Infrastructure Manager Contract Job Trends

Infrastructure Manager
UK

The median Infrastructure Manager daily rate in the UK is £506, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 February 2026.

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

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 473 407 409
Rank change year-on-year -66 +2 -60
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Manager 124 126 185
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.30% 0.41% 0.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.33% 0.44% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 96 142
10th Percentile £405 £410 £401
25th Percentile £448 £459 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.81% -2.27% +4.76%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £630
90th Percentile £688 £688 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +7.97%
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 37,463 28,656 41,321
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.73% 92.90% 93.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,513 17,815 27,174
10th Percentile £305 £290 £275
25th Percentile £406 £406 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £719 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +1.05% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,286 832 2,325
10th Percentile £14.61 £16.23 £13.15
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.41 £16.50
Median hourly rate £31.36 £33.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.70% -5.00% -10.26%
75th Percentile £63.69 £63.75 £60.75
90th Percentile £74.26 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £32.00 £35.50
% change year-on-year -6.25% -9.86% -0.84%

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 20 February 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 20 February 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 -96 110 £500 -4.76% 55
London -48 57 £513 -10.87% 16
UK excluding London -80 52 £475 -5.00% 47
Work from Home -24 33 £525 -4.55% 11
South East -29 16 £475 -5.00% 19
Midlands -50 14 £563 +25.00% 9
North of England -60 14 £456 -6.41% 10
Yorkshire -56 10 £450 -14.29% 6
West Midlands -44 9 £625 +28.21% 6
East of England -23 6 £445 -17.21% 6
East Midlands -25 6 £468 +10.12% 3
North West -27 4 £463 -15.91% 3
South West -20 3 £750 +50.00% 1
Scotland -3 1 £350 -39.13% 3

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

For the 6 months to 20 February 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 56 (45.16%) Project Management
2 46 (37.10%) Stakeholder Management
3 38 (30.65%) PRINCE2
4 31 (25.00%) Azure
5 30 (24.19%) PMI Certification
6 29 (23.39%) Project Delivery
7 28 (22.58%) PMP
8 24 (19.35%) Microsoft
8 24 (19.35%) Migration
9 22 (17.74%) Agile
10 20 (16.13%) Windows
11 19 (15.32%) Security Cleared
12 18 (14.52%) AWS
12 18 (14.52%) Risk Management
13 17 (13.71%) SC Cleared
14 15 (12.10%) Continuous Improvement
15 13 (10.48%) Problem-Solving
16 12 (9.68%) Change Control
16 12 (9.68%) Risk Register
17 11 (8.87%) Decision-Making
17 11 (8.87%) High Availability
17 11 (8.87%) Logistics
17 11 (8.87%) Microsoft 365
18 10 (8.06%) Budget Management
18 10 (8.06%) Degree
18 10 (8.06%) Firewall
18 10 (8.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 10 (8.06%) WAN
19 9 (7.26%) Active Directory
19 9 (7.26%) Change Management

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 6 (4.84%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.42%) Confluence
3 1 (0.81%) Apache Pulsar
3 1 (0.81%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (3.23%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (2.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.42%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (2.42%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.81%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.81%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 31 (25.00%) Azure
2 18 (14.52%) AWS
3 11 (8.87%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (7.26%) OpenShift
5 4 (3.23%) Entra ID
6 3 (2.42%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (2.42%) GCP
6 3 (2.42%) IaaS
7 2 (1.61%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 2 (1.61%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (1.61%) OCI
8 1 (0.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (0.81%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (0.81%) Apigee
8 1 (0.81%) AWS KMS
8 1 (0.81%) Azure AKS
8 1 (0.81%) Azure API Management
8 1 (0.81%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 1 (0.81%) Kong
8 1 (0.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (8.06%) Firewall
1 10 (8.06%) WAN
2 8 (6.45%) LAN
3 7 (5.65%) SD-WAN
4 6 (4.84%) Wi-Fi
5 5 (4.03%) Network Security
5 5 (4.03%) Structured Cabling
6 2 (1.61%) Internet
6 2 (1.61%) MPLS
6 2 (1.61%) Multicast
6 2 (1.61%) VPN
6 2 (1.61%) Wireless
6 2 (1.61%) WLAN
7 1 (0.81%) BGP
7 1 (0.81%) DNS
7 1 (0.81%) OSPF
7 1 (0.81%) SAN
7 1 (0.81%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.81%) VLAN
7 1 (0.81%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.81%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (4.03%) JIRA
2 1 (0.81%) Git
General
1 46 (37.10%) Finance
2 43 (34.68%) Social Skills
3 11 (8.87%) Banking
4 10 (8.06%) Organisational Skills
4 10 (8.06%) Public Sector
4 10 (8.06%) Telecoms
5 9 (7.26%) Manufacturing
6 6 (4.84%) Retail
7 5 (4.03%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.42%) Analytical Skills
9 3 (2.42%) Aviation
9 3 (2.42%) Financial Institution
9 3 (2.42%) Local Government
10 2 (1.61%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.61%) French Language
10 2 (1.61%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.81%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.81%) German Language
11 1 (0.81%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.81%) ADO
1 1 (0.81%) Kafka
1 1 (0.81%) OAuth
1 1 (0.81%) OAuth2
1 1 (0.81%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 26 (20.97%) Data Centre
2 6 (4.84%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (3.23%) Mainframe
3 4 (3.23%) Management Information System
3 4 (3.23%) PMI
4 2 (1.61%) CCTV
4 2 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.61%) FMCG
4 2 (1.61%) NHS
5 1 (0.81%) Chip and PIN
5 1 (0.81%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.81%) CMDB
5 1 (0.81%) Hedge funds
5 1 (0.81%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.81%) Life Science
5 1 (0.81%) Private Cloud
5 1 (0.81%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.81%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (0.81%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 1 (0.81%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 20 (16.13%) Windows
2 9 (7.26%) Windows Server
3 4 (3.23%) Unix
4 3 (2.42%) Linux
4 3 (2.42%) VMS
5 2 (1.61%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (45.16%) Project Management
2 46 (37.10%) Stakeholder Management
3 38 (30.65%) PRINCE2
4 29 (23.39%) Project Delivery
5 24 (19.35%) Migration
6 22 (17.74%) Agile
7 18 (14.52%) Risk Management
8 15 (12.10%) Continuous Improvement
9 13 (10.48%) Problem-Solving
10 12 (9.68%) Change Control
10 12 (9.68%) Risk Register
11 11 (8.87%) Decision-Making
11 11 (8.87%) High Availability
11 11 (8.87%) Logistics
12 10 (8.06%) Budget Management
12 10 (8.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 9 (7.26%) Change Management
13 9 (7.26%) Cybersecurity
14 8 (6.45%) Disaster Recovery
14 8 (6.45%) Supplier Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (1.61%) Python
2 1 (0.81%) Bash
2 1 (0.81%) Bicep
2 1 (0.81%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 30 (24.19%) PMI Certification
2 28 (22.58%) PMP
3 19 (15.32%) Security Cleared
4 17 (13.71%) SC Cleared
5 10 (8.06%) Degree
6 5 (4.03%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 3 (2.42%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.81%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.81%) BC Cleared
8 1 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.81%) CCIE
8 1 (0.81%) CCNP
8 1 (0.81%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.81%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.81%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.81%) PgMP
8 1 (0.81%) Six Sigma Black Belt
8 1 (0.81%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (4.03%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (4.03%) QA
3 4 (3.23%) PMO
3 4 (3.23%) SLA
4 3 (2.42%) ISO/IEC 42001
5 2 (1.61%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (1.61%) GDPR
5 2 (1.61%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.81%) GRC
6 1 (0.81%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.81%) NCSC
6 1 (0.81%) NIST
6 1 (0.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 9 (7.26%) Active Directory
2 5 (4.03%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (3.23%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.81%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (4.03%) Ansible
2 4 (3.23%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (3.23%) SCCM
2 4 (3.23%) Terraform
3 3 (2.42%) FortiGate
3 3 (2.42%) SCOM
4 2 (1.61%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.81%) Cisco Prime
5 1 (0.81%) Consul
5 1 (0.81%) Grafana
5 1 (0.81%) Iperf
5 1 (0.81%) Istio
5 1 (0.81%) linkerd
5 1 (0.81%) Nmap
5 1 (0.81%) Packer
5 1 (0.81%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 24 (19.35%) Microsoft
2 7 (5.65%) VMware
3 6 (4.84%) ServiceNow
4 5 (4.03%) Cisco
4 5 (4.03%) SAP
5 3 (2.42%) Arista
5 3 (2.42%) BMC
6 2 (1.61%) Ariba
6 2 (1.61%) Cadence
6 2 (1.61%) GoldenSource
6 2 (1.61%) Oracle
7 1 (0.81%) Aruba
7 1 (0.81%) BT
7 1 (0.81%) CheckPoint
7 1 (0.81%) Fortinet
7 1 (0.81%) Genesys
7 1 (0.81%) Google
7 1 (0.81%) SolarWinds
7 1 (0.81%) Splunk
7 1 (0.81%) Tufin