Infrastructure Manager Contract Job Trends in the South East

Infrastructure Manager
England > South East

The median Infrastructure Manager daily rate in the South East is £588, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 September 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
3 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 149 158 176
Rank change year-on-year +9 +18 +43
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Manager 9 24 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.26% 0.51% 0.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% 0.55% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 15 23
10th Percentile £534 £428 £355
25th Percentile £538 £539 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £600 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.08% +20.00% -
75th Percentile £638 £631 £575
90th Percentile - £673 £760
England median daily rate £550 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +6.80% -1.90% -

All DemandTrendContract 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 3,157 4,337 5,309
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.23% 92.49% 94.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,032 2,609 3,637
10th Percentile £205 £251 £213
25th Percentile £375 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -
75th Percentile £600 £625 £613
90th Percentile £663 £688 £700
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 284 349 233
10th Percentile £13.75 £16.20 £16.00
25th Percentile £15.50 £30.41 £21.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £57.35 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -56.15% +14.70% +113.77%
75th Percentile £57.50 £75.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £71.50 £80.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £43.75
% change year-on-year -44.11% +2.86% +66.10%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Infrastructure Manager job vacancies in the South East.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Infrastructure Manager job vacancies in the South East

Infrastructure Manager
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Infrastructure Manager job vacancies in the South East.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Infrastructure Manager job vacancies 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 3 September 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
Hampshire +15 3 £625 +2.88%
Surrey - 3 £600 - 1
Kent -4 2 £550 -2.22% 1
Berkshire 0 1 - - 4
Thames Valley -8 1 - - 4
Infrastructure Manager
England

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

For the 6 months to 3 September 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 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 4 (44.44%) Azure
3 3 (33.33%) Agile
3 3 (33.33%) Windows
3 3 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
3 3 (33.33%) Project Delivery
4 2 (22.22%) SQL Server
4 2 (22.22%) SAN
4 2 (22.22%) Risk Management
4 2 (22.22%) Finance
4 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (22.22%) VMware
4 2 (22.22%) Firewall
4 2 (22.22%) JIRA
4 2 (22.22%) Hyper-V
4 2 (22.22%) NAS
4 2 (22.22%) AWS
4 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (22.22%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 1 (11.11%) Business Continuity Planning
5 1 (11.11%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (11.11%) Dell KACE
5 1 (11.11%) Meraki
5 1 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (11.11%) Data Centre
5 1 (11.11%) 802.1X
5 1 (11.11%) Palo Alto
5 1 (11.11%) Terraform
5 1 (11.11%) Windows Server

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 (11.11%) Confluence
1 1 (11.11%) IBM Notes
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) Azure
2 2 (22.22%) AWS
3 1 (11.11%) Akamai
3 1 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (11.11%) Nutanix
3 1 (11.11%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) Firewall
1 2 (22.22%) NAS
1 2 (22.22%) SAN
2 1 (11.11%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (11.11%) Network Security
2 1 (11.11%) SD-WAN
2 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
2 1 (11.11%) VPN
2 1 (11.11%) WAN
2 1 (11.11%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) SQL Server
2 1 (11.11%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) JIRA
General
1 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Data Centre
1 1 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Windows
2 1 (11.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) Agile
1 3 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
1 3 (33.33%) Project Delivery
2 2 (22.22%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 2 (22.22%) Risk Management
2 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (11.11%) Business Continuity
3 1 (11.11%) Business Continuity Planning
3 1 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (11.11%) PRINCE2
3 1 (11.11%) Security Architecture
3 1 (11.11%) Security Operations
3 1 (11.11%) Service Delivery
3 1 (11.11%) Sprint Planning
3 1 (11.11%) Strategic Thinking
3 1 (11.11%) Vulnerability Management
3 1 (11.11%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Hyper-V
2 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) VMware
2 1 (11.11%) Cisco
2 1 (11.11%) Dell KACE
2 1 (11.11%) Lotus
2 1 (11.11%) Meraki
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Palo Alto
2 1 (11.11%) SAP
2 1 (11.11%) SolarWinds
2 1 (11.11%) Ubiquiti