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 6 October 2026.

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

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 490 451 408
Rank change year-on-year -39 -43 -24
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Manager 194 109 156
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.36% 0.33% 0.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.39% 0.37% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 80 106
10th Percentile £444 £350 £322
25th Percentile £475 £417 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £519 £523
Median % change year-on-year +6.02% -0.72% -0.48%
75th Percentile £653 £616 £600
90th Percentile £750 £663 £681
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £550 £500
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -4.31%
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 50,334 29,798 35,032
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.11% 90.81% 92.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,572 18,806 21,176
10th Percentile £325 £278 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
75th Percentile £638 £620 £638
90th Percentile £738 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £495
% change year-on-year +5.26% -4.04% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4,026 1,619 1,521
10th Percentile £14.45 £13.75 £14.85
25th Percentile £19.76 £17.30 £20.50
Median hourly rate £41.74 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +65.94% -40.82% -4.49%
75th Percentile £67.50 £50.38 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £68.00 £74.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.74 £25.08 £43.00
% change year-on-year +66.44% -41.69% -2.16%

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 6 October 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 6 October 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 -39 180 £550 - 137
UK excluding London -41 115 £550 - 91
London -77 61 £575 +12.20% 61
Work from Home -62 43 £550 +22.22% 67
North of England -50 32 £549 +17.07% 14
South West -12 29 £650 -13.33% 8
Yorkshire -15 27 £575 +41.98% 8
East of England -13 19 £600 - 15
Midlands -42 17 £625 +16.28% 11
South East -48 15 £500 -16.67% 24
West Midlands -44 14 £625 +8.70% 7
North West -47 4 £475 - 5
East Midlands -11 3 £475 +0.80% 4
Northern Ireland - 2 £550 - 5
Scotland -24 1 £515 - 12
North East - 1 - - 1

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

For the 6 months to 6 October 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 51 (26.29%) Stakeholder Management
2 47 (24.23%) Azure
3 39 (20.10%) Project Management
4 38 (19.59%) Migration
5 33 (17.01%) Windows
6 32 (16.49%) Agile
7 29 (14.95%) Project Delivery
8 28 (14.43%) Security Cleared
9 26 (13.40%) PRINCE2
10 21 (10.82%) VMware
11 20 (10.31%) ITIL
11 20 (10.31%) Microsoft 365
12 19 (9.79%) Change Management
13 18 (9.28%) Microsoft
13 18 (9.28%) Waterfall
14 17 (8.76%) PMI Certification
14 17 (8.76%) Project Governance
15 16 (8.25%) PMP
16 15 (7.73%) AWS
16 15 (7.73%) DV Cleared
16 15 (7.73%) Infrastructure Transformation
17 14 (7.22%) Continuous Improvement
17 14 (7.22%) Fintech
17 14 (7.22%) SC Cleared
18 13 (6.70%) Risk Management
18 13 (6.70%) Service Management
18 13 (6.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 13 (6.70%) VMware Infrastructure
18 13 (6.70%) Windows Server
19 12 (6.19%) Cybersecurity

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 5 (2.58%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.03%) IIS
2 2 (1.03%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.52%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (2.58%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (1.03%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 2 (1.03%) Houdini
2 2 (1.03%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.03%) NUKE
3 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 47 (24.23%) Azure
2 20 (10.31%) Microsoft 365
3 15 (7.73%) AWS
4 4 (2.06%) SaaS
5 3 (1.55%) Entra ID
5 3 (1.55%) OCI
5 3 (1.55%) OpenShift
6 2 (1.03%) Asana
6 2 (1.03%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (1.03%) GCP
7 1 (0.52%) Google Ads
7 1 (0.52%) Google Workspace
7 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Copilot
7 1 (0.52%) OneDrive
7 1 (0.52%) Power Platform
7 1 (0.52%) Rubrik
7 1 (0.52%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 12 (6.19%) Firewall
1 12 (6.19%) Network Security
2 9 (4.64%) DNS
3 7 (3.61%) WAN
4 6 (3.09%) LAN
4 6 (3.09%) SAN
5 5 (2.58%) DHCP
5 5 (2.58%) TCP/IP
6 4 (2.06%) NAS
6 4 (2.06%) Structured Cabling
7 3 (1.55%) Broadband
7 3 (1.55%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (1.55%) Wireless
8 2 (1.03%) HTTP
8 2 (1.03%) SSL
8 2 (1.03%) Unified Communications
8 2 (1.03%) VLAN
8 2 (1.03%) VPN
9 1 (0.52%) 5G
9 1 (0.52%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.58%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.52%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (0.52%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 9 (4.64%) JIRA
General
1 49 (25.26%) Finance
2 38 (19.59%) Social Skills
3 23 (11.86%) Public Sector
4 13 (6.70%) Banking
5 7 (3.61%) Organisational Skills
6 6 (3.09%) Local Government
7 5 (2.58%) Retail
7 5 (2.58%) Telecoms
8 4 (2.06%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.55%) Analytical Skills
10 2 (1.03%) Law
10 2 (1.03%) Legal
11 1 (0.52%) Automotive
11 1 (0.52%) Aviation
11 1 (0.52%) German Language
11 1 (0.52%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.52%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.52%) Japanese Language
11 1 (0.52%) Military
11 1 (0.52%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.03%) Middleware
1 2 (1.03%) Unreal Engine
2 1 (0.52%) REST
2 1 (0.52%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 32 (16.49%) Data Centre
2 7 (3.61%) Private Cloud
3 6 (3.09%) Onboarding
4 5 (2.58%) Enterprise Storage
5 4 (2.06%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (2.06%) Operational Technology
5 4 (2.06%) Virtual Team
6 3 (1.55%) Mainframe
6 3 (1.55%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.03%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.03%) Motion Graphics
7 2 (1.03%) PMI
7 2 (1.03%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.03%) Robotics
7 2 (1.03%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.03%) Social Media
8 1 (0.52%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.52%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.52%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 33 (17.01%) Windows
2 13 (6.70%) Windows Server
3 11 (5.67%) Linux
4 5 (2.58%) Unix
5 2 (1.03%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.52%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.52%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.52%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.52%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (26.29%) Stakeholder Management
2 39 (20.10%) Project Management
3 38 (19.59%) Migration
4 32 (16.49%) Agile
5 29 (14.95%) Project Delivery
6 26 (13.40%) PRINCE2
7 20 (10.31%) ITIL
8 19 (9.79%) Change Management
9 18 (9.28%) Waterfall
10 17 (8.76%) Project Governance
11 15 (7.73%) Infrastructure Transformation
12 14 (7.22%) Continuous Improvement
12 14 (7.22%) Fintech
13 13 (6.70%) Risk Management
13 13 (6.70%) Service Management
13 13 (6.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 12 (6.19%) Cybersecurity
14 12 (6.19%) Disaster Recovery
15 11 (5.67%) Data Protection
16 10 (5.15%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 3 (1.55%) PowerShell
2 2 (1.03%) SQL
Qualifications
1 28 (14.43%) Security Cleared
2 17 (8.76%) PMI Certification
3 16 (8.25%) PMP
4 15 (7.73%) DV Cleared
5 14 (7.22%) SC Cleared
6 7 (3.61%) Degree
6 7 (3.61%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 6 (3.09%) Azure Certification
8 4 (2.06%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (1.03%) AWS Certification
9 2 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.03%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (1.03%) CISSP
9 2 (1.03%) Master's Degree
9 2 (1.03%) MBA
10 1 (0.52%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.52%) APMP
10 1 (0.52%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.52%) PgMP
10 1 (0.52%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (2.58%) QA
2 3 (1.55%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (1.55%) GDPR
3 2 (1.03%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 2 (1.03%) GRC
3 2 (1.03%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.03%) PMO
4 1 (0.52%) Dodd-Frank
4 1 (0.52%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.52%) NIST
4 1 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.52%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (6.70%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (2.58%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.06%) vSphere
4 1 (0.52%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.52%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.52%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.52%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (1.03%) SCCM
2 1 (0.52%) Ansible
2 1 (0.52%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.52%) SolarWinds Orion
2 1 (0.52%) Tivoli
2 1 (0.52%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 1 (0.52%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 21 (10.82%) VMware
2 18 (9.28%) Microsoft
3 4 (2.06%) Cisco
3 4 (2.06%) NetApp
4 3 (1.55%) Dell
4 3 (1.55%) SAP
5 2 (1.03%) Adobe
5 2 (1.03%) CheckPoint
5 2 (1.03%) Foundry
5 2 (1.03%) HP
5 2 (1.03%) IBM
5 2 (1.03%) Juniper
5 2 (1.03%) Meraki
5 2 (1.03%) Oracle
5 2 (1.03%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.52%) Google
6 1 (0.52%) Huawei
6 1 (0.52%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.52%) Workday
6 1 (0.52%) Zscaler