Infrastructure Manager Contracts in the South East

Infrastructure Manager
England > South East

The median Infrastructure Manager daily rate in the South East is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 146 179 193
Rank change year-on-year +33 +14 -6
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Manager 13 26 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.43% 0.47% 0.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.47% 0.51% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 19 21
10th Percentile £448 £431 £350
25th Percentile £450 £513 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +22.22% -10.00%
75th Percentile £565 £620 £513
90th Percentile £580 £658 £540
England median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 2,767 5,141 5,491
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.93% 92.50% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,821 3,084 3,829
10th Percentile £250 £213 £225
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.42%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £606
90th Percentile £663 £688 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 481 240
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.78 £18.04
25th Percentile £20.06 £18.32 £22.16
Median hourly rate £32.50 £47.50 £48.40
Median % change year-on-year -31.58% -1.86% +130.48%
75th Percentile £63.75 £62.50 £65.16
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £75.00
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Infrastructure Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings that featured Infrastructure Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Manager in the South East

Infrastructure Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Manager in the South East

Infrastructure Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Manager in the South East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Manager in the South East

Infrastructure Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Manager in the South East

Infrastructure Manager
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 Manager within the South East region over the 6 months to 1 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 +34 9 £475 -13.64% 12
Berkshire +24 8 £463 -19.57% 3
Hampshire +24 1 £500 -18.70% 2
Surrey +17 1 £550 +4.76%
Oxfordshire +3 1 £525 - 3
Kent - 1 £550 -
Infrastructure Manager
England

Infrastructure Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Infrastructure Manager 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 South East region featuring Infrastructure Manager in the job title.

1 8 (61.54%) Project Management
2 4 (30.77%) PRINCE2
2 4 (30.77%) Finance
2 4 (30.77%) Agile
3 3 (23.08%) Manufacturing
3 3 (23.08%) Migration
3 3 (23.08%) ITIL
3 3 (23.08%) Data Centre
3 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
4 2 (15.38%) Project Delivery
4 2 (15.38%) Scorecard
4 2 (15.38%) Self-Awareness
4 2 (15.38%) Decision-Making
4 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
4 2 (15.38%) Structured Cabling
4 2 (15.38%) Contract Negotiation
4 2 (15.38%) Aviation
4 2 (15.38%) Customer Experience
4 2 (15.38%) Telecoms
4 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
4 2 (15.38%) Active Directory
4 2 (15.38%) Balanced Scorecard
4 2 (15.38%) Quality Management
4 2 (15.38%) Firewall
4 2 (15.38%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (15.38%) Retail
4 2 (15.38%) Supplier Management
4 2 (15.38%) CCTV

Infrastructure Manager Skill Set
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 (7.69%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 2 (15.38%) AWS
1 2 (15.38%) Azure
2 1 (7.69%) Akamai
2 1 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (7.69%) Nutanix
2 1 (7.69%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) Firewall
1 2 (15.38%) Structured Cabling
1 2 (15.38%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (7.69%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (7.69%) Network Security
2 1 (7.69%) SD-WAN
2 1 (7.69%) TCP/IP
2 1 (7.69%) VPN
2 1 (7.69%) WAN
2 1 (7.69%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) JIRA
General
1 4 (30.77%) Finance
2 3 (23.08%) Manufacturing
2 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Aviation
3 2 (15.38%) Retail
3 2 (15.38%) Telecoms
4 1 (7.69%) Banking
4 1 (7.69%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Data Centre
2 2 (15.38%) CCTV
3 1 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (7.69%) Management Information System
3 1 (7.69%) PMI
3 1 (7.69%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Windows
1 1 (7.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) Project Management
2 4 (30.77%) Agile
2 4 (30.77%) PRINCE2
3 3 (23.08%) ITIL
3 3 (23.08%) Migration
4 2 (15.38%) Balanced Scorecard
4 2 (15.38%) Contract Negotiation
4 2 (15.38%) Customer Experience
4 2 (15.38%) Decision-Making
4 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (15.38%) Project Delivery
4 2 (15.38%) Quality Management
4 2 (15.38%) Scorecard
4 2 (15.38%) Self-Awareness
4 2 (15.38%) Supplier Management
5 1 (7.69%) CI/CD
5 1 (7.69%) Cloud Security
5 1 (7.69%) Impact Assessments
5 1 (7.69%) Incident Response
5 1 (7.69%) Server Migrations
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) Degree
1 2 (15.38%) SC Cleared
1 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (7.69%) DV Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) PMI Certification
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) Cisco
2 1 (7.69%) Dell KACE
2 1 (7.69%) Meraki
2 1 (7.69%) Palo Alto
2 1 (7.69%) SAP
2 1 (7.69%) ServiceNow
2 1 (7.69%) SolarWinds
2 1 (7.69%) Ubiquiti