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 25 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 30 67
Rank change year-on-year -26 +37 +41
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 11 48 21
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 1.77% 6.20% 2.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.87% 7.23% 2.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 33 10
10th Percentile - - £401
25th Percentile - - £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £340 £460
Median % change year-on-year +47.06% -26.09% -8.00%
75th Percentile £600 £473 £513
90th Percentile - £499 £555
Scotland median daily rate £500 £415 £475
% change year-on-year +20.48% -12.63% +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 589 664 920
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 95.00% 85.79% 91.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 292 348 566
10th Percentile £300 £218 £200
25th Percentile £413 £340 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -1.50%
75th Percentile £550 £521 £539
90th Percentile £611 £600 £605
Scotland median daily rate £465 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +3.33% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 21 6
10th Percentile £17.08 £13.21 £12.47
25th Percentile - £18.00 £20.27
Median hourly rate £17.87 £22.09 £48.10
Median % change year-on-year -19.10% -54.07% +156.53%
75th Percentile £55.00 £24.18 £59.55
90th Percentile £67.25 £55.00 £62.00
Scotland median hourly rate £19.99 £21.59 £19.18
% change year-on-year -7.43% +12.57% +2.29%

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
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 4 (36.36%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 6 (54.55%) AWS
2 5 (45.45%) Azure
3 4 (36.36%) GCP
3 4 (36.36%) OCI
4 2 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (9.09%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (9.09%) Entra ID
5 1 (9.09%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 6 (54.55%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) JIRA
General
1 5 (45.45%) Finance
2 4 (36.36%) Banking
2 4 (36.36%) Documentation Skills
2 4 (36.36%) Legal
2 4 (36.36%) Retail
3 3 (27.27%) Public Sector
3 3 (27.27%) Retail Banking
4 1 (9.09%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Implementation Specialist
2 3 (27.27%) Implementation Manager
2 3 (27.27%) Implementation Project Manager
2 3 (27.27%) Project Implementation Manager
2 3 (27.27%) Project Manager
2 3 (27.27%) Senior
3 2 (18.18%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Lead
4 1 (9.09%) Mac Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Security Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Mac Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Web Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (18.18%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (9.09%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (9.09%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 7 (63.64%) Windows
2 1 (9.09%) Mac OS
2 1 (9.09%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (45.45%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (45.45%) Incident Management
2 5 (45.45%) Incident Response
2 5 (45.45%) Migration
3 4 (36.36%) Agile
3 4 (36.36%) Decision-Making
3 4 (36.36%) Dependency Management
3 4 (36.36%) ITIL
3 4 (36.36%) Platform Engineering
3 4 (36.36%) Risk Assessment
3 4 (36.36%) Runbook
3 4 (36.36%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 4 (36.36%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (18.18%) Data Ingestion
4 2 (18.18%) Data Protection
4 2 (18.18%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (18.18%) SIEM
4 2 (18.18%) Visualisation
5 1 (9.09%) Security Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) PowerShell
1 2 (18.18%) Python
2 1 (9.09%) Bash
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (36.36%) COBIT
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Active Directory
2 1 (9.09%) Hyper-V
2 1 (9.09%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 5 (45.45%) Terraform
2 4 (36.36%) Ansible
3 2 (18.18%) Kibana
3 2 (18.18%) logstash
3 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (9.09%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (9.09%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) CheckPoint
1 4 (36.36%) Dell
1 4 (36.36%) Dynatrace
1 4 (36.36%) F5
1 4 (36.36%) HP
1 4 (36.36%) Oracle
2 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
3 1 (9.09%) Apple
3 1 (9.09%) Blue Coat
3 1 (9.09%) Fortinet
3 1 (9.09%) Qualys
3 1 (9.09%) Symantec