Infrastructure Support Contract Job Trends

Infrastructure Support
UK

The median Infrastructure Support daily rate in the UK is £320, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 26 September 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 622 496 521
Rank change year-on-year -126 +25 +40
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Support 56 56 50
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.10% 0.17% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.19% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 42 39
10th Percentile £225 £219 £270
25th Percentile £250 £228 £326
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £320 £285 £340
Median % change year-on-year +12.28% -16.18% -6.21%
75th Percentile £500 £537 -
90th Percentile £575 £588 £445
UK excluding London median daily rate £300 £267 £340
% change year-on-year +12.36% -21.47% +4.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £15.25 £29.00 -
Median hourly rate £15.50 £30.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -48.33% - -
75th Percentile £15.75 £31.44 -
90th Percentile - £32.24 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £15.50 £32.77 -
% change year-on-year -52.70% - -

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 50,596 30,108 35,619
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.21% 91.02% 92.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,877 19,013 21,671
10th Percentile £325 £275 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.62%
75th Percentile £630 £625 £638
90th Percentile £731 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,928 1,616 1,603
10th Percentile £14.50 £13.75 £14.84
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.30 £20.75
Median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% -2.27%
75th Percentile £67.50 £51.68 £65.00
90th Percentile £79.00 £69.20 £74.97
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -0.38%

Infrastructure Support
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Infrastructure Support' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Infrastructure Support job vacancy trend in the UK

Infrastructure Support
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Infrastructure Support job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Infrastructure Support job vacancies in the UK

Infrastructure Support
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Support over the 6 months to 26 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Support in the UK

Infrastructure Support
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Infrastructure Support job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Infrastructure Support job vacancies in the UK

Infrastructure Support
Top 13 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 Support within the UK over the 6 months to 26 September 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 -121 49 £320 +12.28% 43
UK excluding London -111 31 £300 +12.36% 32
London -77 19 £458 -14.65% 12
South East -83 17 £250 -6.89% 8
East Midlands - 7 £300 - 1
Midlands - 7 £300 - 5
Work from Home -67 3 £320 +28.00% 12
North of England -72 3 £190 -24.00% 3
East of England -36 2 - - 6
Yorkshire - 2 - -
South West -41 1 - - 8
North West -46 1 £190 -24.00% 3
Channel Islands - 1 £550 -

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

For the 6 months to 26 September 2026, Infrastructure Support 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 Support in the job title.

1 39 (69.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 32 (57.14%) Windows
3 31 (55.36%) Active Directory
4 29 (51.79%) Microsoft
5 23 (41.07%) Windows Server
6 17 (30.36%) Azure
6 17 (30.36%) DNS
7 15 (26.79%) Entra ID
7 15 (26.79%) Microsoft 365
8 14 (25.00%) DHCP
9 12 (21.43%) Linux
9 12 (21.43%) Security Cleared
10 11 (19.64%) DV Cleared
10 11 (19.64%) Microsoft Intune
11 10 (17.86%) Microsoft Exchange
12 9 (16.07%) PowerShell
12 9 (16.07%) SharePoint
13 8 (14.29%) VPN
13 8 (14.29%) Windows 10
14 7 (12.50%) AWS
14 7 (12.50%) ITIL
14 7 (12.50%) Privileged Access Management
14 7 (12.50%) Red Hat
14 7 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
15 6 (10.71%) Cisco
15 6 (10.71%) Firewall
15 6 (10.71%) Hyper-V
15 6 (10.71%) SAN
15 6 (10.71%) SQL Server
15 6 (10.71%) Task Automation

Infrastructure Support 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 10 (17.86%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (16.07%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.79%) Confluence
3 1 (1.79%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 4 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 17 (30.36%) Azure
2 15 (26.79%) Entra ID
2 15 (26.79%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (12.50%) AWS
4 5 (8.93%) OneDrive
5 4 (7.14%) IaaS
6 3 (5.36%) GCP
6 3 (5.36%) OpenShift
6 3 (5.36%) PaaS
7 2 (3.57%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (1.79%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (1.79%) Azure Stack
8 1 (1.79%) Google Workspace
8 1 (1.79%) Mimecast
8 1 (1.79%) Nutanix
8 1 (1.79%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 17 (30.36%) DNS
2 14 (25.00%) DHCP
3 8 (14.29%) VPN
4 7 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
5 6 (10.71%) Firewall
5 6 (10.71%) SAN
6 5 (8.93%) VLAN
7 4 (7.14%) TCP/IP
8 3 (5.36%) Network Security
8 3 (5.36%) SMTP
9 2 (3.57%) LAN
9 2 (3.57%) WAN
10 1 (1.79%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.71%) SQL Server
2 3 (5.36%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (5.36%) Big Data
2 3 (5.36%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (3.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (5.36%) JIRA
2 2 (3.57%) Git
General
1 10 (17.86%) Social Skills
2 7 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
2 7 (12.50%) Finance
2 7 (12.50%) Marketing
3 4 (7.14%) Public Sector
4 2 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.57%) Law
5 1 (1.79%) Advertising
5 1 (1.79%) Front Office
5 1 (1.79%) Legal
5 1 (1.79%) Local Government
5 1 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.79%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.50%) Onboarding
2 5 (8.93%) Video Conferencing
3 4 (7.14%) Clustering
3 4 (7.14%) Data Centre
4 3 (5.36%) PKI
5 2 (3.57%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.79%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.79%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 32 (57.14%) Windows
2 23 (41.07%) Windows Server
3 12 (21.43%) Linux
4 8 (14.29%) Windows 10
5 5 (8.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (5.36%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (3.57%) Check Point GAiA
7 2 (3.57%) Unix
7 2 (3.57%) VMS
7 2 (3.57%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (1.79%) OpenVMS
8 1 (1.79%) Windows 7
8 1 (1.79%) Windows Server 2003
8 1 (1.79%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (69.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 7 (12.50%) ITIL
2 7 (12.50%) Privileged Access Management
3 6 (10.71%) Task Automation
4 5 (8.93%) AI
4 5 (8.93%) Customer Service
4 5 (8.93%) Problem Management
5 4 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (7.14%) Vulnerability Remediation
6 3 (5.36%) DevOps
6 3 (5.36%) Disaster Recovery
6 3 (5.36%) Information Security
6 3 (5.36%) Machine Learning
6 3 (5.36%) Software Deployment
7 2 (3.57%) Collaborative Working
7 2 (3.57%) Cybersecurity
7 2 (3.57%) Data Integration
7 2 (3.57%) ETL
7 2 (3.57%) Runbook
7 2 (3.57%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 9 (16.07%) PowerShell
2 5 (8.93%) Bash
2 5 (8.93%) Python
3 4 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (21.43%) Security Cleared
2 11 (19.64%) DV Cleared
3 3 (5.36%) Degree
4 1 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.79%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.79%) PMO
1 1 (1.79%) SLA
System Software
1 31 (55.36%) Active Directory
2 6 (10.71%) Hyper-V
3 5 (8.93%) NFS
3 5 (8.93%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (5.36%) BitLocker
4 3 (5.36%) Docker
4 3 (5.36%) Microsoft App-V
4 3 (5.36%) Terminal Services
4 3 (5.36%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.79%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 11 (19.64%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (8.93%) Red Hat Satellite
3 3 (5.36%) Ansible
3 3 (5.36%) Kubernetes
3 3 (5.36%) Nagios
3 3 (5.36%) Puppet
3 3 (5.36%) vCenter Server
3 3 (5.36%) vMotion
4 2 (3.57%) WSUS
5 1 (1.79%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Clustering
5 1 (1.79%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 29 (51.79%) Microsoft
2 7 (12.50%) Red Hat
3 6 (10.71%) Cisco
3 6 (10.71%) VMware
4 5 (8.93%) Meraki
4 5 (8.93%) ServiceNow
5 4 (7.14%) Citrix
5 4 (7.14%) Google
6 3 (5.36%) HP
6 3 (5.36%) Symantec
7 2 (3.57%) CheckPoint
8 1 (1.79%) Oracle
8 1 (1.79%) Qualys
8 1 (1.79%) Tanium
8 1 (1.79%) Veeam
8 1 (1.79%) Veritas