Infrastructure Specialist Contracts

Infrastructure Specialist
UK

The median Infrastructure Specialist daily rate in the UK is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 24 June 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
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 486 527 631
Rank change year-on-year +41 +104 +132
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Specialist 52 50 58
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.12% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.12% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 31 41
10th Percentile £423 £263 £363
25th Percentile £503 £340 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -6.54%
75th Percentile £658 £547 £600
90th Percentile £688 £663 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £340 £475
% change year-on-year +61.76% -28.42% -17.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £52.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £52.50 -

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 27,724 40,402 52,424
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.14% 92.96% 94.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,773 25,924 36,491
10th Percentile £288 £281 £313
25th Percentile £402 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +1.80%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,210 2,937 1,505
10th Percentile £13.78 £12.84 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.44 £16.37 £19.06
Median hourly rate £27.36 £37.50 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.03% -12.79% +72.00%
75th Percentile £57.44 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.88 £74.00 £76.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -37.13% - +100.00%

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 24 June 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 16 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 24 June 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 +70 46 £550 +10.00% 43
UK excluding London +62 39 £550 +61.76% 31
North of England +44 19 £524 -19.42% 11
Work from Home +27 13 £510 +2.00% 29
Yorkshire +15 13 £550 - 4
London +45 10 £663 +32.50% 17
South East +52 8 £600 +118.18% 7
North West +14 7 £510 -21.54% 6
Midlands +8 5 £600 +44.14% 4
Scotland -3 4 £428 +25.74% 2
West Midlands - 4 £600 - 1
South West +39 2 - - 2
East of England +20 1 - - 3
East Midlands 0 1 £525 +26.13% 3
North East - 1 - - 1
Wales - 1 - - 1

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

For the 6 months to 24 June 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 30 (57.69%) PowerShell
2 29 (55.77%) Windows
3 25 (48.08%) Active Directory
4 23 (44.23%) Security Cleared
4 23 (44.23%) Windows Server
5 22 (42.31%) Linux
5 22 (42.31%) VMware
6 18 (34.62%) Firewall
7 17 (32.69%) DNS
7 17 (32.69%) SC Cleared
8 16 (30.77%) VMware Infrastructure
8 16 (30.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 15 (28.85%) Problem-Solving
9 15 (28.85%) Social Skills
9 15 (28.85%) Agile
10 14 (26.92%) Microsoft
11 13 (25.00%) Azure
11 13 (25.00%) Bash
12 12 (23.08%) vSphere
12 12 (23.08%) Cisco
12 12 (23.08%) Microservices
12 12 (23.08%) Microsoft Intune
13 11 (21.15%) Microsoft 365
13 11 (21.15%) Oracle
13 11 (21.15%) Migration
14 10 (19.23%) Python
14 10 (19.23%) Cisco Certification
14 10 (19.23%) IaaS
14 10 (19.23%) Cybersecurity
14 10 (19.23%) Terraform

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 (15.38%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (13.46%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (3.85%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.92%) Confluence
4 1 (1.92%) IBM Domino
4 1 (1.92%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 13 (25.00%) Azure
2 11 (21.15%) Microsoft 365
3 10 (19.23%) IaaS
4 8 (15.38%) Entra ID
5 6 (11.54%) AWS
6 3 (5.77%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (5.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (3.85%) GCP
7 2 (3.85%) OCI
7 2 (3.85%) OneDrive
7 2 (3.85%) OpenShift
8 1 (1.92%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.92%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (1.92%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (1.92%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 18 (34.62%) Firewall
2 17 (32.69%) DNS
3 8 (15.38%) Intrusion Detection
4 7 (13.46%) Network Security
5 6 (11.54%) VPN
6 4 (7.69%) WAN
7 3 (5.77%) VSAN
8 2 (3.85%) LAN
8 2 (3.85%) SD-WAN
8 2 (3.85%) Software-Defined Networking
8 2 (3.85%) VLAN
9 1 (1.92%) DECT
9 1 (1.92%) DHCP
9 1 (1.92%) NAS
9 1 (1.92%) NetScaler
9 1 (1.92%) SAN
9 1 (1.92%) TCP/IP
9 1 (1.92%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (17.31%) Oracle Database
1 9 (17.31%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.92%) MySQL
2 1 (1.92%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.92%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (5.77%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 3 (5.77%) Jenkins
2 2 (3.85%) Bitbucket
2 2 (3.85%) Git
3 1 (1.92%) JIRA
3 1 (1.92%) ScriptRunner
General
1 15 (28.85%) Social Skills
2 7 (13.46%) Public Sector
3 6 (11.54%) Telecoms
4 3 (5.77%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (5.77%) Finance
5 2 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.92%) Banking
6 1 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.92%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.92%) Law
6 1 (1.92%) Legal
6 1 (1.92%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.69%) Loki
2 1 (1.92%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 9 (17.31%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (5.77%) Cloud Native
2 3 (5.77%) Clustering
2 3 (5.77%) Distributed Architecture
2 3 (5.77%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (3.85%) Data Centre
3 2 (3.85%) Distributed Applications
3 2 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (3.85%) Product Ownership
3 2 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (3.85%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.92%) Acoustics
4 1 (1.92%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.92%) NHS
4 1 (1.92%) Operational Technology
4 1 (1.92%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 29 (55.77%) Windows
2 23 (44.23%) Windows Server
3 22 (42.31%) Linux
4 9 (17.31%) Unix
5 7 (13.46%) Windows 10
6 4 (7.69%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (5.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (3.85%) CentOS
8 2 (3.85%) Ubuntu
9 1 (1.92%) Windows 7
9 1 (1.92%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (1.92%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (30.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 15 (28.85%) Agile
2 15 (28.85%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (23.08%) Microservices
4 11 (21.15%) Migration
5 10 (19.23%) Cybersecurity
6 9 (17.31%) High Availability
7 8 (15.38%) Security Management
7 8 (15.38%) Server Management
8 7 (13.46%) Business Continuity
8 7 (13.46%) Change Management
8 7 (13.46%) SOA
8 7 (13.46%) Vulnerability Scanning
9 6 (11.54%) Disaster Recovery
10 5 (9.62%) CI/CD
10 5 (9.62%) DevOps
10 5 (9.62%) Infrastructure as Code
10 5 (9.62%) Roadmaps
10 5 (9.62%) Task Automation
11 4 (7.69%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 30 (57.69%) PowerShell
2 13 (25.00%) Bash
3 10 (19.23%) Python
4 9 (17.31%) Perl
4 9 (17.31%) SQL
5 8 (15.38%) PL/SQL
6 7 (13.46%) Shell Script
7 3 (5.77%) Java
8 1 (1.92%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 23 (44.23%) Security Cleared
2 17 (32.69%) SC Cleared
3 10 (19.23%) Cisco Certification
4 9 (17.31%) Azure Certification
5 7 (13.46%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (7.69%) AWS Certification
6 4 (7.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (5.77%) AWS Certified Developer
7 3 (5.77%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (5.77%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 2 (3.85%) DV Cleared
8 2 (3.85%) VCAP
8 2 (3.85%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 1 (1.92%) CCNA
9 1 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (1.92%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.85%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (3.85%) SOC 2
3 1 (1.92%) NIST
3 1 (1.92%) QA
System Software
1 25 (48.08%) Active Directory
2 16 (30.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (23.08%) vSphere
4 4 (7.69%) Docker
4 4 (7.69%) Hyper-V
4 4 (7.69%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 2 (3.85%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (3.85%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (3.85%) VMware NSX
6 1 (1.92%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 1 (1.92%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (1.92%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 12 (23.08%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (19.23%) Terraform
3 7 (13.46%) Ansible
4 5 (9.62%) Kubernetes
5 4 (7.69%) Grafana
5 4 (7.69%) Prometheus
6 3 (5.77%) Failover Clustering
6 3 (5.77%) Norton AntiVirus
6 3 (5.77%) Progress Chef
6 3 (5.77%) Puppet
6 3 (5.77%) vCenter Server
6 3 (5.77%) WSUS
7 2 (3.85%) vRealize
7 2 (3.85%) vRealize Orchestrator
8 1 (1.92%) SCCM
8 1 (1.92%) SCOM
8 1 (1.92%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 22 (42.31%) VMware
2 14 (26.92%) Microsoft
3 12 (23.08%) Cisco
4 11 (21.15%) Oracle
5 5 (9.62%) Veritas
6 4 (7.69%) Splunk
7 3 (5.77%) Juniper
7 3 (5.77%) NETGEAR
7 3 (5.77%) Red Hat
7 3 (5.77%) SolarWinds
7 3 (5.77%) Symantec
7 3 (5.77%) TP-LINK
8 1 (1.92%) Atlassian
8 1 (1.92%) Citrix
8 1 (1.92%) EMC
8 1 (1.92%) Google
8 1 (1.92%) HP
8 1 (1.92%) Ivanti
8 1 (1.92%) Mitel
8 1 (1.92%) Veeam