Infrastructure Manager Contracts

Infrastructure Manager
UK

The median Infrastructure Manager daily rate in the UK is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 May 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
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 417 344 345
Rank change year-on-year -73 +1 +70
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Manager 176 426 674
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.41% 0.72% 0.76%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.44% 0.76% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 289 505
10th Percentile £385 £385 £377
25th Percentile £450 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £625 £623 £588
90th Percentile £688 £700 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +15.79% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 13 4
10th Percentile - - £44.21
25th Percentile - - £44.84
Median hourly rate - £65.00 £46.15
Median % change year-on-year - +40.86% +74.59%
75th Percentile - £65.75 £47.52
90th Percentile - - £48.27
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £65.00 -

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 40,021 55,966 84,699
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 94.62% 95.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,056 39,104 59,482
10th Percentile £280 £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 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,666 1,571 2,084
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.81
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +89.04% +5.80%
75th Percentile £61.29 £65.75 £49.19
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.71
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.26 £19.52
% change year-on-year -5.35% +116.50% +2.74%

Infrastructure Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Manager in the UK

Infrastructure Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Manager in the UK

Infrastructure Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Manager over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Manager in the UK

Infrastructure Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Manager in the UK

Infrastructure Manager
Top 17 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Manager within the UK over the 6 months to 4 May 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 -70 154 £550 +4.76% 72
UK excluding London -31 89 £550 +15.79% 46
London -8 71 £563 -6.25% 25
Work from Home -7 54 £550 +5.77% 24
South East +21 26 £538 +17.81% 14
North of England -33 21 £450 -10.00% 15
Midlands +10 20 £550 +22.22% 10
West Midlands +8 12 £550 +22.22% 5
South West +18 11 £550 +12.82% 7
Yorkshire -18 11 £500 -9.09% 3
North West -5 9 £350 -22.22% 10
East Midlands +20 7 £625 +21.95% 5
East of England +4 4 £488 -7.14% 1
Wales +16 3 £600 +33.33%
Scotland +29 2 £550 +29.41% 1
Northern Ireland - 2 - -
North East +19 1 - - 2

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

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, 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 Infrastructure Manager in the job title.

1 65 (36.93%) Project Management
2 55 (31.25%) Finance
3 50 (28.41%) Social Skills
4 40 (22.73%) Stakeholder Management
5 33 (18.75%) Project Delivery
6 31 (17.61%) Agile
7 29 (16.48%) Windows
7 29 (16.48%) Azure
8 28 (15.91%) Data Centre
9 24 (13.64%) PRINCE2
10 23 (13.07%) Microsoft
11 21 (11.93%) Migration
12 20 (11.36%) Change Management
13 19 (10.80%) Waterfall
14 17 (9.66%) Microsoft 365
14 17 (9.66%) Banking
14 17 (9.66%) Public Sector
15 16 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
16 15 (8.52%) Risk Management
16 15 (8.52%) Active Directory
17 14 (7.95%) WAN
17 14 (7.95%) SharePoint
18 12 (6.82%) Cisco
18 12 (6.82%) Analytical Skills
19 11 (6.25%) ITIL
19 11 (6.25%) Telecoms
19 11 (6.25%) Firewall
19 11 (6.25%) Security Cleared
19 11 (6.25%) Degree
20 10 (5.68%) Microsoft Exchange

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 14 (7.95%) SharePoint
2 10 (5.68%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.70%) Confluence
3 3 (1.70%) nginx
4 2 (1.14%) OpenStack
Applications
1 5 (2.84%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (2.84%) Microsoft Office
1 5 (2.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 5 (2.84%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (1.70%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.70%) Sage X3
2 2 (1.14%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.57%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 29 (16.48%) Azure
2 17 (9.66%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (2.27%) Entra ID
4 3 (1.70%) AWS
4 3 (1.70%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (1.70%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (1.70%) SaaS
5 2 (1.14%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (1.14%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (1.14%) Amazon S3
5 2 (1.14%) CloudFront
6 1 (0.57%) OneDrive
6 1 (0.57%) Power Automate
6 1 (0.57%) Power Platform
6 1 (0.57%) PowerApps
6 1 (0.57%) ShareGate
6 1 (0.57%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 14 (7.95%) WAN
2 11 (6.25%) Firewall
3 10 (5.68%) LAN
4 5 (2.84%) Wi-Fi
5 4 (2.27%) SAN
5 4 (2.27%) SD-WAN
5 4 (2.27%) Wireless
6 3 (1.70%) Cisco IOS
6 3 (1.70%) Network Security
6 3 (1.70%) VPN
6 3 (1.70%) WLAN
7 2 (1.14%) Structured Cabling
7 2 (1.14%) VoIP
8 1 (0.57%) MPLS
8 1 (0.57%) Skype
8 1 (0.57%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.57%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.27%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.70%) MySQL
3 2 (1.14%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (1.14%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.57%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.57%) Power BI
4 1 (0.57%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 6 (3.41%) JIRA
General
1 55 (31.25%) Finance
2 50 (28.41%) Social Skills
3 17 (9.66%) Banking
3 17 (9.66%) Public Sector
4 12 (6.82%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (6.25%) Telecoms
6 8 (4.55%) Manufacturing
7 5 (2.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (2.84%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (2.84%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (2.27%) Law
8 4 (2.27%) Marketing
8 4 (2.27%) Retail
9 3 (1.70%) Electronics
9 3 (1.70%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.70%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.70%) Legal
10 2 (1.14%) Local Government
10 2 (1.14%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.14%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.70%) EDI
2 2 (1.14%) LDAP
2 2 (1.14%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (1.14%) SAP Basis
3 1 (0.57%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 28 (15.91%) Data Centre
2 7 (3.98%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (1.70%) CCTV
3 3 (1.70%) PMI
3 3 (1.70%) Virtual Team
4 2 (1.14%) HACMP
4 2 (1.14%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.14%) Security Posture
4 2 (1.14%) Video Conferencing
5 1 (0.57%) BYOD
5 1 (0.57%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.57%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.57%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.57%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.57%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.57%) Operational Technology
5 1 (0.57%) PKI
5 1 (0.57%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.57%) Replication
5 1 (0.57%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 29 (16.48%) Windows
2 6 (3.41%) Linux
3 5 (2.84%) Unix
3 5 (2.84%) Windows 10
3 5 (2.84%) Windows Server
3 5 (2.84%) Windows Server 2012
4 4 (2.27%) AIX
4 4 (2.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (2.27%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (1.70%) Android
5 3 (1.70%) Mac OS
5 3 (1.70%) Ubuntu
5 3 (1.70%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (1.14%) VMS
6 2 (1.14%) Windows 2000
6 2 (1.14%) Windows 7
6 2 (1.14%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (36.93%) Project Management
2 40 (22.73%) Stakeholder Management
3 33 (18.75%) Project Delivery
4 31 (17.61%) Agile
5 24 (13.64%) PRINCE2
6 21 (11.93%) Migration
7 20 (11.36%) Change Management
8 19 (10.80%) Waterfall
9 16 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
10 15 (8.52%) Risk Management
11 11 (6.25%) ITIL
12 8 (4.55%) Budget Management
12 8 (4.55%) Scrum
12 8 (4.55%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 7 (3.98%) Cybersecurity
13 7 (3.98%) Line Management
14 6 (3.41%) Acceptance Criteria
14 6 (3.41%) Change Control
14 6 (3.41%) Continuous Improvement
14 6 (3.41%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 4 (2.27%) SQL
2 2 (1.14%) PowerShell
2 2 (1.14%) R
2 2 (1.14%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (6.25%) Degree
1 11 (6.25%) Security Cleared
2 10 (5.68%) PMP
3 9 (5.11%) PMI Certification
4 8 (4.55%) SC Cleared
5 4 (2.27%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.70%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 2 (1.14%) CCNA
7 2 (1.14%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.14%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 2 (1.14%) Six Sigma Black Belt
7 2 (1.14%) Six Sigma Green Belt
8 1 (0.57%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.11%) QA
2 4 (2.27%) PMO
3 2 (1.14%) SLA
4 1 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.57%) GRC
4 1 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.57%) NIST
4 1 (0.57%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.57%) SOC 2
System Software
1 15 (8.52%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.14%) PowerHA
2 2 (1.14%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (1.14%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (1.14%) vSphere
3 1 (0.57%) Citrix Presentation Server
3 1 (0.57%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.57%) Terminal Services
3 1 (0.57%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 3 (1.70%) Kubernetes
1 3 (1.70%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (1.70%) PaperCut
1 3 (1.70%) SCCM
2 2 (1.14%) Ansible
2 2 (1.14%) Terraform
3 1 (0.57%) OPNET
Vendors
1 23 (13.07%) Microsoft
2 12 (6.82%) Cisco
3 10 (5.68%) Citrix
4 6 (3.41%) VMware
5 5 (2.84%) SAP
6 4 (2.27%) Red Hat
6 4 (2.27%) Veeam
7 3 (1.70%) Arista
7 3 (1.70%) Aruba
7 3 (1.70%) Fortinet
7 3 (1.70%) HP
7 3 (1.70%) Nimble Storage
7 3 (1.70%) Sage
7 3 (1.70%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.70%) WatchGuard
8 2 (1.14%) Bloomberg
8 2 (1.14%) Juniper
8 2 (1.14%) Radianz
8 2 (1.14%) Refinitiv
8 2 (1.14%) Reuters