Infrastructure Management Contract Job Trends in the South West

Infrastructure Management
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Infrastructure Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 111 123 157
Rank change year-on-year +12 +34 +14
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Management 10 8 1
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.49% 0.33% 0.032%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% 0.39% 0.036%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 6 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £700 -
England median daily rate £525 £523 £575
% change year-on-year +0.48% -9.13% +12.09%

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 1,842 2,051 2,786
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 90.21% 83.95% 88.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,062 1,190 1,898
10th Percentile £220 £313 £308
25th Percentile £375 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £734 £725
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 276 180 281
10th Percentile £15.25 £19.41 £20.50
25th Percentile £18.87 £40.00 £46.92
Median hourly rate £25.15 £65.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -61.60% +9.17% -4.76%
75th Percentile £63.75 £72.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £74.00 £83.40
England median hourly rate £25.15 £41.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -39.40% -6.74% +27.14%

Infrastructure Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Infrastructure Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Infrastructure Management job vacancy trend in the South West

Infrastructure Management
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Infrastructure Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Infrastructure Management

Infrastructure Management
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Infrastructure Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Infrastructure Management

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 21 October 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
Gloucestershire +10 8 £700 - 1
Somerset - 2 - - 2
Infrastructure Management
England

Infrastructure Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 8 (80.00%) Azure
2 6 (60.00%) Azure Stack
2 6 (60.00%) Entra ID
3 2 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (20.00%) GitHub
4 1 (10.00%) AWS
4 1 (10.00%) AWS CodeBuild
4 1 (10.00%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) iSCSI
1 2 (20.00%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Git
1 1 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Azure Engineer
1 6 (60.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
1 6 (60.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 6 (60.00%) IT Engineer
1 6 (60.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
1 6 (60.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
1 6 (60.00%) Senior
1 6 (60.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
1 6 (60.00%) Senior IT Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 6 (60.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Windows
2 1 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (20.00%) DevOps
2 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (20.00%) Network Monitoring
2 2 (20.00%) Patch Management
3 1 (10.00%) Agile
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Security
3 1 (10.00%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (10.00%) High Availability
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (10.00%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (10.00%) Migration
3 1 (10.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 1 (10.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) Bash
1 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (60.00%) Azure Certification
1 6 (60.00%) Network+ Certification
2 4 (40.00%) SC Cleared
2 4 (40.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (20.00%) CCNP
3 2 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (20.00%) CompTIA Security+
3 2 (20.00%) JNCIP
4 1 (10.00%) AWS Certification
4 1 (10.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (10.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Terraform
1 2 (20.00%) WhatsUp Gold
2 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Cisco
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) NetApp