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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 30 73
Rank change year-on-year -25 +43 +34
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 12 48 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.89% 5.80% 2.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.00% 6.78% 2.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 33 11
10th Percentile £448 - £413
25th Percentile £481 - £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £340 £460
Median % change year-on-year +47.06% -26.09% +9.52%
75th Percentile £525 £473 £538
90th Percentile £570 £494 £600
Scotland median daily rate £513 £425 £461
% change year-on-year +20.59% -7.86% +11.48%

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 600 708 965
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 94.49% 85.61% 91.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 302 371 615
10th Percentile £306 £221 £225
25th Percentile £413 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -5.26% -1.04%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £538
90th Percentile £600 £638 £600
Scotland median daily rate £465 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +3.33% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 23 6
10th Percentile - £13.27 £12.41
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.50 £20.18
Median hourly rate £17.87 £22.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.77% -53.68% +152.32%
75th Percentile £49.35 £24.18 £53.74
90th Percentile £63.88 £48.84 £58.13
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £20.94 £19.59
% change year-on-year -4.48% +6.88% -8.88%

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
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 2025.

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 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (25.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 4 (33.33%) AWS
1 4 (33.33%) Azure
2 3 (25.00%) GCP
2 3 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (25.00%) OCI
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (8.33%) Entra ID
3 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (41.67%) Firewall
2 2 (16.67%) LAN
2 2 (16.67%) SDH
2 2 (16.67%) WAN
3 1 (8.33%) ADSL
3 1 (8.33%) MPLS
3 1 (8.33%) PSTN
3 1 (8.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (33.33%) Finance
2 3 (25.00%) Banking
2 3 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Legal
2 3 (25.00%) Retail
3 2 (16.67%) Electronics
3 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 2 (16.67%) Retail Banking
3 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Telecoms
4 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) Implementation Specialist
2 2 (16.67%) Implementation Manager
2 2 (16.67%) Implementation Project Manager
2 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Project Implementation Manager
2 2 (16.67%) Project Manager
2 2 (16.67%) Senior
2 2 (16.67%) Telecoms Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Field Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Field Telecoms Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Lead
3 1 (8.33%) Mac Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Network Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Project Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Security Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Mac Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Web Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (8.33%) Java RMI
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 2 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (16.67%) Driving Licence
2 2 (16.67%) Fibre Optics
3 1 (8.33%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (8.33%) PKI
3 1 (8.33%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 6 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (8.33%) Mac OS
2 1 (8.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) Cybersecurity
1 5 (41.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (33.33%) Incident Management
2 4 (33.33%) Incident Response
2 4 (33.33%) Migration
2 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (33.33%) Risk Assessment
3 3 (25.00%) Agile
3 3 (25.00%) Decision-Making
3 3 (25.00%) Dependency Management
3 3 (25.00%) ITIL
3 3 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
3 3 (25.00%) Runbook
3 3 (25.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 2 (16.67%) Data Protection
4 2 (16.67%) Process Management
4 2 (16.67%) Project Delivery
4 2 (16.67%) Project Management
4 2 (16.67%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) PowerShell
1 2 (16.67%) Python
2 1 (8.33%) Bash
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (16.67%) HNC
1 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) BC Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) COBIT
2 1 (8.33%) QA
2 1 (8.33%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (8.33%) Hyper-V
2 1 (8.33%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) Terraform
2 3 (25.00%) Ansible
3 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (8.33%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (8.33%) Kibana
4 1 (8.33%) logstash
4 1 (8.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 3 (25.00%) CheckPoint
2 3 (25.00%) Dell
2 3 (25.00%) Dynatrace
2 3 (25.00%) F5
2 3 (25.00%) HP
2 3 (25.00%) Oracle
3 2 (16.67%) Cisco
3 2 (16.67%) Nokia
4 1 (8.33%) Apple
4 1 (8.33%) Blue Coat
4 1 (8.33%) Fortinet
4 1 (8.33%) Qualys
4 1 (8.33%) Symantec