Infrastructure Operations Engineer Contracts 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 £416 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 22 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
22 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 379 439 496
Rank change year-on-year +60 +57 -55
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Operations Engineer 12 5 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.059% 0.022% 0.020%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.064% 0.023% 0.021%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 4 5
10th Percentile - £383 £305
25th Percentile £406 £433 £311
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £416 £480 £425
Median % change year-on-year -13.31% +12.94% +6.25%
75th Percentile £447 £507 £445
90th Percentile £694 £520 -
UK median daily rate £416 £500 £430
% change year-on-year -16.78% +16.28% -14.85%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 18,741 21,586 29,136
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.50% 94.28% 95.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,456 15,029 20,438
10th Percentile £213 £225 £205
25th Percentile £363 £394 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £594 £598 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.82% +2.90% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,282 1,102 1,451
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.38
25th Percentile £15.72 £18.04 £14.50
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Infrastructure Operations Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Infrastructure Operations Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Operations Engineer in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Operations Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Operations Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Operations Engineer in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Operations Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Operations Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 22 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Operations Engineer 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 22 May 2024. 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 +20 8 £411 -16.08%
Midlands +26 2 - -
West Midlands +24 2 - -
North of England +33 1 £675 +58.82%
North West +19 1 £675 +58.82%
Scotland - 1 £750 -
Infrastructure Operations Engineer
UK

Infrastructure Operations Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 22 May 2024, Infrastructure Operations Engineer 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 UK excluding London region featuring Infrastructure Operations Engineer in the job title.

1 11 (91.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 10 (83.33%) Security Cleared
3 9 (75.00%) SC Cleared
3 9 (75.00%) Active Directory
4 5 (41.67%) Microsoft
5 4 (33.33%) ITIL
5 4 (33.33%) Agile
5 4 (33.33%) Process Improvement
6 3 (25.00%) Azure
6 3 (25.00%) VMware
6 3 (25.00%) Virtual Environments
6 3 (25.00%) Public Sector
6 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (25.00%) Windows
6 3 (25.00%) Linux
6 3 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (25.00%) Release Management
7 2 (16.67%) PKI
7 2 (16.67%) Degree
7 2 (16.67%) Hyper-V
7 2 (16.67%) vSphere
7 2 (16.67%) DHCP
7 2 (16.67%) DNS
7 2 (16.67%) SharePoint
7 2 (16.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 2 (16.67%) ITSM
7 2 (16.67%) VMware NSX
7 2 (16.67%) Server Management
7 2 (16.67%) VSAN

Infrastructure Operations Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (16.67%) SharePoint
3 1 (8.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) Azure
2 2 (16.67%) Entra ID
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) DHCP
1 2 (16.67%) DNS
1 2 (16.67%) VSAN
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 3 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) REST
1 1 (8.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) PKI
2 1 (8.33%) Data Centre
2 1 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (25.00%) Linux
1 3 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (91.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (33.33%) Agile
2 4 (33.33%) ITIL
2 4 (33.33%) Process Improvement
3 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (25.00%) Release Management
3 3 (25.00%) Virtual Environments
4 2 (16.67%) ITSM
4 2 (16.67%) Server Management
5 1 (8.33%) Analytics
5 1 (8.33%) Data Migration
5 1 (8.33%) DevOps
5 1 (8.33%) Incident Management
5 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Management
5 1 (8.33%) Kalman Filter
5 1 (8.33%) Migration
5 1 (8.33%) Network Virtualisation
5 1 (8.33%) Problem Management
5 1 (8.33%) Service Management
5 1 (8.33%) Workflow
Qualifications
1 10 (83.33%) Security Cleared
2 9 (75.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (16.67%) Degree
3 2 (16.67%) VCAP
3 2 (16.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (8.33%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 9 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (16.67%) Hyper-V
3 2 (16.67%) VMware NSX
3 2 (16.67%) vSphere
4 1 (8.33%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Ansible
1 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (25.00%) VMware
3 1 (8.33%) Atlassian