Infrastructure Programme Manager Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Programme Manager
UK > UK excluding London

The median Infrastructure Programme Manager daily rate in the UK excluding London is £468, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 5 February 2026.

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

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 399 - 403
Rank change year-on-year - - +75
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Programme Manager 5 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.026% - 0.010%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.028% - 0.010%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £430 - £533
25th Percentile £444 - £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 - £575
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.22%
75th Percentile £510 - £594
90th Percentile £536 - £598
UK median daily rate £468 £613 £588
% change year-on-year -23.59% +4.26% -18.97%

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 17,746 12,577 19,454
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.80% 92.48% 93.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,794 7,521 12,266
10th Percentile £213 £210 £213
25th Percentile £375 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £477 £490
Median % change year-on-year -0.42% -2.65% -2.00%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £595
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,856 658 1,890
10th Percentile £14.19 £15.22 £12.86
25th Percentile £17.98 £20.30 £16.12
Median hourly rate £28.00 £32.13 £35.98
Median % change year-on-year -12.85% -10.69% +10.69%
75th Percentile £61.64 £63.75 £62.47
90th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £33.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -9.09% -5.71% -

Infrastructure Programme Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Infrastructure Programme Manager job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Programme Manager
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Infrastructure Programme Manager
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Infrastructure Programme 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 Programme Manager within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 5 February 2026. 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 - 4 £454 -
Yorkshire - 4 £454 -
East of England - 1 £535 - 1
Infrastructure Programme Manager
UK

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

For the 6 months to 5 February 2026, Infrastructure Programme 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 Programme Manager in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Agile
1 5 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (60.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
2 3 (60.00%) PMI Certification
2 3 (60.00%) PRINCE2
2 3 (60.00%) Programme Governance
3 2 (40.00%) Change Management
3 2 (40.00%) Cutover Planning
3 2 (40.00%) Decision-Making
3 2 (40.00%) Dependency Management
3 2 (40.00%) High Availability
3 2 (40.00%) ITIL
3 2 (40.00%) Matrix Organization
3 2 (40.00%) Performance Management
3 2 (40.00%) Programme Management
3 2 (40.00%) Release Management
3 2 (40.00%) Service Management
4 1 (20.00%) AWS
4 1 (20.00%) Azure
4 1 (20.00%) Budgeting
4 1 (20.00%) Business Case
4 1 (20.00%) Cadence
4 1 (20.00%) Community of Practice
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
4 1 (20.00%) GCP
4 1 (20.00%) GDPR
4 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
4 1 (20.00%) Information Security
4 1 (20.00%) Knowledge Transfer

Infrastructure Programme 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) GCP
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Banking
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Legal
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) PMI
2 1 (20.00%) CMDB
2 1 (20.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
1 5 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (60.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
2 3 (60.00%) PRINCE2
2 3 (60.00%) Programme Governance
3 2 (40.00%) Change Management
3 2 (40.00%) Cutover Planning
3 2 (40.00%) Decision-Making
3 2 (40.00%) Dependency Management
3 2 (40.00%) High Availability
3 2 (40.00%) ITIL
3 2 (40.00%) Matrix Organization
3 2 (40.00%) Performance Management
3 2 (40.00%) Programme Management
3 2 (40.00%) Release Management
3 2 (40.00%) Service Management
4 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
4 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
4 1 (20.00%) Information Security
4 1 (20.00%) Migration
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) PMI Certification
2 1 (20.00%) PgMP
2 1 (20.00%) PMP
2 1 (20.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) GDPR
1 1 (20.00%) PCI DSS
1 1 (20.00%) PMO
1 1 (20.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Cadence
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft