Infrastructure Manager Contracts

Infrastructure Manager
UK

The median Infrastructure Manager daily rate in the UK is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 405 324 352
Rank change year-on-year -81 +28 +46
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Manager 176 443 670
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.40% 0.74% 0.76%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.44% 0.78% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 295 504
10th Percentile £393 £385 £369
25th Percentile £450 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £588
90th Percentile £690 £700 £667
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £480 £475
% change year-on-year +14.58% +1.05% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 16 5
10th Percentile - - £40.12
25th Percentile - - £43.80
Median hourly rate - £65.00 £45.18
Median % change year-on-year - +43.87% +70.94%
75th Percentile - £65.75 £47.11
90th Percentile - - £48.10
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £65.00 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 40,413 56,730 84,732
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.61% 95.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,320 39,605 59,435
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £726
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,653 1,602 2,109
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.28 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.09% +95.65% +0.24%
75th Percentile £60.25 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.50 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £42.37 £19.50
% change year-on-year -10.30% +117.26% +2.47%

Infrastructure Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Infrastructure Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Manager in the UK

Infrastructure Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Manager in the UK

Infrastructure Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Manager over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Manager in the UK

Infrastructure Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Manager in the UK

Infrastructure Manager
Top 17 Contract 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 26 April 2024. 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 -78 153 £550 +4.76% 67
UK excluding London -33 90 £550 +14.58% 44
London -7 70 £563 -6.25% 23
Work from Home -27 55 £550 +5.77% 30
South East +24 26 £550 +22.22% 14
North of England -39 21 £450 -10.00% 12
Midlands +7 20 £550 +22.15% 10
West Midlands +11 12 £550 +22.22% 8
South West +16 11 £525 +7.69% 8
Yorkshire -18 11 £500 -9.09% 4
North West -7 9 £350 -23.29% 7
East Midlands +20 7 £625 +19.05% 2
East of England +5 4 £488 -4.88% 1
Scotland +23 3 £550 +29.41% 1
Wales +18 3 £600 +33.33%
Northern Ireland - 2 - -
North East +20 1 - - 1

Infrastructure Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, Infrastructure Manager contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Infrastructure Manager in the job title.

1 66 (37.50%) Project Management
2 55 (31.25%) Finance
3 49 (27.84%) Social Skills
4 39 (22.16%) Stakeholder Management
5 36 (20.45%) Project Delivery
6 32 (18.18%) Agile
7 30 (17.05%) Windows
8 29 (16.48%) Azure
8 29 (16.48%) Data Centre
9 24 (13.64%) Microsoft
10 23 (13.07%) PRINCE2
11 22 (12.50%) Migration
12 20 (11.36%) Change Management
12 20 (11.36%) Waterfall
13 19 (10.80%) Banking
14 17 (9.66%) Microsoft 365
14 17 (9.66%) Public Sector
14 17 (9.66%) Problem-Solving
15 16 (9.09%) Risk Management
16 15 (8.52%) WAN
16 15 (8.52%) Active Directory
17 14 (7.95%) SharePoint
18 12 (6.82%) Cisco
18 12 (6.82%) Degree
18 12 (6.82%) Security Cleared
18 12 (6.82%) Analytical Skills
19 11 (6.25%) ITIL
19 11 (6.25%) PMP
19 11 (6.25%) Firewall
20 10 (5.68%) Telecoms

Infrastructure Manager Skill Set
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 14 (7.95%) SharePoint
2 10 (5.68%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.70%) Confluence
3 3 (1.70%) nginx
4 2 (1.14%) OpenStack
Applications
1 6 (3.41%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (3.41%) Microsoft Project
2 5 (2.84%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.70%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.70%) Sage X3
2 2 (1.14%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.57%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 29 (16.48%) Azure
2 17 (9.66%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (2.27%) Entra ID
4 3 (1.70%) AWS
4 3 (1.70%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (1.70%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (1.70%) SaaS
5 2 (1.14%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (1.14%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (1.14%) Amazon S3
5 2 (1.14%) CloudFront
6 1 (0.57%) OneDrive
6 1 (0.57%) Power Automate
6 1 (0.57%) Power Platform
6 1 (0.57%) PowerApps
6 1 (0.57%) ShareGate
6 1 (0.57%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 15 (8.52%) WAN
2 11 (6.25%) Firewall
3 10 (5.68%) LAN
4 5 (2.84%) Wi-Fi
4 5 (2.84%) Wireless
5 4 (2.27%) SAN
5 4 (2.27%) SD-WAN
6 3 (1.70%) Cisco IOS
6 3 (1.70%) Network Security
6 3 (1.70%) VPN
6 3 (1.70%) WLAN
7 2 (1.14%) Structured Cabling
7 2 (1.14%) VoIP
8 1 (0.57%) MPLS
8 1 (0.57%) Skype
8 1 (0.57%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.57%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.27%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.70%) MySQL
3 2 (1.14%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (1.14%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.57%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.57%) Power BI
4 1 (0.57%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 7 (3.98%) JIRA
General
1 55 (31.25%) Finance
2 49 (27.84%) Social Skills
3 19 (10.80%) Banking
4 17 (9.66%) Public Sector
5 12 (6.82%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (5.68%) Telecoms
7 7 (3.98%) Manufacturing
8 6 (3.41%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (2.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (2.84%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (2.27%) Law
10 4 (2.27%) Marketing
11 3 (1.70%) Electronics
11 3 (1.70%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.70%) Investment Banking
11 3 (1.70%) Legal
11 3 (1.70%) Retail
12 2 (1.14%) Local Government
12 2 (1.14%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (1.14%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.70%) EDI
2 2 (1.14%) LDAP
2 2 (1.14%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (1.14%) SAP Basis
3 1 (0.57%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 29 (16.48%) Data Centre
2 7 (3.98%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (1.70%) CCTV
3 3 (1.70%) Management Information System
3 3 (1.70%) PMI
3 3 (1.70%) Virtual Team
4 2 (1.14%) HACMP
4 2 (1.14%) Security Posture
4 2 (1.14%) Video Conferencing
5 1 (0.57%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.57%) BYOD
5 1 (0.57%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.57%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.57%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.57%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.57%) Mainframe
5 1 (0.57%) Operational Technology
5 1 (0.57%) PKI
5 1 (0.57%) Replication
5 1 (0.57%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 30 (17.05%) Windows
2 6 (3.41%) Linux
3 5 (2.84%) Unix
3 5 (2.84%) Windows 10
3 5 (2.84%) Windows Server
3 5 (2.84%) Windows Server 2012
4 4 (2.27%) AIX
4 4 (2.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (2.27%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (1.70%) Android
5 3 (1.70%) Mac OS
5 3 (1.70%) Ubuntu
5 3 (1.70%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (1.14%) VMS
6 2 (1.14%) Windows 2000
6 2 (1.14%) Windows 7
6 2 (1.14%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (37.50%) Project Management
2 39 (22.16%) Stakeholder Management
3 36 (20.45%) Project Delivery
4 32 (18.18%) Agile
5 23 (13.07%) PRINCE2
6 22 (12.50%) Migration
7 20 (11.36%) Change Management
7 20 (11.36%) Waterfall
8 17 (9.66%) Problem-Solving
9 16 (9.09%) Risk Management
10 11 (6.25%) ITIL
11 9 (5.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 8 (4.55%) Budget Management
12 8 (4.55%) Line Management
12 8 (4.55%) Scrum
13 7 (3.98%) Cybersecurity
14 6 (3.41%) Change Control
14 6 (3.41%) Continuous Improvement
14 6 (3.41%) Mentoring
14 6 (3.41%) Project Governance
Programming Languages
1 4 (2.27%) SQL
2 2 (1.14%) PowerShell
2 2 (1.14%) R
2 2 (1.14%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (6.82%) Degree
1 12 (6.82%) Security Cleared
2 11 (6.25%) PMP
3 9 (5.11%) PMI Certification
4 8 (4.55%) SC Cleared
5 4 (2.27%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.70%) CCNA
6 3 (1.70%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (1.70%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 2 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.14%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 2 (1.14%) Six Sigma Black Belt
7 2 (1.14%) Six Sigma Green Belt
8 1 (0.57%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.57%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.98%) QA
2 4 (2.27%) PMO
3 2 (1.14%) SLA
4 1 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.57%) GRC
4 1 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.57%) NIST
4 1 (0.57%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.57%) SOC 2
System Software
1 15 (8.52%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.14%) PowerHA
2 2 (1.14%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (1.14%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (1.14%) vSphere
3 1 (0.57%) Citrix Presentation Server
3 1 (0.57%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.57%) Terminal Services
3 1 (0.57%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 3 (1.70%) Kubernetes
1 3 (1.70%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (1.70%) PaperCut
1 3 (1.70%) SCCM
2 2 (1.14%) Ansible
2 2 (1.14%) Terraform
3 1 (0.57%) OPNET
3 1 (0.57%) SCOM
3 1 (0.57%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 24 (13.64%) Microsoft
2 12 (6.82%) Cisco
3 10 (5.68%) Citrix
4 6 (3.41%) VMware
5 5 (2.84%) SAP
6 4 (2.27%) Red Hat
6 4 (2.27%) Veeam
7 3 (1.70%) Arista
7 3 (1.70%) Aruba
7 3 (1.70%) Fortinet
7 3 (1.70%) HP
7 3 (1.70%) Nimble Storage
7 3 (1.70%) Sage
7 3 (1.70%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.70%) WatchGuard
8 2 (1.14%) Bloomberg
8 2 (1.14%) IBM
8 2 (1.14%) Juniper
8 2 (1.14%) Refinitiv
8 2 (1.14%) Reuters