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 19 April 2026.

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

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 449 395 415
Rank change year-on-year -54 +20 -88
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Manager 175 126 173
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.38% 0.43% 0.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.41% 0.46% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 94 130
10th Percentile £405 £400 £400
25th Percentile £463 £425 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £587 £625
90th Percentile £725 £657 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £488 £550
% change year-on-year +2.56% -11.36% +15.79%
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 42,592 27,248 40,561
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.22% 92.60% 92.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,414 17,867 26,505
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £406 £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 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £475 £493
% change year-on-year +2.63% -3.65% -1.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,707 994 2,611
10th Percentile £14.96 £14.55 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.35 £19.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £41.94 £30.45 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +37.73% -13.00% -22.22%
75th Percentile £65.60 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.70 £75.43 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.00 £29.53 £36.27
% change year-on-year +45.64% -18.60% -14.17%

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 19 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 19 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 -63 152 £525 +5.00% 44
UK excluding London -80 80 £500 +2.56% 43
London -30 75 £600 +14.29% 8
Work from Home -20 53 £550 +10.00% 15
North of England -67 24 £488 +5.41% 5
Yorkshire -42 21 £488 -2.50% 2
South East -42 20 £496 -0.75% 15
Midlands -63 16 £613 +36.11% 9
East of England -19 13 £445 -28.80% 7
West Midlands -58 11 £625 +25.00% 6
East Midlands -29 6 £475 +11.76% 3
Scotland +4 5 £550 +18.41% 3
South West -28 4 £475 -3.80% 7
North West -46 3 £488 -11.36% 3

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

For the 6 months to 19 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 60 (34.29%) Project Management
2 57 (32.57%) Stakeholder Management
3 38 (21.71%) Agile
3 38 (21.71%) PRINCE2
4 32 (18.29%) Project Delivery
5 31 (17.71%) PMI Certification
6 30 (17.14%) PMP
7 28 (16.00%) Azure
8 26 (14.86%) Security Cleared
9 25 (14.29%) Risk Management
10 24 (13.71%) Migration
10 24 (13.71%) SC Cleared
11 20 (11.43%) Continuous Improvement
12 18 (10.29%) Microsoft
12 18 (10.29%) Problem-Solving
12 18 (10.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 17 (9.71%) Budget Management
14 16 (9.14%) Windows
15 14 (8.00%) Change Management
15 14 (8.00%) Firewall
16 13 (7.43%) AWS
16 13 (7.43%) ITIL
16 13 (7.43%) Roadmaps
17 12 (6.86%) Decision-Making
18 11 (6.29%) Change Control
18 11 (6.29%) Infrastructure Transformation
18 11 (6.29%) JIRA
18 11 (6.29%) Programme Management
18 11 (6.29%) WAN
18 11 (6.29%) Waterfall

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 (2.86%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.71%) Confluence
3 1 (0.57%) Apache Pulsar
3 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.57%) nginx
Applications
1 5 (2.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (2.29%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.14%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.57%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.57%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (0.57%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 28 (16.00%) Azure
2 13 (7.43%) AWS
3 10 (5.71%) OpenShift
4 9 (5.14%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (4.57%) OCI
6 5 (2.86%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (2.29%) Entra ID
8 3 (1.71%) GCP
9 2 (1.14%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 2 (1.14%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (1.14%) IaaS
9 2 (1.14%) PaaS
9 2 (1.14%) Power Platform
10 1 (0.57%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (0.57%) AWS KMS
10 1 (0.57%) Azure AKS
10 1 (0.57%) Azure API Management
10 1 (0.57%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 1 (0.57%) Kong
10 1 (0.57%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 14 (8.00%) Firewall
2 11 (6.29%) WAN
3 9 (5.14%) LAN
3 9 (5.14%) Network Security
3 9 (5.14%) SD-WAN
4 7 (4.00%) Wi-Fi
5 6 (3.43%) Structured Cabling
6 3 (1.71%) VLAN
6 3 (1.71%) Wireless
7 2 (1.14%) DNS
7 2 (1.14%) Internet
7 2 (1.14%) MPLS
7 2 (1.14%) Multicast
7 2 (1.14%) VPN
7 2 (1.14%) WLAN
8 1 (0.57%) BT 21CN
8 1 (0.57%) Cisco ASA
8 1 (0.57%) NaaS
8 1 (0.57%) NAS
8 1 (0.57%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.57%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 11 (6.29%) JIRA
2 1 (0.57%) Git
General
1 51 (29.14%) Finance
2 43 (24.57%) Social Skills
3 14 (8.00%) Public Sector
4 12 (6.86%) Banking
5 11 (6.29%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (6.29%) Organisational Skills
6 10 (5.71%) Telecoms
7 6 (3.43%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (2.86%) Manufacturing
9 4 (2.29%) Legal
9 4 (2.29%) Retail
10 3 (1.71%) Local Government
11 2 (1.14%) Aviation
11 2 (1.14%) French Language
11 2 (1.14%) Investment Banking
11 2 (1.14%) Law
12 1 (0.57%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.57%) Back Office
12 1 (0.57%) Electronics
12 1 (0.57%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.57%) ADO
1 1 (0.57%) Kafka
1 1 (0.57%) Middleware
1 1 (0.57%) OAuth
1 1 (0.57%) OAuth2
1 1 (0.57%) OpenTelemetry
1 1 (0.57%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 34 (19.43%) Data Centre
2 5 (2.86%) PMI
3 4 (2.29%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (2.29%) Mainframe
3 4 (2.29%) Onboarding
4 3 (1.71%) Legacy Applications
4 3 (1.71%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.14%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.14%) CCTV
5 2 (1.14%) NHS
5 2 (1.14%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (0.57%) Culture of Ownership
6 1 (0.57%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (0.57%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.57%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (0.57%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.57%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.57%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.57%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.57%) Self-Driving Car
Operating Systems
1 16 (9.14%) Windows
2 8 (4.57%) Windows Server
3 4 (2.29%) VMS
4 2 (1.14%) Linux
5 1 (0.57%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (34.29%) Project Management
2 57 (32.57%) Stakeholder Management
3 38 (21.71%) Agile
3 38 (21.71%) PRINCE2
4 32 (18.29%) Project Delivery
5 25 (14.29%) Risk Management
6 24 (13.71%) Migration
7 20 (11.43%) Continuous Improvement
8 18 (10.29%) Problem-Solving
8 18 (10.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 17 (9.71%) Budget Management
10 14 (8.00%) Change Management
11 13 (7.43%) ITIL
11 13 (7.43%) Roadmaps
12 12 (6.86%) Decision-Making
13 11 (6.29%) Change Control
13 11 (6.29%) Infrastructure Transformation
13 11 (6.29%) Programme Management
13 11 (6.29%) Waterfall
14 10 (5.71%) Budgeting and Forecasting
Programming Languages
1 2 (1.14%) Python
2 1 (0.57%) Bash
2 1 (0.57%) Bicep
2 1 (0.57%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 31 (17.71%) PMI Certification
2 30 (17.14%) PMP
3 26 (14.86%) Security Cleared
4 24 (13.71%) SC Cleared
5 9 (5.14%) Degree
6 7 (4.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 6 (3.43%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.14%) Six Sigma Black Belt
8 2 (1.14%) Six Sigma Green Belt
9 1 (0.57%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.57%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.57%) BC Cleared
9 1 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.57%) CCIE
9 1 (0.57%) CCNP
9 1 (0.57%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.57%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.57%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.57%) PgMP
9 1 (0.57%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.00%) PMO
2 6 (3.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (2.86%) GDPR
3 5 (2.86%) QA
3 5 (2.86%) SLA
4 3 (1.71%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 3 (1.71%) NIST
5 2 (1.14%) NCSC
5 2 (1.14%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.57%) GRC
6 1 (0.57%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 9 (5.14%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.57%) Docker
2 1 (0.57%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.57%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.57%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (3.43%) Terraform
2 5 (2.86%) Ansible
3 4 (2.29%) FortiGate
3 4 (2.29%) SCCM
4 3 (1.71%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (1.71%) SCOM
5 2 (1.14%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
5 2 (1.14%) Kubernetes
6 1 (0.57%) Cisco CUCM
6 1 (0.57%) Cisco Prime
6 1 (0.57%) Consul
6 1 (0.57%) Grafana
6 1 (0.57%) Iperf
6 1 (0.57%) Istio
6 1 (0.57%) linkerd
6 1 (0.57%) Nmap
6 1 (0.57%) Packer
6 1 (0.57%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.57%) RSA Archer
6 1 (0.57%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 18 (10.29%) Microsoft
2 10 (5.71%) ServiceNow
3 8 (4.57%) Cisco
4 7 (4.00%) Oracle
5 6 (3.43%) SAP
6 5 (2.86%) CheckPoint
7 3 (1.71%) Ariba
7 3 (1.71%) BMC
7 3 (1.71%) VMware
8 2 (1.14%) Juniper
8 2 (1.14%) Meraki
8 2 (1.14%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.14%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.57%) Arista
9 1 (0.57%) Aruba
9 1 (0.57%) Palo Alto
9 1 (0.57%) Splunk
9 1 (0.57%) Tufin
9 1 (0.57%) Varonis
9 1 (0.57%) Workday