Network Infrastructure Manager Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Network Infrastructure Manager
UK > UK excluding London

The median Network Infrastructure Manager daily rate in the UK excluding London is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 26 June 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 444 - 385
Rank change year-on-year - - +45
Contract jobs requiring a Network Infrastructure Manager 21 0 13
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.081% - 0.061%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.088% - 0.066%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 0 8
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 - £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £400
Median % change year-on-year - - -11.16%
75th Percentile £537 - £401
90th Percentile £585 - £415
UK median daily rate £500 £425 £405
% change year-on-year +17.65% +4.94% -10.10%

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 23,913 12,405 19,589
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.93% 91.35% 92.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,681 7,776 11,697
10th Percentile £303 £220 £213
25th Percentile £406 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £493
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -3.65% -1.40%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £594
90th Percentile £688 £650 £675
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,763 973 2,473
10th Percentile £14.97 £13.47 £12.70
25th Percentile £20.37 £16.67 £16.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +78.93% -37.13% -
75th Percentile £67.50 £57.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £74.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.61 £26.45 £37.50
% change year-on-year +64.86% -29.47% -12.79%

Network Infrastructure Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Network Infrastructure Manager' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Network Infrastructure Manager job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Network Infrastructure Manager
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Network Infrastructure Manager job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Network Infrastructure Manager job vacancies in the UK excluding London

Network Infrastructure Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Infrastructure Manager in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 26 June 2026.

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

Network Infrastructure Manager
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Network Infrastructure Manager job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Network Infrastructure Manager job vacancies in the UK excluding London

Network 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 Network Infrastructure Manager within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 26 June 2026. 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 West - 10 £475 - 2
South East - 6 £537 - 2
Yorkshire - 3 £500 -
North of England - 3 £500 -
East of England - 2 £538 -
Network Infrastructure Manager
UK

Network Infrastructure Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 26 June 2026, Network Infrastructure Manager contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Network Infrastructure Manager in the job title.

1 8 (38.10%) Infrastructure Transformation
2 6 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (23.81%) Project Delivery
4 4 (19.05%) Firewall
4 4 (19.05%) QA
5 3 (14.29%) Cisco
5 3 (14.29%) Defect Management
5 3 (14.29%) End-to-End Testing
5 3 (14.29%) JIRA
5 3 (14.29%) Project Planning
5 3 (14.29%) Risk Management
5 3 (14.29%) SC Cleared
5 3 (14.29%) Security Cleared
5 3 (14.29%) Test Strategy
5 3 (14.29%) VLAN
5 3 (14.29%) Windows
6 2 (9.52%) Agile
6 2 (9.52%) Change Management
6 2 (9.52%) Juniper
6 2 (9.52%) Migration
6 2 (9.52%) PRINCE2
6 2 (9.52%) Project Governance
6 2 (9.52%) Project Management
6 2 (9.52%) Test Planning
6 2 (9.52%) User Acceptance Testing
6 2 (9.52%) Validation
7 1 (4.76%) AI
7 1 (4.76%) Ansible
7 1 (4.76%) Azure
7 1 (4.76%) Bash

Network Infrastructure Manager Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (4.76%) Azure
1 1 (4.76%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 4 (19.05%) Firewall
2 3 (14.29%) VLAN
3 1 (4.76%) BGP
3 1 (4.76%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (4.76%) MPLS
3 1 (4.76%) Multicast
3 1 (4.76%) OSPF
3 1 (4.76%) TCP/IP
3 1 (4.76%) VPN
3 1 (4.76%) WAN
3 1 (4.76%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (4.76%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 3 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 9 (42.86%) Public Sector
2 3 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 2 (9.52%) Manufacturing
4 1 (4.76%) Aerospace
4 1 (4.76%) Aviation
4 1 (4.76%) Finance
4 1 (4.76%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 4 (19.05%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.76%) Digital Signage
2 1 (4.76%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.76%) Security Posture
2 1 (4.76%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 3 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (38.10%) Infrastructure Transformation
2 6 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (23.81%) Project Delivery
4 3 (14.29%) Defect Management
4 3 (14.29%) End-to-End Testing
4 3 (14.29%) Project Planning
4 3 (14.29%) Risk Management
4 3 (14.29%) Test Strategy
5 2 (9.52%) Agile
5 2 (9.52%) Change Management
5 2 (9.52%) Migration
5 2 (9.52%) PRINCE2
5 2 (9.52%) Project Governance
5 2 (9.52%) Project Management
5 2 (9.52%) Test Planning
5 2 (9.52%) User Acceptance Testing
5 2 (9.52%) Validation
6 1 (4.76%) Budget Management
6 1 (4.76%) Dependency Management
6 1 (4.76%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.76%) Bash
1 1 (4.76%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 3 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.76%) BC Cleared
2 1 (4.76%) CCIE
2 1 (4.76%) CCNP
2 1 (4.76%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (4.76%) Degree
2 1 (4.76%) ISTQB
2 1 (4.76%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (19.05%) QA
2 1 (4.76%) GRC
2 1 (4.76%) NCSC
Systems Management
1 1 (4.76%) Ansible
1 1 (4.76%) Cisco Prime
1 1 (4.76%) FortiGate
1 1 (4.76%) Iperf
1 1 (4.76%) Nmap
Vendors
1 3 (14.29%) Cisco
2 2 (9.52%) Juniper
3 1 (4.76%) CheckPoint
3 1 (4.76%) Fortinet
3 1 (4.76%) Meraki
3 1 (4.76%) Palo Alto
3 1 (4.76%) SAP
3 1 (4.76%) SolarWinds
3 1 (4.76%) Tufin