Infrastructure Manager Contract Job Trends

Infrastructure Manager
UK

The median Infrastructure Manager daily rate in the UK is £535, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 7 April 2026.

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

6 months to
7 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 455 403 428
Rank change year-on-year -52 +25 -97
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Manager 164 128 172
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.36% 0.44% 0.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.39% 0.47% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 95 126
10th Percentile £405 £400 £400
25th Percentile £463 £444 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.39% -6.82% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £623
90th Percentile £750 £690 £687
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £550
% change year-on-year -2.56% -11.36% +13.99%
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 42,056 27,143 40,722
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.24% 92.76% 92.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,180 17,855 26,652
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £406 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -3.05%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +2.63% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,649 962 2,545
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.99 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.00 £20.24 £16.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £31.76 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.94% -6.59% -23.65%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £76.25 £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.62 £30.93 £35.00
% change year-on-year +34.55% -11.63% -17.38%

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 7 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 7 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 -80 142 £525 +2.44% 40
London -48 75 £600 +9.09% 12
UK excluding London -92 69 £475 -2.56% 37
Work from Home -19 52 £550 +4.76% 14
South East -48 22 £475 -5.00% 11
North of England -68 19 £468 +1.19% 7
Yorkshire -45 16 £468 -6.40% 3
Midlands -68 13 £625 +38.89% 9
East of England -26 10 £445 -28.80% 3
West Midlands -58 10 £638 +27.50% 7
Scotland +8 5 £550 +18.41% 2
East Midlands -32 4 £472 +10.94% 2
North West -37 3 £488 -11.36% 4
South West -34 2 £575 +15.00% 3

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

For the 6 months to 7 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 (36.59%) Project Management
2 56 (34.15%) Stakeholder Management
3 40 (24.39%) PRINCE2
4 36 (21.95%) Agile
5 35 (21.34%) Project Delivery
6 33 (20.12%) PMI Certification
7 32 (19.51%) PMP
8 29 (17.68%) Azure
9 26 (15.85%) Security Cleared
10 25 (15.24%) Risk Management
11 24 (14.63%) Migration
11 24 (14.63%) SC Cleared
12 20 (12.20%) Continuous Improvement
12 20 (12.20%) Microsoft
12 20 (12.20%) Problem-Solving
13 17 (10.37%) Budget Management
13 17 (10.37%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 15 (9.15%) AWS
14 15 (9.15%) Windows
15 14 (8.54%) Change Management
16 13 (7.93%) Decision-Making
16 13 (7.93%) ITIL
16 13 (7.93%) Roadmaps
17 12 (7.32%) Change Control
17 12 (7.32%) Firewall
17 12 (7.32%) Risk Register
18 11 (6.71%) Active Directory
18 11 (6.71%) Microsoft 365
18 11 (6.71%) Programme Management
18 11 (6.71%) 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 6 (3.66%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.83%) Confluence
3 1 (0.61%) Apache Pulsar
3 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.61%) nginx
Applications
1 5 (3.05%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (3.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (2.44%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.22%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.22%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.61%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (0.61%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 29 (17.68%) Azure
2 15 (9.15%) AWS
3 11 (6.71%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (6.10%) OpenShift
5 8 (4.88%) OCI
6 5 (3.05%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (2.44%) Entra ID
8 3 (1.83%) GCP
9 2 (1.22%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 2 (1.22%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (1.22%) IaaS
9 2 (1.22%) PaaS
9 2 (1.22%) Power Platform
10 1 (0.61%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (0.61%) AWS KMS
10 1 (0.61%) Azure AKS
10 1 (0.61%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 1 (0.61%) Google Workspace
10 1 (0.61%) Power Automate
10 1 (0.61%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 12 (7.32%) Firewall
2 11 (6.71%) WAN
3 9 (5.49%) LAN
3 9 (5.49%) SD-WAN
4 7 (4.27%) Network Security
4 7 (4.27%) Wi-Fi
5 6 (3.66%) Structured Cabling
6 3 (1.83%) Wireless
7 2 (1.22%) DNS
7 2 (1.22%) Internet
7 2 (1.22%) MPLS
7 2 (1.22%) Multicast
7 2 (1.22%) VPN
7 2 (1.22%) WLAN
8 1 (0.61%) BGP
8 1 (0.61%) NaaS
8 1 (0.61%) OSPF
8 1 (0.61%) SAN
8 1 (0.61%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.61%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.61%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 9 (5.49%) JIRA
2 1 (0.61%) Git
General
1 51 (31.10%) Finance
2 45 (27.44%) Social Skills
3 13 (7.93%) Organisational Skills
4 12 (7.32%) Banking
4 12 (7.32%) Public Sector
5 11 (6.71%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (6.10%) Telecoms
7 6 (3.66%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (3.05%) Manufacturing
8 5 (3.05%) Retail
9 4 (2.44%) Legal
10 3 (1.83%) Local Government
11 2 (1.22%) Aviation
11 2 (1.22%) French Language
11 2 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.22%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.61%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.61%) German Language
12 1 (0.61%) Marketing
12 1 (0.61%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.61%) ADO
1 1 (0.61%) Kafka
1 1 (0.61%) Middleware
1 1 (0.61%) OAuth
1 1 (0.61%) OAuth2
1 1 (0.61%) OpenTelemetry
1 1 (0.61%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 35 (21.34%) Data Centre
2 5 (3.05%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (3.05%) PMI
3 4 (2.44%) Mainframe
3 4 (2.44%) Management Information System
3 4 (2.44%) Onboarding
4 3 (1.83%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.22%) CCTV
5 2 (1.22%) NHS
5 2 (1.22%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (0.61%) CMDB
6 1 (0.61%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (0.61%) Hedge funds
6 1 (0.61%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.61%) Life Science
6 1 (0.61%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.61%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.61%) Self-Driving Car
6 1 (0.61%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 15 (9.15%) Windows
2 9 (5.49%) Windows Server
3 4 (2.44%) VMS
4 2 (1.22%) Linux
5 1 (0.61%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (36.59%) Project Management
2 56 (34.15%) Stakeholder Management
3 40 (24.39%) PRINCE2
4 36 (21.95%) Agile
5 35 (21.34%) Project Delivery
6 25 (15.24%) Risk Management
7 24 (14.63%) Migration
8 20 (12.20%) Continuous Improvement
8 20 (12.20%) Problem-Solving
9 17 (10.37%) Budget Management
9 17 (10.37%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 14 (8.54%) Change Management
11 13 (7.93%) Decision-Making
11 13 (7.93%) ITIL
11 13 (7.93%) Roadmaps
12 12 (7.32%) Change Control
12 12 (7.32%) Risk Register
13 11 (6.71%) Programme Management
14 10 (6.10%) Budgeting and Forecasting
15 9 (5.49%) Infrastructure Transformation
Programming Languages
1 2 (1.22%) Python
2 1 (0.61%) Bash
2 1 (0.61%) Bicep
2 1 (0.61%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 33 (20.12%) PMI Certification
2 32 (19.51%) PMP
3 26 (15.85%) Security Cleared
4 24 (14.63%) SC Cleared
5 9 (5.49%) Degree
6 7 (4.27%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 6 (3.66%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.22%) Six Sigma Black Belt
8 2 (1.22%) Six Sigma Green Belt
9 1 (0.61%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.61%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.61%) BC Cleared
9 1 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.61%) CCIE
9 1 (0.61%) CCNP
9 1 (0.61%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.61%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.61%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.61%) PgMP
9 1 (0.61%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.27%) PMO
2 6 (3.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (3.05%) GDPR
3 5 (3.05%) QA
3 5 (3.05%) SLA
4 3 (1.83%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 3 (1.83%) NIST
5 2 (1.22%) NCSC
5 2 (1.22%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.61%) GRC
6 1 (0.61%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 11 (6.71%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.83%) Hyper-V
2 3 (1.83%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.61%) Docker
3 1 (0.61%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (3.66%) Terraform
2 5 (3.05%) Ansible
3 4 (2.44%) FortiGate
3 4 (2.44%) SCCM
4 3 (1.83%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (1.83%) SCOM
5 2 (1.22%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
5 2 (1.22%) Kubernetes
6 1 (0.61%) Cisco CUCM
6 1 (0.61%) Cisco Prime
6 1 (0.61%) Consul
6 1 (0.61%) Grafana
6 1 (0.61%) Iperf
6 1 (0.61%) Istio
6 1 (0.61%) linkerd
6 1 (0.61%) Nmap
6 1 (0.61%) Packer
6 1 (0.61%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.61%) RSA Archer
6 1 (0.61%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 20 (12.20%) Microsoft
2 10 (6.10%) ServiceNow
3 9 (5.49%) Cisco
4 7 (4.27%) Oracle
5 6 (3.66%) SAP
6 5 (3.05%) VMware
7 4 (2.44%) CheckPoint
8 3 (1.83%) Ariba
8 3 (1.83%) BMC
9 2 (1.22%) Arista
9 2 (1.22%) Meraki
9 2 (1.22%) Red Hat
9 2 (1.22%) SolarWinds
10 1 (0.61%) Aruba
10 1 (0.61%) NVIDIA
10 1 (0.61%) Palo Alto
10 1 (0.61%) Pure Storage
10 1 (0.61%) Splunk
10 1 (0.61%) Tufin
10 1 (0.61%) Varonis