Infrastructure Specialist Contracts in England

Infrastructure Specialist
UK > England

The median Infrastructure Specialist daily rate in England is £550, 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 437 505 595
Rank change year-on-year +68 +90 +119
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Specialist 48 37 58
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.20% 0.099% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.11% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 25 39
10th Percentile £304 £263 £395
25th Percentile £493 £475 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £520 £505
Median % change year-on-year +5.77% +2.97% -1.46%
75th Percentile £658 £638 £600
90th Percentile £696 £656 £640
UK median daily rate £524 £510 £500
% change year-on-year +2.70% +2.00% -

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 Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Specialist in England

Infrastructure Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Specialist in England

Infrastructure Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Specialist in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Specialist in England

Infrastructure Specialist
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Specialist in England

Infrastructure Specialist
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 Specialist 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
North of England - 19 £524 - 6
London +30 13 £500 - 10
Yorkshire - 12 £550 - 4
South East +49 9 £600 +31.51% 5
North West - 8 £510 - 2
Midlands +21 3 £525 - 5
South West +47 2 £675 +128.81% 3
West Midlands +15 2 - - 3
East of England +26 1 - - 6
East Midlands +8 1 £525 -14.29% 2
North East - 1 - -
Infrastructure Specialist
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Infrastructure Specialist 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 Specialist in the job title.

1 34 (70.83%) Windows
2 31 (64.58%) PowerShell
3 27 (56.25%) Windows Server
4 24 (50.00%) Security Cleared
4 24 (50.00%) Active Directory
5 19 (39.58%) VMware
6 18 (37.50%) SC Cleared
6 18 (37.50%) DNS
6 18 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
6 18 (37.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 17 (35.42%) Linux
7 17 (35.42%) Firewall
8 16 (33.33%) Microsoft
9 13 (27.08%) Cisco
9 13 (27.08%) Bash
10 12 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
10 12 (25.00%) Azure
10 12 (25.00%) vSphere
10 12 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
10 12 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
10 12 (25.00%) Agile
11 11 (22.92%) Telecoms
11 11 (22.92%) Oracle
11 11 (22.92%) Microsoft Intune
11 11 (22.92%) Microservices
11 11 (22.92%) Public Sector
11 11 (22.92%) Social Skills
12 10 (20.83%) Server Management
12 10 (20.83%) SQL Server
12 10 (20.83%) Migration

Infrastructure Specialist 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 7 (14.58%) Microsoft Exchange
1 7 (14.58%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (4.17%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.08%) Confluence
3 1 (2.08%) IBM Domino
3 1 (2.08%) IIS
3 1 (2.08%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 12 (25.00%) Azure
1 12 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
2 9 (18.75%) IaaS
3 8 (16.67%) Entra ID
4 6 (12.50%) AWS
5 2 (4.17%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (4.17%) GCP
5 2 (4.17%) OCI
5 2 (4.17%) OneDrive
5 2 (4.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.08%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (2.08%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (2.08%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 18 (37.50%) DNS
2 17 (35.42%) Firewall
3 8 (16.67%) Network Security
4 7 (14.58%) Intrusion Detection
4 7 (14.58%) VPN
5 4 (8.33%) LAN
5 4 (8.33%) VoIP
5 4 (8.33%) WAN
6 3 (6.25%) DHCP
6 3 (6.25%) NAS
6 3 (6.25%) SAN
6 3 (6.25%) VSAN
7 2 (4.17%) BGP
7 2 (4.17%) EIGRP
7 2 (4.17%) Internet
7 2 (4.17%) OSPF
7 2 (4.17%) Software-Defined Networking
7 2 (4.17%) VLAN
7 2 (4.17%) Wireless
8 1 (2.08%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (20.83%) SQL Server
2 9 (18.75%) Oracle Database
3 1 (2.08%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (2.08%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (2.08%) MySQL
3 1 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (4.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 2 (4.17%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.08%) JIRA
2 1 (2.08%) ScriptRunner
General
1 11 (22.92%) Public Sector
1 11 (22.92%) Social Skills
1 11 (22.92%) Telecoms
2 8 (16.67%) Finance
3 4 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
3 4 (8.33%) Electronics
3 4 (8.33%) Manufacturing
3 4 (8.33%) Marketing
4 1 (2.08%) Law
4 1 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.08%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 9 (18.75%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (6.25%) Clustering
2 3 (6.25%) NHS
3 2 (4.17%) Cloud Native
3 2 (4.17%) Data Centre
3 2 (4.17%) Distributed Architecture
3 2 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (4.17%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (2.08%) Distributed Applications
4 1 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.08%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.08%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.08%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 34 (70.83%) Windows
2 27 (56.25%) Windows Server
3 17 (35.42%) Linux
4 6 (12.50%) Windows 10
5 4 (8.33%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (4.17%) Unix
7 1 (2.08%) CentOS
7 1 (2.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (2.08%) Ubuntu
7 1 (2.08%) Windows 7
7 1 (2.08%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (37.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 18 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (25.00%) Agile
3 11 (22.92%) Microservices
4 10 (20.83%) Migration
4 10 (20.83%) Server Management
5 9 (18.75%) Cybersecurity
6 8 (16.67%) Security Management
7 7 (14.58%) Disaster Recovery
7 7 (14.58%) High Availability
7 7 (14.58%) SOA
7 7 (14.58%) Task Automation
8 6 (12.50%) Business Continuity
8 6 (12.50%) ITIL
8 6 (12.50%) Vulnerability Scanning
9 5 (10.42%) Change Management
9 5 (10.42%) DevOps
10 4 (8.33%) Business Intelligence
10 4 (8.33%) Enterprise Architecture
10 4 (8.33%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 31 (64.58%) PowerShell
2 13 (27.08%) Bash
3 9 (18.75%) Perl
3 9 (18.75%) SQL
4 8 (16.67%) PL/SQL
5 7 (14.58%) Python
6 2 (4.17%) Java
6 2 (4.17%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.08%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 24 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 18 (37.50%) SC Cleared
3 12 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
4 8 (16.67%) Azure Certification
5 6 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (6.25%) AWS Certification
6 3 (6.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (6.25%) CCNA
6 3 (6.25%) Degree
7 2 (4.17%) AWS Certified Developer
7 2 (4.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (4.17%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 2 (4.17%) DV Cleared
7 2 (4.17%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (4.17%) VCAP
7 2 (4.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 1 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (4.17%) Accessibility
2 2 (4.17%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (4.17%) DICOM
2 2 (4.17%) HL7
2 2 (4.17%) SOC 2
3 1 (2.08%) QA
System Software
1 24 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 12 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (25.00%) vSphere
3 4 (8.33%) Hyper-V
4 2 (4.17%) Docker
4 2 (4.17%) VMware NSX
5 1 (2.08%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (2.08%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (22.92%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (12.50%) Terraform
3 3 (6.25%) Ansible
3 3 (6.25%) Failover Clustering
3 3 (6.25%) Norton AntiVirus
3 3 (6.25%) vCenter Server
3 3 (6.25%) WSUS
4 2 (4.17%) Kubernetes
4 2 (4.17%) Progress Chef
4 2 (4.17%) Puppet
4 2 (4.17%) SCCM
4 2 (4.17%) SCOM
4 2 (4.17%) vRealize
4 2 (4.17%) vRealize Orchestrator
5 1 (2.08%) SCSM
5 1 (2.08%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 19 (39.58%) VMware
2 16 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 13 (27.08%) Cisco
4 11 (22.92%) Oracle
5 4 (8.33%) Mitel
5 4 (8.33%) SAP
6 3 (6.25%) Juniper
6 3 (6.25%) NETGEAR
6 3 (6.25%) SolarWinds
6 3 (6.25%) Symantec
6 3 (6.25%) TP-LINK
7 2 (4.17%) Citrix
7 2 (4.17%) Commvault
7 2 (4.17%) Extreme Networks
8 1 (2.08%) Ericsson
8 1 (2.08%) HP
8 1 (2.08%) NetApp
8 1 (2.08%) Red Hat
8 1 (2.08%) Siemens
8 1 (2.08%) Veritas