Infrastructure Support Contracts with Work from Home Options

Infrastructure Support
UK > Work from Home

The median Infrastructure Support daily rate in Work from Home is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 June 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 341 440 602
Rank change year-on-year +99 +162 -113
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Support 8 19 24
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.055% 0.078% 0.054%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.058% 0.082% 0.057%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 12 18
10th Percentile £271 £325 £239
25th Percentile £453 £400 £286
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +5.88% +33.33%
75th Percentile £504 £503 £444
90th Percentile £522 £601 £491
UK median daily rate £340 £400 £400
% change year-on-year -15.00% - +10.34%

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 13,696 23,095 42,294
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.53% 95.27% 95.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,252 16,383 30,711
10th Percentile £325 £360 £359
25th Percentile £425 £444 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £631
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 566 531 565
10th Percentile £14.26 £16.98 £13.60
25th Percentile £22.84 £25.00 £19.50
Median hourly rate £44.87 £52.50 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.53% +32.91% +70.19%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.13 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £77.50 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +14.34%

Infrastructure Support
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Infrastructure Support trend for jobs with a WFH option

Infrastructure Support
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 Support.

Infrastructure Support daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Infrastructure Support
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Infrastructure Support over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Infrastructure Support daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 2 June 2024, Infrastructure Support 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 Support in the job title.

1 6 (75.00%) Windows
1 6 (75.00%) Windows Server
2 5 (62.50%) Organisational Skills
2 5 (62.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (62.50%) AWS
2 5 (62.50%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (62.50%) ServiceNow
2 5 (62.50%) Windows 10
2 5 (62.50%) SCCM
2 5 (62.50%) Time Management
2 5 (62.50%) Finance
2 5 (62.50%) VMware
2 5 (62.50%) ITIL
2 5 (62.50%) SLA
2 5 (62.50%) Microsoft
2 5 (62.50%) Active Directory
2 5 (62.50%) Citrix
3 4 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 4 (50.00%) Data Centre
3 4 (50.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
4 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (12.50%) Service Delivery
5 1 (12.50%) Firewall
5 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
5 1 (12.50%) McAfee
5 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
5 1 (12.50%) SharePoint
5 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (12.50%) Data Protection
5 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared

Infrastructure Support 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 (12.50%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) AWS
1 5 (62.50%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
General
1 5 (62.50%) Finance
1 5 (62.50%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 6 (75.00%) Windows
1 6 (75.00%) Windows Server
2 5 (62.50%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) ITIL
1 5 (62.50%) Time Management
2 4 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (50.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
3 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (12.50%) Data Protection
4 1 (12.50%) Service Delivery
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (62.50%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (62.50%) Active Directory
1 5 (62.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (62.50%) SCCM
2 1 (12.50%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Citrix
1 5 (62.50%) Microsoft
1 5 (62.50%) ServiceNow
1 5 (62.50%) VMware
2 1 (12.50%) McAfee