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 £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 August 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 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 357 338 373
Rank change year-on-year -19 +35 +90
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Support 20 38 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.13% 0.21% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.22% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 33 29
10th Percentile £238 £288 £136
25th Percentile £256 - £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £340 £300
Median % change year-on-year +69.12% +13.33% +3.45%
75th Percentile £591 - £438
90th Percentile £623 £449 £552
UK median daily rate £536 £340 £356
% change year-on-year +57.65% -4.56% -1.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £19.89
25th Percentile - - £20.95
Median hourly rate £32.77 - £23.34
75th Percentile - - £26.36
90th Percentile - - £27.79
UK median hourly rate £31.39 - £23.34
% change year-on-year - - -69.69%

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 13,827 16,897 21,123
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.37% 92.01% 94.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,468 10,365 14,318
10th Percentile £215 £219 £230
25th Percentile £363 £375 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +2.04%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £683 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -0.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,209 1,773 1,166
10th Percentile £13.37 £14.00 £13.98
25th Percentile £16.50 £18.35 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.90 £39.55
Median % change year-on-year -42.71% +11.00% +86.12%
75th Percentile £55.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.75
% change year-on-year -41.51% +0.58% +66.47%

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 3 August 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 3 August 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 +34 13 £575 +53.33% 6
East of England +8 3 £225 - 4
North of England -10 3 £265 -20.30% 3
Yorkshire -7 2 £265 +23.26%
Scotland -34 1 - -
North East - 1 - -
Infrastructure Support
UK

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

For the 6 months to 3 August 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 18 (90.00%) Windows
2 17 (85.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 15 (75.00%) Active Directory
4 14 (70.00%) Firewall
5 13 (65.00%) VMware
5 13 (65.00%) Microsoft
6 12 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
7 11 (55.00%) IaaS
8 10 (50.00%) PaaS
8 10 (50.00%) DevOps
8 10 (50.00%) DHCP
8 10 (50.00%) DNS
9 8 (40.00%) VPN
9 8 (40.00%) Linux
9 8 (40.00%) Citrix
9 8 (40.00%) Data Centre
9 8 (40.00%) Windows Server
9 8 (40.00%) Ansible
10 7 (35.00%) Docker
10 7 (35.00%) OpenShift
10 7 (35.00%) GCP
10 7 (35.00%) vMotion
10 7 (35.00%) Kubernetes
10 7 (35.00%) Amazon RDS
10 7 (35.00%) Elasticsearch
10 7 (35.00%) Machine Learning
10 7 (35.00%) Big Data
10 7 (35.00%) Software Deployment
10 7 (35.00%) Puppet
10 7 (35.00%) VMware ESXi

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 7 (35.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (5.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 11 (55.00%) IaaS
2 10 (50.00%) PaaS
3 7 (35.00%) AWS
3 7 (35.00%) GCP
3 7 (35.00%) OpenShift
4 5 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (20.00%) Azure
6 3 (15.00%) Entra ID
7 1 (5.00%) OCI
7 1 (5.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (70.00%) Firewall
2 10 (50.00%) DHCP
2 10 (50.00%) DNS
3 8 (40.00%) VPN
4 7 (35.00%) SMTP
5 3 (15.00%) Fibre Channel
5 3 (15.00%) SAN
5 3 (15.00%) VLAN
6 2 (10.00%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (5.00%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (5.00%) LAN
7 1 (5.00%) Spanning Tree
7 1 (5.00%) VoIP
7 1 (5.00%) WAN
7 1 (5.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (35.00%) Amazon RDS
1 7 (35.00%) Big Data
1 7 (35.00%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (5.00%) Oracle Database
General
1 7 (35.00%) Public Sector
2 4 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Local Government
3 1 (5.00%) Manufacturing
3 1 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.00%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 8 (40.00%) Data Centre
2 7 (35.00%) Clustering
2 7 (35.00%) PKI
3 2 (10.00%) Operational Technology
4 1 (5.00%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (5.00%) Digital Signage
4 1 (5.00%) Onboarding
4 1 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 18 (90.00%) Windows
2 8 (40.00%) Linux
2 8 (40.00%) Windows Server
3 2 (10.00%) Windows 10
3 2 (10.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (5.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (85.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 10 (50.00%) DevOps
3 7 (35.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 7 (35.00%) Machine Learning
3 7 (35.00%) Software Deployment
4 4 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
4 4 (20.00%) ITIL
5 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (15.00%) Security Patching
6 2 (10.00%) Logistics
7 1 (5.00%) Biotechnology
7 1 (5.00%) Converged Infrastructure
7 1 (5.00%) Disaster Recovery
7 1 (5.00%) Migration
7 1 (5.00%) Risk Management
7 1 (5.00%) Root Cause Analysis
7 1 (5.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 1 (5.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 1 (5.00%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (35.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.00%) Python
2 1 (5.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (35.00%) Degree
1 7 (35.00%) DV Cleared
1 7 (35.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 12 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (35.00%) BitLocker
3 7 (35.00%) Docker
3 7 (35.00%) Hyper-V
3 7 (35.00%) Microsoft App-V
3 7 (35.00%) Terminal Services
3 7 (35.00%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (15.00%) DFS Replication
4 3 (15.00%) vSphere
5 1 (5.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 1 (5.00%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 8 (40.00%) Ansible
2 7 (35.00%) Kubernetes
2 7 (35.00%) Nagios
2 7 (35.00%) Puppet
2 7 (35.00%) vCenter Server
2 7 (35.00%) vMotion
3 2 (10.00%) Terraform
4 1 (5.00%) Grafana
4 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (5.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 13 (65.00%) Microsoft
1 13 (65.00%) VMware
2 8 (40.00%) Citrix
3 7 (35.00%) Google
3 7 (35.00%) HP
3 7 (35.00%) Symantec
4 1 (5.00%) Cisco
4 1 (5.00%) Oracle
4 1 (5.00%) Splunk
4 1 (5.00%) Veritas