Infrastructure Specialist Contracts with Work from Home Options

Infrastructure Specialist
UK > Work from Home

The median Infrastructure Specialist daily rate in Work from Home is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 322 431 590
Rank change year-on-year +109 +159 -109
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Specialist 19 24 29
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.13% 0.097% 0.065%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.10% 0.068%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 15 25
10th Percentile £475 £295 £288
25th Percentile £488 £394 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £513
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% -1.46% +50.74%
75th Percentile £536 £600 £625
90th Percentile £556 £658 £640
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +17.65%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 13,766 23,608 42,537
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.49% 95.27% 95.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,304 16,691 30,789
10th Percentile £325 £363 £356
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +9.38%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +8.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 559 541 595
10th Percentile £14.23 £17.50 £13.50
25th Percentile £22.59 £25.71 £19.45
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +50.00% +45.83%
75th Percentile £63.75 £67.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £79.19 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Infrastructure Specialist
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Infrastructure Specialist in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Infrastructure Specialist trend for jobs with a WFH option

Infrastructure Specialist
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Infrastructure Specialist.

Infrastructure Specialist daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Infrastructure Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Infrastructure Specialist over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Infrastructure Specialist daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 20 May 2024, Infrastructure Specialist 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 Infrastructure Specialist in the job title.

1 10 (52.63%) Windows
1 10 (52.63%) VMware
1 10 (52.63%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (47.37%) ITIL
2 9 (47.37%) Microsoft
3 8 (42.11%) Linux
3 8 (42.11%) AWS
3 8 (42.11%) Windows Server
4 7 (36.84%) Active Directory
4 7 (36.84%) Citrix
4 7 (36.84%) Finance
5 6 (31.58%) Unix
5 6 (31.58%) SLA
5 6 (31.58%) Security Patching
5 6 (31.58%) Data Centre
5 6 (31.58%) Qualys
5 6 (31.58%) Ansible
6 5 (26.32%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (26.32%) SCCM
6 5 (26.32%) Time Management
6 5 (26.32%) Windows 10
6 5 (26.32%) Vulnerability Management
6 5 (26.32%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (26.32%) ServiceNow
6 5 (26.32%) Azure
6 5 (26.32%) Disaster Recovery
7 4 (21.05%) Migration
7 4 (21.05%) Configuration Management
7 4 (21.05%) Puppet
7 4 (21.05%) Virtual Infrastructure

Infrastructure Specialist 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 1 (5.26%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 8 (42.11%) AWS
2 5 (26.32%) Azure
2 5 (26.32%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (10.53%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.53%) Fibre Channel
1 2 (10.53%) NetScaler
1 2 (10.53%) SAN
2 1 (5.26%) Firewall
2 1 (5.26%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
General
1 7 (36.84%) Finance
2 5 (26.32%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 6 (31.58%) Data Centre
2 3 (15.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 3 (15.79%) Management Information System
3 2 (10.53%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 10 (52.63%) Windows
2 8 (42.11%) Linux
2 8 (42.11%) Windows Server
3 6 (31.58%) Unix
4 5 (26.32%) Windows 10
5 2 (10.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (5.26%) CentOS
6 1 (5.26%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (47.37%) ITIL
2 6 (31.58%) Security Patching
3 5 (26.32%) Disaster Recovery
3 5 (26.32%) Time Management
3 5 (26.32%) Vulnerability Management
4 4 (21.05%) Configuration Management
4 4 (21.05%) Migration
4 4 (21.05%) Virtual Infrastructure
5 2 (10.53%) Agile
5 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Automation
5 2 (10.53%) Performance Tuning
5 2 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (10.53%) Test Automation
5 2 (10.53%) Vulnerability Remediation
6 1 (5.26%) Asset Management
6 1 (5.26%) Change Control
6 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure as Code
6 1 (5.26%) Mentoring
6 1 (5.26%) Problem Management
6 1 (5.26%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.53%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (10.53%) Citrix Certification
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (10.53%) SC Cleared
1 2 (10.53%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.26%) CEH
2 1 (5.26%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (31.58%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (52.63%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (36.84%) Active Directory
3 2 (10.53%) XenApp
3 2 (10.53%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 6 (31.58%) Ansible
2 5 (26.32%) SCCM
3 4 (21.05%) Puppet
4 3 (15.79%) Progress Chef
4 3 (15.79%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (52.63%) VMware
2 9 (47.37%) Microsoft
3 7 (36.84%) Citrix
4 6 (31.58%) Qualys
5 5 (26.32%) ServiceNow
6 3 (15.79%) Red Hat
7 2 (10.53%) Brocade