Infrastructure Support Contracts in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Support
UK > UK excluding London

The median Infrastructure Support daily rate in the UK excluding London is £428, 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 309 379 427
Rank change year-on-year +70 +48 +39
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Support 27 20 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.21% 0.096% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.10% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 17 25
10th Percentile £250 £143 £136
25th Percentile £258 £160 £231
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £428 £300 £325
Median % change year-on-year +42.50% -7.69% +14.04%
75th Percentile £588 £340 £475
90th Percentile £620 £377 £588
UK median daily rate £363 £340 £388
% change year-on-year +6.62% -12.26% -3.13%

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 Support
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Support in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Support
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Support in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Support
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Support in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Support
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Support in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Support
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 Support 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
South East +54 17 £575 +109.09% 16
Scotland +11 4 £428 +25.74% 1
Midlands +24 3 £330 +3.13% 4
North of England +21 3 £265 +65.63% 2
West Midlands +16 3 £330 +3.13% 1
Yorkshire - 2 £265 -
North West +17 1 £215 +34.38% 2
Infrastructure Support
UK

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

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

1 22 (81.48%) Windows
2 18 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 17 (62.96%) Linux
4 16 (59.26%) Active Directory
5 15 (55.56%) VMware
6 14 (51.85%) DHCP
6 14 (51.85%) DNS
7 13 (48.15%) Microsoft
7 13 (48.15%) Security Cleared
7 13 (48.15%) VMware Infrastructure
8 11 (40.74%) Ansible
8 11 (40.74%) SMTP
8 11 (40.74%) Firewall
9 10 (37.04%) DevOps
9 10 (37.04%) IaaS
9 10 (37.04%) PaaS
10 9 (33.33%) Kubernetes
10 9 (33.33%) OpenShift
11 8 (29.63%) Docker
11 8 (29.63%) Microsoft Exchange
11 8 (29.63%) Windows Server
12 7 (25.93%) vCenter Server
12 7 (25.93%) Public Sector
12 7 (25.93%) VPN
12 7 (25.93%) HP
12 7 (25.93%) Citrix
12 7 (25.93%) Terminal Services
12 7 (25.93%) Nagios
12 7 (25.93%) Symantec
12 7 (25.93%) Microsoft App-V

Infrastructure Support 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 8 (29.63%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (11.11%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 10 (37.04%) IaaS
1 10 (37.04%) PaaS
2 9 (33.33%) OpenShift
3 7 (25.93%) AWS
3 7 (25.93%) GCP
4 6 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (18.52%) Azure
6 4 (14.81%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 14 (51.85%) DHCP
1 14 (51.85%) DNS
2 11 (40.74%) Firewall
2 11 (40.74%) SMTP
3 7 (25.93%) VPN
4 4 (14.81%) FTP
4 4 (14.81%) Telnet
5 3 (11.11%) Fibre Channel
5 3 (11.11%) Remote Desktop
5 3 (11.11%) SAN
6 2 (7.41%) Internet
6 2 (7.41%) LAN
6 2 (7.41%) WAN
6 2 (7.41%) Wireless
7 1 (3.70%) iSCSI
7 1 (3.70%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (25.93%) Amazon RDS
1 7 (25.93%) Big Data
1 7 (25.93%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (3.70%) Relational Database
2 1 (3.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (7.41%) Bitbucket
1 2 (7.41%) Git
General
1 7 (25.93%) Public Sector
2 6 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 2 (7.41%) Finance
4 1 (3.70%) Banking
4 1 (3.70%) Investment Banking
4 1 (3.70%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (14.81%) Loki
2 1 (3.70%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 7 (25.93%) Clustering
1 7 (25.93%) Data Centre
1 7 (25.93%) PKI
2 1 (3.70%) IVR
2 1 (3.70%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 22 (81.48%) Windows
2 17 (62.96%) Linux
3 8 (29.63%) Windows Server
4 4 (14.81%) Unix
5 2 (7.41%) Windows 10
5 2 (7.41%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (3.70%) Android
6 1 (3.70%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 10 (37.04%) DevOps
3 7 (25.93%) Artificial Intelligence
3 7 (25.93%) Machine Learning
3 7 (25.93%) Software Deployment
4 6 (22.22%) ITIL
5 4 (14.81%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (14.81%) Vulnerability Management
6 3 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
6 3 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (11.11%) Security Patching
6 3 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 3 (11.11%) Workflow
6 3 (11.11%) Workflow Management
7 2 (7.41%) Disaster Recovery
7 2 (7.41%) Logistics
8 1 (3.70%) Agile
8 1 (3.70%) Change Management
8 1 (3.70%) Information Security
8 1 (3.70%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 7 (25.93%) PowerShell
2 4 (14.81%) Python
3 3 (11.11%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (48.15%) Security Cleared
2 7 (25.93%) Degree
2 7 (25.93%) DV Cleared
3 6 (22.22%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (14.81%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (59.26%) Active Directory
2 13 (48.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (29.63%) Docker
4 7 (25.93%) BitLocker
4 7 (25.93%) Hyper-V
4 7 (25.93%) Microsoft App-V
4 7 (25.93%) Terminal Services
4 7 (25.93%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (14.81%) NFS
5 4 (14.81%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 3 (11.11%) DFS Replication
6 3 (11.11%) Samba
6 3 (11.11%) vSphere
7 1 (3.70%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (3.70%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 11 (40.74%) Ansible
2 9 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 7 (25.93%) Nagios
3 7 (25.93%) Puppet
3 7 (25.93%) vCenter Server
3 7 (25.93%) vMotion
4 4 (14.81%) Grafana
4 4 (14.81%) Prometheus
4 4 (14.81%) Terraform
4 4 (14.81%) yum
5 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 15 (55.56%) VMware
2 13 (48.15%) Microsoft
3 7 (25.93%) Citrix
3 7 (25.93%) Google
3 7 (25.93%) HP
3 7 (25.93%) Symantec
4 4 (14.81%) Splunk
4 4 (14.81%) Veritas
5 1 (3.70%) Apple