Infrastructure Support Contract Job Trends

Infrastructure Support
UK

The median Infrastructure Support daily rate in the UK is £285, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 28 February 2026.

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

 6 months to
28 Feb 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 544 490 537
Rank change year-on-year -54 +47 +157
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Support 64 30 52
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.098% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.11% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 21 47
10th Percentile £160 £208 £184
25th Percentile £219 £250 £258
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £285 £330 £385
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% -14.29% -5.81%
75th Percentile £478 £423 £518
90th Percentile £491 £600 £571
UK excluding London median daily rate £270 £330 £275
% change year-on-year -18.18% +20.00% -26.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £60.00 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 - -
75th Percentile £69.99 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 - -

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 38,243 28,404 41,374
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.82% 92.82% 93.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,036 17,847 27,236
10th Percentile £310 £293 £275
25th Percentile £409 £406 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £720 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +1.32% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,330 852 2,355
10th Percentile £14.64 £16.25 £13.15
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £16.30
Median hourly rate £33.50 £34.75 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.60% -0.71% -12.50%
75th Percentile £63.75 £64.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £72.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.50 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -3.08% -7.14% -6.67%

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 28 February 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 28 February 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 -48 63 £300 -9.09% 15
UK excluding London -58 55 £270 -18.18% 13
South East -11 31 £260 -46.80% 5
Work from Home -2 19 £238 +10.70% 1
North of England -52 17 £350 +32.08% 3
Yorkshire -57 8 £418 +57.55% 1
London -37 7 £513 +46.85% 4
North West -33 6 £350 +13.82% 2
South West -22 5 £450 - 1
North East - 3 £125 -
Midlands -56 2 - - 1
West Midlands -51 1 - -
East Midlands - 1 - - 1

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

For the 6 months to 28 February 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 48 (75.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 29 (45.31%) Microsoft
3 26 (40.63%) Windows
4 23 (35.94%) Security Cleared
5 22 (34.38%) ITIL
5 22 (34.38%) VMware
6 21 (32.81%) Linux
6 21 (32.81%) Problem-Solving
7 18 (28.13%) SC Cleared
8 16 (25.00%) Active Directory
9 15 (23.44%) Azure
9 15 (23.44%) VMware Infrastructure
10 14 (21.88%) AWS
11 13 (20.31%) DHCP
11 13 (20.31%) DNS
12 12 (18.75%) Disaster Recovery
12 12 (18.75%) Service Management
12 12 (18.75%) TCP/IP
12 12 (18.75%) VLAN
13 11 (17.19%) Azure Certification
13 11 (17.19%) Hyper-V
13 11 (17.19%) Microsoft Certification
13 11 (17.19%) Network+ Certification
13 11 (17.19%) Preventative Maintenance
13 11 (17.19%) SCCM
13 11 (17.19%) Server+ Certification
13 11 (17.19%) Virtual Infrastructure
14 10 (15.63%) Ansible
15 9 (14.06%) ServiceNow
16 8 (12.50%) Entra ID

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 (1.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (4.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 15 (23.44%) Azure
2 14 (21.88%) AWS
3 8 (12.50%) Entra ID
4 6 (9.38%) OneDrive
5 5 (7.81%) SaaS
6 3 (4.69%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.56%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (20.31%) DHCP
1 13 (20.31%) DNS
2 12 (18.75%) TCP/IP
2 12 (18.75%) VLAN
3 7 (10.94%) Wi-Fi
4 6 (9.38%) 4G
5 2 (3.13%) Firewall
6 1 (1.56%) LAN
6 1 (1.56%) PABX
6 1 (1.56%) SAN
6 1 (1.56%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (1.56%) JIRA
General
1 20 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 13 (20.31%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (17.19%) Finance
4 6 (9.38%) Banking
4 6 (9.38%) Organisational Skills
5 5 (7.81%) Investment Banking
6 3 (4.69%) Public Sector
7 2 (3.13%) Manufacturing
7 2 (3.13%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.56%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.56%) Automotive
Miscellaneous
1 11 (17.19%) Analytical Mindset
2 6 (9.38%) Onboarding
3 5 (7.81%) PKI
4 4 (6.25%) Data Centre
5 3 (4.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (3.13%) NHS
7 1 (1.56%) Driving Licence
7 1 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.56%) SCADA
7 1 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.56%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 26 (40.63%) Windows
2 21 (32.81%) Linux
3 8 (12.50%) Windows 10
4 7 (10.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (9.38%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.56%) Unix
6 1 (1.56%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (75.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 22 (34.38%) ITIL
3 21 (32.81%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (18.75%) Disaster Recovery
4 12 (18.75%) Service Management
5 11 (17.19%) Preventative Maintenance
5 11 (17.19%) Virtual Infrastructure
6 7 (10.94%) Architectural Design
7 6 (9.38%) DevSecOps
7 6 (9.38%) KYC
8 5 (7.81%) Project Management
8 5 (7.81%) Release Management
9 3 (4.69%) Continuous Improvement
9 3 (4.69%) Infrastructure as Code
9 3 (4.69%) Migration
9 3 (4.69%) RBAC
9 3 (4.69%) Validation
10 2 (3.13%) Customer Service
10 2 (3.13%) Platform Engineering
10 2 (3.13%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 3 (4.69%) PowerShell
1 3 (4.69%) Python
2 1 (1.56%) Bash
Qualifications
1 23 (35.94%) Security Cleared
2 18 (28.13%) SC Cleared
3 11 (17.19%) Azure Certification
3 11 (17.19%) Microsoft Certification
3 11 (17.19%) Network+ Certification
3 11 (17.19%) Server+ Certification
4 5 (7.81%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.56%) Degree
5 1 (1.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.25%) SLA
2 1 (1.56%) GDPR
2 1 (1.56%) PMO
System Software
1 16 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 15 (23.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (17.19%) Hyper-V
4 2 (3.13%) BitLocker
5 1 (1.56%) Firmware
5 1 (1.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (17.19%) SCCM
2 10 (15.63%) Ansible
3 7 (10.94%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (9.38%) Red Hat Satellite
5 3 (4.69%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (4.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 29 (45.31%) Microsoft
2 22 (34.38%) VMware
3 9 (14.06%) ServiceNow
4 7 (10.94%) Red Hat
5 2 (3.13%) Remedy
6 1 (1.56%) Ariba
6 1 (1.56%) Cisco
6 1 (1.56%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.56%) HP
6 1 (1.56%) SAP
6 1 (1.56%) Splunk
6 1 (1.56%) Veeam
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