Technical Infrastructure Manager Contract Job Trends

Technical Infrastructure Manager
UK

The median Technical Infrastructure Manager daily rate in the UK is £713, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 September 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
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 551 550 623
Rank change year-on-year -1 +73 +181
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Infrastructure Manager 6 12 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.018% 0.031% 0.018%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.020% 0.034% 0.019%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 8 6
10th Percentile £523 £377 £413
25th Percentile £613 £497 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £713 £557 £550
Median % change year-on-year +28.03% +1.18% +4.76%
75th Percentile £775 £575 £631
90th Percentile - £594 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £750 £563 £488
% change year-on-year +33.33% +15.38% -2.50%

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 30,009 35,817 46,695
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.07% 92.96% 94.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,949 22,029 31,957
10th Percentile £278 £300 £300
25th Percentile £400 £413 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
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% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,585 1,680 1,499
10th Percentile £13.75 £14.73 £14.99
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.50 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +71.15%
75th Percentile £52.50 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £43.75
% change year-on-year -44.11% +2.86% +98.86%

Technical Infrastructure Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Infrastructure Manager in the UK

Technical Infrastructure Manager
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Technical Infrastructure Manager job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Technical Infrastructure Manager job vacancies in the UK

Technical Infrastructure Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Infrastructure Manager over the 6 months to 19 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Infrastructure Manager in the UK

Technical Infrastructure Manager
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Technical Infrastructure Manager job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Technical Infrastructure Manager job vacancies in the UK

Technical Infrastructure Manager
Top 9 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Infrastructure Manager within the UK over the 6 months to 19 September 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
UK excluding London +9 5 £750 +33.33% 3
England +3 5 £713 +26.67% 6
Work from Home +25 2 £475 -
South West - 2 £750 -
London +2 1 £675 +125.00% 2
North of England -26 1 £475 -24.00%
East of England - 1 - -
North West - 1 £475 -
Scotland - 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 19 September 2025, Technical 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 Technical Infrastructure Manager in the job title.

1 3 (50.00%) Project Management
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) People Management
2 2 (33.33%) Data Centre
2 2 (33.33%) Oracle
2 2 (33.33%) Unix
2 2 (33.33%) Windows
2 2 (33.33%) Change Management
2 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
3 1 (16.67%) Risk Management
3 1 (16.67%) Asset Management
3 1 (16.67%) IT Governance
3 1 (16.67%) Degree
3 1 (16.67%) JIRA
3 1 (16.67%) Time Management
3 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
3 1 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (16.67%) Linux
3 1 (16.67%) ERP
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (16.67%) PMP
3 1 (16.67%) PMI Certification
3 1 (16.67%) Red Hat
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (16.67%) SAP
3 1 (16.67%) PRINCE2

Technical 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 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) AWS
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) OCI
2 1 (16.67%) Smartsheet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Manufacturing
2 1 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Data Centre
2 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
2 1 (16.67%) Onboarding
2 1 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Unix
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
2 1 (16.67%) Linux
2 1 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Project Management
2 2 (33.33%) Change Management
2 2 (33.33%) People Management
2 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (16.67%) Asset Management
3 1 (16.67%) Budget Management
3 1 (16.67%) Conflict Management
3 1 (16.67%) Conflict Resolution
3 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
3 1 (16.67%) ERP
3 1 (16.67%) IT Governance
3 1 (16.67%) Migration
3 1 (16.67%) PRINCE2
3 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (16.67%) Project Delivery
3 1 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (16.67%) Risk Management
3 1 (16.67%) Risk Register
3 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (16.67%) Time Management
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
1 1 (16.67%) PMI Certification
1 1 (16.67%) PMP
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Red Hat
2 1 (16.67%) SAP