Infrastructure Management Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Infrastructure Management
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Infrastructure Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 83 85
Rank change year-on-year -20 +2 +34
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Management 1 2 12
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.065% 0.21% 0.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.076% 0.23% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 5
10th Percentile - - £236
25th Percentile £406 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £375 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -25.00% +1.27%
75th Percentile £419 £388 £650
90th Percentile - - £665
North West median daily rate £388 £573 £500
% change year-on-year -32.31% +14.50% +1.27%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Manchester

Infrastructure Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,309 877 1,373
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 85.56% 90.98% 86.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 853 601 957
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £384 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.11% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £575
90th Percentile £638 £680 £675
North West median daily rate £455 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -4.21% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 33 77
10th Percentile £19.75 £15.93 £12.46
25th Percentile £23.00 £24.25 £13.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £32.50 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +69.23% +25.00% -33.33%
75th Percentile £73.75 £60.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £84.20 £64.00 £72.50
North West median hourly rate £45.00 £31.64 £22.98
% change year-on-year +42.23% +37.71% -38.57%

Infrastructure Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Infrastructure Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Infrastructure Management job vacancy trend in Manchester

Infrastructure Management
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Infrastructure Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Infrastructure Management

Infrastructure Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
1 1 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat