Infrastructure Operations Engineer Contracts

Infrastructure Operations Engineer
UK

The median Infrastructure Operations Engineer daily rate in the UK is £416 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 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
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 572 687 834
Rank change year-on-year +115 +147 -142
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Operations Engineer 13 6 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.030% 0.010% 0.017%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.033% 0.011% 0.018%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 5 14
10th Percentile - £394 £220
25th Percentile £406 £460 £312
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £416 £500 £430
Median % change year-on-year -16.78% +16.28% -14.85%
75th Percentile £447 £529 £458
90th Percentile £694 £542 £546
UK excluding London median daily rate £416 £480 £375
% change year-on-year -13.31% +28.00% -6.25%

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 39,719 54,978 83,963
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.74% 94.64% 95.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,839 38,395 59,001
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £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 2,655 1,545 2,052
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.25 £15.63
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 £72.74 £76.40 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £19.52
% change year-on-year -5.88% +117.73% +2.74%

Infrastructure Operations Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Operations Engineer in the UK

Infrastructure Operations Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Operations Engineer in the UK

Infrastructure Operations Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Operations Engineer over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Operations Engineer in the UK

Infrastructure Operations Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Operations Engineer in the UK

Infrastructure Operations Engineer
Top 10 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 7 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 +110 12 £411 -14.38% 2
UK excluding London +77 12 £416 -13.31% 2
South East +26 8 £411 -16.08%
Work from Home +129 4 £421 -23.42% 1
Midlands +34 2 - - 1
West Midlands +26 2 - -
North of England +24 1 £675 +58.82% 1
North West +22 1 £675 +58.82%
London - 1 - -
Scotland - 1 £750 -

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

For the 6 months to 7 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 featuring Infrastructure Operations Engineer in the job title.

1 11 (84.62%) Security Cleared
1 11 (84.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 10 (76.92%) SC Cleared
3 9 (69.23%) Active Directory
4 6 (46.15%) Microsoft
5 4 (30.77%) Public Sector
5 4 (30.77%) Process Improvement
5 4 (30.77%) ITIL
5 4 (30.77%) Agile
6 3 (23.08%) VMware
6 3 (23.08%) Windows
6 3 (23.08%) Linux
6 3 (23.08%) SharePoint
6 3 (23.08%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (23.08%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (23.08%) Release Management
6 3 (23.08%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (23.08%) Azure
6 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (23.08%) Virtual Environments
7 2 (15.38%) VSAN
7 2 (15.38%) VMware NSX
7 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (15.38%) Entra ID
7 2 (15.38%) PKI
7 2 (15.38%) Degree
7 2 (15.38%) Hyper-V
7 2 (15.38%) vSphere
7 2 (15.38%) DHCP
7 2 (15.38%) DNS

Infrastructure Operations Engineer 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 3 (23.08%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (23.08%) SharePoint
2 1 (7.69%) Confluence
2 1 (7.69%) SharePoint Server
Cloud Services
1 3 (23.08%) Azure
1 3 (23.08%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (15.38%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) DHCP
1 2 (15.38%) DNS
1 2 (15.38%) VSAN
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) JIRA
General
1 4 (30.77%) Public Sector
2 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) REST
1 1 (7.69%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) PKI
2 1 (7.69%) Data Centre
2 1 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (23.08%) Linux
1 3 (23.08%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (84.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (30.77%) Agile
2 4 (30.77%) ITIL
2 4 (30.77%) Process Improvement
3 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (23.08%) Release Management
3 3 (23.08%) Virtual Environments
4 2 (15.38%) ITSM
4 2 (15.38%) Server Management
5 1 (7.69%) Analytics
5 1 (7.69%) Data Migration
5 1 (7.69%) DevOps
5 1 (7.69%) Identity Access Management
5 1 (7.69%) Incident Management
5 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Management
5 1 (7.69%) Migration
5 1 (7.69%) Network Virtualisation
5 1 (7.69%) Problem Management
5 1 (7.69%) Service Management
5 1 (7.69%) Workflow
Qualifications
1 11 (84.62%) Security Cleared
2 10 (76.92%) SC Cleared
3 2 (15.38%) Degree
3 2 (15.38%) VCAP
3 2 (15.38%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (7.69%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 9 (69.23%) Active Directory
2 3 (23.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (15.38%) Hyper-V
3 2 (15.38%) VMware NSX
3 2 (15.38%) vSphere
4 1 (7.69%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Ansible
1 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (46.15%) Microsoft
2 3 (23.08%) VMware
3 1 (7.69%) Atlassian