Infrastructure Engineering Contracts with Work from Home Options

Infrastructure Engineering
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Infrastructure Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Infrastructure Engineering over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 154 122 170
Rank change year-on-year -32 +48 +14
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 214 490 712
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.46% 2.02% 1.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.67% 2.25% 1.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 363 554
10th Percentile £228 £325 £313
25th Percentile £325 £425 £371
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +16.67% -
75th Percentile £584 £650 £572
90th Percentile £650 £708 £638
UK median daily rate £475 £513 £475
% change year-on-year -7.32% +7.89% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 8 2
10th Percentile - £51.25 £31.33
25th Percentile £37.63 £55.00 £36.82
Median hourly rate £40.25 £57.50 £46.59
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +23.43% +111.75%
75th Percentile £70.00 £62.50 £56.98
90th Percentile - £78.11 £62.84
UK median hourly rate £54.88 £65.00 £36.11
% change year-on-year -15.58% +79.99% -9.72%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Infrastructure Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,824 21,734 40,250
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.57% 89.66% 91.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,646 15,426 29,289
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 572 503 517
10th Percentile £14.89 £18.49 £14.50
25th Percentile £24.19 £25.85 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +31.25% +66.67%
75th Percentile £60.00 £67.50 £58.38
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.60 £71.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +9.70%

Infrastructure Engineering
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Infrastructure Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Infrastructure Engineering trend for jobs with a WFH option

Infrastructure Engineering
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 Engineering.

Infrastructure Engineering daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Infrastructure Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Infrastructure Engineering over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Infrastructure Engineering daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Infrastructure Engineering
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 Engineering.

Infrastructure Engineering hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Infrastructure Engineering
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Infrastructure Engineering over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Infrastructure Engineering hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Infrastructure Engineering
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 31 (14.49%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (7.01%) SharePoint
3 7 (3.27%) Confluence
4 5 (2.34%) IIS
5 2 (0.93%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.93%) SharePoint 2010
5 2 (0.93%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (0.47%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.47%) Exchange Server 2007
6 1 (0.47%) Exchange Server 2010
6 1 (0.47%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (1.87%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.47%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.47%) Revit
Business Applications
1 1 (0.47%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 80 (37.38%) Azure
2 51 (23.83%) Microsoft 365
3 44 (20.56%) AWS
4 25 (11.68%) Entra ID
5 12 (5.61%) IaaS
6 8 (3.74%) Power Platform
6 8 (3.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 7 (3.27%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (3.27%) GCP
7 7 (3.27%) PaaS
7 7 (3.27%) Serverless
8 6 (2.80%) Amazon S3
9 5 (2.34%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (2.34%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (2.34%) OneDrive
9 5 (2.34%) SaaS
10 4 (1.87%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (1.87%) Mimecast
11 3 (1.40%) Azure Data Factory
11 3 (1.40%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 36 (16.82%) DNS
2 32 (14.95%) Firewall
3 30 (14.02%) DHCP
4 15 (7.01%) SAN
5 9 (4.21%) WAN
6 8 (3.74%) Wireless
7 7 (3.27%) NAS
8 6 (2.80%) LAN
9 5 (2.34%) TCP/IP
9 5 (2.34%) VPN
10 4 (1.87%) BGP
10 4 (1.87%) NetScaler
10 4 (1.87%) Network Security
11 3 (1.40%) Cisco ASA
11 3 (1.40%) Remote Desktop
12 2 (0.93%) MPLS
12 2 (0.93%) OSPF
12 2 (0.93%) Unified Communications
12 2 (0.93%) VoIP
12 2 (0.93%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (4.67%) MongoDB
1 10 (4.67%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.34%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (1.87%) Power BI
4 2 (0.93%) Metadata
4 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Power View
4 2 (0.93%) PowerPivot
4 2 (0.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (0.93%) Sybase ASE
5 1 (0.47%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.47%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.47%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.47%) Data Vault
5 1 (0.47%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.47%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.47%) Sisense
Development Applications
1 9 (4.21%) JIRA
2 6 (2.80%) Git
3 4 (1.87%) GitLab
4 2 (0.93%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.93%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.93%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.47%) Eclipse
5 1 (0.47%) GoogleTest
5 1 (0.47%) Robot Framework
5 1 (0.47%) Selenium
5 1 (0.47%) VisualWorks
General
1 48 (22.43%) Social Skills
2 26 (12.15%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (9.81%) Finance
3 21 (9.81%) Public Sector
4 18 (8.41%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (2.80%) Banking
5 6 (2.80%) Manufacturing
6 5 (2.34%) Military
7 4 (1.87%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (1.40%) Legal
8 3 (1.40%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.93%) Front Office
9 2 (0.93%) Law
9 2 (0.93%) Publishing
9 2 (0.93%) Retail
10 1 (0.47%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.47%) Back Office
10 1 (0.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.47%) Local Government
10 1 (0.47%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 142 (66.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 37 (17.29%) Senior
3 30 (14.02%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 20 (9.35%) Cloud Engineer
5 16 (7.48%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 12 (5.61%) Azure Engineer
6 12 (5.61%) Infrastructure Technician
7 11 (5.14%) AWS Engineer
7 11 (5.14%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 10 (4.67%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 10 (4.67%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
8 10 (4.67%) Security Engineer
8 10 (4.67%) Site Engineer
9 9 (4.21%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
10 8 (3.74%) Python Engineer
11 7 (3.27%) Architect
11 7 (3.27%) Network Engineer
12 6 (2.80%) DevOps Engineer
12 6 (2.80%) IT Engineer
12 6 (2.80%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (4.67%) Kafka
1 10 (4.67%) RabbitMQ
2 9 (4.21%) RESTful
3 3 (1.40%) CSS
3 3 (1.40%) HTML
3 3 (1.40%) J2EE
3 3 (1.40%) Spring Boot
4 2 (0.93%) .NET
4 2 (0.93%) Middleware
5 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Graph
5 1 (0.47%) Node.js
5 1 (0.47%) Pandas
5 1 (0.47%) React
5 1 (0.47%) VML
5 1 (0.47%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (7.01%) NHS
2 11 (5.14%) Data Centre
2 11 (5.14%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (4.67%) PKI
4 9 (4.21%) Algorithms
4 9 (4.21%) Data Structures
5 7 (3.27%) Driving Licence
6 6 (2.80%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.87%) Clustering
7 4 (1.87%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.40%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 3 (1.40%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.40%) Replication
8 3 (1.40%) Security Posture
8 3 (1.40%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.40%) Video Conferencing
9 2 (0.93%) Blackberry
9 2 (0.93%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (0.93%) Private Cloud
9 2 (0.93%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 101 (47.20%) Windows
2 54 (25.23%) Windows Server
3 41 (19.16%) Linux
4 16 (7.48%) Windows 10
4 16 (7.48%) Windows Server 2012
5 9 (4.21%) Windows Server 2016
6 8 (3.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (2.80%) Unix
8 5 (2.34%) Windows 7
9 4 (1.87%) Windows Server 2003
9 4 (1.87%) Windows Server 2008
10 3 (1.40%) CentOS
10 3 (1.40%) VMS
10 3 (1.40%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.93%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.93%) Rocky
11 2 (0.93%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.47%) Android
12 1 (0.47%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.47%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (24.30%) DevOps
2 36 (16.82%) ITIL
3 30 (14.02%) Migration
4 28 (13.08%) Problem-Solving
5 23 (10.75%) Agile
6 20 (9.35%) CI/CD
7 12 (5.61%) Analytical Thinking
7 12 (5.61%) Infrastructure as Code
7 12 (5.61%) Network Management
7 12 (5.61%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 11 (5.14%) Microservices
8 11 (5.14%) Vulnerability Management
9 10 (4.67%) Configuration Management
9 10 (4.67%) Vulnerability Remediation
10 9 (4.21%) Task Automation
11 8 (3.74%) Change Management
11 8 (3.74%) Information Security
12 7 (3.27%) Data Migration
12 7 (3.27%) Root Cause Analysis
12 7 (3.27%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 30 (14.02%) Python
2 26 (12.15%) PowerShell
3 15 (7.01%) Java
3 15 (7.01%) Shell Script
3 15 (7.01%) SQL
4 12 (5.61%) C++
5 7 (3.27%) JavaScript
6 6 (2.80%) Go
7 4 (1.87%) VBScript
8 3 (1.40%) Bash
8 3 (1.40%) C
9 2 (0.93%) Bicep
9 2 (0.93%) C#
9 2 (0.93%) Perl
9 2 (0.93%) VB.NET
10 1 (0.47%) Smalltalk
Qualifications
1 29 (13.55%) Security Cleared
2 27 (12.62%) SC Cleared
3 14 (6.54%) Degree
4 13 (6.07%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (3.27%) MCSA
5 7 (3.27%) MCSE
6 6 (2.80%) Azure Certification
7 5 (2.34%) AWS Certification
8 4 (1.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (1.87%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (1.87%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.40%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 3 (1.40%) DV Cleared
9 3 (1.40%) ITIL Certification
9 3 (1.40%) TOGAF Certification
9 3 (1.40%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 2 (0.93%) CCNP
10 2 (0.93%) JNCIP
10 2 (0.93%) MCITP
11 1 (0.47%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.27%) SLA
2 5 (2.34%) GDPR
3 2 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 2 (0.93%) ISO 9001
3 2 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 1 (0.47%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.47%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 80 (37.38%) Active Directory
2 39 (18.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (7.48%) Hyper-V
4 15 (7.01%) vSphere
5 10 (4.67%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 9 (4.21%) Docker
6 9 (4.21%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (4.21%) XenApp
7 6 (2.80%) XenDesktop
8 5 (2.34%) VMware NSX
9 4 (1.87%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.93%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.93%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.47%) DFS Replication
11 1 (0.47%) Firmware
11 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.47%) Terminal Services
11 1 (0.47%) vCloud
11 1 (0.47%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 25 (11.68%) SCCM
2 24 (11.21%) Kubernetes
3 20 (9.35%) Terraform
4 14 (6.54%) Ansible
5 13 (6.07%) Grafana
5 13 (6.07%) Prometheus
6 10 (4.67%) Consul
7 9 (4.21%) Microsoft Intune
8 7 (3.27%) WSUS
9 6 (2.80%) Puppet
10 3 (1.40%) vCenter Server
11 2 (0.93%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.93%) Nessus
11 2 (0.93%) Nexpose
11 2 (0.93%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.93%) Salt
11 2 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.47%) Nagios
12 1 (0.47%) Opsview
12 1 (0.47%) SCOM
Vendors
1 82 (38.32%) Microsoft
2 73 (34.11%) VMware
3 27 (12.62%) Citrix
4 15 (7.01%) Veeam
5 12 (5.61%) Cisco
5 12 (5.61%) HP
5 12 (5.61%) SaltStack
6 8 (3.74%) Google
6 8 (3.74%) Red Hat
7 6 (2.80%) Qualys
7 6 (2.80%) ServiceNow
7 6 (2.80%) SolarWinds
8 5 (2.34%) Ivanti
8 5 (2.34%) Symantec
9 4 (1.87%) CA
9 4 (1.87%) Juniper
9 4 (1.87%) Oracle
10 3 (1.40%) Dell
10 3 (1.40%) FireEye
10 3 (1.40%) Meraki