Infrastructure Maintenance Contracts in the Thames Valley

Infrastructure Maintenance
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Infrastructure Maintenance skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Infrastructure Maintenance over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 98 - 149
Rank change year-on-year - - +16
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Maintenance 4 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.26% - 0.068%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% - 0.075%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £416
25th Percentile - - £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £435
Median % change year-on-year - - +234.62%
75th Percentile - - £445
90th Percentile - - £447
South East median daily rate - - £435
% change year-on-year - - +234.62%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

Infrastructure Maintenance 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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,403 2,340 2,682
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.85% 87.12% 91.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 851 1,306 1,860
10th Percentile £300 £213 £320
25th Percentile £413 £369 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £605 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 170 62
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.30 £18.60
25th Percentile £14.54 £19.48 £24.86
Median hourly rate £32.05 £45.00 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year -28.78% -12.20% +192.86%
75th Percentile £62.44 £64.57 £66.21
90th Percentile £78.03 £85.65 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Infrastructure Maintenance
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Infrastructure Maintenance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Maintenance in the Thames Valley

Infrastructure Maintenance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Maintenance in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Maintenance in the Thames Valley

Infrastructure Maintenance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Maintenance in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Maintenance in the Thames Valley

Infrastructure Maintenance
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Maintenance within the Thames Valley 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
Berkshire - 4 - -
Infrastructure Maintenance
South East

Infrastructure Maintenance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 2 (50.00%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (50.00%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) PuTTY
1 1 (25.00%) WinSCP
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (25.00%) Maven
1 1 (25.00%) Toad
General
1 2 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Operations Specialist
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 1 (25.00%) Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Functional Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) IT Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Operations Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Support Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) Unix
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (50.00%) Mobile Device Management
2 1 (25.00%) Build Automation
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Client Onboarding
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL
2 1 (25.00%) ITSM
2 1 (25.00%) Problem Management
2 1 (25.00%) Project Management
2 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Validation
2 1 (25.00%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Shell Script
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (50.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (50.00%) SOC 2
3 1 (25.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) CA Agile Central
2 1 (25.00%) CyberArk
2 1 (25.00%) Dynatrace
2 1 (25.00%) Remedy
2 1 (25.00%) Splunk