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 1 September 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 456 434 419
Rank change year-on-year -22 -15 -19
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Manager 216 121 165
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.40% 0.37% 0.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.44% 0.40% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 86 109
10th Percentile £451 £362 £324
25th Percentile £500 £413 £450
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 £737 £669 £690
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 49,606 29,880 35,937
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.46% 91.25% 93.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,580 18,873 22,662
10th Percentile £325 £281 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.69%
75th Percentile £625 £623 £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 3,581 1,559 1,838
10th Percentile £14.96 £13.69 £14.16
25th Percentile £20.53 £17.04 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £67.84 £53.81 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £70.33 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.95
% change year-on-year +68.99% -42.78% +11.13%

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 1 September 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 1 September 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 -31 198 £573 +9.05% 132
UK excluding London -39 115 £525 - 74
London -48 79 £605 +30.11% 69
Work from Home -40 56 £550 +22.22% 68
North of England -52 30 £525 +12.00% 20
South West -18 26 £600 -20.00% 12
Yorkshire -21 26 £525 +16.02% 7
South East -49 22 £500 -13.04% 20
East of England -11 18 £545 -9.17% 6
Midlands -56 15 £625 +19.05% 6
West Midlands -50 12 £625 +13.64% 5
East Midlands -15 3 £475 +2.70% 1
North West -54 3 £525 +10.53% 12
Scotland -21 2 £515 +10.87% 7
Northern Ireland - 2 £550 - 3
North East -45 1 - - 2

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

For the 6 months to 1 September 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 59 (27.31%) Stakeholder Management
2 50 (23.15%) Project Management
3 48 (22.22%) Azure
4 40 (18.52%) Agile
4 40 (18.52%) Migration
5 37 (17.13%) Project Delivery
6 33 (15.28%) Windows
7 32 (14.81%) Security Cleared
8 30 (13.89%) PRINCE2
9 21 (9.72%) Change Management
9 21 (9.72%) Microsoft 365
9 21 (9.72%) VMware
10 20 (9.26%) ITIL
10 20 (9.26%) PMP
11 19 (8.80%) PMI Certification
11 19 (8.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 19 (8.80%) Waterfall
12 18 (8.33%) AWS
12 18 (8.33%) DV Cleared
12 18 (8.33%) Infrastructure Transformation
12 18 (8.33%) Microsoft
12 18 (8.33%) Project Governance
12 18 (8.33%) Risk Management
13 17 (7.87%) SC Cleared
14 15 (6.94%) Continuous Improvement
15 13 (6.02%) Budget Management
15 13 (6.02%) Firewall
15 13 (6.02%) Network Security
15 13 (6.02%) Roadmaps
16 12 (5.56%) Change Control

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 (2.31%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.39%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.93%) IIS
4 1 (0.46%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (3.24%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (1.85%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.93%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 2 (0.93%) Houdini
3 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.93%) NUKE
Cloud Services
1 48 (22.22%) Azure
2 21 (9.72%) Microsoft 365
3 18 (8.33%) AWS
4 9 (4.17%) OCI
5 4 (1.85%) OpenShift
6 3 (1.39%) Entra ID
6 3 (1.39%) Power Platform
7 2 (0.93%) Asana
7 2 (0.93%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (0.93%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (0.93%) SaaS
8 1 (0.46%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.46%) GCP
8 1 (0.46%) Google Ads
8 1 (0.46%) Google Workspace
8 1 (0.46%) IaaS
8 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Copilot
8 1 (0.46%) OneDrive
8 1 (0.46%) PaaS
8 1 (0.46%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 13 (6.02%) Firewall
1 13 (6.02%) Network Security
2 10 (4.63%) DNS
3 9 (4.17%) WAN
4 8 (3.70%) LAN
5 7 (3.24%) SAN
6 5 (2.31%) DHCP
6 5 (2.31%) NAS
6 5 (2.31%) Structured Cabling
6 5 (2.31%) TCP/IP
7 4 (1.85%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (1.85%) Wireless
8 3 (1.39%) Broadband
8 3 (1.39%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.93%) HTTP
9 2 (0.93%) SSL
9 2 (0.93%) Unified Communications
9 2 (0.93%) VLAN
9 2 (0.93%) VPN
10 1 (0.46%) 4G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.85%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.93%) Power BI
3 1 (0.46%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 11 (5.09%) JIRA
General
1 57 (26.39%) Finance
2 45 (20.83%) Social Skills
3 23 (10.65%) Public Sector
4 14 (6.48%) Banking
5 11 (5.09%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (4.63%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (2.78%) Retail
7 6 (2.78%) Telecoms
8 5 (2.31%) Local Government
8 5 (2.31%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.93%) Law
9 2 (0.93%) Legal
10 1 (0.46%) Automotive
10 1 (0.46%) Aviation
10 1 (0.46%) Back Office
10 1 (0.46%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.46%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.46%) Military
10 1 (0.46%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.39%) Terraform
2 2 (0.93%) Middleware
2 2 (0.93%) Unreal Engine
3 1 (0.46%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 37 (17.13%) Data Centre
2 7 (3.24%) Private Cloud
3 5 (2.31%) Enterprise Storage
3 5 (2.31%) Onboarding
4 4 (1.85%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (1.85%) Virtual Team
5 3 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (1.39%) Enterprise Cloud
5 3 (1.39%) Management Information System
5 3 (1.39%) Operational Technology
6 2 (0.93%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (0.93%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (0.93%) Motion Graphics
6 2 (0.93%) PMI
6 2 (0.93%) Public Cloud
6 2 (0.93%) Replication
6 2 (0.93%) Robotics
6 2 (0.93%) Security Posture
6 2 (0.93%) Social Media
7 1 (0.46%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 33 (15.28%) Windows
2 12 (5.56%) Windows Server
3 11 (5.09%) Linux
4 5 (2.31%) Unix
5 2 (0.93%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.46%) VMS
6 1 (0.46%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.46%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.46%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.46%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (27.31%) Stakeholder Management
2 50 (23.15%) Project Management
3 40 (18.52%) Agile
3 40 (18.52%) Migration
4 37 (17.13%) Project Delivery
5 30 (13.89%) PRINCE2
6 21 (9.72%) Change Management
7 20 (9.26%) ITIL
8 19 (8.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 19 (8.80%) Waterfall
9 18 (8.33%) Infrastructure Transformation
9 18 (8.33%) Project Governance
9 18 (8.33%) Risk Management
10 15 (6.94%) Continuous Improvement
11 13 (6.02%) Budget Management
11 13 (6.02%) Roadmaps
12 12 (5.56%) Change Control
12 12 (5.56%) Disaster Recovery
12 12 (5.56%) Problem-Solving
12 12 (5.56%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (1.39%) PowerShell
2 2 (0.93%) SQL
Qualifications
1 32 (14.81%) Security Cleared
2 20 (9.26%) PMP
3 19 (8.80%) PMI Certification
4 18 (8.33%) DV Cleared
5 17 (7.87%) SC Cleared
6 8 (3.70%) Degree
7 7 (3.24%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 6 (2.78%) Azure Certification
9 4 (1.85%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.93%) CISSP
10 2 (0.93%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.93%) MBA
10 2 (0.93%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 1 (0.46%) CCNA
11 1 (0.46%) CCSP
11 1 (0.46%) CISM
11 1 (0.46%) ISEB
11 1 (0.46%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.78%) PMO
1 6 (2.78%) QA
2 5 (2.31%) GDPR
2 5 (2.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.39%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (1.39%) NIST
4 2 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (0.93%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.46%) Dodd-Frank
5 1 (0.46%) GRC
5 1 (0.46%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.46%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (3.24%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.39%) vSphere
4 2 (0.93%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.46%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.46%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 2 (0.93%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
1 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (0.93%) SCCM
2 1 (0.46%) Ansible
2 1 (0.46%) Cisco CUCM
2 1 (0.46%) FortiGate
2 1 (0.46%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.46%) RSA Archer
2 1 (0.46%) SolarWinds Orion
2 1 (0.46%) Tivoli
2 1 (0.46%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 1 (0.46%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 21 (9.72%) VMware
2 18 (8.33%) Microsoft
3 8 (3.70%) Cisco
4 6 (2.78%) Oracle
5 5 (2.31%) CheckPoint
5 5 (2.31%) NetApp
5 5 (2.31%) SAP
6 4 (1.85%) Dell
6 4 (1.85%) Red Hat
7 3 (1.39%) Meraki
7 3 (1.39%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.93%) Adobe
8 2 (0.93%) Foundry
8 2 (0.93%) HP
8 2 (0.93%) IBM
8 2 (0.93%) Juniper
9 1 (0.46%) Ariba
9 1 (0.46%) Commvault
9 1 (0.46%) EMC
9 1 (0.46%) Hitachi