Infrastructure Manager Contract Job Trends

Infrastructure Manager
UK

The median Infrastructure Manager daily rate in the UK is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 452 404 394
Rank change year-on-year -48 -10 -17
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Manager 116 159 264
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.35% 0.41% 0.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.39% 0.44% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 105 190
10th Percentile £364 £325 £398
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -
75th Percentile £608 £588 £600
90th Percentile £685 £687 £701
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £48.14
Median hourly rate - - £48.28
75th Percentile - - £48.42
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £48.28
% change year-on-year - - +18.54%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 30,003 35,798 46,379
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.06% 92.95% 94.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,960 22,064 31,748
10th Percentile £278 £300 £300
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,577 1,684 1,483
10th Percentile £13.75 £14.73 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +71.15%
75th Percentile £52.50 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year -44.11% +4.65% +95.45%

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
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 18 September 2025.

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 15 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 18 September 2025. 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 -19 102 £550 +7.32% 51
UK excluding London -29 56 £550 +10.00% 37
London +6 48 £500 -2.68% 21
Work from Home +8 42 £450 -13.25% 14
Midlands -16 17 £538 +7.50% 2
West Midlands -10 12 £575 +5.50% 1
North of England -16 12 £500 +5.26% 14
South East +5 9 £588 +4.44% 11
Yorkshire -13 9 £500 -9.09% 3
South West +25 7 £750 +46.34% 6
East of England 0 7 £600 +50.00% 4
East Midlands -2 5 £471 -5.75% 1
Scotland +1 3 £465 +46.89% 1
North West -18 3 £488 +8.33% 10
Wales +5 1 £450 -

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

For the 6 months to 18 September 2025, 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 47 (40.52%) Social Skills
2 39 (33.62%) Finance
3 36 (31.03%) Project Management
4 34 (29.31%) Stakeholder Management
5 33 (28.45%) Azure
6 29 (25.00%) Data Centre
7 24 (20.69%) Agile
8 23 (19.83%) Project Delivery
9 22 (18.97%) Migration
10 21 (18.10%) PRINCE2
11 20 (17.24%) Firewall
12 19 (16.38%) Risk Management
12 19 (16.38%) Microsoft
13 18 (15.52%) Windows
14 16 (13.79%) AWS
15 15 (12.93%) Banking
15 15 (12.93%) Change Management
15 15 (12.93%) Disaster Recovery
15 15 (12.93%) Cisco
15 15 (12.93%) Waterfall
15 15 (12.93%) Security Cleared
16 14 (12.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 13 (11.21%) PMP
18 12 (10.34%) PMI Certification
18 12 (10.34%) Service Management
19 11 (9.48%) WAN
19 11 (9.48%) Degree
19 11 (9.48%) SC Cleared
19 11 (9.48%) Microsoft 365
19 11 (9.48%) Problem-Solving

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 3 (2.59%) Confluence
1 3 (2.59%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.72%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.86%) HCL Notes
3 1 (0.86%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 5 (4.31%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (2.59%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.86%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 33 (28.45%) Azure
2 16 (13.79%) AWS
3 11 (9.48%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (4.31%) Entra ID
5 4 (3.45%) IaaS
5 4 (3.45%) SaaS
6 3 (2.59%) Azure Sentinel
6 3 (2.59%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (2.59%) OneDrive
7 2 (1.72%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (1.72%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (1.72%) GCP
7 2 (1.72%) PaaS
8 1 (0.86%) Akamai
8 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (0.86%) Nutanix
8 1 (0.86%) OCI
8 1 (0.86%) Serverless
8 1 (0.86%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 20 (17.24%) Firewall
2 11 (9.48%) WAN
3 9 (7.76%) LAN
4 4 (3.45%) SAN
4 4 (3.45%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (2.59%) NAS
5 3 (2.59%) SD-WAN
5 3 (2.59%) Unified Communications
5 3 (2.59%) VPN
6 1 (0.86%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (0.86%) MPLS
6 1 (0.86%) Network Security
6 1 (0.86%) Skype
6 1 (0.86%) Structured Cabling
6 1 (0.86%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.86%) WebEx
6 1 (0.86%) Wireless
6 1 (0.86%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.59%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.86%) Data Lake
2 1 (0.86%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 6 (5.17%) JIRA
General
1 47 (40.52%) Social Skills
2 39 (33.62%) Finance
3 15 (12.93%) Banking
4 10 (8.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (6.90%) Manufacturing
6 6 (5.17%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (4.31%) Public Sector
8 4 (3.45%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (3.45%) Investment Banking
8 4 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (3.45%) Retail
8 4 (3.45%) Telecoms
9 3 (2.59%) Automotive
9 3 (2.59%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.72%) Back Office
10 2 (1.72%) Law
10 2 (1.72%) Local Government
11 1 (0.86%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.86%) Multimedia
11 1 (0.86%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (6.90%) RFC 2544
2 1 (0.86%) 802.1X
2 1 (0.86%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 29 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 9 (7.76%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (4.31%) Onboarding
4 4 (3.45%) Mainframe
5 3 (2.59%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.72%) Driving Licence
6 2 (1.72%) FMCG
6 2 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.72%) Life Science
6 2 (1.72%) PMI
6 2 (1.72%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.72%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.86%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.86%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.86%) Operational Technology
7 1 (0.86%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.86%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (0.86%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.86%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 18 (15.52%) Windows
2 7 (6.03%) Windows Server
3 3 (2.59%) Linux
3 3 (2.59%) Unix
4 1 (0.86%) Android
4 1 (0.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.86%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.86%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (31.03%) Project Management
2 34 (29.31%) Stakeholder Management
3 24 (20.69%) Agile
4 23 (19.83%) Project Delivery
5 22 (18.97%) Migration
6 21 (18.10%) PRINCE2
7 19 (16.38%) Risk Management
8 15 (12.93%) Change Management
8 15 (12.93%) Disaster Recovery
8 15 (12.93%) Waterfall
9 14 (12.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 12 (10.34%) Service Management
11 11 (9.48%) Problem-Solving
12 9 (7.76%) Defect Management
12 9 (7.76%) Resource Management
13 8 (6.90%) Data Centre Operations
13 8 (6.90%) Test Management
13 8 (6.90%) Test Planning
13 8 (6.90%) Test Scripting
13 8 (6.90%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 2 (1.72%) SQL
2 1 (0.86%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 15 (12.93%) Security Cleared
2 13 (11.21%) PMP
3 12 (10.34%) PMI Certification
4 11 (9.48%) Degree
4 11 (9.48%) SC Cleared
5 3 (2.59%) RIBA
6 2 (1.72%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.72%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (1.72%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.72%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 1 (0.86%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.86%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.86%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.45%) PMO
2 3 (2.59%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (2.59%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 3 (2.59%) GxP
2 3 (2.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (2.59%) QA
3 1 (0.86%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.86%) GDPR
3 1 (0.86%) NIST
System Software
1 10 (8.62%) Active Directory
2 6 (5.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (2.59%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.86%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 4 (3.45%) Terraform
2 3 (2.59%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (1.72%) Ansible
3 2 (1.72%) Puppet
3 2 (1.72%) SCCM
4 1 (0.86%) Cisco CUCM
4 1 (0.86%) WSUS
Vendors
1 19 (16.38%) Microsoft
2 15 (12.93%) Cisco
3 9 (7.76%) VMware
4 7 (6.03%) SAP
5 4 (3.45%) Oracle
5 4 (3.45%) ServiceNow
6 3 (2.59%) Ariba
7 2 (1.72%) Fortinet
7 2 (1.72%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.86%) Citrix
8 1 (0.86%) Dell KACE
8 1 (0.86%) IFS
8 1 (0.86%) Infoblox
8 1 (0.86%) Lotus
8 1 (0.86%) Meraki
8 1 (0.86%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.86%) Samsung
8 1 (0.86%) SolarWinds
8 1 (0.86%) Splunk
8 1 (0.86%) Ubiquiti