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 28 July 2026.

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

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 609 514 514
Rank change year-on-year -95 0 +93
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Support 58 32 58
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.11% 0.098% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.11% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 24 47
10th Percentile £201 £229 £221
25th Percentile £225 £256 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £320 £536 £340
Median % change year-on-year -40.30% +57.65% -2.86%
75th Percentile £425 £588 £444
90th Percentile £545 £623 £500
UK excluding London median daily rate £300 £575 £340
% change year-on-year -47.83% +69.12% +13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £31.39 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £32.77 -

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 48,972 29,978 37,340
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.64% 91.54% 93.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,547 19,070 24,184
10th Percentile £331 £285 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.87%
75th Percentile £625 £623 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,337 1,464 2,247
10th Percentile £15.75 £13.71 £13.86
25th Percentile £21.25 £17.30 £18.32
Median hourly rate £43.50 £25.15 £42.03
Median % change year-on-year +72.96% -40.16% -2.97%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.02 £73.75 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +78.93% -41.51% +8.59%

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 July 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 28 July 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 -93 51 £310 -42.16% 17
UK excluding London -77 38 £300 -47.83% 16
South East -68 15 £250 -56.52% 8
London -63 14 £413 -23.04% 3
North of England -68 8 £190 -28.30%
East Midlands - 7 £300 -
Midlands - 7 £300 - 2
Work from Home -60 4 £310 -42.16% 6
South West - 4 £450 - 3
East of England -20 3 £225 - 3
North East -39 3 £125 -
Yorkshire -40 3 £275 +3.77%
North West - 2 £270 -
Channel Islands - 1 £550 -

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

For the 6 months to 28 July 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 40 (68.97%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 32 (55.17%) Active Directory
3 30 (51.72%) Windows
4 25 (43.10%) Microsoft
5 23 (39.66%) Windows Server
6 16 (27.59%) DNS
7 15 (25.86%) Azure
7 15 (25.86%) DHCP
8 13 (22.41%) Entra ID
9 12 (20.69%) Microsoft 365
9 12 (20.69%) Security Cleared
10 11 (18.97%) Linux
11 10 (17.24%) DV Cleared
11 10 (17.24%) ITIL
11 10 (17.24%) Microsoft Intune
12 9 (15.52%) Microsoft Exchange
12 9 (15.52%) PowerShell
13 8 (13.79%) SharePoint
13 8 (13.79%) VMware
14 7 (12.07%) AWS
14 7 (12.07%) Firewall
14 7 (12.07%) Privileged Access Management
14 7 (12.07%) Red Hat
14 7 (12.07%) SAN
15 6 (10.34%) Problem Management
15 6 (10.34%) ServiceNow
15 6 (10.34%) SQL Server
15 6 (10.34%) VLAN
15 6 (10.34%) VMware Infrastructure
15 6 (10.34%) VPN

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 9 (15.52%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (13.79%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (5.17%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 15 (25.86%) Azure
2 13 (22.41%) Entra ID
3 12 (20.69%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (12.07%) AWS
5 4 (6.90%) IaaS
5 4 (6.90%) PaaS
6 3 (5.17%) GCP
6 3 (5.17%) OneDrive
6 3 (5.17%) OpenShift
7 2 (3.45%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (1.72%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (1.72%) Azure Stack
8 1 (1.72%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (1.72%) Mimecast
8 1 (1.72%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 16 (27.59%) DNS
2 15 (25.86%) DHCP
3 7 (12.07%) Firewall
3 7 (12.07%) SAN
4 6 (10.34%) VLAN
4 6 (10.34%) VPN
5 5 (8.62%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (6.90%) TCP/IP
7 3 (5.17%) Network Security
7 3 (5.17%) SMTP
8 1 (1.72%) LAN
8 1 (1.72%) WAN
8 1 (1.72%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.34%) SQL Server
2 3 (5.17%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (5.17%) Big Data
2 3 (5.17%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (3.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (1.72%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 3 (5.17%) JIRA
2 2 (3.45%) Git
General
1 9 (15.52%) Social Skills
2 7 (12.07%) Documentation Skills
2 7 (12.07%) Marketing
3 5 (8.62%) Finance
4 4 (6.90%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.45%) Law
5 2 (3.45%) Legal
5 2 (3.45%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.72%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.72%) Front Office
6 1 (1.72%) Local Government
6 1 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.72%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.07%) Data Centre
2 4 (6.90%) Clustering
2 4 (6.90%) Onboarding
3 3 (5.17%) PKI
3 3 (5.17%) Video Conferencing
4 2 (3.45%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.72%) Fat Client
5 1 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.72%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 30 (51.72%) Windows
2 23 (39.66%) Windows Server
3 11 (18.97%) Linux
4 6 (10.34%) Windows 10
5 5 (8.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (5.17%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (3.45%) Check Point GAiA
7 2 (3.45%) Unix
8 1 (1.72%) Windows Server 2003
8 1 (1.72%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (1.72%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (68.97%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 10 (17.24%) ITIL
3 7 (12.07%) Privileged Access Management
4 6 (10.34%) Problem Management
5 5 (8.62%) AI
5 5 (8.62%) Task Automation
6 4 (6.90%) Vulnerability Remediation
7 3 (5.17%) Change Management
7 3 (5.17%) Customer Service
7 3 (5.17%) DevOps
7 3 (5.17%) Disaster Recovery
7 3 (5.17%) Information Security
7 3 (5.17%) Machine Learning
7 3 (5.17%) Project Delivery
7 3 (5.17%) Runbook
7 3 (5.17%) Software Deployment
8 2 (3.45%) Cybersecurity
8 2 (3.45%) ETL
8 2 (3.45%) Service Management
8 2 (3.45%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 9 (15.52%) PowerShell
2 5 (8.62%) Bash
2 5 (8.62%) Python
3 3 (5.17%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (20.69%) Security Cleared
2 10 (17.24%) DV Cleared
3 4 (6.90%) Degree
4 1 (1.72%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (1.72%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.72%) PMO
System Software
1 32 (55.17%) Active Directory
2 6 (10.34%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (8.62%) Hyper-V
3 5 (8.62%) NFS
4 4 (6.90%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (5.17%) BitLocker
5 3 (5.17%) Docker
5 3 (5.17%) Microsoft App-V
5 3 (5.17%) Terminal Services
6 2 (3.45%) vSphere
7 1 (1.72%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 10 (17.24%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (8.62%) Red Hat Satellite
3 4 (6.90%) vCenter Server
4 3 (5.17%) Ansible
4 3 (5.17%) Kubernetes
4 3 (5.17%) Nagios
4 3 (5.17%) Puppet
4 3 (5.17%) vMotion
5 1 (1.72%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Clustering
5 1 (1.72%) NetBackup
5 1 (1.72%) vRealize
5 1 (1.72%) WSUS
Vendors
1 25 (43.10%) Microsoft
2 8 (13.79%) VMware
3 7 (12.07%) Red Hat
4 6 (10.34%) ServiceNow
5 5 (8.62%) Cisco
6 4 (6.90%) Citrix
6 4 (6.90%) HP
7 3 (5.17%) Google
7 3 (5.17%) Meraki
7 3 (5.17%) Symantec
8 2 (3.45%) CheckPoint
8 2 (3.45%) Remedy
9 1 (1.72%) Fortinet
9 1 (1.72%) Qualys
9 1 (1.72%) Tanium
9 1 (1.72%) Veeam
9 1 (1.72%) Veritas