Hybrid/Remote Azure Infrastructure Engineer Contract Job Trends

Infrastructure Engineer - Microsoft Azure
UK > Work from Home

The median Infrastructure Engineer - Microsoft Azure daily rate for remote/hybrid work is £375, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 October 2025.

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

6 months to
13 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 300 325 386
Rank change year-on-year +25 +61 +194
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Infrastructure Engineer 11 8 24
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.11% 0.065% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.069% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 6 19
10th Percentile - £363 £399
25th Percentile - £397 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £524 £550
Median % change year-on-year -28.40% -4.77% +3.77%
75th Percentile £506 £584 £588
90th Percentile £586 £622 £610
UK median daily rate £438 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -20.45% - +6.28%

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 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 8,984 11,567 18,120
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.70% 93.47% 94.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,879 7,295 12,798
10th Percentile £325 £325 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £631 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £745
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £528
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.47% -4.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 289 249 408
10th Percentile £14.00 £20.70 £17.00
25th Percentile £21.02 £30.75 £25.71
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £51.45
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -12.54% +7.75%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £72.75 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £41.27 £45.00
% change year-on-year -39.05% -8.30% +69.81%

Azure Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Roles

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

Azure Infrastructure Engineer job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid roles

Azure Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid Azure Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid Azure Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies

Azure Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Azure Infrastructure Engineer over the 6 months to 13 October 2025.

Azure Infrastructure Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Azure Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs

For the 6 months to 13 October 2025, Azure 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 Azure Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 11 (100.00%) Azure
1 11 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (54.55%) Windows
2 6 (54.55%) DNS
3 5 (45.45%) DHCP
3 5 (45.45%) VMware
3 5 (45.45%) JIRA
3 5 (45.45%) SC Cleared
3 5 (45.45%) Security Cleared
3 5 (45.45%) vSphere
3 5 (45.45%) DevOps
3 5 (45.45%) Confluence
4 4 (36.36%) Hyper-V
4 4 (36.36%) Veeam
4 4 (36.36%) SolarWinds
4 4 (36.36%) VLAN
4 4 (36.36%) Citrix
4 4 (36.36%) TCP/IP
4 4 (36.36%) VPN
4 4 (36.36%) SSL
4 4 (36.36%) Windows Server 2003
4 4 (36.36%) Tivoli
4 4 (36.36%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
5 3 (27.27%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
5 3 (27.27%) Kubernetes
6 2 (18.18%) Docker
6 2 (18.18%) Terraform
6 2 (18.18%) AWS

Azure 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 5 (45.45%) Confluence
2 1 (9.09%) IIS
2 1 (9.09%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 11 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (27.27%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (18.18%) AWS
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (9.09%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (9.09%) Entra ID
4 1 (9.09%) GitHub
4 1 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (9.09%) IaaS
4 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (9.09%) n8n
4 1 (9.09%) PaaS
4 1 (9.09%) Power Automate
4 1 (9.09%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 6 (54.55%) DNS
2 5 (45.45%) DHCP
3 4 (36.36%) SSL
3 4 (36.36%) TCP/IP
3 4 (36.36%) VLAN
3 4 (36.36%) VPN
4 2 (18.18%) Firewall
5 1 (9.09%) LAN
5 1 (9.09%) SAN
5 1 (9.09%) SD-WAN
5 1 (9.09%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 5 (45.45%) JIRA
2 1 (9.09%) GitLab
2 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Aviation
3 1 (9.09%) Finance
3 1 (9.09%) iGaming
3 1 (9.09%) Military
3 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
3 1 (9.09%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) OpenID
1 1 (9.09%) SAML
1 1 (9.09%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Onboarding
1 1 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (54.55%) Windows
2 4 (36.36%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (9.09%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (45.45%) DevOps
3 4 (36.36%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (9.09%) Analytics
4 1 (9.09%) Auto-Scaling
4 1 (9.09%) CI/CD
4 1 (9.09%) Containerisation
4 1 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (9.09%) CRM
4 1 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (9.09%) ITIL
4 1 (9.09%) Log Analytics
4 1 (9.09%) Machine Learning
4 1 (9.09%) Migration
4 1 (9.09%) Network Virtualisation
4 1 (9.09%) Observability
4 1 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (9.09%) RBAC
4 1 (9.09%) Secrets Management
4 1 (9.09%) Security Patching
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) Bicep
2 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (45.45%) SC Cleared
1 5 (45.45%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (9.09%) QA
1 1 (9.09%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (45.45%) vSphere
2 4 (36.36%) Hyper-V
3 2 (18.18%) Docker
4 1 (9.09%) Active Directory
4 1 (9.09%) DFS Replication
4 1 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (36.36%) Tivoli
2 3 (27.27%) Kubernetes
3 2 (18.18%) Terraform
4 1 (9.09%) Argo
4 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) VMware
2 4 (36.36%) Citrix
2 4 (36.36%) SolarWinds
2 4 (36.36%) Veeam
3 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
4 1 (9.09%) Proofpoint