Infrastructure Designer Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Designer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Infrastructure Designer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £436, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 26 March 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 432 337 393
Rank change year-on-year -95 +56 +63
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Designer 11 7 2
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.050% 0.056% 0.010%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.054% 0.060% 0.010%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 7 2
10th Percentile £383 £418 -
25th Percentile £403 £436 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £436 £497 £650
Median % change year-on-year -12.27% -23.54% +39.94%
75th Percentile £464 £616 £675
90th Percentile £469 £767 -
UK median daily rate £425 £460 £650
% change year-on-year -7.56% -29.27% +39.94%

All Contract IT Job Roles
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 20,259 11,652 19,498
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.73% 92.52% 92.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,014 7,622 12,101
10th Percentile £260 £213 £213
25th Percentile £400 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year +1.68% -2.56% -2.50%
75th Percentile £581 £588 £595
90th Percentile £675 £660 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,197 725 2,108
10th Percentile £14.47 £14.99 £12.50
25th Percentile £18.87 £20.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £37.50 £31.76 £32.90
Median % change year-on-year +18.07% -3.45% -21.30%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £76.60 £75.40 £72.37
UK median hourly rate £37.20 £32.50 £32.95
% change year-on-year +14.46% -1.36% -24.26%

Infrastructure Designer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Infrastructure Designer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Infrastructure Designer job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Designer
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Infrastructure Designer job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Infrastructure Designer job vacancies in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Designer
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Infrastructure Designer job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Infrastructure Designer job vacancies in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Designer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Designer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 26 March 2026. 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
North of England - 10 £436 - 3
North West - 10 £436 -
East of England -29 1 - - 2
Infrastructure Designer
UK

Infrastructure Designer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 26 March 2026, Infrastructure Designer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Infrastructure Designer in the job title.

1 8 (72.73%) AIX
1 8 (72.73%) Business Case
1 8 (72.73%) CICS
1 8 (72.73%) COBOL
1 8 (72.73%) DataStage
1 8 (72.73%) Design Patterns
1 8 (72.73%) Firewall
1 8 (72.73%) IBM
1 8 (72.73%) Linux
1 8 (72.73%) Middleware
1 8 (72.73%) Process Improvement
1 8 (72.73%) Roadmaps
1 8 (72.73%) Solaris
1 8 (72.73%) Unix
1 8 (72.73%) VMware
2 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 2 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (9.09%) Auto-Scaling
3 1 (9.09%) AWS
3 1 (9.09%) AWS CDK
3 1 (9.09%) AWS Certification
3 1 (9.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (9.09%) Bash
3 1 (9.09%) Batch Processing
3 1 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (9.09%) Capacity Management

Infrastructure Designer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 8 (72.73%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 1 (9.09%) AWS
1 1 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (9.09%) Serverless
1 1 (9.09%) Snowflake
1 1 (9.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (72.73%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (72.73%) DataStage
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (9.09%) Data Vault
2 1 (9.09%) MySQL
2 1 (9.09%) NoSQL
2 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
General
1 9 (81.82%) Finance
2 8 (72.73%) Influencing Skills
2 8 (72.73%) Social Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
4 1 (9.09%) Advertising
4 1 (9.09%) Banking
4 1 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (72.73%) Middleware
2 1 (9.09%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 8 (72.73%) BYOD
1 8 (72.73%) Data Centre
1 8 (72.73%) Mainframe
1 8 (72.73%) VSAM
2 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 8 (72.73%) AIX
1 8 (72.73%) Linux
1 8 (72.73%) Solaris
1 8 (72.73%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) Business Case
1 8 (72.73%) Design Patterns
1 8 (72.73%) Process Improvement
1 8 (72.73%) Roadmaps
2 1 (9.09%) Auto-Scaling
2 1 (9.09%) Batch Processing
2 1 (9.09%) Capacity Management
2 1 (9.09%) Cloud Security
2 1 (9.09%) Cost Management
2 1 (9.09%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (9.09%) Project Delivery
2 1 (9.09%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (9.09%) Security Architecture
2 1 (9.09%) Strategic Roadmap
2 1 (9.09%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (9.09%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 8 (72.73%) COBOL
2 1 (9.09%) Bash
2 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
2 1 (9.09%) Python
2 1 (9.09%) Ruby
2 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) AWS Certification
2 1 (9.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) GDPR
1 1 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (9.09%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (72.73%) IBM
1 8 (72.73%) VMware
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) Oracle