Infrastructure Operations Manager Contract Job Trends

Infrastructure Operations Manager
UK

The median Infrastructure Operations Manager daily rate in the UK is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025.

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

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 586 542 600
Rank change year-on-year -44 +58 +190
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Operations Manager 9 2 5
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.025% 0.006% 0.011%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.027% 0.006% 0.012%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 4
10th Percentile £518 - £415
25th Percentile £534 - £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +52.17%
75th Percentile £688 - £550
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 - £550
% change year-on-year - - +60.58%

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 33,289 31,718 41,239
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.98% 92.78% 93.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,068 19,534 27,738
10th Percentile £290 £300 £288
25th Percentile £404 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £618 £638 £644
90th Percentile £720 £738 £740
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £489 £500
% change year-on-year -2.86% -2.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,959 999 1,468
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.52 £15.14
25th Percentile £18.19 £21.22 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.47 £34.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.09% -23.60% +48.33%
75th Percentile £57.50 £62.84 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.46 £72.55 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -22.62% -27.78% +80.76%

Infrastructure Operations Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Infrastructure Operations Manager job vacancy trend in the UK

Infrastructure Operations Manager
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Infrastructure Operations Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Operations Manager over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Operations Manager in the UK

Infrastructure Operations Manager
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

Infrastructure Operations Manager
Top 7 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 Manager within the UK over the 6 months to 18 December 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
England -31 9 £550 - 1
London - 6 £675 -
UK excluding London -47 3 £550 - 1
South East -20 2 £550 -
Work from Home -11 1 £550 -
West Midlands - 1 £550 -
Midlands - 1 £550 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 18 December 2025, Infrastructure Operations Manager 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 Manager in the job title.

1 5 (55.56%) Azure
2 4 (44.44%) SAN
2 4 (44.44%) SCCM
2 4 (44.44%) VMware
3 3 (33.33%) Ansible
3 3 (33.33%) BMC
3 3 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
3 3 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (33.33%) Customer-Centricity
3 3 (33.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 3 (33.33%) Hyper-V
3 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 3 (33.33%) NAS
3 3 (33.33%) Project Delivery
3 3 (33.33%) SCOM
3 3 (33.33%) SQL Server
4 2 (22.22%) Active Directory
4 2 (22.22%) FinOps
4 2 (22.22%) Firewall
4 2 (22.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (22.22%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 2 (22.22%) ITIL
4 2 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (22.22%) Service Management
4 2 (22.22%) WAN
5 1 (11.11%) Agile
5 1 (11.11%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (11.11%) Cost Management
5 1 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (11.11%) EDI

Infrastructure Operations Manager 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 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) Azure
2 2 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (11.11%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 1 (11.11%) Entra ID
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 4 (44.44%) SAN
2 3 (33.33%) NAS
3 2 (22.22%) Firewall
3 2 (22.22%) WAN
4 1 (11.11%) LAN
4 1 (11.11%) MPLS
4 1 (11.11%) Network Security
4 1 (11.11%) SD-WAN
4 1 (11.11%) VPN
4 1 (11.11%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) EDI
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
1 1 (11.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
1 3 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (33.33%) Customer-Centricity
1 3 (33.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 3 (33.33%) Project Delivery
2 2 (22.22%) FinOps
2 2 (22.22%) ITIL
2 2 (22.22%) Service Management
3 1 (11.11%) Agile
3 1 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (11.11%) Email Filtering
3 1 (11.11%) Information Security
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (11.11%) Kalman Filter
3 1 (11.11%) Malware Detection/Protection
3 1 (11.11%) PRINCE2
3 1 (11.11%) Project Management
3 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (11.11%) Vulnerability Management
3 1 (11.11%) Web Filtering
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (22.22%) ISO/IEC 42001
2 1 (11.11%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) Hyper-V
2 2 (22.22%) Active Directory
3 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) SCCM
2 3 (33.33%) Ansible
2 3 (33.33%) SCOM
3 1 (11.11%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) VMware
2 3 (33.33%) BMC
2 3 (33.33%) Microsoft