Infrastructure Management Contracts in the South East

Infrastructure Management
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 137 161 211
Rank change year-on-year +24 +50 +37
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Management 18 30 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.60% 0.54% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.66% 0.64% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 8 7
10th Percentile £438 £350 £385
25th Percentile £450 £359 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £433 £500
Median % change year-on-year +15.61% -13.50% -34.43%
75th Percentile £531 £500 £525
90th Percentile £550 £530 £620
England median daily rate £550 £465 £550
% change year-on-year +18.28% -15.45% -4.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,747 4,698 5,149
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.51% 84.74% 89.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,755 2,739 3,581
10th Percentile £254 £243 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £510
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% -1.86% +2.00%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £619
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 437 224
10th Percentile £13.85 £13.00 £18.25
25th Percentile £16.05 £18.20 £22.34
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +127.43%
75th Percentile £62.50 £62.50 £64.72
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £74.55
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.34
% change year-on-year -19.25% -3.59% +53.69%

Infrastructure Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Management in the South East

Infrastructure Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Management in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Management in the South East

Infrastructure Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Management in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Management in the South East

Infrastructure Management
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 3 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
Thames Valley +24 15 £475 -5.00% 14
Berkshire +23 15 £475 - 10
Hampshire +32 3 £500 +25.00% 6
Infrastructure Management
England

Infrastructure Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (5.56%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (22.22%) Azure
2 2 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (11.11%) Azure Key Vault
2 2 (11.11%) Azure Sentinel
2 2 (11.11%) GitHub
2 2 (11.11%) OpenShift
2 2 (11.11%) PaaS
3 1 (5.56%) AWS
3 1 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (5.56%) Azure AKS
3 1 (5.56%) Azure App Service
3 1 (5.56%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (5.56%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (5.56%) Entra ID
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (5.56%) OneDrive
3 1 (5.56%) Power Platform
3 1 (5.56%) Serverless
3 1 (5.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) BGP
1 2 (11.11%) DNS
1 2 (11.11%) Ethernet VPN
1 2 (11.11%) Fibre Channel
1 2 (11.11%) Firewall
1 2 (11.11%) IPv6
1 2 (11.11%) iSCSI
1 2 (11.11%) OSPF
1 2 (11.11%) SAN
1 2 (11.11%) Spanning Tree
1 2 (11.11%) TACACS
1 2 (11.11%) VSAN
2 1 (5.56%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (5.56%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) GitLab
1 2 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 6 (33.33%) Telecoms
2 5 (27.78%) Social Skills
3 4 (22.22%) Manufacturing
4 3 (16.67%) Finance
5 2 (11.11%) Electronics
5 2 (11.11%) Law
5 2 (11.11%) Legal
5 2 (11.11%) Marketing
5 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (11.11%) Applications Architect
1 2 (11.11%) Architect
1 2 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
1 2 (11.11%) Commercial Manager
1 2 (11.11%) Network Engineer
1 2 (11.11%) Security Architect
2 1 (5.56%) Administrator
2 1 (5.56%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (5.56%) Data Centre Manager
2 1 (5.56%) IT Administrator
2 1 (5.56%) IT Support
2 1 (5.56%) IT Support Engineer
2 1 (5.56%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (5.56%) Network Administrator
2 1 (5.56%) Network Operations Engineer
2 1 (5.56%) Network Support Engineer
2 1 (5.56%) Operations Support Engineer
2 1 (5.56%) Support Engineer
2 1 (5.56%) Technical Infrastructure Manager
2 1 (5.56%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.11%) .NET
1 2 (11.11%) Apache Axis
1 2 (11.11%) YAML
2 1 (5.56%) .NET Core
2 1 (5.56%) REST
2 1 (5.56%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (33.33%) Onboarding
2 3 (16.67%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.56%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (16.67%) Windows
2 2 (11.11%) Windows Server
2 2 (11.11%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (5.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (38.89%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (33.33%) DevOps
3 5 (27.78%) CI/CD
4 4 (22.22%) Computer Science
4 4 (22.22%) Infrastructure Automation
4 4 (22.22%) SIEM
5 3 (16.67%) ITIL
5 3 (16.67%) Project Management
6 2 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (11.11%) Cost Reduction
6 2 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
6 2 (11.11%) Digital Marketing
6 2 (11.11%) High Availability
6 2 (11.11%) Mentoring
6 2 (11.11%) Microservices
6 2 (11.11%) Programme Management
6 2 (11.11%) Risk Management
6 2 (11.11%) SOA
6 2 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 4 (22.22%) PowerShell
1 4 (22.22%) SQL
2 3 (16.67%) C#
3 2 (11.11%) Java
3 2 (11.11%) Python
3 2 (11.11%) Ruby
4 1 (5.56%) Bicep
4 1 (5.56%) X++
Qualifications
1 5 (27.78%) SC Cleared
1 5 (27.78%) Security Cleared
2 4 (22.22%) CISSP
2 4 (22.22%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (22.22%) Degree
3 2 (11.11%) Azure Certification
3 2 (11.11%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) GDPR
1 2 (11.11%) HIPAA
1 2 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (5.56%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (5.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 3 (16.67%) Active Directory
2 2 (11.11%) Ceph
2 2 (11.11%) NFS
2 2 (11.11%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (11.11%) VMware NSX
3 1 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) Argo
1 2 (11.11%) Single Sign-On
1 2 (11.11%) Terraform
1 2 (11.11%) vRealize
1 2 (11.11%) vRealize Orchestrator
2 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (5.56%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (27.78%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.11%) Cisco
2 2 (11.11%) Dell
2 2 (11.11%) Red Hat
2 2 (11.11%) SAP
2 2 (11.11%) VMware
3 1 (5.56%) ServiceNow