Infrastructure Specialist Contracts

Infrastructure Specialist
UK

The median Infrastructure Specialist daily rate in the UK is £524, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 464 538 658
Rank change year-on-year +74 +120 +121
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Specialist 56 44 60
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.10% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.11% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 27 41
10th Percentile £278 £263 £375
25th Percentile £417 £423 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £524 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% +2.00% -
75th Percentile £650 £638 £600
90th Percentile £689 £656 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £538 £538 £488
% change year-on-year - +10.26% +14.71%

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 27,084 40,415 56,464
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,692 26,309 39,470
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £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 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,035 2,664 1,570
10th Percentile £14.07 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%

Infrastructure Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Specialist in the UK

Infrastructure Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Specialist in the UK

Infrastructure Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Specialist over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Specialist in the UK

Infrastructure Specialist
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Specialist in the UK

Infrastructure Specialist
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 Specialist within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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 +68 48 £550 +5.77% 30
UK excluding London +82 37 £538 - 21
North of England - 19 £524 - 6
Work from Home +35 16 £510 +2.00% 15
London +30 13 £500 - 7
Yorkshire - 12 £550 - 4
South East +49 9 £600 +31.51% 5
North West - 8 £510 - 2
Scotland +15 4 £428 +15.54%
Midlands +21 3 £525 - 5
South West +47 2 £675 +128.81% 2
West Midlands +15 2 - - 3
East of England +26 1 - - 6
East Midlands +8 1 £525 -14.29% 2
North East - 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Infrastructure Specialist 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 Specialist in the job title.

1 37 (66.07%) Windows
2 34 (60.71%) PowerShell
3 30 (53.57%) Windows Server
4 26 (46.43%) Active Directory
5 25 (44.64%) VMware
6 24 (42.86%) Security Cleared
7 23 (41.07%) Linux
8 21 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
9 20 (35.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 18 (32.14%) DNS
10 18 (32.14%) Firewall
10 18 (32.14%) SC Cleared
11 17 (30.36%) Microsoft
12 15 (26.79%) VMware Infrastructure
12 15 (26.79%) Bash
13 14 (25.00%) Azure
13 14 (25.00%) Social Skills
14 13 (23.21%) Public Sector
14 13 (23.21%) Microsoft 365
14 13 (23.21%) Telecoms
14 13 (23.21%) Agile
14 13 (23.21%) Cisco
14 13 (23.21%) Python
15 12 (21.43%) Cisco Certification
15 12 (21.43%) Finance
15 12 (21.43%) Microsoft Intune
15 12 (21.43%) vSphere
15 12 (21.43%) Server Management
16 11 (19.64%) Terraform
16 11 (19.64%) Microservices

Infrastructure Specialist 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 8 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (12.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (3.57%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.79%) Confluence
4 1 (1.79%) IBM Domino
4 1 (1.79%) IIS
4 1 (1.79%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 14 (25.00%) Azure
2 13 (23.21%) Microsoft 365
3 10 (17.86%) Entra ID
3 10 (17.86%) IaaS
4 6 (10.71%) AWS
5 2 (3.57%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (3.57%) GCP
5 2 (3.57%) OCI
5 2 (3.57%) OneDrive
5 2 (3.57%) OpenShift
5 2 (3.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.79%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (1.79%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.79%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 18 (32.14%) DNS
1 18 (32.14%) Firewall
2 9 (16.07%) Network Security
3 8 (14.29%) Intrusion Detection
4 7 (12.50%) VPN
5 5 (8.93%) NAS
5 5 (8.93%) SAN
6 4 (7.14%) LAN
6 4 (7.14%) VoIP
6 4 (7.14%) WAN
7 3 (5.36%) DHCP
7 3 (5.36%) VSAN
8 2 (3.57%) BGP
8 2 (3.57%) EIGRP
8 2 (3.57%) Internet
8 2 (3.57%) OSPF
8 2 (3.57%) Software-Defined Networking
8 2 (3.57%) VLAN
8 2 (3.57%) Wireless
9 1 (1.79%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (17.86%) SQL Server
2 9 (16.07%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.79%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (1.79%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.79%) MySQL
3 1 (1.79%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.79%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (3.57%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 2 (3.57%) Bitbucket
1 2 (3.57%) Git
1 2 (3.57%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.79%) JIRA
2 1 (1.79%) ScriptRunner
General
1 14 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 13 (23.21%) Public Sector
2 13 (23.21%) Telecoms
3 12 (21.43%) Finance
4 6 (10.71%) Documentation Skills
4 6 (10.71%) Electronics
4 6 (10.71%) Manufacturing
4 6 (10.71%) Marketing
5 5 (8.93%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.79%) Banking
6 1 (1.79%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.79%) Law
6 1 (1.79%) Legal
6 1 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.14%) Loki
2 1 (1.79%) Middleware
2 1 (1.79%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 9 (16.07%) Linux Command Line
2 4 (7.14%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 3 (5.36%) Clustering
3 3 (5.36%) NHS
4 2 (3.57%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.57%) Data Centre
4 2 (3.57%) Distributed Architecture
4 2 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.79%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (1.79%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.79%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.79%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.79%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 37 (66.07%) Windows
2 30 (53.57%) Windows Server
3 23 (41.07%) Linux
4 6 (10.71%) Unix
4 6 (10.71%) Windows 10
5 4 (7.14%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (1.79%) CentOS
6 1 (1.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.79%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.79%) Windows 7
6 1 (1.79%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
2 20 (35.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 13 (23.21%) Agile
4 12 (21.43%) Server Management
5 11 (19.64%) Microservices
5 11 (19.64%) Migration
6 10 (17.86%) Disaster Recovery
6 10 (17.86%) ITIL
6 10 (17.86%) Task Automation
7 9 (16.07%) Cybersecurity
7 9 (16.07%) High Availability
8 8 (14.29%) Security Management
9 7 (12.50%) Business Continuity
9 7 (12.50%) Change Management
9 7 (12.50%) SOA
9 7 (12.50%) Vulnerability Scanning
10 6 (10.71%) Business Intelligence
10 6 (10.71%) Digital Marketing
10 6 (10.71%) Programme Management
11 5 (8.93%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 34 (60.71%) PowerShell
2 15 (26.79%) Bash
3 13 (23.21%) Python
4 9 (16.07%) Perl
4 9 (16.07%) SQL
5 8 (14.29%) PL/SQL
6 5 (8.93%) Shell Script
7 2 (3.57%) Java
8 1 (1.79%) Bicep
8 1 (1.79%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 24 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 18 (32.14%) SC Cleared
3 12 (21.43%) Cisco Certification
4 10 (17.86%) Azure Certification
5 7 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (5.36%) AWS Certification
6 3 (5.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (5.36%) CCNA
6 3 (5.36%) Degree
7 2 (3.57%) AWS Certified Developer
7 2 (3.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (3.57%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 2 (3.57%) DV Cleared
7 2 (3.57%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (3.57%) VCAP
7 2 (3.57%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 1 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.14%) Accessibility
2 3 (5.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (3.57%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (3.57%) DICOM
3 2 (3.57%) HL7
3 2 (3.57%) SOC 2
4 1 (1.79%) QA
System Software
1 26 (46.43%) Active Directory
2 15 (26.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (21.43%) vSphere
4 4 (7.14%) Hyper-V
4 4 (7.14%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 3 (5.36%) Docker
6 2 (3.57%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 2 (3.57%) VMware NSX
7 1 (1.79%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (21.43%) Microsoft Intune
2 11 (19.64%) Terraform
3 7 (12.50%) Ansible
4 4 (7.14%) Grafana
4 4 (7.14%) Kubernetes
4 4 (7.14%) Prometheus
5 3 (5.36%) Failover Clustering
5 3 (5.36%) Norton AntiVirus
5 3 (5.36%) vCenter Server
5 3 (5.36%) WSUS
6 2 (3.57%) Progress Chef
6 2 (3.57%) Puppet
6 2 (3.57%) SCCM
6 2 (3.57%) SCOM
6 2 (3.57%) vRealize
6 2 (3.57%) vRealize Orchestrator
7 1 (1.79%) SCSM
7 1 (1.79%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 25 (44.64%) VMware
2 17 (30.36%) Microsoft
3 13 (23.21%) Cisco
4 11 (19.64%) Oracle
5 6 (10.71%) SAP
6 5 (8.93%) Veritas
7 4 (7.14%) Mitel
7 4 (7.14%) Splunk
8 3 (5.36%) Juniper
8 3 (5.36%) NETGEAR
8 3 (5.36%) SolarWinds
8 3 (5.36%) Symantec
8 3 (5.36%) TP-LINK
9 2 (3.57%) Citrix
9 2 (3.57%) Commvault
9 2 (3.57%) Extreme Networks
10 1 (1.79%) Ericsson
10 1 (1.79%) NetApp
10 1 (1.79%) Veeam
10 1 (1.79%) Zscaler