Infrastructure Manager Contract Job Trends

Infrastructure Manager
UK

The median Infrastructure Manager daily rate in the UK is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 28 August 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 469 435 402
Rank change year-on-year -34 -33 -3
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Manager 213 119 161
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.40% 0.36% 0.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.43% 0.40% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 161 85 108
10th Percentile £454 £362 £323
25th Percentile £500 £413 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -2.44% -2.38%
75th Percentile £650 £600 £600
90th Percentile £734 £645 £691
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £48.84 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £48.84 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 49,702 29,842 36,074
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.46% 91.23% 93.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,679 18,834 22,885
10th Percentile £325 £280 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.87%
75th Percentile £625 £621 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,561 1,567 1,910
10th Percentile £14.96 £13.72 £14.16
25th Percentile £20.50 £17.08 £19.50
Median hourly rate £41.74 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +65.94% -41.51% -0.73%
75th Percentile £67.84 £53.81 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £71.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% +7.50%

Infrastructure Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Infrastructure Manager' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Infrastructure Manager job vacancy trend in the UK

Infrastructure Manager
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Infrastructure Manager job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Infrastructure Manager job vacancies in the UK

Infrastructure Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Manager over the 6 months to 28 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Manager in the UK

Infrastructure Manager
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Infrastructure Manager job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Infrastructure Manager job vacancies in the UK

Infrastructure Manager
Top 16 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 Manager within the UK over the 6 months to 28 August 2026. 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 -19 196 £573 +6.51% 123
UK excluding London -44 113 £525 - 70
London -61 79 £605 +15.24% 62
Work from Home -49 55 £550 +22.22% 66
North of England -49 30 £525 +12.00% 23
Yorkshire -29 26 £525 +16.02% 7
South West -11 24 £600 -20.00% 11
South East -46 22 £500 -13.04% 16
East of England -8 18 £545 -9.17% 6
Midlands -49 15 £625 +19.05% 5
West Midlands -54 12 £625 +13.64% 4
Scotland -11 3 £533 +14.64% 6
East Midlands -18 3 £475 +2.70% 1
North West -44 3 £525 +10.53% 15
North East -39 1 - - 2
Northern Ireland - 1 £550 - 3

Infrastructure Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 28 August 2026, Infrastructure Manager contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Infrastructure Manager in the job title.

1 57 (26.76%) Stakeholder Management
2 49 (23.00%) Project Management
3 46 (21.60%) Azure
4 40 (18.78%) Agile
5 39 (18.31%) Migration
6 36 (16.90%) Project Delivery
7 33 (15.49%) Windows
8 32 (15.02%) Security Cleared
9 30 (14.08%) PRINCE2
10 21 (9.86%) Change Management
10 21 (9.86%) VMware
11 20 (9.39%) ITIL
11 20 (9.39%) Microsoft 365
11 20 (9.39%) PMP
12 19 (8.92%) PMI Certification
12 19 (8.92%) Waterfall
13 18 (8.45%) DV Cleared
13 18 (8.45%) Infrastructure Transformation
13 18 (8.45%) Project Governance
13 18 (8.45%) Risk Management
13 18 (8.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 17 (7.98%) AWS
14 17 (7.98%) Microsoft
14 17 (7.98%) SC Cleared
15 15 (7.04%) Continuous Improvement
16 13 (6.10%) Budget Management
16 13 (6.10%) Firewall
17 12 (5.63%) Change Control
17 12 (5.63%) Disaster Recovery
17 12 (5.63%) Network Security

Infrastructure Manager Skill Set
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 4 (1.88%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.41%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.94%) IIS
4 1 (0.47%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (2.82%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (1.41%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.94%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 2 (0.94%) Houdini
3 2 (0.94%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.94%) NUKE
4 1 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 46 (21.60%) Azure
2 20 (9.39%) Microsoft 365
3 17 (7.98%) AWS
4 9 (4.23%) OCI
5 4 (1.88%) OpenShift
6 3 (1.41%) Entra ID
6 3 (1.41%) Power Platform
7 2 (0.94%) Asana
7 2 (0.94%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (0.94%) SaaS
8 1 (0.47%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.47%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.47%) GCP
8 1 (0.47%) Google Ads
8 1 (0.47%) Google Workspace
8 1 (0.47%) IaaS
8 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Copilot
8 1 (0.47%) OneDrive
8 1 (0.47%) PaaS
8 1 (0.47%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 13 (6.10%) Firewall
2 12 (5.63%) Network Security
3 10 (4.69%) DNS
4 9 (4.23%) WAN
5 8 (3.76%) LAN
6 7 (3.29%) SAN
7 5 (2.35%) DHCP
7 5 (2.35%) NAS
7 5 (2.35%) Structured Cabling
7 5 (2.35%) TCP/IP
8 4 (1.88%) Wi-Fi
8 4 (1.88%) Wireless
9 3 (1.41%) Broadband
9 3 (1.41%) SD-WAN
10 2 (0.94%) HTTP
10 2 (0.94%) SSL
10 2 (0.94%) Unified Communications
10 2 (0.94%) VLAN
10 2 (0.94%) VPN
11 1 (0.47%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.88%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.94%) Power BI
3 1 (0.47%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 10 (4.69%) JIRA
General
1 56 (26.29%) Finance
2 45 (21.13%) Social Skills
3 23 (10.80%) Public Sector
4 14 (6.57%) Banking
5 11 (5.16%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (4.69%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (2.82%) Retail
7 6 (2.82%) Telecoms
8 5 (2.35%) Local Government
8 5 (2.35%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.41%) Legal
10 2 (0.94%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.94%) Law
11 1 (0.47%) Automotive
11 1 (0.47%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.47%) German Language
11 1 (0.47%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.47%) Japanese Language
11 1 (0.47%) Military
11 1 (0.47%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.41%) Terraform
2 2 (0.94%) Middleware
2 2 (0.94%) Unreal Engine
3 1 (0.47%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 37 (17.37%) Data Centre
2 7 (3.29%) Private Cloud
3 5 (2.35%) Enterprise Storage
3 5 (2.35%) Onboarding
4 4 (1.88%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (1.88%) Virtual Team
5 3 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (1.41%) Enterprise Cloud
5 3 (1.41%) Management Information System
5 3 (1.41%) Operational Technology
6 2 (0.94%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (0.94%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (0.94%) Motion Graphics
6 2 (0.94%) PMI
6 2 (0.94%) Public Cloud
6 2 (0.94%) Replication
6 2 (0.94%) Robotics
6 2 (0.94%) Social Media
7 1 (0.47%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.47%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 33 (15.49%) Windows
2 12 (5.63%) Windows Server
3 11 (5.16%) Linux
4 5 (2.35%) Unix
5 2 (0.94%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.47%) VMS
6 1 (0.47%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.47%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (26.76%) Stakeholder Management
2 49 (23.00%) Project Management
3 40 (18.78%) Agile
4 39 (18.31%) Migration
5 36 (16.90%) Project Delivery
6 30 (14.08%) PRINCE2
7 21 (9.86%) Change Management
8 20 (9.39%) ITIL
9 19 (8.92%) Waterfall
10 18 (8.45%) Infrastructure Transformation
10 18 (8.45%) Project Governance
10 18 (8.45%) Risk Management
10 18 (8.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 15 (7.04%) Continuous Improvement
12 13 (6.10%) Budget Management
13 12 (5.63%) Change Control
13 12 (5.63%) Disaster Recovery
13 12 (5.63%) Problem-Solving
13 12 (5.63%) Roadmaps
14 11 (5.16%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (1.41%) PowerShell
2 2 (0.94%) SQL
Qualifications
1 32 (15.02%) Security Cleared
2 20 (9.39%) PMP
3 19 (8.92%) PMI Certification
4 18 (8.45%) DV Cleared
5 17 (7.98%) SC Cleared
6 8 (3.76%) Degree
7 7 (3.29%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 6 (2.82%) Azure Certification
9 4 (1.88%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.94%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.94%) MBA
10 2 (0.94%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 1 (0.47%) APMP
11 1 (0.47%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (0.47%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.47%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 1 (0.47%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.47%) PgMP
11 1 (0.47%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.82%) PMO
1 6 (2.82%) QA
2 4 (1.88%) GDPR
2 4 (1.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.41%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (0.94%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (0.94%) NIST
4 2 (0.94%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.47%) Dodd-Frank
5 1 (0.47%) GRC
5 1 (0.47%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.47%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (5.63%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (3.29%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.41%) vSphere
4 2 (0.94%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.47%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.47%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 2 (0.94%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
1 2 (0.94%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (0.94%) SCCM
2 1 (0.47%) Ansible
2 1 (0.47%) Cisco CUCM
2 1 (0.47%) FortiGate
2 1 (0.47%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.47%) RSA Archer
2 1 (0.47%) SolarWinds Orion
2 1 (0.47%) Tivoli
2 1 (0.47%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 1 (0.47%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 21 (9.86%) VMware
2 17 (7.98%) Microsoft
3 8 (3.76%) Cisco
4 6 (2.82%) Oracle
5 5 (2.35%) CheckPoint
5 5 (2.35%) NetApp
5 5 (2.35%) SAP
6 4 (1.88%) Dell
6 4 (1.88%) Red Hat
7 3 (1.41%) Meraki
7 3 (1.41%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.94%) Adobe
8 2 (0.94%) Foundry
8 2 (0.94%) HP
8 2 (0.94%) IBM
8 2 (0.94%) Juniper
9 1 (0.47%) Fortinet
9 1 (0.47%) Google
9 1 (0.47%) Huawei
9 1 (0.47%) Speakerbus