IT Infrastructure Engineer Contracts with Work from Home Options

IT Infrastructure Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median IT Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in Work from Home is £358 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 335 450 590
Rank change year-on-year +115 +140 -101
Contract jobs requiring an IT Infrastructure Engineer 6 5 29
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.041% 0.020% 0.065%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.044% 0.021% 0.068%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 28
10th Percentile £328 £305 £185
25th Percentile £333 £342 £354
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £416 £385
Median % change year-on-year -14.11% +8.12% +27.27%
75th Percentile £374 £499 £425
90th Percentile £375 £540 £456
UK median daily rate £408 £475 £385
% change year-on-year -14.21% +23.38% +18.46%

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%

IT Infrastructure Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

IT Infrastructure Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

IT Infrastructure Engineer
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 IT Infrastructure Engineer.

IT Infrastructure Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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

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

1 6 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 5 (83.33%) Active Directory
3 4 (66.67%) Windows
3 4 (66.67%) VMware
3 4 (66.67%) Hyper-V
3 4 (66.67%) Azure
3 4 (66.67%) Public Sector
4 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (50.00%) DNS
4 3 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (50.00%) Linux
4 3 (50.00%) DHCP
5 2 (33.33%) Firewall
5 2 (33.33%) Citrix
5 2 (33.33%) SAN
5 2 (33.33%) NHS
5 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
5 2 (33.33%) Information Security
5 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (33.33%) Entra ID
5 2 (33.33%) Windows Server
5 2 (33.33%) Server Management
6 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
6 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (16.67%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
6 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security

IT 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (16.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (33.33%) Entra ID
4 1 (16.67%) AWS
4 1 (16.67%) GCP
4 1 (16.67%) IaaS
4 1 (16.67%) Mimecast
4 1 (16.67%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) DHCP
1 3 (50.00%) DNS
2 2 (33.33%) Firewall
2 2 (33.33%) SAN
3 1 (16.67%) LAN
3 1 (16.67%) VPN
3 1 (16.67%) WAN
General
1 4 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) NHS
2 1 (16.67%) PKI
2 1 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Windows
2 3 (50.00%) Linux
3 2 (33.33%) Windows Server
4 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) Information Security
3 2 (33.33%) Server Management
4 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security
4 1 (16.67%) Critical Thinking
4 1 (16.67%) Desktop Virtualisation
4 1 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (16.67%) Informatics
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Management
4 1 (16.67%) ITIL
4 1 (16.67%) Service Delivery
4 1 (16.67%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (83.33%) Active Directory
2 4 (66.67%) Hyper-V
3 3 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (16.67%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (16.67%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (16.67%) Nessus
1 1 (16.67%) SCCM
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 4 (66.67%) VMware
3 2 (33.33%) Citrix
4 1 (16.67%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (16.67%) HP
4 1 (16.67%) SolarWinds