Infrastructure Manager Contract Job Trends

Infrastructure Manager
UK

The median Infrastructure Manager daily rate in the UK is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 24 March 2026.

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

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 458 394 418
Rank change year-on-year -64 +24 -73
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Manager 151 126 180
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.34% 0.43% 0.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.37% 0.47% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 94 138
10th Percentile £400 £402 £398
25th Percentile £458 £450 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £625
90th Percentile £725 £672 £691
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £494 £525
% change year-on-year -3.80% -5.95% +10.53%
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 40,297 27,081 41,111
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.96% 92.96% 92.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,161 17,787 26,923
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £411 £406 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.37%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £724 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +1.32% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,500 900 2,514
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.20 £12.88
25th Percentile £19.34 £21.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £36.70 £32.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.92% - -24.42%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.73 £60.00
90th Percentile £76.58 £76.34 £71.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.71 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +12.94% - -21.53%

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 24 March 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 24 March 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 -90 131 £525 - 35
London -42 73 £578 +5.00% 11
UK excluding London -86 59 £475 -3.80% 31
Work from Home -28 47 £550 +4.76% 17
South East -41 21 £475 -3.80% 10
North of England -65 17 £463 +2.78% 5
Yorkshire -51 13 £458 +11.59% 2
Midlands -67 11 £625 +38.89% 7
West Midlands -60 8 £650 +30.00% 5
East of England -23 7 £423 -32.40% 3
Scotland +2 4 £550 -4.35% 2
East Midlands -32 4 £468 +10.12% 2
North West -37 4 £463 -15.91% 3
South West -34 1 £475 -5.00% 3

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

For the 6 months to 24 March 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 63 (41.72%) Project Management
2 53 (35.10%) Stakeholder Management
3 41 (27.15%) PRINCE2
4 37 (24.50%) Project Delivery
5 35 (23.18%) Agile
6 33 (21.85%) PMI Certification
7 32 (21.19%) PMP
8 26 (17.22%) Azure
8 26 (17.22%) Security Cleared
9 25 (16.56%) Migration
10 23 (15.23%) SC Cleared
11 22 (14.57%) Microsoft
12 21 (13.91%) Risk Management
13 20 (13.25%) Continuous Improvement
13 20 (13.25%) Problem-Solving
14 17 (11.26%) Windows
15 16 (10.60%) AWS
15 16 (10.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 15 (9.93%) Budget Management
17 14 (9.27%) Change Management
17 14 (9.27%) Decision-Making
18 13 (8.61%) Change Control
18 13 (8.61%) Programme Management
18 13 (8.61%) Roadmaps
19 12 (7.95%) Firewall
19 12 (7.95%) Risk Register
19 12 (7.95%) WAN
20 11 (7.28%) ServiceNow
21 10 (6.62%) Active Directory
21 10 (6.62%) Budgeting and Forecasting

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 7 (4.64%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.99%) Confluence
3 1 (0.66%) Apache Pulsar
3 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.66%) nginx
Applications
1 5 (3.31%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (3.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (2.65%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (1.99%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.66%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (0.66%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 26 (17.22%) Azure
2 16 (10.60%) AWS
3 10 (6.62%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (5.96%) OpenShift
5 6 (3.97%) OCI
6 5 (3.31%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (1.99%) Entra ID
7 3 (1.99%) GCP
8 2 (1.32%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 2 (1.32%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (1.32%) IaaS
8 2 (1.32%) PaaS
8 2 (1.32%) Power Platform
9 1 (0.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (0.66%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (0.66%) Apigee
9 1 (0.66%) Google Workspace
9 1 (0.66%) Power Automate
9 1 (0.66%) SAP Commerce Cloud
9 1 (0.66%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 12 (7.95%) Firewall
1 12 (7.95%) WAN
2 10 (6.62%) LAN
3 9 (5.96%) SD-WAN
4 7 (4.64%) Network Security
4 7 (4.64%) Structured Cabling
4 7 (4.64%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (1.99%) Wireless
6 2 (1.32%) DNS
6 2 (1.32%) Internet
6 2 (1.32%) MPLS
6 2 (1.32%) Multicast
6 2 (1.32%) VPN
6 2 (1.32%) WLAN
7 1 (0.66%) BT 21CN
7 1 (0.66%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (0.66%) NAS
7 1 (0.66%) PABX
7 1 (0.66%) SAN
7 1 (0.66%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.66%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 8 (5.30%) JIRA
2 1 (0.66%) Git
General
1 52 (34.44%) Finance
2 43 (28.48%) Social Skills
3 14 (9.27%) Banking
3 14 (9.27%) Organisational Skills
4 13 (8.61%) Public Sector
5 11 (7.28%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (7.28%) Telecoms
6 6 (3.97%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (3.31%) Retail
8 4 (2.65%) Legal
9 3 (1.99%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.99%) Local Government
9 3 (1.99%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.32%) Aviation
10 2 (1.32%) French Language
10 2 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.32%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.66%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.66%) Billing
11 1 (0.66%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.66%) ADO
1 1 (0.66%) Kafka
1 1 (0.66%) OAuth
1 1 (0.66%) OAuth2
1 1 (0.66%) OpenTelemetry
1 1 (0.66%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 36 (23.84%) Data Centre
2 5 (3.31%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (3.31%) PMI
3 4 (2.65%) Mainframe
3 4 (2.65%) Management Information System
3 4 (2.65%) Onboarding
4 3 (1.99%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (1.32%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.32%) CCTV
5 2 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.32%) NHS
6 1 (0.66%) Chip and PIN
6 1 (0.66%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.66%) CMDB
6 1 (0.66%) Hedge funds
6 1 (0.66%) Life Science
6 1 (0.66%) PKI
6 1 (0.66%) Replication
6 1 (0.66%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (0.66%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 17 (11.26%) Windows
2 8 (5.30%) Windows Server
3 4 (2.65%) Linux
3 4 (2.65%) VMS
4 2 (1.32%) Unix
5 1 (0.66%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (41.72%) Project Management
2 53 (35.10%) Stakeholder Management
3 41 (27.15%) PRINCE2
4 37 (24.50%) Project Delivery
5 35 (23.18%) Agile
6 25 (16.56%) Migration
7 21 (13.91%) Risk Management
8 20 (13.25%) Continuous Improvement
8 20 (13.25%) Problem-Solving
9 16 (10.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 15 (9.93%) Budget Management
11 14 (9.27%) Change Management
11 14 (9.27%) Decision-Making
12 13 (8.61%) Change Control
12 13 (8.61%) Programme Management
12 13 (8.61%) Roadmaps
13 12 (7.95%) Risk Register
14 10 (6.62%) Budgeting and Forecasting
14 10 (6.62%) ITIL
15 9 (5.96%) Logistics
Programming Languages
1 2 (1.32%) Python
2 1 (0.66%) Bash
2 1 (0.66%) Bicep
2 1 (0.66%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 33 (21.85%) PMI Certification
2 32 (21.19%) PMP
3 26 (17.22%) Security Cleared
4 23 (15.23%) SC Cleared
5 9 (5.96%) Degree
6 6 (3.97%) DV Cleared
6 6 (3.97%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 2 (1.32%) Six Sigma Black Belt
7 2 (1.32%) Six Sigma Green Belt
8 1 (0.66%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.66%) BC Cleared
8 1 (0.66%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.66%) CCIE
8 1 (0.66%) CCNP
8 1 (0.66%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.66%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.66%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.66%) PgMP
8 1 (0.66%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.96%) PMO
2 6 (3.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (3.31%) GDPR
3 5 (3.31%) SLA
4 4 (2.65%) QA
5 3 (1.99%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (1.99%) ISO/IEC 42001
5 3 (1.99%) NIST
6 2 (1.32%) NCSC
6 2 (1.32%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.66%) GRC
7 1 (0.66%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 10 (6.62%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.99%) Hyper-V
2 3 (1.99%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.66%) Docker
3 1 (0.66%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (3.97%) Terraform
2 5 (3.31%) Ansible
3 4 (2.65%) FortiGate
3 4 (2.65%) SCCM
4 3 (1.99%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (1.99%) SCOM
5 2 (1.32%) Kubernetes
6 1 (0.66%) Cisco CUCM
6 1 (0.66%) Cisco Prime
6 1 (0.66%) Consul
6 1 (0.66%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
6 1 (0.66%) Grafana
6 1 (0.66%) Iperf
6 1 (0.66%) Istio
6 1 (0.66%) linkerd
6 1 (0.66%) Nmap
6 1 (0.66%) Packer
6 1 (0.66%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.66%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 22 (14.57%) Microsoft
2 11 (7.28%) ServiceNow
3 8 (5.30%) Cisco
4 6 (3.97%) SAP
5 5 (3.31%) Oracle
5 5 (3.31%) VMware
6 3 (1.99%) Ariba
6 3 (1.99%) Arista
6 3 (1.99%) BMC
6 3 (1.99%) CheckPoint
7 2 (1.32%) GoldenSource
7 2 (1.32%) Meraki
8 1 (0.66%) Aruba
8 1 (0.66%) Fortinet
8 1 (0.66%) Google
8 1 (0.66%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.66%) SolarWinds
8 1 (0.66%) Speakerbus
8 1 (0.66%) Tufin
8 1 (0.66%) Veeam