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 £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 24 June 2024.

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

6 months to
24 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 313 261 251
Rank change year-on-year -52 -10 +26
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Manager 88 171 287
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.41% 0.75% 0.94%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.45% 0.80% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 120 218
10th Percentile £325 £377 £369
25th Percentile £413 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% +6.95%
75th Percentile £597 £550 £575
90th Percentile £650 £589 £641
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £518
% change year-on-year +4.76% +1.45% +11.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £35.70
25th Percentile - - £40.50
Median hourly rate - - £49.75
75th Percentile - - £57.75
90th Percentile - - £61.80
UK median hourly rate - £64.50 £47.11
% change year-on-year - +36.91% +78.24%

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 19,709 21,379 29,050
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.42% 94.21% 95.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,751 14,853 20,421
10th Percentile £213 £225 £208
25th Percentile £363 £388 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £593 £600 £575
90th Percentile £680 £688 £656
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,515 1,090 1,383
10th Percentile £12.63 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.92 £18.08 £15.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%
75th Percentile £62.83 £65.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.68 £62.45
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

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 24 June 2024.

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 24 June 2024. 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 +4 24 £563 +20.00% 11
North of England -32 20 £425 -15.00% 11
Midlands -3 17 £550 +15.79% 10
South West +4 12 £550 +23.94% 8
West Midlands +2 10 £550 +22.22% 5
North West -5 10 £350 -23.29% 4
East of England +7 9 £400 -19.19% 2
Yorkshire -15 9 £488 -7.14% 6
East Midlands +3 7 £625 +19.05% 5
Wales +20 3 £600 +37.14% 2
Northern Ireland - 2 - -
Scotland +40 1 £575 +35.29% 2
North East +9 1 - - 1
Infrastructure Manager
UK

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

For the 6 months to 24 June 2024, 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 28 (31.82%) Social Skills
2 26 (29.55%) Project Management
3 22 (25.00%) Finance
4 16 (18.18%) Agile
5 15 (17.05%) Data Centre
6 14 (15.91%) Windows
7 13 (14.77%) PRINCE2
7 13 (14.77%) Migration
7 13 (14.77%) Stakeholder Management
7 13 (14.77%) Azure
8 11 (12.50%) Public Sector
8 11 (12.50%) Project Delivery
9 9 (10.23%) Problem-Solving
9 9 (10.23%) Manufacturing
9 9 (10.23%) Microsoft
9 9 (10.23%) Active Directory
10 8 (9.09%) Waterfall
10 8 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
11 7 (7.95%) Change Control
11 7 (7.95%) Budget Management
11 7 (7.95%) Citrix
11 7 (7.95%) SharePoint
11 7 (7.95%) Risk Management
11 7 (7.95%) Security Cleared
12 6 (6.82%) Degree
12 6 (6.82%) Telecoms
12 6 (6.82%) Extranet
12 6 (6.82%) Line Management
12 6 (6.82%) Cybersecurity
12 6 (6.82%) Microsoft 365

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 7 (7.95%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.27%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.27%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.14%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (2.27%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (2.27%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 13 (14.77%) Azure
2 6 (6.82%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (4.55%) Entra ID
4 3 (3.41%) AWS
4 3 (3.41%) SaaS
5 2 (2.27%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (2.27%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (2.27%) Amazon S3
5 2 (2.27%) CloudFront
5 2 (2.27%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.14%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.82%) Extranet
2 4 (4.55%) Firewall
3 3 (3.41%) VPN
3 3 (3.41%) WAN
4 2 (2.27%) Intranet
5 1 (1.14%) DHCP
5 1 (1.14%) DNS
5 1 (1.14%) LAN
5 1 (1.14%) Network Security
5 1 (1.14%) SAN
5 1 (1.14%) SD-WAN
5 1 (1.14%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.27%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (2.27%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (1.14%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 4 (4.55%) JIRA
General
1 28 (31.82%) Social Skills
2 22 (25.00%) Finance
3 11 (12.50%) Public Sector
4 9 (10.23%) Manufacturing
5 8 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (6.82%) Telecoms
7 4 (4.55%) Retail
8 2 (2.27%) Banking
8 2 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.27%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.27%) Law
8 2 (2.27%) Legal
8 2 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.14%) Electronics
9 1 (1.14%) Marketing
9 1 (1.14%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.27%) LDAP
1 2 (2.27%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 15 (17.05%) Data Centre
2 2 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.14%) BYOD
3 1 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.14%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.14%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 14 (15.91%) Windows
2 3 (3.41%) Windows 10
2 3 (3.41%) Windows Server
3 2 (2.27%) Linux
3 2 (2.27%) Unix
3 2 (2.27%) VMS
3 2 (2.27%) Windows 2000
3 2 (2.27%) Windows Server 2012
3 2 (2.27%) Windows XP
4 1 (1.14%) AIX
4 1 (1.14%) Windows 7
4 1 (1.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (29.55%) Project Management
2 16 (18.18%) Agile
3 13 (14.77%) Migration
3 13 (14.77%) PRINCE2
3 13 (14.77%) Stakeholder Management
4 11 (12.50%) Project Delivery
5 9 (10.23%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (9.09%) Waterfall
7 7 (7.95%) Budget Management
7 7 (7.95%) Change Control
7 7 (7.95%) Risk Management
8 6 (6.82%) Cybersecurity
8 6 (6.82%) Line Management
9 5 (5.68%) Disaster Recovery
9 5 (5.68%) ITIL
9 5 (5.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 4 (4.55%) Change Management
10 4 (4.55%) Scrum
11 3 (3.41%) Resource Management
11 3 (3.41%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (2.27%) PowerShell
1 2 (2.27%) Shell Script
2 1 (1.14%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (7.95%) Security Cleared
2 6 (6.82%) Degree
3 4 (4.55%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.41%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.27%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 1 (1.14%) CCNA
6 1 (1.14%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.14%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.14%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.14%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.68%) QA
2 4 (4.55%) PMO
3 2 (2.27%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (1.14%) GDPR
4 1 (1.14%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 9 (10.23%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.27%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (2.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (3.41%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.27%) Ansible
2 2 (2.27%) SCOM
2 2 (2.27%) Terraform
3 1 (1.14%) OPNET
3 1 (1.14%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 9 (10.23%) Microsoft
2 7 (7.95%) Citrix
3 4 (4.55%) Cisco
4 2 (2.27%) Dynatrace
4 2 (2.27%) Fortinet
4 2 (2.27%) Juniper
4 2 (2.27%) Palo Alto
4 2 (2.27%) Splunk
4 2 (2.27%) VMware
5 1 (1.14%) BMC
5 1 (1.14%) CA Agile Central
5 1 (1.14%) Dell
5 1 (1.14%) EMC
5 1 (1.14%) IBM
5 1 (1.14%) Isilon
5 1 (1.14%) Nokia
5 1 (1.14%) Riverbed
5 1 (1.14%) SAP
5 1 (1.14%) SolarWinds