Hybrid/Remote Virtual Infrastructure Contract Job Trends

Virtual Infrastructure
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Virtual Infrastructure skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 293 314 404
Rank change year-on-year +21 +90 +160
Contract jobs citing Virtual Infrastructure 15 4 19
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.16% 0.032% 0.097%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.037% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 4 15
10th Percentile - £363 £400
25th Percentile £219 £458 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £238 £554 £500
Median % change year-on-year -57.02% +10.75% -9.26%
75th Percentile £268 £585 £541
90th Percentile £365 - £650
UK median daily rate £250 £508 £500
% change year-on-year -50.74% +1.50% -18.37%

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 8,857 10,927 17,566
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 92.10% 88.10% 89.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,885 6,894 12,341
10th Percentile £325 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -1.69% -2.91%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £745
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 279 268 421
10th Percentile £13.20 £19.88 £18.49
25th Percentile £20.50 £31.13 £25.95
Median hourly rate £35.89 £43.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.53% -18.10% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £75.00 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £41.08 £42.75
% change year-on-year -38.77% -3.91% +45.83%

Virtual Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Virtual Infrastructure and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Virtual Infrastructure job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Virtual Infrastructure
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Virtual Infrastructure.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Virtual Infrastructure

Virtual Infrastructure
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Virtual Infrastructure over the 6 months to 6 October 2025.

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

Virtual Infrastructure
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 12 (80.00%) AWS
1 12 (80.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 10 (66.67%) DHCP
1 10 (66.67%) DNS
1 10 (66.67%) TCP/IP
1 10 (66.67%) VLAN
General
1 10 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (26.67%) Public Sector
3 3 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (13.33%) Finance
5 1 (6.67%) Law
5 1 (6.67%) Police
Job Titles
1 11 (73.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 10 (66.67%) Infrastructure Support
2 10 (66.67%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
2 10 (66.67%) Support Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Architect
4 2 (13.33%) Technical Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Deployment Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Service Architect
5 1 (6.67%) VMware Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 10 (66.67%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (13.33%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (13.33%) Mainframe
3 1 (6.67%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 12 (80.00%) Linux
2 10 (66.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (86.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 12 (80.00%) ITIL
3 10 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
3 10 (66.67%) Preventative Maintenance
3 10 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (66.67%) Service Management
4 2 (13.33%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (13.33%) DevOps
4 2 (13.33%) Migration
4 2 (13.33%) Risk Analysis
4 2 (13.33%) Technical Architecture
4 2 (13.33%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (13.33%) TOGAF
4 2 (13.33%) Translating Business Requirements
5 1 (6.67%) Artificial Intelligence
5 1 (6.67%) Data Management
5 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Management
5 1 (6.67%) Machine Learning
5 1 (6.67%) Performance Optimisation
5 1 (6.67%) Platform Engineering
Qualifications
1 12 (80.00%) SC Cleared
1 12 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 10 (66.67%) Azure Certification
2 10 (66.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 10 (66.67%) Network+ Certification
2 10 (66.67%) Server+ Certification
3 1 (6.67%) VCAP
3 1 (6.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 14 (93.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (80.00%) Hyper-V
3 1 (6.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Ansible
1 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (6.67%) PowerCLI
1 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (93.33%) VMware
2 10 (66.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.67%) Cisco
3 1 (6.67%) Dell
3 1 (6.67%) Pure Storage