Infrastructure Management Contracts in the South West

Infrastructure Management
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 105 144 167
Rank change year-on-year +39 +23 +5
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Management 5 9 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.30% 0.28% 0.083%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.34% 0.092%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 9 3
10th Percentile £320 £120 £545
25th Percentile £340 £143 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £220 £750
Median % change year-on-year +93.18% -70.67% +44.23%
75th Percentile £538 £230 £794
90th Percentile £605 £426 £805
England median daily rate £550 £465 £544
% change year-on-year +18.28% -14.48% -5.43%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,522 2,648 3,251
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 90.33% 82.98% 89.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 966 1,690 2,398
10th Percentile £235 £220 £313
25th Percentile £400 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £549
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.37% +9.80%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £644
90th Percentile £688 £700 £719
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 146 335 334
10th Percentile £18.36 £13.86 £9.80
25th Percentile £20.61 £27.50 £17.00
Median hourly rate £63.50 £50.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.00% -18.70% +26.16%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.50 £83.37
England median hourly rate £29.15 £35.96 £37.50
% change year-on-year -18.93% -4.12% +53.06%

Infrastructure Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Management in the South West

Infrastructure Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Management in the South West

Infrastructure Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Management in the South West

Infrastructure Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Management in the South West

Infrastructure Management
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South 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
Wiltshire +35 4 £433 +198.28% 4
Bristol +25 1 £425 -32.54% 5
Infrastructure Management
England

Infrastructure Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon EventBridge
2 2 (40.00%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (40.00%) Datadog
2 2 (40.00%) GitHub
2 2 (40.00%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (40.00%) SaaS
2 2 (40.00%) Serverless
3 1 (20.00%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) DNS
1 2 (40.00%) SSL
1 2 (40.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Amazon Athena
1 2 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) GitLab
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Integration Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Software Integration Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Active Directory Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Hardware Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) HP Storage Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Lead DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) SCCM Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) SCCM Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Server Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Storage Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (20.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
1 2 (40.00%) Windows 10
1 2 (40.00%) Windows Server
1 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2019
2 1 (20.00%) CentOS
2 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) API Development
2 2 (40.00%) Change Management
2 2 (40.00%) Collaborative Working
2 2 (40.00%) Data Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Incident Management
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) ITIL
2 2 (40.00%) ITSM
2 2 (40.00%) Patch Management
2 2 (40.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) Security Monitoring
2 2 (40.00%) Server Building
2 2 (40.00%) Server Virtualisation
2 2 (40.00%) Service Delivery
2 2 (40.00%) Software Deployment
2 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (40.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Terraform
2 2 (40.00%) SCCM
3 1 (20.00%) Ansible
3 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (20.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) HP
1 2 (40.00%) Remedy
1 2 (40.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (20.00%) Red Hat