Infrastructure Manager Contract Job Trends

Infrastructure Manager
UK

The median Infrastructure Manager daily rate in the UK is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 January 2026.

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

6 months to
20 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 474 398 411
Rank change year-on-year -76 +13 -49
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Manager 112 118 176
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.30% 0.38% 0.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.33% 0.41% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 91 135
10th Percentile £405 £400 £405
25th Percentile £450 £450 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £533
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +3.29% +1.43%
75th Percentile £602 £600 £600
90th Percentile £688 £700 £690
UK excluding London median daily rate £478 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -11.57% +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 34,080 29,041 40,349
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.42% 92.85% 93.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,578 17,726 26,798
10th Percentile £300 £291 £275
25th Percentile £406 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £638
90th Percentile £719 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £480 £500
% change year-on-year -1.04% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,009 879 1,867
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.92 £13.87
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.25 £17.75
Median hourly rate £27.50 £32.50 £40.28
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% -19.30% +15.07%
75th Percentile £60.00 £62.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -23.53% +41.67%

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 January 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 January 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 -57 102 £513 -6.82% 56
London -31 52 £519 -9.78% 10
UK excluding London -51 50 £478 -11.57% 54
Work from Home -24 22 £488 -11.36% 12
South East -21 14 £525 -4.55% 17
North of England -47 14 £450 -18.18% 12
Midlands -44 11 £480 +6.67% 7
Yorkshire -43 10 £441 -18.43% 6
East Midlands -25 7 £472 +10.94% 5
South West -3 6 £750 +20.00% 7
East of England -16 5 £398 -11.67% 6
West Midlands -36 5 £538 +3.37% 2
North West -23 4 £463 -30.45% 4
Scotland +2 2 £350 -37.78% 3

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

For the 6 months to 20 January 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 52 (46.43%) Project Management
2 39 (34.82%) Stakeholder Management
3 37 (33.04%) PRINCE2
4 29 (25.89%) Azure
5 26 (23.21%) Project Delivery
6 25 (22.32%) PMI Certification
7 24 (21.43%) Microsoft
7 24 (21.43%) PMP
8 22 (19.64%) Migration
9 19 (16.96%) Agile
9 19 (16.96%) Windows
10 18 (16.07%) AWS
11 14 (12.50%) Security Cleared
12 13 (11.61%) Problem-Solving
13 12 (10.71%) Risk Management
14 11 (9.82%) Continuous Improvement
14 11 (9.82%) Microsoft 365
14 11 (9.82%) SC Cleared
15 10 (8.93%) Degree
16 9 (8.04%) Active Directory
16 9 (8.04%) Change Control
16 9 (8.04%) Change Management
16 9 (8.04%) Cybersecurity
16 9 (8.04%) Decision-Making
16 9 (8.04%) Infrastructure Management
16 9 (8.04%) Logistics
16 9 (8.04%) Risk Register
16 9 (8.04%) VMware
17 8 (7.14%) Firewall
17 8 (7.14%) WAN

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 (3.57%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.79%) Confluence
3 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.89%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (3.57%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (2.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.68%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.79%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.89%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 29 (25.89%) Azure
2 18 (16.07%) AWS
3 11 (9.82%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (6.25%) OpenShift
5 4 (3.57%) Entra ID
6 3 (2.68%) Azure Sentinel
6 3 (2.68%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (1.79%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (1.79%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 2 (1.79%) IaaS
8 1 (0.89%) OneDrive
8 1 (0.89%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (7.14%) Firewall
1 8 (7.14%) WAN
2 7 (6.25%) Wi-Fi
3 6 (5.36%) LAN
4 5 (4.46%) Structured Cabling
5 4 (3.57%) SD-WAN
6 3 (2.68%) NAS
6 3 (2.68%) SAN
7 2 (1.79%) Internet
7 2 (1.79%) Network Security
7 2 (1.79%) Wireless
7 2 (1.79%) WLAN
8 1 (0.89%) Multicast
8 1 (0.89%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.68%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (3.57%) JIRA
2 1 (0.89%) Git
General
1 44 (39.29%) Social Skills
2 43 (38.39%) Finance
3 10 (8.93%) Banking
4 9 (8.04%) Manufacturing
4 9 (8.04%) Public Sector
5 8 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (4.46%) Retail
7 4 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (3.57%) Telecoms
8 3 (2.68%) Financial Institution
8 3 (2.68%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.79%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (1.79%) Aviation
9 2 (1.79%) French Language
9 2 (1.79%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.79%) Local Government
10 1 (0.89%) Back Office
10 1 (0.89%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.89%) German Language
10 1 (0.89%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.89%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 20 (17.86%) Data Centre
2 8 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (2.68%) Management Information System
3 3 (2.68%) PMI
4 2 (1.79%) CCTV
4 2 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.79%) FMCG
5 1 (0.89%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (0.89%) Hedge funds
5 1 (0.89%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (0.89%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.89%) Life Science
5 1 (0.89%) Mainframe
5 1 (0.89%) NHS
5 1 (0.89%) Private Cloud
5 1 (0.89%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (0.89%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 19 (16.96%) Windows
2 8 (7.14%) Windows Server
3 4 (3.57%) Unix
4 3 (2.68%) Linux
5 1 (0.89%) Android
5 1 (0.89%) VMS
5 1 (0.89%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (46.43%) Project Management
2 39 (34.82%) Stakeholder Management
3 37 (33.04%) PRINCE2
4 26 (23.21%) Project Delivery
5 22 (19.64%) Migration
6 19 (16.96%) Agile
7 13 (11.61%) Problem-Solving
8 12 (10.71%) Risk Management
9 11 (9.82%) Continuous Improvement
10 9 (8.04%) Change Control
10 9 (8.04%) Change Management
10 9 (8.04%) Cybersecurity
10 9 (8.04%) Decision-Making
10 9 (8.04%) Infrastructure Management
10 9 (8.04%) Logistics
10 9 (8.04%) Risk Register
11 7 (6.25%) Disaster Recovery
11 7 (6.25%) ITIL
11 7 (6.25%) Project Governance
11 7 (6.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1 (0.89%) PowerShell
1 1 (0.89%) Python
Qualifications
1 25 (22.32%) PMI Certification
2 24 (21.43%) PMP
3 14 (12.50%) Security Cleared
4 11 (9.82%) SC Cleared
5 10 (8.93%) Degree
6 4 (3.57%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 2 (1.79%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.79%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (1.79%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.89%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.89%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (3.57%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (3.57%) PMO
2 4 (3.57%) QA
3 3 (2.68%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 3 (2.68%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 2 (1.79%) SLA
5 1 (0.89%) GDPR
5 1 (0.89%) NIST
System Software
1 9 (8.04%) Active Directory
2 6 (5.36%) Hyper-V
3 5 (4.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.89%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (5.36%) Ansible
2 5 (4.46%) Terraform
3 3 (2.68%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (2.68%) SCCM
3 3 (2.68%) SCOM
4 2 (1.79%) FortiGate
4 2 (1.79%) Puppet
5 1 (0.89%) Consul
5 1 (0.89%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.89%) Packer
Vendors
1 24 (21.43%) Microsoft
2 9 (8.04%) VMware
3 5 (4.46%) Cisco
4 4 (3.57%) SAP
5 3 (2.68%) Arista
5 3 (2.68%) BMC
5 3 (2.68%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.79%) GoldenSource
7 1 (0.89%) Ariba
7 1 (0.89%) Aruba
7 1 (0.89%) Cadence
7 1 (0.89%) Genesys
7 1 (0.89%) IFS
7 1 (0.89%) Meraki
7 1 (0.89%) NEC
7 1 (0.89%) Oracle
7 1 (0.89%) Samsung