Infrastructure Management Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Infrastructure Management
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Infrastructure Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 187 144 172
Rank change year-on-year -43 +28 +64
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Management 18 17 12
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.38% 0.48% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% 0.55% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 8 6
10th Percentile £358 £355 £463
25th Percentile £416 £358 £551
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £370 £605
Median % change year-on-year +35.14% -38.84% +7.56%
75th Percentile £519 £431 £650
90th Percentile £588 £563 £663
England median daily rate £500 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -4.76% -8.70% +15.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,217 3,071 4,085
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 88.48% 86.82% 88.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,797 1,744 2,708
10th Percentile £218 £263 £300
25th Percentile £363 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.47% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £669 £675
England median daily rate £505 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -3.81% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 265 150 190
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.20 £15.75
25th Percentile £19.33 £17.12 £17.75
Median hourly rate £29.60 £27.44 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.86% -8.53% +33.33%
75th Percentile £52.50 £46.18 £46.18
90th Percentile £68.79 £67.57 £62.18
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.75
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.79% +20.52%

Infrastructure Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Infrastructure Management job vacancy trend in the North of England

Infrastructure Management
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Infrastructure Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Infrastructure Management

Infrastructure Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Management in the North of England over the 6 months to 23 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Management in the North of England

Infrastructure Management
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Infrastructure Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Infrastructure Management

Infrastructure Management
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 23 December 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
Yorkshire -40 14 £500 +36.99% 11
North West -26 4 £361 -19.72% 19
Infrastructure Management
England

Infrastructure Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.56%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 9 (50.00%) AWS
1 9 (50.00%) Azure
2 7 (38.89%) GitHub
2 7 (38.89%) GitHub Actions
3 5 (27.78%) GCP
4 2 (11.11%) AWS CodeBuild
4 2 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (11.11%) OpenShift
5 1 (5.56%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (5.56%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (5.56%) Datadog
5 1 (5.56%) Entra ID
5 1 (5.56%) IaaS
5 1 (5.56%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) Firewall
1 1 (5.56%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) DB2
Development Applications
1 7 (38.89%) Jenkins
2 5 (27.78%) CircleCI
3 4 (22.22%) Git
4 1 (5.56%) GitLab
4 1 (5.56%) Postman
General
1 6 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 6 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Finance
3 1 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 8 (44.44%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) Administrator
2 4 (22.22%) AWS DevOps
2 4 (22.22%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) AWS Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) VMWare Administrator
3 2 (11.11%) Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) IT Security Officer
4 1 (5.56%) Lead
4 1 (5.56%) Lead DevOps
4 1 (5.56%) Lead DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Mainframe Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Platform Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Python Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Security Officer
4 1 (5.56%) Senior
4 1 (5.56%) Senior Technical Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) ARM Templates
1 1 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (5.56%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Cloud Native
1 4 (22.22%) NHS
2 1 (5.56%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (5.56%) IBM Mainframe
2 1 (5.56%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 6 (33.33%) Linux
2 1 (5.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (72.22%) DevOps
2 11 (61.11%) Infrastructure as Code
3 9 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 8 (44.44%) Infrastructure Automation
4 8 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (33.33%) Cloud Security
5 6 (33.33%) Migration
6 5 (27.78%) Test Automation
7 4 (22.22%) Observability
7 4 (22.22%) Server Management
8 3 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
9 2 (11.11%) Agile
9 2 (11.11%) Capacity Planning
9 2 (11.11%) Containerisation
9 2 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
9 2 (11.11%) Cost Optimisation
9 2 (11.11%) Identity Management
9 2 (11.11%) Incident Response
9 2 (11.11%) Root Cause Analysis
9 2 (11.11%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 14 (77.78%) Python
2 11 (61.11%) Bash
3 6 (33.33%) PowerShell
4 1 (5.56%) Bicep
4 1 (5.56%) Go
4 1 (5.56%) JavaScript
4 1 (5.56%) Ruby
4 1 (5.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (11.11%) AWS Certification
2 2 (11.11%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Azure Certification
3 1 (5.56%) CISM
3 1 (5.56%) CISSP
3 1 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.56%) Degree
3 1 (5.56%) OCP
3 1 (5.56%) Oracle Certification
3 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) GDPR
1 1 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (5.56%) PCI DSS
1 1 (5.56%) QA
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (5.56%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.56%) Docker
2 1 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (61.11%) Terraform
2 8 (44.44%) Kubernetes
3 7 (38.89%) Ansible
4 5 (27.78%) Grafana
4 5 (27.78%) Prometheus
5 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Clustering
5 1 (5.56%) Puppet
5 1 (5.56%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (27.78%) VMware
2 3 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.56%) Dell
3 1 (5.56%) IBM
3 1 (5.56%) MuleSoft
3 1 (5.56%) Pure Storage