Infrastructure Project Manager Contracts in England

Infrastructure Project Manager
UK > England

The median Infrastructure Project Manager daily rate in England is £488, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 24 June 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
24 Jun 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 412 451 405
Rank change year-on-year +39 -46 -8
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Project Manager 80 100 234
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.32% 0.27% 0.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.35% 0.29% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 76 183
10th Percentile £389 £409 £413
25th Percentile £413 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.36% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £569 £638 £628
90th Percentile £611 £694 £688
UK median daily rate £488 £550 £531
% change year-on-year -11.36% +3.53% +3.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £62.25
Median hourly rate - - £64.50
75th Percentile - - £66.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £64.50

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 23,106 34,702 44,471
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.22% 92.89% 94.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,171 22,647 31,568
10th Percentile £293 £291 £313
25th Percentile £405 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +1.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,050 2,652 1,333
10th Percentile £13.99 £12.86 £14.27
25th Percentile £18.11 £16.58 £19.51
Median hourly rate £28.75 £39.55 £43.63
Median % change year-on-year -27.31% -9.35% +78.37%
75th Percentile £58.66 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.44 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £27.36 £37.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year -27.03% -12.79% +72.00%

Infrastructure Project Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Project Manager in England

Infrastructure Project Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Project Manager in England

Infrastructure Project Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Project Manager in England over the 6 months to 24 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Project Manager in England

Infrastructure Project Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Project Manager in England

Infrastructure Project 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 Project Manager within the England region over the 6 months to 24 June 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 +43 39 £482 -14.31% 8
North of England +27 12 £421 -0.94% 2
Midlands +8 8 £450 -18.18% 3
South East +37 7 £500 -11.11% 7
Yorkshire +2 7 £405 -4.71% 1
East of England +26 6 £625 +38.89% 2
West Midlands +8 6 £525 -4.55% 3
South West +34 4 £488 -11.36% 2
North West +8 3 £431 -5.22%
North East +2 2 £442 - 1
East Midlands +1 2 £438 -31.37%
Infrastructure Project Manager
UK

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

For the 6 months to 24 June 2025, Infrastructure Project 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 Project Manager in the job title.

1 38 (47.50%) Project Management
2 36 (45.00%) Social Skills
3 31 (38.75%) Finance
4 24 (30.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 22 (27.50%) Migration
5 22 (27.50%) Data Centre
6 20 (25.00%) Project Delivery
6 20 (25.00%) Agile
7 16 (20.00%) Banking
7 16 (20.00%) Azure
8 14 (17.50%) Microsoft
8 14 (17.50%) PRINCE2
9 13 (16.25%) Waterfall
10 10 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
10 10 (12.50%) Windows
10 10 (12.50%) Active Directory
10 10 (12.50%) Risk Management
11 9 (11.25%) PMI Certification
12 8 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 8 (10.00%) Change Management
12 8 (10.00%) AWS
13 7 (8.75%) Project Planning
13 7 (8.75%) PMP
13 7 (8.75%) ITIL
13 7 (8.75%) Problem-Solving
13 7 (8.75%) Decision-Making
14 6 (7.50%) Organisational Skills
15 5 (6.25%) Security Cleared
15 5 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 5 (6.25%) PMO

Infrastructure Project 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 (5.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.50%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (5.00%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.50%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 16 (20.00%) Azure
2 10 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (10.00%) AWS
4 4 (5.00%) OneDrive
4 4 (5.00%) SaaS
5 2 (2.50%) Entra ID
5 2 (2.50%) IaaS
5 2 (2.50%) PaaS
6 1 (1.25%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.25%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.25%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.25%) GCP
6 1 (1.25%) Google Workspace
6 1 (1.25%) Mimecast
6 1 (1.25%) OCI
6 1 (1.25%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.00%) Firewall
1 4 (5.00%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (3.75%) WAN
3 2 (2.50%) Structured Cabling
3 2 (2.50%) VPN
4 1 (1.25%) DHCP
4 1 (1.25%) DNS
4 1 (1.25%) LAN
4 1 (1.25%) NAS
4 1 (1.25%) Network Security
4 1 (1.25%) SAN
4 1 (1.25%) SD-WAN
4 1 (1.25%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.25%) Big Data
1 1 (1.25%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 1 (1.25%) JIRA
1 1 (1.25%) MSI
General
1 36 (45.00%) Social Skills
2 31 (38.75%) Finance
3 16 (20.00%) Banking
4 6 (7.50%) Organisational Skills
5 5 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (5.00%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (3.75%) Manufacturing
7 3 (3.75%) Public Sector
7 3 (3.75%) Retail
8 2 (2.50%) Aerospace
8 2 (2.50%) Automotive
8 2 (2.50%) Aviation
8 2 (2.50%) Investment Banking
8 2 (2.50%) Local Government
8 2 (2.50%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.25%) Military
9 1 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.25%) Retail Banking
9 1 (1.25%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.50%) LDAP
2 1 (1.25%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 22 (27.50%) Data Centre
2 4 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (5.00%) Onboarding
2 4 (5.00%) PMI
3 3 (3.75%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (3.75%) Mainframe
3 3 (3.75%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.50%) CCTV
4 2 (2.50%) Driving Licence
4 2 (2.50%) Hedge funds
4 2 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.25%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.25%) Replication
5 1 (1.25%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (1.25%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 10 (12.50%) Windows
2 3 (3.75%) Windows 10
3 2 (2.50%) Linux
3 2 (2.50%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (47.50%) Project Management
2 24 (30.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 22 (27.50%) Migration
4 20 (25.00%) Agile
4 20 (25.00%) Project Delivery
5 14 (17.50%) PRINCE2
6 13 (16.25%) Waterfall
7 10 (12.50%) Risk Management
8 8 (10.00%) Change Management
8 8 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 7 (8.75%) Decision-Making
9 7 (8.75%) ITIL
9 7 (8.75%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (8.75%) Project Planning
10 5 (6.25%) Budget Management
11 4 (5.00%) Proactive Monitoring
11 4 (5.00%) Resource Allocation
11 4 (5.00%) Service Delivery
11 4 (5.00%) Supplier Management
12 3 (3.75%) Project Governance
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.25%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (11.25%) PMI Certification
2 7 (8.75%) PMP
3 5 (6.25%) Security Cleared
4 3 (3.75%) Degree
4 3 (3.75%) RIBA
5 2 (2.50%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.25%) CAPM
6 1 (1.25%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.25%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.25%) PMO
2 2 (2.50%) QA
3 1 (1.25%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.25%) ISO 14001
3 1 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.25%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (12.50%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.50%) Microsoft App-V
3 2 (2.50%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (1.25%) BitLocker
4 1 (1.25%) KVM
4 1 (1.25%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 3 (3.75%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (3.75%) SCCM
2 1 (1.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (17.50%) Microsoft
2 4 (5.00%) VMware
3 1 (1.25%) Citrix
3 1 (1.25%) Fortinet
3 1 (1.25%) Google
3 1 (1.25%) Infoblox
3 1 (1.25%) Oracle
3 1 (1.25%) SAP
3 1 (1.25%) ServiceNow
26 Infrastructure Project Manager jobs Nationwide