Hybrid/Remote Infrastructure Security Engineer Contract Job Trends

Infrastructure Security Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Infrastructure Security Engineer daily rate for remote/hybrid work is £346, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 313 310 372
Rank change year-on-year -3 +62 +125
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Security Engineer 4 7 9
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.039% 0.060% 0.052%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.042% 0.064% 0.056%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 8
10th Percentile - £450 £409
25th Percentile £341 £503 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £346 £538 £745
Median % change year-on-year -35.72% -27.85% +35.45%
75th Percentile £388 £594 £768
90th Percentile £455 £638 -
UK median daily rate £450 £525 £638
% change year-on-year -14.29% -17.65% +15.91%

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 remote/hybrid work 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 9,539 10,876 16,163
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.23% 93.12% 94.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,224 6,884 11,082
10th Percentile £329 £325 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £620 £638 £638
90th Percentile £720 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 338 199 363
10th Percentile £15.27 £18.30 £17.66
25th Percentile £20.72 £23.50 £26.25
Median hourly rate £45.46 £37.28 £53.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.94% -29.66% -3.64%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.63 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £87.90
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £34.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -26.03% -24.44% +50.00%

Infrastructure Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Roles

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Infrastructure Security Engineer' in the job title and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Infrastructure Security Engineer job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid roles

Infrastructure Security Engineer
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid Infrastructure Security Engineer job vacancies.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid Infrastructure Security Engineer job vacancies

Infrastructure Security Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Infrastructure Security Engineer over the 6 months to 16 December 2025.

Infrastructure Security Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Infrastructure Security Engineer Skill Set
Top 28 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs

For the 6 months to 16 December 2025, Infrastructure Security Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract jobs with hybrid/remote work options featuring Infrastructure Security Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco
2 1 (25.00%) CyberArk
2 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (25.00%) Firewall
2 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (25.00%) Information Security
2 1 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (25.00%) Privileged Access Management
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) RBAC
2 1 (25.00%) Systems Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
2 1 (25.00%) VMware
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
2 1 (25.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server

Infrastructure Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
General
1 1 (25.00%) Legal
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (25.00%) Information Security
2 1 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (25.00%) Privileged Access Management
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) RBAC
2 1 (25.00%) Systems Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
2 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco
1 1 (25.00%) CyberArk
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) VMware