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 9 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 51 54
Rank change year-on-year +1 +3 +41
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 15 12 30
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 2.51% 1.97% 3.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.81% 2.10% 3.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 4 17
10th Percentile £469 £417 £425
25th Percentile £497 £443 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £471 £475
Median % change year-on-year +6.16% -0.84% -9.52%
75th Percentile £600 £527 £634
90th Percentile £623 £601 £635
Scotland median daily rate £500 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% +5.56%

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 534 571 814
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 89.30% 93.91% 90.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 262 310 490
10th Percentile £189 £193 £220
25th Percentile £406 £377 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £588 £538 £550
90th Percentile £675 £638 £638
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £480
% change year-on-year - -6.25% +1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 27 26
10th Percentile £17.23 £20.30 £13.27
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.02 £16.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £23.59 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +69.56% -32.60% +64.63%
75th Percentile £72.00 £24.18 £60.75
90th Percentile £81.24 £30.74 -
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £23.59 £19.50
% change year-on-year -15.22% +20.97% +12.54%

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 9 February 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 4 (26.67%) Confluence
2 1 (6.67%) CICS
2 1 (6.67%) JBoss
2 1 (6.67%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 7 (46.67%) AWS
2 6 (40.00%) Azure
3 4 (26.67%) GCP
4 3 (20.00%) OCI
5 2 (13.33%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (6.67%) Amazon S3
6 1 (6.67%) Apigee
6 1 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (6.67%) AWS Fargate
6 1 (6.67%) OpenShift
6 1 (6.67%) Route 53
6 1 (6.67%) Serverless
6 1 (6.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (33.33%) Firewall
2 2 (13.33%) DHCP
2 2 (13.33%) DNS
3 1 (6.67%) LAN
3 1 (6.67%) SAN
3 1 (6.67%) VLAN
3 1 (6.67%) VPN
3 1 (6.67%) VXLAN
3 1 (6.67%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (6.67%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (26.67%) JIRA
2 1 (6.67%) GitLab
2 1 (6.67%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 5 (33.33%) Banking
2 3 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Finance
2 3 (20.00%) Legal
2 3 (20.00%) Retail
2 3 (20.00%) Retail Banking
3 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
4 1 (6.67%) Local Government
4 1 (6.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 6 (40.00%) Senior
2 5 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
2 5 (33.33%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 4 (26.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (20.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (20.00%) Implementation Manager
4 3 (20.00%) Implementation Project Manager
4 3 (20.00%) Implementation Specialist
4 3 (20.00%) Project Implementation Manager
4 3 (20.00%) Project Manager
5 2 (13.33%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (13.33%) Network Engineer
5 2 (13.33%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) Architect
6 1 (6.67%) CICS Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) Senior Network Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) Technical Architect
6 1 (6.67%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (6.67%) AngularJS
2 1 (6.67%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (6.67%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Data Centre
1 3 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (13.33%) Cloud Native
2 2 (13.33%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 6 (40.00%) Windows
2 1 (6.67%) Linux
2 1 (6.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (6.67%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) Migration
2 5 (33.33%) Incident Management
2 5 (33.33%) ITIL
3 4 (26.67%) Agile
3 4 (26.67%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (26.67%) Incident Response
4 3 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (20.00%) Decision-Making
4 3 (20.00%) Dependency Management
4 3 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
4 3 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
4 3 (20.00%) Risk Assessment
4 3 (20.00%) Runbook
4 3 (20.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 3 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (13.33%) Data Ingestion
5 2 (13.33%) Data Protection
5 2 (13.33%) DevOps
5 2 (13.33%) Roadmaps
5 2 (13.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (20.00%) Python
2 2 (13.33%) PowerShell
3 1 (6.67%) Bash
3 1 (6.67%) Java
3 1 (6.67%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) CCNA
1 2 (13.33%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) COBIT
2 1 (6.67%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (6.67%) Docker
2 1 (6.67%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (26.67%) Terraform
2 3 (20.00%) Ansible
3 2 (13.33%) Kibana
3 2 (13.33%) logstash
4 1 (6.67%) Argo
4 1 (6.67%) Grafana
4 1 (6.67%) Karpenter
4 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
4 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (6.67%) SCCM
4 1 (6.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) CheckPoint
1 3 (20.00%) Dell
1 3 (20.00%) Dynatrace
1 3 (20.00%) F5
1 3 (20.00%) HP
1 3 (20.00%) Oracle
2 2 (13.33%) Cisco
2 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.67%) EnterpriseDB
3 1 (6.67%) Google
3 1 (6.67%) Red Hat
3 1 (6.67%) ServiceNow
3 1 (6.67%) Splunk
3 1 (6.67%) Veeam
3 1 (6.67%) VMware