Infrastructure Management Contracts in the North West

Infrastructure Management
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for Infrastructure Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Infrastructure Management over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 124 155 178
Rank change year-on-year +31 +23 -41
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Management 13 5 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.47% 0.16% 0.099%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% 0.17% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 4
10th Percentile £236 £449 £402
25th Percentile £375 £456 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £420
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +25.00% +51.35%
75th Percentile £650 £575 £438
90th Percentile £665 £695 -
England median daily rate £470 £538 £575
% change year-on-year -12.56% -6.52% +32.18%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

Infrastructure Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,385 2,894 3,584
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 86.32% 90.58% 88.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,526 2,058 2,629
10th Percentile £306 £313 £231
25th Percentile £401 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £589 £588 £575
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 243 144 166
10th Percentile £10.95 £16.85 £10.63
25th Percentile £13.28 £21.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +68.72% +9.18%
75th Percentile £45.44 £48.91 £43.75
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

Infrastructure Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Management in the North West

Infrastructure Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Management in the North West

Infrastructure Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Management in the North West over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Management in the North West

Infrastructure Management
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 Management within the North West region over the 6 months to 28 April 2024. 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 +23 11 £500 -4.76% 2
Cheshire - 2 - - 2
Infrastructure Management
England

Infrastructure Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 4 (30.77%) Confluence
2 1 (7.69%) SharePoint
2 1 (7.69%) SharePoint 2010
2 1 (7.69%) SharePoint Server
Cloud Services
1 10 (76.92%) AWS
2 6 (46.15%) Azure
3 5 (38.46%) GitHub
4 4 (30.77%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (30.77%) Amazon S3
4 4 (30.77%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (30.77%) Serverless
4 4 (30.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 3 (23.08%) GCP
6 1 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) DMZ
1 2 (15.38%) DNS
1 2 (15.38%) Firewall
1 2 (15.38%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (30.77%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (7.69%) Metadata
2 1 (7.69%) PowerPivot
2 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
2 1 (7.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (46.15%) GitLab
2 4 (30.77%) Git
2 4 (30.77%) JIRA
3 2 (15.38%) Bitbucket
4 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) AWS DevOps
2 5 (38.46%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) Senior
3 3 (23.08%) Senior DevOps
3 3 (23.08%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) DevOps Platform Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Consultant
5 1 (7.69%) Desktop Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Desktop Support
5 1 (7.69%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Lead
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Platform Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) SharePoint Consultant
5 1 (7.69%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) SAML
2 1 (7.69%) CSS
2 1 (7.69%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (61.54%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (30.77%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (30.77%) Product Ownership
3 1 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (23.08%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (76.92%) CI/CD
2 9 (69.23%) DevOps
2 9 (69.23%) Infrastructure as Code
3 8 (61.54%) Agile
4 6 (46.15%) Migration
4 6 (46.15%) Scrum
4 6 (46.15%) Software Deployment
5 5 (38.46%) Data Migration
6 4 (30.77%) Containerisation
6 4 (30.77%) Kanban
6 4 (30.77%) Refactoring
6 4 (30.77%) Software Testing
7 3 (23.08%) Continuous Integration
7 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (15.38%) Cybersecurity
8 2 (15.38%) Disaster Recovery
8 2 (15.38%) High Availability
8 2 (15.38%) Information Governance
8 2 (15.38%) Information Security
8 2 (15.38%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 9 (69.23%) Python
2 5 (38.46%) PowerShell
3 4 (30.77%) Bash
3 4 (30.77%) Go
4 1 (7.69%) Java
4 1 (7.69%) JavaScript
4 1 (7.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (46.15%) SC Cleared
1 6 (46.15%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) NIST
1 3 (23.08%) PCI DSS
2 2 (15.38%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 6 (46.15%) Docker
2 1 (7.69%) Active Directory
2 1 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (61.54%) Terraform
2 6 (46.15%) Ansible
2 6 (46.15%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Atlassian
2 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.69%) VMware