Switch Engineer Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Switch Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Switch Engineer daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £633, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 June 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 295 343 -
Rank change year-on-year +48 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Switch Engineer 8 1 0
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.082% 0.007% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.087% 0.007% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £426 - -
25th Percentile £498 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £633 - -
75th Percentile £649 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £516 £435 £425
% change year-on-year +18.68% +2.35% -2.86%

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 WFH or hybrid 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 9,146 13,793 22,729
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.94% 93.56% 95.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,162 9,284 16,131
10th Percentile £330 £325 £360
25th Percentile £413 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -2.42% +2.48%
75th Percentile £638 £637 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.42% +2.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 236 567 531
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.27 £16.98
25th Percentile £16.38 £22.59 £25.00
Median hourly rate £34.23 £44.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.20% -12.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £65.44 £63.75 £66.00
90th Percentile £76.25 £75.10 £76.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £37.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -26.67% -16.67% +80.00%

Switch Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Switch Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Switch Engineer trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Switch Engineer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Switch Engineer.

Switch Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Switch Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Switch Engineer over the 6 months to 14 June 2025.

Switch Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Switch Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 14 June 2025, Switch Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract jobs with a WFH option featuring Switch Engineer in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) Ansible
2 7 (87.50%) Social Skills
2 7 (87.50%) Python
3 5 (62.50%) Finance
3 5 (62.50%) AWS
3 5 (62.50%) Hedge funds
3 5 (62.50%) Arista
4 3 (37.50%) DNS
4 3 (37.50%) Cisco
5 2 (25.00%) CCNP
5 2 (25.00%) Service Management
5 2 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (25.00%) MPLS
5 2 (25.00%) BGP
5 2 (25.00%) VPN
5 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (25.00%) Confluence
5 2 (25.00%) Validation
5 2 (25.00%) VMware
5 2 (25.00%) PKI
5 2 (25.00%) Degree
5 2 (25.00%) JIRA
5 2 (25.00%) Atlassian
5 2 (25.00%) System Testing
5 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
5 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
5 2 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (25.00%) NsoIT
5 2 (25.00%) Critical Thinking
5 2 (25.00%) Network Virtualisation

Switch Engineer Skill Set
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 (25.00%) Confluence
2 1 (12.50%) Apache
2 1 (12.50%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
2 1 (12.50%) Mimecast
2 1 (12.50%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) DNS
2 2 (25.00%) BGP
2 2 (25.00%) IPsec
2 2 (25.00%) MPLS
2 2 (25.00%) Unified Communications
2 2 (25.00%) VPN
3 1 (12.50%) DHCP
3 1 (12.50%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 7 (87.50%) Social Skills
2 5 (62.50%) Finance
3 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) NETCONF
1 2 (25.00%) RESTCONF
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Hedge funds
2 2 (25.00%) PKI
3 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
1 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (25.00%) Critical Thinking
1 2 (25.00%) Network Virtualisation
1 2 (25.00%) NsoIT
1 2 (25.00%) Service Management
1 2 (25.00%) System Testing
1 2 (25.00%) Validation
2 1 (12.50%) Agile
2 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (12.50%) ITIL
2 1 (12.50%) PRINCE2
2 1 (12.50%) Server Building
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) CCNP
1 2 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (25.00%) Degree
1 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
2 1 (12.50%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 8 (100.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Arista
2 3 (37.50%) Cisco
3 2 (25.00%) Atlassian
3 2 (25.00%) VMware
4 1 (12.50%) Palo Alto
4 1 (12.50%) SolarWinds