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 30 January 2026.

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

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 479 395 424
Rank change year-on-year -84 +29 -66
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Manager 116 125 182
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.30% 0.40% 0.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.33% 0.43% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 96 139
10th Percentile £392 £390 £404
25th Percentile £443 £450 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% -1.82% +4.76%
75th Percentile £606 £600 £600
90th Percentile £688 £688 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +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 35,358 29,223 41,314
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.46% 92.91% 93.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,294 17,866 27,352
10th Percentile £300 £293 £275
25th Percentile £405 £409 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £638
90th Percentile £719 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £477 £495
% change year-on-year -0.42% -3.64% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,104 859 2,166
10th Percentile £14.39 £15.98 £13.25
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.25 £17.00
Median hourly rate £28.90 £32.50 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.09% -10.96% +4.29%
75th Percentile £61.18 £62.50 £62.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £74.89 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £31.76 £37.50
% change year-on-year -13.41% -15.31% +25.00%

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 30 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 30 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 -73 104 £500 -7.41% 45
London -30 52 £513 -10.87% 16
UK excluding London -62 52 £475 -5.00% 38
Work from Home -21 26 £464 -15.68% 12
South East -21 17 £525 - 14
North of England -57 13 £450 -16.67% 11
Midlands -54 11 £475 +5.56% 5
Yorkshire -48 9 £445 -17.55% 3
East Midlands -25 7 £467 +9.76%
South West -19 6 £750 +33.33% 1
East of England -18 5 £398 -26.05% 3
West Midlands -41 5 £538 +3.37% 5
North West -21 4 £463 -23.87% 7
Scotland -1 2 £350 -37.78% 4

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

For the 6 months to 30 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 (44.83%) Project Management
2 40 (34.48%) Stakeholder Management
3 37 (31.90%) PRINCE2
4 28 (24.14%) Azure
5 26 (22.41%) PMI Certification
5 26 (22.41%) Project Delivery
6 25 (21.55%) PMP
7 24 (20.69%) Microsoft
8 21 (18.10%) Migration
9 20 (17.24%) Agile
10 19 (16.38%) Windows
11 17 (14.66%) AWS
12 16 (13.79%) Security Cleared
13 13 (11.21%) Continuous Improvement
13 13 (11.21%) Problem-Solving
13 13 (11.21%) Risk Management
13 13 (11.21%) SC Cleared
14 11 (9.48%) Microsoft 365
15 10 (8.62%) Degree
16 9 (7.76%) Active Directory
16 9 (7.76%) Change Control
16 9 (7.76%) Change Management
16 9 (7.76%) Cybersecurity
16 9 (7.76%) Decision-Making
16 9 (7.76%) Firewall
16 9 (7.76%) Logistics
16 9 (7.76%) Risk Register
16 9 (7.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 9 (7.76%) VMware
17 8 (6.90%) Disaster Recovery

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 5 (4.31%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.59%) Confluence
3 1 (0.86%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (3.45%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (2.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.59%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.86%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 28 (24.14%) Azure
2 17 (14.66%) AWS
3 11 (9.48%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (6.03%) OpenShift
5 5 (4.31%) Entra ID
6 3 (2.59%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (1.72%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (1.72%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 2 (1.72%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (1.72%) IaaS
8 1 (0.86%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.86%) Google Workspace
8 1 (0.86%) OneDrive
8 1 (0.86%) SaaS
8 1 (0.86%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 9 (7.76%) Firewall
2 8 (6.90%) WAN
3 7 (6.03%) Wi-Fi
4 6 (5.17%) LAN
5 5 (4.31%) Structured Cabling
6 4 (3.45%) SD-WAN
7 3 (2.59%) NAS
7 3 (2.59%) Network Security
7 3 (2.59%) SAN
8 2 (1.72%) Internet
8 2 (1.72%) Multicast
8 2 (1.72%) VPN
8 2 (1.72%) Wireless
8 2 (1.72%) WLAN
9 1 (0.86%) Cisco ASA
9 1 (0.86%) MPLS
9 1 (0.86%) OSPF
9 1 (0.86%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.86%) VLAN
9 1 (0.86%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.59%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (4.31%) JIRA
2 1 (0.86%) Git
General
1 46 (39.66%) Social Skills
2 44 (37.93%) Finance
3 10 (8.62%) Banking
4 9 (7.76%) Manufacturing
4 9 (7.76%) Public Sector
5 8 (6.90%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (4.31%) Retail
6 5 (4.31%) Telecoms
7 4 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.59%) Aviation
8 3 (2.59%) Financial Institution
8 3 (2.59%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.72%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.72%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (1.72%) French Language
9 2 (1.72%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.72%) Local Government
10 1 (0.86%) German Language
10 1 (0.86%) Marketing
10 1 (0.86%) Multimedia
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.86%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 21 (18.10%) Data Centre
2 7 (6.03%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (3.45%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.59%) PMI
5 2 (1.72%) CCTV
5 2 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.72%) FMCG
5 2 (1.72%) Mainframe
5 2 (1.72%) NHS
6 1 (0.86%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (0.86%) Hedge funds
6 1 (0.86%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.86%) Life Science
6 1 (0.86%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.86%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.86%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.86%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (0.86%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.86%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 19 (16.38%) Windows
2 8 (6.90%) Windows Server
3 4 (3.45%) Unix
4 3 (2.59%) Linux
5 1 (0.86%) Android
5 1 (0.86%) VMS
5 1 (0.86%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (44.83%) Project Management
2 40 (34.48%) Stakeholder Management
3 37 (31.90%) PRINCE2
4 26 (22.41%) Project Delivery
5 21 (18.10%) Migration
6 20 (17.24%) Agile
7 13 (11.21%) Continuous Improvement
7 13 (11.21%) Problem-Solving
7 13 (11.21%) Risk Management
8 9 (7.76%) Change Control
8 9 (7.76%) Change Management
8 9 (7.76%) Cybersecurity
8 9 (7.76%) Decision-Making
8 9 (7.76%) Logistics
8 9 (7.76%) Risk Register
8 9 (7.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 8 (6.90%) Disaster Recovery
9 8 (6.90%) Infrastructure Management
10 7 (6.03%) ITIL
10 7 (6.03%) Project Governance
Programming Languages
1 2 (1.72%) Python
2 1 (0.86%) Bash
2 1 (0.86%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 26 (22.41%) PMI Certification
2 25 (21.55%) PMP
3 16 (13.79%) Security Cleared
4 13 (11.21%) SC Cleared
5 10 (8.62%) Degree
6 4 (3.45%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 2 (1.72%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.72%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (1.72%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.86%) BC Cleared
8 1 (0.86%) CCIE
8 1 (0.86%) CCNP
8 1 (0.86%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.86%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.86%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.86%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (4.31%) QA
3 4 (3.45%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (3.45%) PMO
4 3 (2.59%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 3 (2.59%) ISO/IEC 42001
5 2 (1.72%) SLA
6 1 (0.86%) GRC
6 1 (0.86%) NCSC
System Software
1 9 (7.76%) Active Directory
2 6 (5.17%) Hyper-V
3 5 (4.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (6.03%) Ansible
2 4 (3.45%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (3.45%) Terraform
3 3 (2.59%) SCCM
3 3 (2.59%) SCOM
4 2 (1.72%) FortiGate
4 2 (1.72%) Puppet
5 1 (0.86%) Cisco Prime
5 1 (0.86%) Consul
5 1 (0.86%) Iperf
5 1 (0.86%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.86%) Nmap
5 1 (0.86%) Packer
Vendors
1 24 (20.69%) Microsoft
2 9 (7.76%) VMware
3 6 (5.17%) Cisco
4 5 (4.31%) SAP
5 3 (2.59%) Arista
5 3 (2.59%) BMC
5 3 (2.59%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.72%) Ariba
6 2 (1.72%) GoldenSource
7 1 (0.86%) Aruba
7 1 (0.86%) CheckPoint
7 1 (0.86%) Fortinet
7 1 (0.86%) Genesys
7 1 (0.86%) Google
7 1 (0.86%) Meraki
7 1 (0.86%) NEC
7 1 (0.86%) Oracle
7 1 (0.86%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.86%) SolarWinds
7 1 (0.86%) Tufin