Hybrid/Remote Network Infrastructure Engineer Contract Job Trends

Network Infrastructure Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Network Infrastructure Engineer daily rate for remote/hybrid work is £513, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 7 November 2025.

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

 6 months to
7 Nov 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 298 322 378
Rank change year-on-year +24 +56 +177
Contract jobs requiring a Network Infrastructure Engineer 13 5 23
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.13% 0.041% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.044% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 20
10th Percentile £461 £380 £386
25th Percentile £478 £425 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% - +13.64%
75th Percentile £553 £550 £745
90th Percentile £574 £580 -
UK median daily rate £638 £413 £525
% change year-on-year +54.55% -21.43% +23.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile £30.20 - -
25th Percentile £32.00 - £62.63
Median hourly rate £34.00 - £67.27
75th Percentile £35.00 - £71.90
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £34.00 £45.00 £67.27
% change year-on-year -24.44% -33.10% -

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 9,485 11,381 17,528
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.71% 93.21% 94.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,212 7,148 12,283
10th Percentile £325 £325 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.19% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £645
90th Percentile £725 £738 £740
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 329 201 381
10th Percentile £14.83 £19.30 £17.14
25th Percentile £20.50 £25.50 £25.95
Median hourly rate £41.68 £42.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.93% -15.00% -
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.61 £70.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £73.75 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.00 £44.75
% change year-on-year -32.03% -17.32% +54.84%

Network Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Roles

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

Network Infrastructure Engineer job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid roles

Network Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

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

Network Infrastructure Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid Network Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid Network Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies

Network Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs

For the 6 months to 7 November 2025, Network Infrastructure 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 Network Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 12 (92.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 10 (76.92%) Firewall
3 8 (61.54%) TCP/IP
4 7 (53.85%) Palo Alto
5 5 (38.46%) Ansible
5 5 (38.46%) AWS
5 5 (38.46%) FortiGate
5 5 (38.46%) SC Cleared
5 5 (38.46%) Security Cleared
5 5 (38.46%) VMware
5 5 (38.46%) WAN
5 5 (38.46%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (30.77%) Agile
6 4 (30.77%) Azure
6 4 (30.77%) Cisco
6 4 (30.77%) DevOps
6 4 (30.77%) F5
6 4 (30.77%) HP
6 4 (30.77%) Hyper-V
6 4 (30.77%) Middleware
6 4 (30.77%) Performance Optimisation
6 4 (30.77%) SAN
6 4 (30.77%) Terraform
6 4 (30.77%) VLAN
7 3 (23.08%) CheckPoint
7 3 (23.08%) CI/CD
7 3 (23.08%) GitLab
7 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure Automation
7 3 (23.08%) JIRA

Network Infrastructure 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (38.46%) AWS
2 4 (30.77%) Azure
3 2 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon ELB
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon S3
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Direct Connect
4 1 (7.69%) GCP
4 1 (7.69%) GitHub
4 1 (7.69%) OCI
4 1 (7.69%) Route 53
4 1 (7.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (76.92%) Firewall
2 8 (61.54%) TCP/IP
3 5 (38.46%) WAN
3 5 (38.46%) Wi-Fi
4 4 (30.77%) SAN
4 4 (30.77%) VLAN
5 3 (23.08%) LAN
5 3 (23.08%) Network Security
6 2 (15.38%) BIG-IP
6 2 (15.38%) Cisco ASA
6 2 (15.38%) Cisco ISE
6 2 (15.38%) DNS
6 2 (15.38%) NGFW
6 2 (15.38%) SSL
6 2 (15.38%) VPN
7 1 (7.69%) HTTP
7 1 (7.69%) SD-WAN
7 1 (7.69%) VXLAN
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) GitLab
1 3 (23.08%) JIRA
2 2 (15.38%) Jenkins
3 1 (7.69%) Git
General
1 4 (30.77%) Local Government
1 4 (30.77%) Public Sector
2 2 (15.38%) Military
3 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (30.77%) Middleware
2 1 (7.69%) OAuth
2 1 (7.69%) OAuth2
2 1 (7.69%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (53.85%) Data Centre
2 2 (15.38%) PKI
3 1 (7.69%) Private Cloud
3 1 (7.69%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Linux
1 1 (7.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (92.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (30.77%) Agile
2 4 (30.77%) DevOps
2 4 (30.77%) Performance Optimisation
3 3 (23.08%) CI/CD
3 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure Automation
3 3 (23.08%) Load Balancing
4 2 (15.38%) Asset Management
4 2 (15.38%) ITIL
4 2 (15.38%) Migration
5 1 (7.69%) Cloud Security
5 1 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (7.69%) High Availability
5 1 (7.69%) Incident Response
5 1 (7.69%) Load Testing
5 1 (7.69%) OWASP
5 1 (7.69%) Product Management
5 1 (7.69%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (7.69%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (23.08%) Python
2 2 (15.38%) PowerShell
3 1 (7.69%) Bash
3 1 (7.69%) Perl
3 1 (7.69%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (38.46%) SC Cleared
1 5 (38.46%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) Degree
2 1 (7.69%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 4 (30.77%) Hyper-V
2 2 (15.38%) Docker
3 1 (7.69%) VMware NSX
3 1 (7.69%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (38.46%) Ansible
1 5 (38.46%) FortiGate
2 4 (30.77%) Terraform
3 1 (7.69%) Grafana
3 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
3 1 (7.69%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (53.85%) Palo Alto
2 5 (38.46%) VMware
3 4 (30.77%) Cisco
3 4 (30.77%) F5
3 4 (30.77%) HP
4 3 (23.08%) CheckPoint
5 2 (15.38%) Aruba
5 2 (15.38%) ServiceNow
5 2 (15.38%) SolarWinds
6 1 (7.69%) Arista
19 hybrid/remote Network Infrastructure Engineer jobs