Infrastructure Management Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Infrastructure Management
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Infrastructure Management skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 102 107 131
Rank change year-on-year +5 +24 +47
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Management 11 19 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.67% 0.85% 0.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.74% 0.99% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 7
10th Percentile - £466 £470
25th Percentile - £479 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -9.09% +33.33%
75th Percentile £500 - £619
90th Percentile - - £663
South East median daily rate £475 £470 £575
% change year-on-year +1.06% -18.26% +39.39%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,489 1,914 2,523
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 90.96% 85.52% 90.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 908 1,078 1,683
10th Percentile £270 £280 £275
25th Percentile £400 £413 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £524
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -2.58% +4.70%
75th Percentile £588 £619 £625
90th Percentile £650 £686 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £518
% change year-on-year -2.44% -1.14% +1.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 86 91
10th Percentile £14.20 £17.25 £16.40
25th Percentile £15.13 £30.10 £24.75
Median hourly rate £25.15 £58.49 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -57.00% +16.98% +166.67%
75th Percentile £44.68 £69.14 £66.00
90th Percentile £79.00 £86.77 £75.00
South East median hourly rate £20.73 £57.35 £53.00
% change year-on-year -63.85% +8.21% +70.14%

Infrastructure Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Management in the Thames Valley

Infrastructure Management
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Infrastructure Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Infrastructure Management

Infrastructure Management
Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Infrastructure Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Infrastructure Management

Infrastructure Management
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 Management within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 20 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
Berkshire +14 11 £450 - 3
Infrastructure Management
South East

Infrastructure Management
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 1 (9.09%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) Azure
1 3 (27.27%) Dynamics 365
1 3 (27.27%) Power Platform
2 2 (18.18%) GitHub
2 2 (18.18%) OpenShift
3 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (9.09%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (9.09%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 3 (27.27%) SAN
2 2 (18.18%) BGP
2 2 (18.18%) DNS
2 2 (18.18%) Ethernet VPN
2 2 (18.18%) Fibre Channel
2 2 (18.18%) IPv6
2 2 (18.18%) OSPF
2 2 (18.18%) Spanning Tree
2 2 (18.18%) TACACS
2 2 (18.18%) VSAN
3 1 (9.09%) NAS
3 1 (9.09%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) GitLab
General
1 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
1 4 (36.36%) Telecoms
2 3 (27.27%) Finance
3 2 (18.18%) Law
3 2 (18.18%) Legal
4 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Billing
4 1 (9.09%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Developer
1 3 (27.27%) Dynamics 365 Developer
2 2 (18.18%) Applications Architect
2 2 (18.18%) Architect
2 2 (18.18%) Commercial Manager
2 2 (18.18%) Network Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Security Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Administrator
3 1 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) IT Administrator
3 1 (9.09%) IT Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) IT Support
3 1 (9.09%) IT Support Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Lead
3 1 (9.09%) Network Administrator
3 1 (9.09%) Network Operations Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Network Support
3 1 (9.09%) Network Support Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Operations Support Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) .NET
1 3 (27.27%) Web Services
2 2 (18.18%) Apache Axis
2 2 (18.18%) YAML
3 1 (9.09%) ATL
Miscellaneous
1 6 (54.55%) Onboarding
2 1 (9.09%) Data Centre
2 1 (9.09%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (27.27%) Windows
2 2 (18.18%) Windows Server
2 2 (18.18%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (9.09%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) DevOps
2 3 (27.27%) Agile
2 3 (27.27%) ERP
2 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (27.27%) Technical Architecture
3 2 (18.18%) Business Process Mapping
3 2 (18.18%) CI/CD
3 2 (18.18%) Contract Management
3 2 (18.18%) Cost Reduction
3 2 (18.18%) Customer-Centricity
3 2 (18.18%) Data Management
3 2 (18.18%) Design Patterns
3 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Automation
3 2 (18.18%) ITIL
3 2 (18.18%) Microservices
3 2 (18.18%) Runbook
3 2 (18.18%) SOA
3 2 (18.18%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (9.09%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (9.09%) Patch Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) SQL
2 3 (27.27%) X++
3 2 (18.18%) C#
3 2 (18.18%) Java
3 2 (18.18%) PowerShell
3 2 (18.18%) Python
3 2 (18.18%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) CISSP
1 2 (18.18%) CompTIA Security+
1 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
1 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (9.09%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (9.09%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (9.09%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) Active Directory
2 2 (18.18%) Ceph
3 1 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Argo
1 2 (18.18%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (9.09%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Microsoft
2 2 (18.18%) Cisco
2 2 (18.18%) Dell
2 2 (18.18%) Red Hat
3 1 (9.09%) VMware