Infrastructure Manager Contract Job Trends

Infrastructure Manager
UK

The median Infrastructure Manager daily rate in the UK is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 March 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 491 397 407
Rank change year-on-year -94 +10 -60
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Manager 145 130 188
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.34% 0.44% 0.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.37% 0.47% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 99 145
10th Percentile £400 £400 £396
25th Percentile £458 £453 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £625
90th Percentile £695 £675 £695
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +9.95%
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 39,618 27,480 41,303
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.89% 92.95% 92.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,739 17,860 27,103
10th Percentile £313 £297 £272
25th Percentile £410 £406 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.37%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £720 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £475 £485
% change year-on-year +1.05% -2.06% -3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,468 883 2,495
10th Percentile £14.99 £15.25 £12.95
25th Percentile £19.00 £21.03 £16.25
Median hourly rate £35.71 £32.81 £32.90
Median % change year-on-year +8.84% -0.26% -22.60%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £59.94
90th Percentile £75.85 £77.44 £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +7.69% - -20.36%

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 16 March 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 16 March 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 -86 126 £525 - 32
London -43 68 £575 +2.22% 12
UK excluding London -85 59 £475 -5.00% 27
Work from Home -22 43 £550 - 11
South East -40 20 £475 -5.00% 8
North of England -52 18 £463 +2.78% 6
Yorkshire -48 13 £458 +11.59% 3
Midlands -59 11 £625 +35.14% 5
West Midlands -62 8 £650 +26.83% 5
East of England -26 7 £423 -32.40% 2
North West -39 5 £463 -15.91% 3
Scotland +5 4 £550 -4.35% 2
East Midlands -29 4 £468 +10.12%
South West -32 1 £475 -5.00% 3

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

For the 6 months to 16 March 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 62 (42.76%) Project Management
2 52 (35.86%) Stakeholder Management
3 41 (28.28%) PRINCE2
4 37 (25.52%) Project Delivery
5 34 (23.45%) Agile
6 33 (22.76%) PMI Certification
7 31 (21.38%) PMP
8 26 (17.93%) Security Cleared
9 25 (17.24%) Azure
10 24 (16.55%) Migration
11 23 (15.86%) SC Cleared
12 22 (15.17%) Microsoft
13 21 (14.48%) Risk Management
14 20 (13.79%) Continuous Improvement
15 19 (13.10%) Problem-Solving
16 17 (11.72%) Windows
17 16 (11.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 15 (10.34%) AWS
19 14 (9.66%) Change Management
20 13 (8.97%) Budget Management
20 13 (8.97%) Change Control
20 13 (8.97%) Decision-Making
20 13 (8.97%) Programme Management
20 13 (8.97%) Roadmaps
21 12 (8.28%) Firewall
21 12 (8.28%) Risk Register
21 12 (8.28%) WAN
22 10 (6.90%) Active Directory
22 10 (6.90%) Budgeting and Forecasting
22 10 (6.90%) ITIL

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 (4.83%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.07%) Confluence
3 1 (0.69%) Apache Pulsar
3 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.69%) nginx
Applications
1 5 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (3.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (2.76%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (2.07%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.38%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.69%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (0.69%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 25 (17.24%) Azure
2 15 (10.34%) AWS
3 10 (6.90%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (6.21%) OpenShift
5 4 (2.76%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (2.76%) OCI
6 3 (2.07%) Entra ID
6 3 (2.07%) GCP
7 2 (1.38%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 2 (1.38%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (1.38%) IaaS
7 2 (1.38%) PaaS
7 2 (1.38%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.69%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (0.69%) AWS KMS
8 1 (0.69%) Azure AKS
8 1 (0.69%) Azure API Management
8 1 (0.69%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 1 (0.69%) Kong
8 1 (0.69%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 12 (8.28%) Firewall
1 12 (8.28%) WAN
2 10 (6.90%) LAN
3 9 (6.21%) SD-WAN
4 7 (4.83%) Network Security
4 7 (4.83%) Structured Cabling
4 7 (4.83%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (2.07%) Wireless
6 2 (1.38%) DNS
6 2 (1.38%) Internet
6 2 (1.38%) MPLS
6 2 (1.38%) Multicast
6 2 (1.38%) VPN
6 2 (1.38%) WLAN
7 1 (0.69%) BGP
7 1 (0.69%) NaaS
7 1 (0.69%) OSPF
7 1 (0.69%) SAN
7 1 (0.69%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.69%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.69%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 8 (5.52%) JIRA
2 1 (0.69%) Git
General
1 51 (35.17%) Finance
2 43 (29.66%) Social Skills
3 14 (9.66%) Organisational Skills
3 14 (9.66%) Public Sector
4 13 (8.97%) Banking
5 11 (7.59%) Telecoms
6 10 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (4.14%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (3.45%) Retail
9 4 (2.76%) Legal
10 3 (2.07%) Financial Institution
10 3 (2.07%) Local Government
10 3 (2.07%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.38%) Aviation
11 2 (1.38%) French Language
11 2 (1.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.38%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.69%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.69%) German Language
12 1 (0.69%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.69%) ADO
1 1 (0.69%) Kafka
1 1 (0.69%) OAuth
1 1 (0.69%) OAuth2
1 1 (0.69%) OpenTelemetry
1 1 (0.69%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 36 (24.83%) Data Centre
2 5 (3.45%) PMI
3 4 (2.76%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (2.76%) Mainframe
3 4 (2.76%) Management Information System
3 4 (2.76%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.38%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (1.38%) CCTV
4 2 (1.38%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.38%) Legacy Applications
4 2 (1.38%) NHS
5 1 (0.69%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.69%) CMDB
5 1 (0.69%) Culture of Ownership
5 1 (0.69%) Digital Signage
5 1 (0.69%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (0.69%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.69%) Life Science
5 1 (0.69%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.69%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 17 (11.72%) Windows
2 8 (5.52%) Windows Server
3 4 (2.76%) Linux
3 4 (2.76%) VMS
4 2 (1.38%) Unix
5 1 (0.69%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (42.76%) Project Management
2 52 (35.86%) Stakeholder Management
3 41 (28.28%) PRINCE2
4 37 (25.52%) Project Delivery
5 34 (23.45%) Agile
6 24 (16.55%) Migration
7 21 (14.48%) Risk Management
8 20 (13.79%) Continuous Improvement
9 19 (13.10%) Problem-Solving
10 16 (11.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 14 (9.66%) Change Management
12 13 (8.97%) Budget Management
12 13 (8.97%) Change Control
12 13 (8.97%) Decision-Making
12 13 (8.97%) Programme Management
12 13 (8.97%) Roadmaps
13 12 (8.28%) Risk Register
14 10 (6.90%) Budgeting and Forecasting
14 10 (6.90%) ITIL
15 9 (6.21%) Logistics
Programming Languages
1 2 (1.38%) Python
2 1 (0.69%) Bash
2 1 (0.69%) Bicep
2 1 (0.69%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 33 (22.76%) PMI Certification
2 31 (21.38%) PMP
3 26 (17.93%) Security Cleared
4 23 (15.86%) SC Cleared
5 9 (6.21%) Degree
6 6 (4.14%) DV Cleared
6 6 (4.14%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 2 (1.38%) Six Sigma Black Belt
7 2 (1.38%) Six Sigma Green Belt
8 1 (0.69%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.69%) BC Cleared
8 1 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.69%) CCIE
8 1 (0.69%) CCNP
8 1 (0.69%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.69%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.69%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.69%) PgMP
8 1 (0.69%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.52%) PMO
2 6 (4.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (3.45%) SLA
4 4 (2.76%) GDPR
4 4 (2.76%) QA
5 3 (2.07%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (2.07%) ISO/IEC 42001
6 2 (1.38%) NCSC
6 2 (1.38%) NIST
6 2 (1.38%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.69%) GRC
7 1 (0.69%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 10 (6.90%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.07%) Hyper-V
2 3 (2.07%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.69%) Docker
3 1 (0.69%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (3.45%) Ansible
1 5 (3.45%) Terraform
2 4 (2.76%) FortiGate
2 4 (2.76%) SCCM
3 3 (2.07%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (2.07%) SCOM
4 2 (1.38%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.69%) Cisco CUCM
5 1 (0.69%) Cisco Prime
5 1 (0.69%) Consul
5 1 (0.69%) Grafana
5 1 (0.69%) Iperf
5 1 (0.69%) Istio
5 1 (0.69%) linkerd
5 1 (0.69%) Nmap
5 1 (0.69%) Packer
5 1 (0.69%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 22 (15.17%) Microsoft
2 10 (6.90%) ServiceNow
3 8 (5.52%) Cisco
4 5 (3.45%) SAP
4 5 (3.45%) VMware
5 3 (2.07%) Arista
5 3 (2.07%) BMC
5 3 (2.07%) Oracle
6 2 (1.38%) Ariba
6 2 (1.38%) CheckPoint
6 2 (1.38%) GoldenSource
6 2 (1.38%) Meraki
7 1 (0.69%) Aruba
7 1 (0.69%) Fortinet
7 1 (0.69%) Google
7 1 (0.69%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.69%) SolarWinds
7 1 (0.69%) Speakerbus
7 1 (0.69%) Tufin
7 1 (0.69%) Veeam