Hybrid/Remote Cloud Infrastructure Engineer Contract Job Trends

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Cloud Infrastructure Engineer daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025.

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

 6 months to
19 Sep 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 301 327 391
Rank change year-on-year +26 +64 +157
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer 7 5 26
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.071% 0.039% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.076% 0.042% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 23
10th Percentile £435 £353 -
25th Percentile £459 £394 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £520 £544 £638
90th Percentile £532 £578 £738
UK median daily rate £513 £463 £550
% change year-on-year +10.81% -15.91% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £29.10 - -
25th Percentile £29.25 - -
Median hourly rate £30.00 - -
75th Percentile £30.75 - -
90th Percentile £30.90 - -
UK median hourly rate £30.00 - -

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 9,210 11,890 19,123
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.80% 93.47% 94.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,076 7,604 13,506
10th Percentile £325 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £745
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 292 296 442
10th Percentile £13.30 £19.59 £16.98
25th Percentile £20.50 £31.25 £25.71
Median hourly rate £40.50 £45.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -10.00% +3.63%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.14 £68.75
90th Percentile £68.00 £75.00 £79.19
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +71.15%

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote Cloud Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote Cloud Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for remote Cloud Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for remote Cloud Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies

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

For the 6 months to 19 September 2025, Cloud 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 hybrid or remote work options featuring Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (85.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (57.14%) Public Sector
2 4 (57.14%) Azure
2 4 (57.14%) AWS
3 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
3 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
3 3 (42.86%) Firewall
3 3 (42.86%) VMware
3 3 (42.86%) Windows
3 3 (42.86%) Terraform
3 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
3 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (42.86%) DevOps
4 2 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (28.57%) Docker
4 2 (28.57%) IaaS
4 2 (28.57%) GitLab
4 2 (28.57%) Incident Response
4 2 (28.57%) Palo Alto
4 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
4 2 (28.57%) Linux
4 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
4 2 (28.57%) TCP/IP
4 2 (28.57%) VPN
4 2 (28.57%) SharePoint
4 2 (28.57%) Local Government
4 2 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (28.57%) PaaS

Cloud 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 2 (28.57%) SharePoint
2 1 (14.29%) Apache
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (14.29%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) AWS
1 4 (57.14%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) IaaS
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (28.57%) PaaS
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon ELB
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon S3
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Direct Connect
3 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
3 1 (14.29%) Route 53
3 1 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) Firewall
2 2 (28.57%) TCP/IP
2 2 (28.57%) VPN
3 1 (14.29%) DNS
3 1 (14.29%) Network Security
3 1 (14.29%) SAN
3 1 (14.29%) SSL
3 1 (14.29%) WAN
3 1 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) GitLab
2 1 (14.29%) Git
2 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (57.14%) Public Sector
2 2 (28.57%) Local Government
2 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Middleware
1 1 (14.29%) OAuth
1 1 (14.29%) OAuth2
1 1 (14.29%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Cyber Defence
1 1 (14.29%) Cyber Security Posture
1 1 (14.29%) Data Centre
1 1 (14.29%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Windows
2 2 (28.57%) Linux
3 1 (14.29%) Unix
3 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
2 3 (42.86%) DevOps
2 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (28.57%) Incident Response
4 1 (14.29%) Agile
4 1 (14.29%) Analytics
4 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (14.29%) High Availability
4 1 (14.29%) Incident Management
4 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Management
4 1 (14.29%) Load Testing
4 1 (14.29%) OWASP
4 1 (14.29%) Performance Monitoring
4 1 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (14.29%) Test Strategy
4 1 (14.29%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Bash
1 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
1 1 (14.29%) Python
1 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) DBS Check
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
1 2 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
2 1 (14.29%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Terraform
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (14.29%) Ansible
3 1 (14.29%) FortiGate
3 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) VMware
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) Palo Alto
3 1 (14.29%) AppDynamics
3 1 (14.29%) CheckPoint
3 1 (14.29%) Cisco
3 1 (14.29%) Citrix
3 1 (14.29%) Dynatrace
3 1 (14.29%) F5
3 1 (14.29%) HP
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle
3 1 (14.29%) Splunk
30 Cloud Infrastructure Engineer jobs with hybrid/remote options