Infrastructure Engineering Contracts with Work from Home Options

Infrastructure Engineering
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Infrastructure Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Infrastructure Engineering over the 6 months to 17 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 138 128 188
Rank change year-on-year -10 +60 -4
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 248 495 665
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.59% 1.87% 1.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.81% 2.08% 1.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 382 506
10th Percentile £280 £325 £313
25th Percentile £350 £425 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £461
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +13.82% +8.08%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £575
90th Percentile £670 £700 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £475
% change year-on-year -3.85% +9.47% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 6 4
10th Percentile £37.47 £51.63 £34.67
25th Percentile £37.63 £53.06 £45.17
Median hourly rate £40.31 £57.50 £58.25
Median % change year-on-year -29.90% -1.29% +164.77%
75th Percentile £70.00 £79.19 £71.94
90th Percentile £71.50 £87.15 £81.28
UK median hourly rate £46.18 £62.68 £50.50
% change year-on-year -26.32% +24.12% +26.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Infrastructure Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,725 23,816 41,000
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.81% 89.82% 91.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,166 16,792 29,748
10th Percentile £325 £363 £360
25th Percentile £425 £450 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +9.38%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £748 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 546 545 545
10th Percentile £14.43 £19.00 £13.50
25th Percentile £23.63 £30.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £38.12 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.69% +57.14% +32.08%
75th Percentile £57.50 £68.75 £54.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.90
UK median hourly rate £34.00 £35.90 £24.82
% change year-on-year -5.29% +44.64% -0.72%

Infrastructure Engineering
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Infrastructure Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Infrastructure Engineering trend for jobs with a WFH option

Infrastructure Engineering
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 Engineering.

Infrastructure Engineering daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Infrastructure Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Infrastructure Engineering over the 6 months to 17 April 2024.

Infrastructure Engineering daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Infrastructure Engineering
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 Engineering.

Infrastructure Engineering hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Infrastructure Engineering
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Infrastructure Engineering over the 6 months to 17 April 2024.

Infrastructure Engineering hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Infrastructure Engineering
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 26 (10.48%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (4.84%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.61%) Confluence
3 4 (1.61%) IIS
4 2 (0.81%) OpenStack
4 2 (0.81%) SharePoint 2010
4 2 (0.81%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (0.40%) Apache
5 1 (0.40%) Exchange Server 2007
5 1 (0.40%) Exchange Server 2010
5 1 (0.40%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.40%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 106 (42.74%) Azure
2 62 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
3 50 (20.16%) AWS
4 33 (13.31%) Entra ID
5 19 (7.66%) IaaS
6 12 (4.84%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (4.84%) PaaS
7 8 (3.23%) SaaS
7 8 (3.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 7 (2.82%) AWS CloudFormation
8 7 (2.82%) GCP
8 7 (2.82%) Mimecast
9 6 (2.42%) Amazon S3
9 6 (2.42%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (2.42%) Azure AKS
9 6 (2.42%) GitHub
9 6 (2.42%) Power Platform
9 6 (2.42%) Serverless
10 5 (2.02%) OneDrive
11 4 (1.61%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 42 (16.94%) Firewall
2 41 (16.53%) DNS
3 31 (12.50%) DHCP
4 23 (9.27%) SAN
5 13 (5.24%) WAN
6 11 (4.44%) LAN
7 9 (3.63%) NAS
7 9 (3.63%) Wireless
8 7 (2.82%) VPN
9 6 (2.42%) TCP/IP
10 5 (2.02%) BGP
11 4 (1.61%) Cisco ASA
11 4 (1.61%) MPLS
11 4 (1.61%) Network Security
12 3 (1.21%) Cisco ISE
12 3 (1.21%) NetScaler
12 3 (1.21%) OSPF
12 3 (1.21%) SD-WAN
12 3 (1.21%) Skype
12 3 (1.21%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (5.24%) SQL Server
2 9 (3.63%) MongoDB
3 4 (1.61%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (0.81%) Metadata
4 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Power View
4 2 (0.81%) Power BI
4 2 (0.81%) PowerPivot
4 2 (0.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (0.81%) Sybase ASE
5 1 (0.40%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.40%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.40%) Sisense
Development Applications
1 13 (5.24%) Git
2 6 (2.42%) GitLab
2 6 (2.42%) JIRA
3 5 (2.02%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.61%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.81%) Eclipse
5 2 (0.81%) GoogleTest
5 2 (0.81%) Robot Framework
5 2 (0.81%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.40%) Bitbucket Server
6 1 (0.40%) VisualWorks
General
1 48 (19.35%) Social Skills
2 26 (10.48%) Public Sector
3 21 (8.47%) Finance
4 18 (7.26%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (6.85%) Documentation Skills
6 9 (3.63%) Banking
7 6 (2.42%) Manufacturing
8 5 (2.02%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.61%) Legal
10 3 (1.21%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.21%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.81%) Front Office
11 2 (0.81%) Law
11 2 (0.81%) Local Government
11 2 (0.81%) Publishing
12 1 (0.40%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.40%) Back Office
12 1 (0.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.40%) Military
12 1 (0.40%) Retail
Job Titles
1 173 (69.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 50 (20.16%) Senior
3 43 (17.34%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 30 (12.10%) Cloud Engineer
5 26 (10.48%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 21 (8.47%) Azure Engineer
7 19 (7.66%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 15 (6.05%) AWS Engineer
9 14 (5.65%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
9 14 (5.65%) Security Engineer
10 13 (5.24%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
11 12 (4.84%) Linux Engineer
12 11 (4.44%) Infrastructure Technician
12 11 (4.44%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
13 10 (4.03%) Python Engineer
14 9 (3.63%) Senior Cloud Engineer
14 9 (3.63%) Site Engineer
14 9 (3.63%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 9 (3.63%) VMware Engineer
14 9 (3.63%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.63%) Kafka
1 9 (3.63%) RabbitMQ
2 6 (2.42%) RESTful
3 5 (2.02%) YAML
4 4 (1.61%) CSS
4 4 (1.61%) HTML
5 2 (0.81%) .NET
5 2 (0.81%) Middleware
5 2 (0.81%) Software Packaging
6 1 (0.40%) LDAP
6 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Graph
6 1 (0.40%) Node.js
6 1 (0.40%) React
6 1 (0.40%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (7.66%) Data Centre
2 15 (6.05%) NHS
3 10 (4.03%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (4.03%) PKI
4 9 (3.63%) Onboarding
5 7 (2.82%) Clustering
5 7 (2.82%) Driving Licence
6 6 (2.42%) Algorithms
6 6 (2.42%) Data Structures
6 6 (2.42%) Management Information System
7 5 (2.02%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (1.61%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.21%) Fat Client
9 3 (1.21%) Thin Client
9 3 (1.21%) Video Conferencing
10 2 (0.81%) Blackberry
10 2 (0.81%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 119 (47.98%) Windows
2 70 (28.23%) Windows Server
3 54 (21.77%) Linux
4 19 (7.66%) Windows 10
5 17 (6.85%) Windows Server 2012
6 14 (5.65%) Windows Server 2016
7 9 (3.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (2.82%) Windows 7
9 6 (2.42%) Unix
9 6 (2.42%) Windows Server 2019
10 5 (2.02%) VMS
11 4 (1.61%) Ubuntu
11 4 (1.61%) Windows Server 2003
11 4 (1.61%) Windows Server 2008
12 3 (1.21%) CentOS
13 1 (0.40%) Android
13 1 (0.40%) Apple iOS
13 1 (0.40%) Debian
13 1 (0.40%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.40%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (24.60%) DevOps
2 35 (14.11%) ITIL
3 31 (12.50%) Migration
4 30 (12.10%) Agile
5 24 (9.68%) CI/CD
6 23 (9.27%) Problem-Solving
7 19 (7.66%) Infrastructure as Code
8 13 (5.24%) Configuration Management
9 11 (4.44%) Network Management
9 11 (4.44%) Stakeholder Management
10 10 (4.03%) Customer Service
10 10 (4.03%) Vulnerability Management
11 9 (3.63%) Change Management
11 9 (3.63%) Incident Management
11 9 (3.63%) Root Cause Analysis
11 9 (3.63%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 8 (3.23%) Analytical Thinking
12 8 (3.23%) Data Migration
12 8 (3.23%) Disaster Recovery
12 8 (3.23%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 42 (16.94%) PowerShell
2 35 (14.11%) Python
3 15 (6.05%) SQL
4 14 (5.65%) Shell Script
5 10 (4.03%) Java
6 8 (3.23%) C++
7 7 (2.82%) JavaScript
8 6 (2.42%) Bash
8 6 (2.42%) Perl
9 5 (2.02%) VBScript
10 4 (1.61%) Go
11 3 (1.21%) C
11 3 (1.21%) Korn
11 3 (1.21%) Ruby
12 2 (0.81%) Bicep
12 2 (0.81%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.40%) C#
13 1 (0.40%) Smalltalk
Qualifications
1 35 (14.11%) Security Cleared
2 29 (11.69%) SC Cleared
3 16 (6.45%) Degree
4 13 (5.24%) Microsoft Certification
5 9 (3.63%) Azure Certification
6 6 (2.42%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (2.42%) MCSE
7 5 (2.02%) DV Cleared
7 5 (2.02%) MCSA
8 4 (1.61%) AWS Certification
8 4 (1.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (1.61%) CCNA
8 4 (1.61%) TOGAF Certification
9 3 (1.21%) A+ Certification
9 3 (1.21%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 3 (1.21%) CCNP
9 3 (1.21%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.21%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.81%) CCENT
10 2 (0.81%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (2.42%) SLA
3 5 (2.02%) GDPR
4 2 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (0.81%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (0.81%) ISO 9001
4 2 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 1 (0.40%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 1 (0.40%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.40%) PMO
System Software
1 93 (37.50%) Active Directory
2 49 (19.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (9.27%) vSphere
4 18 (7.26%) Hyper-V
5 12 (4.84%) XenApp
6 11 (4.44%) Virtual Machines
7 10 (4.03%) VMware NSX
8 9 (3.63%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 9 (3.63%) Docker
9 7 (2.82%) XenDesktop
10 4 (1.61%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.81%) Firmware
11 2 (0.81%) Virtual Desktop
12 1 (0.40%) DFS Replication
12 1 (0.40%) NFS
12 1 (0.40%) Terminal Services
12 1 (0.40%) vCloud
12 1 (0.40%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.40%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 36 (14.52%) SCCM
2 27 (10.89%) Kubernetes
3 22 (8.87%) Terraform
4 21 (8.47%) Ansible
5 18 (7.26%) Microsoft Intune
6 12 (4.84%) Grafana
6 12 (4.84%) Prometheus
7 11 (4.44%) WSUS
8 10 (4.03%) Consul
8 10 (4.03%) Puppet
9 7 (2.82%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 5 (2.02%) vCenter Server
11 3 (1.21%) Failover Clustering
11 3 (1.21%) Microsoft Clustering
11 3 (1.21%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
11 3 (1.21%) Red Hat Satellite
12 2 (0.81%) Jamf Pro
12 2 (0.81%) Nexpose
12 2 (0.81%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.81%) vRealize
Vendors
1 88 (35.48%) Microsoft
2 86 (34.68%) VMware
3 34 (13.71%) Citrix
4 16 (6.45%) Red Hat
5 15 (6.05%) Cisco
5 15 (6.05%) Veeam
6 14 (5.65%) HP
7 10 (4.03%) SaltStack
8 9 (3.63%) Google
9 8 (3.23%) ServiceNow
10 7 (2.82%) SolarWinds
11 5 (2.02%) CA
12 4 (1.61%) 3PAR
12 4 (1.61%) Dell
12 4 (1.61%) Ivanti
12 4 (1.61%) NetApp
12 4 (1.61%) Okta
12 4 (1.61%) Oracle
12 4 (1.61%) Qualys
12 4 (1.61%) Symantec