Infrastructure Management Contracts in the North of England

Infrastructure Management
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring Infrastructure Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Infrastructure Management over the 6 months leading up to 19 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 168 168 195
Rank change year-on-year 0 +27 +53
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Management 10 15 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.26% 0.33% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.39% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 9 9
10th Percentile £360 £309 £454
25th Percentile £375 £350 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £573 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year +27.22% -18.18% +17.27%
75th Percentile £584 £525 £575
90th Percentile £594 £655 £695
England median daily rate £573 £475 £573
% change year-on-year +20.53% -17.03% +4.33%

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 3,404 3,861 4,836
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 88.67% 83.97% 89.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,182 2,331 3,266
10th Percentile £268 £300 £300
25th Percentile £375 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.87% -1.40% -
75th Percentile £556 £580 £600
90th Percentile £650 £663 £688
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 199 333 199
10th Percentile £12.82 £11.44 £15.20
25th Percentile £17.46 £13.06 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.63 £22.50 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.58% -15.09% +31.64%
75th Percentile £44.78 £46.18 £43.61
90th Percentile £72.50 £66.61 £53.06
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -34.68% -9.41% +63.46%

Infrastructure Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Infrastructure Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Management in the North of England

Infrastructure Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Management in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Management in the North of England

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 19 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Management in the North of England

Infrastructure Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Management in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Management in the North of England

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 19 July 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 +5 7 £400 - 9
North West -3 3 £573 +14.50% 15
Infrastructure Management
England

Infrastructure Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) Azure
1 2 (20.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (10.00%) AWS
2 1 (10.00%) GCP
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) Firewall
2 1 (10.00%) Kerberos
2 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (20.00%) Git
2 2 (20.00%) GitLab
3 1 (10.00%) Postman
General
1 5 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (20.00%) Administrator
1 2 (20.00%) Automation Developer
1 2 (20.00%) Developer
1 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (20.00%) Linux Engineer
1 2 (20.00%) VMWare Administrator
2 1 (10.00%) Data Centre Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Senior
2 1 (10.00%) Senior Technical Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (20.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (10.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 4 (40.00%) Linux
2 3 (30.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (20.00%) Windows
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (10.00%) VMS
4 1 (10.00%) Windows Server
4 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) DevOps
1 5 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 4 (40.00%) Agile
2 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (30.00%) Configuration Management
3 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 3 (30.00%) Scrum
3 3 (30.00%) Task Automation
4 2 (20.00%) Backlog Management
4 2 (20.00%) Backlog Refinement
4 2 (20.00%) Containerisation
4 2 (20.00%) Data Collection
4 2 (20.00%) Data Ingestion
4 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (20.00%) Regulatory Compliance
4 2 (20.00%) Server Management
4 2 (20.00%) Sprint Backlog
4 2 (20.00%) Sprint Planning
4 2 (20.00%) Sprint Review
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) Bash
1 6 (60.00%) Python
2 3 (30.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (20.00%) Shell Script
4 1 (10.00%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) CCNA
1 2 (20.00%) CCNP
1 2 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (10.00%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (10.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 7 (70.00%) Ansible
2 4 (40.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (20.00%) Puppet
4 1 (10.00%) Grafana
4 1 (10.00%) Graylog
4 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Clustering
4 1 (10.00%) SCCM
4 1 (10.00%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (10.00%) vCenter Server
4 1 (10.00%) vRealize
4 1 (10.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) VMware
2 3 (30.00%) Red Hat
3 2 (20.00%) Fortinet
3 2 (20.00%) Infoblox
3 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (20.00%) ServiceNow
4 1 (10.00%) Databricks
4 1 (10.00%) Google
4 1 (10.00%) MuleSoft
4 1 (10.00%) Veeam