Infrastructure Maintenance Contract Job Trends

Infrastructure Maintenance
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Infrastructure Maintenance skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 582 542 597
Rank change year-on-year -40 +55 +199
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Maintenance 4 11 14
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.011% 0.032% 0.032%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.012% 0.036% 0.036%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 8
10th Percentile - £158 £231
25th Percentile - £185 £296
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £205 £230 £375
Median % change year-on-year -10.87% -38.67% -37.50%
75th Percentile £253 £439 £422
90th Percentile £281 £564 £529
UK excluding London median daily rate £253 £185 £238
% change year-on-year +36.49% -22.11% -54.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Infrastructure Maintenance falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,245 30,148 39,308
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 88.48% 87.93% 88.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,297 18,397 26,233
10th Percentile £300 £306 £308
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £531
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.13% -3.45%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £744 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,086 1,007 1,510
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.62 £14.41
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.30 £19.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.79
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -25.79% +25.12%
75th Percentile £48.75 £62.53 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £73.85 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.00 £32.39 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.99% -27.21% +39.06%

Infrastructure Maintenance
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Infrastructure Maintenance relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Infrastructure Maintenance job vacancy trend in the UK

Infrastructure Maintenance
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Infrastructure Maintenance.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Infrastructure Maintenance

Infrastructure Maintenance
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Infrastructure Maintenance.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Infrastructure Maintenance

Infrastructure Maintenance
Top 6 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Maintenance within the UK over the 6 months to 15 December 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 -38 2 £300 +30.43% 5
UK excluding London -53 2 £253 +36.49% 4
London -20 1 - - 2
North West -23 1 £300 - 1
North of England -43 1 £300 +30.43% 1
Wales - 1 £205 -

Infrastructure Maintenance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Apache
1 1 (25.00%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (25.00%) DNS
2 1 (25.00%) Internet
2 1 (25.00%) SSL
2 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (50.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) 2nd Line Support
1 2 (50.00%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) IT Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) IT Support
1 2 (50.00%) IT Support Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Support Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Life Science
1 2 (50.00%) Renewable Energy
2 1 (25.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) Change Control
1 2 (50.00%) Network Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Change Management
2 1 (25.00%) Content Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) Data Validation
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Project Management
2 1 (25.00%) Protective Monitoring
2 1 (25.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (25.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (25.00%) SCCM
1 1 (25.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Citrix
1 1 (25.00%) SolarWinds
1 1 (25.00%) Splunk
1 1 (25.00%) VMware