Senior Infrastructure Manager Contracts

Senior Infrastructure Manager
UK

The median Senior Infrastructure Manager daily rate in the UK is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 5 August 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
5 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 540 566 650
Rank change year-on-year +26 +84 +196
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Manager 9 6 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.027% 0.015% 0.021%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.030% 0.016% 0.022%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 4 9
10th Percentile £445 £549 £460
25th Percentile £513 £591 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £615 £575
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +6.96% +2.22%
75th Percentile £638 £636 £685
90th Percentile £730 £675 £720
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 30,135 36,424 50,675
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.45% 92.92% 94.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,114 23,529 34,958
10th Percentile £282 £300 £306
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -0.46%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +1.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,495 2,063 1,515
10th Percentile £13.60 £14.16 £14.51
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.12 £19.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +65.50%
75th Percentile £53.99 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.05 £75.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £43.90 £37.50
% change year-on-year -42.71% +17.07% +76.80%

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 5 August 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 10 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 5 August 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 +35 9 £550 -10.57% 12
UK excluding London +14 6 £525 -14.63% 7
Work from Home +27 5 £525 -14.63% 6
London +2 3 £600 -1.64% 7
Midlands - 3 £525 -
West Midlands - 3 £525 -
North of England - 2 £431 -
East of England - 1 £750 - 1
North East - 1 £463 -
Yorkshire - 1 £400 -

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

For the 6 months to 5 August 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 6 (66.67%) Project Management
2 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
3 4 (44.44%) Finance
4 3 (33.33%) PRINCE2
4 3 (33.33%) Migration
4 3 (33.33%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
5 2 (22.22%) Multi-Factor Authentication
5 2 (22.22%) PMO
5 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (22.22%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (22.22%) Data Protection
5 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
5 2 (22.22%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (22.22%) LDAP
5 2 (22.22%) PMP
5 2 (22.22%) Pharmaceutical
5 2 (22.22%) Aerospace
5 2 (22.22%) Change Management
6 1 (11.11%) Degree
6 1 (11.11%) Banking
6 1 (11.11%) Logistics
6 1 (11.11%) PMI Certification
6 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
6 1 (11.11%) Military
6 1 (11.11%) ITIL
6 1 (11.11%) Service Management
6 1 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (11.11%) Project Governance

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 (22.22%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) Azure
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
General
1 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 4 (44.44%) Finance
3 3 (33.33%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (22.22%) Aerospace
4 2 (22.22%) Pharmaceutical
4 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
5 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (11.11%) Banking
5 1 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (11.11%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (11.11%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (11.11%) Data Centre
2 1 (11.11%) Onboarding
2 1 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Project Management
2 3 (33.33%) Migration
2 3 (33.33%) PRINCE2
3 2 (22.22%) Change Management
3 2 (22.22%) Data Protection
3 2 (22.22%) Multi-Factor Authentication
3 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (11.11%) Data Migration
4 1 (11.11%) Data Transformation
4 1 (11.11%) Decision-Making
4 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Transformation
4 1 (11.11%) ITIL
4 1 (11.11%) Line Management
4 1 (11.11%) Logistics
4 1 (11.11%) Project Governance
4 1 (11.11%) Target Operating Model
4 1 (11.11%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) PMP
1 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (11.11%) Degree
2 1 (11.11%) PMI Certification
2 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) PMO
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft