Infrastructure Manager Contract Job Trends

Infrastructure Manager
UK

The median Infrastructure Manager daily rate in the UK is £580, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 452 405 416
Rank change year-on-year -47 +11 -62
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Manager 198 120 180
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.40% 0.41% 0.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.43% 0.44% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 90 125
10th Percentile £420 £362 £363
25th Percentile £467 £407 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £488 £550
Median % change year-on-year +18.97% -11.36% +4.76%
75th Percentile £650 £575 £615
90th Percentile £725 £610 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £481 £550
% change year-on-year +9.09% -12.50% +15.79%

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 46,156 27,173 40,538
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.35% 92.32% 92.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,087 17,480 26,089
10th Percentile £325 £289 £280
25th Percentile £413 £402 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.68% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +5.26% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,077 1,137 2,938
10th Percentile £15.19 £13.94 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.75 £17.79 £16.30
Median hourly rate £43.00 £27.64 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +55.57% -26.29% -16.67%
75th Percentile £67.50 £57.50 £61.71
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +78.93% -37.13% -4.76%

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 12 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 12 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 -49 175 £578 +15.50% 38
UK excluding London -35 100 £525 +9.09% 32
London -47 76 £625 +26.39% 9
Work from Home -38 58 £600 +33.33% 14
North of England -55 32 £525 +20.55% 11
Yorkshire -33 29 £525 +5.00% 4
Midlands -50 22 £625 +42.86% 9
West Midlands -46 18 £625 +19.05% 5
South East -65 17 £513 - 4
East of England -12 13 £500 -27.27% 4
South West -15 13 £475 -3.80% 4
Scotland -5 5 £550 +18.41%
East Midlands -20 5 £475 +11.76% 4
North West -31 3 £488 +13.04% 6

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

For the 6 months to 12 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 60 (30.30%) Stakeholder Management
2 53 (26.77%) Project Management
3 41 (20.71%) Agile
3 41 (20.71%) Azure
4 31 (15.66%) PRINCE2
5 30 (15.15%) Project Delivery
6 28 (14.14%) Security Cleared
6 28 (14.14%) Windows
7 27 (13.64%) Migration
7 27 (13.64%) PMI Certification
8 24 (12.12%) PMP
9 21 (10.61%) Risk Management
9 21 (10.61%) SC Cleared
10 20 (10.10%) Microsoft
11 19 (9.60%) Continuous Improvement
12 18 (9.09%) ITIL
12 18 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
13 17 (8.59%) Budget Management
13 17 (8.59%) Problem-Solving
14 16 (8.08%) Waterfall
15 15 (7.58%) Decision-Making
15 15 (7.58%) Network Security
16 14 (7.07%) Infrastructure Transformation
16 14 (7.07%) Roadmaps
16 14 (7.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 14 (7.07%) Windows Server
17 13 (6.57%) Change Management
18 12 (6.06%) AWS
18 12 (6.06%) Firewall
18 12 (6.06%) Programme 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 7 (3.54%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.01%) Confluence
2 2 (1.01%) IIS
2 2 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.51%) Apache Pulsar
Applications
1 4 (2.02%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (2.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 4 (2.02%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.51%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (0.51%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 41 (20.71%) Azure
2 18 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
3 12 (6.06%) AWS
4 9 (4.55%) OpenShift
5 8 (4.04%) OCI
6 4 (2.02%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (2.02%) Entra ID
6 4 (2.02%) GCP
7 3 (1.52%) Power Platform
8 2 (1.01%) Asana
8 2 (1.01%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 2 (1.01%) Google Workspace
8 2 (1.01%) IaaS
8 2 (1.01%) PaaS
9 1 (0.51%) Google Ads
9 1 (0.51%) Kong
9 1 (0.51%) SaaS
9 1 (0.51%) SAP Commerce Cloud
9 1 (0.51%) Slack
9 1 (0.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 15 (7.58%) Network Security
2 12 (6.06%) Firewall
3 11 (5.56%) WAN
4 8 (4.04%) LAN
5 7 (3.54%) SD-WAN
5 7 (3.54%) Structured Cabling
6 4 (2.02%) DNS
7 3 (1.52%) SAN
7 3 (1.52%) VLAN
7 3 (1.52%) Wireless
8 2 (1.01%) DHCP
8 2 (1.01%) MPLS
8 2 (1.01%) NAS
8 2 (1.01%) TCP/IP
8 2 (1.01%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.51%) BGP
9 1 (0.51%) DMZ
9 1 (0.51%) OSPF
9 1 (0.51%) VPN
9 1 (0.51%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.01%) Power BI
2 1 (0.51%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (5.56%) JIRA
General
1 53 (26.77%) Finance
2 42 (21.21%) Social Skills
3 19 (9.60%) Banking
4 17 (8.59%) Public Sector
5 10 (5.05%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
6 9 (4.55%) Telecoms
7 6 (3.03%) Legal
8 5 (2.53%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (2.02%) Retail
10 3 (1.52%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.01%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.01%) Investment Banking
11 2 (1.01%) Law
12 1 (0.51%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.51%) Aviation
12 1 (0.51%) Back Office
12 1 (0.51%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.51%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.51%) Kafka
1 1 (0.51%) Middleware
1 1 (0.51%) OAuth
1 1 (0.51%) OAuth2
1 1 (0.51%) OpenTelemetry
1 1 (0.51%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (0.51%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 35 (17.68%) Data Centre
2 7 (3.54%) PMI
3 5 (2.53%) Private Cloud
4 4 (2.02%) Mainframe
4 4 (2.02%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.52%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (1.52%) Legacy Applications
5 3 (1.52%) Management Information System
5 3 (1.52%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.01%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.01%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (1.01%) Operational Technology
6 2 (1.01%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.01%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.01%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (0.51%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.51%) Digital Signage
7 1 (0.51%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.51%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.51%) Self-Driving Car
Operating Systems
1 28 (14.14%) Windows
2 14 (7.07%) Windows Server
3 4 (2.02%) Unix
4 3 (1.52%) Linux
4 3 (1.52%) VMS
5 2 (1.01%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.51%) Android
6 1 (0.51%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.51%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (30.30%) Stakeholder Management
2 53 (26.77%) Project Management
3 41 (20.71%) Agile
4 31 (15.66%) PRINCE2
5 30 (15.15%) Project Delivery
6 27 (13.64%) Migration
7 21 (10.61%) Risk Management
8 19 (9.60%) Continuous Improvement
9 18 (9.09%) ITIL
10 17 (8.59%) Budget Management
10 17 (8.59%) Problem-Solving
11 16 (8.08%) Waterfall
12 15 (7.58%) Decision-Making
13 14 (7.07%) Infrastructure Transformation
13 14 (7.07%) Roadmaps
13 14 (7.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 13 (6.57%) Change Management
15 12 (6.06%) Programme Management
15 12 (6.06%) Project Governance
16 11 (5.56%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 3 (1.52%) PowerShell
2 2 (1.01%) Python
3 1 (0.51%) Bash
3 1 (0.51%) Bicep
3 1 (0.51%) SQL
Qualifications
1 28 (14.14%) Security Cleared
2 27 (13.64%) PMI Certification
3 24 (12.12%) PMP
4 21 (10.61%) SC Cleared
5 11 (5.56%) DV Cleared
6 10 (5.05%) Degree
7 6 (3.03%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 3 (1.52%) Azure Certification
9 2 (1.01%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (1.01%) ISTQB
9 2 (1.01%) Master's Degree
9 2 (1.01%) MBA
9 2 (1.01%) PgMP
9 2 (1.01%) Six Sigma Black Belt
9 2 (1.01%) Six Sigma Green Belt
10 1 (0.51%) BC Cleared
10 1 (0.51%) CCIE
10 1 (0.51%) CCNP
10 1 (0.51%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.51%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 8 (4.04%) PMO
2 7 (3.54%) GDPR
3 5 (2.53%) QA
4 4 (2.02%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (2.02%) SLA
5 3 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 42001
5 3 (1.52%) NIST
5 3 (1.52%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.01%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (1.01%) GRC
6 2 (1.01%) NCSC
6 2 (1.01%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.51%) Dodd-Frank
7 1 (0.51%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.51%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 8 (4.04%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.51%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (0.51%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (3.03%) Terraform
2 4 (2.02%) FortiGate
3 3 (1.52%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (1.01%) Ansible
4 2 (1.01%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
4 2 (1.01%) Kubernetes
4 2 (1.01%) SCCM
5 1 (0.51%) Cisco CUCM
5 1 (0.51%) Cisco Prime
5 1 (0.51%) Grafana
5 1 (0.51%) Iperf
5 1 (0.51%) Istio
5 1 (0.51%) linkerd
5 1 (0.51%) Nmap
5 1 (0.51%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.51%) RSA Archer
5 1 (0.51%) SolarWinds Orion
5 1 (0.51%) Tivoli
5 1 (0.51%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 20 (10.10%) Microsoft
2 9 (4.55%) VMware
3 8 (4.04%) Cisco
3 8 (4.04%) ServiceNow
4 7 (3.54%) Oracle
5 5 (2.53%) CheckPoint
5 5 (2.53%) SAP
6 4 (2.02%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.01%) Ariba
7 2 (1.01%) Dell
7 2 (1.01%) Google
7 2 (1.01%) Juniper
7 2 (1.01%) Meraki
7 2 (1.01%) SolarWinds
8 1 (0.51%) Avaya
8 1 (0.51%) Citrix
8 1 (0.51%) Commvault
8 1 (0.51%) EMC
8 1 (0.51%) NetApp
8 1 (0.51%) Veritas