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 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 403 336 341
Rank change year-on-year -67 +5 +67
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Manager 173 400 693
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.40% 0.71% 0.79%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.43% 0.75% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 273 521
10th Percentile £363 £385 £390
25th Percentile £450 £445 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +2.44% +11.41%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £600
90th Percentile £700 £700 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 3
10th Percentile - £63.90 £44.46
25th Percentile - - £45.46
Median hourly rate - £65.00 £47.11
Median % change year-on-year - +37.97% +78.24%
75th Percentile - £65.75 £47.94
90th Percentile - £66.15 £48.43
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 39,969 53,015 83,520
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.83% 94.58% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,870 37,031 58,844
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +10.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,841 1,476 1,963
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +83.67% +12.28%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.75 £49.33
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.13 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

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 1 June 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 1 June 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 -75 151 £550 +4.76% 65
UK excluding London -46 85 £550 +15.79% 46
London -1 71 £563 -6.25% 21
Work from Home -9 57 £550 +6.54% 31
South East +1 24 £563 +20.00% 9
North of England -29 20 £425 -15.00% 19
Midlands +3 17 £550 +15.79% 10
South West +7 13 £538 +10.26% 4
North West 0 10 £350 -22.22% 7
West Midlands -2 10 £550 +22.22% 6
Yorkshire -12 9 £488 -11.36% 12
East Midlands +8 7 £625 +19.05% 4
East of England +4 5 £300 -58.62% 3
Wales +18 3 £600 +37.14% 1
Northern Ireland - 2 - -
Scotland +27 1 £575 +39.39% 1
North East +12 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 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 63 (36.42%) Project Management
2 57 (32.95%) Finance
3 51 (29.48%) Social Skills
4 36 (20.81%) Stakeholder Management
5 33 (19.08%) Agile
5 33 (19.08%) Project Delivery
6 28 (16.18%) Windows
7 27 (15.61%) PRINCE2
8 25 (14.45%) Data Centre
9 23 (13.29%) Azure
10 21 (12.14%) Microsoft
11 19 (10.98%) Migration
11 19 (10.98%) Waterfall
12 18 (10.40%) Banking
12 18 (10.40%) Public Sector
13 17 (9.83%) Change Management
14 16 (9.25%) Problem-Solving
15 15 (8.67%) Analytical Skills
15 15 (8.67%) SharePoint
15 15 (8.67%) Security Cleared
16 14 (8.09%) Risk Management
17 12 (6.94%) Microsoft 365
18 11 (6.36%) SC Cleared
18 11 (6.36%) QA
18 11 (6.36%) Degree
18 11 (6.36%) Cisco
18 11 (6.36%) Active Directory
19 10 (5.78%) Citrix
19 10 (5.78%) WAN
19 10 (5.78%) Firewall

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 15 (8.67%) SharePoint
2 6 (3.47%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.73%) Confluence
4 2 (1.16%) OpenStack
Applications
1 7 (4.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (3.47%) Microsoft Project
3 5 (2.89%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.73%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.58%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 23 (13.29%) Azure
2 12 (6.94%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (2.31%) Entra ID
4 3 (1.73%) AWS
4 3 (1.73%) SaaS
5 2 (1.16%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (1.16%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (1.16%) Amazon S3
5 2 (1.16%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (1.16%) CloudFront
5 2 (1.16%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (0.58%) OneDrive
6 1 (0.58%) Power Automate
6 1 (0.58%) Power Platform
6 1 (0.58%) PowerApps
6 1 (0.58%) ShareGate
6 1 (0.58%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.78%) Firewall
1 10 (5.78%) WAN
2 7 (4.05%) LAN
3 5 (2.89%) VPN
3 5 (2.89%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (1.73%) Extranet
5 2 (1.16%) Intranet
5 2 (1.16%) SAN
5 2 (1.16%) SD-WAN
5 2 (1.16%) Structured Cabling
5 2 (1.16%) VoIP
6 1 (0.58%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (0.58%) DHCP
6 1 (0.58%) DNS
6 1 (0.58%) MPLS
6 1 (0.58%) Network Security
6 1 (0.58%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.58%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.58%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.16%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (1.16%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (0.58%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (0.58%) Power BI
2 1 (0.58%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (3.47%) JIRA
General
1 57 (32.95%) Finance
2 51 (29.48%) Social Skills
3 18 (10.40%) Banking
3 18 (10.40%) Public Sector
4 15 (8.67%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (5.20%) Manufacturing
5 9 (5.20%) Telecoms
6 5 (2.89%) Retail
7 4 (2.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.31%) Marketing
7 4 (2.31%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.73%) Electronics
8 3 (1.73%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.73%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.73%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.16%) Law
9 2 (1.16%) Legal
9 2 (1.16%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.58%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.16%) LDAP
1 2 (1.16%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (0.58%) Middleware
2 1 (0.58%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 25 (14.45%) Data Centre
2 5 (2.89%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (1.73%) Management Information System
3 3 (1.73%) PMI
4 2 (1.16%) HACMP
4 2 (1.16%) NHS
4 2 (1.16%) Video Conferencing
5 1 (0.58%) BYOD
5 1 (0.58%) CMDB
5 1 (0.58%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.58%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.58%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.58%) Mainframe
5 1 (0.58%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.58%) PKI
5 1 (0.58%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.58%) Replication
5 1 (0.58%) Security Posture
5 1 (0.58%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 1 (0.58%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 28 (16.18%) Windows
2 5 (2.89%) Windows 10
2 5 (2.89%) Windows Server
3 4 (2.31%) AIX
3 4 (2.31%) Unix
4 3 (1.73%) Linux
4 3 (1.73%) Windows 7
5 2 (1.16%) VMS
5 2 (1.16%) Windows 2000
5 2 (1.16%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (1.16%) Windows XP
6 1 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.58%) Windows 8
6 1 (0.58%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (36.42%) Project Management
2 36 (20.81%) Stakeholder Management
3 33 (19.08%) Agile
3 33 (19.08%) Project Delivery
4 27 (15.61%) PRINCE2
5 19 (10.98%) Migration
5 19 (10.98%) Waterfall
6 17 (9.83%) Change Management
7 16 (9.25%) Problem-Solving
8 14 (8.09%) Risk Management
9 9 (5.20%) Budget Management
9 9 (5.20%) Line Management
10 8 (4.62%) Change Control
10 8 (4.62%) Cybersecurity
10 8 (4.62%) Disaster Recovery
10 8 (4.62%) ITIL
10 8 (4.62%) Scrum
10 8 (4.62%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 6 (3.47%) Acceptance Criteria
11 6 (3.47%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 2 (1.16%) PowerShell
1 2 (1.16%) R
1 2 (1.16%) Shell Script
1 2 (1.16%) SQL
2 1 (0.58%) Python
Qualifications
1 15 (8.67%) Security Cleared
2 11 (6.36%) Degree
2 11 (6.36%) SC Cleared
3 8 (4.62%) PMP
4 6 (3.47%) PMI Certification
5 4 (2.31%) DV Cleared
5 4 (2.31%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 3 (1.73%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.73%) CCNA
6 3 (1.73%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (1.73%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 2 (1.16%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.16%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (1.16%) Six Sigma Black Belt
7 2 (1.16%) Six Sigma Green Belt
8 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.36%) QA
2 6 (3.47%) PMO
3 2 (1.16%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (1.16%) SLA
4 1 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.58%) GDPR
4 1 (0.58%) GRC
4 1 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.58%) NIST
4 1 (0.58%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.58%) SEPA
4 1 (0.58%) SOC 2
System Software
1 11 (6.36%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.73%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (1.16%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.16%) PowerHA
5 1 (0.58%) Terminal Services
5 1 (0.58%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.58%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (1.73%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.16%) Ansible
2 2 (1.16%) SCOM
2 2 (1.16%) Terraform
3 1 (0.58%) OPNET
3 1 (0.58%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 21 (12.14%) Microsoft
2 11 (6.36%) Cisco
3 10 (5.78%) Citrix
4 5 (2.89%) VMware
5 4 (2.31%) SAP
6 3 (1.73%) Arista
6 3 (1.73%) Fortinet
7 2 (1.16%) Bloomberg
7 2 (1.16%) BT
7 2 (1.16%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.16%) IBM
7 2 (1.16%) Juniper
7 2 (1.16%) Palo Alto
7 2 (1.16%) Radianz
7 2 (1.16%) Refinitiv
7 2 (1.16%) Reuters
7 2 (1.16%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.16%) Splunk
8 1 (0.58%) BMC
8 1 (0.58%) Cognizant