Infrastructure Support Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Infrastructure Support
England > North of England

The median Infrastructure Support daily rate in the North of England is £250, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 28 October 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 192 157 186
Rank change year-on-year -35 +29 +55
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Support 6 6 6
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.14% 0.15% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.17% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 6
10th Percentile £103 £211 £234
25th Percentile £198 £215 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 £400 £288
Median % change year-on-year -37.50% +39.13% +9.52%
75th Percentile £299 £450 £344
90th Percentile £387 £473 £435
England median daily rate £260 £325 £400
% change year-on-year -20.00% -18.75% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North of England. 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 North of England with a recognized job title 3,970 3,635 4,630
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.43% 91.96% 93.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,646 1,971 3,165
10th Percentile £219 £263 £263
25th Percentile £369 £386 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £566 £575 £600
90th Percentile £671 £650 £675
England median daily rate £510 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -2.86% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 244 219 222
10th Percentile £14.15 £15.36 £15.75
25th Percentile £18.33 £18.00 £17.75
Median hourly rate £25.15 £31.50 £27.35
Median % change year-on-year -20.16% +15.17% +28.71%
75th Percentile £51.02 £48.75 £46.18
90th Percentile £74.26 £70.00 £61.54
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.03 £45.88
% change year-on-year -40.16% -8.39% +58.21%

Infrastructure Support
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Infrastructure Support' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Infrastructure Support job vacancy trend in the North of England

Infrastructure Support
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Infrastructure Support job vacancies in the North of England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Infrastructure Support job vacancies in the North of England

Infrastructure Support
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Support in the North of England over the 6 months to 28 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Support in the North of England

Infrastructure Support
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Infrastructure Support job vacancies in the North of England.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Infrastructure Support job vacancies in the North of England

Infrastructure Support
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 Support within the North of England region over the 6 months to 28 October 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
North West -24 3 £250 -44.44%
Yorkshire -31 2 £243 +12.79% 3
North East - 1 - -
Infrastructure Support
England

Infrastructure Support Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 28 October 2025, Infrastructure Support contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the North of England region featuring Infrastructure Support in the job title.

1 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (33.33%) High Availability
2 2 (33.33%) Knowledge Management
2 2 (33.33%) KYC
2 2 (33.33%) LAN
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (33.33%) Project Management
2 2 (33.33%) Release Management
2 2 (33.33%) ServiceNow
2 2 (33.33%) SLA
2 2 (33.33%) Windows
3 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
3 1 (16.67%) Android
3 1 (16.67%) Apple iOS
3 1 (16.67%) Asset Management
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (16.67%) Converged Infrastructure
3 1 (16.67%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (16.67%) Firewall
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (16.67%) Patch Management
3 1 (16.67%) Preventative Maintenance
3 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (16.67%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (16.67%) Spanning Tree
3 1 (16.67%) VLAN
3 1 (16.67%) VMware

Infrastructure Support Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (16.67%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) LAN
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (16.67%) Firewall
2 1 (16.67%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (16.67%) Spanning Tree
2 1 (16.67%) VLAN
2 1 (16.67%) VoIP
2 1 (16.67%) WAN
2 1 (16.67%) Wireless
General
1 3 (50.00%) Manufacturing
2 2 (33.33%) Aerospace
2 2 (33.33%) Banking
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) Investment Banking
2 2 (33.33%) Organisational Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Onboarding
2 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (16.67%) Digital Signage
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
2 1 (16.67%) Android
2 1 (16.67%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (33.33%) High Availability
2 2 (33.33%) Knowledge Management
2 2 (33.33%) KYC
2 2 (33.33%) Project Management
2 2 (33.33%) Release Management
3 1 (16.67%) Asset Management
3 1 (16.67%) Converged Infrastructure
3 1 (16.67%) Patch Management
3 1 (16.67%) Preventative Maintenance
3 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
1 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (16.67%) VMware Workstation
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 2 (33.33%) ServiceNow
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco
2 1 (16.67%) CrowdStrike
2 1 (16.67%) VMware