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 24 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 293 304 396
Rank change year-on-year +11 +92 +73
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Management 45 74 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.35% 0.36% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% 0.43% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 35 28
10th Percentile £380 £143 £415
25th Percentile £413 £268 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £563 £717
90th Percentile £616 £675 £775
UK median daily rate £550 £456 £550
% change year-on-year +20.55% -17.05% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £16.40 - -
25th Percentile £18.31 - -
Median hourly rate £23.00 - -
75th Percentile £24.75 - -
90th Percentile £24.90 - -
UK median hourly rate £23.00 £23.80 £35.50
% change year-on-year -3.36% -32.96% +65.12%

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 11,628 17,095 20,472
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.68% 83.93% 89.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,259 10,219 14,066
10th Percentile £234 £250 £260
25th Percentile £375 £377 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +3.63%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 824 2,090 1,248
10th Percentile £14.06 £12.37 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.19 £15.31 £15.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.75 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.38% +7.86% +75.00%
75th Percentile £62.24 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £73.63
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £36.00 £36.00
% change year-on-year -23.61% - +40.19%

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 24 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 24 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 +27 15 £475 +9.83% 93
West Midlands +6 10 £425 -22.73% 32
Midlands +3 10 £425 -22.73% 55
North of England +7 8 £573 +23.78% 72
East of England +30 7 £430 - 55
Yorkshire +12 5 £400 -11.11% 23
South West +37 3 £525 +187.67% 41
North West +2 3 £573 +14.50% 41
Scotland - 2 £450 - 10
Northern Ireland -6 1 - - 6
Wales - 1 £450 - 6
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 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.22%) Apache
2 1 (2.22%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.22%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 10 (22.22%) Azure
2 9 (20.00%) AWS
3 7 (15.56%) AWS Lambda
3 7 (15.56%) Serverless
4 6 (13.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 5 (11.11%) Amazon S3
5 5 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (8.89%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (8.89%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (8.89%) Azure Sentinel
6 4 (8.89%) Entra ID
6 4 (8.89%) GitHub
6 4 (8.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 3 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (6.67%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (6.67%) Datadog
8 2 (4.44%) Amazon EventBridge
8 2 (4.44%) Azure Key Vault
8 2 (4.44%) OpenShift
8 2 (4.44%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (15.56%) Firewall
2 6 (13.33%) SAN
3 5 (11.11%) TCP/IP
4 4 (8.89%) DNS
4 4 (8.89%) LAN
4 4 (8.89%) NAS
4 4 (8.89%) WAN
5 2 (4.44%) BGP
5 2 (4.44%) Ethernet VPN
5 2 (4.44%) Fibre Channel
5 2 (4.44%) IPv6
5 2 (4.44%) Network Security
5 2 (4.44%) OSPF
5 2 (4.44%) Spanning Tree
5 2 (4.44%) TACACS
5 2 (4.44%) Telepresence
5 2 (4.44%) Unified Communications
5 2 (4.44%) VSAN
5 2 (4.44%) Wireless
6 1 (2.22%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (13.33%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (4.44%) Amazon Athena
2 2 (4.44%) Big Data
2 2 (4.44%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (4.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (2.22%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (2.22%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.22%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 9 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 7 (15.56%) GitLab
3 4 (8.89%) Git
4 2 (4.44%) Bitbucket
General
1 18 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (11.11%) Telecoms
4 3 (6.67%) Finance
4 3 (6.67%) Legal
4 3 (6.67%) Manufacturing
5 2 (4.44%) Automotive
5 2 (4.44%) Law
6 1 (2.22%) Banking
6 1 (2.22%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (13.33%) Administrator
2 5 (11.11%) Developer
2 5 (11.11%) Support Engineer
3 4 (8.89%) Azure Engineer
3 4 (8.89%) DevOps Administrator
3 4 (8.89%) Systems Administrator
4 3 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
4 3 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (6.67%) Linux Engineer
4 3 (6.67%) Network Engineer
5 2 (4.44%) Applications Architect
5 2 (4.44%) Commercial Manager
5 2 (4.44%) Desktop Engineer
5 2 (4.44%) Desktop Support
5 2 (4.44%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 2 (4.44%) Integration Engineer
5 2 (4.44%) IT Administrator
5 2 (4.44%) Security Architect
5 2 (4.44%) Software Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (11.11%) LDAP
2 2 (4.44%) .NET
2 2 (4.44%) Apache Axis
2 2 (4.44%) Node.js
2 2 (4.44%) Software Packaging
2 2 (4.44%) YAML
3 1 (2.22%) .NET Core
3 1 (2.22%) AWS CDK
3 1 (2.22%) Lambda Expressions
3 1 (2.22%) Redfish
3 1 (2.22%) REST
3 1 (2.22%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (17.78%) Onboarding
2 4 (8.89%) Distributed Computing
2 4 (8.89%) Replication
3 3 (6.67%) Data Centre
3 3 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (6.67%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.22%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 14 (31.11%) Windows
2 10 (22.22%) Linux
3 8 (17.78%) Windows Server
4 4 (8.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (8.89%) Ubuntu
5 3 (6.67%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (4.44%) Mac OS
6 2 (4.44%) Windows 10
7 1 (2.22%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (2.22%) CentOS
7 1 (2.22%) VMS
7 1 (2.22%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (46.67%) DevOps
2 18 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 16 (35.56%) CI/CD
4 11 (24.44%) ITIL
5 7 (15.56%) Change Management
5 7 (15.56%) Computer Science
5 7 (15.56%) Incident Management
6 6 (13.33%) Agile
6 6 (13.33%) Configuration Management
6 6 (13.33%) High Availability
6 6 (13.33%) Project Management
7 5 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (11.11%) Infrastructure Automation
7 5 (11.11%) Problem Management
7 5 (11.11%) Resource Management
7 5 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
7 5 (11.11%) Task Automation
8 4 (8.89%) Containerisation
8 4 (8.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 4 (8.89%) Network Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 12 (26.67%) Python
2 9 (20.00%) SQL
3 8 (17.78%) PowerShell
4 5 (11.11%) Bash
5 3 (6.67%) C#
5 3 (6.67%) Ruby
6 2 (4.44%) Java
6 2 (4.44%) VBScript
7 1 (2.22%) Bicep
7 1 (2.22%) C-shell
7 1 (2.22%) Go
7 1 (2.22%) Groovy
7 1 (2.22%) Scala
7 1 (2.22%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.22%) X++
Qualifications
1 8 (17.78%) Degree
2 7 (15.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (11.11%) Azure Certification
4 4 (8.89%) CISSP
5 2 (4.44%) CCNA
5 2 (4.44%) CCNP
5 2 (4.44%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (4.44%) CompTIA Security+
5 2 (4.44%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 2 (4.44%) SC Cleared
5 2 (4.44%) Security Cleared
6 1 (2.22%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.67%) GDPR
1 3 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (4.44%) HIPAA
2 2 (4.44%) SLA
3 1 (2.22%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (2.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (2.22%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (2.22%) SOC 2
System Software
1 6 (13.33%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.44%) Ceph
2 2 (4.44%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (4.44%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (2.22%) Docker
3 1 (2.22%) Firmware
3 1 (2.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.22%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 10 (22.22%) Terraform
2 9 (20.00%) Ansible
3 8 (17.78%) Kubernetes
4 3 (6.67%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (6.67%) Puppet
4 3 (6.67%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (4.44%) Argo
5 2 (4.44%) Grafana
5 2 (4.44%) Prometheus
5 2 (4.44%) SCCM
5 2 (4.44%) vCenter Server
6 1 (2.22%) Graylog
6 1 (2.22%) HAProxy
6 1 (2.22%) Nagios
6 1 (2.22%) Progress Chef
6 1 (2.22%) vRealize
6 1 (2.22%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 12 (26.67%) Microsoft
2 11 (24.44%) Red Hat
3 5 (11.11%) Cisco
4 4 (8.89%) NetApp
4 4 (8.89%) ServiceNow
5 3 (6.67%) Dell
6 2 (4.44%) Databricks
6 2 (4.44%) Fortinet
6 2 (4.44%) Infoblox
6 2 (4.44%) Salesforce
7 1 (2.22%) Google
7 1 (2.22%) HP
7 1 (2.22%) Sitecore
7 1 (2.22%) Sun
7 1 (2.22%) Veeam
7 1 (2.22%) VMware