Infrastructure Engineer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Infrastructure Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in Work from Home is £450 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 204 198 242
Rank change year-on-year -6 +44 +18
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 148 310 488
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.98% 1.24% 1.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.05% 1.30% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 224 372
10th Percentile £310 £325 £313
25th Percentile £350 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £538 £602 £563
90th Percentile £600 £659 £631
UK median daily rate £463 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -7.50% +11.11% +12.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - £58.61 -
25th Percentile - £62.16 £64.25
Median hourly rate - £70.80 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year - +8.08% +197.73%
75th Percentile - £80.91 £66.75
90th Percentile - £85.34 -
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £61.62 £45.48
% change year-on-year -63.48% +35.48% +13.70%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 14,071 23,886 42,024
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.54% 95.33% 95.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,442 16,861 30,355
10th Percentile £325 £361 £356
25th Percentile £425 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £719
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 572 544 603
10th Percentile £14.27 £17.66 £13.38
25th Percentile £23.32 £25.71 £19.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £54.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +54.29% +42.86%
75th Percentile £63.95 £67.81 £57.44
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.18 £68.16
UK median hourly rate £37.34 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -17.02% +88.21% +6.27%

Infrastructure Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Infrastructure Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Infrastructure Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Infrastructure Engineer
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 Engineer.

Infrastructure Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Infrastructure Engineer over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Infrastructure Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Infrastructure Engineer
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 Engineer.

Infrastructure Engineer hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 10 May 2024, 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 a WFH option featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 142 (95.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 74 (50.00%) Windows
3 64 (43.24%) Active Directory
4 61 (41.22%) Azure
5 49 (33.11%) VMware
6 44 (29.73%) Microsoft
7 37 (25.00%) Windows Server
8 34 (22.97%) DevOps
9 33 (22.30%) VMware Infrastructure
9 33 (22.30%) DNS
9 33 (22.30%) Social Skills
10 29 (19.59%) Linux
11 27 (18.24%) DHCP
11 27 (18.24%) AWS
11 27 (18.24%) Microsoft 365
12 26 (17.57%) Firewall
13 22 (14.86%) Entra ID
14 21 (14.19%) PowerShell
14 21 (14.19%) SCCM
14 21 (14.19%) ITIL
14 21 (14.19%) Citrix
15 19 (12.84%) Security Cleared
16 18 (12.16%) SC Cleared
16 18 (12.16%) Agile
17 17 (11.49%) Microsoft Exchange
18 16 (10.81%) Migration
19 15 (10.14%) vSphere
19 15 (10.14%) Hyper-V
19 15 (10.14%) Problem-Solving
20 14 (9.46%) Kubernetes

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 17 (11.49%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (4.05%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.03%) Confluence
3 3 (2.03%) IIS
4 2 (1.35%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.68%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (0.68%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (2.03%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.68%) AutoCAD
2 1 (0.68%) Revit
Cloud Services
1 61 (41.22%) Azure
2 27 (18.24%) AWS
2 27 (18.24%) Microsoft 365
3 22 (14.86%) Entra ID
4 12 (8.11%) IaaS
5 5 (3.38%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (3.38%) GCP
6 4 (2.70%) Amazon S3
6 4 (2.70%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (2.70%) OneDrive
6 4 (2.70%) PaaS
6 4 (2.70%) SaaS
6 4 (2.70%) Serverless
6 4 (2.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 3 (2.03%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (2.03%) Azure AKS
7 3 (2.03%) OCI
8 2 (1.35%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (1.35%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (1.35%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 33 (22.30%) DNS
2 27 (18.24%) DHCP
3 26 (17.57%) Firewall
4 13 (8.78%) SAN
5 6 (4.05%) NAS
5 6 (4.05%) WAN
6 4 (2.70%) LAN
6 4 (2.70%) Network Security
7 3 (2.03%) Cisco ASA
7 3 (2.03%) Wireless
8 2 (1.35%) BGP
8 2 (1.35%) Cisco ISE
8 2 (1.35%) MPLS
8 2 (1.35%) NetScaler
8 2 (1.35%) SD-WAN
8 2 (1.35%) TCP/IP
8 2 (1.35%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.68%) Intranet
9 1 (0.68%) Remote Desktop
9 1 (0.68%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.38%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.35%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.68%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.68%) Power BI
3 1 (0.68%) Sisense
Development Applications
1 6 (4.05%) Git
2 5 (3.38%) JIRA
3 3 (2.03%) GitLab
3 3 (2.03%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.35%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.68%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.68%) VisualWorks
General
1 33 (22.30%) Social Skills
2 13 (8.78%) Public Sector
3 12 (8.11%) Documentation Skills
3 12 (8.11%) Finance
4 9 (6.08%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (4.05%) Banking
5 6 (4.05%) Manufacturing
6 3 (2.03%) Legal
6 3 (2.03%) Military
6 3 (2.03%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.35%) Front Office
7 2 (1.35%) Law
7 2 (1.35%) Local Government
8 1 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.68%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.03%) YAML
2 2 (1.35%) .NET
2 2 (1.35%) Middleware
3 1 (0.68%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (5.41%) Data Centre
1 8 (5.41%) PKI
2 7 (4.73%) Driving Licence
3 6 (4.05%) Onboarding
4 4 (2.70%) NHS
4 4 (2.70%) Public Cloud
5 3 (2.03%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (2.03%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (2.03%) Video Conferencing
6 2 (1.35%) Blackberry
6 2 (1.35%) Clustering
6 2 (1.35%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 2 (1.35%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.35%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.35%) Tandem
7 1 (0.68%) CMDB
7 1 (0.68%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.68%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.68%) Replication
7 1 (0.68%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 74 (50.00%) Windows
2 37 (25.00%) Windows Server
3 29 (19.59%) Linux
4 13 (8.78%) Windows 10
5 9 (6.08%) Windows Server 2016
6 8 (5.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (4.73%) Windows Server 2012
8 6 (4.05%) Windows 7
9 5 (3.38%) Unix
10 4 (2.70%) CentOS
10 4 (2.70%) Ubuntu
10 4 (2.70%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (2.03%) Windows Server 2003
11 3 (2.03%) Windows Server 2008
12 2 (1.35%) Debian
13 1 (0.68%) Android
13 1 (0.68%) Apple iOS
13 1 (0.68%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.68%) Rocky
13 1 (0.68%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (95.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 34 (22.97%) DevOps
3 21 (14.19%) ITIL
4 18 (12.16%) Agile
5 16 (10.81%) Migration
6 15 (10.14%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (6.08%) Infrastructure as Code
8 8 (5.41%) Customer Service
8 8 (5.41%) Infrastructure Automation
8 8 (5.41%) Software Distribution
8 8 (5.41%) Stakeholder Management
9 7 (4.73%) CI/CD
9 7 (4.73%) Configuration Management
9 7 (4.73%) Vulnerability Management
10 6 (4.05%) Disaster Recovery
10 6 (4.05%) Information Security
10 6 (4.05%) Vulnerability Remediation
11 5 (3.38%) Mobile Device Management
11 5 (3.38%) Root Cause Analysis
11 5 (3.38%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 21 (14.19%) PowerShell
2 13 (8.78%) Python
3 5 (3.38%) SQL
4 3 (2.03%) Bash
4 3 (2.03%) VBScript
5 2 (1.35%) C++
5 2 (1.35%) Perl
5 2 (1.35%) Shell Script
5 2 (1.35%) VB.NET
6 1 (0.68%) Bicep
6 1 (0.68%) C
6 1 (0.68%) Go
6 1 (0.68%) Java
6 1 (0.68%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.68%) Korn
6 1 (0.68%) Ruby
6 1 (0.68%) Smalltalk
Qualifications
1 19 (12.84%) Security Cleared
2 18 (12.16%) SC Cleared
3 9 (6.08%) Degree
4 8 (5.41%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (2.70%) AWS Certification
5 4 (2.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (2.70%) MCSE
6 3 (2.03%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 3 (2.03%) ITIL Certification
6 3 (2.03%) MCSA
7 2 (1.35%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.35%) CCNP
7 2 (1.35%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.35%) JNCIP
7 2 (1.35%) MCITP
8 1 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.68%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.68%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.70%) GDPR
1 4 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (1.35%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (1.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 2 (1.35%) ISO 9001
2 2 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 2 (1.35%) SLA
3 1 (0.68%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (0.68%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 64 (43.24%) Active Directory
2 33 (22.30%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (10.14%) Hyper-V
3 15 (10.14%) vSphere
4 10 (6.76%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (6.76%) XenApp
5 9 (6.08%) Docker
6 7 (4.73%) XenDesktop
7 4 (2.70%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (2.70%) VMware NSX
8 2 (1.35%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.68%) vCloud
9 1 (0.68%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.68%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 21 (14.19%) SCCM
2 14 (9.46%) Kubernetes
3 9 (6.08%) Ansible
4 8 (5.41%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (5.41%) Terraform
5 6 (4.05%) WSUS
6 5 (3.38%) vCenter Server
7 3 (2.03%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (1.35%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (1.35%) Nexpose
8 2 (1.35%) Puppet
9 1 (0.68%) Avamar
9 1 (0.68%) McAfee ePO
9 1 (0.68%) Nagios
9 1 (0.68%) Nessus
9 1 (0.68%) Opsview
9 1 (0.68%) Red Hat Satellite
9 1 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.68%) vRealize
9 1 (0.68%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 49 (33.11%) VMware
2 44 (29.73%) Microsoft
3 21 (14.19%) Citrix
4 14 (9.46%) Red Hat
5 12 (8.11%) HP
6 9 (6.08%) Cisco
7 6 (4.05%) ServiceNow
8 5 (3.38%) Google
9 4 (2.70%) Okta
10 3 (2.03%) CA
10 3 (2.03%) CrowdStrike
10 3 (2.03%) Dell
10 3 (2.03%) FireEye
10 3 (2.03%) Ivanti
10 3 (2.03%) Oracle
10 3 (2.03%) Ping Identity
10 3 (2.03%) SolarWinds
10 3 (2.03%) Symantec
10 3 (2.03%) Tanium
10 3 (2.03%) Veeam