Infrastructure Engineer Contracts in Edinburgh

Infrastructure Engineer
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in Edinburgh is £456 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 57 106 98
Rank change year-on-year +49 -8 -5
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 16 6 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.95% 0.47% 1.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.04% 0.49% 1.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 5 21
10th Percentile - £318 £325
25th Percentile £340 £335 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £450 £407
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +10.57% -4.24%
75th Percentile £491 £575 £475
90th Percentile £511 £590 £575
Scotland median daily rate £500 £413 £450
% change year-on-year +21.17% -8.30% +5.88%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Edinburgh

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh. 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 Edinburgh with a recognized job title 784 1,233 1,859
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.38% 95.58% 96.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 446 882 1,278
10th Percentile £203 £250 £230
25th Percentile £407 £405 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £545 £550
90th Percentile £663 £625 £638
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £458
% change year-on-year - +3.83% +7.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 14 23
10th Percentile £16.10 £14.53 £11.98
25th Percentile £17.86 £17.72 £17.50
Median hourly rate £50.00 £21.26 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +135.18% -1.12% -62.61%
75th Percentile £60.75 £53.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £66.00 £63.60 £53.75
Scotland median hourly rate £35.00 £23.18 £25.55
% change year-on-year +50.99% -9.26% -36.14%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in Edinburgh

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in Edinburgh

Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in Edinburgh

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in Edinburgh

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

For the 6 months to 26 April 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 Edinburgh region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 16 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 7 (43.75%) Social Skills
3 6 (37.50%) Customer Service
3 6 (37.50%) Azure
4 5 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (25.00%) Windows
5 4 (25.00%) Microsoft
5 4 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (18.75%) Cybersecurity
6 3 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (18.75%) SC Cleared
6 3 (18.75%) Security Cleared
6 3 (18.75%) SCCM
6 3 (18.75%) MCSE
6 3 (18.75%) ITIL
6 3 (18.75%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (18.75%) Avaya
6 3 (18.75%) Change Management
6 3 (18.75%) Validation
6 3 (18.75%) CMS
6 3 (18.75%) Retail Banking
6 3 (18.75%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (18.75%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (12.50%) Compliance Management
7 2 (12.50%) Windows Server
7 2 (12.50%) High Availability
7 2 (12.50%) Security Operations
7 2 (12.50%) Knowledge Transfer
7 2 (12.50%) Public Sector

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (18.75%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 6 (37.50%) Azure
2 4 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (12.50%) AWS
4 1 (6.25%) GCP
4 1 (6.25%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) Firewall
General
1 7 (43.75%) Social Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Retail Banking
3 2 (12.50%) Finance
3 2 (12.50%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Clustering
1 2 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (6.25%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 4 (25.00%) Windows
2 2 (12.50%) Linux
2 2 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (12.50%) Solaris
2 2 (12.50%) Windows Server
3 1 (6.25%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (37.50%) Customer Service
3 5 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (18.75%) Change Management
4 3 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (18.75%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (18.75%) ITIL
4 3 (18.75%) Validation
5 2 (12.50%) Compliance Management
5 2 (12.50%) Data Protection
5 2 (12.50%) High Availability
5 2 (12.50%) Knowledge Transfer
5 2 (12.50%) Security Operations
6 1 (6.25%) CI/CD
6 1 (6.25%) Collaborative Culture
6 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure as Code
6 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Automation
6 1 (6.25%) Observability
6 1 (6.25%) Server Management
6 1 (6.25%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) MCSE
1 3 (18.75%) Microsoft Certification
1 3 (18.75%) SC Cleared
1 3 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 2 (12.50%) ITIL Certification
2 2 (12.50%) RHCE
3 1 (6.25%) Degree
3 1 (6.25%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (18.75%) Cyber Essentials
1 3 (18.75%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 2 (12.50%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (12.50%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Active Directory
1 2 (12.50%) Hyper-V
1 2 (12.50%) KVM
2 1 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (18.75%) SCCM
2 1 (6.25%) WSUS
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (18.75%) Avaya
3 2 (12.50%) Red Hat
4 1 (6.25%) Citrix
4 1 (6.25%) Dynatrace
4 1 (6.25%) VMware