Infrastructure Manager Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Manager
UK > UK excluding London

The median Infrastructure Manager daily rate in the UK excluding London is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 29 December 2025.

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

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 341 292 320
Rank change year-on-year -49 +28 -27
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Manager 53 55 84
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.29% 0.38% 0.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.32% 0.41% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 41 66
10th Percentile £403 £400 £366
25th Percentile £456 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +5.00%
75th Percentile £625 £588 £575
90th Percentile £775 £638 £623
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -

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 16,495 13,472 18,234
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.33% 92.34% 93.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,135 8,008 11,848
10th Percentile £213 £213 £213
25th Percentile £373 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £487 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.41% -2.65% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £675 £676 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,657 759 1,280
10th Percentile £13.95 £15.33 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.69 £20.26 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £45.94
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -29.26% +77.99%
75th Percentile £58.75 £64.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £71.38 £76.58
UK median hourly rate £25.47 £32.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -21.63% -27.78% +41.93%

Infrastructure Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Infrastructure Manager job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Manager
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Infrastructure Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Manager in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 29 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Manager in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Manager
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Infrastructure Manager
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 Manager within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 29 December 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
Midlands -40 15 £525 +7.69% 25
South East -5 13 £525 -4.55% 22
North of England -46 11 £465 -14.63% 26
West Midlands -29 9 £575 +6.48% 18
East Midlands -17 7 £472 +10.94% 6
East of England -17 7 £398 -11.67% 14
Yorkshire -41 7 £450 -16.67% 9
South West -6 6 £750 +50.00% 8
North West -22 4 £475 -21.81% 16
Scotland -1 3 £350 -37.78% 4
Infrastructure Manager
UK

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

For the 6 months to 29 December 2025, Infrastructure Manager 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 Manager in the job title.

1 22 (41.51%) Project Management
2 17 (32.08%) Azure
3 14 (26.42%) Stakeholder Management
4 13 (24.53%) PRINCE2
5 12 (22.64%) Project Delivery
6 11 (20.75%) Microsoft
7 10 (18.87%) AWS
8 9 (16.98%) Change Management
9 8 (15.09%) Agile
9 8 (15.09%) Security Cleared
10 7 (13.21%) Migration
10 7 (13.21%) Problem-Solving
10 7 (13.21%) Risk Management
11 6 (11.32%) Hyper-V
11 6 (11.32%) PMI Certification
11 6 (11.32%) PMP
11 6 (11.32%) SC Cleared
11 6 (11.32%) VMware
12 5 (9.43%) Active Directory
12 5 (9.43%) Degree
12 5 (9.43%) Disaster Recovery
12 5 (9.43%) Infrastructure Management
12 5 (9.43%) Time Management
12 5 (9.43%) Waterfall
12 5 (9.43%) Windows
13 4 (7.55%) Budget Management
13 4 (7.55%) Continuous Improvement
13 4 (7.55%) Cybersecurity
13 4 (7.55%) Digital Transformation Programme
13 4 (7.55%) Microsoft 365

Infrastructure Manager 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 1 (1.89%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (7.55%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.89%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 17 (32.08%) Azure
2 10 (18.87%) AWS
3 4 (7.55%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (3.77%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (3.77%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (3.77%) Entra ID
4 2 (3.77%) OpenShift
5 1 (1.89%) IaaS
5 1 (1.89%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.66%) Firewall
1 3 (5.66%) NAS
1 3 (5.66%) SAN
1 3 (5.66%) Structured Cabling
1 3 (5.66%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.66%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (5.66%) JIRA
General
1 24 (45.28%) Social Skills
2 19 (35.85%) Finance
3 7 (13.21%) Manufacturing
4 5 (9.43%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (7.55%) Public Sector
6 3 (5.66%) Telecoms
7 2 (3.77%) Banking
7 2 (3.77%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (3.77%) Law
8 1 (1.89%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.89%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (1.89%) Automotive
8 1 (1.89%) Aviation
8 1 (1.89%) Back Office
8 1 (1.89%) Electronics
8 1 (1.89%) German Language
8 1 (1.89%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.77%) RFC 2544
2 1 (1.89%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 12 (22.64%) Data Centre
2 2 (3.77%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (3.77%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (1.89%) FMCG
3 1 (1.89%) Life Science
3 1 (1.89%) Mainframe
3 1 (1.89%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.89%) NHS
3 1 (1.89%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 5 (9.43%) Windows
2 2 (3.77%) Unix
3 1 (1.89%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (41.51%) Project Management
2 14 (26.42%) Stakeholder Management
3 13 (24.53%) PRINCE2
4 12 (22.64%) Project Delivery
5 9 (16.98%) Change Management
6 8 (15.09%) Agile
7 7 (13.21%) Migration
7 7 (13.21%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (13.21%) Risk Management
8 5 (9.43%) Disaster Recovery
8 5 (9.43%) Infrastructure Management
8 5 (9.43%) Time Management
8 5 (9.43%) Waterfall
9 4 (7.55%) Budget Management
9 4 (7.55%) Continuous Improvement
9 4 (7.55%) Cybersecurity
9 4 (7.55%) Digital Transformation Programme
9 4 (7.55%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 3 (5.66%) Budgeting
10 3 (5.66%) Incident Response
Qualifications
1 8 (15.09%) Security Cleared
2 6 (11.32%) PMI Certification
2 6 (11.32%) PMP
2 6 (11.32%) SC Cleared
3 5 (9.43%) Degree
4 4 (7.55%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 2 (3.77%) AWS Certification
5 2 (3.77%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (3.77%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.89%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.66%) Cyber Essentials
1 3 (5.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.77%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (1.89%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (11.32%) Hyper-V
2 5 (9.43%) Active Directory
3 3 (5.66%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (3.77%) Ansible
1 2 (3.77%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (3.77%) Puppet
1 2 (3.77%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (20.75%) Microsoft
2 6 (11.32%) VMware
3 3 (5.66%) SAP
3 3 (5.66%) ServiceNow
4 2 (3.77%) Cisco
5 1 (1.89%) Genesys
5 1 (1.89%) Oracle