Infrastructure Automation Contracts in Glasgow

Infrastructure Automation
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow requiring Infrastructure Automation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Infrastructure Automation over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 66 52
Rank change year-on-year -8 -14 +19
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 5 16 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 0.63% 1.82% 3.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% 1.99% 3.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 8 12
10th Percentile £479 £500 £456
25th Percentile £490 £588 £527
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £693 £600
Median % change year-on-year -23.56% +15.50% +26.32%
75th Percentile £591 £780 -
90th Percentile £615 - -
Scotland median daily rate £486 £693 £525
% change year-on-year -29.87% +32.00% -12.13%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Glasgow

Infrastructure Automation 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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 747 806 862
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 93.61% 91.90% 94.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 478 515 629
10th Percentile £311 £280 £325
25th Percentile £393 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £600
90th Percentile £603 £675 £701
Scotland median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 40 27
10th Percentile £16.18 £13.75 -
25th Percentile £16.75 £16.00 £10.63
Median hourly rate £19.83 £21.13 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.14% +56.50% -66.24%
75th Percentile £65.00 £44.14 £35.00
90th Percentile £76.83 £63.75 £59.47
Scotland median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
% change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%

Infrastructure Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Job postings citing Infrastructure Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Automation in Glasgow

Infrastructure Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Automation in Glasgow.

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Automation in Glasgow

Infrastructure Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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 1 (20.00%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) AWS
2 3 (60.00%) Azure
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (20.00%) OpenShift
3 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Fibre Channel
1 1 (20.00%) iSCSI
1 1 (20.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) DB2
1 1 (20.00%) DynamoDB
General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Software Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (20.00%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) AWS CDK
1 1 (20.00%) Flash
1 1 (20.00%) POSIX
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Client/Server
1 1 (20.00%) NVMe
1 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Linux
1 3 (60.00%) Unix
1 3 (60.00%) Windows
2 2 (40.00%) AIX
3 1 (20.00%) Data ONTAP
3 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Configuration Management
1 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Agile
2 1 (20.00%) Analytics
2 1 (20.00%) Architectural Design
2 1 (20.00%) Capacity Management
2 1 (20.00%) Coaching
2 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (20.00%) Customer Requirements
2 1 (20.00%) High Availability
2 1 (20.00%) Observability
2 1 (20.00%) OO
2 1 (20.00%) Preventative Maintenance
2 1 (20.00%) Problem Management
2 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) SDLC
2 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (20.00%) Storage Management
2 1 (20.00%) Storage Virtualisation
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (20.00%) Perl
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
1 2 (40.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (20.00%) GPFS
2 1 (20.00%) NFS
2 1 (20.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Ansible
2 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (40.00%) Progress Chef
2 2 (40.00%) Puppet
2 2 (40.00%) SCCM
3 1 (20.00%) PowerCLI
3 1 (20.00%) Terraform
3 1 (20.00%) Veritas Storage Foundation
3 1 (20.00%) vRealize
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) VMware
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (20.00%) Brocade
3 1 (20.00%) EMC
3 1 (20.00%) Google
3 1 (20.00%) IBM
3 1 (20.00%) NetApp
3 1 (20.00%) Sybase
3 1 (20.00%) Veritas