Infrastructure as Code Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Infrastructure as Code (IaC, Infra as Code)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring Infrastructure as Code skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 34 39
Rank change year-on-year +11 +5 +14
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 45 36 51
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 7.53% 5.46% 5.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.15% 6.09% 5.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 22 40
10th Percentile £420 £446 £400
25th Percentile £475 £457 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £486 £480
Median % change year-on-year +5.82% +1.15% -4.00%
75th Percentile £547 £510 £538
90th Percentile £588 £525 £569
Scotland median daily rate £500 £477 £503
% change year-on-year +4.77% -5.17% -4.14%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

Infrastructure as Code falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 552 591 862
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 92.31% 89.68% 91.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 280 307 528
10th Percentile £225 £205 £212
25th Percentile £411 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £550 £538 £550
90th Percentile £625 £638 £625
Scotland median daily rate £464 £450 £493
% change year-on-year +3.06% -8.63% +3.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 26 9
10th Percentile £16.68 £16.59 £12.95
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.47 £17.72
Median hourly rate £19.19 £23.59 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.67% -32.60% +64.63%
75th Percentile £55.00 £24.18 £53.70
90th Percentile £71.75 - £61.70
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £22.94 £19.18
% change year-on-year -12.81% +19.59% +3.68%

Infrastructure as Code
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Infrastructure as Code relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Infrastructure as Code job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Infrastructure as Code
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Infrastructure as Code.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Infrastructure as Code

Infrastructure as Code
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure as Code in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 9 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure as Code in Edinburgh

Infrastructure as Code
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (8.89%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (4.44%) Apache
3 1 (2.22%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (2.22%) Confluence
3 1 (2.22%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 37 (82.22%) AWS
2 21 (46.67%) Amazon S3
3 19 (42.22%) Serverless
4 15 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
5 13 (28.89%) AWS CloudFormation
6 12 (26.67%) Amazon EKS
6 12 (26.67%) OpenShift
7 10 (22.22%) Azure
8 8 (17.78%) GCP
9 7 (15.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 7 (15.56%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (13.33%) Amazon ECS
10 6 (13.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 5 (11.11%) Amazon SQS
12 4 (8.89%) Power Platform
12 4 (8.89%) Textract
13 2 (4.44%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 2 (4.44%) AWS Control Tower
13 2 (4.44%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 2 (4.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.67%) HTTP
2 2 (4.44%) Firewall
2 2 (4.44%) VPN
3 1 (2.22%) DHCP
3 1 (2.22%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (17.78%) Amazon Aurora
1 8 (17.78%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (11.11%) MongoDB
3 4 (8.89%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (8.89%) NoSQL
4 2 (4.44%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (4.44%) InfluxDB
4 2 (4.44%) Power BI
4 2 (4.44%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.22%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (2.22%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (2.22%) DynamoDB
5 1 (2.22%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 11 (24.44%) Jenkins
2 6 (13.33%) Cypress.io
2 6 (13.33%) Git
3 5 (11.11%) GitLab
4 3 (6.67%) Liquibase
5 2 (4.44%) JIRA
5 2 (4.44%) MLflow
6 1 (2.22%) Cucumber
6 1 (2.22%) Maven
6 1 (2.22%) Snyk
6 1 (2.22%) webpack
General
1 15 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 8 (17.78%) Social Skills
3 7 (15.56%) Banking
3 7 (15.56%) Finance
4 3 (6.67%) Retail Banking
5 2 (4.44%) Back Office
6 1 (2.22%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.22%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.22%) Legal
Job Titles
1 9 (20.00%) Developer
2 5 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
2 5 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (11.11%) Site Engineer
2 5 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 4 (8.89%) Platform Engineer
3 4 (8.89%) Python Engineer
4 3 (6.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 3 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
4 3 (6.67%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 3 (6.67%) Senior
4 3 (6.67%) Software Engineer
5 2 (4.44%) Architect
5 2 (4.44%) Azure Platform Engineer
5 2 (4.44%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 2 (4.44%) Data Architect
5 2 (4.44%) DevOps Platform Engineer
5 2 (4.44%) Lead
5 2 (4.44%) Network Engineer
5 2 (4.44%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (35.56%) AWS CDK
2 11 (24.44%) REST
3 10 (22.22%) PyTorch
4 7 (15.56%) OAuth
4 7 (15.56%) React
5 6 (13.33%) FastAPI
5 6 (13.33%) OpenCV
5 6 (13.33%) Pandas
5 6 (13.33%) SQLAlchemy
6 5 (11.11%) CSS
6 5 (11.11%) HTML
6 5 (11.11%) Hugging Face
6 5 (11.11%) NumPy
7 4 (8.89%) boto
7 4 (8.89%) JWT
7 4 (8.89%) RESTful
7 4 (8.89%) SpaCy
7 4 (8.89%) Spring
7 4 (8.89%) Spring Boot
8 3 (6.67%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 12 (26.67%) Cloud Native
2 4 (8.89%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (6.67%) Algorithms
3 3 (6.67%) Data Structures
3 3 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (6.67%) Public Cloud
4 2 (4.44%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (4.44%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.22%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.22%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.22%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.22%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 10 (22.22%) Linux
2 6 (13.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (11.11%) Unix
4 2 (4.44%) Oracle Linux
4 2 (4.44%) Windows
5 1 (2.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (73.33%) Agile
2 28 (62.22%) CI/CD
3 26 (57.78%) DevOps
4 14 (31.11%) Containerisation
5 12 (26.67%) Observability
6 11 (24.44%) Microservices
7 10 (22.22%) AI
7 10 (22.22%) Kanban
7 10 (22.22%) Machine Learning
7 10 (22.22%) TDD
8 9 (20.00%) Scrum
9 8 (17.78%) OCR
10 7 (15.56%) Disaster Recovery
10 7 (15.56%) Mentoring
10 7 (15.56%) Pair Programming
10 7 (15.56%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 6 (13.33%) LLM
11 6 (13.33%) OOP
11 6 (13.33%) Software Engineering
11 6 (13.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 26 (57.78%) Python
2 13 (28.89%) TypeScript
3 9 (20.00%) JavaScript
4 8 (17.78%) Bash
5 6 (13.33%) Java
6 5 (11.11%) Perl
7 4 (8.89%) Go
7 4 (8.89%) PowerShell
8 3 (6.67%) Shell Script
8 3 (6.67%) SQL
9 1 (2.22%) Bicep
9 1 (2.22%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 5 (11.11%) AWS Certification
2 3 (6.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 3 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (6.67%) Degree
2 3 (6.67%) Master's Degree
3 2 (4.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (4.44%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.44%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.22%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (17.78%) Accessibility
2 2 (4.44%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.22%) NCSC
3 1 (2.22%) NIST
System Software
1 19 (42.22%) Docker
2 4 (8.89%) KVM
3 1 (2.22%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 21 (46.67%) Grafana
1 21 (46.67%) Kubernetes
1 21 (46.67%) Terraform
2 14 (31.11%) Ansible
3 9 (20.00%) Prometheus
4 4 (8.89%) Red Hat Satellite
5 2 (4.44%) Fluentd
5 2 (4.44%) HAProxy
5 2 (4.44%) Nagios
6 1 (2.22%) Argo
6 1 (2.22%) Karpenter
6 1 (2.22%) Kibana
6 1 (2.22%) linkerd
6 1 (2.22%) vRealize
6 1 (2.22%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 6 (13.33%) Oracle
2 4 (8.89%) Red Hat
2 4 (8.89%) Splunk
3 3 (6.67%) Commvault
3 3 (6.67%) Google
4 2 (4.44%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.22%) Dynatrace
5 1 (2.22%) ForgeRock
5 1 (2.22%) IBM
5 1 (2.22%) IBM Sterling
5 1 (2.22%) Ping Identity
5 1 (2.22%) VMware