Infrastructure Project Manager Contracts in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Project Manager
UK > UK excluding London

The median Infrastructure Project Manager daily rate in the UK excluding London is £488, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 296 337 344
Rank change year-on-year +41 +7 -52
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Project Manager 40 62 119
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.31% 0.30% 0.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.34% 0.32% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 47 92
10th Percentile £407 £413 £358
25th Percentile £425 £504 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £550 £488
Median % change year-on-year -11.36% +12.82% +3.72%
75th Percentile £538 £620 £550
90th Percentile £598 £650 £575
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

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 11,767 19,240 22,667
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 92.63% 94.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,552 11,748 15,893
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £598 £595
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 829 2,243 1,165
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.45
25th Percentile £17.61 £15.75 £18.09
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%
75th Percentile £64.50 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Infrastructure Project Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Project Manager in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Project Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Project Manager in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Project Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Project Manager in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Project Manager in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Project Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Project Manager in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Project 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 Project Manager within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 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 +18 12 £456 +1.39% 1
South East +36 9 £500 -13.04% 10
Midlands +16 8 £450 -20.00% 4
South West +46 6 £494 -10.23% 2
North West +20 6 £550 -1.79% 1
Scotland +15 4 £465 -11.52% 1
West Midlands +11 4 £525 -4.55% 1
East Midlands +7 4 £425 -32.00% 3
Yorkshire +2 3 £450 +2.86%
North East +1 2 £442 -
East of England +28 1 £625 +47.06% 1
Infrastructure Project Manager
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Infrastructure Project 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 Project Manager in the job title.

1 27 (67.50%) Project Management
2 19 (47.50%) Finance
3 14 (35.00%) Project Delivery
4 13 (32.50%) Social Skills
5 12 (30.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 9 (22.50%) Agile
6 9 (22.50%) Migration
7 8 (20.00%) PRINCE2
7 8 (20.00%) Supplier Management
7 8 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 7 (17.50%) Data Centre
8 7 (17.50%) Project Planning
9 6 (15.00%) Waterfall
9 6 (15.00%) Azure
9 6 (15.00%) Security Cleared
10 5 (12.50%) Decision-Making
10 5 (12.50%) Microsoft
10 5 (12.50%) Active Directory
10 5 (12.50%) Microsoft Project
10 5 (12.50%) Budgeting
11 4 (10.00%) Roadmaps
11 4 (10.00%) Budget Management
11 4 (10.00%) Change Management
11 4 (10.00%) Risk Management
11 4 (10.00%) VMware
11 4 (10.00%) Banking
11 4 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
11 4 (10.00%) PMO
12 3 (7.50%) Virtual Desktop
12 3 (7.50%) VMware Infrastructure

Infrastructure Project 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 (2.50%) Confluence
1 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (2.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (12.50%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (5.00%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 6 (15.00%) Azure
2 3 (7.50%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (5.00%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (2.50%) AWS
4 1 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.50%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.50%) Firewall
1 3 (7.50%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (5.00%) Structured Cabling
3 1 (2.50%) LAN
Development Applications
1 1 (2.50%) JIRA
General
1 19 (47.50%) Finance
2 13 (32.50%) Social Skills
3 4 (10.00%) Banking
4 3 (7.50%) Aviation
4 3 (7.50%) Manufacturing
5 2 (5.00%) Aerospace
5 2 (5.00%) Legal
5 2 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (5.00%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (2.50%) Automotive
6 1 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.50%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.50%) Retail
6 1 (2.50%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.00%) LDAP
2 1 (2.50%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.50%) Data Centre
2 3 (7.50%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (5.00%) CCTV
3 2 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.50%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.50%) PMI
4 1 (2.50%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (67.50%) Project Management
2 14 (35.00%) Project Delivery
3 12 (30.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 9 (22.50%) Agile
4 9 (22.50%) Migration
5 8 (20.00%) PRINCE2
5 8 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 8 (20.00%) Supplier Management
6 7 (17.50%) Project Planning
7 6 (15.00%) Waterfall
8 5 (12.50%) Budgeting
8 5 (12.50%) Decision-Making
9 4 (10.00%) Budget Management
9 4 (10.00%) Change Management
9 4 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
9 4 (10.00%) Risk Management
9 4 (10.00%) Roadmaps
10 3 (7.50%) Data Protection
10 3 (7.50%) ITIL
10 3 (7.50%) Project Governance
Qualifications
1 6 (15.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (7.50%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (5.00%) DBS Check
3 2 (5.00%) PMI Certification
3 2 (5.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 1 (2.50%) Degree
4 1 (2.50%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.50%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.00%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (12.50%) Active Directory
2 3 (7.50%) Virtual Desktop
2 3 (7.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.50%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.50%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 1 (2.50%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 4 (10.00%) VMware
3 2 (5.00%) Citrix
3 2 (5.00%) Oracle
4 1 (2.50%) Fortinet
4 1 (2.50%) SAP
4 1 (2.50%) ServiceNow