Infrastructure Management Contracts

Infrastructure Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Infrastructure Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Infrastructure Management over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 366 458 622
Rank change year-on-year +92 +164 +95
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Management 158 124 96
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.54% 0.28% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.59% 0.33% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 59 61
10th Percentile £389 £143 £363
25th Percentile £447 £350 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £475 £538
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -11.63% +2.38%
75th Percentile £611 £600 £638
90th Percentile £694 £675 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £34.25
Median hourly rate - £23.80 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year - -32.96% -
75th Percentile - - £36.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Infrastructure Management 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 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

Infrastructure Management
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Management in the UK

Infrastructure Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Management in the UK

Infrastructure Management
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Management in the UK

Infrastructure Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Management in the UK

Infrastructure Management
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 Management 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 +90 145 £550 +18.28% 314
London +90 90 £570 +20.00% 116
UK excluding London +33 44 £475 +5.56% 225
Work from Home +27 26 £550 +2.33% 119
South East +34 18 £500 +15.61% 54
East of England +36 8 £465 - 32
North of England +11 7 £573 -11.92% 63
South West +42 5 £425 +93.18% 33
Midlands +11 5 £438 -20.45% 37
West Midlands +3 5 £438 -20.45% 18
Yorkshire +10 4 £400 -38.46% 17
North West +7 3 £573 +14.50% 39
Scotland - 2 £450 - 14
Wales +1 1 £450 -25.00% 2

Infrastructure Management
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 5 (3.16%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.27%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.63%) Apache
3 1 (0.63%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.27%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 71 (44.94%) Azure
2 66 (41.77%) AWS
3 20 (12.66%) Microsoft 365
4 19 (12.03%) Serverless
5 18 (11.39%) GCP
6 17 (10.76%) AWS Lambda
7 15 (9.49%) Amazon S3
7 15 (9.49%) GitHub
8 13 (8.23%) AWS CloudFormation
8 13 (8.23%) GitHub Actions
9 12 (7.59%) Entra ID
10 11 (6.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 10 (6.33%) Azure DevOps
11 10 (6.33%) IaaS
11 10 (6.33%) SaaS
12 9 (5.70%) Amazon EC2
12 9 (5.70%) PaaS
13 8 (5.06%) Azure Monitor
13 8 (5.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 6 (3.80%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 25 (15.82%) DNS
2 21 (13.29%) Firewall
3 20 (12.66%) TCP/IP
4 14 (8.86%) VPN
5 10 (6.33%) DHCP
6 8 (5.06%) LAN
6 8 (5.06%) Network Security
6 8 (5.06%) SAN
6 8 (5.06%) WAN
7 6 (3.80%) NAS
8 4 (2.53%) InfiniBand
8 4 (2.53%) SSL
8 4 (2.53%) Wireless
9 3 (1.90%) 4G
9 3 (1.90%) Internet
10 2 (1.27%) BGP
10 2 (1.27%) IPv6
10 2 (1.27%) iSCSI
10 2 (1.27%) OSPF
10 2 (1.27%) TACACS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (10.76%) Amazon RDS
2 10 (6.33%) SQL Server
3 8 (5.06%) Oracle Database
4 6 (3.80%) Data Lake
5 5 (3.16%) Amazon Athena
5 5 (3.16%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (3.16%) DynamoDB
5 5 (3.16%) Hadoop
5 5 (3.16%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (1.90%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (1.90%) Power BI
7 2 (1.27%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (1.27%) MySQL
7 2 (1.27%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.63%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.63%) Big Data
8 1 (0.63%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.63%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 28 (17.72%) Jenkins
2 22 (13.92%) GitLab
3 10 (6.33%) Git
4 5 (3.16%) CircleCI
5 2 (1.27%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.27%) JIRA
6 1 (0.63%) Snyk
6 1 (0.63%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.63%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.63%) Terragrunt
General
1 56 (35.44%) Social Skills
2 22 (13.92%) Finance
3 19 (12.03%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (8.86%) Public Sector
5 6 (3.80%) Telecoms
6 5 (3.16%) Banking
7 4 (2.53%) Law
7 4 (2.53%) Legal
7 4 (2.53%) Manufacturing
7 4 (2.53%) Military
7 4 (2.53%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (2.53%) Retail
8 3 (1.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.90%) Multimedia
9 2 (1.27%) Electronics
9 2 (1.27%) Local Government
9 2 (1.27%) Marketing
10 1 (0.63%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.63%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.63%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 28 (17.72%) Senior
2 23 (14.56%) Architect
2 23 (14.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 19 (12.03%) DevOps Engineer
4 15 (9.49%) Developer
5 13 (8.23%) Consultant
6 12 (7.59%) Infrastructure Architect
7 11 (6.96%) Azure Engineer
8 9 (5.70%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 8 (5.06%) AWS Engineer
9 8 (5.06%) Cloud Engineer
10 7 (4.43%) Platform Engineer
10 7 (4.43%) Software Engineer
11 6 (3.80%) Administrator
11 6 (3.80%) Senior Architect
11 6 (3.80%) Senior Infrastructure Architect
12 5 (3.16%) Data Architect
12 5 (3.16%) Full-Stack Developer
12 5 (3.16%) Platform Architect
12 5 (3.16%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (5.70%) Kafka
2 7 (4.43%) Node.js
3 5 (3.16%) LDAP
3 5 (3.16%) YAML
4 4 (2.53%) JSON
5 3 (1.90%) CSS
5 3 (1.90%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (1.90%) Flutter
5 3 (1.90%) HTML
5 3 (1.90%) JPA
5 3 (1.90%) RESTful
6 2 (1.27%) .NET
6 2 (1.27%) Apache Axis
6 2 (1.27%) AWS CDK
6 2 (1.27%) boto
6 2 (1.27%) React
6 2 (1.27%) Spring
7 1 (0.63%) ARM Templates
7 1 (0.63%) Azure Blueprints
7 1 (0.63%) Redfish
Miscellaneous
1 21 (13.29%) Data Centre
2 16 (10.13%) Public Cloud
3 12 (7.59%) Management Information System
4 11 (6.96%) Private Cloud
5 10 (6.33%) Onboarding
6 9 (5.70%) Cloud Native
7 7 (4.43%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (3.80%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (3.16%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (2.53%) Distributed Computing
10 4 (2.53%) PKI
11 3 (1.90%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (1.90%) Educational Technology
11 3 (1.90%) Legacy Applications
11 3 (1.90%) Mobile App
11 3 (1.90%) Podcast
11 3 (1.90%) Replication
11 3 (1.90%) Security Operations Centre
11 3 (1.90%) Team-Oriented Environment
12 2 (1.27%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 39 (24.68%) Windows
2 36 (22.78%) Linux
3 24 (15.19%) Windows Server
4 6 (3.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (3.16%) Ubuntu
6 4 (2.53%) CentOS
6 4 (2.53%) Windows 10
7 3 (1.90%) Android
7 3 (1.90%) Apple iOS
7 3 (1.90%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (1.90%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (1.27%) Unix
9 1 (0.63%) Amazon Linux
9 1 (0.63%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (47.47%) CI/CD
2 68 (43.04%) DevOps
3 46 (29.11%) Infrastructure as Code
4 43 (27.22%) Problem-Solving
5 32 (20.25%) Infrastructure Automation
6 30 (18.99%) Agile
7 27 (17.09%) Containerisation
8 25 (15.82%) High Availability
8 25 (15.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 25 (15.82%) Mentoring
9 20 (12.66%) Configuration Management
10 19 (12.03%) ITIL
11 18 (11.39%) Roadmaps
12 16 (10.13%) Capacity Planning
13 15 (9.49%) Cloud Security
13 15 (9.49%) Software Engineering
14 14 (8.86%) Incident Management
14 14 (8.86%) Platform Engineering
15 13 (8.23%) Artificial Intelligence
15 13 (8.23%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 47 (29.75%) Python
2 23 (14.56%) Bash
3 21 (13.29%) PowerShell
4 14 (8.86%) Java
4 14 (8.86%) SQL
5 7 (4.43%) Go
6 6 (3.80%) Kotlin
7 5 (3.16%) TypeScript
8 3 (1.90%) Bicep
8 3 (1.90%) C#
8 3 (1.90%) Dart
8 3 (1.90%) JavaScript
8 3 (1.90%) Ruby
9 2 (1.27%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.63%) C-shell
10 1 (0.63%) Groovy
10 1 (0.63%) Scala
10 1 (0.63%) X++
Qualifications
1 24 (15.19%) Security Cleared
2 21 (13.29%) SC Cleared
3 18 (11.39%) Degree
4 11 (6.96%) AWS Certification
5 10 (6.33%) Azure Certification
5 10 (6.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (4.43%) CCNA
6 7 (4.43%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (3.80%) CCNP
8 5 (3.16%) CISSP
9 4 (2.53%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (1.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (1.27%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (1.27%) DV Cleared
10 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (1.27%) VCAP
10 2 (1.27%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 1 (0.63%) OCP
11 1 (0.63%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.63%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.43%) GDPR
2 4 (2.53%) NCSC
2 4 (2.53%) QA
3 3 (1.90%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.27%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (1.27%) HIPAA
4 2 (1.27%) NIST
4 2 (1.27%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.63%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.63%) SLA
System Software
1 27 (17.09%) Docker
2 22 (13.92%) Active Directory
3 12 (7.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (6.33%) Virtual Desktop
4 10 (6.33%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (4.43%) Hyper-V
6 6 (3.80%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (1.90%) VMware NSX
7 3 (1.90%) vSphere
8 2 (1.27%) Ceph
8 2 (1.27%) NFS
9 1 (0.63%) Firmware
9 1 (0.63%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 63 (39.87%) Terraform
2 50 (31.65%) Kubernetes
3 29 (18.35%) Ansible
4 9 (5.70%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (5.06%) Prometheus
5 8 (5.06%) Puppet
6 6 (3.80%) Grafana
7 5 (3.16%) FortiGate
8 4 (2.53%) SCCM
9 3 (1.90%) Argo
9 3 (1.90%) Progress Chef
9 3 (1.90%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (1.90%) vRealize
10 2 (1.27%) Dell DRAC
10 2 (1.27%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 2 (1.27%) vCenter Server
10 2 (1.27%) vRealize Orchestrator
10 2 (1.27%) VxRail
11 1 (0.63%) Nagios
11 1 (0.63%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 29 (18.35%) Microsoft
2 18 (11.39%) Red Hat
3 16 (10.13%) VMware
4 14 (8.86%) Oracle
5 10 (6.33%) ServiceNow
6 8 (5.06%) Databricks
7 7 (4.43%) Fortinet
7 7 (4.43%) Google
8 6 (3.80%) Cisco
8 6 (3.80%) Dell
9 4 (2.53%) Infoblox
9 4 (2.53%) NetApp
9 4 (2.53%) NVIDIA
9 4 (2.53%) Splunk
10 3 (1.90%) F5
10 3 (1.90%) HP
10 3 (1.90%) Salesforce
11 2 (1.27%) EMC
11 2 (1.27%) QAD
11 2 (1.27%) SAP