Infrastructure Engineering Contracts with Work from Home Options

Infrastructure Engineering
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Infrastructure Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Infrastructure Engineering over the 6 months to 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 146 124 171
Rank change year-on-year -22 +47 +15
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 217 482 718
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.48% 2.02% 1.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.69% 2.25% 1.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 165 360 558
10th Percentile £229 £324 £313
25th Percentile £350 £425 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +16.67% +2.27%
75th Percentile £588 £650 £575
90th Percentile £650 £709 £638
UK median daily rate £488 £520 £475
% change year-on-year -6.16% +9.37% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 8 1
10th Percentile - £51.25 -
25th Percentile £37.63 £55.00 -
Median hourly rate £40.25 £57.50 £27.67
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +107.81% +25.77%
75th Percentile £42.88 £62.50 -
90th Percentile - £78.11 -
UK median hourly rate £54.88 £65.00 £29.73
% change year-on-year -15.58% +118.67% -25.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Infrastructure Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,810 21,394 40,150
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.31% 89.63% 91.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,622 15,186 29,240
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 573 497 521
10th Percentile £14.90 £18.50 £14.50
25th Percentile £23.75 £25.75 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +31.25% +68.42%
75th Percentile £60.00 £67.50 £59.00
90th Percentile £74.40 £78.30 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £35.80 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.96% +39.41% +11.65%

Infrastructure Engineering
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Infrastructure Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Infrastructure Engineering trend for jobs with a WFH option

Infrastructure Engineering
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 Engineering.

Infrastructure Engineering daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Infrastructure Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Infrastructure Engineering over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Infrastructure Engineering daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Infrastructure Engineering
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Infrastructure Engineering hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Infrastructure Engineering
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 32 (14.75%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (6.91%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.76%) Confluence
4 5 (2.30%) IIS
5 2 (0.92%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.92%) SharePoint 2010
5 2 (0.92%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (0.46%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.46%) Exchange Server 2007
6 1 (0.46%) Exchange Server 2010
6 1 (0.46%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (1.84%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.92%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.46%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.46%) Revit
Business Applications
1 1 (0.46%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (0.46%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 80 (36.87%) Azure
2 53 (24.42%) Microsoft 365
3 48 (22.12%) AWS
4 25 (11.52%) Entra ID
5 10 (4.61%) AWS Lambda
5 10 (4.61%) IaaS
5 10 (4.61%) Serverless
6 9 (4.15%) Amazon S3
7 8 (3.69%) Amazon EC2
7 8 (3.69%) Power Platform
8 7 (3.23%) AWS CloudFormation
8 7 (3.23%) PaaS
8 7 (3.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 6 (2.76%) GCP
10 5 (2.30%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (2.30%) OneDrive
10 5 (2.30%) SaaS
11 4 (1.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (1.84%) Mimecast
12 3 (1.38%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 33 (15.21%) DNS
2 31 (14.29%) Firewall
3 27 (12.44%) DHCP
4 14 (6.45%) SAN
5 8 (3.69%) WAN
5 8 (3.69%) Wireless
6 7 (3.23%) NAS
7 5 (2.30%) LAN
8 4 (1.84%) BGP
8 4 (1.84%) NetScaler
8 4 (1.84%) Network Security
8 4 (1.84%) TCP/IP
8 4 (1.84%) VPN
9 3 (1.38%) Cisco ASA
9 3 (1.38%) Remote Desktop
10 2 (0.92%) Cisco ISE
10 2 (0.92%) MPLS
10 2 (0.92%) OSPF
10 2 (0.92%) SD-WAN
10 2 (0.92%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (6.91%) MongoDB
2 10 (4.61%) SQL Server
3 8 (3.69%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (1.84%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (1.84%) Power BI
5 3 (1.38%) Informix
6 2 (0.92%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (0.92%) Metadata
6 2 (0.92%) Microsoft Power View
6 2 (0.92%) PowerPivot
6 2 (0.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (0.92%) Sybase ASE
7 1 (0.46%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.46%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.46%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.46%) Couchbase
7 1 (0.46%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.46%) Data Vault
7 1 (0.46%) InfluxDB
7 1 (0.46%) Sisense
Development Applications
1 8 (3.69%) JIRA
2 5 (2.30%) Git
3 4 (1.84%) GitLab
4 2 (0.92%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.92%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.46%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.46%) Selenium
5 1 (0.46%) VisualWorks
General
1 48 (22.12%) Social Skills
2 26 (11.98%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (11.06%) Public Sector
4 22 (10.14%) Finance
5 16 (7.37%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (3.23%) Banking
7 6 (2.76%) Manufacturing
8 5 (2.30%) Military
9 4 (1.84%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.38%) Legal
10 3 (1.38%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.92%) Front Office
11 2 (0.92%) Law
11 2 (0.92%) Local Government
11 2 (0.92%) Publishing
12 1 (0.46%) Back Office
12 1 (0.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.46%) Marketing
12 1 (0.46%) Retail
Job Titles
1 148 (68.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 36 (16.59%) Senior
3 29 (13.36%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 19 (8.76%) Cloud Engineer
5 16 (7.37%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 12 (5.53%) Azure Engineer
6 12 (5.53%) Infrastructure Technician
6 12 (5.53%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 11 (5.07%) AWS Engineer
8 10 (4.61%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 10 (4.61%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
8 10 (4.61%) Security Engineer
8 10 (4.61%) Site Engineer
9 9 (4.15%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
10 7 (3.23%) Architect
10 7 (3.23%) IT Engineer
10 7 (3.23%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
10 7 (3.23%) Python Engineer
11 6 (2.76%) DevOps Engineer
11 6 (2.76%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (5.07%) Kafka
2 10 (4.61%) RabbitMQ
3 9 (4.15%) RESTful
4 3 (1.38%) AWS CDK
4 3 (1.38%) J2EE
4 3 (1.38%) Middleware
4 3 (1.38%) Spring Boot
5 2 (0.92%) .NET
5 2 (0.92%) CSS
5 2 (0.92%) HTML
6 1 (0.46%) JMS
6 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Graph
6 1 (0.46%) Node.js
6 1 (0.46%) Pandas
6 1 (0.46%) React
6 1 (0.46%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (6.91%) NHS
2 11 (5.07%) Data Centre
2 11 (5.07%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (4.61%) PKI
4 9 (4.15%) Algorithms
4 9 (4.15%) Data Structures
5 7 (3.23%) Driving Licence
5 7 (3.23%) Replication
6 6 (2.76%) Management Information System
7 5 (2.30%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.84%) Clustering
9 3 (1.38%) Cloud Native
9 3 (1.38%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 3 (1.38%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.38%) Security Posture
9 3 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.38%) Video Conferencing
10 2 (0.92%) Blackberry
10 2 (0.92%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (0.92%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 100 (46.08%) Windows
2 53 (24.42%) Windows Server
3 41 (18.89%) Linux
4 17 (7.83%) Windows 10
4 17 (7.83%) Windows Server 2012
5 10 (4.61%) Windows Server 2016
6 8 (3.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (2.76%) Unix
8 5 (2.30%) Windows 7
8 5 (2.30%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (1.84%) Windows Server 2003
9 4 (1.84%) Windows Server 2008
10 3 (1.38%) CentOS
10 3 (1.38%) Mac OS
10 3 (1.38%) VMS
11 2 (0.92%) Rocky
11 2 (0.92%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.46%) Android
12 1 (0.46%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.46%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (24.88%) DevOps
2 36 (16.59%) ITIL
3 32 (14.75%) Migration
4 28 (12.90%) Problem-Solving
5 25 (11.52%) Agile
6 22 (10.14%) CI/CD
7 16 (7.37%) Infrastructure as Code
8 13 (5.99%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 12 (5.53%) Analytical Thinking
9 12 (5.53%) Network Management
10 11 (5.07%) Microservices
11 10 (4.61%) Vulnerability Remediation
12 9 (4.15%) Configuration Management
12 9 (4.15%) Information Security
12 9 (4.15%) Task Automation
12 9 (4.15%) Vulnerability Management
13 8 (3.69%) Disaster Recovery
14 7 (3.23%) Change Management
14 7 (3.23%) Scrum
14 7 (3.23%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 31 (14.29%) Python
2 27 (12.44%) PowerShell
3 18 (8.29%) SQL
4 16 (7.37%) Shell Script
5 15 (6.91%) Java
6 11 (5.07%) C++
7 7 (3.23%) Go
8 6 (2.76%) JavaScript
9 4 (1.84%) VBScript
10 3 (1.38%) Bash
10 3 (1.38%) C
10 3 (1.38%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.92%) Bicep
11 2 (0.92%) C#
11 2 (0.92%) Perl
11 2 (0.92%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.46%) Smalltalk
Qualifications
1 28 (12.90%) Security Cleared
2 26 (11.98%) SC Cleared
3 14 (6.45%) Degree
4 12 (5.53%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (3.23%) MCSE
6 6 (2.76%) Azure Certification
6 6 (2.76%) MCSA
7 5 (2.30%) AWS Certification
8 4 (1.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (1.84%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.38%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 3 (1.38%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (1.38%) DV Cleared
9 3 (1.38%) ITIL Certification
9 3 (1.38%) TOGAF Certification
9 3 (1.38%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 2 (0.92%) CCNP
10 2 (0.92%) JNCIP
10 2 (0.92%) MCITP
11 1 (0.46%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.23%) SLA
2 5 (2.30%) GDPR
3 2 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 2 (0.92%) ISO 9001
3 2 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 1 (0.46%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.46%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 78 (35.94%) Active Directory
2 35 (16.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (7.83%) Hyper-V
4 15 (6.91%) vSphere
5 10 (4.61%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 9 (4.15%) Docker
6 9 (4.15%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (3.23%) XenApp
8 5 (2.30%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (2.30%) VMware NSX
9 4 (1.84%) XenDesktop
10 3 (1.38%) Virtual Desktop
11 2 (0.92%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.46%) DFS Replication
12 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.46%) Terminal Services
12 1 (0.46%) vCloud
12 1 (0.46%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 24 (11.06%) Kubernetes
2 23 (10.60%) SCCM
3 20 (9.22%) Terraform
4 18 (8.29%) Ansible
5 16 (7.37%) Grafana
6 13 (5.99%) Prometheus
7 10 (4.61%) Consul
8 9 (4.15%) Microsoft Intune
9 6 (2.76%) Puppet
9 6 (2.76%) WSUS
10 3 (1.38%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.92%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.92%) Nessus
11 2 (0.92%) Nexpose
11 2 (0.92%) Salt
11 2 (0.92%) SCOM
11 2 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.92%) vCenter Server
12 1 (0.46%) CASB
12 1 (0.46%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 83 (38.25%) Microsoft
2 70 (32.26%) VMware
3 25 (11.52%) Citrix
4 15 (6.91%) Veeam
5 13 (5.99%) HP
6 12 (5.53%) SaltStack
7 11 (5.07%) Cisco
8 8 (3.69%) Red Hat
9 7 (3.23%) Oracle
9 7 (3.23%) SolarWinds
10 6 (2.76%) Google
10 6 (2.76%) Qualys
11 5 (2.30%) Ivanti
11 5 (2.30%) ServiceNow
11 5 (2.30%) Symantec
12 4 (1.84%) CA
12 4 (1.84%) Juniper
13 3 (1.38%) CrowdStrike
13 3 (1.38%) Dell
13 3 (1.38%) Meraki