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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 555 546 622
Rank change year-on-year -9 +76 +213
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Maintenance 10 17 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.030% 0.044% 0.032%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.033% 0.052% 0.036%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 8 5
10th Percentile - £203 £304
25th Percentile £205 £489 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £230 £623 £625
Median % change year-on-year -63.05% -0.40% +25.69%
75th Percentile £300 £659 £638
90th Percentile - £699 £695
UK excluding London median daily rate £265 £185 £331
% change year-on-year +43.24% -44.15% +0.45%

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 29,866 32,988 44,369
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.46% 85.54% 89.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,546 20,442 30,282
10th Percentile £300 £311 £313
25th Percentile £403 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,786 1,512 1,511
10th Percentile £14.23 £14.71 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.09 £18.63
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% +3.61% +43.10%
75th Percentile £45.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.63 £43.00 £39.55
% change year-on-year -47.37% +8.72% +71.96%

Infrastructure Maintenance
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Infrastructure Maintenance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Maintenance 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 9 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 11 September 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 +15 8 £300 -51.81% 5
UK excluding London -7 8 £265 +43.24% 5
South East +15 4 - - 3
Midlands - 2 £300 - 1
West Midlands - 2 £300 - 1
London +13 1 - - 2
Yorkshire -13 1 £230 -
North of England -18 1 £230 -
Wales - 1 £205 - 1

Infrastructure Maintenance
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 2 (20.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (10.00%) Apache
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (20.00%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) LAN
1 2 (20.00%) WAN
1 2 (20.00%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (10.00%) PuTTY
2 1 (10.00%) WinSCP
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Git
1 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (10.00%) Maven
1 1 (10.00%) Toad
General
1 4 (40.00%) Documentation Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (30.00%) IT Support
2 2 (20.00%) 2nd Line Support
2 2 (20.00%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Operations Specialist
2 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 2 (20.00%) IT Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) IT Support Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Support Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Administrator
3 1 (10.00%) Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) IT Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) IT Technician
3 1 (10.00%) Operations Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Support Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Life Science
1 2 (20.00%) Renewable Energy
2 1 (10.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (10.00%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 6 (60.00%) Windows
2 3 (30.00%) Windows Server
2 3 (30.00%) Windows Server 2016
2 3 (30.00%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (10.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (30.00%) Computer Science
2 3 (30.00%) ITIL
2 3 (30.00%) Mobile Device Management
2 3 (30.00%) Project Management
3 2 (20.00%) Change Control
3 2 (20.00%) Network Architecture
3 2 (20.00%) Penetration Testing
3 2 (20.00%) Validation
4 1 (10.00%) Agile
4 1 (10.00%) Build Automation
4 1 (10.00%) Data Validation
4 1 (10.00%) DevOps
4 1 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (10.00%) ITSM
4 1 (10.00%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (10.00%) Problem Management
4 1 (10.00%) Protective Monitoring
4 1 (10.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (10.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) Shell Script
1 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) Degree
2 4 (40.00%) Security Cleared
3 3 (30.00%) CompTIA Security+
3 3 (30.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (10.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (40.00%) QA
3 2 (20.00%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (20.00%) SOC 2
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (20.00%) Splunk
2 1 (10.00%) CA Agile Central
2 1 (10.00%) CyberArk
2 1 (10.00%) Dynatrace
2 1 (10.00%) Remedy