Infrastructure Management Contract Job Trends in Merseyside

Infrastructure Management
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Merseyside requiring Infrastructure Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Management 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Merseyside 0.34% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.42% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
North West median daily rate £361 £525 £400
% change year-on-year -31.19% +31.25% -15.79%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 239 162 190
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 81.57% 77.14% 83.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 89 92
10th Percentile £133 £145 £155
25th Percentile £153 £203 £285
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £400 £400
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% - -15.79%
75th Percentile £500 £538 £550
90th Percentile £637 £638 £636
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 5 28
10th Percentile - £12.43 £12.49
25th Percentile £15.18 £13.70 £15.50
Median hourly rate £41.86 £20.19 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +107.31% +15.37% -0.34%
75th Percentile £51.02 £23.00 £34.21
90th Percentile - £29.67 £37.18
North West median hourly rate £41.94 £30.40 £32.12
% change year-on-year +37.96% -5.34% -14.13%

Infrastructure Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Infrastructure Management job vacancy trend in Merseyside

Infrastructure Management
Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

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

Infrastructure Management
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Management within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 1 February 2026. 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
Liverpool - 1 - -
Infrastructure Management
North West

Infrastructure Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Merseyside 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%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Lead DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Go
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform