Hybrid/Remote Senior Infrastructure Engineer Contract Job Trends

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Senior Infrastructure Engineer daily rate for remote/hybrid work is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025.

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

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 298 306 311
Rank change year-on-year +8 +5 +177
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 10 19 62
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.098% 0.16% 0.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.17% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 8 50
10th Percentile £443 £362 £413
25th Percentile £475 £421 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £511 £488
Median % change year-on-year +17.36% +4.87% -11.36%
75th Percentile £638 £591 £625
90th Percentile £643 £623 £768
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +15.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £70.00 - £67.50
Median hourly rate £75.00 £60.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -14.29% -
75th Percentile £80.00 - £72.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £79.50 £60.00 £72.50
% change year-on-year +32.50% -17.24% -

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 9,476 10,969 16,322
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.22% 93.14% 94.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,182 6,942 11,190
10th Percentile £326 £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 £619 £638 £638
90th Percentile £719 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 340 202 362
10th Percentile £15.18 £18.50 £17.19
25th Percentile £20.62 £23.50 £26.24
Median hourly rate £45.46 £37.75 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +20.42% -28.10% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £87.38
UK median hourly rate £25.47 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -27.23% -21.35% +48.33%

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Roles

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

Senior Infrastructure Engineer job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid roles

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

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

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Senior Infrastructure Engineer over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

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

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

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

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

For the 6 months to 14 December 2025, Senior 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 Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 7 (70.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (70.00%) Terraform
3 6 (60.00%) Ansible
3 6 (60.00%) AWS
3 6 (60.00%) DNS
3 6 (60.00%) Docker
3 6 (60.00%) SC Cleared
4 5 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 5 (50.00%) DevOps
4 5 (50.00%) Firewall
4 5 (50.00%) Python
4 5 (50.00%) TCP/IP
5 4 (40.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (40.00%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (40.00%) Amazon ELB
5 4 (40.00%) Amazon S3
5 4 (40.00%) Bash
5 4 (40.00%) CheckPoint
5 4 (40.00%) F5
5 4 (40.00%) Git
5 4 (40.00%) GitLab
5 4 (40.00%) High Availability
5 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (40.00%) Jenkins
5 4 (40.00%) Palo Alto
5 4 (40.00%) SSL
5 4 (40.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 4 (40.00%) VPN
5 4 (40.00%) Windows

Senior 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (10.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) AWS
2 4 (40.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 4 (40.00%) Amazon EC2
2 4 (40.00%) Amazon ELB
2 4 (40.00%) Amazon S3
2 4 (40.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 2 (20.00%) Azure
3 2 (20.00%) Google Workspace
3 2 (20.00%) SaaS
4 1 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (10.00%) IaaS
4 1 (10.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (60.00%) DNS
2 5 (50.00%) Firewall
2 5 (50.00%) TCP/IP
3 4 (40.00%) SSL
3 4 (40.00%) VPN
4 3 (30.00%) Network Security
5 1 (10.00%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Git
1 4 (40.00%) GitLab
1 4 (40.00%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (10.00%) Military
2 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (10.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (20.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 4 (40.00%) Windows
2 2 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 5 (50.00%) DevOps
3 4 (40.00%) High Availability
3 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (30.00%) DevSecOps
4 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Automation
5 2 (20.00%) Containerisation
5 2 (20.00%) Incident Response
5 2 (20.00%) Mobile Device Management
5 2 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
5 2 (20.00%) SIEM
5 2 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (20.00%) User Experience
6 1 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
6 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Management
6 1 (10.00%) ITIL
6 1 (10.00%) Mentoring
6 1 (10.00%) Root Cause Analysis
6 1 (10.00%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) Python
2 4 (40.00%) Bash
3 2 (20.00%) PowerShell
4 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (70.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (60.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (10.00%) CCNA
3 1 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (10.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 6 (60.00%) Docker
2 2 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (20.00%) Hyper-V
2 2 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (70.00%) Terraform
2 6 (60.00%) Ansible
3 3 (30.00%) Kubernetes
4 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (10.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) CheckPoint
1 4 (40.00%) F5
1 4 (40.00%) Palo Alto
2 2 (20.00%) Google
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) VMware
2 2 (20.00%) Zscaler
3 1 (10.00%) Cisco