Infrastructure Management Contract Job Trends

Infrastructure Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Infrastructure Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 462 379 478
Rank change year-on-year -83 +99 +223
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Management 130 165 114
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.35% 0.49% 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 0.56% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 98 63
10th Percentile £175 £350 £300
25th Percentile £359 £403 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £560
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -6.25% +17.89%
75th Percentile £588 £607 £638
90th Percentile £725 £675 £698
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £500 £560
% change year-on-year -7.50% -10.71% +24.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £26.60 - -
25th Percentile £32.00 - -
Median hourly rate £36.25 - -
75th Percentile £38.19 - -
90th Percentile £38.53 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 - -

All Process & 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 32,632 29,487 37,783
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 88.11% 88.32% 87.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,578 17,975 25,172
10th Percentile £304 £308 £306
25th Percentile £406 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,027 953 1,511
10th Percentile £14.61 £15.62 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.69 £20.30 £19.03
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -26.14% +25.71%
75th Percentile £53.44 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.25 £74.69 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.58 £30.45 £45.00
% change year-on-year -22.58% -32.33% +40.63%

Infrastructure Management
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Infrastructure Management job vacancy trend in the UK

Infrastructure Management
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Infrastructure Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Management over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Management in the UK

Infrastructure Management
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

Infrastructure Management
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Infrastructure Management over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Infrastructure Management in the UK

Infrastructure Management
Top 15 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 Management within the UK over the 6 months to 31 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 -81 112 £500 -4.76% 64
UK excluding London -19 88 £463 -7.50% 40
London -58 33 £550 -1.79% 28
South East -2 31 £425 -10.53% 10
Work from Home -26 23 £530 +5.47% 32
North of England -46 18 £500 +36.99% 16
Midlands -32 16 £663 -5.36% 7
South West +1 14 £700 +16.67% 4
West Midlands -25 14 £700 - 5
Yorkshire -45 14 £500 +36.99% 6
Wales -1 8 £160 -77.14%
Scotland +12 5 £575 +33.72%
North West -17 4 £361 -31.19% 9
East Midlands -18 2 £463 - 2
Northern Ireland - 1 - -

Infrastructure Management
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 10 (7.69%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (3.85%) SharePoint
3 4 (3.08%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.54%) ArcGIS
4 2 (1.54%) Confluence
4 2 (1.54%) WordPress
5 1 (0.77%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.77%) CICS
5 1 (0.77%) IIS
5 1 (0.77%) MQSeries
5 1 (0.77%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (6.15%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.31%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.77%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (1.54%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.77%) SAP GRC
2 1 (0.77%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 63 (48.46%) Azure
2 51 (39.23%) AWS
3 20 (15.38%) GCP
4 14 (10.77%) Entra ID
4 14 (10.77%) Microsoft 365
5 13 (10.00%) GitHub
6 12 (9.23%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (8.46%) GitHub Actions
8 10 (7.69%) OpenShift
9 7 (5.38%) Amazon EKS
10 6 (4.62%) Azure AKS
10 6 (4.62%) Azure Stack
10 6 (4.62%) Serverless
11 5 (3.85%) Amazon S3
12 4 (3.08%) PaaS
13 3 (2.31%) AWS CloudFormation
13 3 (2.31%) AWS CodeBuild
13 3 (2.31%) Azure Functions
13 3 (2.31%) Azure Monitor
13 3 (2.31%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 10 (7.69%) TCP/IP
2 9 (6.92%) Firewall
3 8 (6.15%) Cisco IOS
3 8 (6.15%) Skype
4 5 (3.85%) DNS
4 5 (3.85%) SSL
5 4 (3.08%) DHCP
5 4 (3.08%) HTTP
6 3 (2.31%) VPN
6 3 (2.31%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (2.31%) Wireless
7 2 (1.54%) iSCSI
7 2 (1.54%) LAN
7 2 (1.54%) Network Security
7 2 (1.54%) Telepresence
7 2 (1.54%) Unified Communications
7 2 (1.54%) VLAN
7 2 (1.54%) WAN
8 1 (0.77%) NAS
8 1 (0.77%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.08%) Big Data
1 4 (3.08%) Hadoop
1 4 (3.08%) NoSQL
2 3 (2.31%) Amazon Redshift
2 3 (2.31%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.54%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (1.54%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (1.54%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.77%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.77%) DB2
4 1 (0.77%) Delta Lake
4 1 (0.77%) Parquet
4 1 (0.77%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 14 (10.77%) Git
2 13 (10.00%) Jenkins
3 11 (8.46%) GitLab
4 5 (3.85%) CircleCI
5 4 (3.08%) JIRA
5 4 (3.08%) Robot Framework
5 4 (3.08%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (2.31%) Gradle
6 3 (2.31%) Maven
7 1 (0.77%) AdminStudio
7 1 (0.77%) InstallShield
7 1 (0.77%) MLflow
7 1 (0.77%) MSI
7 1 (0.77%) Postman
7 1 (0.77%) SonarQube
General
1 52 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 26 (20.00%) Finance
3 20 (15.38%) Public Sector
4 18 (13.85%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (8.46%) Manufacturing
6 9 (6.92%) Telecoms
7 8 (6.15%) Electronics
7 8 (6.15%) Marketing
8 5 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (3.08%) Financial Institution
10 3 (2.31%) Banking
11 2 (1.54%) Aviation
11 2 (1.54%) Billing
11 2 (1.54%) Fire and Rescue
11 2 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.54%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.54%) Legal
11 2 (1.54%) Local Government
11 2 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.77%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (13.08%) DevOps Engineer
1 17 (13.08%) Senior
2 13 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
3 12 (9.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 10 (7.69%) Desktop Support
4 10 (7.69%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 9 (6.92%) Developer
5 9 (6.92%) Site Engineer
6 8 (6.15%) AWS Engineer
6 8 (6.15%) Consultant
6 8 (6.15%) Infrastructure Manager
6 8 (6.15%) IT Support
6 8 (6.15%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
7 6 (4.62%) Architect
7 6 (4.62%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
7 6 (4.62%) IT Engineer
7 6 (4.62%) Network Engineer
7 6 (4.62%) Platform Engineer
7 6 (4.62%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (3.85%) Operations Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (6.92%) ARM Templates
2 8 (6.15%) Loki
3 5 (3.85%) .NET
4 3 (2.31%) Web Services
5 2 (1.54%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (1.54%) Next.js
5 2 (1.54%) React
5 2 (1.54%) SAP Fiori
5 2 (1.54%) YAML
6 1 (0.77%) Apache Avro
6 1 (0.77%) ATL
6 1 (0.77%) CSS
6 1 (0.77%) Flask
6 1 (0.77%) HTML
6 1 (0.77%) HTML5
6 1 (0.77%) Kafka
6 1 (0.77%) NumPy
6 1 (0.77%) Pandas
6 1 (0.77%) REST
6 1 (0.77%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 20 (15.38%) Cloud Native
2 10 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
3 9 (6.92%) Virtual Team
4 8 (6.15%) Mobile App
5 7 (5.38%) Data Centre
6 6 (4.62%) Private Cloud
7 4 (3.08%) NHS
8 3 (2.31%) Enterprise Storage
9 2 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.54%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (1.54%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.54%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.54%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.77%) Distributed Systems
10 1 (0.77%) Fibre Optics
10 1 (0.77%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.77%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.77%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.77%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 36 (27.69%) Windows
2 35 (26.92%) Linux
3 12 (9.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 12 (9.23%) Windows Server
4 10 (7.69%) Mac OS
4 10 (7.69%) Unix
5 9 (6.92%) Android
6 3 (2.31%) Solaris
6 3 (2.31%) Windows 10
7 2 (1.54%) VMS
7 2 (1.54%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.77%) CentOS
8 1 (0.77%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.77%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (34.62%) DevOps
2 44 (33.85%) CI/CD
2 44 (33.85%) Infrastructure as Code
3 38 (29.23%) Problem-Solving
4 29 (22.31%) ITIL
5 26 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 25 (19.23%) Agile
7 19 (14.62%) Containerisation
7 19 (14.62%) High Availability
7 19 (14.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 19 (14.62%) Migration
8 18 (13.85%) Computer Science
8 18 (13.85%) Observability
9 15 (11.54%) Infrastructure Automation
9 15 (11.54%) ITSM
9 15 (11.54%) Service Management
10 14 (10.77%) Change Management
10 14 (10.77%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 13 (10.00%) Cloud Security
12 12 (9.23%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 43 (33.08%) Python
2 32 (24.62%) Bash
3 23 (17.69%) PowerShell
4 11 (8.46%) SQL
5 8 (6.15%) JavaScript
6 4 (3.08%) Bicep
6 4 (3.08%) C#
6 4 (3.08%) Java
6 4 (3.08%) Perl
7 3 (2.31%) Go
7 3 (2.31%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.54%) Ruby
9 1 (0.77%) ABAP
9 1 (0.77%) Groovy
9 1 (0.77%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.77%) VBScript
9 1 (0.77%) X++
Qualifications
1 38 (29.23%) Security Cleared
2 32 (24.62%) SC Cleared
3 25 (19.23%) Degree
4 10 (7.69%) Azure Certification
4 10 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (6.15%) Cisco Certification
5 8 (6.15%) ITIL Certification
6 6 (4.62%) CCNA
7 5 (3.85%) DV Cleared
7 5 (3.85%) Network+ Certification
8 4 (3.08%) AWS Certification
8 4 (3.08%) CCNP
8 4 (3.08%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (2.31%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (1.54%) CISSP
10 2 (1.54%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (1.54%) JNCIP
11 1 (0.77%) CISM
11 1 (0.77%) PMP
11 1 (0.77%) Server+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (4.62%) GDPR
3 3 (2.31%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (2.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (1.54%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.54%) NIST
5 1 (0.77%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 1 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 42001
5 1 (0.77%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.77%) PMO
5 1 (0.77%) QA
5 1 (0.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.77%) SLA
System Software
1 23 (17.69%) Active Directory
2 15 (11.54%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (10.00%) Docker
4 10 (7.69%) vSphere
5 4 (3.08%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (2.31%) Hyper-V
7 2 (1.54%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 44 (33.85%) Terraform
2 36 (27.69%) Kubernetes
3 23 (17.69%) Ansible
4 19 (14.62%) Grafana
5 17 (13.08%) Prometheus
6 12 (9.23%) Argo
7 8 (6.15%) Kustomize
8 5 (3.85%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (2.31%) FortiGate
9 3 (2.31%) Nagios
9 3 (2.31%) Rancher
10 2 (1.54%) SCCM
10 2 (1.54%) SCOM
10 2 (1.54%) WhatsUp Gold
11 1 (0.77%) Kibana
11 1 (0.77%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.77%) Puppet
11 1 (0.77%) Salt
11 1 (0.77%) WSUS
11 1 (0.77%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 40 (30.77%) Microsoft
2 22 (16.92%) VMware
3 14 (10.77%) Cisco
3 14 (10.77%) Google
4 11 (8.46%) Red Hat
5 10 (7.69%) SAP
6 5 (3.85%) F5
7 4 (3.08%) NetApp
8 2 (1.54%) Commvault
8 2 (1.54%) Dell
8 2 (1.54%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.54%) EMC
8 2 (1.54%) Oracle
8 2 (1.54%) Splunk
9 1 (0.77%) Cadence
9 1 (0.77%) Cloudera
9 1 (0.77%) Concur
9 1 (0.77%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.77%) Palo Alto
9 1 (0.77%) Sophis