Infrastructure Consultant Contracts

Infrastructure Consultant
UK

The median Infrastructure Consultant daily rate in the UK is £500, 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 496 552 665
Rank change year-on-year +56 +113 +136
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Consultant 24 30 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.082% 0.069% 0.089%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.089% 0.074% 0.094%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 28 43
10th Percentile £345 £350 £386
25th Percentile £388 £413 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £540 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% -6.09% +2.22%
75th Percentile £525 £641 £625
90th Percentile - £650 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £350 £625 £525
% change year-on-year -44.00% +19.05% +2.44%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 27,084 40,415 56,464
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,692 26,309 39,470
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,035 2,664 1,570
10th Percentile £14.07 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%

Infrastructure Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Infrastructure Consultant in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Consultant in the UK

Infrastructure Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Consultant.

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Consultant in the UK

Infrastructure Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Consultant over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Consultant in the UK

Infrastructure Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Consultant.

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Consultant in the UK

Infrastructure Consultant
Top 14 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Consultant within the UK 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
England +50 16 £425 -15.00% 13
UK excluding London +52 13 £350 -44.00% 5
Work from Home +34 7 £525 -19.23% 4
North of England +20 6 £438 -30.00% 3
London +37 5 £469 -6.25% 7
North West +15 3 £525 -16.00% 2
Yorkshire - 3 £350 - 1
Midlands +22 2 £345 -37.27% 2
West Midlands - 2 £345 - 1
South West +46 1 - -
South East +45 1 - -
Scotland +7 1 - -
Wales - 1 - -
Northern Ireland - 1 - -

Infrastructure Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

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

1 15 (62.50%) SC Cleared
1 15 (62.50%) Security Cleared
2 13 (54.17%) Project Delivery
3 12 (50.00%) EntireX
3 12 (50.00%) IBM
3 12 (50.00%) Software AG
3 12 (50.00%) webMethods
4 9 (37.50%) Azure
5 6 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (25.00%) Migration
5 6 (25.00%) VMware
6 5 (20.83%) Windows
6 5 (20.83%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (20.83%) VMware Infrastructure
7 4 (16.67%) SharePoint
7 4 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (16.67%) Microsoft
7 4 (16.67%) Active Directory
8 3 (12.50%) PowerShell
8 3 (12.50%) Finance
8 3 (12.50%) Use Case
8 3 (12.50%) AWS
8 3 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (12.50%) Identity Access Management
8 3 (12.50%) Data Loss Prevention
9 2 (8.33%) Windows Server
9 2 (8.33%) Windows 10
9 2 (8.33%) Cybersecurity
9 2 (8.33%) SCCM
9 2 (8.33%) Legal

Infrastructure Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 4 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (16.67%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 9 (37.50%) Azure
2 5 (20.83%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (12.50%) AWS
4 1 (4.17%) Entra ID
4 1 (4.17%) Mimecast
4 1 (4.17%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.17%) Firewall
1 1 (4.17%) Structured Cabling
1 1 (4.17%) Wi-Fi
General
1 3 (12.50%) Finance
2 2 (8.33%) Legal
2 2 (8.33%) Telecoms
3 1 (4.17%) Electronics
3 1 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (4.17%) Manufacturing
3 1 (4.17%) Marketing
3 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.17%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (50.00%) EntireX
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (4.17%) CCTV
2 1 (4.17%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.17%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (4.17%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 5 (20.83%) Windows
2 2 (8.33%) Windows 10
2 2 (8.33%) Windows Server
3 1 (4.17%) Linux
3 1 (4.17%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (4.17%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (54.17%) Project Delivery
2 6 (25.00%) Migration
3 3 (12.50%) Data Loss Prevention
3 3 (12.50%) Identity Access Management
3 3 (12.50%) Use Case
4 2 (8.33%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (4.17%) Agile
5 1 (4.17%) Break/Fix
5 1 (4.17%) Build Automation
5 1 (4.17%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (4.17%) DevOps
5 1 (4.17%) Digital Marketing
5 1 (4.17%) Identity Management
5 1 (4.17%) ITIL
5 1 (4.17%) Programme Management
5 1 (4.17%) Project Management
5 1 (4.17%) Risk Management
5 1 (4.17%) Software Distribution
5 1 (4.17%) Task Automation
5 1 (4.17%) Threat Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (12.50%) PowerShell
2 1 (4.17%) Assembly Language
2 1 (4.17%) C
2 1 (4.17%) FoxPro (VFP)
2 1 (4.17%) JCL
2 1 (4.17%) Natural
Qualifications
1 15 (62.50%) SC Cleared
1 15 (62.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.17%) AWS Certification
2 1 (4.17%) Azure Certification
2 1 (4.17%) BICSI Certification
2 1 (4.17%) BICSI RCDD
2 1 (4.17%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) QA
System Software
1 5 (20.83%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (16.67%) Active Directory
3 1 (4.17%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (8.33%) SCCM
3 1 (4.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (50.00%) IBM
1 12 (50.00%) Software AG
1 12 (50.00%) webMethods
2 6 (25.00%) VMware
3 4 (16.67%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.17%) Fujitsu
4 1 (4.17%) LogicMonitor
4 1 (4.17%) SAP
4 1 (4.17%) Veeam