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 14 May 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
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 387 326 332
Rank change year-on-year -61 +6 +57
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Manager 147 360 565
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.40% 0.74% 0.80%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.43% 0.78% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 260 434
10th Percentile £363 £385 £388
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 £626 £600
90th Percentile £690 £702 £688
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 10 4
10th Percentile - £64.73 £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 - £65.85 £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 33,813 46,135 67,590
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.72% 94.65% 95.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,418 32,774 48,161
10th Percentile £281 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £645 £663 £644
90th Percentile £750 £760 £743
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,438 1,361 1,875
10th Percentile £12.87 £14.52 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.52
Median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.38% +95.65% +4.03%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.02 £48.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £63.75
UK median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -17.38% +88.21% +6.27%

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 14 May 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 14 May 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 74 £563 -6.25% 23
North of England -37 20 £425 -16.05% 18
Midlands +6 19 £550 +22.22% 13
South East +12 18 £600 +31.51% 13
West Midlands +6 12 £550 +22.22% 6
South West +7 11 £550 +12.82% 1
North West +6 10 £350 -22.22% 11
Yorkshire -19 9 £488 -11.36% 6
East Midlands +15 7 £625 +21.95% 7
East of England +10 4 £488 -20.41%
North East +12 1 - - 1
Infrastructure Manager
UK

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

For the 6 months to 14 May 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 50 (34.01%) Project Management
2 48 (32.65%) Finance
3 41 (27.89%) Social Skills
4 36 (24.49%) Stakeholder Management
5 24 (16.33%) Agile
6 23 (15.65%) Windows
6 23 (15.65%) Azure
7 21 (14.29%) Data Centre
7 21 (14.29%) Project Delivery
8 20 (13.61%) Migration
9 19 (12.93%) Microsoft
10 18 (12.24%) Change Management
11 17 (11.56%) PRINCE2
12 15 (10.20%) Banking
12 15 (10.20%) Public Sector
13 12 (8.16%) Waterfall
14 11 (7.48%) SharePoint
15 10 (6.80%) Active Directory
15 10 (6.80%) Risk Management
15 10 (6.80%) Security Cleared
15 10 (6.80%) Microsoft 365
16 9 (6.12%) Cisco
17 8 (5.44%) WAN
17 8 (5.44%) Scrum
18 7 (4.76%) Telecoms
18 7 (4.76%) SC Cleared
18 7 (4.76%) Problem-Solving
19 6 (4.08%) Decision-Making
19 6 (4.08%) Acceptance Criteria
19 6 (4.08%) Budget Management

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 (7.48%) SharePoint
2 6 (4.08%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.36%) Confluence
3 2 (1.36%) OpenStack
Applications
1 5 (3.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (2.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.72%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.72%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (2.04%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 23 (15.65%) Azure
2 10 (6.80%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (2.04%) Cloud Computing
3 3 (2.04%) Entra ID
3 3 (2.04%) SaaS
4 2 (1.36%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (1.36%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (1.36%) Amazon S3
4 2 (1.36%) AWS
4 2 (1.36%) CloudFront
4 2 (1.36%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (0.68%) OneDrive
5 1 (0.68%) Power Automate
5 1 (0.68%) Power Platform
5 1 (0.68%) PowerApps
5 1 (0.68%) ShareGate
5 1 (0.68%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 8 (5.44%) WAN
2 6 (4.08%) Firewall
2 6 (4.08%) LAN
2 6 (4.08%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (2.04%) SD-WAN
3 3 (2.04%) VoIP
4 2 (1.36%) Structured Cabling
4 2 (1.36%) VLAN
4 2 (1.36%) VPN
5 1 (0.68%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (0.68%) MPLS
5 1 (0.68%) Network Security
5 1 (0.68%) SAN
5 1 (0.68%) Skype
5 1 (0.68%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.68%) Unified Communications
5 1 (0.68%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.36%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (1.36%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (1.36%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.68%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (0.68%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (3.40%) JIRA
General
1 48 (32.65%) Finance
2 41 (27.89%) Social Skills
3 15 (10.20%) Banking
3 15 (10.20%) Public Sector
4 7 (4.76%) Telecoms
5 5 (3.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (3.40%) Manufacturing
6 4 (2.72%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (2.72%) Law
6 4 (2.72%) Marketing
7 3 (2.04%) Electronics
7 3 (2.04%) Legal
7 3 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.36%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.36%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.36%) Retail
9 1 (0.68%) Front Office
9 1 (0.68%) Local Government
9 1 (0.68%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.36%) LDAP
1 2 (1.36%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 21 (14.29%) Data Centre
2 3 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (1.36%) Management Information System
3 2 (1.36%) NHS
3 2 (1.36%) PMI
3 2 (1.36%) Virtual Team
4 1 (0.68%) BYOD
4 1 (0.68%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (0.68%) HACMP
4 1 (0.68%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (0.68%) Mainframe
4 1 (0.68%) Onboarding
4 1 (0.68%) PKI
4 1 (0.68%) Product Ownership
4 1 (0.68%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 1 (0.68%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 23 (15.65%) Windows
2 3 (2.04%) Linux
2 3 (2.04%) Unix
2 3 (2.04%) Windows 10
2 3 (2.04%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.36%) AIX
3 2 (1.36%) VMS
3 2 (1.36%) Windows 2000
3 2 (1.36%) Windows 7
3 2 (1.36%) Windows Server 2012
3 2 (1.36%) Windows XP
4 1 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.68%) Windows 8
4 1 (0.68%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (34.01%) Project Management
2 36 (24.49%) Stakeholder Management
3 24 (16.33%) Agile
4 21 (14.29%) Project Delivery
5 20 (13.61%) Migration
6 18 (12.24%) Change Management
7 17 (11.56%) PRINCE2
8 12 (8.16%) Waterfall
9 10 (6.80%) Risk Management
10 8 (5.44%) Scrum
11 7 (4.76%) Problem-Solving
12 6 (4.08%) Acceptance Criteria
12 6 (4.08%) Budget Management
12 6 (4.08%) Continuous Improvement
12 6 (4.08%) Cybersecurity
12 6 (4.08%) Decision-Making
13 5 (3.40%) Business Continuity
13 5 (3.40%) Change Control
13 5 (3.40%) Disaster Recovery
13 5 (3.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 2 (1.36%) PowerShell
1 2 (1.36%) R
1 2 (1.36%) Shell Script
1 2 (1.36%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (6.80%) Security Cleared
2 7 (4.76%) SC Cleared
3 6 (4.08%) Degree
4 4 (2.72%) DV Cleared
4 4 (2.72%) PMP
5 3 (2.04%) PMI Certification
5 3 (2.04%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 2 (1.36%) CCNA
6 2 (1.36%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.36%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.36%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 2 (1.36%) Six Sigma Black Belt
6 2 (1.36%) Six Sigma Green Belt
7 1 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.68%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.08%) QA
2 4 (2.72%) PMO
3 1 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (0.68%) NIST
3 1 (0.68%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.68%) SEPA
System Software
1 10 (6.80%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.68%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.68%) PowerHA
3 1 (0.68%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.68%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (0.68%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (2.04%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.36%) Ansible
2 2 (1.36%) Terraform
3 1 (0.68%) OPNET
Vendors
1 19 (12.93%) Microsoft
2 9 (6.12%) Cisco
3 5 (3.40%) Citrix
4 3 (2.04%) Arista
4 3 (2.04%) Fortinet
4 3 (2.04%) SAP
4 3 (2.04%) ServiceNow
4 3 (2.04%) VMware
5 2 (1.36%) Bloomberg
5 2 (1.36%) BT
5 2 (1.36%) Juniper
5 2 (1.36%) Radianz
5 2 (1.36%) Refinitiv
5 2 (1.36%) Reuters
6 1 (0.68%) CheckPoint
6 1 (0.68%) Cognizant
6 1 (0.68%) Dell
6 1 (0.68%) IBM
6 1 (0.68%) Nokia
6 1 (0.68%) Red Hat