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 30 December 2025.

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

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 477 409 422
Rank change year-on-year -68 +13 -52
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Manager 113 125 182
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.31% 0.38% 0.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.33% 0.40% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 95 139
10th Percentile £405 £403 £380
25th Percentile £456 £468 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £625 £600 £600
90th Percentile £688 £675 £677
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +5.00%
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 33,741 30,870 40,353
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.20% 92.72% 93.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,345 18,959 27,051
10th Percentile £298 £300 £281
25th Percentile £405 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £616 £638 £640
90th Percentile £720 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,972 954 1,548
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.51 £14.50
25th Percentile £18.25 £21.05 £19.25
Median hourly rate £25.47 £32.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.63% -27.78% +40.82%
75th Percentile £58.75 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.41 £73.75 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year -22.62% -29.62% +77.62%

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 30 December 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 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 30 December 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 -51 103 £525 -4.55% 100
UK excluding London -57 53 £525 -2.78% 92
London -21 51 £550 -3.30% 17
Work from Home -21 25 £525 -7.69% 76
Midlands -40 15 £525 +7.69% 25
South East -11 13 £525 -4.55% 22
North of England -54 11 £465 -14.63% 20
West Midlands -28 9 £575 +6.48% 17
East of England -14 7 £398 -11.67% 11
East Midlands -15 7 £472 +10.94% 8
Yorkshire -41 7 £450 -16.67% 7
South West -3 6 £750 +50.00% 7
North West -27 4 £475 -21.81% 12
Scotland 0 3 £350 -37.78% 5

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

For the 6 months to 30 December 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 55 (48.67%) Project Management
2 38 (33.63%) Stakeholder Management
3 36 (31.86%) PRINCE2
4 30 (26.55%) Azure
5 28 (24.78%) Project Delivery
6 26 (23.01%) Microsoft
7 25 (22.12%) PMP
8 24 (21.24%) PMI Certification
9 23 (20.35%) Migration
10 18 (15.93%) AWS
10 18 (15.93%) Windows
11 15 (13.27%) Agile
11 15 (13.27%) Problem-Solving
12 14 (12.39%) Risk Management
13 13 (11.50%) Security Cleared
14 12 (10.62%) Change Management
14 12 (10.62%) Degree
15 11 (9.73%) Continuous Improvement
15 11 (9.73%) Microsoft 365
16 10 (8.85%) Active Directory
16 10 (8.85%) Firewall
16 10 (8.85%) SC Cleared
16 10 (8.85%) VMware
17 9 (7.96%) Budget Management
17 9 (7.96%) Change Control
17 9 (7.96%) Disaster Recovery
17 9 (7.96%) Logistics
17 9 (7.96%) WAN
18 8 (7.08%) Cisco
18 8 (7.08%) Cybersecurity

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 (3.54%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.65%) Confluence
3 2 (1.77%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.88%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (5.31%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (2.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.65%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.65%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.88%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 30 (26.55%) Azure
2 18 (15.93%) AWS
3 11 (9.73%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (5.31%) OpenShift
5 5 (4.42%) Entra ID
6 3 (2.65%) Azure Sentinel
6 3 (2.65%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (1.77%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (1.77%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (1.77%) IaaS
8 1 (0.88%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (0.88%) OneDrive
8 1 (0.88%) SaaS
8 1 (0.88%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 10 (8.85%) Firewall
2 9 (7.96%) WAN
3 8 (7.08%) LAN
4 7 (6.19%) Wi-Fi
5 5 (4.42%) Structured Cabling
6 4 (3.54%) SAN
7 3 (2.65%) NAS
7 3 (2.65%) SD-WAN
7 3 (2.65%) WLAN
8 2 (1.77%) Internet
8 2 (1.77%) VPN
8 2 (1.77%) Wireless
9 1 (0.88%) MPLS
9 1 (0.88%) Multicast
9 1 (0.88%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.65%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (5.31%) JIRA
2 1 (0.88%) Git
General
1 46 (40.71%) Social Skills
2 41 (36.28%) Finance
3 10 (8.85%) Manufacturing
4 9 (7.96%) Public Sector
5 8 (7.08%) Banking
6 7 (6.19%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (4.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (4.42%) Retail
7 5 (4.42%) Telecoms
8 3 (2.65%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (1.77%) Aviation
9 2 (1.77%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.77%) French Language
9 2 (1.77%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.77%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.77%) Law
9 2 (1.77%) Local Government
10 1 (0.88%) Back Office
10 1 (0.88%) Electronics
10 1 (0.88%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.77%) RFC 2544
2 1 (0.88%) ADO
2 1 (0.88%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 24 (21.24%) Data Centre
2 8 (7.08%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (2.65%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.77%) CCTV
4 2 (1.77%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.77%) FMCG
4 2 (1.77%) Life Science
4 2 (1.77%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (0.88%) CMDB
5 1 (0.88%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (0.88%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.88%) Mainframe
5 1 (0.88%) NHS
5 1 (0.88%) Operational Technology
5 1 (0.88%) PKI
5 1 (0.88%) PMI
5 1 (0.88%) Private Cloud
5 1 (0.88%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 18 (15.93%) Windows
2 7 (6.19%) Windows Server
3 4 (3.54%) Linux
3 4 (3.54%) Unix
4 1 (0.88%) Android
4 1 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.88%) VMS
4 1 (0.88%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (48.67%) Project Management
2 38 (33.63%) Stakeholder Management
3 36 (31.86%) PRINCE2
4 28 (24.78%) Project Delivery
5 23 (20.35%) Migration
6 15 (13.27%) Agile
6 15 (13.27%) Problem-Solving
7 14 (12.39%) Risk Management
8 12 (10.62%) Change Management
9 11 (9.73%) Continuous Improvement
10 9 (7.96%) Budget Management
10 9 (7.96%) Change Control
10 9 (7.96%) Disaster Recovery
10 9 (7.96%) Logistics
11 8 (7.08%) Cybersecurity
11 8 (7.08%) Infrastructure Management
11 8 (7.08%) Risk Register
11 8 (7.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 7 (6.19%) Project Governance
12 7 (6.19%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (0.88%) PowerShell
1 1 (0.88%) Python
Qualifications
1 25 (22.12%) PMP
2 24 (21.24%) PMI Certification
3 13 (11.50%) Security Cleared
4 12 (10.62%) Degree
5 10 (8.85%) SC Cleared
6 4 (3.54%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 2 (1.77%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.77%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (1.77%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.88%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.88%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (3.54%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (3.54%) PMO
3 3 (2.65%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 3 (2.65%) QA
4 2 (1.77%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 2 (1.77%) SLA
5 1 (0.88%) GDPR
5 1 (0.88%) GxP
5 1 (0.88%) NIST
System Software
1 10 (8.85%) Active Directory
2 6 (5.31%) Hyper-V
2 6 (5.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (5.31%) Ansible
2 5 (4.42%) Terraform
3 4 (3.54%) SCCM
4 3 (2.65%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (2.65%) SCOM
5 2 (1.77%) Puppet
6 1 (0.88%) Consul
6 1 (0.88%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.88%) Kubernetes
6 1 (0.88%) Packer
Vendors
1 26 (23.01%) Microsoft
2 10 (8.85%) VMware
3 8 (7.08%) Cisco
4 6 (5.31%) SAP
4 6 (5.31%) ServiceNow
5 3 (2.65%) Arista
5 3 (2.65%) BMC
6 2 (1.77%) Ariba
6 2 (1.77%) GoldenSource
6 2 (1.77%) Oracle
7 1 (0.88%) Aruba
7 1 (0.88%) Cadence
7 1 (0.88%) Genesys
7 1 (0.88%) IFS
7 1 (0.88%) Meraki
7 1 (0.88%) NEC
7 1 (0.88%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.88%) Samsung