Infrastructure Engineer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Infrastructure Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Infrastructure Engineer daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2024.

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

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 196 188 224
Rank change year-on-year -8 +36 +37
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 153 311 547
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.04% 1.30% 1.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.11% 1.37% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 218 430
10th Percentile £311 £319 £313
25th Percentile £363 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £534 £625 £550
90th Percentile £600 £666 £623
UK median daily rate £463 £500 £455
% change year-on-year -7.50% +9.89% +10.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £72.50 -
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year +3.85% +52.94% +6.02%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 13,801 22,740 41,944
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.53% 95.25% 95.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,306 16,147 30,496
10th Percentile £325 £360 £358
25th Percentile £425 £445 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% +7.14%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 566 528 563
10th Percentile £14.27 £16.98 £14.05
25th Percentile £22.59 £25.00 £19.96
Median hourly rate £43.50 £50.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.00% +25.00% +70.21%
75th Percentile £63.56 £66.05 £59.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.15 £69.75
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

Infrastructure Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Infrastructure Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Infrastructure Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Infrastructure Engineer.

Infrastructure Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Infrastructure Engineer over the 6 months to 13 June 2024.

Infrastructure Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Infrastructure Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Infrastructure Engineer.

Infrastructure Engineer hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 13 June 2024, Infrastructure 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 146 (95.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 75 (49.02%) Windows
3 66 (43.14%) Active Directory
4 55 (35.95%) Azure
5 49 (32.03%) Microsoft
5 49 (32.03%) VMware
6 36 (23.53%) Windows Server
7 35 (22.88%) AWS
8 32 (20.92%) Social Skills
9 31 (20.26%) DNS
10 30 (19.61%) DevOps
11 29 (18.95%) Microsoft 365
11 29 (18.95%) VMware Infrastructure
11 29 (18.95%) Linux
12 25 (16.34%) ITIL
12 25 (16.34%) DHCP
13 23 (15.03%) Microsoft Exchange
13 23 (15.03%) Firewall
13 23 (15.03%) Security Cleared
14 22 (14.38%) SC Cleared
15 21 (13.73%) SCCM
16 20 (13.07%) Migration
16 20 (13.07%) Entra ID
17 19 (12.42%) Citrix
18 18 (11.76%) PowerShell
19 16 (10.46%) Hyper-V
19 16 (10.46%) Public Sector
19 16 (10.46%) Problem-Solving
20 15 (9.80%) Infrastructure as Code
20 15 (9.80%) vSphere

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 23 (15.03%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (5.23%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.61%) IIS
4 2 (1.31%) Confluence
4 2 (1.31%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.65%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (0.65%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (3.27%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.65%) AutoCAD
2 1 (0.65%) Revit
Cloud Services
1 55 (35.95%) Azure
2 35 (22.88%) AWS
3 29 (18.95%) Microsoft 365
4 20 (13.07%) Entra ID
5 7 (4.58%) Amazon S3
5 7 (4.58%) AWS Lambda
5 7 (4.58%) Serverless
6 5 (3.27%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (2.61%) IaaS
7 4 (2.61%) OneDrive
7 4 (2.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 3 (1.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (1.96%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 3 (1.96%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (1.96%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (1.96%) GCP
8 3 (1.96%) WhatsApp
9 2 (1.31%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (1.31%) OCI
9 2 (1.31%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 31 (20.26%) DNS
2 25 (16.34%) DHCP
3 23 (15.03%) Firewall
4 13 (8.50%) SAN
5 7 (4.58%) NAS
5 7 (4.58%) WAN
6 4 (2.61%) LAN
6 4 (2.61%) Network Security
7 3 (1.96%) Cisco ASA
7 3 (1.96%) NetScaler
7 3 (1.96%) Wireless
8 2 (1.31%) BGP
8 2 (1.31%) Cisco ISE
8 2 (1.31%) MPLS
8 2 (1.31%) SD-WAN
8 2 (1.31%) TCP/IP
8 2 (1.31%) Unified Communications
8 2 (1.31%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.65%) Intranet
9 1 (0.65%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.92%) SQL Server
2 5 (3.27%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (2.61%) MongoDB
4 3 (1.96%) Informix
4 3 (1.96%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.31%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.65%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.65%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.65%) InfluxDB
6 1 (0.65%) Power BI
6 1 (0.65%) Sisense
Development Applications
1 4 (2.61%) JIRA
2 3 (1.96%) Git
2 3 (1.96%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.31%) GitLab
3 2 (1.31%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (0.65%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.65%) VisualWorks
General
1 32 (20.92%) Social Skills
2 16 (10.46%) Public Sector
3 15 (9.80%) Finance
4 12 (7.84%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (7.84%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (3.92%) Banking
5 6 (3.92%) Manufacturing
6 4 (2.61%) Military
7 3 (1.96%) Legal
7 3 (1.96%) Local Government
8 2 (1.31%) Front Office
8 2 (1.31%) Law
9 1 (0.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.65%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.96%) AWS CDK
1 3 (1.96%) J2EE
1 3 (1.96%) Spring Boot
2 2 (1.31%) .NET
2 2 (1.31%) Middleware
3 1 (0.65%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.88%) PKI
2 7 (4.58%) Driving Licence
3 6 (3.92%) Data Centre
4 4 (2.61%) Public Cloud
4 4 (2.61%) Replication
5 3 (1.96%) Cloud Native
5 3 (1.96%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 3 (1.96%) Management Information System
5 3 (1.96%) NHS
5 3 (1.96%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.96%) Security Posture
5 3 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (1.96%) Video Conferencing
6 2 (1.31%) Blackberry
6 2 (1.31%) Clustering
6 2 (1.31%) Hackathon
6 2 (1.31%) Tandem
7 1 (0.65%) CMDB
7 1 (0.65%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.65%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 75 (49.02%) Windows
2 36 (23.53%) Windows Server
3 29 (18.95%) Linux
4 14 (9.15%) Windows 10
5 10 (6.54%) Windows Server 2016
6 9 (5.88%) Windows Server 2012
7 6 (3.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (3.27%) CentOS
8 5 (3.27%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (2.61%) Ubuntu
9 4 (2.61%) Windows 7
10 3 (1.96%) Mac OS
10 3 (1.96%) Windows Server 2003
10 3 (1.96%) Windows Server 2008
11 2 (1.31%) Debian
11 2 (1.31%) Rocky
11 2 (1.31%) Unix
11 2 (1.31%) VMS
12 1 (0.65%) Android
12 1 (0.65%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 146 (95.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 30 (19.61%) DevOps
3 25 (16.34%) ITIL
4 20 (13.07%) Migration
5 16 (10.46%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (9.80%) Agile
6 15 (9.80%) Infrastructure as Code
7 10 (6.54%) Information Security
8 8 (5.23%) Disaster Recovery
8 8 (5.23%) Vulnerability Remediation
9 7 (4.58%) CI/CD
9 7 (4.58%) Vulnerability Management
10 6 (3.92%) Infrastructure Automation
11 5 (3.27%) Computer Science
11 5 (3.27%) Line Management
11 5 (3.27%) Problem Management
11 5 (3.27%) Roadmaps
11 5 (3.27%) Root Cause Analysis
11 5 (3.27%) Service Delivery
11 5 (3.27%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (11.76%) PowerShell
2 9 (5.88%) Python
2 9 (5.88%) SQL
3 5 (3.27%) C++
4 4 (2.61%) Java
5 3 (1.96%) C
5 3 (1.96%) TypeScript
5 3 (1.96%) VBScript
6 2 (1.31%) Bash
6 2 (1.31%) Go
6 2 (1.31%) VB.NET
7 1 (0.65%) Bicep
7 1 (0.65%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.65%) Smalltalk
Qualifications
1 23 (15.03%) Security Cleared
2 22 (14.38%) SC Cleared
3 10 (6.54%) Degree
3 10 (6.54%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (3.27%) AWS Certification
4 5 (3.27%) MCSE
5 4 (2.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (2.61%) MCSA
6 3 (1.96%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 3 (1.96%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.96%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (1.31%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.31%) CCNP
7 2 (1.31%) JNCIP
7 2 (1.31%) MCITP
7 2 (1.31%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 1 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.65%) CISSP
8 1 (0.65%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.61%) GDPR
2 2 (1.31%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (1.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 2 (1.31%) ISO 9001
2 2 (1.31%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 2 (1.31%) SLA
3 1 (0.65%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.65%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 66 (43.14%) Active Directory
2 29 (18.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (10.46%) Hyper-V
4 15 (9.80%) vSphere
5 9 (5.88%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (4.58%) Docker
7 6 (3.92%) XenApp
8 5 (3.27%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (2.61%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (2.61%) VMware NSX
9 4 (2.61%) XenDesktop
10 2 (1.31%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.65%) vCloud
11 1 (0.65%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 21 (13.73%) SCCM
2 12 (7.84%) Terraform
3 10 (6.54%) Ansible
4 6 (3.92%) Kubernetes
5 5 (3.27%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (2.61%) WSUS
7 3 (1.96%) Grafana
8 2 (1.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (1.31%) Nessus
8 2 (1.31%) Nexpose
8 2 (1.31%) SCOM
8 2 (1.31%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.65%) Avamar
9 1 (0.65%) CASB
9 1 (0.65%) McAfee ePO
9 1 (0.65%) Nagios
9 1 (0.65%) Opsview
9 1 (0.65%) Puppet
9 1 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.65%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 49 (32.03%) Microsoft
1 49 (32.03%) VMware
2 19 (12.42%) Citrix
3 13 (8.50%) HP
4 9 (5.88%) Cisco
5 8 (5.23%) Red Hat
6 5 (3.27%) Oracle
6 5 (3.27%) SolarWinds
7 4 (2.61%) CA
7 4 (2.61%) Qualys
7 4 (2.61%) ServiceNow
7 4 (2.61%) Symantec
8 3 (1.96%) CrowdStrike
8 3 (1.96%) Dell
8 3 (1.96%) Google
8 3 (1.96%) Ivanti
8 3 (1.96%) Juniper
9 2 (1.31%) Meraki
9 2 (1.31%) Rapid7
9 2 (1.31%) Veeam