Infrastructure Operations Engineer Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Operations Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Infrastructure Operations Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 27 May 2026.

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

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 438 333 370
Rank change year-on-year -105 +37 +68
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Operations Engineer 9 2 12
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.036% 0.016% 0.059%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.039% 0.017% 0.063%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 10
10th Percentile £503 - -
25th Percentile £507 - £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £416
Median % change year-on-year - - -13.31%
75th Percentile - - £447
90th Percentile - - £694
UK median daily rate £568 - £416
% change year-on-year - - -13.31%

All Contract IT Job Roles
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 22,854 11,643 18,931
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.91% 91.73% 92.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,182 7,463 11,518
10th Percentile £300 £213 £213
25th Percentile £402 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -2.56% -2.50%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £594
90th Percentile £684 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £513 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +0.49% -2.86% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,620 816 2,343
10th Percentile £14.64 £13.77 £12.50
25th Percentile £19.91 £16.95 £15.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +70.97% -37.13% -5.88%
75th Percentile £67.25 £62.50 £61.60
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £27.53 £36.50
% change year-on-year +54.38% -24.58% -18.89%

Infrastructure Operations Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Infrastructure Operations Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Operations Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Infrastructure Operations Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Infrastructure Operations Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Infrastructure Operations Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Operations Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 27 May 2026. 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 -52 7 £600 - 2
South West -29 2 - - 1
Infrastructure Operations Engineer
UK

Infrastructure Operations Engineer Skill Set
Top 27 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 27 May 2026, 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 UK excluding London region featuring Infrastructure Operations Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (44.44%) Citrix
2 4 (44.44%) High Availability
2 4 (44.44%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (22.22%) AWS
3 2 (22.22%) Configuration Management
3 2 (22.22%) DevOps
3 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Automation
3 2 (22.22%) Linux
3 2 (22.22%) Vulnerability Management
3 2 (22.22%) Vulnerability Remediation
3 2 (22.22%) Vulnerability Scanning
4 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
4 1 (11.11%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (11.11%) CCA
4 1 (11.11%) CESG Certified Professional
4 1 (11.11%) Citrix Certification
4 1 (11.11%) Data Protection
4 1 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (11.11%) DV Cleared
4 1 (11.11%) NCDA
4 1 (11.11%) NetApp
4 1 (11.11%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
4 1 (11.11%) User Experience
4 1 (11.11%) Veeam
4 1 (11.11%) Virtual Desktop

Infrastructure Operations Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) AWS
General
1 2 (22.22%) Documentation Skills
1 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Storage
1 1 (11.11%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (44.44%) High Availability
2 4 (44.44%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (22.22%) Configuration Management
3 2 (22.22%) DevOps
3 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Automation
3 2 (22.22%) Vulnerability Management
3 2 (22.22%) Vulnerability Remediation
3 2 (22.22%) Vulnerability Scanning
4 1 (11.11%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (11.11%) Data Protection
4 1 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (11.11%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (11.11%) User Experience
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) CCA
1 1 (11.11%) CESG Certified Professional
1 1 (11.11%) Citrix Certification
1 1 (11.11%) DV Cleared
1 1 (11.11%) NCDA
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
1 1 (11.11%) Virtual Desktop
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Citrix
2 1 (11.11%) NetApp
2 1 (11.11%) Veeam