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 31 May 2026.

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

6 months to
31 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 450 407 398
Rank change year-on-year -43 -9 -62
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Manager 197 115 174
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.40% 0.40% 0.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.43% 0.43% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 85 122
10th Percentile £419 £363 £329
25th Percentile £463 £413 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £650 £585 £623
90th Percentile £725 £638 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £516 £488 £550
% change year-on-year +5.90% -11.36% +15.79%

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 45,355 26,885 39,823
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.32% 92.36% 92.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,657 17,423 25,822
10th Percentile £325 £289 £280
25th Percentile £413 £405 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.49% -3.81% -2.78%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +5.26% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,017 1,065 2,805
10th Percentile £15.05 £14.00 £12.82
25th Percentile £20.51 £17.88 £16.30
Median hourly rate £42.50 £28.18 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +50.82% -24.85% -16.67%
75th Percentile £67.25 £60.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.69 £26.28 £40.00
% change year-on-year +66.25% -34.30% -6.98%

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 31 May 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 14 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 31 May 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 -42 175 £550 +10.00% 38
UK excluding London -42 99 £516 +5.90% 35
London -52 77 £625 +19.05% 7
Work from Home -33 54 £550 +18.92% 14
North of England -59 31 £525 +16.67% 7
Yorkshire -37 28 £525 +5.00% 2
Midlands -45 19 £625 +42.86% 10
South East -50 18 £513 +2.50% 14
East of England -19 15 £473 -31.27% 4
West Midlands -51 14 £625 +19.05% 7
South West -23 13 £475 -3.80% 3
East Midlands -21 6 £475 +11.76% 3
Scotland 0 5 £550 +18.41%
North West -43 3 £488 +13.04% 4

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

For the 6 months to 31 May 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 60 (30.46%) Stakeholder Management
2 56 (28.43%) Project Management
3 44 (22.34%) Agile
4 38 (19.29%) Azure
5 34 (17.26%) PRINCE2
6 32 (16.24%) Project Delivery
7 30 (15.23%) Security Cleared
8 28 (14.21%) PMI Certification
9 27 (13.71%) Migration
10 25 (12.69%) PMP
11 24 (12.18%) Risk Management
11 24 (12.18%) SC Cleared
11 24 (12.18%) Windows
12 20 (10.15%) Continuous Improvement
12 20 (10.15%) Microsoft
13 19 (9.64%) Budget Management
14 18 (9.14%) ITIL
14 18 (9.14%) Microsoft 365
15 17 (8.63%) Waterfall
16 16 (8.12%) Problem-Solving
16 16 (8.12%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 15 (7.61%) Change Management
17 15 (7.61%) Decision-Making
17 15 (7.61%) Network Security
18 14 (7.11%) Change Control
18 14 (7.11%) Infrastructure Transformation
18 14 (7.11%) Roadmaps
19 13 (6.60%) Firewall
20 12 (6.09%) AWS
20 12 (6.09%) Degree

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 7 (3.55%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.52%) Confluence
3 2 (1.02%) IIS
3 2 (1.02%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.51%) Apache Pulsar
Applications
1 5 (2.54%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (2.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.51%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (0.51%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 38 (19.29%) Azure
2 18 (9.14%) Microsoft 365
3 12 (6.09%) AWS
4 9 (4.57%) OpenShift
5 8 (4.06%) OCI
6 4 (2.03%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (2.03%) Entra ID
6 4 (2.03%) GCP
7 3 (1.52%) Power Platform
8 2 (1.02%) Asana
8 2 (1.02%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 2 (1.02%) Google Workspace
8 2 (1.02%) IaaS
8 2 (1.02%) PaaS
9 1 (0.51%) Google Ads
9 1 (0.51%) Kong
9 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Copilot
9 1 (0.51%) SAP Commerce Cloud
9 1 (0.51%) Slack
9 1 (0.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 15 (7.61%) Network Security
2 13 (6.60%) Firewall
3 11 (5.58%) WAN
4 8 (4.06%) LAN
4 8 (4.06%) Structured Cabling
5 7 (3.55%) SD-WAN
6 4 (2.03%) DNS
6 4 (2.03%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (1.52%) SAN
7 3 (1.52%) VLAN
7 3 (1.52%) Wireless
8 2 (1.02%) DHCP
8 2 (1.02%) MPLS
8 2 (1.02%) NAS
8 2 (1.02%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.51%) Multicast
9 1 (0.51%) PABX
9 1 (0.51%) Unified Communications
9 1 (0.51%) VPN
9 1 (0.51%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.02%) Power BI
2 1 (0.51%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (6.09%) JIRA
General
1 50 (25.38%) Finance
2 43 (21.83%) Social Skills
3 17 (8.63%) Public Sector
4 15 (7.61%) Banking
5 10 (5.08%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (5.08%) Organisational Skills
5 10 (5.08%) Telecoms
6 7 (3.55%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (3.05%) Legal
8 4 (2.03%) Manufacturing
8 4 (2.03%) Retail
9 2 (1.02%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.02%) French Language
9 2 (1.02%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.02%) Law
10 1 (0.51%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.51%) Back Office
10 1 (0.51%) German Language
10 1 (0.51%) Japanese Language
10 1 (0.51%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.51%) Kafka
1 1 (0.51%) Middleware
1 1 (0.51%) OAuth
1 1 (0.51%) OAuth2
1 1 (0.51%) OpenTelemetry
1 1 (0.51%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (0.51%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 37 (18.78%) Data Centre
2 7 (3.55%) PMI
3 4 (2.03%) Mainframe
3 4 (2.03%) Onboarding
3 4 (2.03%) Private Cloud
4 3 (1.52%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (1.52%) Legacy Applications
4 3 (1.52%) Management Information System
4 3 (1.52%) Virtual Team
5 2 (1.02%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.02%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (1.02%) Operational Technology
5 2 (1.02%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.02%) Security Posture
5 2 (1.02%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (0.51%) AI Agents
6 1 (0.51%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (0.51%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.51%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.51%) Self-Driving Car
Operating Systems
1 24 (12.18%) Windows
2 12 (6.09%) Windows Server
3 4 (2.03%) Unix
4 3 (1.52%) Linux
4 3 (1.52%) VMS
5 2 (1.02%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.51%) Android
6 1 (0.51%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.51%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (30.46%) Stakeholder Management
2 56 (28.43%) Project Management
3 44 (22.34%) Agile
4 34 (17.26%) PRINCE2
5 32 (16.24%) Project Delivery
6 27 (13.71%) Migration
7 24 (12.18%) Risk Management
8 20 (10.15%) Continuous Improvement
9 19 (9.64%) Budget Management
10 18 (9.14%) ITIL
11 17 (8.63%) Waterfall
12 16 (8.12%) Problem-Solving
12 16 (8.12%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 15 (7.61%) Change Management
13 15 (7.61%) Decision-Making
14 14 (7.11%) Change Control
14 14 (7.11%) Infrastructure Transformation
14 14 (7.11%) Roadmaps
15 12 (6.09%) Programme Management
16 11 (5.58%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (1.52%) PowerShell
2 2 (1.02%) Python
3 1 (0.51%) Bash
3 1 (0.51%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 30 (15.23%) Security Cleared
2 28 (14.21%) PMI Certification
3 25 (12.69%) PMP
4 24 (12.18%) SC Cleared
5 12 (6.09%) Degree
6 10 (5.08%) DV Cleared
7 8 (4.06%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 3 (1.52%) Azure Certification
9 2 (1.02%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (1.02%) ISTQB
9 2 (1.02%) Master's Degree
9 2 (1.02%) MBA
9 2 (1.02%) PgMP
9 2 (1.02%) Six Sigma Black Belt
9 2 (1.02%) Six Sigma Green Belt
10 1 (0.51%) BC Cleared
10 1 (0.51%) CCIE
10 1 (0.51%) CCNP
10 1 (0.51%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.51%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (4.06%) PMO
3 7 (3.55%) GDPR
4 5 (2.54%) Cyber Essentials
4 5 (2.54%) QA
4 5 (2.54%) SLA
5 3 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 42001
5 3 (1.52%) NIST
5 3 (1.52%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.02%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (1.02%) GRC
6 2 (1.02%) NCSC
6 2 (1.02%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.51%) Dodd-Frank
7 1 (0.51%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.51%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 8 (4.06%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.51%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (0.51%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (3.05%) Terraform
2 4 (2.03%) FortiGate
3 3 (1.52%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (1.02%) Ansible
4 2 (1.02%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
4 2 (1.02%) Kubernetes
4 2 (1.02%) SCCM
5 1 (0.51%) Cisco CUCM
5 1 (0.51%) Cisco Prime
5 1 (0.51%) Grafana
5 1 (0.51%) Iperf
5 1 (0.51%) Istio
5 1 (0.51%) linkerd
5 1 (0.51%) Nmap
5 1 (0.51%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.51%) RSA Archer
5 1 (0.51%) SolarWinds Orion
5 1 (0.51%) Tivoli
5 1 (0.51%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 20 (10.15%) Microsoft
2 9 (4.57%) ServiceNow
2 9 (4.57%) VMware
3 8 (4.06%) Cisco
4 7 (3.55%) Oracle
5 5 (2.54%) CheckPoint
5 5 (2.54%) SAP
6 4 (2.03%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.02%) Ariba
7 2 (1.02%) Dell
7 2 (1.02%) Google
7 2 (1.02%) Juniper
7 2 (1.02%) Meraki
7 2 (1.02%) SolarWinds
8 1 (0.51%) Avaya
8 1 (0.51%) Citrix
8 1 (0.51%) EMC
8 1 (0.51%) Genesys
8 1 (0.51%) HP
8 1 (0.51%) IBM