Infrastructure Support Contracts in England

Infrastructure Support
UK > England

The median Infrastructure Support daily rate in England is £346, 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 452 510 611
Rank change year-on-year +58 +101 +98
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Support 33 32 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.14% 0.086% 0.083%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.093% 0.088%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 28 28
10th Percentile £210 £155 £231
25th Percentile £250 £241 £303
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £346 £375 £400
Median % change year-on-year -7.67% -6.25% -
75th Percentile £588 £500 £484
90th Percentile £611 £522 £588
UK median daily rate £363 £340 £388
% change year-on-year +6.62% -12.26% -3.13%

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 Support
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Support in England

Infrastructure Support
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Support in England

Infrastructure Support
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Support in England

Infrastructure Support
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Support in England

Infrastructure Support
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 Support 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
South East +54 17 £575 +109.09% 11
London +29 10 £238 -38.31% 6
Midlands +24 3 £330 +3.13% 4
North of England +21 3 £265 +65.63% 2
West Midlands +16 3 £330 +3.13% 1
Yorkshire - 2 £265 -
North West +17 1 £215 +34.38% 2
Infrastructure Support
UK

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

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

1 27 (81.82%) Windows
2 22 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 21 (63.64%) Active Directory
4 16 (48.48%) Microsoft
4 16 (48.48%) Firewall
5 15 (45.45%) DNS
5 15 (45.45%) Linux
5 15 (45.45%) DHCP
6 13 (39.39%) Security Cleared
7 12 (36.36%) VMware
8 11 (33.33%) SMTP
8 11 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
9 10 (30.30%) Azure
9 10 (30.30%) PaaS
9 10 (30.30%) IaaS
9 10 (30.30%) DevOps
10 9 (27.27%) Windows Server
10 9 (27.27%) Microsoft 365
11 8 (24.24%) Ansible
11 8 (24.24%) Hyper-V
11 8 (24.24%) PowerShell
11 8 (24.24%) VPN
11 8 (24.24%) HP
11 8 (24.24%) Microsoft Exchange
11 8 (24.24%) Entra ID
12 7 (21.21%) BitLocker
12 7 (21.21%) Machine Learning
12 7 (21.21%) Data Centre
12 7 (21.21%) Windows 10
12 7 (21.21%) Public Sector

Infrastructure Support 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 8 (24.24%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (9.09%) Apache
3 1 (3.03%) IIS
Applications
1 5 (15.15%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (6.06%) Alphatax
Cloud Services
1 10 (30.30%) Azure
1 10 (30.30%) IaaS
1 10 (30.30%) PaaS
2 9 (27.27%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (24.24%) Entra ID
4 7 (21.21%) AWS
4 7 (21.21%) GCP
4 7 (21.21%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 16 (48.48%) Firewall
2 15 (45.45%) DHCP
2 15 (45.45%) DNS
3 11 (33.33%) SMTP
4 8 (24.24%) VPN
5 4 (12.12%) FTP
5 4 (12.12%) SAN
5 4 (12.12%) Telnet
5 4 (12.12%) WAN
6 3 (9.09%) Fibre Channel
6 3 (9.09%) Remote Desktop
7 2 (6.06%) Internet
7 2 (6.06%) LAN
7 2 (6.06%) SD-WAN
7 2 (6.06%) Wireless
8 1 (3.03%) DECT
8 1 (3.03%) iSCSI
8 1 (3.03%) NAS
8 1 (3.03%) VoIP
8 1 (3.03%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (21.21%) Amazon RDS
1 7 (21.21%) Big Data
1 7 (21.21%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (15.15%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.03%) RDBMS
3 1 (3.03%) Relational Database
General
1 7 (21.21%) Public Sector
1 7 (21.21%) Social Skills
2 5 (15.15%) Finance
3 2 (6.06%) Banking
4 1 (3.03%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.03%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 7 (21.21%) Clustering
1 7 (21.21%) Data Centre
1 7 (21.21%) PKI
2 2 (6.06%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.03%) IVR
3 1 (3.03%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 27 (81.82%) Windows
2 15 (45.45%) Linux
3 9 (27.27%) Windows Server
4 7 (21.21%) Windows 10
5 2 (6.06%) Android
5 2 (6.06%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (3.03%) Apple iOS
6 1 (3.03%) Unix
6 1 (3.03%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 10 (30.30%) DevOps
3 7 (21.21%) Artificial Intelligence
3 7 (21.21%) Machine Learning
3 7 (21.21%) Software Deployment
4 6 (18.18%) ITIL
5 5 (15.15%) Security Patching
5 5 (15.15%) Vulnerability Management
6 4 (12.12%) Customer Service
6 4 (12.12%) Cybersecurity
6 4 (12.12%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (9.09%) Workflow
7 3 (9.09%) Workflow Management
8 2 (6.06%) Logistics
8 2 (6.06%) Network Management
8 2 (6.06%) Patch Management
8 2 (6.06%) Ticket Management
9 1 (3.03%) Analytics
9 1 (3.03%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 8 (24.24%) PowerShell
2 1 (3.03%) SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (39.39%) Security Cleared
2 7 (21.21%) Degree
2 7 (21.21%) DV Cleared
3 6 (18.18%) SC Cleared
4 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.12%) SLA
2 1 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.03%) PMO
System Software
1 21 (63.64%) Active Directory
2 11 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (24.24%) Hyper-V
4 7 (21.21%) BitLocker
4 7 (21.21%) Docker
4 7 (21.21%) Microsoft App-V
4 7 (21.21%) Terminal Services
4 7 (21.21%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (12.12%) NFS
6 3 (9.09%) DFS Replication
6 3 (9.09%) Samba
6 3 (9.09%) vSphere
7 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (3.03%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 8 (24.24%) Ansible
2 7 (21.21%) Kubernetes
2 7 (21.21%) Nagios
2 7 (21.21%) Puppet
2 7 (21.21%) vCenter Server
2 7 (21.21%) vMotion
3 4 (12.12%) yum
4 3 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (6.06%) SCCM
Vendors
1 16 (48.48%) Microsoft
2 12 (36.36%) VMware
3 8 (24.24%) HP
4 7 (21.21%) Citrix
4 7 (21.21%) Google
4 7 (21.21%) Symantec
5 3 (9.09%) Cisco
6 2 (6.06%) Palo Alto
7 1 (3.03%) Apple
7 1 (3.03%) EMC
7 1 (3.03%) Genesys
7 1 (3.03%) Mitel
7 1 (3.03%) NetApp
7 1 (3.03%) Oracle
7 1 (3.03%) ServiceNow
7 1 (3.03%) Veeam
7 1 (3.03%) Veritas