IT Infrastructure Manager Contracts in the UK excluding London

IT Infrastructure Manager
UK > UK excluding London

The median IT Infrastructure Manager daily rate in the UK excluding London is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 376 414 478
Rank change year-on-year +38 +64 -64
Contract jobs requiring an IT Infrastructure Manager 15 43 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.073% 0.18% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.079% 0.19% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 32 40
10th Percentile £444 £363 £347
25th Percentile £505 £438 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £488
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% +10.26% +11.88%
75th Percentile £578 £556 £564
90th Percentile £627 £728 £701
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £500
% change year-on-year - +10.00% +25.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 19,029 22,515 29,590
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.56% 94.22% 95.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,619 15,794 20,727
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £394 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £598 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,245 1,162 1,474
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.24
25th Percentile £15.75 £17.81 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.26 £19.52
Median % change year-on-year -5.35% +116.50% +2.74%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £42.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.81
% change year-on-year -18.89% +89.04% +5.80%

IT Infrastructure Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

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

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

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

IT Infrastructure Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IT Infrastructure Manager in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

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

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

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

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

IT Infrastructure 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 IT Infrastructure Manager within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 4 May 2024. 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 +22 6 £525 +10.53% 2
North of England +11 4 £560 +1.82% 5
Midlands +23 3 £575 +27.78% 2
West Midlands +20 3 £575 +21.05% 2
North West +18 2 £565 +13.00% 3
Yorkshire +7 2 £450 -18.18% 1
East of England +10 1 £550 -24.14%
Wales - 1 - -
IT Infrastructure Manager
UK

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

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, IT Infrastructure 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 IT Infrastructure Manager in the job title.

1 7 (46.67%) Project Management
2 5 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (26.67%) Finance
3 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
4 3 (20.00%) Project Delivery
4 3 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
4 3 (20.00%) Windows
4 3 (20.00%) ITIL
5 2 (13.33%) PRINCE2
5 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
5 2 (13.33%) PMP
5 2 (13.33%) PMI Certification
5 2 (13.33%) Law
5 2 (13.33%) Migration
5 2 (13.33%) Information Security
5 2 (13.33%) Change Management
5 2 (13.33%) Risk Management
5 2 (13.33%) Agile
5 2 (13.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (13.33%) Data Centre
5 2 (13.33%) Windows Server
5 2 (13.33%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (13.33%) Line Management
6 1 (6.67%) Network Monitoring
6 1 (6.67%) CyberArk
6 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (6.67%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (6.67%) Cybersecurity
6 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (6.67%) Entra ID

IT Infrastructure 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 (6.67%) Confluence
1 1 (6.67%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (6.67%) Azure
1 1 (6.67%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (6.67%) Entra ID
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (6.67%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) VLAN
1 1 (6.67%) VoIP
1 1 (6.67%) WAN
1 1 (6.67%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (26.67%) Finance
1 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Law
3 2 (13.33%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (6.67%) Local Government
4 1 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
4 1 (6.67%) Retail
4 1 (6.67%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (20.00%) Windows
2 2 (13.33%) Windows Server
3 1 (6.67%) Unix
3 1 (6.67%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (6.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) Project Management
2 5 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (20.00%) ITIL
3 3 (20.00%) Project Delivery
4 2 (13.33%) Agile
4 2 (13.33%) Change Management
4 2 (13.33%) Information Security
4 2 (13.33%) Line Management
4 2 (13.33%) Migration
4 2 (13.33%) PRINCE2
4 2 (13.33%) Risk Management
4 2 (13.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 1 (6.67%) Change Control
5 1 (6.67%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (6.67%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (6.67%) Load Balancing
5 1 (6.67%) Network Monitoring
5 1 (6.67%) Project Planning
5 1 (6.67%) Quality Management
5 1 (6.67%) Security Management
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) PMI Certification
1 2 (13.33%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) PMO
1 1 (6.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.67%) Cisco
2 1 (6.67%) Citrix
2 1 (6.67%) CyberArk