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 29 May 2026.

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

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 593 485 529
Rank change year-on-year -108 +44 +105
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Support 48 38 56
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.098% 0.13% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.14% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 29 49
10th Percentile £163 £208 £162
25th Percentile £225 £250 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £320 £440 £340
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +29.41% -12.26%
75th Percentile £378 £588 £388
90th Percentile £483 £605 £500
UK excluding London median daily rate £298 £440 £340
% change year-on-year -32.39% +29.41% +23.64%

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 45,155 26,550 39,743
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.31% 92.33% 92.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,543 17,231 25,865
10th Percentile £325 £290 £280
25th Percentile £413 £405 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.49% -3.81% -2.78%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +5.26% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,003 1,045 2,776
10th Percentile £15.01 £14.00 £12.81
25th Percentile £20.50 £17.87 £16.30
Median hourly rate £42.50 £27.99 £37.18
Median % change year-on-year +51.84% -24.72% -17.38%
75th Percentile £66.38 £59.90 £61.30
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £73.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.61 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +73.38% -37.13% -5.88%

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 29 May 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 14 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 29 May 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 -116 42 £320 -35.09% 19
UK excluding London -93 36 £298 -32.39% 17
South East -54 13 £285 -50.43% 9
North of England -63 13 £275 +3.77% 5
North West -27 7 £270 +25.58% 1
Work from Home -33 6 £270 -49.63% 9
London -78 6 £325 -27.78% 4
Midlands -57 4 - -
East Midlands - 4 - -
South West - 4 £450 - 3
Yorkshire -53 3 £340 +28.30% 4
North East - 3 £125 -
East of England -28 1 £225 -
Channel Islands - 1 £550 -

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

For the 6 months to 29 May 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 35 (72.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 18 (37.50%) Windows
3 17 (35.42%) Active Directory
4 15 (31.25%) Windows Server
5 13 (27.08%) Microsoft
6 9 (18.75%) DNS
6 9 (18.75%) Security Cleared
7 8 (16.67%) DHCP
7 8 (16.67%) DV Cleared
7 8 (16.67%) ITIL
8 7 (14.58%) Azure
9 6 (12.50%) PowerShell
9 6 (12.50%) Privileged Access Management
9 6 (12.50%) SAN
9 6 (12.50%) VMware
10 5 (10.42%) Entra ID
10 5 (10.42%) Linux
10 5 (10.42%) Microsoft Intune
10 5 (10.42%) Red Hat
10 5 (10.42%) SaaS
10 5 (10.42%) VLAN
11 4 (8.33%) Bash
11 4 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
11 4 (8.33%) Problem Management
11 4 (8.33%) Vulnerability Remediation
12 3 (6.25%) AWS
12 3 (6.25%) Change Management
12 3 (6.25%) Disaster Recovery
12 3 (6.25%) Information Security
12 3 (6.25%) Microsoft 365

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 1 (2.08%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (2.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 7 (14.58%) Azure
2 5 (10.42%) Entra ID
2 5 (10.42%) SaaS
3 3 (6.25%) AWS
3 3 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (2.08%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (2.08%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (18.75%) DNS
2 8 (16.67%) DHCP
3 6 (12.50%) SAN
4 5 (10.42%) VLAN
5 2 (4.17%) Firewall
5 2 (4.17%) TCP/IP
5 2 (4.17%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (2.08%) VPN
6 1 (2.08%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.25%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.08%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 1 (2.08%) JIRA
General
1 6 (12.50%) Marketing
1 6 (12.50%) Social Skills
2 4 (8.33%) Public Sector
3 3 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (6.25%) Finance
3 3 (6.25%) Telecoms
4 2 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.17%) Legal
4 2 (4.17%) Manufacturing
4 2 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.08%) Banking
5 1 (2.08%) Front Office
5 1 (2.08%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.08%) Local Government
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.33%) Data Centre
2 3 (6.25%) PKI
3 1 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.08%) Fat Client
3 1 (2.08%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 18 (37.50%) Windows
2 15 (31.25%) Windows Server
3 5 (10.42%) Linux
4 3 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (6.25%) Windows 10
5 2 (4.17%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (2.08%) Unix
6 1 (2.08%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (72.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 8 (16.67%) ITIL
3 6 (12.50%) Privileged Access Management
4 4 (8.33%) Problem Management
4 4 (8.33%) Vulnerability Remediation
5 3 (6.25%) Change Management
5 3 (6.25%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (6.25%) Information Security
5 3 (6.25%) Project Delivery
5 3 (6.25%) Runbook
5 3 (6.25%) Server Management
5 3 (6.25%) Task Automation
5 3 (6.25%) Validation
6 2 (4.17%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (4.17%) Customer-Centricity
6 2 (4.17%) Cybersecurity
6 2 (4.17%) Infrastructure Monitoring
6 2 (4.17%) Platform Engineering
6 2 (4.17%) Proactive Management
6 2 (4.17%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 6 (12.50%) PowerShell
2 4 (8.33%) Bash
3 3 (6.25%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 8 (16.67%) DV Cleared
3 1 (2.08%) Degree
3 1 (2.08%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.25%) SLA
2 2 (4.17%) PMO
System Software
1 17 (35.42%) Active Directory
2 3 (6.25%) NFS
2 3 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (6.25%) vSphere
3 1 (2.08%) Firmware
3 1 (2.08%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (2.08%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (10.42%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (6.25%) Red Hat Satellite
3 2 (4.17%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (2.08%) Ansible
4 1 (2.08%) NetBackup
4 1 (2.08%) SCCM
4 1 (2.08%) vCenter Server
4 1 (2.08%) vRealize
4 1 (2.08%) WSUS
Vendors
1 13 (27.08%) Microsoft
2 6 (12.50%) VMware
3 5 (10.42%) Red Hat
4 2 (4.17%) Cisco
4 2 (4.17%) Fortinet
4 2 (4.17%) HP
4 2 (4.17%) Remedy
4 2 (4.17%) Veeam
5 1 (2.08%) Citrix
5 1 (2.08%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.08%) Tanium
5 1 (2.08%) Veritas