Infrastructure Operations Engineer Contract Job Trends in London

Infrastructure Operations Engineer
England > London

The median Infrastructure Operations Engineer daily rate in London is £533, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 11 November 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 379 381 417
Rank change year-on-year +2 +36 +165
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Operations Engineer 2 1 4
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.014% 0.006% 0.020%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.016% 0.007% 0.021%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £513 - £545
25th Percentile £518 £463 £578
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £475 £645
Median % change year-on-year +12.11% -26.36% -35.50%
75th Percentile £543 £488 £701
90th Percentile £546 - £727
England median daily rate £533 £475 £530
% change year-on-year +12.11% -10.38% +11.58%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 12,819 14,481 19,056
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.48% 93.94% 93.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,517 9,361 13,829
10th Percentile £333 £338 £344
25th Percentile £425 £450 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £550 £571
Median % change year-on-year -1.27% -3.67% -0.70%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £793
England median daily rate £510 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -2.86% -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 232 151 227
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.25 £18.26
25th Percentile £21.87 £24.15 £21.75
Median hourly rate £26.68 £37.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.87% - +19.05%
75th Percentile £47.63 £58.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £69.94 £80.75 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -37.13% -11.11% +53.19%

Infrastructure Operations Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Infrastructure Operations Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Infrastructure Operations Engineer job vacancy trend in London

Infrastructure Operations Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Infrastructure Operations Engineer job vacancies in London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Infrastructure Operations Engineer job vacancies in London

Infrastructure Operations Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 11 November 2025, Infrastructure Operations Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Infrastructure Operations Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (100.00%) Task Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Android
2 1 (50.00%) ARM Templates
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (50.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (50.00%) Bash
2 1 (50.00%) Change Management
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Data Loss Prevention
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) DHCP
2 1 (50.00%) DKIM
2 1 (50.00%) DMARC
2 1 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) HMG Security Policy Framework
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Access Management

Infrastructure Operations Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (50.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (50.00%) Nutanix
2 1 (50.00%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco IOS
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) DKIM
1 1 (50.00%) DMARC
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) VPN
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) ARM Templates
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (50.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Android
1 1 (50.00%) VMS
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Task Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Change Management
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Data Loss Prevention
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Management
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Log Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 1 (50.00%) Privileged Identity Management
2 1 (50.00%) Proactive Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Problem Management
2 1 (50.00%) RBAC
2 1 (50.00%) Resource Management
2 1 (50.00%) Runbook
2 1 (50.00%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (50.00%) Bash
2 1 (50.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (50.00%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (50.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) LogicMonitor
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) SolarWinds
1 1 (50.00%) VMware