Virtual Infrastructure Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Virtual Infrastructure
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Virtual Infrastructure skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Virtual Infrastructure over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 303 336 452
Rank change year-on-year +33 +116 +156
Contract jobs citing Virtual Infrastructure 1 9 25
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.010% 0.059% 0.097%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.011% 0.067% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 8 16
10th Percentile - - £323
25th Percentile £408 £500 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £600 £475
Median % change year-on-year -30.83% +26.32% -20.83%
75th Percentile £423 £700 £510
90th Percentile - - £545
UK median daily rate £500 £538 £500
% change year-on-year -7.06% +7.60% -18.03%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Virtual Infrastructure 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Virtual Infrastructure
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Virtual Infrastructure as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Virtual Infrastructure trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Virtual Infrastructure
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Virtual Infrastructure daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Virtual Infrastructure
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Asana
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) IT Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) IT Support
1 1 (100.00%) IT Support Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior IT Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior IT Support
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Support Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Investment Management
1 1 (100.00%) ITSM
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Service Management
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Plesk
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Meraki
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Palo Alto
1 1 (100.00%) Rackspace
1 1 (100.00%) Zscaler