Infrastructure Manager Contract Job Trends

Infrastructure Manager
UK

The median Infrastructure Manager daily rate in the UK is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 24 June 2026.

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

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 441 416 402
Rank change year-on-year -25 -14 -59
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Manager 201 122 177
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.39% 0.41% 0.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.43% 0.44% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 89 124
10th Percentile £421 £362 £363
25th Percentile £463 £406 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £488 £550
Median % change year-on-year +17.95% -11.36% +4.76%
75th Percentile £650 £585 £615
90th Percentile £725 £611 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £481 £525
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% +10.53%
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 47,021 27,678 40,406
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.36% 92.16% 92.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,598 17,771 25,926
10th Percentile £325 £288 £281
25th Percentile £414 £402 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.50% -4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £493
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.65% -1.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,150 1,209 2,937
10th Percentile £15.38 £13.84 £12.84
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.44 £16.37
Median hourly rate £43.00 £27.38 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +57.08% -27.00% -12.79%
75th Percentile £67.50 £57.50 £62.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £74.00 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.50 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +76.94% -37.13% -

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 June 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 June 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 -35 180 £575 +15.00% 42
UK excluding London -37 105 £525 +9.09% 36
London -52 77 £625 +21.95% 12
Work from Home -32 61 £550 +22.22% 21
North of England -63 31 £525 +16.67% 8
Yorkshire -34 28 £525 +5.00% 3
Midlands -40 21 £625 +38.89% 4
South East -49 21 £513 - 13
West Midlands -45 17 £625 +19.05% 4
East of England -19 14 £500 -20.00% 5
South West -21 13 £475 -2.56% 5
Scotland -11 5 £550 +18.41%
East Midlands -15 4 £475 +8.57%
North West -48 3 £488 +13.04% 2

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

For the 6 months to 24 June 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 (31.34%) Stakeholder Management
2 54 (26.87%) Project Management
3 42 (20.90%) Azure
4 41 (20.40%) Agile
5 32 (15.92%) PRINCE2
5 32 (15.92%) Security Cleared
6 30 (14.93%) Project Delivery
7 28 (13.93%) Migration
7 28 (13.93%) PMI Certification
7 28 (13.93%) Windows
8 25 (12.44%) PMP
9 22 (10.95%) SC Cleared
10 21 (10.45%) Risk Management
11 19 (9.45%) Budget Management
11 19 (9.45%) ITIL
11 19 (9.45%) Microsoft
11 19 (9.45%) Microsoft 365
12 18 (8.96%) Continuous Improvement
13 16 (7.96%) Change Management
13 16 (7.96%) Problem-Solving
13 16 (7.96%) Waterfall
14 15 (7.46%) DV Cleared
14 15 (7.46%) Network Security
14 15 (7.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 14 (6.97%) Decision-Making
15 14 (6.97%) Infrastructure Transformation
16 13 (6.47%) AWS
16 13 (6.47%) Roadmaps
16 13 (6.47%) Windows Server
17 12 (5.97%) Change Control

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 (3.48%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.00%) Confluence
2 2 (1.00%) IIS
2 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.50%) Apache Pulsar
Applications
1 5 (2.49%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (1.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.49%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.50%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (0.50%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 42 (20.90%) Azure
2 19 (9.45%) Microsoft 365
3 13 (6.47%) AWS
4 8 (3.98%) OCI
5 7 (3.48%) OpenShift
6 4 (1.99%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (1.99%) Entra ID
6 4 (1.99%) GCP
7 3 (1.49%) Power Platform
8 2 (1.00%) Asana
8 2 (1.00%) Google Workspace
8 2 (1.00%) IaaS
8 2 (1.00%) PaaS
9 1 (0.50%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 1 (0.50%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.50%) Google Ads
9 1 (0.50%) Kong
9 1 (0.50%) SaaS
9 1 (0.50%) SAP Commerce Cloud
9 1 (0.50%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 15 (7.46%) Network Security
2 10 (4.98%) Firewall
2 10 (4.98%) WAN
3 8 (3.98%) LAN
4 7 (3.48%) Structured Cabling
5 6 (2.99%) SD-WAN
6 4 (1.99%) DNS
7 3 (1.49%) SAN
7 3 (1.49%) VLAN
7 3 (1.49%) Wireless
8 2 (1.00%) DHCP
8 2 (1.00%) MPLS
8 2 (1.00%) NAS
8 2 (1.00%) TCP/IP
8 2 (1.00%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.50%) BGP
9 1 (0.50%) DMZ
9 1 (0.50%) OSPF
9 1 (0.50%) VPN
9 1 (0.50%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.00%) Power BI
2 1 (0.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (5.47%) JIRA
General
1 53 (26.37%) Finance
2 40 (19.90%) Social Skills
3 19 (9.45%) Public Sector
4 18 (8.96%) Banking
5 11 (5.47%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (4.98%) Organisational Skills
7 9 (4.48%) Telecoms
8 6 (2.99%) Legal
9 5 (2.49%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (2.49%) Retail
10 3 (1.49%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.00%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.00%) Investment Banking
11 2 (1.00%) Law
11 2 (1.00%) Local Government
12 1 (0.50%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.50%) Back Office
12 1 (0.50%) German Language
12 1 (0.50%) Japanese Language
12 1 (0.50%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.50%) Kafka
1 1 (0.50%) Middleware
1 1 (0.50%) OAuth
1 1 (0.50%) OAuth2
1 1 (0.50%) OpenTelemetry
1 1 (0.50%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (0.50%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 38 (18.91%) Data Centre
2 7 (3.48%) PMI
3 5 (2.49%) Private Cloud
4 4 (1.99%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (1.99%) Mainframe
4 4 (1.99%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.49%) Legacy Applications
5 3 (1.49%) Management Information System
5 3 (1.49%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.00%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.00%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (1.00%) Operational Technology
6 2 (1.00%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.00%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (0.50%) CMDB
7 1 (0.50%) Credit Risk
7 1 (0.50%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.50%) PKI
7 1 (0.50%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 28 (13.93%) Windows
2 13 (6.47%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.99%) Unix
4 3 (1.49%) Linux
4 3 (1.49%) VMS
5 2 (1.00%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.50%) Android
6 1 (0.50%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.50%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (31.34%) Stakeholder Management
2 54 (26.87%) Project Management
3 41 (20.40%) Agile
4 32 (15.92%) PRINCE2
5 30 (14.93%) Project Delivery
6 28 (13.93%) Migration
7 21 (10.45%) Risk Management
8 19 (9.45%) Budget Management
8 19 (9.45%) ITIL
9 18 (8.96%) Continuous Improvement
10 16 (7.96%) Change Management
10 16 (7.96%) Problem-Solving
10 16 (7.96%) Waterfall
11 15 (7.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 14 (6.97%) Decision-Making
12 14 (6.97%) Infrastructure Transformation
13 13 (6.47%) Roadmaps
14 12 (5.97%) Change Control
14 12 (5.97%) Programme Management
14 12 (5.97%) Project Governance
Programming Languages
1 2 (1.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (0.50%) Bash
2 1 (0.50%) Bicep
2 1 (0.50%) Python
2 1 (0.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 32 (15.92%) Security Cleared
2 28 (13.93%) PMI Certification
3 25 (12.44%) PMP
4 22 (10.95%) SC Cleared
5 15 (7.46%) DV Cleared
6 10 (4.98%) Degree
7 8 (3.98%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 5 (2.49%) Azure Certification
9 2 (1.00%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (1.00%) ISTQB
9 2 (1.00%) Master's Degree
9 2 (1.00%) MBA
9 2 (1.00%) PgMP
9 2 (1.00%) Six Sigma Black Belt
9 2 (1.00%) Six Sigma Green Belt
10 1 (0.50%) CCIE
10 1 (0.50%) CCNP
10 1 (0.50%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.50%) CISSP
10 1 (0.50%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.98%) PMO
1 8 (3.98%) QA
2 7 (3.48%) GDPR
3 6 (2.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.99%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (1.49%) NIST
5 3 (1.49%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.49%) SLA
6 2 (1.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (1.00%) GRC
6 2 (1.00%) NCSC
6 2 (1.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.50%) Dodd-Frank
7 1 (0.50%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.50%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 7 (3.48%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.49%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.50%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (0.50%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (2.49%) Terraform
2 3 (1.49%) FortiGate
2 3 (1.49%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (1.00%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
3 2 (1.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.00%) SCCM
4 1 (0.50%) Ansible
4 1 (0.50%) Cisco CUCM
4 1 (0.50%) Cisco Prime
4 1 (0.50%) Grafana
4 1 (0.50%) Iperf
4 1 (0.50%) Istio
4 1 (0.50%) linkerd
4 1 (0.50%) Nmap
4 1 (0.50%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.50%) RSA Archer
4 1 (0.50%) SolarWinds Orion
4 1 (0.50%) Tivoli
4 1 (0.50%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 19 (9.45%) Microsoft
2 9 (4.48%) VMware
3 8 (3.98%) Cisco
3 8 (3.98%) ServiceNow
4 7 (3.48%) Oracle
5 6 (2.99%) CheckPoint
6 5 (2.49%) SAP
7 4 (1.99%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.00%) Ariba
8 2 (1.00%) Dell
8 2 (1.00%) Google
8 2 (1.00%) Juniper
8 2 (1.00%) Meraki
8 2 (1.00%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.50%) NVIDIA
9 1 (0.50%) Palo Alto
9 1 (0.50%) Pure Storage
9 1 (0.50%) Speakerbus
9 1 (0.50%) Varonis
9 1 (0.50%) Workday