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 25 August 2026.

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

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 459 429 402
Rank change year-on-year -30 -27 -31
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Manager 214 121 164
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.40% 0.37% 0.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.43% 0.41% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 86 111
10th Percentile £450 £362 £325
25th Percentile £500 £407 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +2.44% -2.38%
75th Percentile £650 £600 £597
90th Percentile £725 £663 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £48.84 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £48.84 - -

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 49,605 29,863 36,126
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.47% 91.22% 93.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,683 18,859 22,977
10th Percentile £325 £280 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.87%
75th Percentile £625 £623 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,539 1,568 1,933
10th Percentile £14.99 £13.64 £14.16
25th Percentile £20.53 £17.21 £19.50
Median hourly rate £41.92 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +66.68% -41.51% -1.58%
75th Percentile £67.84 £53.99 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £71.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% +7.50%

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 25 August 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 16 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 25 August 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 -26 198 £561 +4.42% 86
UK excluding London -38 115 £525 - 55
London -44 81 £600 +11.63% 42
Work from Home -52 54 £550 +18.92% 52
North of England -48 31 £525 +12.00% 16
Yorkshire -22 27 £525 +16.02% 6
South West -24 23 £550 -26.67% 10
South East -55 22 £500 -13.04% 10
East of England -9 19 £515 -14.17% 6
Midlands -61 16 £625 +19.05% 4
West Midlands -44 13 £625 +13.64% 4
Scotland -12 3 £533 +14.64% 5
East Midlands -18 3 £475 +0.80%
North West -37 3 £525 +10.53% 10
North East -39 1 - - 1
Northern Ireland - 1 £550 - 3

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

For the 6 months to 25 August 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 58 (27.10%) Stakeholder Management
2 49 (22.90%) Project Management
3 44 (20.56%) Azure
4 41 (19.16%) Agile
5 37 (17.29%) Project Delivery
6 35 (16.36%) Migration
7 34 (15.89%) Security Cleared
8 31 (14.49%) Windows
9 28 (13.08%) PRINCE2
10 20 (9.35%) Change Management
10 20 (9.35%) Microsoft 365
10 20 (9.35%) VMware
10 20 (9.35%) Waterfall
11 19 (8.88%) ITIL
11 19 (8.88%) Microsoft
11 19 (8.88%) SC Cleared
12 18 (8.41%) DV Cleared
12 18 (8.41%) PMI Certification
12 18 (8.41%) PMP
12 18 (8.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 17 (7.94%) AWS
14 16 (7.48%) Continuous Improvement
14 16 (7.48%) Infrastructure Transformation
14 16 (7.48%) Project Governance
14 16 (7.48%) Risk Management
15 14 (6.54%) Budget Management
15 14 (6.54%) Problem-Solving
16 13 (6.07%) Roadmaps
17 12 (5.61%) Firewall
17 12 (5.61%) Network Security

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 (2.34%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.40%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.93%) IIS
4 1 (0.47%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (2.80%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (1.87%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.40%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.93%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 2 (0.93%) Houdini
4 2 (0.93%) NUKE
Cloud Services
1 44 (20.56%) Azure
2 20 (9.35%) Microsoft 365
3 17 (7.94%) AWS
4 9 (4.21%) OCI
5 4 (1.87%) OpenShift
6 3 (1.40%) Entra ID
6 3 (1.40%) Power Platform
7 2 (0.93%) Asana
7 2 (0.93%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (0.93%) SaaS
8 1 (0.47%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.47%) GCP
8 1 (0.47%) Google Workspace
8 1 (0.47%) IaaS
8 1 (0.47%) OneDrive
8 1 (0.47%) PaaS
8 1 (0.47%) Power Automate
8 1 (0.47%) Rubrik
8 1 (0.47%) SAP Commerce Cloud
8 1 (0.47%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.61%) Firewall
1 12 (5.61%) Network Security
2 10 (4.67%) DNS
3 8 (3.74%) WAN
4 7 (3.27%) LAN
5 6 (2.80%) Structured Cabling
6 5 (2.34%) DHCP
6 5 (2.34%) SAN
7 4 (1.87%) NAS
7 4 (1.87%) TCP/IP
7 4 (1.87%) Wireless
8 3 (1.40%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.93%) Broadband
9 2 (0.93%) HTTP
9 2 (0.93%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.93%) SSL
9 2 (0.93%) Unified Communications
9 2 (0.93%) VLAN
9 2 (0.93%) VPN
10 1 (0.47%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.87%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.93%) Power BI
3 1 (0.47%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 10 (4.67%) JIRA
General
1 55 (25.70%) Finance
2 43 (20.09%) Social Skills
3 25 (11.68%) Public Sector
4 13 (6.07%) Banking
5 11 (5.14%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (4.67%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (2.34%) Local Government
7 5 (2.34%) Telecoms
8 4 (1.87%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.87%) Retail
9 3 (1.40%) Legal
10 2 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.93%) Law
11 1 (0.47%) Automotive
11 1 (0.47%) Back Office
11 1 (0.47%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.47%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.47%) Military
11 1 (0.47%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.40%) Terraform
2 2 (0.93%) Middleware
2 2 (0.93%) Unreal Engine
3 1 (0.47%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 40 (18.69%) Data Centre
2 7 (3.27%) Private Cloud
3 5 (2.34%) Onboarding
4 4 (1.87%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (1.87%) Management Information System
4 4 (1.87%) Virtual Team
5 3 (1.40%) Enterprise Cloud
5 3 (1.40%) Enterprise Storage
5 3 (1.40%) PMI
6 2 (0.93%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (0.93%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (0.93%) Motion Graphics
6 2 (0.93%) Operational Technology
6 2 (0.93%) Public Cloud
6 2 (0.93%) Robotics
6 2 (0.93%) Social Media
7 1 (0.47%) CMDB
7 1 (0.47%) Credit Risk
7 1 (0.47%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 31 (14.49%) Windows
2 11 (5.14%) Windows Server
3 8 (3.74%) Linux
4 4 (1.87%) Unix
5 2 (0.93%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.47%) VMS
6 1 (0.47%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (27.10%) Stakeholder Management
2 49 (22.90%) Project Management
3 41 (19.16%) Agile
4 37 (17.29%) Project Delivery
5 35 (16.36%) Migration
6 28 (13.08%) PRINCE2
7 20 (9.35%) Change Management
7 20 (9.35%) Waterfall
8 19 (8.88%) ITIL
9 18 (8.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 16 (7.48%) Continuous Improvement
10 16 (7.48%) Infrastructure Transformation
10 16 (7.48%) Project Governance
10 16 (7.48%) Risk Management
11 14 (6.54%) Budget Management
11 14 (6.54%) Problem-Solving
12 13 (6.07%) Roadmaps
13 11 (5.14%) Change Control
14 10 (4.67%) Disaster Recovery
14 10 (4.67%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (1.40%) PowerShell
2 2 (0.93%) SQL
Qualifications
1 34 (15.89%) Security Cleared
2 19 (8.88%) SC Cleared
3 18 (8.41%) DV Cleared
3 18 (8.41%) PMI Certification
3 18 (8.41%) PMP
4 9 (4.21%) Degree
5 7 (3.27%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 6 (2.80%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.87%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (0.93%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.93%) MBA
8 2 (0.93%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 1 (0.47%) APMP
9 1 (0.47%) CISSP
9 1 (0.47%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.47%) ISEB
9 1 (0.47%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.47%) PgMP
9 1 (0.47%) RIBA
9 1 (0.47%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.27%) PMO
2 6 (2.80%) QA
3 5 (2.34%) GDPR
4 4 (1.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.40%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (0.93%) NIST
7 1 (0.47%) Dodd-Frank
7 1 (0.47%) GRC
7 1 (0.47%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.47%) NCSC
7 1 (0.47%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.47%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (5.14%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (2.80%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.40%) vSphere
4 2 (0.93%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.47%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.47%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 2 (0.93%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
1 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (0.93%) SCCM
2 1 (0.47%) Cisco CUCM
2 1 (0.47%) FortiGate
2 1 (0.47%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.47%) RSA Archer
2 1 (0.47%) SolarWinds Orion
2 1 (0.47%) Tivoli
2 1 (0.47%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 1 (0.47%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 20 (9.35%) VMware
2 19 (8.88%) Microsoft
3 7 (3.27%) Cisco
4 6 (2.80%) Oracle
5 5 (2.34%) CheckPoint
5 5 (2.34%) SAP
6 4 (1.87%) NetApp
6 4 (1.87%) Red Hat
7 3 (1.40%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.93%) Adobe
8 2 (0.93%) Dell
8 2 (0.93%) Foundry
8 2 (0.93%) HP
8 2 (0.93%) Juniper
8 2 (0.93%) Meraki
9 1 (0.47%) Ariba
9 1 (0.47%) Avaya
9 1 (0.47%) Citrix
9 1 (0.47%) Commvault
9 1 (0.47%) EMC