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 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 54 62
Rank change year-on-year +5 +8 +36
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 12 17 20
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 2.04% 2.64% 2.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.23% 2.90% 2.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 7
10th Percentile £463 £462 £393
25th Percentile £494 £469 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year - +8.11% -2.12%
75th Percentile £556 £650 £503
90th Percentile £600 £703 £563
Scotland median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% +14.46%

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 537 587 826
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 91.33% 91.29% 92.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 278 306 488
10th Percentile £221 £227 £200
25th Percentile £406 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £550 £538 £550
90th Percentile £625 £634 £625
Scotland median daily rate £463 £450 £488
% change year-on-year +2.78% -7.69% +2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 25 10
10th Percentile £17.62 £16.86 £13.12
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.00 £16.00
Median hourly rate £19.19 £23.59 £17.61
Median % change year-on-year -18.67% +33.96% -14.33%
75th Percentile £45.00 £24.18 £31.97
90th Percentile £66.00 - £54.48
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £23.00 £18.00
% change year-on-year -13.04% +27.78% +1.58%

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 17 December 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 & 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 (41.67%) Confluence
2 1 (8.33%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 7 (58.33%) AWS
2 5 (41.67%) GCP
3 4 (33.33%) Azure
3 4 (33.33%) OCI
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon S3
4 1 (8.33%) Apigee
4 1 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (8.33%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (8.33%) Entra ID
4 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (8.33%) Route 53
4 1 (8.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (8.33%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (8.33%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 5 (41.67%) JIRA
2 1 (8.33%) GitLab
General
1 6 (50.00%) Banking
2 4 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
2 4 (33.33%) Finance
2 4 (33.33%) Legal
2 4 (33.33%) Retail
3 3 (25.00%) Retail Banking
4 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
5 1 (8.33%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Implementation Specialist
1 4 (33.33%) Senior
2 3 (25.00%) Implementation Manager
2 3 (25.00%) Implementation Project Manager
2 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Project Implementation Manager
2 3 (25.00%) Project Manager
3 2 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Network Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) CICS Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Mac Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Mac Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (8.33%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (8.33%) Data Centre
2 1 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 4 (33.33%) Windows
2 1 (8.33%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) Cybersecurity
1 5 (41.67%) Incident Management
1 5 (41.67%) Incident Response
2 4 (33.33%) Agile
2 4 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 4 (33.33%) Dependency Management
2 4 (33.33%) ITIL
2 4 (33.33%) Migration
2 4 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
2 4 (33.33%) Risk Assessment
2 4 (33.33%) Runbook
2 4 (33.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 4 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (16.67%) Data Ingestion
4 2 (16.67%) DevOps
4 2 (16.67%) Visualisation
5 1 (8.33%) Coaching
5 1 (8.33%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) Python
2 2 (16.67%) Bash
3 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) CCNA
1 2 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (33.33%) COBIT
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (50.00%) Terraform
2 4 (33.33%) Ansible
3 2 (16.67%) Kibana
3 2 (16.67%) logstash
4 1 (8.33%) Argo
4 1 (8.33%) Grafana
4 1 (8.33%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (8.33%) Karpenter
4 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
4 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) CheckPoint
1 4 (33.33%) Dell
1 4 (33.33%) Dynatrace
1 4 (33.33%) F5
1 4 (33.33%) HP
1 4 (33.33%) Oracle
2 2 (16.67%) Cisco
3 1 (8.33%) Apple
3 1 (8.33%) Google
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow
3 1 (8.33%) Splunk