Infrastructure Engineer Contracts in Scotland

Infrastructure Engineer
UK > Scotland

The median Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in Scotland is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 17 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
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 70 145 120
Rank change year-on-year +75 -25 -10
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 53 22 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 2.47% 0.82% 1.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.62% 0.86% 1.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 9 45
10th Percentile - £306 £315
25th Percentile £340 £335 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% - +5.88%
75th Percentile £613 £575 £580
90th Percentile £722 £630 £600
UK median daily rate £463 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -7.50% +11.11% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £59.03 -
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £61.62 £45.48
% change year-on-year -63.48% +35.48% +13.70%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Scotland. 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 Scotland with a recognized job title 2,020 2,570 3,265
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.30% 95.40% 95.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,244 1,816 2,312
10th Percentile £200 £231 £215
25th Percentile £356 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year -0.53% +2.70% +8.82%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £550
90th Percentile £650 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.82% +2.90% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 113 44 49
10th Percentile £12.30 £12.86 £15.60
25th Percentile £16.25 £14.44 £17.72
Median hourly rate £24.29 £21.71 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.88% -34.21% -12.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £59.41 £48.00
90th Percentile £66.00 £68.38 £55.87
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings that featured Infrastructure Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in Scotland

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in Scotland

Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in Scotland over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in Scotland

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in Scotland

Infrastructure Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 17 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow +30 30 £575 +3.36% 12
Edinburgh +45 18 £340 -32.00% 8
Stirling - 3 £420 -
South Lanarkshire - 2 £725 -
Infrastructure Engineer
UK

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland

For the 6 months to 17 May 2024, 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 job ads across the Scotland region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 44 (83.02%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 26 (49.06%) Social Skills
2 26 (49.06%) Windows
3 23 (43.40%) Azure
4 19 (35.85%) Linux
5 18 (33.96%) Python
6 16 (30.19%) Problem-Solving
7 15 (28.30%) Microsoft
7 15 (28.30%) PowerShell
7 15 (28.30%) Agile
8 13 (24.53%) DevOps
8 13 (24.53%) Finance
9 12 (22.64%) Security Cleared
10 11 (20.75%) SC Cleared
10 11 (20.75%) AWS
10 11 (20.75%) Unix
10 11 (20.75%) Customer Service
11 10 (18.87%) Windows Server
11 10 (18.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 9 (16.98%) Perl
12 9 (16.98%) Analytical Skills
12 9 (16.98%) High Availability
13 8 (15.09%) Cybersecurity
13 8 (15.09%) Entra ID
13 8 (15.09%) Firewall
13 8 (15.09%) Active Directory
13 8 (15.09%) Banking
13 8 (15.09%) SCCM
14 7 (13.21%) ITIL
14 7 (13.21%) SAN

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 4 (7.55%) SAS
2 1 (1.89%) CMS
2 1 (1.89%) Confluence
2 1 (1.89%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 23 (43.40%) Azure
2 11 (20.75%) AWS
3 8 (15.09%) Entra ID
4 4 (7.55%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (7.55%) OpenShift
5 3 (5.66%) IaaS
6 2 (3.77%) GCP
7 1 (1.89%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.89%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 8 (15.09%) Firewall
2 7 (13.21%) SAN
3 5 (9.43%) DNS
4 4 (7.55%) Fibre Channel
4 4 (7.55%) iSCSI
5 3 (5.66%) NAS
5 3 (5.66%) TCP/IP
6 2 (3.77%) DHCP
6 2 (3.77%) VLAN
6 2 (3.77%) VSAN
7 1 (1.89%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.55%) DB2
2 1 (1.89%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.89%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.89%) MySQL
2 1 (1.89%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (5.66%) JIRA
2 2 (3.77%) Git
2 2 (3.77%) Jenkins
General
1 26 (49.06%) Social Skills
2 13 (24.53%) Finance
3 9 (16.98%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (15.09%) Banking
5 4 (7.55%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (5.66%) Investment Banking
6 3 (5.66%) Manufacturing
6 3 (5.66%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.89%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.55%) Flash
1 4 (7.55%) POSIX
2 1 (1.89%) Redfish
2 1 (1.89%) REST
2 1 (1.89%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.32%) Data Centre
2 5 (9.43%) Clustering
3 4 (7.55%) Client/Server
3 4 (7.55%) NVMe
4 3 (5.66%) Management Information System
5 2 (3.77%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.89%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.89%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (1.89%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (1.89%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.89%) PKI
6 1 (1.89%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.89%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.89%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 26 (49.06%) Windows
2 19 (35.85%) Linux
3 11 (20.75%) Unix
4 10 (18.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (18.87%) Windows Server
5 5 (9.43%) Mac OS
5 5 (9.43%) Solaris
6 4 (7.55%) Data ONTAP
7 3 (5.66%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (3.77%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (83.02%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 16 (30.19%) Problem-Solving
3 15 (28.30%) Agile
4 13 (24.53%) DevOps
5 11 (20.75%) Customer Service
6 9 (16.98%) High Availability
7 8 (15.09%) Cybersecurity
8 7 (13.21%) ITIL
9 6 (11.32%) Infrastructure Automation
10 5 (9.43%) Compliance Management
10 5 (9.43%) Disk Encryption
10 5 (9.43%) Observability
10 5 (9.43%) Refactoring
10 5 (9.43%) SDLC
10 5 (9.43%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 4 (7.55%) Computer Science
11 4 (7.55%) Customer Requirements
11 4 (7.55%) Migration
11 4 (7.55%) OO
11 4 (7.55%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (33.96%) Python
2 15 (28.30%) PowerShell
3 9 (16.98%) Perl
4 4 (7.55%) Java
4 4 (7.55%) SQL
5 2 (3.77%) C
6 1 (1.89%) Bash
6 1 (1.89%) Elixir
6 1 (1.89%) Go
6 1 (1.89%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.89%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 12 (22.64%) Security Cleared
2 11 (20.75%) SC Cleared
3 5 (9.43%) RHCE
4 4 (7.55%) MCSE
4 4 (7.55%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (3.77%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (3.77%) MCP
6 1 (1.89%) Degree
6 1 (1.89%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (11.32%) SLA
2 3 (5.66%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (5.66%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (1.89%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 8 (15.09%) Active Directory
2 5 (9.43%) Docker
2 5 (9.43%) KVM
2 5 (9.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (7.55%) GPFS
3 4 (7.55%) Hyper-V
3 4 (7.55%) NFS
4 3 (5.66%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (3.77%) VMware NSX
6 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 1 (1.89%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 8 (15.09%) SCCM
2 6 (11.32%) Kubernetes
3 4 (7.55%) Veritas Storage Foundation
4 2 (3.77%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (3.77%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (3.77%) Terraform
4 2 (3.77%) vRealize
4 2 (3.77%) WSUS
5 1 (1.89%) Ansible
5 1 (1.89%) vCenter Server
5 1 (1.89%) vMotion
Vendors
1 15 (28.30%) Microsoft
2 6 (11.32%) Red Hat
2 6 (11.32%) VMware
3 5 (9.43%) Citrix
3 5 (9.43%) Google
3 5 (9.43%) Splunk
4 4 (7.55%) Brocade
4 4 (7.55%) Cisco
4 4 (7.55%) EMC
4 4 (7.55%) HP
4 4 (7.55%) IBM
4 4 (7.55%) NetApp
4 4 (7.55%) Sybase
4 4 (7.55%) Veritas
5 1 (1.89%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.89%) Avaya
5 1 (1.89%) Dell
5 1 (1.89%) Meraki
5 1 (1.89%) Oracle
5 1 (1.89%) SolarWinds