Infrastructure Manager Contracts in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Manager
UK > UK excluding London

The median Infrastructure Manager daily rate in the UK excluding London is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 285 309 263
Rank change year-on-year +24 -46 -16
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Manager 50 76 182
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.39% 0.37% 0.79%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.42% 0.40% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 55 127
10th Percentile £400 £325 £377
25th Percentile £431 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +15.79% -0.94%
75th Percentile £556 £600 £550
90th Percentile £638 £650 £593
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 9
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £65.00
75th Percentile - - £65.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £35.00 - £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +37.97%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 11,886 18,771 21,693
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.89% 92.48% 94.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,561 11,462 15,127
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £595 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £544
% change year-on-year -2.38% -3.40% +3.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 850 2,267 1,104
10th Percentile £13.83 £12.50 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.73 £18.07
Median hourly rate £27.13 £40.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -32.19% -5.88% +112.50%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.60 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.85 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £36.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -23.29% -18.89% +88.21%

Infrastructure Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Infrastructure Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Manager in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Manager 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 19 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Manager in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Manager 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 19 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
North of England +14 16 £481 +13.24% 15
South East +31 12 £500 -16.67% 15
Midlands +10 10 £450 -18.18% 16
Yorkshire +12 7 £500 +17.65% 10
West Midlands +1 7 £513 -3.67% 12
North West +10 6 £550 +57.14% 5
South West +33 5 £494 -10.23% 10
Scotland +9 4 £465 -19.22% 5
East of England +22 3 £688 +61.76% 16
East Midlands +8 3 £425 -32.00% 4
North East -4 2 £442 -
Infrastructure Manager
UK

Infrastructure Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 19 May 2025, Infrastructure Manager contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number 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 25 (50.00%) Project Management
2 19 (38.00%) Finance
3 18 (36.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 15 (30.00%) Social Skills
5 14 (28.00%) Project Delivery
6 10 (20.00%) Agile
7 9 (18.00%) Migration
7 9 (18.00%) Data Centre
8 8 (16.00%) Azure
8 8 (16.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 8 (16.00%) PRINCE2
9 7 (14.00%) Waterfall
9 7 (14.00%) Supplier Management
10 6 (12.00%) Project Planning
10 6 (12.00%) Security Cleared
10 6 (12.00%) Active Directory
11 5 (10.00%) Banking
11 5 (10.00%) VMware
11 5 (10.00%) Risk Management
11 5 (10.00%) Change Management
11 5 (10.00%) Microsoft
11 5 (10.00%) Windows
11 5 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
12 4 (8.00%) Budgeting
12 4 (8.00%) Roadmaps
12 4 (8.00%) Decision-Making
12 4 (8.00%) Cybersecurity
12 4 (8.00%) Microsoft Project
12 4 (8.00%) ITIL
12 4 (8.00%) Firewall

Infrastructure Manager Skill Set
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 1 (2.00%) IBM Notes
1 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (2.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (8.00%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (4.00%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 8 (16.00%) Azure
2 3 (6.00%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (4.00%) AWS
3 2 (4.00%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (2.00%) Akamai
4 1 (2.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.00%) Nutanix
4 1 (2.00%) OCI
4 1 (2.00%) OneDrive
4 1 (2.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.00%) Firewall
2 3 (6.00%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (4.00%) SD-WAN
3 2 (4.00%) Structured Cabling
4 1 (2.00%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (2.00%) LAN
4 1 (2.00%) Network Security
4 1 (2.00%) TCP/IP
4 1 (2.00%) VPN
4 1 (2.00%) WAN
4 1 (2.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (2.00%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 1 (2.00%) JIRA
General
1 19 (38.00%) Finance
2 15 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 5 (10.00%) Banking
4 4 (8.00%) Manufacturing
5 3 (6.00%) Aviation
5 3 (6.00%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (4.00%) Aerospace
6 2 (4.00%) Legal
6 2 (4.00%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (4.00%) Public Sector
6 2 (4.00%) Retail
6 2 (4.00%) Telecoms
7 1 (2.00%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (2.00%) Automotive
7 1 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.00%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.00%) LDAP
2 1 (2.00%) 802.1X
2 1 (2.00%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 9 (18.00%) Data Centre
2 3 (6.00%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (4.00%) CCTV
3 2 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (4.00%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.00%) Mainframe
4 1 (2.00%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.00%) PMI
4 1 (2.00%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.00%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (2.00%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (10.00%) Windows
2 1 (2.00%) Linux
2 1 (2.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (50.00%) Project Management
2 18 (36.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 14 (28.00%) Project Delivery
4 10 (20.00%) Agile
5 9 (18.00%) Migration
6 8 (16.00%) PRINCE2
6 8 (16.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 7 (14.00%) Supplier Management
7 7 (14.00%) Waterfall
8 6 (12.00%) Project Planning
9 5 (10.00%) Change Management
9 5 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (10.00%) Risk Management
10 4 (8.00%) Budgeting
10 4 (8.00%) Cybersecurity
10 4 (8.00%) Decision-Making
10 4 (8.00%) ITIL
10 4 (8.00%) Roadmaps
11 3 (6.00%) Data Protection
11 3 (6.00%) Project Governance
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (12.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (6.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.00%) DBS Check
3 2 (4.00%) Degree
3 2 (4.00%) PMI Certification
3 2 (4.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 1 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.00%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.00%) PMO
System Software
1 6 (12.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (6.00%) Virtual Desktop
2 3 (6.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.00%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.00%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.00%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 1 (2.00%) SCCM
1 1 (2.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (10.00%) Microsoft
1 5 (10.00%) VMware
2 3 (6.00%) Oracle
3 2 (4.00%) Citrix
4 1 (2.00%) Cisco
4 1 (2.00%) Dell KACE
4 1 (2.00%) Fortinet
4 1 (2.00%) Lotus
4 1 (2.00%) Meraki
4 1 (2.00%) Palo Alto
4 1 (2.00%) SAP
4 1 (2.00%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.00%) SolarWinds
4 1 (2.00%) Ubiquiti