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 21 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 276 298 374
Rank change year-on-year +22 +76 +182
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Infrastructure Management 31 36 53
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.31% 0.28% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 0.32% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 17 41
10th Percentile £461 £363 £444
25th Percentile £500 £488 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +9.79%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £650
90th Percentile £650 £695 £725
UK median daily rate £569 £523 £575
% change year-on-year +8.85% -9.13% +5.02%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,136 11,355 19,132
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.99% 87.22% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,089 7,563 13,519
10th Percentile £325 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 291 363 457
10th Percentile £12.62 £18.31 £17.08
25th Percentile £17.21 £30.47 £25.00
Median hourly rate £34.48 £43.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.81% -14.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.63 £67.50
90th Percentile £68.75 £75.00 £79.51
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.50 £40.69
% change year-on-year -37.90% -0.47% +53.55%

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 Hybrid Work Options

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Infrastructure Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Infrastructure Management

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 21 August 2025.

Infrastructure Management daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Infrastructure Management
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Infrastructure Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Infrastructure Management

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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.23%) Apache
2 1 (3.23%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.23%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 19 (61.29%) Azure
2 12 (38.71%) AWS
3 8 (25.81%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (9.68%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (9.68%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (6.45%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (6.45%) Azure Key Vault
5 2 (6.45%) IaaS
5 2 (6.45%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (3.23%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (3.23%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (3.23%) AWS Fargate
6 1 (3.23%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (3.23%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (3.23%) Entra ID
6 1 (3.23%) GitHub
6 1 (3.23%) PaaS
6 1 (3.23%) Power Automate
6 1 (3.23%) Power Platform
6 1 (3.23%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 9 (29.03%) Firewall
2 7 (22.58%) LAN
2 7 (22.58%) VPN
3 6 (19.35%) 4G
3 6 (19.35%) DHCP
3 6 (19.35%) DNS
3 6 (19.35%) Network Security
3 6 (19.35%) TCP/IP
3 6 (19.35%) WAN
3 6 (19.35%) Wireless
4 2 (6.45%) Internet
4 2 (6.45%) SSL
5 1 (3.23%) Bluetooth
5 1 (3.23%) NAS
5 1 (3.23%) SAN
5 1 (3.23%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.68%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.23%) Big Data
2 1 (3.23%) DynamoDB
2 1 (3.23%) Flink
2 1 (3.23%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (6.45%) Git
1 2 (6.45%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.23%) Cucumber
2 1 (3.23%) GitLab
2 1 (3.23%) JIRA
2 1 (3.23%) JUnit
2 1 (3.23%) Maven
General
1 12 (38.71%) Social Skills
2 1 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (3.23%) Aviation
2 1 (3.23%) Finance
2 1 (3.23%) Public Sector
2 1 (3.23%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (41.94%) Senior
2 8 (25.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (19.35%) Azure Engineer
3 6 (19.35%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (12.90%) Platform Engineer
4 4 (12.90%) Senior Platform Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) Azure Platform Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) Developer
6 2 (6.45%) Analyst
6 2 (6.45%) Automation Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Azure Consultant
6 2 (6.45%) Backend Developer
6 2 (6.45%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Consultant
6 2 (6.45%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Lead
6 2 (6.45%) Senior DevOps
6 2 (6.45%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 1 (3.23%) AWS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.45%) GraphQL
1 2 (6.45%) Jest
1 2 (6.45%) JWT
1 2 (6.45%) OAuth
1 2 (6.45%) RESTful
2 1 (3.23%) ARM Templates
2 1 (3.23%) Bootstrap
2 1 (3.23%) CSS
2 1 (3.23%) CSS3
2 1 (3.23%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (3.23%) HTML
2 1 (3.23%) HTML5
2 1 (3.23%) Node.js
2 1 (3.23%) React
2 1 (3.23%) React Native
2 1 (3.23%) Redux
2 1 (3.23%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 7 (22.58%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (19.35%) Hybrid Cloud
2 6 (19.35%) Legacy Applications
2 6 (19.35%) Security Operations Centre
3 2 (6.45%) Cloud Native
3 2 (6.45%) Data Centre
3 2 (6.45%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (6.45%) Mobile App
3 2 (6.45%) Virtual Team
4 1 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.23%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 10 (32.26%) Windows
2 7 (22.58%) Linux
3 1 (3.23%) Android
3 1 (3.23%) Apple iOS
3 1 (3.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (3.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (54.84%) CI/CD
1 17 (54.84%) DevOps
2 14 (45.16%) Mentoring
3 13 (41.94%) Incident Management
4 10 (32.26%) High Availability
4 10 (32.26%) Infrastructure as Code
5 9 (29.03%) Data Privacy
5 9 (29.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 8 (25.81%) Business Continuity
6 8 (25.81%) Containerisation
6 8 (25.81%) Migration
6 8 (25.81%) Proactive Management
6 8 (25.81%) Security Operations
7 7 (22.58%) Business Strategy
7 7 (22.58%) Inventory Management
7 7 (22.58%) Software Licensing
8 6 (19.35%) Data Protection
9 5 (16.13%) Cloud Security
10 4 (12.90%) Clean Code
10 4 (12.90%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 6 (19.35%) PowerShell
2 3 (9.68%) Python
3 2 (6.45%) Go
4 1 (3.23%) Bash
4 1 (3.23%) Java
4 1 (3.23%) Shell Script
4 1 (3.23%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (16.13%) CCNA
1 5 (16.13%) CCNP
1 5 (16.13%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (9.68%) Azure Certification
2 3 (9.68%) SC Cleared
2 3 (9.68%) Security Cleared
3 2 (6.45%) CISSP
4 1 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.23%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (32.26%) GDPR
2 6 (19.35%) NIST
3 2 (6.45%) HIPAA
4 1 (3.23%) Accessibility
4 1 (3.23%) QA
System Software
1 3 (9.68%) Active Directory
2 2 (6.45%) Docker
2 2 (6.45%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (6.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.23%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 11 (35.48%) Terraform
2 7 (22.58%) FortiGate
3 4 (12.90%) Kubernetes
4 3 (9.68%) Grafana
4 3 (9.68%) Prometheus
5 2 (6.45%) Ansible
5 2 (6.45%) Kibana
5 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (6.45%) Progress Chef
6 1 (3.23%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (19.35%) Microsoft
2 3 (9.68%) VMware
3 2 (6.45%) Forcepoint
4 1 (3.23%) CA Agile Central
4 1 (3.23%) Dell
4 1 (3.23%) Google
4 1 (3.23%) NetApp
4 1 (3.23%) Red Hat
4 1 (3.23%) ServiceNow