Infrastructure Operations Manager Contracts in the South East

Infrastructure Operations Manager
England > South East

The median Infrastructure Operations Manager daily rate in the South East is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 26 August 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 164 182 207
Rank change year-on-year +18 +25 +73
DemandTrendContract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Operations Manager 2 5 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.057% 0.10% 0.018%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.063% 0.11% 0.019%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £538 - £700
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £750
Median % change year-on-year - - +120.59%
75th Percentile £563 - £800
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £550 £375 £600
% change year-on-year +46.67% -37.50% +20.60%

All DemandTrendContract IT Job Vacancies
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the South East. 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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies in the South East with a recognized job title 3,182 4,401 5,326
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.22% 92.24% 95.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,049 2,662 3,652
10th Percentile £205 £250 £213
25th Percentile £375 £400 £379
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £631 £613
90th Percentile £675 £688 £700
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 291 363 232
10th Percentile £13.75 £16.00 £16.00
25th Percentile £15.50 £27.25 £19.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £57.35 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -56.15% +14.70% +122.22%
75th Percentile £57.50 £74.31 £65.44
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £43.86
% change year-on-year -44.11% +2.60% +68.69%

Infrastructure Operations Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Operations Manager in the South East

Infrastructure Operations Manager
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Infrastructure Operations Manager job vacancies in the South East.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Infrastructure Operations Manager job vacancies in the South East

Infrastructure Operations Manager
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Operations Manager within the South East region over the 6 months to 26 August 2025. 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Kent - 2 £550 - 1
Infrastructure Operations Manager
England

Infrastructure Operations Manager Skill Set
Top 11 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 26 August 2025, Infrastructure Operations 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 across the South East region featuring Infrastructure Operations Manager in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) SAN
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
1 2 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 2 (100.00%) NAS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 2 (100.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 2 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills

Infrastructure Operations Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) NAS
1 2 (100.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 2 (100.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 2 (100.00%) Project Delivery
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) VMware