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

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 60 53
Rank change year-on-year +8 -7 +40
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 15 7 24
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 2.23% 1.10% 2.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.56% 1.16% 3.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 2 15
10th Percentile £445 £403 £420
25th Percentile £450 £406 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £451 £425 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.00% -19.05% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £456 £634
90th Percentile £615 £468 £636
Scotland median daily rate £535 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +2.44%

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 585 604 708
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 87.05% 95.27% 87.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 300 332 420
10th Percentile £244 £201 £227
25th Percentile £406 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £487
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% -5.03% +2.53%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £577
90th Percentile £650 £637 £663
Scotland median daily rate £450 £460 £475
% change year-on-year -2.17% -3.16% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 25 29
10th Percentile £17.23 £17.30 £15.82
25th Percentile £28.38 £21.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £50.00 £23.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +117.39% -11.54% +22.30%
75th Percentile £75.00 £24.18 £60.75
90th Percentile £81.24 £31.93 -
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £22.44 £19.50
% change year-on-year -10.86% +15.06% +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 16 April 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 (6.67%) CICS
1 1 (6.67%) Confluence
1 1 (6.67%) JBoss
1 1 (6.67%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 4 (26.67%) Azure
2 3 (20.00%) AWS
2 3 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (6.67%) Amazon S3
3 1 (6.67%) Apigee
3 1 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (6.67%) AWS Fargate
3 1 (6.67%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (6.67%) Entra ID
3 1 (6.67%) GCP
3 1 (6.67%) OpenShift
3 1 (6.67%) Power Platform
3 1 (6.67%) Route 53
3 1 (6.67%) Serverless
3 1 (6.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (20.00%) DNS
2 2 (13.33%) DHCP
3 1 (6.67%) Firewall
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 1 (6.67%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (6.67%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) GitLab
1 1 (6.67%) JIRA
1 1 (6.67%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 5 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Banking
3 1 (6.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (73.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 10 (66.67%) Senior
3 9 (60.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 9 (60.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 9 (60.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 8 (53.33%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (13.33%) Network Engineer
5 2 (13.33%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) Architect
6 1 (6.67%) AWS Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) CICS Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) Security Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) Senior Network Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) Senior Security Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) Technical Architect
6 1 (6.67%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) AngularJS
1 1 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (6.67%) OpenTelemetry
1 1 (6.67%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (13.33%) Cloud Native
3 1 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (6.67%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 4 (26.67%) Windows
2 1 (6.67%) Linux
2 1 (6.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (6.67%) Windows 10
2 1 (6.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (26.67%) ITIL
1 4 (26.67%) Migration
2 2 (13.33%) Cloud Security
2 2 (13.33%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (13.33%) DevOps
2 2 (13.33%) Incident Management
2 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (13.33%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (13.33%) Roadmaps
2 2 (13.33%) Vulnerability Management
2 2 (13.33%) Zero Trust
3 1 (6.67%) Architecture Roadmap
3 1 (6.67%) CI/CD
3 1 (6.67%) Containerisation
3 1 (6.67%) Data Ingestion
3 1 (6.67%) Incident Response
3 1 (6.67%) Observability
3 1 (6.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (6.67%) Project Delivery
3 1 (6.67%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 2 (13.33%) Python
2 1 (6.67%) Bash
2 1 (6.67%) Java
2 1 (6.67%) JavaScript
2 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) CCNA
1 2 (13.33%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (13.33%) ITIL Certification
1 2 (13.33%) MCSE
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (6.67%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (6.67%) NCSC
2 1 (6.67%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (6.67%) Docker
3 1 (6.67%) Hyper-V
3 1 (6.67%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (6.67%) Argo
2 1 (6.67%) Grafana
2 1 (6.67%) Karpenter
2 1 (6.67%) Kibana
2 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.67%) logstash
2 1 (6.67%) SCCM
2 1 (6.67%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (13.33%) Cisco
2 2 (13.33%) VMware
3 1 (6.67%) EnterpriseDB
3 1 (6.67%) Google
3 1 (6.67%) Qualys
3 1 (6.67%) Red Hat
3 1 (6.67%) ServiceNow
3 1 (6.67%) Splunk
3 1 (6.67%) Veeam