Infrastructure Maintenance Contracts in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Maintenance
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 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 331 - 443
Rank change year-on-year - - +55
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Maintenance 8 0 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.063% - 0.017%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.069% - 0.019%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile £244 - £419
25th Percentile £265 - £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 - £445
Median % change year-on-year - - +217.86%
75th Percentile - - £549
90th Percentile - - £610
UK median daily rate £300 £563 £695
% change year-on-year -46.67% -19.06% +97.16%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,562 17,588 21,473
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.38% 84.75% 89.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,253 10,507 14,891
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £663 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 821 2,055 1,305
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.32 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.22 £15.81
Median hourly rate £27.50 £36.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.66% +4.29% +75.00%
75th Percentile £64.52 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £36.42
% change year-on-year -18.31% -2.53% +45.69%

Infrastructure Maintenance
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Infrastructure Maintenance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Maintenance in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Maintenance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Maintenance in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Maintenance in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Maintenance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Maintenance in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Maintenance in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Maintenance
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 Maintenance within the UK excluding London 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
South East - 4 - - 3
West Midlands - 2 £300 - 1
Midlands - 2 £300 - 1
North of England - 2 £230 -
Yorkshire - 1 £230 -
North West - 1 - -
Infrastructure Maintenance
UK

Infrastructure Maintenance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (25.00%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (25.00%) OneDrive
2 1 (12.50%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) LAN
1 2 (25.00%) WAN
2 1 (12.50%) PuTTY
2 1 (12.50%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Git
2 1 (12.50%) GitLab
2 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 1 (12.50%) Maven
2 1 (12.50%) Selenium
2 1 (12.50%) Toad
General
1 4 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Operations Specialist
2 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) Administrator
3 1 (12.50%) Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Functional Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) IT Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) IT Support
3 1 (12.50%) IT Support Technician
3 1 (12.50%) IT Technician
3 1 (12.50%) Operations Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Support Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Support Technician
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Onboarding
1 1 (12.50%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 6 (75.00%) Windows
2 3 (37.50%) Windows Server
2 3 (37.50%) Windows Server 2016
2 3 (37.50%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (12.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (37.50%) Computer Science
2 3 (37.50%) ITIL
2 3 (37.50%) Mobile Device Management
2 3 (37.50%) Project Management
3 2 (25.00%) Penetration Testing
4 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
4 1 (12.50%) Client Onboarding
4 1 (12.50%) Coaching
4 1 (12.50%) Code Quality
4 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (12.50%) Mentoring
4 1 (12.50%) Operational Stability
4 1 (12.50%) Problem Management
4 1 (12.50%) Prototyping
4 1 (12.50%) SDLC
4 1 (12.50%) Software Engineering
4 1 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (12.50%) User Research
4 1 (12.50%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) Java
1 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
1 1 (12.50%) Shell Script
1 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) CompTIA Security+
1 3 (37.50%) Degree
1 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
1 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (62.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (37.50%) QA
3 2 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (25.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) CA Agile Central
2 1 (12.50%) CyberArk
2 1 (12.50%) Dynatrace
2 1 (12.50%) Remedy
2 1 (12.50%) Splunk