Infrastructure Specialist Contracts in England

Infrastructure Specialist
UK > England

The median Infrastructure Specialist daily rate in England is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 27 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
27 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 439 512 567
Rank change year-on-year +73 +55 +121
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Specialist 41 37 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.16% 0.099% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.11% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 25 39
10th Percentile £490 £263 £363
25th Percentile £519 £475 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year +12.75% +2.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £668 £638 £617
90th Percentile £693 £670 £675
UK median daily rate £557 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +11.40% - -5.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £52.50 -
UK median hourly rate - £52.50 -

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 23,313 34,623 44,505
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.22% 92.85% 94.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,283 22,626 31,574
10th Percentile £294 £293 £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 £635 £638 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +1.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,069 2,586 1,339
10th Percentile £13.85 £12.86 £14.40
25th Percentile £17.87 £16.65 £20.00
Median hourly rate £28.50 £39.55 £43.86
Median % change year-on-year -27.94% -9.83% +75.44%
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £26.50 £37.50 £43.75
% change year-on-year -29.33% -14.29% +71.57%

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 27 June 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 27 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
North of England +18 15 £550 -8.33% 16
Yorkshire +8 13 £550 - 8
London +34 10 £663 +32.50% 17
South East +50 8 £600 +118.18% 7
Midlands +7 5 £600 +14.29% 4
West Midlands - 4 £600 -
North West +15 3 £537 -17.38% 7
South West +45 2 - - 4
East Midlands -5 1 £525 - 4
North East - 1 - - 1
Infrastructure Specialist
UK

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

For the 6 months to 27 June 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 24 (58.54%) PowerShell
2 23 (56.10%) Security Cleared
2 23 (56.10%) Windows
3 19 (46.34%) Active Directory
4 18 (43.90%) Linux
5 17 (41.46%) DNS
5 17 (41.46%) SC Cleared
5 17 (41.46%) Windows Server
6 15 (36.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 14 (34.15%) Agile
8 13 (31.71%) Bash
8 13 (31.71%) VMware
8 13 (31.71%) Problem-Solving
9 12 (29.27%) Microservices
9 12 (29.27%) Social Skills
9 12 (29.27%) Cisco
9 12 (29.27%) Firewall
10 11 (26.83%) Oracle
10 11 (26.83%) Migration
11 10 (24.39%) Cisco Certification
12 9 (21.95%) Oracle Database
12 9 (21.95%) Linux Command Line
12 9 (21.95%) Perl
12 9 (21.95%) SQL
12 9 (21.95%) VMware Infrastructure
13 8 (19.51%) PL/SQL
13 8 (19.51%) Microsoft
13 8 (19.51%) Security Management
13 8 (19.51%) Server Management
14 7 (17.07%) Windows 10

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 (17.07%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (7.32%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (4.88%) SharePoint
4 1 (2.44%) Confluence
4 1 (2.44%) IBM Domino
4 1 (2.44%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (17.07%) Azure
2 6 (14.63%) AWS
3 5 (12.20%) IaaS
3 5 (12.20%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (7.32%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (7.32%) Entra ID
4 3 (7.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 2 (4.88%) GCP
5 2 (4.88%) OCI
5 2 (4.88%) OneDrive
6 1 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.44%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (2.44%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (2.44%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 17 (41.46%) DNS
2 12 (29.27%) Firewall
3 6 (14.63%) VPN
4 4 (9.76%) WAN
5 3 (7.32%) VSAN
6 2 (4.88%) Intrusion Detection
6 2 (4.88%) LAN
6 2 (4.88%) Network Security
6 2 (4.88%) SD-WAN
6 2 (4.88%) Software-Defined Networking
6 2 (4.88%) VLAN
7 1 (2.44%) DECT
7 1 (2.44%) DHCP
7 1 (2.44%) NAS
7 1 (2.44%) NetScaler
7 1 (2.44%) SAN
7 1 (2.44%) TCP/IP
7 1 (2.44%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (21.95%) Oracle Database
2 4 (9.76%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.44%) MySQL
3 1 (2.44%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (7.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 3 (7.32%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.44%) JIRA
2 1 (2.44%) ScriptRunner
General
1 12 (29.27%) Social Skills
2 6 (14.63%) Public Sector
3 3 (7.32%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.88%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (4.88%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.44%) Finance
5 1 (2.44%) Law
5 1 (2.44%) Organisational Skills
Miscellaneous
1 9 (21.95%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (7.32%) Cloud Native
2 3 (7.32%) Clustering
2 3 (7.32%) Distributed Architecture
2 3 (7.32%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (4.88%) Data Centre
3 2 (4.88%) Distributed Applications
3 2 (4.88%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (4.88%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.88%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (4.88%) Virtual Team
4 1 (2.44%) Acoustics
4 1 (2.44%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 23 (56.10%) Windows
2 18 (43.90%) Linux
3 17 (41.46%) Windows Server
4 7 (17.07%) Windows 10
5 5 (12.20%) Unix
6 4 (9.76%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (7.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (4.88%) CentOS
8 2 (4.88%) Ubuntu
9 1 (2.44%) Windows 7
9 1 (2.44%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (2.44%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (36.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 14 (34.15%) Agile
3 13 (31.71%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (29.27%) Microservices
5 11 (26.83%) Migration
6 8 (19.51%) Security Management
6 8 (19.51%) Server Management
7 7 (17.07%) SOA
8 6 (14.63%) High Availability
9 5 (12.20%) Cybersecurity
9 5 (12.20%) DevOps
9 5 (12.20%) Roadmaps
10 4 (9.76%) CI/CD
10 4 (9.76%) Infrastructure as Code
10 4 (9.76%) Technology Roadmap
11 3 (7.32%) Containerisation
11 3 (7.32%) Continuous Deployment
11 3 (7.32%) DevSecOps
11 3 (7.32%) Log Aggregation
11 3 (7.32%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 24 (58.54%) PowerShell
2 13 (31.71%) Bash
3 9 (21.95%) Perl
3 9 (21.95%) SQL
4 8 (19.51%) PL/SQL
5 6 (14.63%) Python
6 4 (9.76%) Shell Script
7 3 (7.32%) Java
8 1 (2.44%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 23 (56.10%) Security Cleared
2 17 (41.46%) SC Cleared
3 10 (24.39%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (9.76%) AWS Certification
4 4 (9.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (7.32%) AWS Certified Developer
5 3 (7.32%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 3 (7.32%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
5 3 (7.32%) Azure Certification
6 2 (4.88%) DV Cleared
6 2 (4.88%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (4.88%) VCAP
6 2 (4.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (2.44%) CCNA
7 1 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (2.44%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (4.88%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (4.88%) SOC 2
3 1 (2.44%) NIST
3 1 (2.44%) QA
System Software
1 19 (46.34%) Active Directory
2 9 (21.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (17.07%) vSphere
4 4 (9.76%) Hyper-V
5 3 (7.32%) Docker
6 2 (4.88%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (4.88%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (4.88%) VMware NSX
7 1 (2.44%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (2.44%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 6 (14.63%) Microsoft Intune
1 6 (14.63%) Terraform
2 3 (7.32%) Ansible
2 3 (7.32%) Failover Clustering
2 3 (7.32%) Kubernetes
2 3 (7.32%) Norton AntiVirus
2 3 (7.32%) Progress Chef
2 3 (7.32%) Puppet
2 3 (7.32%) vCenter Server
2 3 (7.32%) WSUS
3 2 (4.88%) vRealize
3 2 (4.88%) vRealize Orchestrator
4 1 (2.44%) SCCM
4 1 (2.44%) SCOM
4 1 (2.44%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 13 (31.71%) VMware
2 12 (29.27%) Cisco
3 11 (26.83%) Oracle
4 8 (19.51%) Microsoft
5 3 (7.32%) Juniper
5 3 (7.32%) NETGEAR
5 3 (7.32%) Red Hat
5 3 (7.32%) SolarWinds
5 3 (7.32%) Symantec
5 3 (7.32%) TP-LINK
6 1 (2.44%) Atlassian
6 1 (2.44%) EMC
6 1 (2.44%) Google
6 1 (2.44%) HP
6 1 (2.44%) Ivanti
6 1 (2.44%) Mitel
6 1 (2.44%) NetApp
6 1 (2.44%) Veeam
6 1 (2.44%) Veritas
6 1 (2.44%) Zscaler