Infrastructure Manager Contracts

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 4 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 409 415 341
Rank change year-on-year +6 -74 +11
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Manager 121 178 430
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.41% 0.41% 0.73%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.45% 0.44% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 128 292
10th Percentile £380 £389 £385
25th Percentile £425 £450 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £620
90th Percentile £640 £688 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £550 £485
% change year-on-year -11.36% +13.40% +2.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 13
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £35.00 - £65.00
75th Percentile - - £65.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £65.00

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 27,097 40,246 56,070
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.46% 92.78% 94.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,700 26,198 39,189
10th Percentile £300 £277 £313
25th Percentile £406 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,050 2,676 1,567
10th Percentile £14.12 £12.86 £14.28
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.16
Median hourly rate £28.88 £36.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.89% -18.89% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £61.26 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.37
% change year-on-year -29.22% -6.64% +117.03%

Infrastructure Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Infrastructure Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Manager in the UK

Infrastructure Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Manager.

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Manager in the UK

Infrastructure Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Manager over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Manager in the UK

Infrastructure Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Manager.

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Manager in the UK

Infrastructure Manager
Top 15 Contract 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 4 May 2025. 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 +17 108 £500 -9.09% 92
London +32 57 £525 -6.67% 30
UK excluding London +27 49 £488 -11.36% 69
Work from Home +32 40 £475 -13.64% 40
North of England +11 15 £481 +6.94% 11
South East +25 13 £500 -9.09% 22
Midlands +4 10 £425 -22.73% 12
South West +35 6 £494 -10.23% 9
North West +12 6 £550 +57.14% 5
West Midlands +10 6 £500 -9.09% 8
Yorkshire +6 6 £500 - 5
Scotland +15 4 £465 -15.55% 3
East Midlands +9 4 £425 -32.00% 4
North East 0 2 £442 - 1
East of England +32 1 £625 +28.21% 13

Infrastructure Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 4 May 2025, Infrastructure Manager contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Infrastructure Manager in the job title.

1 64 (52.89%) Project Management
2 51 (42.15%) Finance
3 44 (36.36%) Stakeholder Management
4 42 (34.71%) Social Skills
5 29 (23.97%) Data Centre
6 28 (23.14%) Agile
6 28 (23.14%) Project Delivery
7 25 (20.66%) Banking
7 25 (20.66%) Azure
8 23 (19.01%) Microsoft
9 22 (18.18%) Migration
10 19 (15.70%) Waterfall
11 18 (14.88%) PRINCE2
12 16 (13.22%) PMI Certification
13 15 (12.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 15 (12.40%) Firewall
14 14 (11.57%) PMP
14 14 (11.57%) Budget Management
15 13 (10.74%) Problem-Solving
15 13 (10.74%) Windows
15 13 (10.74%) ITIL
15 13 (10.74%) Change Management
15 13 (10.74%) Supplier Management
16 12 (9.92%) Service Delivery
16 12 (9.92%) Active Directory
16 12 (9.92%) Project Planning
17 11 (9.09%) AWS
17 11 (9.09%) Security Cleared
17 11 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
17 11 (9.09%) Microsoft Project

Infrastructure Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (3.31%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.48%) Confluence
2 3 (2.48%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.83%) CMS
Applications
1 11 (9.09%) Microsoft Project
2 5 (4.13%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.65%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.65%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 25 (20.66%) Azure
2 11 (9.09%) AWS
3 9 (7.44%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (3.31%) OneDrive
5 3 (2.48%) Entra ID
5 3 (2.48%) SaaS
6 2 (1.65%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (1.65%) Smartsheet
7 1 (0.83%) Akamai
7 1 (0.83%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (0.83%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.83%) Google Workspace
7 1 (0.83%) Mimecast
7 1 (0.83%) Nutanix
7 1 (0.83%) Power Automate
7 1 (0.83%) Rubrik
7 1 (0.83%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 15 (12.40%) Firewall
2 5 (4.13%) LAN
2 5 (4.13%) WAN
2 5 (4.13%) Wi-Fi
3 4 (3.31%) VPN
3 4 (3.31%) Wireless
4 3 (2.48%) SD-WAN
4 3 (2.48%) Structured Cabling
5 2 (1.65%) Cisco ISE
5 2 (1.65%) DNS
5 2 (1.65%) Network Security
5 2 (1.65%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.65%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.83%) DHCP
6 1 (0.83%) IP Telephony
6 1 (0.83%) NAS
6 1 (0.83%) SAN
6 1 (0.83%) Softphone
6 1 (0.83%) VLAN
6 1 (0.83%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.83%) Big Data
1 1 (0.83%) Data Lake
1 1 (0.83%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 6 (4.96%) JIRA
2 1 (0.83%) MSI
General
1 51 (42.15%) Finance
2 42 (34.71%) Social Skills
3 25 (20.66%) Banking
4 9 (7.44%) Telecoms
5 8 (6.61%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (5.79%) Manufacturing
7 4 (3.31%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (3.31%) Pharmaceutical
7 4 (3.31%) Public Sector
7 4 (3.31%) Retail
8 3 (2.48%) Aviation
8 3 (2.48%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.48%) Investment Banking
8 3 (2.48%) Italian Language
8 3 (2.48%) Retail Banking
9 2 (1.65%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.65%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.65%) Legal
9 2 (1.65%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.83%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.65%) LDAP
2 1 (0.83%) 802.1X
2 1 (0.83%) ADO
2 1 (0.83%) RFC 2544
Miscellaneous
1 29 (23.97%) Data Centre
2 5 (4.13%) PMI
3 4 (3.31%) CCTV
3 4 (3.31%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (3.31%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.65%) Hedge funds
4 2 (1.65%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (1.65%) Legacy Applications
4 2 (1.65%) Life Science
4 2 (1.65%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.65%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.83%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.83%) Mainframe
5 1 (0.83%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.83%) Replication
5 1 (0.83%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (0.83%) Security Posture
5 1 (0.83%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.83%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 13 (10.74%) Windows
2 6 (4.96%) Linux
3 3 (2.48%) Unix
3 3 (2.48%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.83%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (52.89%) Project Management
2 44 (36.36%) Stakeholder Management
3 28 (23.14%) Agile
3 28 (23.14%) Project Delivery
4 22 (18.18%) Migration
5 19 (15.70%) Waterfall
6 18 (14.88%) PRINCE2
7 15 (12.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 14 (11.57%) Budget Management
9 13 (10.74%) Change Management
9 13 (10.74%) ITIL
9 13 (10.74%) Problem-Solving
9 13 (10.74%) Supplier Management
10 12 (9.92%) Project Planning
10 12 (9.92%) Service Delivery
11 11 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
11 11 (9.09%) Decision-Making
12 9 (7.44%) Cybersecurity
12 9 (7.44%) Roadmaps
13 8 (6.61%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (2.48%) PowerShell
2 2 (1.65%) SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (13.22%) PMI Certification
2 14 (11.57%) PMP
3 11 (9.09%) Security Cleared
4 9 (7.44%) Degree
5 6 (4.96%) SC Cleared
6 4 (3.31%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (2.48%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.65%) DBS Check
8 2 (1.65%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.65%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (1.65%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 1 (0.83%) CAPM
9 1 (0.83%) Chartered Engineer
9 1 (0.83%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.83%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.83%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.61%) PMO
2 2 (1.65%) SLA
3 1 (0.83%) 21 CFR Part 11
3 1 (0.83%) GxP
3 1 (0.83%) HIPAA
3 1 (0.83%) ISO 14001
3 1 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.83%) NIST
System Software
1 12 (9.92%) Active Directory
2 5 (4.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (3.31%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (1.65%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (0.83%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.83%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.83%) KVM
5 1 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.83%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 4 (3.31%) Microsoft Intune
1 4 (3.31%) SCCM
2 2 (1.65%) Terraform
3 1 (0.83%) FortiGate
3 1 (0.83%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.83%) OfficeScan
3 1 (0.83%) Trend Micro Deep Security
3 1 (0.83%) WSUS
Vendors
1 23 (19.01%) Microsoft
2 9 (7.44%) Cisco
3 7 (5.79%) VMware
4 3 (2.48%) Citrix
4 3 (2.48%) Fortinet
4 3 (2.48%) Oracle
4 3 (2.48%) Planview
4 3 (2.48%) SAP
4 3 (2.48%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.65%) Ariba
5 2 (1.65%) Aruba
5 2 (1.65%) Logitech
5 2 (1.65%) Mitel
5 2 (1.65%) Palo Alto
5 2 (1.65%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.65%) SolarWinds
6 1 (0.83%) Altiris
6 1 (0.83%) Google
6 1 (0.83%) NetApp
6 1 (0.83%) Ubiquiti