Infrastructure Manager Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Infrastructure Manager
England > Midlands

The median Infrastructure Manager daily rate in the Midlands is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 6 September 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
6 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 123 116 126
Rank change year-on-year -7 +10 +30
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Manager 18 16 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.70% 0.60% 0.77%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.78% 0.64% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 14 19
10th Percentile £411 £450 £355
25th Percentile £456 £453 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -
75th Percentile £625 £575 £588
90th Percentile £635 £588 £638
England median daily rate £550 £506 £525
% change year-on-year +8.64% -3.57% -

All DemandTrendContract IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the Midlands. 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 the Midlands with a recognized job title 2,306 2,487 2,807
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.31% 92.76% 94.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,510 1,621 1,955
10th Percentile £224 £250 £223
25th Percentile £358 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £485
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +3.20% +2.00%
75th Percentile £564 £600 £600
90th Percentile £638 £688 £700
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 170 118 103
10th Percentile £12.62 £12.58 £13.16
25th Percentile £16.17 £14.26 £16.50
Median hourly rate £24.83 £19.80 £20.97
Median % change year-on-year +25.44% -5.60% +16.50%
75th Percentile £33.16 £37.50 £32.77
90th Percentile £50.00 £51.91 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £46.23 £43.86
% change year-on-year -45.60% +5.40% +66.34%

Infrastructure Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Manager in the Midlands

Infrastructure Manager
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Infrastructure Manager job vacancies in the Midlands.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Infrastructure Manager job vacancies in the Midlands

Infrastructure Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Manager in the Midlands over the 6 months to 6 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Manager in the Midlands

Infrastructure Manager
Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Infrastructure Manager job vacancies in the Midlands.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Infrastructure Manager job vacancies in the Midlands

Infrastructure Manager
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Manager within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 6 September 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
West Midlands -7 13 £550 +1.85% 2
East Midlands -4 5 £471 -5.75% 2
Infrastructure Manager
England

Infrastructure Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands

For the 6 months to 6 September 2025, Infrastructure Manager 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 Midlands region featuring Infrastructure Manager in the job title.

1 7 (38.89%) Social Skills
2 6 (33.33%) Azure
2 6 (33.33%) Risk Management
3 5 (27.78%) Finance
3 5 (27.78%) Migration
4 4 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (22.22%) PRINCE2
4 4 (22.22%) Project Management
4 4 (22.22%) Security Cleared
4 4 (22.22%) Manufacturing
4 4 (22.22%) Data Centre
5 3 (16.67%) Data Centre Operations
5 3 (16.67%) Defect Management
5 3 (16.67%) RFC 2544
5 3 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 3 (16.67%) SC Cleared
5 3 (16.67%) Test Planning
5 3 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (16.67%) Resource Management
5 3 (16.67%) Use Case
5 3 (16.67%) Test Management
5 3 (16.67%) Test Scripting
5 3 (16.67%) Configuration Management
5 3 (16.67%) Active Directory
5 3 (16.67%) Cisco
5 3 (16.67%) Firewall
5 3 (16.67%) Service Management
5 3 (16.67%) Change Management
5 3 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (11.11%) Identity Management

Infrastructure Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (5.56%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (5.56%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 6 (33.33%) Azure
2 2 (11.11%) AWS
2 2 (11.11%) Azure Sentinel
2 2 (11.11%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 3 (16.67%) Firewall
2 1 (5.56%) NAS
2 1 (5.56%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) JIRA
General
1 7 (38.89%) Social Skills
2 5 (27.78%) Finance
3 4 (22.22%) Manufacturing
4 3 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (11.11%) Aerospace
5 2 (11.11%) Back Office
5 2 (11.11%) Law
6 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (5.56%) Automotive
6 1 (5.56%) Military
6 1 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (5.56%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
6 1 (5.56%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (16.67%) RFC 2544
2 1 (5.56%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Data Centre
2 2 (11.11%) Driving Licence
3 1 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (5.56%) FMCG
3 1 (5.56%) Mainframe
3 1 (5.56%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Windows
1 1 (5.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (33.33%) Risk Management
2 5 (27.78%) Migration
3 4 (22.22%) PRINCE2
3 4 (22.22%) Project Management
3 4 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (16.67%) Change Management
4 3 (16.67%) Configuration Management
4 3 (16.67%) Data Centre Operations
4 3 (16.67%) Defect Management
4 3 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (16.67%) Resource Management
4 3 (16.67%) Service Management
4 3 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 3 (16.67%) Test Management
4 3 (16.67%) Test Planning
4 3 (16.67%) Test Scripting
4 3 (16.67%) Use Case
5 2 (11.11%) Incident Response
5 2 (11.11%) Patch Management
5 2 (11.11%) Resource Allocation
Qualifications
1 4 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 3 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (5.56%) Degree
3 1 (5.56%) PMI Certification
3 1 (5.56%) PMP
3 1 (5.56%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (11.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 2 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (5.56%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (16.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.56%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 3 (16.67%) Cisco
2 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.11%) ServiceNow
3 1 (5.56%) SAP
3 1 (5.56%) VMware