Infrastructure Support Contract Job Trends

Infrastructure Support
UK

The median Infrastructure Support daily rate in the UK is £425, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 September 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
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 507 521 557
Rank change year-on-year +14 +36 +221
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Support 52 52 82
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.14% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.15% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 41 54
10th Percentile £219 £225 £152
25th Percentile £231 £300 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £340 £350
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -2.86% +6.87%
75th Percentile £554 - £488
90th Percentile £588 £444 £575
UK excluding London median daily rate £310 £340 £325
% change year-on-year -8.82% +4.62% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile - - £19.89
25th Percentile £29.00 - £20.95
Median hourly rate £30.00 - £23.34
75th Percentile £31.44 - £26.36
90th Percentile £32.24 - £27.79
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.77 - £23.34
% change year-on-year - - -69.79%

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 29,996 35,551 46,729
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.07% 92.96% 94.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,952 21,923 31,999
10th Percentile £278 £300 £300
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £621 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,570 1,683 1,490
10th Percentile £13.75 £14.73 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.88
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% -2.01% +68.77%
75th Percentile £52.50 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -44.11% +5.88% +93.18%

Infrastructure Support
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Support 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 17 September 2025.

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 10 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 17 September 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 +59 52 £425 +44.68% 14
UK excluding London -5 38 £310 -8.82% 18
South East +48 28 £483 +28.67% 7
Work from Home +21 18 £250 -24.81% 6
London +30 12 £536 +94.91% 1
East of England +8 4 £225 -
North of England -12 4 £250 -24.81% 3
North West -14 3 £250 -45.95%
South West +16 2 £425 +47.83%
North East - 1 - - 1

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

For the 6 months to 17 September 2025, Infrastructure Support 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 Support in the job title.

1 44 (84.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 33 (63.46%) VMware
3 31 (59.62%) Windows
4 25 (48.08%) Microsoft
5 24 (46.15%) VMware Infrastructure
6 23 (44.23%) Active Directory
6 23 (44.23%) Linux
6 23 (44.23%) Firewall
7 22 (42.31%) Azure
8 20 (38.46%) Hyper-V
8 20 (38.46%) ITIL
8 20 (38.46%) DHCP
8 20 (38.46%) DNS
9 19 (36.54%) Problem-Solving
10 18 (34.62%) AWS
11 14 (26.92%) Security Cleared
11 14 (26.92%) Ansible
12 13 (25.00%) VLAN
13 11 (21.15%) Disaster Recovery
13 11 (21.15%) Microsoft Certification
13 11 (21.15%) TCP/IP
13 11 (21.15%) HP
13 11 (21.15%) Windows Server
13 11 (21.15%) IaaS
14 10 (19.23%) Analytical Skills
14 10 (19.23%) Entra ID
14 10 (19.23%) Data Centre
14 10 (19.23%) Preventative Maintenance
14 10 (19.23%) VPN
14 10 (19.23%) PaaS

Infrastructure Support 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 7 (13.46%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (3.85%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.92%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (3.85%) Alphatax
2 1 (1.92%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 22 (42.31%) Azure
2 18 (34.62%) AWS
3 11 (21.15%) IaaS
4 10 (19.23%) Entra ID
4 10 (19.23%) PaaS
5 8 (15.38%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (13.46%) GCP
6 7 (13.46%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.92%) OCI
7 1 (1.92%) SaaS
7 1 (1.92%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 23 (44.23%) Firewall
2 20 (38.46%) DHCP
2 20 (38.46%) DNS
3 13 (25.00%) VLAN
4 11 (21.15%) TCP/IP
5 10 (19.23%) VPN
6 8 (15.38%) WAN
7 7 (13.46%) SMTP
8 5 (9.62%) SAN
9 4 (7.69%) SD-WAN
10 3 (5.77%) LAN
11 2 (3.85%) Fibre Channel
11 2 (3.85%) VoIP
11 2 (3.85%) Wi-Fi
12 1 (1.92%) Cisco IOS
12 1 (1.92%) DECT
12 1 (1.92%) NAS
12 1 (1.92%) Remote Desktop
12 1 (1.92%) Spanning Tree
12 1 (1.92%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (13.46%) Amazon RDS
1 7 (13.46%) Big Data
1 7 (13.46%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (5.77%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.92%) Oracle Database
General
1 10 (19.23%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (17.31%) Public Sector
2 9 (17.31%) Social Skills
3 8 (15.38%) Finance
4 4 (7.69%) Local Government
5 3 (5.77%) Manufacturing
6 2 (3.85%) Aerospace
6 2 (3.85%) Banking
7 1 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.92%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.85%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 10 (19.23%) Data Centre
2 9 (17.31%) Analytical Mindset
3 7 (13.46%) Clustering
3 7 (13.46%) PKI
4 2 (3.85%) Cyber Defence
4 2 (3.85%) NHS
4 2 (3.85%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.92%) Cyber Security Posture
5 1 (1.92%) Digital Signage
5 1 (1.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.92%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.92%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.92%) SCADA
5 1 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 31 (59.62%) Windows
2 23 (44.23%) Linux
3 11 (21.15%) Windows Server
4 5 (9.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (5.77%) Windows 10
6 2 (3.85%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (1.92%) Android
7 1 (1.92%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (84.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 20 (38.46%) ITIL
3 19 (36.54%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (21.15%) Disaster Recovery
5 10 (19.23%) Preventative Maintenance
6 9 (17.31%) DevOps
6 9 (17.31%) Service Management
6 9 (17.31%) Virtual Infrastructure
7 7 (13.46%) Artificial Intelligence
7 7 (13.46%) Machine Learning
7 7 (13.46%) Software Deployment
8 6 (11.54%) Cybersecurity
9 5 (9.62%) Architectural Design
9 5 (9.62%) DevSecOps
9 5 (9.62%) Security Patching
10 4 (7.69%) Infrastructure as Code
10 4 (7.69%) Mentoring
10 4 (7.69%) Network Management
10 4 (7.69%) Patch Management
11 3 (5.77%) Logistics
Programming Languages
1 8 (15.38%) PowerShell
2 3 (5.77%) SQL
3 1 (1.92%) Python
Qualifications
1 14 (26.92%) Security Cleared
2 11 (21.15%) Microsoft Certification
3 9 (17.31%) Azure Certification
3 9 (17.31%) Network+ Certification
3 9 (17.31%) Server+ Certification
4 7 (13.46%) Degree
4 7 (13.46%) DV Cleared
4 7 (13.46%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.92%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.92%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.69%) SLA
2 1 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.92%) PMO
System Software
1 24 (46.15%) VMware Infrastructure
2 23 (44.23%) Active Directory
3 20 (38.46%) Hyper-V
4 7 (13.46%) BitLocker
4 7 (13.46%) Docker
4 7 (13.46%) Microsoft App-V
4 7 (13.46%) Terminal Services
4 7 (13.46%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (3.85%) DFS Replication
5 2 (3.85%) vSphere
6 1 (1.92%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 14 (26.92%) Ansible
2 7 (13.46%) Kubernetes
2 7 (13.46%) Nagios
2 7 (13.46%) Puppet
2 7 (13.46%) vCenter Server
2 7 (13.46%) vMotion
3 5 (9.62%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (9.62%) Red Hat Satellite
4 2 (3.85%) FortiGate
4 2 (3.85%) SCCM
4 2 (3.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 33 (63.46%) VMware
2 25 (48.08%) Microsoft
3 11 (21.15%) HP
4 9 (17.31%) Citrix
5 7 (13.46%) Google
5 7 (13.46%) Symantec
6 6 (11.54%) Cisco
6 6 (11.54%) Palo Alto
6 6 (11.54%) Red Hat
7 2 (3.85%) ServiceNow
7 2 (3.85%) Veritas
8 1 (1.92%) CrowdStrike
8 1 (1.92%) EMC
8 1 (1.92%) Mitel
8 1 (1.92%) NetApp
8 1 (1.92%) Oracle
8 1 (1.92%) Veeam