Infrastructure Manager Contracts

Infrastructure Manager
UK

The median Infrastructure Manager daily rate in the UK is £488, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 411 407 346
Rank change year-on-year -4 -61 -4
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Manager 129 185 376
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.41% 0.43% 0.67%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.45% 0.46% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 128 267
10th Percentile £363 £351 £385
25th Percentile £409 £426 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -11.36% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £585 £618 £625
90th Percentile £635 £704 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -7.14% +10.53% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £49.55
25th Percentile - - £51.67
Median hourly rate - - £56.39
75th Percentile - - £62.17
90th Percentile - - £64.92
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £48.28
% change year-on-year - - +18.54%

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 28,823 40,432 52,711
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.00% 93.00% 94.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,389 25,993 36,631
10th Percentile £288 £285 £313
25th Percentile £401 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +1.42%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £494 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% -1.20% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,297 2,846 1,533
10th Percentile £13.85 £12.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.44 £16.65 £19.00
Median hourly rate £26.50 £37.50 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -29.33% -12.79% +68.63%
75th Percentile £55.25 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.45 £74.00 £76.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -37.13% - +96.08%

Infrastructure Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Infrastructure Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Manager in the UK

Infrastructure Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Manager.

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Manager in the UK

Infrastructure Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Manager over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Manager in the UK

Infrastructure Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Manager.

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Manager in the UK

Infrastructure Manager
Top 16 Contract 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 3 July 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 +5 113 £500 -9.09% 181
London +27 61 £500 -10.11% 97
UK excluding London -9 51 £488 -7.14% 98
Work from Home +18 49 £463 -11.90% 79
North of England +2 15 £450 +5.88% 20
South East +28 11 £525 -6.67% 37
Midlands +5 11 £450 -18.18% 13
Yorkshire +5 10 £500 +17.65% 11
West Midlands +5 8 £525 +10.53% 10
East of England +22 7 £625 +56.25% 9
South West +23 4 £488 -9.30% 7
North West +1 3 £431 +23.21% 9
East Midlands -3 3 £438 -20.45% 3
North East +2 2 £442 -
Scotland +1 2 £465 -19.22% 12
Wales +4 1 £450 -25.00%

Infrastructure Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 3 July 2025, Infrastructure Manager contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Infrastructure Manager in the job title.

1 52 (40.31%) Project Management
2 50 (38.76%) Social Skills
3 46 (35.66%) Finance
4 36 (27.91%) Stakeholder Management
5 35 (27.13%) Data Centre
6 31 (24.03%) Agile
7 30 (23.26%) Project Delivery
8 24 (18.60%) Migration
8 24 (18.60%) Firewall
9 23 (17.83%) Banking
10 22 (17.05%) Azure
10 22 (17.05%) Waterfall
11 20 (15.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 20 (15.50%) Risk Management
12 17 (13.18%) Microsoft
13 16 (12.40%) Cisco
13 16 (12.40%) PRINCE2
13 16 (12.40%) Security Cleared
14 15 (11.63%) PMI Certification
14 15 (11.63%) Change Management
15 14 (10.85%) Disaster Recovery
16 13 (10.08%) Service Management
16 13 (10.08%) PMP
16 13 (10.08%) Active Directory
16 13 (10.08%) Windows
16 13 (10.08%) AWS
17 12 (9.30%) Microsoft 365
17 12 (9.30%) Problem-Solving
18 11 (8.53%) WAN
18 11 (8.53%) SC Cleared

Infrastructure Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (3.10%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.33%) Confluence
2 3 (2.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.78%) IBM Notes
3 1 (0.78%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 6 (4.65%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (1.55%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.55%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 22 (17.05%) Azure
2 13 (10.08%) AWS
3 12 (9.30%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (3.88%) SaaS
5 4 (3.10%) OneDrive
6 3 (2.33%) Entra ID
7 2 (1.55%) GCP
7 2 (1.55%) IaaS
7 2 (1.55%) PaaS
8 1 (0.78%) Akamai
8 1 (0.78%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.78%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.78%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.78%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (0.78%) Google Workspace
8 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (0.78%) Mimecast
8 1 (0.78%) Nutanix
8 1 (0.78%) Power Automate
8 1 (0.78%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 24 (18.60%) Firewall
2 11 (8.53%) WAN
3 9 (6.98%) LAN
4 5 (3.88%) SD-WAN
4 5 (3.88%) VPN
4 5 (3.88%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (2.33%) Unified Communications
6 2 (1.55%) Cisco ISE
6 2 (1.55%) DNS
6 2 (1.55%) Network Security
6 2 (1.55%) SAN
6 2 (1.55%) Structured Cabling
7 1 (0.78%) 5G
7 1 (0.78%) DHCP
7 1 (0.78%) MPLS
7 1 (0.78%) NAS
7 1 (0.78%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.78%) VLAN
7 1 (0.78%) Wireless
7 1 (0.78%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.78%) Big Data
1 1 (0.78%) Data Lake
1 1 (0.78%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 6 (4.65%) JIRA
2 1 (0.78%) MSI
General
1 50 (38.76%) Social Skills
2 46 (35.66%) Finance
3 23 (17.83%) Banking
4 8 (6.20%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (5.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (5.43%) Organisational Skills
6 6 (4.65%) Manufacturing
6 6 (4.65%) Public Sector
7 5 (3.88%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (3.88%) Pharmaceutical
7 5 (3.88%) Telecoms
8 4 (3.10%) Retail
9 3 (2.33%) Investment Banking
9 3 (2.33%) Local Government
10 2 (1.55%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.55%) Automotive
10 2 (1.55%) Aviation
10 2 (1.55%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.43%) RFC 2544
2 2 (1.55%) LDAP
3 1 (0.78%) 802.1X
3 1 (0.78%) ADO
3 1 (0.78%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 35 (27.13%) Data Centre
2 7 (5.43%) Onboarding
3 5 (3.88%) PMI
4 4 (3.10%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (3.10%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.33%) Mainframe
5 3 (2.33%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.55%) CCTV
6 2 (1.55%) Driving Licence
6 2 (1.55%) Hedge funds
6 2 (1.55%) Life Science
6 2 (1.55%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.55%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.78%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.78%) Replication
7 1 (0.78%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (0.78%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.78%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 13 (10.08%) Windows
2 3 (2.33%) Linux
2 3 (2.33%) Windows 10
2 3 (2.33%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.78%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (40.31%) Project Management
2 36 (27.91%) Stakeholder Management
3 31 (24.03%) Agile
4 30 (23.26%) Project Delivery
5 24 (18.60%) Migration
6 22 (17.05%) Waterfall
7 20 (15.50%) Risk Management
7 20 (15.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 16 (12.40%) PRINCE2
9 15 (11.63%) Change Management
10 14 (10.85%) Disaster Recovery
11 13 (10.08%) Service Management
12 12 (9.30%) Problem-Solving
13 10 (7.75%) Service Delivery
14 9 (6.98%) Budget Management
14 9 (6.98%) Project Planning
15 8 (6.20%) Decision-Making
15 8 (6.20%) Defect Management
15 8 (6.20%) ITIL
16 7 (5.43%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (1.55%) PowerShell
1 2 (1.55%) SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (12.40%) Security Cleared
2 15 (11.63%) PMI Certification
3 13 (10.08%) PMP
4 11 (8.53%) SC Cleared
5 8 (6.20%) Degree
6 3 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.33%) RIBA
7 2 (1.55%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.78%) CAPM
8 1 (0.78%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.78%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.78%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.78%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.78%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.65%) PMO
2 2 (1.55%) GxP
2 2 (1.55%) QA
2 2 (1.55%) SLA
3 1 (0.78%) 21 CFR Part 11
3 1 (0.78%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.78%) HIPAA
3 1 (0.78%) ISO 14001
3 1 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 13 (10.08%) Active Directory
2 5 (3.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.55%) Microsoft App-V
3 2 (1.55%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.78%) BitLocker
4 1 (0.78%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.78%) KVM
4 1 (0.78%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 5 (3.88%) SCCM
2 2 (1.55%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (1.55%) Terraform
3 1 (0.78%) Cisco CUCM
3 1 (0.78%) WSUS
Vendors
1 17 (13.18%) Microsoft
2 16 (12.40%) Cisco
3 7 (5.43%) VMware
4 4 (3.10%) SAP
5 3 (2.33%) Ariba
5 3 (2.33%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.55%) Fortinet
6 2 (1.55%) Google
6 2 (1.55%) Oracle
6 2 (1.55%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.78%) Citrix
7 1 (0.78%) Genesys
7 1 (0.78%) Imperva
7 1 (0.78%) Infoblox
7 1 (0.78%) Logitech
7 1 (0.78%) Lotus
7 1 (0.78%) Mitel
7 1 (0.78%) Planview
7 1 (0.78%) SolarWinds
7 1 (0.78%) Ubiquiti