Infrastructure Engineering Contracts in Edinburgh

Infrastructure Engineering
Scotland > Edinburgh

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

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 32 81
Rank change year-on-year -27 +49 +20
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 10 49 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.52% 5.61% 1.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.60% 6.60% 1.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 41 14
10th Percentile £403 - £315
25th Percentile £406 - £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £340 £525
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -35.24% +23.53%
75th Percentile £456 £494 £594
90th Percentile £468 £634 £618
Scotland median daily rate £500 £425 £525
% change year-on-year +17.65% -19.05% +23.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

Infrastructure Engineering 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 624 742 1,117
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 95.12% 84.99% 93.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 325 418 780
10th Percentile £223 £213 £232
25th Percentile £400 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £454 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -4.47% -0.84%
75th Percentile £534 £550 £538
90th Percentile £600 £650 £600
Scotland median daily rate £463 £453 £475
% change year-on-year +2.21% -4.63% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 33 6
10th Percentile £17.00 £13.22 £17.21
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.25 £21.36
Median hourly rate £19.37 £19.17 £32.09
Median % change year-on-year +1.02% -40.25% +42.92%
75th Percentile £28.38 £60.75 £51.25
90th Percentile £62.00 - £58.13
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £21.64 £14.50
% change year-on-year -7.58% +49.24% -59.96%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineering in Edinburgh

Infrastructure Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Engineering in Edinburgh

Infrastructure Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Engineering in Edinburgh

Infrastructure Engineering
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (10.00%) Azure
2 1 (10.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) LAN
1 3 (30.00%) WAN
2 2 (20.00%) Firewall
2 2 (20.00%) MPLS
2 2 (20.00%) Network Security
2 2 (20.00%) SDH
3 1 (10.00%) ADSL
3 1 (10.00%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (10.00%) IPsec
3 1 (10.00%) PSTN
3 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (10.00%) VPN
3 1 (10.00%) Wireless
3 1 (10.00%) WLAN
General
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Electronics
2 2 (20.00%) Telecoms
3 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Legal
3 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Security Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Telecoms Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Build Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Field Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Field Telecoms Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Lead
3 1 (10.00%) Mac Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Network Field Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Project Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Mac Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Web Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) Java RMI
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (20.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (20.00%) Driving Licence
2 2 (20.00%) Fibre Optics
3 1 (10.00%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (10.00%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (10.00%) PKI
3 1 (10.00%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 5 (50.00%) Windows
2 3 (30.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (10.00%) Linux
3 1 (10.00%) Mac OS
3 1 (10.00%) Unix
3 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (30.00%) Data Protection
2 3 (30.00%) Project Delivery
3 2 (20.00%) Change Management
3 2 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (20.00%) Process Management
3 2 (20.00%) Project Management
3 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (10.00%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (10.00%) Change Control
4 1 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (10.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 1 (10.00%) Email Filtering
4 1 (10.00%) Kalman Filter
4 1 (10.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (10.00%) Performance Monitoring
4 1 (10.00%) SIEM
4 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (10.00%) User Experience
4 1 (10.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (10.00%) Bash
2 1 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (20.00%) HNC
1 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) BC Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) QA
1 1 (10.00%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (10.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (10.00%) ProxySG
2 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (20.00%) Terraform
2 1 (10.00%) Ansible
2 1 (10.00%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (10.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (30.00%) Cisco
3 2 (20.00%) Nokia
4 1 (10.00%) Apple
4 1 (10.00%) Blue Coat
4 1 (10.00%) Citrix
4 1 (10.00%) Fortinet
4 1 (10.00%) Meraki
4 1 (10.00%) Qualys
4 1 (10.00%) Symantec
4 1 (10.00%) VMware