Senior Infrastructure Manager Contracts

Senior Infrastructure Manager
UK

The median Senior Infrastructure Manager daily rate in the UK is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 512 577 703
Rank change year-on-year +65 +126 +115
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Manager 8 5 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.027% 0.011% 0.025%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.030% 0.012% 0.027%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 3 7
10th Percentile £496 £543 £470
25th Percentile £513 £570 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £615 £605
Median % change year-on-year -6.50% +1.65% +5.22%
75th Percentile £753 - £680
90th Percentile £838 - £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £615 £538
% change year-on-year -14.63% +14.42% -2.27%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 27,084 40,415 56,464
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,692 26,309 39,470
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,035 2,664 1,570
10th Percentile £14.07 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%

Senior Infrastructure Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Infrastructure Manager in the UK

Senior Infrastructure Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Infrastructure Manager in the UK

Senior Infrastructure Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Infrastructure Manager over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Infrastructure Manager in the UK

Senior Infrastructure Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Infrastructure Manager in the UK

Senior Infrastructure Manager
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Infrastructure Manager within the UK over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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 +61 8 £575 -6.50% 9
London +42 5 £700 - 3
Work from Home +41 4 £525 -14.63% 3
UK excluding London +63 3 £525 -14.63% 6
Midlands - 2 £525 - 2
West Midlands - 2 £525 -
North East - 1 £463 -
North of England - 1 £463 -

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Senior 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 Senior Infrastructure Manager in the job title.

1 7 (87.50%) Project Management
2 4 (50.00%) Finance
2 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure Transformation
3 3 (37.50%) Organisational Skills
3 3 (37.50%) Migration
3 3 (37.50%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (25.00%) Aerospace
4 2 (25.00%) Change Management
4 2 (25.00%) Pharmaceutical
4 2 (25.00%) PRINCE2
4 2 (25.00%) LDAP
4 2 (25.00%) PMP
4 2 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (25.00%) Data Protection
4 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (25.00%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (25.00%) Business Transformation
4 2 (25.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
4 2 (25.00%) PMO
5 1 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (12.50%) Employee Productivity
5 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
5 1 (12.50%) Emotional Intelligence
5 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (12.50%) Target Operating Model
5 1 (12.50%) Data Transformation
5 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (12.50%) Azure

Senior 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:

Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) Azure
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
General
1 4 (50.00%) Finance
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (25.00%) Aerospace
3 2 (25.00%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (12.50%) Banking
4 1 (12.50%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (12.50%) Onboarding
2 1 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Project Management
2 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure Transformation
2 3 (37.50%) Migration
2 3 (37.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (25.00%) Business Transformation
3 2 (25.00%) Change Management
3 2 (25.00%) Data Protection
3 2 (25.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
3 2 (25.00%) PRINCE2
3 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (12.50%) Cost Optimisation
4 1 (12.50%) Data Migration
4 1 (12.50%) Emotional Intelligence
4 1 (12.50%) Employee Productivity
4 1 (12.50%) ITIL
4 1 (12.50%) Logistics
4 1 (12.50%) Order Management
4 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (12.50%) Service Management
4 1 (12.50%) Technology Transformation
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) PMP
2 1 (12.50%) Degree
2 1 (12.50%) PMI Certification
2 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) PMO
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft