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 19 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 55 30
Rank change year-on-year +5 -25 +43
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 23 12 48
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 3.22% 1.89% 5.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.81% 2.00% 6.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 4 33
10th Percentile £350 £448 -
25th Percentile £431 £481 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £451 £500 £340
Median % change year-on-year -9.90% +47.06% -26.09%
75th Percentile £600 £525 £473
90th Percentile £650 £570 £494
Scotland median daily rate £525 £513 £425
% change year-on-year +2.44% +20.59% -7.86%

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 604 600 708
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 84.59% 94.49% 85.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 321 302 371
10th Percentile £250 £306 £221
25th Percentile £405 £413 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +8.33% -5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £538
90th Percentile £638 £600 £638
Scotland median daily rate £470 £465 £450
% change year-on-year +1.08% +3.33% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 24 23
10th Percentile £15.81 - £13.27
25th Percentile £15.96 £17.30 £16.50
Median hourly rate £19.33 £17.87 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.17% -18.77% -53.68%
75th Percentile £33.69 £49.35 £24.18
90th Percentile £77.00 £63.88 £48.84
Scotland median hourly rate £16.49 £20.00 £20.94
% change year-on-year -17.58% -4.48% +6.88%

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 19 September 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 (4.35%) CICS
1 1 (4.35%) JBoss
1 1 (4.35%) Red Hat Fuse
1 1 (4.35%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 7 (30.43%) Nutanix
2 5 (21.74%) Azure
3 4 (17.39%) IaaS
4 3 (13.04%) AWS
4 3 (13.04%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (13.04%) GitHub
4 3 (13.04%) OCI
4 3 (13.04%) PaaS
4 3 (13.04%) SaaS
5 2 (8.70%) GCP
5 2 (8.70%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (8.70%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (4.35%) Azure AKS
6 1 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (4.35%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (4.35%) OpenShift
6 1 (4.35%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (17.39%) Firewall
2 2 (8.70%) DNS
3 1 (4.35%) BIG-IP
3 1 (4.35%) DHCP
3 1 (4.35%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 1 (4.35%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 1 (4.35%) HTTP
3 1 (4.35%) Network Security
3 1 (4.35%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (13.04%) Jenkins
2 2 (8.70%) GitLab
3 1 (4.35%) JIRA
3 1 (4.35%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 8 (34.78%) Social Skills
2 5 (21.74%) Public Sector
3 3 (13.04%) Banking
4 2 (8.70%) Finance
Job Titles
1 17 (73.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (26.09%) Industrial Engineer
2 6 (26.09%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (26.09%) SCADA Engineer
3 5 (21.74%) Cloud Engineer
3 5 (21.74%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (21.74%) IT Engineer
3 5 (21.74%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Senior
4 3 (13.04%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Digital User Researcher
5 2 (8.70%) User Researcher
6 1 (4.35%) Architect
6 1 (4.35%) CICS Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Lead
6 1 (4.35%) Network Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Technical Architect
6 1 (4.35%) Technical Leader
6 1 (4.35%) z/OS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.70%) Terraform
2 1 (4.35%) AngularJS
2 1 (4.35%) REST
2 1 (4.35%) Vue
2 1 (4.35%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (30.43%) Operational Technology
2 6 (26.09%) SCADA
3 3 (13.04%) Management Information System
3 3 (13.04%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (8.70%) Data Centre
4 2 (8.70%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (8.70%) Product Ownership
5 1 (4.35%) Cloud Native
5 1 (4.35%) Mainframe
5 1 (4.35%) Online Banking
5 1 (4.35%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (17.39%) Linux
2 3 (13.04%) Windows
3 1 (4.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (4.35%) Windows Server
3 1 (4.35%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (4.35%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (26.09%) DevOps
1 6 (26.09%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (21.74%) CI/CD
3 4 (17.39%) Agile
4 3 (13.04%) Cloud Security
4 3 (13.04%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (13.04%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (13.04%) Identity Access Management
4 3 (13.04%) Incident Response
4 3 (13.04%) Information Security
4 3 (13.04%) Open Source
4 3 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (13.04%) Project Delivery
4 3 (13.04%) Security Operations
4 3 (13.04%) Test Scripting
4 3 (13.04%) Vulnerability Management
5 2 (8.70%) Generative AI
5 2 (8.70%) Service Design
5 2 (8.70%) User Experience
5 2 (8.70%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 6 (26.09%) Python
2 2 (8.70%) Bash
2 2 (8.70%) Java
3 1 (4.35%) ActionScript
3 1 (4.35%) JavaScript
3 1 (4.35%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (13.04%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (21.74%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 3 (13.04%) Docker
2 1 (4.35%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.35%) RACF
Systems Management
1 3 (13.04%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.35%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (26.09%) Veeam
2 5 (21.74%) Microsoft
3 3 (13.04%) Cisco
3 3 (13.04%) Oracle
3 3 (13.04%) Palo Alto
4 2 (8.70%) Fortinet
4 2 (8.70%) Google
5 1 (4.35%) CheckPoint
5 1 (4.35%) CyberArk
5 1 (4.35%) EnterpriseDB
5 1 (4.35%) F5
5 1 (4.35%) IBM
5 1 (4.35%) Red Hat