Windows Infrastructure Engineer Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Windows Infrastructure Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Windows Infrastructure Engineer daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £363, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 300 340 466
Rank change year-on-year +40 +126 +144
Contract jobs requiring a Windows Infrastructure Engineer 4 5 11
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.040% 0.033% 0.043%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.043% 0.035% 0.045%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 6
10th Percentile £319 - £456
25th Percentile £333 £319 £515
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 £450 £545
Median % change year-on-year -19.44% -17.43% +28.24%
75th Percentile £385 £594 £573
90th Percentile - - £575
UK median daily rate £380 £475 £518
% change year-on-year -20.00% -8.21% +21.76%

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 9,288 14,354 24,650
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.77% 93.54% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,350 9,595 17,415
10th Percentile £337 £325 £360
25th Percentile £414 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.69% +2.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 579 565
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.19 £23.39 £26.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £44.74 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.06% -18.65% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.00 £63.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Windows Infrastructure Engineer trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Windows Infrastructure 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 Windows Infrastructure Engineer.

Windows Infrastructure Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Windows Infrastructure 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 Windows Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) DNS
3 2 (50.00%) Migration
3 2 (50.00%) VMware
3 2 (50.00%) Linux
3 2 (50.00%) DHCP
4 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (25.00%) Server Virtualisation
4 1 (25.00%) Security Monitoring
4 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (25.00%) ITIL
4 1 (25.00%) Software Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (25.00%) SCCM
4 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
4 1 (25.00%) Hyper-V
4 1 (25.00%) Azure
4 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (25.00%) Software Deployment
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Management
4 1 (25.00%) Performance Monitoring
4 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (25.00%) Patch Management
4 1 (25.00%) Server Building
4 1 (25.00%) Windows 10

Windows Infrastructure 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) DNS
2 2 (50.00%) DHCP
3 1 (25.00%) SSL
3 1 (25.00%) VPN
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 2 (50.00%) Linux
3 1 (25.00%) Windows 10
3 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Change Management
3 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (25.00%) ITIL
3 1 (25.00%) ITSM
3 1 (25.00%) Patch Management
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Monitoring
3 1 (25.00%) Security Monitoring
3 1 (25.00%) Server Building
3 1 (25.00%) Server Virtualisation
3 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Software Deployment
3 1 (25.00%) Software Testing
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (25.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (25.00%) HP
2 1 (25.00%) Remedy