Infrastructure Maintenance Contract Job Trends in the North West

Infrastructure Maintenance
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Infrastructure Maintenance skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 164 - 121
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Maintenance 6 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.16% - 0.042%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% - 0.049%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £397 - -
25th Percentile £429 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 - -
75th Percentile £448 - -
90th Percentile £449 - -
England median daily rate £453 £300 £623
% change year-on-year +50.83% -51.81% -0.40%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North West

Infrastructure Maintenance 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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,161 1,958 2,031
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 82.55% 88.72% 84.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,843 1,264 1,220
10th Percentile £280 £282 £313
25th Percentile £400 £375 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £599 £575 £588
90th Percentile £680 £668 £680
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.40% -4.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 334 127 169
10th Percentile £16.16 £13.50 £10.95
25th Percentile £24.79 £18.87 £16.06
Median hourly rate £45.00 £27.38 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +64.38% -21.79% +14.20%
75th Percentile £71.91 £56.88 £51.91
90th Percentile £85.00 £74.25 £70.90
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +4.83%

Infrastructure Maintenance
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Infrastructure Maintenance job vacancy trend in the North West

Infrastructure Maintenance
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Infrastructure Maintenance.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Infrastructure Maintenance

Infrastructure Maintenance
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Maintenance within the North West region over the 6 months to 17 August 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
Manchester - 4 £449 -
Cumbria - 1 £447 - 1
Lancashire - 1 £400 - 1
Infrastructure Maintenance
England

Infrastructure Maintenance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (16.67%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
1 1 (16.67%) IaaS
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (16.67%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 5 (83.33%) VPN
2 4 (66.67%) BGP
2 4 (66.67%) Cisco ASA
2 4 (66.67%) Cisco Firepower
2 4 (66.67%) EIGRP
2 4 (66.67%) Firewall
2 4 (66.67%) NetScaler
2 4 (66.67%) OSPF
2 4 (66.67%) Wireless
3 1 (16.67%) DNS
General
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Network Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) ServiceNow Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Middleware
1 1 (16.67%) OAuth
1 1 (16.67%) REST
1 1 (16.67%) SAML
1 1 (16.67%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) AI Agents
1 1 (16.67%) CMDB
1 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
1 1 (16.67%) Driving Licence
1 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Storage
1 1 (16.67%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
1 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) ITIL
2 4 (66.67%) Change Management
2 4 (66.67%) Performance Analysis
3 1 (16.67%) AI
3 1 (16.67%) Compliance Audit
3 1 (16.67%) Customer Requirements
3 1 (16.67%) Data Centre Operations
3 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (16.67%) Generative AI
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) IT Asset Management
3 1 (16.67%) IT Strategy
3 1 (16.67%) ITSM
3 1 (16.67%) Knowledge Management
3 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
3 1 (16.67%) Migration
3 1 (16.67%) Multi-Factor Authentication
3 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (16.67%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (16.67%) Degree
2 1 (16.67%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
1 1 (16.67%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) SCCM
1 1 (16.67%) WSUS
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Citrix
2 4 (66.67%) CheckPoint
2 4 (66.67%) Cisco
2 4 (66.67%) F5
2 4 (66.67%) Meraki
2 4 (66.67%) Palo Alto
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (16.67%) ServiceNow
3 1 (16.67%) VMware