Infrastructure Management Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Infrastructure Management
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Infrastructure Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Infrastructure Management over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 278 305 439
Rank change year-on-year +27 +134 +118
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Management 26 40 38
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.26% 0.26% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.30% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 17 23
10th Percentile £358 £424 £379
25th Percentile £435 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% +3.77%
75th Percentile £604 £675 £688
90th Percentile £616 - £760
UK median daily rate £550 £475 £538
% change year-on-year +15.79% -11.63% +2.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Infrastructure Management 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 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Infrastructure Management
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Infrastructure Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

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

Infrastructure Management
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 Management.

Infrastructure Management daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Infrastructure Management
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Infrastructure Management over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Infrastructure Management daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Infrastructure Management
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 Management.

Infrastructure Management hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Infrastructure Management
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 16 (61.54%) Azure
2 9 (34.62%) AWS
3 5 (19.23%) GCP
4 4 (15.38%) AWS CloudFormation
4 4 (15.38%) Azure Sentinel
4 4 (15.38%) Snowflake
5 3 (11.54%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (11.54%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (11.54%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (11.54%) Serverless
6 2 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (7.69%) Amazon S3
6 2 (7.69%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (7.69%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (7.69%) Entra ID
6 2 (7.69%) GitHub
6 2 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (3.85%) Amazon ECR
7 1 (3.85%) Amazon EventBridge
7 1 (3.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (38.46%) DNS
2 9 (34.62%) Firewall
3 8 (30.77%) TCP/IP
3 8 (30.77%) VPN
4 4 (15.38%) DHCP
5 3 (11.54%) 4G
5 3 (11.54%) LAN
5 3 (11.54%) Network Security
5 3 (11.54%) SSL
5 3 (11.54%) WAN
5 3 (11.54%) Wireless
6 2 (7.69%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (15.38%) Data Lake
1 4 (15.38%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (15.38%) Hadoop
2 2 (7.69%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (3.85%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (3.85%) DynamoDB
3 1 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (30.77%) Jenkins
2 2 (7.69%) Git
2 2 (7.69%) GitLab
3 1 (3.85%) CircleCI
General
1 6 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 3 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (11.54%) Public Sector
3 2 (7.69%) Finance
4 1 (3.85%) Military
Job Titles
1 7 (26.92%) Senior
2 5 (19.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (15.38%) Architect
3 4 (15.38%) Azure Engineer
3 4 (15.38%) Data Architect
3 4 (15.38%) Platform Architect
4 3 (11.54%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Analyst
5 2 (7.69%) Azure Consultant
5 2 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Consultant
5 2 (7.69%) Developer
5 2 (7.69%) Senior DevOps
5 2 (7.69%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Active Directory Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (3.85%) Integration Developer
6 1 (3.85%) SCCM Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (7.69%) Node.js
2 1 (3.85%) boto
2 1 (3.85%) JSON
2 1 (3.85%) React
2 1 (3.85%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (19.23%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (15.38%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (11.54%) Security Operations Centre
4 2 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (7.69%) Legacy Applications
4 2 (7.69%) Replication
5 1 (3.85%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 9 (34.62%) Windows
2 7 (26.92%) Linux
3 2 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (7.69%) Windows Server
4 1 (3.85%) Windows 10
4 1 (3.85%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (57.69%) DevOps
2 14 (53.85%) CI/CD
3 13 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 8 (30.77%) Mentoring
5 7 (26.92%) High Availability
5 7 (26.92%) Infrastructure Automation
6 6 (23.08%) Containerisation
6 6 (23.08%) Incident Management
6 6 (23.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 5 (19.23%) Analytics
7 5 (19.23%) Business Continuity
7 5 (19.23%) Data Management
7 5 (19.23%) Data Strategy
7 5 (19.23%) Migration
7 5 (19.23%) Network Virtualisation
7 5 (19.23%) Platform Engineering
7 5 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (15.38%) Data Encryption
8 4 (15.38%) Proactive Management
8 4 (15.38%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 7 (26.92%) Python
2 4 (15.38%) Bash
2 4 (15.38%) PowerShell
3 1 (3.85%) Bicep
3 1 (3.85%) Shell Script
3 1 (3.85%) SQL
3 1 (3.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (19.23%) Azure Certification
2 3 (11.54%) CCNA
2 3 (11.54%) CCNP
2 3 (11.54%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (11.54%) SC Cleared
2 3 (11.54%) Security Cleared
3 2 (7.69%) CISSP
4 1 (3.85%) AWS Certification
4 1 (3.85%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.85%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (15.38%) GDPR
2 2 (7.69%) HIPAA
2 2 (7.69%) NIST
System Software
1 7 (26.92%) Docker
2 4 (15.38%) Active Directory
3 2 (7.69%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (3.85%) Hyper-V
4 1 (3.85%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 14 (53.85%) Terraform
2 8 (30.77%) Kubernetes
3 6 (23.08%) Ansible
4 3 (11.54%) FortiGate
5 2 (7.69%) Grafana
5 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (7.69%) Prometheus
6 1 (3.85%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (3.85%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (15.38%) Databricks
1 4 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.69%) Forcepoint
2 2 (7.69%) Red Hat
2 2 (7.69%) VMware
3 1 (3.85%) HP
3 1 (3.85%) Remedy
3 1 (3.85%) Salesforce
3 1 (3.85%) ServiceNow
3 1 (3.85%) SolarWinds
3 1 (3.85%) Splunk