IT Infrastructure Manager Contracts

IT Infrastructure Manager
UK

The median IT Infrastructure Manager daily rate in the UK is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 560 643 715
Rank change year-on-year +83 +72 -85
Contract jobs requiring an IT Infrastructure Manager 26 79 116
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.060% 0.13% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.064% 0.14% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 60 95
10th Percentile £416 £400 £329
25th Percentile £505 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% +7.50% +21.21%
75th Percentile £603 £600 £588
90th Percentile £638 £676 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £513 £500
% change year-on-year +7.32% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £43.80
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 40,482 56,783 84,604
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.58% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,407 39,621 59,331
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £408 £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 £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,642 1,607 2,111
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.28 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.45 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.68 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.71% +95.65% +1.41%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.60 £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 Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Infrastructure Manager in the UK

IT Infrastructure Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for IT Infrastructure Manager in the UK

IT Infrastructure Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IT Infrastructure Manager over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for IT Infrastructure Manager in the UK

IT Infrastructure Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for IT Infrastructure Manager in the UK

IT Infrastructure Manager
Top 11 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 Manager within the UK over the 6 months to 25 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 +80 26 £550 - 17
London +92 13 £550 -4.35% 5
UK excluding London +43 13 £550 +7.32% 12
Work from Home +89 8 £525 - 11
South East +11 5 £525 +20.00% 4
North of England +21 4 £560 +1.82% 2
West Midlands +23 3 £575 +21.05% 2
Midlands +20 3 £575 +27.78% 2
Yorkshire +16 2 £450 -18.18%
North West +15 2 £565 +13.00% 1
East of England +11 1 £550 -24.14% 1

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, IT Infrastructure 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 Manager in the job title.

1 13 (50.00%) Finance
2 10 (38.46%) Project Management
3 8 (30.77%) Stakeholder Management
4 7 (26.92%) Banking
5 6 (23.08%) Data Centre
6 4 (15.38%) Social Skills
6 4 (15.38%) Agile
6 4 (15.38%) Windows
6 4 (15.38%) Cisco
6 4 (15.38%) Microsoft
7 3 (11.54%) PRINCE2
7 3 (11.54%) SharePoint
7 3 (11.54%) Change Management
7 3 (11.54%) Migration
7 3 (11.54%) Law
7 3 (11.54%) Project Delivery
7 3 (11.54%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (11.54%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (11.54%) Azure
8 2 (7.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 2 (7.69%) Target Operating Model
8 2 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
8 2 (7.69%) Line Management
8 2 (7.69%) Mentoring
8 2 (7.69%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (7.69%) Windows Server
8 2 (7.69%) Information Security
8 2 (7.69%) ITIL
8 2 (7.69%) PMP
9 1 (3.85%) PMI Certification

IT Infrastructure 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 (11.54%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.85%) Confluence
2 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (3.85%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 3 (11.54%) Azure
1 3 (11.54%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (3.85%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (3.85%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (3.85%) Entra ID
2 1 (3.85%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.85%) LAN
1 1 (3.85%) Skype
1 1 (3.85%) VLAN
1 1 (3.85%) VoIP
1 1 (3.85%) WAN
1 1 (3.85%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (3.85%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.85%) SQL Server
General
1 13 (50.00%) Finance
2 7 (26.92%) Banking
3 4 (15.38%) Social Skills
4 3 (11.54%) Influencing Skills
4 3 (11.54%) Law
5 2 (7.69%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (3.85%) Investment Banking
6 1 (3.85%) Legal
6 1 (3.85%) Local Government
6 1 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (3.85%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 6 (23.08%) Data Centre
2 1 (3.85%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 4 (15.38%) Windows
2 2 (7.69%) Windows Server
3 1 (3.85%) Unix
3 1 (3.85%) Windows 10
3 1 (3.85%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (3.85%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (38.46%) Project Management
2 8 (30.77%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (15.38%) Agile
4 3 (11.54%) Change Management
4 3 (11.54%) Migration
4 3 (11.54%) PRINCE2
4 3 (11.54%) Project Delivery
5 2 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (7.69%) Information Security
5 2 (7.69%) ITIL
5 2 (7.69%) Line Management
5 2 (7.69%) Mentoring
5 2 (7.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (7.69%) Target Operating Model
6 1 (3.85%) B2B
6 1 (3.85%) Disaster Recovery
6 1 (3.85%) Incident Management
6 1 (3.85%) Risk Management
6 1 (3.85%) Scrum
6 1 (3.85%) Security Management
Qualifications
1 2 (7.69%) PMP
2 1 (3.85%) CCNA
2 1 (3.85%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (3.85%) Degree
2 1 (3.85%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.85%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (3.85%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 4 (15.38%) Cisco
1 4 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.85%) Arista
2 1 (3.85%) Bloomberg
2 1 (3.85%) BT
2 1 (3.85%) Citrix
2 1 (3.85%) CyberArk
2 1 (3.85%) Radianz
2 1 (3.85%) Refinitiv
2 1 (3.85%) Reuters
2 1 (3.85%) ServiceNow