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 20 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 418 334 349
Rank change year-on-year -84 +15 +44
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Manager 163 410 692
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.38% 0.72% 0.78%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.41% 0.76% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 284 520
10th Percentile £363 £385 £385
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 £625 £591
90th Percentile £693 £700 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £475 £480
% change year-on-year +15.79% -1.04% +3.78%
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 39,468 54,175 84,246
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.79% 94.61% 95.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,716 37,826 59,224
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +8.47%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.20% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,674 1,504 2,051
10th Percentile £12.83 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.82
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +4.19%

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 20 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 20 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 -59 142 £550 +4.76% 82
UK excluding London -50 75 £550 +15.79% 61
London +1 72 £563 -6.25% 29
Work from Home -17 53 £550 +8.64% 28
North of England -28 19 £425 -15.00% 21
South East +12 18 £600 +31.51% 23
Midlands -5 17 £550 +22.22% 13
South West +9 12 £550 +23.94% 1
West Midlands +2 11 £532 +18.22% 7
North West -6 10 £350 -23.29% 9
Yorkshire -18 8 £425 -22.73% 11
East Midlands +13 6 £638 +24.39% 6
Wales +20 3 £600 +37.14% 1
East of England +7 3 £425 -30.61%
Northern Ireland - 2 - -
Scotland +29 1 £575 +35.29% 2
North East +13 1 - - 1

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

For the 6 months to 20 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 59 (36.20%) Project Management
2 52 (31.90%) Finance
3 46 (28.22%) Social Skills
4 35 (21.47%) Stakeholder Management
5 29 (17.79%) Agile
5 29 (17.79%) Project Delivery
6 28 (17.18%) Windows
7 24 (14.72%) PRINCE2
7 24 (14.72%) Data Centre
8 22 (13.50%) Azure
9 21 (12.88%) Microsoft
10 20 (12.27%) Migration
11 18 (11.04%) Waterfall
12 17 (10.43%) Change Management
13 16 (9.82%) Banking
13 16 (9.82%) Public Sector
14 14 (8.59%) Risk Management
14 14 (8.59%) SharePoint
14 14 (8.59%) Security Cleared
15 12 (7.36%) Problem-Solving
16 11 (6.75%) Microsoft 365
17 10 (6.13%) SC Cleared
17 10 (6.13%) Active Directory
18 9 (5.52%) Citrix
18 9 (5.52%) Cisco
18 9 (5.52%) WAN
18 9 (5.52%) Degree
19 8 (4.91%) Analytical Skills
19 8 (4.91%) QA
19 8 (4.91%) LAN

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 (8.59%) SharePoint
2 6 (3.68%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.84%) Confluence
4 2 (1.23%) OpenStack
Applications
1 5 (3.07%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (3.07%) Microsoft Office
1 5 (3.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 5 (3.07%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (1.84%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.61%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 22 (13.50%) Azure
2 11 (6.75%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (1.84%) Entra ID
3 3 (1.84%) SaaS
4 2 (1.23%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (1.23%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (1.23%) Amazon S3
4 2 (1.23%) AWS
4 2 (1.23%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (1.23%) CloudFront
4 2 (1.23%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (0.61%) OneDrive
5 1 (0.61%) Power Automate
5 1 (0.61%) Power Platform
5 1 (0.61%) PowerApps
5 1 (0.61%) ShareGate
5 1 (0.61%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 9 (5.52%) WAN
2 8 (4.91%) Firewall
2 8 (4.91%) LAN
3 6 (3.68%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (1.84%) VPN
5 2 (1.23%) SD-WAN
5 2 (1.23%) Structured Cabling
5 2 (1.23%) VoIP
6 1 (0.61%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (0.61%) MPLS
6 1 (0.61%) Network Security
6 1 (0.61%) SAN
6 1 (0.61%) Skype
6 1 (0.61%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.61%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.61%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.23%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (1.23%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (0.61%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (0.61%) Power BI
2 1 (0.61%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (3.68%) JIRA
General
1 52 (31.90%) Finance
2 46 (28.22%) Social Skills
3 16 (9.82%) Banking
3 16 (9.82%) Public Sector
4 8 (4.91%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (4.91%) Telecoms
5 6 (3.68%) Manufacturing
6 5 (3.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.45%) Marketing
7 4 (2.45%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.84%) Electronics
8 3 (1.84%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.84%) Law
8 3 (1.84%) Legal
8 3 (1.84%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (1.84%) Retail
9 2 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.23%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.61%) Front Office
10 1 (0.61%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.23%) LDAP
1 2 (1.23%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (0.61%) Middleware
2 1 (0.61%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 24 (14.72%) Data Centre
2 5 (3.07%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (1.84%) PMI
4 2 (1.23%) HACMP
4 2 (1.23%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.23%) NHS
4 2 (1.23%) Video Conferencing
5 1 (0.61%) BYOD
5 1 (0.61%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.61%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.61%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.61%) Mainframe
5 1 (0.61%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.61%) PKI
5 1 (0.61%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.61%) Replication
5 1 (0.61%) Security Posture
5 1 (0.61%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 1 (0.61%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 28 (17.18%) Windows
2 5 (3.07%) Unix
2 5 (3.07%) Windows 10
3 4 (2.45%) AIX
3 4 (2.45%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.84%) Linux
4 3 (1.84%) Windows 7
5 2 (1.23%) VMS
5 2 (1.23%) Windows 2000
5 2 (1.23%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (1.23%) Windows XP
6 1 (0.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.61%) Windows 8
6 1 (0.61%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (36.20%) Project Management
2 35 (21.47%) Stakeholder Management
3 29 (17.79%) Agile
3 29 (17.79%) Project Delivery
4 24 (14.72%) PRINCE2
5 20 (12.27%) Migration
6 18 (11.04%) Waterfall
7 17 (10.43%) Change Management
8 14 (8.59%) Risk Management
9 12 (7.36%) Problem-Solving
10 8 (4.91%) Scrum
11 7 (4.29%) Budget Management
11 7 (4.29%) ITIL
11 7 (4.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 6 (3.68%) Acceptance Criteria
12 6 (3.68%) Change Control
12 6 (3.68%) Cybersecurity
12 6 (3.68%) Decision-Making
12 6 (3.68%) Line Management
13 5 (3.07%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 2 (1.23%) PowerShell
1 2 (1.23%) R
1 2 (1.23%) Shell Script
1 2 (1.23%) SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (8.59%) Security Cleared
2 10 (6.13%) SC Cleared
3 9 (5.52%) Degree
4 7 (4.29%) PMP
5 6 (3.68%) PMI Certification
6 4 (2.45%) DV Cleared
6 4 (2.45%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 3 (1.84%) CCNA
7 3 (1.84%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.84%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 2 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.23%) Six Sigma Black Belt
8 2 (1.23%) Six Sigma Green Belt
9 1 (0.61%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.91%) QA
2 4 (2.45%) PMO
3 2 (1.23%) SLA
4 1 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.61%) GRC
4 1 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.61%) NIST
4 1 (0.61%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.61%) SEPA
4 1 (0.61%) SOC 2
System Software
1 10 (6.13%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.84%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.23%) Hyper-V
3 2 (1.23%) PowerHA
3 2 (1.23%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.61%) Terminal Services
4 1 (0.61%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.61%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (1.84%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.23%) Ansible
2 2 (1.23%) Terraform
3 1 (0.61%) OPNET
3 1 (0.61%) SCOM
3 1 (0.61%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 21 (12.88%) Microsoft
2 9 (5.52%) Cisco
2 9 (5.52%) Citrix
3 4 (2.45%) SAP
3 4 (2.45%) VMware
4 3 (1.84%) Arista
4 3 (1.84%) Fortinet
5 2 (1.23%) Bloomberg
5 2 (1.23%) BT
5 2 (1.23%) IBM
5 2 (1.23%) Juniper
5 2 (1.23%) Radianz
5 2 (1.23%) Refinitiv
5 2 (1.23%) Reuters
5 2 (1.23%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.61%) BMC
6 1 (0.61%) CheckPoint
6 1 (0.61%) Cognizant
6 1 (0.61%) Nokia
6 1 (0.61%) Red Hat