Infrastructure Automation Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Infrastructure Automation
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring Infrastructure Automation skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 - 79
Rank change year-on-year - - +42
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 8 0 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.26% - 1.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.34% - 1.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 13
10th Percentile £469 - £489
25th Percentile £475 - £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 - £525
75th Percentile £508 - £543
90th Percentile £513 - £565
Scotland median daily rate £500 £484 £533
% change year-on-year +3.31% -9.24% +2.16%

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 597 696 984
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 94.02% 85.09% 91.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 288 369 626
10th Percentile £304 £224 £213
25th Percentile £413 £363 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -1.25%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £538
90th Percentile £600 £638 £600
Scotland median daily rate £465 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +3.33% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 23 6
10th Percentile - £13.27 £12.41
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.50 £20.18
Median hourly rate £17.87 £22.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.77% -53.68% +153.33%
75th Percentile £44.35 £24.18 £53.74
90th Percentile £61.13 £48.84 £58.13
Scotland median hourly rate £20.40 £21.59 £19.06
% change year-on-year -5.52% +13.30% -4.01%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Infrastructure Automation

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 5 (62.50%) AWS
2 4 (50.00%) GCP
3 3 (37.50%) Azure
4 2 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (25.00%) Serverless
5 1 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (12.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (12.50%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (12.50%) InfluxDB
2 1 (12.50%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (25.00%) Liquibase
3 1 (12.50%) GitLab
General
1 1 (12.50%) Banking
1 1 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (12.50%) Finance
1 1 (12.50%) Financial Institution
1 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
1 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Platform Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) DevOps Platform Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Site Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Unix Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (25.00%) REST
1 2 (25.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (25.00%) Public Cloud
3 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (12.50%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) Linux
2 3 (37.50%) Unix
3 2 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (12.50%) Data ONTAP
4 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) DevOps
2 6 (75.00%) CI/CD
3 5 (62.50%) Agile
4 4 (50.00%) Software Engineering
5 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (25.00%) Containerisation
6 2 (25.00%) Data Security
6 2 (25.00%) DevSecOps
6 2 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (25.00%) High Availability
6 2 (25.00%) Observability
6 2 (25.00%) Software Delivery
7 1 (12.50%) Change Management
7 1 (12.50%) Computer Science
7 1 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
7 1 (12.50%) Data Protection
7 1 (12.50%) Kanban
7 1 (12.50%) Migration
7 1 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
7 1 (12.50%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) Python
2 3 (37.50%) Shell Script
3 2 (25.00%) Bash
3 2 (25.00%) Go
3 2 (25.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) AWS Certification
1 1 (12.50%) AWS Certified Developer
1 1 (12.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
1 1 (12.50%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (12.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (12.50%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 5 (62.50%) Docker
2 2 (25.00%) KVM
3 1 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (75.00%) Grafana
2 5 (62.50%) Ansible
2 5 (62.50%) Kubernetes
2 5 (62.50%) Terraform
3 3 (37.50%) Prometheus
4 1 (12.50%) HAProxy
4 1 (12.50%) Nagios
4 1 (12.50%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle
1 2 (25.00%) Splunk
2 1 (12.50%) Commvault
2 1 (12.50%) Google
2 1 (12.50%) NetApp
2 1 (12.50%) Palo Alto
2 1 (12.50%) Red Hat