IT Infrastructure Project Manager Contracts

IT Infrastructure Project Manager
UK

The median IT Infrastructure Project Manager daily rate in the UK is £560 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 562 656 768
Rank change year-on-year +94 +112 -129
Contract jobs requiring an IT Infrastructure Project Manager 20 56 87
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.046% 0.093% 0.097%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.049% 0.098% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 47 73
10th Percentile £506 £408 £313
25th Percentile £514 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +16.67% +12.50%
75th Percentile £622 £575 £575
90th Percentile £640 £653 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £560 £538 £463
% change year-on-year +4.19% +16.22% +2.89%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 40,476 56,906 85,219
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.58% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,420 39,710 59,771
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £493 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,641 1,614 2,118
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.36 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.50 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.11% +95.65% +1.41%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.92 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.63%

IT Infrastructure Project Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Infrastructure Project Manager in the UK

IT Infrastructure Project Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IT Infrastructure Project Manager.

Daily rate trend for IT Infrastructure Project Manager in the UK

IT Infrastructure Project Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IT Infrastructure Project Manager over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for IT Infrastructure Project Manager in the UK

IT Infrastructure Project Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IT Infrastructure Project Manager.

Hourly rate trend for IT Infrastructure Project Manager in the UK

IT Infrastructure Project Manager
Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IT Infrastructure Project Manager within the UK over the 6 months to 24 April 2024. 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 +99 20 £560 +1.82% 2
London +96 10 £563 +4.65%
UK excluding London +38 10 £560 +4.19% 2
Work from Home +94 6 £538 +2.38% 3
North of England +32 4 £560 +1.82% 1
Midlands +34 3 £575 +15.00%
West Midlands +29 3 £575 +9.52%
South East +14 3 £525 +20.00%
Yorkshire +19 2 £450 -18.18%
North West +18 2 £565 +13.00%

IT Infrastructure Project Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 24 April 2024, IT Infrastructure Project Manager 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 IT Infrastructure Project Manager in the job title.

1 9 (45.00%) Finance
2 8 (40.00%) Project Management
3 6 (30.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (20.00%) Microsoft
4 4 (20.00%) Agile
4 4 (20.00%) Banking
4 4 (20.00%) Data Centre
5 3 (15.00%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (15.00%) Azure
5 3 (15.00%) SharePoint
5 3 (15.00%) Law
5 3 (15.00%) Cisco
5 3 (15.00%) Windows
5 3 (15.00%) Social Skills
5 3 (15.00%) Migration
6 2 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (10.00%) Matrix Organization
6 2 (10.00%) Project Delivery
6 2 (10.00%) PRINCE2
6 2 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 1 (5.00%) Waterfall
7 1 (5.00%) Change Control
7 1 (5.00%) Windows 10
7 1 (5.00%) Investment Banking
7 1 (5.00%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (5.00%) ServiceNow
7 1 (5.00%) Low Latency
7 1 (5.00%) Email Migration
7 1 (5.00%) CyberArk

IT Infrastructure Project Manager 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 3 (15.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (5.00%) Confluence
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (5.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 3 (15.00%) Azure
1 3 (15.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (5.00%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (5.00%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (5.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (5.00%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) LAN
1 1 (5.00%) Skype
1 1 (5.00%) Wi-Fi
General
1 9 (45.00%) Finance
2 4 (20.00%) Banking
3 3 (15.00%) Law
3 3 (15.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (5.00%) Investment Banking
5 1 (5.00%) Legal
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.00%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.00%) Windows
2 1 (5.00%) Unix
2 1 (5.00%) Windows 10
2 1 (5.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (5.00%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (5.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (40.00%) Project Management
2 6 (30.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (20.00%) Agile
4 3 (15.00%) Migration
5 2 (10.00%) Matrix Organization
5 2 (10.00%) PRINCE2
5 2 (10.00%) Project Delivery
5 2 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 1 (5.00%) B2B
6 1 (5.00%) Bimodal
6 1 (5.00%) Change Control
6 1 (5.00%) Change Management
6 1 (5.00%) Data Loss Prevention
6 1 (5.00%) Feasibility Study
6 1 (5.00%) Information Security
6 1 (5.00%) Low Latency
6 1 (5.00%) Privileged Access Management
6 1 (5.00%) Risk Management
6 1 (5.00%) Scrum
6 1 (5.00%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 1 (5.00%) CCNA
1 1 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (5.00%) Degree
1 1 (5.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 4 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (15.00%) Cisco
3 1 (5.00%) Arista
3 1 (5.00%) Bloomberg
3 1 (5.00%) BT
3 1 (5.00%) Citrix
3 1 (5.00%) CyberArk
3 1 (5.00%) Radianz
3 1 (5.00%) Refinitiv
3 1 (5.00%) Reuters
3 1 (5.00%) ServiceNow