Manager
UK > England

The median Infrastructure Manager daily rate in England is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 376 389 317
Rank change year-on-year +13 -72 +37
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Manager 109 153 386
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.45% 0.41% 0.77%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.48% 0.44% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 117 269
10th Percentile £400 £363 £385
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £586 £638 £619
90th Percentile £638 £693 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 16
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £35.00 - £65.00
75th Percentile - - £65.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £35.00 - £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +40.86%

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 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

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 1 May 2025.

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 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 +25 57 £525 -6.67% 27
North of England +13 15 £481 +6.94% 9
South East +33 13 £500 -9.09% 18
Midlands +13 11 £438 -20.45% 11
West Midlands +9 7 £513 -6.82% 8
South West +41 6 £494 -10.23% 5
North West +14 6 £550 +57.14% 4
Yorkshire +3 6 £500 - 4
East Midlands +7 4 £425 -32.00% 3
North East +1 2 £442 - 1
East of England +27 1 £625 +28.21% 10
Infrastructure Manager
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 58 (53.21%) Project Management
2 47 (43.12%) Finance
3 38 (34.86%) Stakeholder Management
4 36 (33.03%) Social Skills
5 26 (23.85%) Data Centre
6 24 (22.02%) Agile
7 23 (21.10%) Microsoft
7 23 (21.10%) Azure
7 23 (21.10%) Project Delivery
8 22 (20.18%) Banking
8 22 (20.18%) Migration
9 18 (16.51%) PRINCE2
10 16 (14.68%) Waterfall
11 14 (12.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 13 (11.93%) PMI Certification
12 13 (11.93%) ITIL
12 13 (11.93%) Change Management
12 13 (11.93%) Supplier Management
13 12 (11.01%) Windows
13 12 (11.01%) Problem-Solving
13 12 (11.01%) Budget Management
14 11 (10.09%) Active Directory
14 11 (10.09%) Service Delivery
14 11 (10.09%) Firewall
14 11 (10.09%) PMP
15 10 (9.17%) Microsoft Project
15 10 (9.17%) Project Planning
15 10 (9.17%) AWS
15 10 (9.17%) Security Cleared
15 10 (9.17%) Decision-Making

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 4 (3.67%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.75%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.83%) Confluence
4 1 (0.92%) CMS
Applications
1 10 (9.17%) Microsoft Project
2 5 (4.59%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.83%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.83%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 23 (21.10%) Azure
2 10 (9.17%) AWS
3 9 (8.26%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (3.67%) OneDrive
5 3 (2.75%) Entra ID
5 3 (2.75%) SaaS
6 2 (1.83%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (1.83%) Smartsheet
7 1 (0.92%) Akamai
7 1 (0.92%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (0.92%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.92%) Google Workspace
7 1 (0.92%) Mimecast
7 1 (0.92%) Nutanix
7 1 (0.92%) Power Automate
7 1 (0.92%) Rubrik
7 1 (0.92%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 11 (10.09%) Firewall
2 5 (4.59%) Wi-Fi
3 4 (3.67%) WAN
3 4 (3.67%) Wireless
4 3 (2.75%) LAN
4 3 (2.75%) SD-WAN
4 3 (2.75%) Structured Cabling
4 3 (2.75%) VPN
5 2 (1.83%) DNS
5 2 (1.83%) Network Security
5 2 (1.83%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.83%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.92%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (0.92%) DHCP
6 1 (0.92%) IP Telephony
6 1 (0.92%) NAS
6 1 (0.92%) SAN
6 1 (0.92%) Softphone
6 1 (0.92%) VLAN
6 1 (0.92%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.92%) Big Data
1 1 (0.92%) Data Lake
1 1 (0.92%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 5 (4.59%) JIRA
2 1 (0.92%) MSI
General
1 47 (43.12%) Finance
2 36 (33.03%) Social Skills
3 22 (20.18%) Banking
4 8 (7.34%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (6.42%) Telecoms
6 6 (5.50%) Manufacturing
7 4 (3.67%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (3.67%) Public Sector
7 4 (3.67%) Retail
8 3 (2.75%) Aviation
8 3 (2.75%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.75%) Investment Banking
8 3 (2.75%) Italian Language
8 3 (2.75%) Retail Banking
9 2 (1.83%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.83%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.83%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.83%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.92%) Automotive
10 1 (0.92%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.83%) LDAP
2 1 (0.92%) 802.1X
2 1 (0.92%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 26 (23.85%) Data Centre
2 4 (3.67%) CCTV
2 4 (3.67%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (3.67%) Onboarding
2 4 (3.67%) PMI
3 2 (1.83%) Hedge funds
3 2 (1.83%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (1.83%) Legacy Applications
3 2 (1.83%) Management Information System
3 2 (1.83%) Public Cloud
4 1 (0.92%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (0.92%) Mainframe
4 1 (0.92%) Product Ownership
4 1 (0.92%) Replication
4 1 (0.92%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (0.92%) Security Posture
4 1 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (0.92%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 12 (11.01%) Windows
2 6 (5.50%) Linux
3 3 (2.75%) Unix
3 3 (2.75%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.92%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (53.21%) Project Management
2 38 (34.86%) Stakeholder Management
3 24 (22.02%) Agile
4 23 (21.10%) Project Delivery
5 22 (20.18%) Migration
6 18 (16.51%) PRINCE2
7 16 (14.68%) Waterfall
8 14 (12.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 13 (11.93%) Change Management
9 13 (11.93%) ITIL
9 13 (11.93%) Supplier Management
10 12 (11.01%) Budget Management
10 12 (11.01%) Problem-Solving
11 11 (10.09%) Service Delivery
12 10 (9.17%) Decision-Making
12 10 (9.17%) Project Planning
13 9 (8.26%) Continuous Improvement
13 9 (8.26%) Roadmaps
14 8 (7.34%) Business Case
14 8 (7.34%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 3 (2.75%) PowerShell
2 2 (1.83%) SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (11.93%) PMI Certification
2 11 (10.09%) PMP
3 10 (9.17%) Security Cleared
4 7 (6.42%) Degree
5 5 (4.59%) SC Cleared
6 3 (2.75%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.83%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.83%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (1.83%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.83%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 1 (0.92%) CAPM
8 1 (0.92%) Chartered Engineer
8 1 (0.92%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.92%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.92%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.92%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.34%) PMO
2 3 (2.75%) SLA
3 1 (0.92%) ISO 14001
3 1 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 11 (10.09%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (2.75%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (1.83%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (0.92%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.92%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.92%) KVM
5 1 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.92%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 4 (3.67%) Microsoft Intune
1 4 (3.67%) SCCM
2 2 (1.83%) Terraform
3 1 (0.92%) FortiGate
3 1 (0.92%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.92%) OfficeScan
3 1 (0.92%) Trend Micro Deep Security
3 1 (0.92%) WSUS
Vendors
1 23 (21.10%) Microsoft
2 6 (5.50%) Cisco
2 6 (5.50%) VMware
3 3 (2.75%) Fortinet
3 3 (2.75%) Oracle
3 3 (2.75%) Planview
4 2 (1.83%) Citrix
4 2 (1.83%) Logitech
4 2 (1.83%) Mitel
4 2 (1.83%) Palo Alto
4 2 (1.83%) Salesforce
4 2 (1.83%) SolarWinds
5 1 (0.92%) Altiris
5 1 (0.92%) Apple
5 1 (0.92%) Genesys
5 1 (0.92%) Google
5 1 (0.92%) NetApp
5 1 (0.92%) SAP
5 1 (0.92%) Symantec
5 1 (0.92%) Ubiquiti