Infrastructure Engineer Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Infrastructure Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Infrastructure Engineer daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £488, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 220 189 198
Rank change year-on-year -31 +9 +49
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 84 162 326
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.85% 1.06% 1.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.90% 1.13% 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 121 237
10th Percentile £340 £310 £325
25th Percentile £400 £356 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £550 £600
90th Percentile £650 £600 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - £60.98
25th Percentile - £72.50 £68.07
Median hourly rate - £75.00 £84.00
Median % change year-on-year - -10.71% +28.24%
75th Percentile - £77.50 £87.15
90th Percentile - - £87.84
UK median hourly rate £112.09 £45.00 £63.84
% change year-on-year +149.09% -29.51% +5.56%

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 9,288 14,354 24,650
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.77% 93.54% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,350 9,595 17,415
10th Percentile £337 £325 £360
25th Percentile £414 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.69% +2.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 579 565
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.19 £23.39 £26.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £44.74 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.06% -18.65% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.00 £63.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Infrastructure Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

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

Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 remote working options citing Infrastructure Engineer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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 remote working options 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 1 May 2025, 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 78 (92.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 54 (64.29%) Windows
3 37 (44.05%) VMware
4 34 (40.48%) Active Directory
5 32 (38.10%) Linux
5 32 (38.10%) Azure
6 30 (35.71%) Windows Server
7 27 (32.14%) DNS
8 26 (30.95%) Microsoft
9 22 (26.19%) DHCP
9 22 (26.19%) Python
9 22 (26.19%) VMware Infrastructure
10 20 (23.81%) Social Skills
11 19 (22.62%) Security Cleared
11 19 (22.62%) Ansible
12 18 (21.43%) Firewall
13 15 (17.86%) Microsoft 365
14 14 (16.67%) SC Cleared
14 14 (16.67%) Unix
14 14 (16.67%) Cisco
15 13 (15.48%) Migration
15 13 (15.48%) PowerShell
15 13 (15.48%) AWS
15 13 (15.48%) Problem-Solving
16 12 (14.29%) Terraform
16 12 (14.29%) Hyper-V
17 10 (11.90%) ITIL
18 9 (10.71%) Puppet
18 9 (10.71%) Entra ID
19 8 (9.52%) Bash

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 7 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (7.14%) SharePoint
3 3 (3.57%) Confluence
4 2 (2.38%) OpenStack
4 2 (2.38%) Skype for Business
5 1 (1.19%) Apache
5 1 (1.19%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.19%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 32 (38.10%) Azure
2 15 (17.86%) Microsoft 365
3 13 (15.48%) AWS
4 9 (10.71%) Entra ID
5 6 (7.14%) IaaS
6 3 (3.57%) GitHub
6 3 (3.57%) Mimecast
7 2 (2.38%) Nutanix
7 2 (2.38%) OpenShift
7 2 (2.38%) Serverless
8 1 (1.19%) Amazon Cognito
8 1 (1.19%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (1.19%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.19%) Azure Pipelines
8 1 (1.19%) Azure Storage
8 1 (1.19%) Cohesity
8 1 (1.19%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.19%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.19%) Rubrik
8 1 (1.19%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 27 (32.14%) DNS
2 22 (26.19%) DHCP
3 18 (21.43%) Firewall
4 6 (7.14%) SAN
4 6 (7.14%) WAN
5 5 (5.95%) LAN
5 5 (5.95%) TCP/IP
5 5 (5.95%) VPN
5 5 (5.95%) Wireless
6 4 (4.76%) Network Security
6 4 (4.76%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (3.57%) 4G
7 3 (3.57%) Cisco ISE
7 3 (3.57%) Internet
7 3 (3.57%) VSAN
8 2 (2.38%) Skype
8 2 (2.38%) Unified Communications
8 2 (2.38%) VLAN
9 1 (1.19%) iSCSI
9 1 (1.19%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.95%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.38%) Oracle Database
2 2 (2.38%) RDBMS
2 2 (2.38%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.19%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.19%) DynamoDB
3 1 (1.19%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.19%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.19%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (5.95%) Bitbucket
2 4 (4.76%) GitLab
2 4 (4.76%) JIRA
3 3 (3.57%) Git
4 2 (2.38%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.38%) ScriptRunner
General
1 20 (23.81%) Social Skills
2 8 (9.52%) Finance
3 5 (5.95%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (3.57%) Telecoms
5 2 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (2.38%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.19%) Advertising
6 1 (1.19%) Banking
6 1 (1.19%) Military
6 1 (1.19%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.57%) Middleware
2 2 (2.38%) REST
2 2 (2.38%) SOAP
3 1 (1.19%) .NET
3 1 (1.19%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.19%) LDAP
3 1 (1.19%) Loki
3 1 (1.19%) NETCONF
3 1 (1.19%) Node.js
3 1 (1.19%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.95%) Data Centre
1 5 (5.95%) Management Information System
1 5 (5.95%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (3.57%) Cloud Native
2 3 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (3.57%) Onboarding
2 3 (3.57%) Security Operations Centre
3 2 (2.38%) PKI
3 2 (2.38%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.19%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.19%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (1.19%) Fibre Optics
4 1 (1.19%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.19%) IVR
4 1 (1.19%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.19%) Replication
4 1 (1.19%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (1.19%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 54 (64.29%) Windows
2 32 (38.10%) Linux
3 30 (35.71%) Windows Server
4 14 (16.67%) Unix
5 6 (7.14%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (5.95%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (4.76%) AIX
8 3 (3.57%) Windows 10
8 3 (3.57%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (2.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (1.19%) Android
10 1 (1.19%) Solaris
10 1 (1.19%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (92.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 13 (15.48%) Migration
2 13 (15.48%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (11.90%) ITIL
4 8 (9.52%) Infrastructure as Code
5 7 (8.33%) Infrastructure Automation
5 7 (8.33%) Storage Management
6 6 (7.14%) Agile
6 6 (7.14%) Capacity Management
6 6 (7.14%) CI/CD
6 6 (7.14%) Configuration Management
6 6 (7.14%) DevOps
6 6 (7.14%) Performance Tuning
7 5 (5.95%) Containerisation
7 5 (5.95%) Data Protection
7 5 (5.95%) Incident Management
7 5 (5.95%) Infrastructure Management
7 5 (5.95%) Technical Analysis
8 4 (4.76%) Business Continuity
8 4 (4.76%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 22 (26.19%) Python
2 13 (15.48%) PowerShell
3 8 (9.52%) Bash
4 7 (8.33%) SQL
5 3 (3.57%) Shell Script
6 2 (2.38%) Groovy
6 2 (2.38%) Perl
7 1 (1.19%) Bicep
7 1 (1.19%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.19%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.19%) VB
7 1 (1.19%) VBA
7 1 (1.19%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 19 (22.62%) Security Cleared
2 14 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 6 (7.14%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (5.95%) Degree
4 5 (5.95%) DV Cleared
5 4 (4.76%) CCNA
5 4 (4.76%) CCNP
6 2 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.38%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (1.19%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (1.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.19%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.19%) CCDE
7 1 (1.19%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (1.19%) MCP
7 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.19%) OCA
7 1 (1.19%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (1.19%) RHCA
7 1 (1.19%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.76%) SLA
2 3 (3.57%) NIST
3 2 (2.38%) QA
4 1 (1.19%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.19%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (1.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.19%) SOC 2
System Software
1 34 (40.48%) Active Directory
2 22 (26.19%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (14.29%) Hyper-V
4 7 (8.33%) Docker
5 6 (7.14%) Virtual Servers
6 4 (4.76%) vSphere
7 3 (3.57%) DFS Replication
7 3 (3.57%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 2 (2.38%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (2.38%) VMware NSX
9 1 (1.19%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 1 (1.19%) Firmware
9 1 (1.19%) NFS
9 1 (1.19%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 1 (1.19%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (1.19%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 19 (22.62%) Ansible
2 12 (14.29%) Terraform
3 9 (10.71%) Puppet
4 8 (9.52%) SCCM
5 7 (8.33%) Kubernetes
5 7 (8.33%) Progress Chef
6 4 (4.76%) FortiGate
6 4 (4.76%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (3.57%) NetBackup
8 2 (2.38%) vCenter Server
8 2 (2.38%) WSUS
9 1 (1.19%) Grafana
9 1 (1.19%) Opsgenie
9 1 (1.19%) Oracle RMAN
9 1 (1.19%) PowerCLI
9 1 (1.19%) Prometheus
9 1 (1.19%) SCOM
9 1 (1.19%) VxRail
Vendors
1 37 (44.05%) VMware
2 26 (30.95%) Microsoft
3 14 (16.67%) Cisco
4 6 (7.14%) NetApp
5 5 (5.95%) Oracle
6 4 (4.76%) Veeam
6 4 (4.76%) Veritas
7 3 (3.57%) Citrix
7 3 (3.57%) CyberArk
7 3 (3.57%) F5
8 2 (2.38%) Atlassian
8 2 (2.38%) Dell
8 2 (2.38%) HP
8 2 (2.38%) Palo Alto
8 2 (2.38%) Proofpoint
8 2 (2.38%) Pure Storage
8 2 (2.38%) SAP
8 2 (2.38%) SolarWinds
8 2 (2.38%) Zscaler
9 1 (1.19%) Qualys