Infrastructure Specialist Contracts in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Specialist
UK > UK excluding London

The median Infrastructure Specialist daily rate in the UK excluding London is £538, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 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
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 297 375 434
Rank change year-on-year +78 +59 +56
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Specialist 37 19 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.29% 0.092% 0.088%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.31% 0.099% 0.093%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 16 13
10th Percentile £411 £263 £290
25th Percentile £486 £351 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £538 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +13.16% +11.76%
75th Percentile £594 £642 £550
90th Percentile £661 £656 £600
UK median daily rate £525 £510 £500
% change year-on-year +2.94% +2.00% -

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 11,771 19,161 22,551
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.14% 92.57% 94.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,545 11,699 15,818
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 £598 £600
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 836 2,248 1,160
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.79 £15.75 £18.08
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.22% -6.94% +117.95%
75th Percentile £64.50 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £28.88 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.71% -19.07% +94.45%

Infrastructure Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Specialist in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Specialist in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Specialist in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Specialist in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Specialist
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Specialist in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Specialist
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 Specialist within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 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 - 19 £524 - 6
Yorkshire - 12 £550 - 5
South East +39 9 £600 +31.51% 5
North West - 8 £510 - 1
Scotland +13 4 £428 +15.54%
Midlands +16 3 £525 - 4
South West +31 2 £675 +128.81% 4
West Midlands +14 2 - - 3
East of England +34 1 - - 5
East Midlands +11 1 £525 -14.29% 1
North East - 1 - -
Infrastructure Specialist
UK

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

For the 6 months to 3 May 2025, Infrastructure Specialist 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 Specialist in the job title.

1 27 (72.97%) Windows
2 26 (70.27%) PowerShell
3 22 (59.46%) Windows Server
4 21 (56.76%) Security Cleared
5 20 (54.05%) Active Directory
6 19 (51.35%) VMware
7 15 (40.54%) Linux
7 15 (40.54%) SC Cleared
7 15 (40.54%) Problem-Solving
8 14 (37.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 13 (35.14%) Social Skills
9 13 (35.14%) VMware Infrastructure
9 13 (35.14%) DNS
9 13 (35.14%) Agile
10 12 (32.43%) vSphere
11 11 (29.73%) Bash
11 11 (29.73%) Microsoft
12 10 (27.03%) Cisco
13 9 (24.32%) Oracle Database
13 9 (24.32%) Microservices
13 9 (24.32%) Microsoft 365
13 9 (24.32%) Microsoft Intune
13 9 (24.32%) IaaS
13 9 (24.32%) Azure
13 9 (24.32%) Cisco Certification
13 9 (24.32%) Oracle
13 9 (24.32%) SQL Server
13 9 (24.32%) Perl
13 9 (24.32%) SQL
13 9 (24.32%) Firewall

Infrastructure Specialist 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 (18.92%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 6 (16.22%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (5.41%) SharePoint
4 1 (2.70%) Confluence
4 1 (2.70%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 9 (24.32%) Azure
1 9 (24.32%) IaaS
1 9 (24.32%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (16.22%) Entra ID
3 3 (8.11%) AWS
4 2 (5.41%) OneDrive
4 2 (5.41%) OpenShift
5 1 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.70%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (2.70%) GCP
5 1 (2.70%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 13 (35.14%) DNS
2 9 (24.32%) Firewall
3 7 (18.92%) Intrusion Detection
4 6 (16.22%) Network Security
5 3 (8.11%) VSAN
6 2 (5.41%) LAN
6 2 (5.41%) Software-Defined Networking
6 2 (5.41%) WAN
7 1 (2.70%) PBX
7 1 (2.70%) TCP/IP
7 1 (2.70%) VLAN
7 1 (2.70%) VoIP
7 1 (2.70%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (24.32%) Oracle Database
1 9 (24.32%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.70%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (2.70%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (2.70%) MySQL
2 1 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.70%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (5.41%) Bitbucket
1 2 (5.41%) Git
2 1 (2.70%) JIRA
2 1 (2.70%) ScriptRunner
General
1 13 (35.14%) Social Skills
2 7 (18.92%) Telecoms
3 4 (10.81%) Public Sector
4 3 (8.11%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (8.11%) Finance
5 2 (5.41%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.70%) Banking
6 1 (2.70%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.70%) Law
6 1 (2.70%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.81%) Loki
2 1 (2.70%) Middleware
2 1 (2.70%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 9 (24.32%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (8.11%) Clustering
3 2 (5.41%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.70%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.70%) NHS
4 1 (2.70%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 27 (72.97%) Windows
2 22 (59.46%) Windows Server
3 15 (40.54%) Linux
4 5 (13.51%) Windows 10
5 4 (10.81%) Unix
5 4 (10.81%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (2.70%) CentOS
6 1 (2.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (2.70%) Ubuntu
6 1 (2.70%) Windows 7
6 1 (2.70%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (40.54%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (37.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 13 (35.14%) Agile
4 9 (24.32%) Microservices
5 8 (21.62%) Security Management
5 8 (21.62%) Server Management
6 7 (18.92%) Migration
6 7 (18.92%) SOA
7 6 (16.22%) Business Continuity
7 6 (16.22%) Change Management
7 6 (16.22%) Vulnerability Scanning
8 5 (13.51%) Cybersecurity
8 5 (13.51%) High Availability
9 4 (10.81%) Disaster Recovery
9 4 (10.81%) Enterprise Architecture
10 3 (8.11%) BCP
10 3 (8.11%) Business Continuity Planning
10 3 (8.11%) Information Security
10 3 (8.11%) Power Management
10 3 (8.11%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 26 (70.27%) PowerShell
2 11 (29.73%) Bash
3 9 (24.32%) Perl
3 9 (24.32%) SQL
4 8 (21.62%) PL/SQL
5 7 (18.92%) Python
6 3 (8.11%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.70%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 21 (56.76%) Security Cleared
2 15 (40.54%) SC Cleared
3 9 (24.32%) Cisco Certification
4 7 (18.92%) Azure Certification
5 6 (16.22%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (5.41%) DV Cleared
6 2 (5.41%) VCAP
6 2 (5.41%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.41%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (5.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (5.41%) SOC 2
2 1 (2.70%) QA
System Software
1 20 (54.05%) Active Directory
2 13 (35.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (32.43%) vSphere
4 4 (10.81%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 3 (8.11%) Hyper-V
6 2 (5.41%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 2 (5.41%) VMware NSX
7 1 (2.70%) Docker
7 1 (2.70%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (24.32%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (18.92%) Terraform
3 5 (13.51%) Ansible
4 4 (10.81%) Grafana
4 4 (10.81%) Prometheus
5 3 (8.11%) Failover Clustering
5 3 (8.11%) Norton AntiVirus
5 3 (8.11%) vCenter Server
5 3 (8.11%) WSUS
6 2 (5.41%) Kubernetes
6 2 (5.41%) SCOM
6 2 (5.41%) vRealize
6 2 (5.41%) vRealize Orchestrator
7 1 (2.70%) SCCM
7 1 (2.70%) SCSM
Vendors
1 19 (51.35%) VMware
2 11 (29.73%) Microsoft
3 10 (27.03%) Cisco
4 9 (24.32%) Oracle
5 4 (10.81%) Splunk
5 4 (10.81%) Veritas
6 3 (8.11%) Juniper
6 3 (8.11%) NETGEAR
6 3 (8.11%) SolarWinds
6 3 (8.11%) Symantec
6 3 (8.11%) TP-LINK
7 1 (2.70%) Atlassian
7 1 (2.70%) Ericsson
7 1 (2.70%) Mitel
7 1 (2.70%) Red Hat
7 1 (2.70%) Siemens