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 17 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
17 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 524 544 625
Rank change year-on-year +20 +81 +179
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Consultant 27 20 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.081% 0.052% 0.077%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.089% 0.056% 0.082%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 18 32
10th Percentile £345 £350 £383
25th Percentile £425 £353 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £539
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -9.51% -2.05%
75th Percentile £582 £557 £600
90th Percentile £660 £650 £636
UK excluding London median daily rate £350 £400 £525
% change year-on-year -12.50% -23.81% -6.67%

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 30,259 36,007 48,961
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.29% 92.93% 94.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,089 23,202 33,827
10th Percentile £281 £300 £305
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.69% -1.11%
75th Percentile £621 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,546 1,999 1,475
10th Percentile £13.60 £14.16 £14.50
25th Percentile £17.26 £20.00 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £41.80
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% +2.87% +62.77%
75th Percentile £53.96 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £37.00
% change year-on-year -44.11% +21.62% +73.91%

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 17 August 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 17 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
England +25 20 £521 +9.74% 10
UK excluding London +5 15 £350 -12.50% 4
London +22 7 £543 +2.84% 5
Work from Home +24 5 £475 -9.52% 3
North of England - 5 £350 - 3
South East +20 3 - - 1
Midlands -7 3 £473 -14.09%
Yorkshire - 3 £350 -
West Midlands - 3 £473 -
North West - 2 - - 3
South West +27 1 - -
Scotland -7 1 - -
Northern Ireland - 1 - -
Wales - 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 17 August 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 13 (48.15%) SC Cleared
1 13 (48.15%) Security Cleared
2 12 (44.44%) webMethods
2 12 (44.44%) Software AG
2 12 (44.44%) EntireX
2 12 (44.44%) IBM
2 12 (44.44%) Project Delivery
3 6 (22.22%) Azure
3 6 (22.22%) Windows
4 5 (18.52%) Finance
4 5 (18.52%) VMware
5 4 (14.81%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (14.81%) Microsoft
6 3 (11.11%) Active Directory
6 3 (11.11%) Linux
6 3 (11.11%) DNS
6 3 (11.11%) PowerShell
6 3 (11.11%) Identity Management
6 3 (11.11%) AWS
6 3 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (11.11%) Roadmaps
6 3 (11.11%) Windows Server
7 2 (7.41%) CentOS
7 2 (7.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (7.41%) NAS
7 2 (7.41%) Bash
7 2 (7.41%) Enterprise Storage
7 2 (7.41%) Entra ID
7 2 (7.41%) Windows 10
7 2 (7.41%) Identity Access Management

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 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (3.70%) SharePoint
1 1 (3.70%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 6 (22.22%) Azure
2 3 (11.11%) AWS
3 2 (7.41%) Entra ID
4 1 (3.70%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (3.70%) Mimecast
4 1 (3.70%) Nutanix
4 1 (3.70%) OCI
4 1 (3.70%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 3 (11.11%) DNS
2 2 (7.41%) DHCP
2 2 (7.41%) Firewall
2 2 (7.41%) NAS
2 2 (7.41%) SAN
2 2 (7.41%) TCP/IP
2 2 (7.41%) VLAN
2 2 (7.41%) VPN
3 1 (3.70%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.70%) Oracle Database
1 1 (3.70%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (3.70%) SQL Server
General
1 5 (18.52%) Finance
2 2 (7.41%) Legal
3 1 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (3.70%) Electronics
3 1 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (3.70%) Manufacturing
3 1 (3.70%) Marketing
3 1 (3.70%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.70%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.70%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (44.44%) EntireX
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.41%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (3.70%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.70%) Data Centre
2 1 (3.70%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (3.70%) Hedge funds
2 1 (3.70%) Housing Association
2 1 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (3.70%) Mainframe
2 1 (3.70%) Onboarding
2 1 (3.70%) PKI
2 1 (3.70%) Renewable Energy
2 1 (3.70%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 6 (22.22%) Windows
2 3 (11.11%) Linux
2 3 (11.11%) Windows Server
3 2 (7.41%) CentOS
3 2 (7.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (7.41%) Windows 10
4 1 (3.70%) VMS
4 1 (3.70%) Windows 7
4 1 (3.70%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (3.70%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (44.44%) Project Delivery
2 3 (11.11%) Identity Management
2 3 (11.11%) Roadmaps
3 2 (7.41%) Agile
3 2 (7.41%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (7.41%) Migration
4 1 (3.70%) Break/Fix
4 1 (3.70%) Contract Negotiation
4 1 (3.70%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (3.70%) Data Ingestion
4 1 (3.70%) Due Diligence
4 1 (3.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (3.70%) Infrastructure Monitoring
4 1 (3.70%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (3.70%) Presales
4 1 (3.70%) Remediation Plan
4 1 (3.70%) Resource Allocation
4 1 (3.70%) Sprint Planning
4 1 (3.70%) Threat Management
4 1 (3.70%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 3 (11.11%) PowerShell
2 2 (7.41%) Bash
3 1 (3.70%) Assembly Language
3 1 (3.70%) C
3 1 (3.70%) JCL
3 1 (3.70%) Natural
3 1 (3.70%) Python
3 1 (3.70%) SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (48.15%) SC Cleared
1 13 (48.15%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.70%) MCP
2 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (3.70%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.70%) RMADS
System Software
1 4 (14.81%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (11.11%) Active Directory
3 1 (3.70%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (3.70%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (7.41%) Terraform
3 1 (3.70%) Argo
3 1 (3.70%) Grafana
3 1 (3.70%) Istio
3 1 (3.70%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.70%) SCCM
3 1 (3.70%) SCOM
3 1 (3.70%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (44.44%) IBM
1 12 (44.44%) Software AG
1 12 (44.44%) webMethods
2 5 (18.52%) VMware
3 4 (14.81%) Microsoft
4 2 (7.41%) Cisco
4 2 (7.41%) Oracle
4 2 (7.41%) Red Hat
5 1 (3.70%) Dynatrace
5 1 (3.70%) Fujitsu
5 1 (3.70%) LogicMonitor
5 1 (3.70%) SAP
5 1 (3.70%) Veeam