Infrastructure Automation Contracts in Edinburgh

Infrastructure Automation
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring Infrastructure Automation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Infrastructure Automation over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 71 88
Rank change year-on-year +8 +17 +31
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 4 1 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.64% 0.12% 1.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% 0.14% 1.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 24
10th Percentile £327 - -
25th Percentile £356 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £408 £525 £519
Median % change year-on-year -22.38% +1.16% -25.86%
75th Percentile £456 £538 £557
90th Percentile £482 - £572
Scotland median daily rate £486 £693 £525
% change year-on-year -29.87% +32.00% -12.13%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

Infrastructure Automation 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 594 720 1,240
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 95.04% 88.34% 95.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 333 422 884
10th Percentile £214 £233 £254
25th Percentile £403 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £484 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.59% +1.79% -
75th Percentile £541 £575 £545
90th Percentile £630 £663 £625
Scotland median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 31 11
10th Percentile - £15.10 £13.16
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.44 £22.87 £21.26
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% +7.57% -46.85%
75th Percentile £25.59 £60.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £42.35 - £54.50
Scotland median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
% change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%

Infrastructure Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Infrastructure Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Automation in Edinburgh

Infrastructure Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Automation in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Automation in Edinburgh

Infrastructure Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Automation in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Automation in Edinburgh

Infrastructure Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Run
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (25.00%) Google Compute Engine
2 1 (25.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 1 (25.00%) Stackdriver
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) InfluxDB
1 1 (25.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (75.00%) GitLab
3 2 (50.00%) TeamCity
General
1 2 (50.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Unix Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Data ONTAP
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Unix
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps
1 3 (75.00%) High Availability
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Operations
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Cost Optimisation
3 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (25.00%) Kanban
3 1 (25.00%) Problem Management
3 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Runbook
3 1 (25.00%) Scrum
3 1 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Storage Management
3 1 (25.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Python
1 2 (50.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (25.00%) Bash
2 1 (25.00%) Perl
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (25.00%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
1 1 (25.00%) KVM
1 1 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (25.00%) Grafana
2 1 (25.00%) HAProxy
2 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Nagios
2 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Satellite
2 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Splunk
2 1 (25.00%) Commvault
2 1 (25.00%) Dynatrace
2 1 (25.00%) Google
2 1 (25.00%) NetApp
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (25.00%) Red Hat