Infrastructure Management Contracts in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Management
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Infrastructure Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Infrastructure Management over the 6 months leading up to 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 287 326 418
Rank change year-on-year +39 +92 +64
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Management 47 77 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.37% 0.37% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.41% 0.44% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 39 27
10th Percentile £390 £143 £384
25th Percentile £415 £268 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £615 £707
90th Percentile £608 £675 £775
UK median daily rate £550 £470 £550
% change year-on-year +17.02% -14.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £16.11 - -
25th Percentile £17.59 - -
Median hourly rate £20.13 - -
75th Percentile £22.59 - -
90th Percentile £24.04 - -
UK median hourly rate £20.13 £23.80 £35.50
% change year-on-year -15.44% -32.96% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,553 17,505 21,400
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.38% 84.71% 89.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,248 10,459 14,852
10th Percentile £235 £250 £256
25th Percentile £375 £378 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 834 2,060 1,308
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.34 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.19 £15.50
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.67% +7.14% +75.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £73.72
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.95 £36.00
% change year-on-year -19.33% -0.14% +44.00%

Infrastructure Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Management in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Management in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Management in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Management in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Management in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Management
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 Management within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 4 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 +28 18 £500 +15.61% 39
East of England +41 8 £465 - 19
West Midlands +8 8 £438 -20.45% 11
Midlands +6 8 £438 -20.45% 21
North of England +6 7 £573 +17.44% 43
South West +36 5 £425 +93.18% 21
Yorkshire +10 4 £400 -15.79% 10
North West +5 3 £573 +14.50% 30
Scotland - 2 £450 - 6
Wales +7 1 £450 -25.00%
Infrastructure Management
UK

Infrastructure Management
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 5 (10.64%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.13%) Apache
2 1 (2.13%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.13%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (4.26%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 10 (21.28%) Azure
2 9 (19.15%) AWS
3 7 (14.89%) AWS Lambda
3 7 (14.89%) Serverless
4 6 (12.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 5 (10.64%) Amazon S3
6 4 (8.51%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (8.51%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (8.51%) Azure Sentinel
6 4 (8.51%) Entra ID
6 4 (8.51%) GitHub
6 4 (8.51%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (8.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 3 (6.38%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (6.38%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (6.38%) Datadog
8 2 (4.26%) Amazon EventBridge
8 2 (4.26%) OpenShift
8 2 (4.26%) PaaS
8 2 (4.26%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (14.89%) DNS
1 7 (14.89%) Firewall
2 6 (12.77%) SAN
3 5 (10.64%) TCP/IP
4 4 (8.51%) LAN
4 4 (8.51%) NAS
4 4 (8.51%) WAN
5 2 (4.26%) BGP
5 2 (4.26%) Fibre Channel
5 2 (4.26%) IPv6
5 2 (4.26%) iSCSI
5 2 (4.26%) Network Security
5 2 (4.26%) OSPF
5 2 (4.26%) Spanning Tree
5 2 (4.26%) SSL
5 2 (4.26%) TACACS
5 2 (4.26%) Telepresence
5 2 (4.26%) Unified Communications
5 2 (4.26%) VPN
5 2 (4.26%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (12.77%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (4.26%) Amazon Athena
2 2 (4.26%) Big Data
2 2 (4.26%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.13%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (2.13%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.13%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 9 (19.15%) Jenkins
2 7 (14.89%) GitLab
3 4 (8.51%) Git
4 2 (4.26%) Bitbucket
4 2 (4.26%) JIRA
General
1 15 (31.91%) Social Skills
2 6 (12.77%) Telecoms
3 5 (10.64%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (10.64%) Finance
4 4 (8.51%) Manufacturing
5 3 (6.38%) Legal
5 3 (6.38%) Public Sector
6 2 (4.26%) Electronics
6 2 (4.26%) Law
6 2 (4.26%) Marketing
7 1 (2.13%) Banking
7 1 (2.13%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (12.77%) Administrator
2 5 (10.64%) Developer
3 4 (8.51%) Azure Engineer
3 4 (8.51%) DevOps Administrator
3 4 (8.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (8.51%) Linux Engineer
3 4 (8.51%) Systems Administrator
4 3 (6.38%) Cloud Engineer
4 3 (6.38%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (6.38%) Network Engineer
4 3 (6.38%) Support Engineer
5 2 (4.26%) Applications Architect
5 2 (4.26%) Architect
5 2 (4.26%) Commercial Manager
5 2 (4.26%) Desktop Engineer
5 2 (4.26%) Desktop Support
5 2 (4.26%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 2 (4.26%) IT Administrator
5 2 (4.26%) IT Manager
5 2 (4.26%) Software Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (10.64%) LDAP
2 2 (4.26%) .NET
2 2 (4.26%) Apache Axis
2 2 (4.26%) Node.js
2 2 (4.26%) YAML
3 1 (2.13%) .NET Core
3 1 (2.13%) AWS CDK
3 1 (2.13%) Lambda Expressions
3 1 (2.13%) Redfish
3 1 (2.13%) REST
3 1 (2.13%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (17.02%) Onboarding
2 4 (8.51%) Distributed Computing
3 3 (6.38%) Data Centre
3 3 (6.38%) Management Information System
4 2 (4.26%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (4.26%) Replication
4 2 (4.26%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.13%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 14 (29.79%) Windows
2 11 (23.40%) Linux
2 11 (23.40%) Windows Server
3 4 (8.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (8.51%) Ubuntu
3 4 (8.51%) Windows 10
4 3 (6.38%) Windows Server 2016
4 3 (6.38%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (4.26%) Mac OS
6 1 (2.13%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (2.13%) CentOS
6 1 (2.13%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (44.68%) DevOps
2 18 (38.30%) CI/CD
2 18 (38.30%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (21.28%) ITIL
4 8 (17.02%) Change Management
5 7 (14.89%) Computer Science
5 7 (14.89%) Configuration Management
5 7 (14.89%) Incident Management
5 7 (14.89%) Infrastructure Automation
6 6 (12.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 5 (10.64%) Agile
7 5 (10.64%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (10.64%) Problem Management
7 5 (10.64%) Project Management
7 5 (10.64%) Resource Management
7 5 (10.64%) Stakeholder Management
7 5 (10.64%) Task Automation
8 4 (8.51%) Continuous Integration
8 4 (8.51%) High Availability
8 4 (8.51%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 12 (25.53%) Python
2 7 (14.89%) SQL
3 6 (12.77%) PowerShell
4 4 (8.51%) Bash
5 3 (6.38%) C#
5 3 (6.38%) Ruby
6 2 (4.26%) Java
7 1 (2.13%) Bicep
7 1 (2.13%) C-shell
7 1 (2.13%) Go
7 1 (2.13%) Groovy
7 1 (2.13%) Scala
7 1 (2.13%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.13%) X++
Qualifications
1 7 (14.89%) Computer Science Degree
1 7 (14.89%) Degree
1 7 (14.89%) SC Cleared
1 7 (14.89%) Security Cleared
2 5 (10.64%) Azure Certification
3 4 (8.51%) CISSP
4 2 (4.26%) CCNA
4 2 (4.26%) CCNP
4 2 (4.26%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (4.26%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (2.13%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.38%) GDPR
1 3 (6.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (4.26%) HIPAA
3 1 (2.13%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (2.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (2.13%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.13%) SOC 2
System Software
1 9 (19.15%) Active Directory
2 4 (8.51%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (6.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (6.38%) VMware NSX
4 2 (4.26%) Ceph
4 2 (4.26%) Docker
4 2 (4.26%) Hyper-V
4 2 (4.26%) NFS
4 2 (4.26%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (2.13%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 10 (21.28%) Ansible
1 10 (21.28%) Terraform
2 9 (19.15%) Kubernetes
3 3 (6.38%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (6.38%) Puppet
3 3 (6.38%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (6.38%) vRealize
4 2 (4.26%) Argo
4 2 (4.26%) Grafana
4 2 (4.26%) Prometheus
4 2 (4.26%) SCCM
4 2 (4.26%) vCenter Server
4 2 (4.26%) vRealize Orchestrator
5 1 (2.13%) Graylog
5 1 (2.13%) HAProxy
5 1 (2.13%) Nagios
5 1 (2.13%) Progress Chef
5 1 (2.13%) Red Hat Satellite
5 1 (2.13%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 11 (23.40%) Microsoft
1 11 (23.40%) Red Hat
2 5 (10.64%) Cisco
3 4 (8.51%) NetApp
3 4 (8.51%) ServiceNow
4 3 (6.38%) Dell
4 3 (6.38%) HP
4 3 (6.38%) VMware
5 2 (4.26%) Databricks
5 2 (4.26%) Fortinet
5 2 (4.26%) Infoblox
5 2 (4.26%) Remedy
5 2 (4.26%) Salesforce
5 2 (4.26%) SAP
6 1 (2.13%) Google
6 1 (2.13%) Sitecore
6 1 (2.13%) Sun
6 1 (2.13%) Veeam