Infrastructure Maintenance Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Maintenance
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Infrastructure Maintenance skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 369 362 416
Rank change year-on-year -7 +54 +90
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Maintenance 8 9 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.052% 0.050% 0.037%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.058% 0.060% 0.042%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 2
10th Percentile £213 £149 £249
25th Percentile £224 £163 £277
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £265 £185 £331
Median % change year-on-year +43.24% -44.15% +0.45%
75th Percentile £300 £208 £389
90th Percentile - £221 £418
UK median daily rate £230 £623 £625
% change year-on-year -63.05% -0.40% +25.69%

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 13,782 14,892 18,918
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 89.11% 82.91% 88.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,281 8,643 12,535
10th Percentile £235 £250 £260
25th Percentile £368 £391 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £656 £688 £690
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,418 1,259 1,223
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.50 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.95 £18.06 £17.71
Median hourly rate £22.63 £43.00 £39.55
Median % change year-on-year -47.37% +8.72% +71.96%
75th Percentile £43.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £75.00 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £41.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +3.61% +43.10%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Infrastructure Maintenance.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Infrastructure Maintenance

Infrastructure Maintenance
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Infrastructure Maintenance.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Infrastructure Maintenance

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 11 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
South East +15 4 - - 3
Midlands - 2 £300 - 1
West Midlands - 2 £300 - 1
Yorkshire -13 1 £230 -
North of England -18 1 £230 -
Wales - 1 £205 - 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
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) LAN
1 2 (25.00%) WAN
2 1 (12.50%) PuTTY
2 1 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (12.50%) WinSCP
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Git
1 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
1 1 (12.50%) Maven
1 1 (12.50%) Toad
General
1 4 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Operations Specialist
2 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 2 (25.00%) IT Support
3 1 (12.50%) 2nd Line Support
3 1 (12.50%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Functional Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) IT Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) IT Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) IT Support Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) IT Support Technician
3 1 (12.50%) IT Technician
3 1 (12.50%) Operations Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Support Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Support Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Support Technician
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Life Science
1 1 (12.50%) Onboarding
1 1 (12.50%) Renewable Energy
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%) Build Automation
4 1 (12.50%) Change Control
4 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
4 1 (12.50%) Client Onboarding
4 1 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (12.50%) ITSM
4 1 (12.50%) Network Architecture
4 1 (12.50%) Problem Management
4 1 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Validation
4 1 (12.50%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) Shell Script
1 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) Degree
2 3 (37.50%) CompTIA Security+
2 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
2 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
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
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