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 7 November 2025.

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

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 465 415 404
Rank change year-on-year -50 -11 -31
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Manager 122 140 237
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.35% 0.38% 0.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.38% 0.41% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 99 173
10th Percentile £400 £333 £380
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +2.86% -
75th Percentile £625 £600 £600
90th Percentile £688 £700 £698
UK excluding London median daily rate £538 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +7.50% -4.76% +5.00%
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 - - -25.15%

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 31,779 34,114 43,832
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.90% 92.88% 93.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,168 20,586 29,825
10th Percentile £278 £300 £298
25th Percentile £402 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,814 1,278 1,528
10th Percentile £14.06 £15.09 £14.98
25th Percentile £17.69 £20.20 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.00 £44.75
Median % change year-on-year -32.03% -17.32% +54.84%
75th Percentile £51.19 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.65 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £36.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -30.14% -19.10% +85.42%

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 November 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 7 November 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 -35 111 £519 -3.94% 84
London -3 57 £500 -13.04% 20
UK excluding London -49 55 £538 +7.50% 75
Work from Home +3 35 £450 -16.28% 35
Midlands -17 18 £538 +3.37% 12
West Midlands -28 12 £575 - 11
North of England -33 12 £456 -1.35% 17
South East -3 9 £575 +4.45% 37
Yorkshire -27 8 £405 -25.00% 4
East of England -17 7 £750 +87.50% 2
South West +1 6 £750 +46.34% 3
East Midlands -16 6 £471 -3.33% 1
North West -26 4 £475 +5.56% 13
Scotland +7 2 - - 3
Wales - 1 £450 - 2

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

For the 6 months to 7 November 2025, 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 45 (36.89%) Project Management
2 40 (32.79%) Stakeholder Management
3 30 (24.59%) Project Delivery
4 29 (23.77%) Azure
4 29 (23.77%) PRINCE2
5 27 (22.13%) Migration
6 24 (19.67%) Microsoft
7 21 (17.21%) PMP
7 21 (17.21%) Windows
8 20 (16.39%) PMI Certification
9 19 (15.57%) Agile
10 17 (13.93%) AWS
11 16 (13.11%) Risk Management
12 15 (12.30%) Disaster Recovery
12 15 (12.30%) Firewall
12 15 (12.30%) Problem-Solving
12 15 (12.30%) Waterfall
13 14 (11.48%) Change Management
13 14 (11.48%) Cisco
14 11 (9.02%) Security Cleared
15 10 (8.20%) Active Directory
15 10 (8.20%) Degree
15 10 (8.20%) Microsoft 365
15 10 (8.20%) Resource Management
15 10 (8.20%) Service Management
15 10 (8.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 10 (8.20%) VMware
15 10 (8.20%) WAN
16 9 (7.38%) Continuous Improvement
16 9 (7.38%) LAN

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 (4.10%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.64%) Confluence
2 2 (1.64%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.82%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 6 (4.92%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (2.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.46%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.46%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.82%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 29 (23.77%) Azure
2 17 (13.93%) AWS
3 10 (8.20%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (4.10%) Entra ID
5 4 (3.28%) OpenShift
6 3 (2.46%) Azure Sentinel
6 3 (2.46%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (2.46%) IaaS
7 2 (1.64%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (1.64%) OneDrive
7 2 (1.64%) SaaS
8 1 (0.82%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.82%) GCP
8 1 (0.82%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (0.82%) PaaS
8 1 (0.82%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 15 (12.30%) Firewall
2 10 (8.20%) WAN
3 9 (7.38%) LAN
4 4 (3.28%) SAN
4 4 (3.28%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (2.46%) NAS
6 2 (1.64%) SD-WAN
6 2 (1.64%) Structured Cabling
6 2 (1.64%) Unified Communications
6 2 (1.64%) VPN
7 1 (0.82%) MPLS
7 1 (0.82%) Multicast
7 1 (0.82%) Skype
7 1 (0.82%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.46%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (3.28%) JIRA
General
1 52 (42.62%) Social Skills
2 45 (36.89%) Finance
3 11 (9.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 10 (8.20%) Banking
5 9 (7.38%) Manufacturing
6 7 (5.74%) Organisational Skills
6 7 (5.74%) Public Sector
6 7 (5.74%) Retail
7 5 (4.10%) Telecoms
8 4 (3.28%) Analytical Skills
9 3 (2.46%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.64%) Automotive
10 2 (1.64%) Aviation
10 2 (1.64%) Back Office
10 2 (1.64%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.64%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.64%) Law
10 2 (1.64%) Local Government
10 2 (1.64%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.82%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.74%) RFC 2544
2 1 (0.82%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 31 (25.41%) Data Centre
2 10 (8.20%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (2.46%) Mainframe
3 3 (2.46%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.64%) CCTV
4 2 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.64%) Driving Licence
4 2 (1.64%) FMCG
4 2 (1.64%) Product Ownership
4 2 (1.64%) Virtual Team
5 1 (0.82%) CMDB
5 1 (0.82%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (0.82%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.82%) Life Science
5 1 (0.82%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.82%) Operational Technology
5 1 (0.82%) PKI
5 1 (0.82%) Private Cloud
5 1 (0.82%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (0.82%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 21 (17.21%) Windows
2 8 (6.56%) Windows Server
3 4 (3.28%) Unix
4 3 (2.46%) Linux
5 1 (0.82%) Android
5 1 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.82%) VMS
5 1 (0.82%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.82%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (36.89%) Project Management
2 40 (32.79%) Stakeholder Management
3 30 (24.59%) Project Delivery
4 29 (23.77%) PRINCE2
5 27 (22.13%) Migration
6 19 (15.57%) Agile
7 16 (13.11%) Risk Management
8 15 (12.30%) Disaster Recovery
8 15 (12.30%) Problem-Solving
8 15 (12.30%) Waterfall
9 14 (11.48%) Change Management
10 10 (8.20%) Resource Management
10 10 (8.20%) Service Management
10 10 (8.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 9 (7.38%) Continuous Improvement
12 8 (6.56%) Cybersecurity
12 8 (6.56%) Data Centre Operations
12 8 (6.56%) Time Management
13 7 (5.74%) High Availability
13 7 (5.74%) Test Management
Qualifications
1 21 (17.21%) PMP
2 20 (16.39%) PMI Certification
3 11 (9.02%) Security Cleared
4 10 (8.20%) Degree
5 8 (6.56%) SC Cleared
6 3 (2.46%) RIBA
7 2 (1.64%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (1.64%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.82%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 1 (0.82%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.10%) PMO
2 4 (3.28%) QA
3 3 (2.46%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (2.46%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 3 (2.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.64%) GxP
5 1 (0.82%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.82%) GDPR
5 1 (0.82%) NIST
System Software
1 10 (8.20%) Active Directory
2 7 (5.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (4.10%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (3.28%) Ansible
2 3 (2.46%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (2.46%) SCCM
2 3 (2.46%) Terraform
3 2 (1.64%) Puppet
3 2 (1.64%) SCOM
4 1 (0.82%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 24 (19.67%) Microsoft
2 14 (11.48%) Cisco
3 10 (8.20%) VMware
4 6 (4.92%) SAP
5 5 (4.10%) ServiceNow
6 3 (2.46%) Arista
6 3 (2.46%) Oracle
7 2 (1.64%) Ariba
7 2 (1.64%) BMC
7 2 (1.64%) GoldenSource
8 1 (0.82%) Cadence
8 1 (0.82%) Google
8 1 (0.82%) IFS
8 1 (0.82%) Infoblox
8 1 (0.82%) NEC
8 1 (0.82%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.82%) Samsung
8 1 (0.82%) Splunk