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 29 April 2026.

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

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 442 406 418
Rank change year-on-year -36 +12 -81
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Manager 180 123 177
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.38% 0.42% 0.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.41% 0.46% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 92 130
10th Percentile £415 £383 £396
25th Percentile £463 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £578 £625
90th Percentile £734 £638 £689
UK excluding London median daily rate £509 £488 £550
% change year-on-year +4.36% -11.36% +14.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 43,468 27,008 40,187
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.33% 92.57% 92.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,813 17,658 26,169
10th Percentile £315 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £407 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £475 £491
% change year-on-year +3.16% -3.27% -1.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,818 1,032 2,646
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.20 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.43 £18.51 £16.30
Median hourly rate £43.69 £29.15 £35.96
Median % change year-on-year +49.88% -18.93% -20.10%
75th Percentile £65.88 £62.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.23 £28.75 £37.75
% change year-on-year +57.32% -23.84% -11.18%

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 29 April 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 29 April 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 -42 157 £550 +10.00% 30
UK excluding London -50 90 £509 +4.36% 34
London -61 69 £610 +16.19% 7
Work from Home -21 55 £550 +15.79% 9
North of England -60 28 £500 +3.90%
Yorkshire -41 25 £500 -
South East -51 20 £496 -0.75% 14
Midlands -58 17 £625 +38.89% 8
East of England -22 15 £473 -24.40% 3
West Midlands -54 12 £625 +25.00% 6
South West -31 7 £475 -3.80% 6
East Midlands -36 6 £475 +11.76% 2
Scotland +3 5 £550 +18.41% 4
North West -36 3 £488 -11.36%

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

For the 6 months to 29 April 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 58 (32.22%) Stakeholder Management
2 55 (30.56%) Project Management
3 42 (23.33%) Agile
4 34 (18.89%) PRINCE2
5 31 (17.22%) Azure
5 31 (17.22%) Project Delivery
6 27 (15.00%) PMI Certification
6 27 (15.00%) Security Cleared
7 25 (13.89%) Migration
7 25 (13.89%) PMP
7 25 (13.89%) SC Cleared
8 23 (12.78%) Risk Management
9 18 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 18 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 17 (9.44%) Budget Management
10 17 (9.44%) Windows
11 16 (8.89%) Microsoft
12 15 (8.33%) Change Management
12 15 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
12 15 (8.33%) Roadmaps
13 14 (7.78%) AWS
13 14 (7.78%) ITIL
13 14 (7.78%) Waterfall
14 13 (7.22%) Firewall
15 12 (6.67%) Decision-Making
15 12 (6.67%) Infrastructure Transformation
15 12 (6.67%) JIRA
15 12 (6.67%) Network Security
15 12 (6.67%) Programme Management
16 11 (6.11%) WAN

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 4 (2.22%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.67%) Confluence
3 1 (0.56%) Apache Pulsar
3 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.56%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (2.22%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (2.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 4 (2.22%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (1.11%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (0.56%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 31 (17.22%) Azure
2 14 (7.78%) AWS
3 10 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (4.44%) OCI
5 7 (3.89%) OpenShift
6 5 (2.78%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (2.22%) Entra ID
8 3 (1.67%) GCP
9 2 (1.11%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 2 (1.11%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (1.11%) IaaS
9 2 (1.11%) PaaS
9 2 (1.11%) Power Platform
10 1 (0.56%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (0.56%) AWS KMS
10 1 (0.56%) Azure AKS
10 1 (0.56%) Azure API Management
10 1 (0.56%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 1 (0.56%) Kong
10 1 (0.56%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 13 (7.22%) Firewall
2 12 (6.67%) Network Security
3 11 (6.11%) WAN
4 9 (5.00%) SD-WAN
5 8 (4.44%) LAN
6 7 (3.89%) Structured Cabling
6 7 (3.89%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (2.22%) Wireless
8 3 (1.67%) VLAN
9 2 (1.11%) DNS
9 2 (1.11%) Internet
9 2 (1.11%) MPLS
9 2 (1.11%) WLAN
10 1 (0.56%) BGP
10 1 (0.56%) BT 21CN
10 1 (0.56%) OSPF
10 1 (0.56%) SAN
10 1 (0.56%) TCP/IP
10 1 (0.56%) VPN
10 1 (0.56%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.56%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 12 (6.67%) JIRA
2 1 (0.56%) Git
General
1 48 (26.67%) Finance
2 38 (21.11%) Social Skills
3 17 (9.44%) Public Sector
4 12 (6.67%) Banking
5 11 (6.11%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (5.56%) Telecoms
7 9 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
8 7 (3.89%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (2.78%) Manufacturing
10 4 (2.22%) Legal
11 3 (1.67%) Local Government
11 3 (1.67%) Retail
12 2 (1.11%) Aviation
12 2 (1.11%) Financial Institution
12 2 (1.11%) French Language
12 2 (1.11%) Investment Banking
12 2 (1.11%) Law
13 1 (0.56%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.56%) Back Office
13 1 (0.56%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.56%) ADO
1 1 (0.56%) Kafka
1 1 (0.56%) Middleware
1 1 (0.56%) OAuth
1 1 (0.56%) OAuth2
1 1 (0.56%) OpenTelemetry
1 1 (0.56%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 33 (18.33%) Data Centre
2 6 (3.33%) PMI
3 4 (2.22%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (2.22%) Mainframe
3 4 (2.22%) Onboarding
4 3 (1.67%) Legacy Applications
4 3 (1.67%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.11%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.11%) NHS
5 2 (1.11%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.11%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (0.56%) Chip and PIN
6 1 (0.56%) Culture of Ownership
6 1 (0.56%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (0.56%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.56%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (0.56%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.56%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.56%) Self-Driving Car
Operating Systems
1 17 (9.44%) Windows
2 8 (4.44%) Windows Server
3 3 (1.67%) VMS
4 2 (1.11%) Linux
5 1 (0.56%) Android
5 1 (0.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (32.22%) Stakeholder Management
2 55 (30.56%) Project Management
3 42 (23.33%) Agile
4 34 (18.89%) PRINCE2
5 31 (17.22%) Project Delivery
6 25 (13.89%) Migration
7 23 (12.78%) Risk Management
8 18 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 18 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 17 (9.44%) Budget Management
10 15 (8.33%) Change Management
10 15 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
10 15 (8.33%) Roadmaps
11 14 (7.78%) ITIL
11 14 (7.78%) Waterfall
12 12 (6.67%) Decision-Making
12 12 (6.67%) Infrastructure Transformation
12 12 (6.67%) Programme Management
13 10 (5.56%) Budgeting and Forecasting
13 10 (5.56%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 2 (1.11%) Python
2 1 (0.56%) Bash
2 1 (0.56%) Bicep
2 1 (0.56%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 27 (15.00%) PMI Certification
1 27 (15.00%) Security Cleared
2 25 (13.89%) PMP
2 25 (13.89%) SC Cleared
3 10 (5.56%) Degree
4 7 (3.89%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 6 (3.33%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.11%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.11%) ISTQB
6 2 (1.11%) PgMP
6 2 (1.11%) Six Sigma Black Belt
6 2 (1.11%) Six Sigma Green Belt
7 1 (0.56%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.56%) BC Cleared
7 1 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.56%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.56%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 1 (0.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.56%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.56%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.89%) PMO
2 6 (3.33%) GDPR
2 6 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (2.78%) QA
3 5 (2.78%) SLA
4 3 (1.67%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 3 (1.67%) NIST
5 2 (1.11%) NCSC
5 2 (1.11%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.56%) Dodd-Frank
6 1 (0.56%) GRC
6 1 (0.56%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 9 (5.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.56%) Docker
2 1 (0.56%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.56%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (3.33%) Terraform
2 4 (2.22%) FortiGate
3 3 (1.67%) Ansible
3 3 (1.67%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (1.11%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
4 2 (1.11%) Kubernetes
4 2 (1.11%) SCCM
5 1 (0.56%) Cisco CUCM
5 1 (0.56%) Cisco Prime
5 1 (0.56%) Consul
5 1 (0.56%) Grafana
5 1 (0.56%) Iperf
5 1 (0.56%) Istio
5 1 (0.56%) linkerd
5 1 (0.56%) Nmap
5 1 (0.56%) Packer
5 1 (0.56%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.56%) RSA Archer
5 1 (0.56%) SCOM
5 1 (0.56%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 16 (8.89%) Microsoft
2 9 (5.00%) ServiceNow
3 8 (4.44%) Cisco
4 7 (3.89%) Oracle
5 6 (3.33%) SAP
6 5 (2.78%) CheckPoint
7 4 (2.22%) VMware
8 3 (1.67%) Ariba
8 3 (1.67%) Red Hat
9 2 (1.11%) Juniper
9 2 (1.11%) Meraki
9 2 (1.11%) SolarWinds
10 1 (0.56%) Aruba
10 1 (0.56%) NVIDIA
10 1 (0.56%) Palo Alto
10 1 (0.56%) Pure Storage
10 1 (0.56%) Splunk
10 1 (0.56%) Tufin
10 1 (0.56%) Varonis
10 1 (0.56%) Workday