Infrastructure Operations Engineer Contracts in England

Infrastructure Operations Engineer
UK > England

The median Infrastructure Operations Engineer daily rate in England is £411 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 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
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 537 641 768
Rank change year-on-year +104 +127 -146
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Operations Engineer 12 5 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.033% 0.010% 0.016%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.035% 0.011% 0.016%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 4 10
10th Percentile - £383 £310
25th Percentile £406 £433 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £411 £480 £440
Median % change year-on-year -14.38% +9.09% -5.88%
75th Percentile £447 £507 £458
90th Percentile £495 £520 £550
UK median daily rate £416 £500 £430
% change year-on-year -16.78% +16.28% -14.85%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 34,080 46,338 66,904
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.71% 94.61% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,599 32,894 47,614
10th Percentile £281 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £645 £663 £644
90th Percentile £750 £760 £740
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,444 1,371 1,856
10th Percentile £12.87 £14.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.96 £15.50
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +95.65% +4.55%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.30 £48.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £64.88
UK median hourly rate £37.34 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -17.02% +88.21% +6.27%

Infrastructure Operations Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Operations Engineer in England

Infrastructure Operations Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Operations Engineer in England.

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Operations Engineer in England

Infrastructure Operations Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Operations Engineer in England over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Operations Engineer in England

Infrastructure Operations Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Operations Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 10 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
South East +27 8 £411 -16.08%
Midlands +27 2 - - 1
West Midlands +19 2 - -
North of England +33 1 £675 +58.82%
North West +22 1 £675 +58.82%
London - 1 - -
Infrastructure Operations Engineer
UK

Infrastructure Operations Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 10 May 2024, Infrastructure Operations Engineer 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 across the England region featuring Infrastructure Operations Engineer in the job title.

1 11 (91.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 10 (83.33%) Security Cleared
3 9 (75.00%) SC Cleared
3 9 (75.00%) Active Directory
4 6 (50.00%) Microsoft
5 4 (33.33%) Agile
5 4 (33.33%) ITIL
5 4 (33.33%) Process Improvement
6 3 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (25.00%) Release Management
6 3 (25.00%) Windows
6 3 (25.00%) SharePoint
6 3 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (25.00%) VMware
6 3 (25.00%) Azure
6 3 (25.00%) Virtual Environments
6 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (25.00%) Public Sector
7 2 (16.67%) Server Management
7 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (16.67%) Entra ID
7 2 (16.67%) VSAN
7 2 (16.67%) VMware NSX
7 2 (16.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 2 (16.67%) PKI
7 2 (16.67%) DHCP
7 2 (16.67%) DNS
7 2 (16.67%) Linux
7 2 (16.67%) ITSM

Infrastructure Operations Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 3 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (25.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (8.33%) SharePoint Server
Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) Azure
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (16.67%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) DHCP
1 2 (16.67%) DNS
1 2 (16.67%) VSAN
General
1 3 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) PKI
2 1 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (25.00%) Windows
2 2 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (91.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (33.33%) Agile
2 4 (33.33%) ITIL
2 4 (33.33%) Process Improvement
3 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (25.00%) Release Management
3 3 (25.00%) Virtual Environments
4 2 (16.67%) ITSM
4 2 (16.67%) Server Management
5 1 (8.33%) CI/CD
5 1 (8.33%) Critical Thinking
5 1 (8.33%) DevOps
5 1 (8.33%) Identity Access Management
5 1 (8.33%) Incident Management
5 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Management
5 1 (8.33%) Mentoring
5 1 (8.33%) Network Virtualisation
5 1 (8.33%) Problem Management
Qualifications
1 10 (83.33%) Security Cleared
2 9 (75.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (16.67%) Degree
3 2 (16.67%) VCAP
3 2 (16.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (8.33%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 9 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (16.67%) Hyper-V
3 2 (16.67%) VMware NSX
3 2 (16.67%) vSphere
4 1 (8.33%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Ansible
1 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (25.00%) VMware