Hybrid/Remote Immutable Infrastructure Contract Job Trends

Immutable Infrastructure
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Immutable Infrastructure skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 307 330 398
Rank change year-on-year +23 +68 +172
Contract jobs citing Immutable Infrastructure 5 1 2
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.052% 0.008% 0.010%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.057% 0.009% 0.012%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 2
10th Percentile - - £539
25th Percentile £418 - £557
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 - £589
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.89%
75th Percentile £453 - £620
90th Percentile - - £638
UK median daily rate £435 - £539
% change year-on-year - - -12.40%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Immutable Infrastructure falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,819 10,981 17,120
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.93% 88.08% 89.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,854 6,919 12,040
10th Percentile £325 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -1.69% -2.91%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £745
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 278 256 414
10th Percentile £13.25 £19.45 £18.49
25th Percentile £20.50 £28.34 £26.24
Median hourly rate £35.95 £43.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.41% -18.10% +3.96%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £75.00 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £44.25
% change year-on-year -37.13% -9.60% +37.21%

Immutable Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Immutable Infrastructure and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Immutable Infrastructure job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Immutable Infrastructure
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Immutable Infrastructure.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Immutable Infrastructure

Immutable Infrastructure
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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) GitHub
1 5 (100.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (100.00%) Redis
General
1 5 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 5 (100.00%) Kafka
1 5 (100.00%) Keycloak
1 5 (100.00%) YAML
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 5 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
1 5 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 5 (100.00%) Observability
1 5 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 5 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 5 (100.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Bash
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Ansible
1 5 (100.00%) Grafana
1 5 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 5 (100.00%) Packer
1 5 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 5 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 5 (100.00%) Splunk