IT Infrastructure Manager Contracts

IT Infrastructure Manager
UK

The median IT Infrastructure Manager daily rate in the UK is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 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
3 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 556 614 731
Rank change year-on-year +58 +117 -64
Contract jobs requiring an IT Infrastructure Manager 31 75 120
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.072% 0.13% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.078% 0.14% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 59 103
10th Percentile £408 £400 £389
25th Percentile £500 £450 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% +14.55%
75th Percentile £603 £650 £625
90th Percentile £658 £738 £658
UK excluding London median daily rate £561 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +6.90% +5.00% +12.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £45.87
25th Percentile - - £48.98
Median hourly rate - - £54.15
75th Percentile - - £59.33
90th Percentile - - £62.43
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £64.50

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 39,794 53,311 84,183
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.84% 94.58% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,730 37,248 59,348
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.64%
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% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,844 1,473 1,970
10th Percentile £12.83 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.46
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +83.97% +12.51%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.75 £49.37
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.45 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +6.20%

IT Infrastructure Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Infrastructure Manager in the UK

IT Infrastructure Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for IT Infrastructure Manager in the UK

IT Infrastructure Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IT Infrastructure Manager over the 6 months to 3 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for IT Infrastructure Manager in the UK

IT Infrastructure Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for IT Infrastructure Manager in the UK

IT Infrastructure Manager
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IT Infrastructure Manager within the UK over the 6 months to 3 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 +56 29 £550 - 20
London +86 15 £550 -8.33% 3
UK excluding London +25 15 £561 +6.90% 17
Work from Home +90 10 £550 +2.33% 4
South East +18 9 £544 +14.47% 5
North of England +11 3 £565 +2.73% 7
Midlands +20 2 £619 +65.00% 3
North West +9 2 £565 +13.00% 2
West Midlands +12 1 £738 +78.79% 1
East Midlands +10 1 £500 +37.93% 2
Yorkshire 0 1 - - 5
Wales - 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 3 June 2024, IT 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 IT Infrastructure Manager in the job title.

1 17 (54.84%) Finance
2 11 (35.48%) Project Management
3 9 (29.03%) Stakeholder Management
3 9 (29.03%) Banking
4 6 (19.35%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (19.35%) Agile
4 6 (19.35%) PRINCE2
5 5 (16.13%) Data Centre
5 5 (16.13%) Social Skills
6 4 (12.90%) Customer Experience
6 4 (12.90%) Project Delivery
6 4 (12.90%) QA
6 4 (12.90%) Azure
6 4 (12.90%) Migration
6 4 (12.90%) Windows
6 4 (12.90%) SharePoint
6 4 (12.90%) Cisco
6 4 (12.90%) Microsoft
7 3 (9.68%) PMP
7 3 (9.68%) Microsoft Excel
7 3 (9.68%) ITIL
7 3 (9.68%) Quality Management
7 3 (9.68%) Balanced Scorecard
7 3 (9.68%) Retail
7 3 (9.68%) Degree
7 3 (9.68%) Line Management
7 3 (9.68%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (9.68%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (9.68%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (9.68%) Scorecard

IT 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 4 (12.90%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.23%) Confluence
2 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (9.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (6.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (3.23%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 4 (12.90%) Azure
2 3 (9.68%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (3.23%) AWS
3 1 (3.23%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (3.23%) Entra ID
3 1 (3.23%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.45%) WAN
2 1 (3.23%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (3.23%) DHCP
2 1 (3.23%) DNS
2 1 (3.23%) Firewall
2 1 (3.23%) LAN
2 1 (3.23%) SAN
2 1 (3.23%) Unified Communications
2 1 (3.23%) VLAN
2 1 (3.23%) VoIP
2 1 (3.23%) VPN
2 1 (3.23%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.23%) SQL Server
General
1 17 (54.84%) Finance
2 9 (29.03%) Banking
3 6 (19.35%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (16.13%) Social Skills
5 3 (9.68%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (9.68%) Retail
6 2 (6.45%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (6.45%) Public Sector
6 2 (6.45%) Telecoms
7 1 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (3.23%) Investment Banking
7 1 (3.23%) Law
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.13%) Data Centre
2 1 (3.23%) CMDB
2 1 (3.23%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.23%) NHS
2 1 (3.23%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 4 (12.90%) Windows
2 3 (9.68%) Windows Server
3 1 (3.23%) Windows 10
3 1 (3.23%) Windows 7
3 1 (3.23%) Windows 8
3 1 (3.23%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (3.23%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (35.48%) Project Management
2 9 (29.03%) Stakeholder Management
3 6 (19.35%) Agile
3 6 (19.35%) PRINCE2
4 4 (12.90%) Customer Experience
4 4 (12.90%) Migration
4 4 (12.90%) Project Delivery
5 3 (9.68%) Balanced Scorecard
5 3 (9.68%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (9.68%) ITIL
5 3 (9.68%) Line Management
5 3 (9.68%) Quality Management
5 3 (9.68%) Scorecard
6 2 (6.45%) Asset Management
6 2 (6.45%) Change Control
6 2 (6.45%) Investment Management
6 2 (6.45%) Performance Management
6 2 (6.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 2 (6.45%) Supplier Management
6 2 (6.45%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.23%) Python
1 1 (3.23%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (9.68%) Degree
1 3 (9.68%) PMP
2 1 (3.23%) CCNA
2 1 (3.23%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (3.23%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (3.23%) PMI Certification
2 1 (3.23%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.90%) QA
2 2 (6.45%) PMO
3 1 (3.23%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (3.23%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (6.45%) Active Directory
1 2 (6.45%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (3.23%) Hyper-V
2 1 (3.23%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 1 (3.23%) SCOM
Vendors
1 4 (12.90%) Cisco
1 4 (12.90%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.45%) Citrix
2 2 (6.45%) Dynatrace
2 2 (6.45%) Splunk
2 2 (6.45%) VMware
3 1 (3.23%) Arista
3 1 (3.23%) Bloomberg
3 1 (3.23%) BT
3 1 (3.23%) Radianz
3 1 (3.23%) Refinitiv
3 1 (3.23%) Reuters
3 1 (3.23%) ServiceNow
3 1 (3.23%) SolarWinds