Infrastructure Specialist Contracts in the North West

Infrastructure Specialist
England > North West

The median Infrastructure Specialist daily rate in the North West is £510, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 - 160
Rank change year-on-year - - +11
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Specialist 8 0 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.41% - 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.44% - 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 1
10th Percentile £405 - -
25th Percentile £471 - £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 - £505
75th Percentile £544 - £508
90th Percentile £633 - -
England median daily rate £550 £520 £505
% change year-on-year +5.77% +2.97% -1.46%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North West. 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 West with a recognized job title 1,823 2,591 3,016
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.63% 94.42% 94.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,204 1,690 2,161
10th Percentile £263 £283 £300
25th Percentile £380 £390 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £585 £588
90th Percentile £652 £675 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 265 131
10th Percentile £13.00 £11.07 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.44 £13.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £29.52 £26.39 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +11.84% -13.59% +50.37%
75th Percentile £59.57 £46.18 £47.25
90th Percentile £83.59 £67.25 £65.00
England median hourly rate £30.78 £36.02 £44.77
% change year-on-year -14.55% -19.53% +98.96%

Infrastructure Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings that featured Infrastructure Specialist in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Specialist in the North West

Infrastructure Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Specialist in the North West

Infrastructure Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Specialist in the North West over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Specialist in the North West

Infrastructure Specialist
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Specialist in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Specialist in the North West

Infrastructure Specialist
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 Specialist within the North West region over the 6 months to 2 May 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
Manchester - 7 £510 - 1
Lancashire - 1 - - 1
Infrastructure Specialist
England

Infrastructure Specialist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West

For the 6 months to 2 May 2025, Infrastructure Specialist contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the North West region featuring Infrastructure Specialist in the job title.

1 7 (87.50%) Telecoms
2 6 (75.00%) VMware
2 6 (75.00%) SQL Server
2 6 (75.00%) Windows
2 6 (75.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 6 (75.00%) Business Continuity
2 6 (75.00%) Intrusion Detection
2 6 (75.00%) Network Security
2 6 (75.00%) Firewall
2 6 (75.00%) PowerShell
2 6 (75.00%) Azure
2 6 (75.00%) vSphere
2 6 (75.00%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (75.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (75.00%) IaaS
2 6 (75.00%) Entra ID
2 6 (75.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
2 6 (75.00%) Windows Server
2 6 (75.00%) Azure Certification
3 5 (62.50%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (62.50%) Change Management
4 4 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (37.50%) Business Continuity Planning
5 3 (37.50%) Enterprise Architecture
5 3 (37.50%) Risk Assessment
5 3 (37.50%) Information Security

Infrastructure Specialist Skill Set
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 6 (75.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (12.50%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) Azure
1 6 (75.00%) Entra ID
1 6 (75.00%) IaaS
1 6 (75.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (12.50%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (75.00%) Firewall
1 6 (75.00%) Intrusion Detection
1 6 (75.00%) Network Security
2 1 (12.50%) PBX
2 1 (12.50%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (75.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
1 1 (12.50%) ScriptRunner
General
1 7 (87.50%) Telecoms
2 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (12.50%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 6 (75.00%) Windows
1 6 (75.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Business Continuity
1 6 (75.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
2 5 (62.50%) Change Management
3 4 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (37.50%) BCP
4 3 (37.50%) Business Continuity Planning
4 3 (37.50%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (37.50%) Enterprise Architecture
4 3 (37.50%) Information Security
4 3 (37.50%) Risk Assessment
5 2 (25.00%) High Availability
5 2 (25.00%) Line Management
5 2 (25.00%) Project Delivery
5 2 (25.00%) Web Operations
6 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 1 (12.50%) Patch Management
6 1 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
6 1 (12.50%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 1 (12.50%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (12.50%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 6 (75.00%) Azure Certification
2 5 (62.50%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 6 (75.00%) Active Directory
1 6 (75.00%) vSphere
2 4 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (75.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) Microsoft
1 6 (75.00%) VMware
2 1 (12.50%) Atlassian
2 1 (12.50%) Ericsson
2 1 (12.50%) Mitel
2 1 (12.50%) Siemens