Infrastructure Engineering Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Infrastructure Engineering
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring Infrastructure Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 59 32
Rank change year-on-year +10 -27 +47
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 20 8 44
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 2.62% 1.25% 5.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.03% 1.31% 5.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 2 38
10th Percentile £350 £403 -
25th Percentile £422 £406 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £451 £425 £340
Median % change year-on-year +6.00% +25.00% -35.24%
75th Percentile £544 £456 £484
90th Percentile £596 £468 £634
Scotland median daily rate £560 £500 £420
% change year-on-year +12.00% +19.05% -20.00%

All Process & 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 660 612 738
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 86.50% 95.92% 85.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 331 335 434
10th Percentile £338 £244 £214
25th Percentile £408 £402 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £463 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.11% -2.53% -
75th Percentile £553 £538 £556
90th Percentile £650 £600 £656
Scotland median daily rate £460 £460 £463
% change year-on-year - -0.54% -2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 18 33
10th Percentile £17.86 - £13.30
25th Percentile £50.00 £17.30 £16.25
Median hourly rate £53.75 £22.00 £19.17
Median % change year-on-year +144.32% +14.76% -1.64%
75th Percentile £75.00 £27.45 £60.75
90th Percentile £81.24 £50.06 -
Scotland median hourly rate £19.67 £19.97 £19.50
% change year-on-year -1.53% +2.41% +34.48%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Infrastructure Engineering job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Infrastructure Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

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

Infrastructure Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 1 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in Edinburgh

Infrastructure Engineering
Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Infrastructure Engineering.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Infrastructure Engineering

Infrastructure Engineering
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 1 (5.00%) CICS
1 1 (5.00%) JBoss
1 1 (5.00%) Red Hat Fuse
1 1 (5.00%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 7 (35.00%) Nutanix
2 4 (20.00%) Azure
3 3 (15.00%) AWS
3 3 (15.00%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (10.00%) GCP
4 2 (10.00%) GitHub
4 2 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (5.00%) Entra ID
5 1 (5.00%) OpenShift
5 1 (5.00%) Power Platform
5 1 (5.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.00%) DNS
2 2 (10.00%) DHCP
2 2 (10.00%) Firewall
3 1 (5.00%) HTTP
3 1 (5.00%) LAN
3 1 (5.00%) SAN
3 1 (5.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (5.00%) VPN
3 1 (5.00%) VXLAN
3 1 (5.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) GitLab
1 2 (10.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 3 (15.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Banking
4 1 (5.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 17 (85.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 8 (40.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 8 (40.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
2 8 (40.00%) Senior
2 8 (40.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
2 8 (40.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (30.00%) Industrial Engineer
3 6 (30.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (30.00%) SCADA Engineer
4 5 (25.00%) IT Engineer
4 5 (25.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) CICS Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Cloud Security Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Security Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Windows Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) z/OS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (5.00%) REST
1 1 (5.00%) Vue
1 1 (5.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (35.00%) Operational Technology
2 6 (30.00%) SCADA
3 2 (10.00%) Data Centre
4 1 (5.00%) Cloud Native
4 1 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (5.00%) Mainframe
4 1 (5.00%) Online Banking
4 1 (5.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 5 (25.00%) Windows
2 2 (10.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (5.00%) Linux
3 1 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (5.00%) Windows 10
3 1 (5.00%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (5.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (20.00%) ITIL
1 4 (20.00%) Migration
2 3 (15.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (10.00%) Cloud Security
3 2 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (10.00%) DevOps
3 2 (10.00%) Incident Management
3 2 (10.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 2 (10.00%) Zero Trust
4 1 (5.00%) Agile
4 1 (5.00%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (5.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (5.00%) Data Protection
4 1 (5.00%) Integration Patterns
4 1 (5.00%) JVM Tuning
4 1 (5.00%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (5.00%) Process Improvement
4 1 (5.00%) Refactoring
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.00%) Bash
1 2 (10.00%) Java
1 2 (10.00%) Python
2 1 (5.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (5.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) ITIL Certification
1 2 (10.00%) MCSE
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (5.00%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (5.00%) NCSC
2 1 (5.00%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (15.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (10.00%) Docker
2 2 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (5.00%) Hyper-V
3 1 (5.00%) RACF
3 1 (5.00%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (10.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (10.00%) Terraform
2 1 (5.00%) SCCM
2 1 (5.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (35.00%) Veeam
2 4 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (10.00%) Cisco
3 2 (10.00%) Fortinet
3 2 (10.00%) Google
3 2 (10.00%) Palo Alto
3 2 (10.00%) VMware
4 1 (5.00%) EnterpriseDB
4 1 (5.00%) IBM
4 1 (5.00%) Qualys
4 1 (5.00%) Red Hat