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 26 April 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 445 408 413
Rank change year-on-year -37 +5 -77
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Manager 179 123 175
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.38% 0.42% 0.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.41% 0.45% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 92 128
10th Percentile £408 £383 £389
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 £627
90th Percentile £725 £638 £691
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £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 43,137 27,188 40,489
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.31% 92.59% 92.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,662 17,796 26,412
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £407 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £517 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.29% -1.52% -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +2.63% -3.13% -1.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,772 1,030 2,642
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.20 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.48 £18.51 £16.30
Median hourly rate £42.85 £29.24 £35.68
Median % change year-on-year +46.55% -18.05% -20.71%
75th Percentile £65.67 £62.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.52 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £28.75 £37.50
% change year-on-year +56.52% -23.33% -11.76%

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 26 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 26 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 -50 156 £525 +5.00% 35
UK excluding London -47 88 £500 +2.56% 38
London -58 70 £610 +16.19% 6
Work from Home -10 54 £550 +15.79% 11
North of England -56 27 £500 +3.90% 2
Yorkshire -42 24 £500 -
South East -57 20 £496 -0.75% 15
Midlands -52 17 £625 +38.89% 10
East of England -19 15 £473 -24.40% 3
West Midlands -53 12 £625 +25.00% 6
South West -30 6 £475 -3.80% 6
East Midlands -35 6 £475 +11.76% 4
Scotland +10 5 £550 +18.41% 3
North West -38 3 £488 -11.36% 2

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

For the 6 months to 26 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 57 (31.84%) Stakeholder Management
2 56 (31.28%) Project Management
3 40 (22.35%) Agile
4 35 (19.55%) PRINCE2
5 32 (17.88%) Project Delivery
6 28 (15.64%) Azure
6 28 (15.64%) PMI Certification
7 27 (15.08%) Security Cleared
8 26 (14.53%) PMP
9 25 (13.97%) Migration
9 25 (13.97%) SC Cleared
10 23 (12.85%) Risk Management
11 20 (11.17%) Continuous Improvement
12 18 (10.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 17 (9.50%) Budget Management
14 16 (8.94%) Microsoft
14 16 (8.94%) Problem-Solving
14 16 (8.94%) Windows
15 15 (8.38%) Change Management
16 14 (7.82%) Firewall
16 14 (7.82%) ITIL
16 14 (7.82%) Roadmaps
17 13 (7.26%) AWS
17 13 (7.26%) Waterfall
18 12 (6.70%) Decision-Making
18 12 (6.70%) Infrastructure Transformation
18 12 (6.70%) JIRA
18 12 (6.70%) Programme Management
18 12 (6.70%) WAN
19 11 (6.15%) 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 4 (2.23%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.68%) Confluence
3 1 (0.56%) Apache Pulsar
3 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.56%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (2.23%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (2.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 4 (2.23%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (0.56%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 28 (15.64%) Azure
2 13 (7.26%) AWS
3 9 (5.03%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (4.47%) OCI
4 8 (4.47%) OpenShift
5 5 (2.79%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (2.23%) Entra ID
7 3 (1.68%) GCP
8 2 (1.12%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 2 (1.12%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (1.12%) IaaS
8 2 (1.12%) PaaS
8 2 (1.12%) Power Platform
9 1 (0.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (0.56%) Apigee
9 1 (0.56%) Google Workspace
9 1 (0.56%) Kong
9 1 (0.56%) SaaS
9 1 (0.56%) SAP Commerce Cloud
9 1 (0.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 14 (7.82%) Firewall
2 12 (6.70%) WAN
3 11 (6.15%) Network Security
4 9 (5.03%) LAN
4 9 (5.03%) SD-WAN
5 7 (3.91%) Structured Cabling
5 7 (3.91%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (2.23%) Wireless
7 3 (1.68%) VLAN
8 2 (1.12%) DNS
8 2 (1.12%) Internet
8 2 (1.12%) MPLS
8 2 (1.12%) Multicast
8 2 (1.12%) VPN
8 2 (1.12%) WLAN
9 1 (0.56%) BT 21CN
9 1 (0.56%) Cisco ASA
9 1 (0.56%) NAS
9 1 (0.56%) SAN
9 1 (0.56%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.56%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 12 (6.70%) JIRA
2 1 (0.56%) Git
General
1 48 (26.82%) Finance
2 40 (22.35%) Social Skills
3 16 (8.94%) Public Sector
4 12 (6.70%) Banking
5 11 (6.15%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (5.59%) Organisational Skills
6 10 (5.59%) Telecoms
7 7 (3.91%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (2.79%) Manufacturing
9 4 (2.23%) Legal
10 3 (1.68%) Local Government
10 3 (1.68%) Retail
11 2 (1.12%) Aviation
11 2 (1.12%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.12%) French Language
11 2 (1.12%) Investment Banking
11 2 (1.12%) Law
12 1 (0.56%) Back Office
12 1 (0.56%) Billing
12 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 34 (18.99%) Data Centre
2 6 (3.35%) PMI
3 4 (2.23%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (2.23%) Mainframe
3 4 (2.23%) Onboarding
4 3 (1.68%) Legacy Applications
4 3 (1.68%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.12%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.12%) CCTV
5 2 (1.12%) NHS
5 2 (1.12%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.12%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (0.56%) CMDB
6 1 (0.56%) Credit Risk
6 1 (0.56%) Culture of Ownership
6 1 (0.56%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (0.56%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.56%) Life Science
6 1 (0.56%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.56%) Self-Driving Car
Operating Systems
1 16 (8.94%) Windows
2 8 (4.47%) Windows Server
3 4 (2.23%) VMS
4 2 (1.12%) Linux
5 1 (0.56%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (31.84%) Stakeholder Management
2 56 (31.28%) Project Management
3 40 (22.35%) Agile
4 35 (19.55%) PRINCE2
5 32 (17.88%) Project Delivery
6 25 (13.97%) Migration
7 23 (12.85%) Risk Management
8 20 (11.17%) Continuous Improvement
9 18 (10.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 17 (9.50%) Budget Management
11 16 (8.94%) Problem-Solving
12 15 (8.38%) Change Management
13 14 (7.82%) ITIL
13 14 (7.82%) Roadmaps
14 13 (7.26%) Waterfall
15 12 (6.70%) Decision-Making
15 12 (6.70%) Infrastructure Transformation
15 12 (6.70%) Programme Management
16 11 (6.15%) Change Control
17 10 (5.59%) Budgeting and Forecasting
Programming Languages
1 2 (1.12%) Python
2 1 (0.56%) Bash
2 1 (0.56%) Bicep
2 1 (0.56%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 28 (15.64%) PMI Certification
2 27 (15.08%) Security Cleared
3 26 (14.53%) PMP
4 25 (13.97%) SC Cleared
5 10 (5.59%) Degree
6 7 (3.91%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 6 (3.35%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.12%) ISTQB
8 2 (1.12%) PgMP
8 2 (1.12%) Six Sigma Black Belt
8 2 (1.12%) Six Sigma Green Belt
9 1 (0.56%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.56%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.56%) BC Cleared
9 1 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.56%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.56%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 1 (0.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.56%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.56%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.91%) PMO
2 6 (3.35%) GDPR
2 6 (3.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (2.79%) QA
3 5 (2.79%) SLA
4 3 (1.68%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 3 (1.68%) NIST
5 2 (1.12%) NCSC
5 2 (1.12%) 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 (5.03%) 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 (3.35%) Terraform
2 4 (2.23%) Ansible
2 4 (2.23%) FortiGate
3 3 (1.68%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (1.68%) SCCM
4 2 (1.12%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
4 2 (1.12%) Kubernetes
4 2 (1.12%) SCOM
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%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 16 (8.94%) Microsoft
2 9 (5.03%) ServiceNow
3 8 (4.47%) Cisco
4 7 (3.91%) Oracle
5 6 (3.35%) SAP
6 5 (2.79%) CheckPoint
7 3 (1.68%) Ariba
7 3 (1.68%) VMware
8 2 (1.12%) BMC
8 2 (1.12%) Juniper
8 2 (1.12%) Meraki
8 2 (1.12%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.12%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.56%) Aruba
9 1 (0.56%) NVIDIA
9 1 (0.56%) Palo Alto
9 1 (0.56%) Splunk
9 1 (0.56%) Tufin
9 1 (0.56%) Varonis
9 1 (0.56%) Workday