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

6 months to
19 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 50 56
Rank change year-on-year +1 +6 +36
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 15 12 23
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 2.58% 2.01% 2.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.85% 2.16% 2.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 3 9
10th Percentile £469 £460 £424
25th Percentile £497 £463 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £477 £463
Median % change year-on-year +4.82% +3.14% -7.50%
75th Percentile £600 £568 £500
90th Percentile £623 £617 £550
Scotland median daily rate £500 £550 £475
% change year-on-year -9.09% +15.79% +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 526 556 812
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 90.38% 93.29% 90.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 263 294 488
10th Percentile £217 £226 £217
25th Percentile £406 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £456 £475
Median % change year-on-year +7.03% -4.11% -
75th Percentile £581 £538 £550
90th Percentile £673 £635 £638
Scotland median daily rate £470 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +4.44% -10.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 30 17
10th Percentile £17.29 £20.23 £12.71
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.01 £16.00
Median hourly rate £20.25 £23.59 £22.87
Median % change year-on-year -14.16% +3.15% +7.57%
75th Percentile £55.00 £24.18 £60.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £28.97 £61.05
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £23.59 £19.50
% change year-on-year -15.22% +20.97% +10.05%

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 January 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 5 (33.33%) Confluence
2 1 (6.67%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 7 (46.67%) AWS
1 7 (46.67%) Azure
2 5 (33.33%) GCP
3 4 (26.67%) OCI
4 2 (13.33%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (6.67%) Amazon S3
5 1 (6.67%) Apigee
5 1 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (6.67%) AWS Fargate
5 1 (6.67%) Route 53
5 1 (6.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (40.00%) 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
Development Applications
1 5 (33.33%) JIRA
2 1 (6.67%) GitLab
General
1 6 (40.00%) Banking
2 4 (26.67%) Documentation Skills
2 4 (26.67%) Finance
2 4 (26.67%) Legal
2 4 (26.67%) Retail
3 3 (20.00%) Retail Banking
4 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
5 1 (6.67%) Local Government
5 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%) Implementation Specialist
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%) 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%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) CICS Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) Senior Network Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (6.67%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (20.00%) Data Centre
3 2 (13.33%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 7 (46.67%) Windows
2 1 (6.67%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) Migration
2 6 (40.00%) Incident Management
2 6 (40.00%) ITIL
3 5 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 5 (33.33%) Incident Response
4 4 (26.67%) Agile
4 4 (26.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (26.67%) Decision-Making
4 4 (26.67%) Dependency Management
4 4 (26.67%) Platform Engineering
4 4 (26.67%) Risk Assessment
4 4 (26.67%) Runbook
4 4 (26.67%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 4 (26.67%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
6 2 (13.33%) Data Ingestion
6 2 (13.33%) Data Protection
6 2 (13.33%) DevOps
6 2 (13.33%) Roadmaps
6 2 (13.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (20.00%) Python
2 2 (13.33%) PowerShell
3 1 (6.67%) Bash
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 4 (26.67%) COBIT
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 5 (33.33%) Terraform
2 4 (26.67%) 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
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) CheckPoint
1 4 (26.67%) Dell
1 4 (26.67%) Dynatrace
1 4 (26.67%) F5
1 4 (26.67%) HP
1 4 (26.67%) Oracle
2 2 (13.33%) Cisco
2 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.67%) Google
3 1 (6.67%) ServiceNow
3 1 (6.67%) Splunk
3 1 (6.67%) Veeam
3 1 (6.67%) VMware