Hybrid/Remote 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer Contract Job Trends

Third Line Infrastructure Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Third Line Infrastructure Engineer daily rate for remote/hybrid work is £400, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 September 2026.

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

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 367 306 318
Rank change year-on-year -61 +12 +85
Contract jobs requiring a 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer 2 1 3
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.015% 0.010% 0.024%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.016% 0.011% 0.025%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile £298 - £322
25th Percentile £331 - £335
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - £365
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.29%
75th Percentile £456 - £455
90th Percentile £483 - £505
UK median daily rate £300 £575 £425
% change year-on-year -47.83% +35.29% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £30.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £30.00 -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with remote/hybrid work 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 12,510 9,181 11,898
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.94% 93.85% 93.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,826 6,047 7,661
10th Percentile £358 £325 £325
25th Percentile £430 £413 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £512 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% -
75th Percentile £623 £625 £638
90th Percentile £711 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 687 295 303
10th Percentile £15.79 £13.25 £19.36
25th Percentile £26.78 £20.50 £30.63
Median hourly rate £60.00 £37.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +60.00% -16.67% -10.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £67.26
90th Percentile £85.00 £68.30 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% -1.71%

3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Roles

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring '3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer' in the job title and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid roles

3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies

3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer over the 6 months to 14 September 2026.

3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies

3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 29 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs

For the 6 months to 14 September 2026, 3rd Line Infrastructure 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 jobs with hybrid/remote work options featuring 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) DHCP
2 1 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (50.00%) Failover Clustering
2 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Clustering
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (50.00%) Mimecast
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (50.00%) Virtual Environments
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server

3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (50.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (50.00%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Clustering
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Failover Clustering
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Clustering
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft