Infrastructure Operations Engineer Contract Job Trends

Infrastructure Operations Engineer
UK

The median Infrastructure Operations Engineer daily rate in the UK 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 562 540 622
Rank change year-on-year -22 +82 +176
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Operations Engineer 4 9 9
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.011% 0.025% 0.019%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.013% 0.027% 0.020%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 7 7
10th Percentile £513 £440 £413
25th Percentile £518 £454 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £475 £530
Median % change year-on-year +12.11% -10.38% +9.28%
75th Percentile £543 £565 £571
90th Percentile £546 £661 £643
UK excluding London median daily rate - £471 £461
% change year-on-year - +2.07% -2.91%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 31,731 33,449 44,055
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.90% 92.85% 93.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,141 20,162 29,928
10th Percentile £278 £300 £294
25th Percentile £402 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,818 1,246 1,550
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.10 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.69 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +63.30%
75th Percentile £51.52 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.65 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +90.25%

Infrastructure Operations Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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.

Infrastructure Operations Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK

Infrastructure Operations Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Infrastructure Operations Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

Infrastructure Operations Engineer
Top 5 Contract Job 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 11 November 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +2 2 £533 +12.11% 2
England -36 2 £533 +12.11% 3
Work from Home +6 1 - -
UK excluding London -52 1 - - 3
Wales - 1 - -

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

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 featuring Infrastructure Operations Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (50.00%) Task Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Accessibility
3 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (25.00%) Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Android
3 1 (25.00%) ARM Templates
3 1 (25.00%) AWS
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (25.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (25.00%) Bash
3 1 (25.00%) Bloomberg
3 1 (25.00%) Business Continuity
3 1 (25.00%) CentOS
3 1 (25.00%) Change Management
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (25.00%) Data Loss Prevention
3 1 (25.00%) Degree
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) DHCP
3 1 (25.00%) DKIM
3 1 (25.00%) DMARC
3 1 (25.00%) DNS

Infrastructure Operations Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (25.00%) Nutanix
2 1 (25.00%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco IOS
1 1 (25.00%) DHCP
1 1 (25.00%) DKIM
1 1 (25.00%) DMARC
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) VPN
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (25.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) ARM Templates
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Eurex
1 1 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (25.00%) Operational Technology
1 1 (25.00%) PKI
1 1 (25.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Android
1 1 (25.00%) CentOS
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) VMS
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Task Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Business Continuity
3 1 (25.00%) Change Management
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (25.00%) Identity Management
3 1 (25.00%) ITIL
3 1 (25.00%) Log Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Network Virtualisation
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (25.00%) Problem Management
3 1 (25.00%) RBAC
3 1 (25.00%) Resource Management
3 1 (25.00%) Runbook
3 1 (25.00%) Service Management
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (25.00%) Tech Ops
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (25.00%) Bash
2 1 (25.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (25.00%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (25.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Bloomberg
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco
1 1 (25.00%) LogicMonitor
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (25.00%) SolarWinds
1 1 (25.00%) VMware