Infrastructure Engineer Contracts in Glasgow

Infrastructure Engineer
Scotland > Glasgow

The median Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in Glasgow is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 51 73
Rank change year-on-year -7 +22 -7
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 21 31 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 2.63% 3.53% 1.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.76% 3.72% 1.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 17 1
10th Percentile £438 £461 -
25th Percentile £468 £463 £379
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £413
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +39.34% -21.36%
75th Percentile £575 £700 £446
90th Percentile - £748 -
Scotland median daily rate £550 £500 £413
% change year-on-year +10.00% +21.17% -8.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £56.68
25th Percentile - - £57.33
Median hourly rate - - £59.03
75th Percentile - - £60.10
90th Percentile - - £60.37
Scotland median hourly rate - - £59.03

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Glasgow

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Glasgow. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Glasgow with a recognized job title 761 833 871
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.36% 94.98% 95.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 479 548 646
10th Percentile £308 £268 £313
25th Percentile £379 £377 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £590
90th Percentile £600 £675 £701
Scotland median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - +4.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 39 16
10th Percentile £16.75 £13.50 £12.00
25th Percentile £18.17 £16.00 £13.97
Median hourly rate £19.83 £24.26 £28.75
Median % change year-on-year -18.24% -15.63% +12.55%
75th Percentile £46.38 £47.35 £58.75
90th Percentile £69.10 £65.00 £63.56
Scotland median hourly rate £20.94 £33.25 £23.18
% change year-on-year -37.02% +43.44% -10.53%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Job postings that featured Infrastructure Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in Glasgow

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in Glasgow

Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in Glasgow over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in Glasgow

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in Glasgow.

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in Glasgow

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Infrastructure Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Glasgow region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 18 (85.71%) Python
2 16 (76.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 13 (61.90%) AWS
4 12 (57.14%) Unix
5 11 (52.38%) Windows
6 10 (47.62%) Linux
7 9 (42.86%) Terraform
7 9 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
8 8 (38.10%) Operational Stability
8 8 (38.10%) Containerisation
8 8 (38.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 8 (38.10%) AWS Certified Developer
8 8 (38.10%) AWS Certification
8 8 (38.10%) Continuous Delivery
8 8 (38.10%) Windows Server
8 8 (38.10%) Serverless
8 8 (38.10%) Confluence
8 8 (38.10%) Bitbucket
8 8 (38.10%) JIRA
8 8 (38.10%) Mathematics
8 8 (38.10%) Computer Science
9 6 (28.57%) Management Information System
9 6 (28.57%) Capacity Management
10 5 (23.81%) Technical Analysis
10 5 (23.81%) Data Protection
10 5 (23.81%) Azure
10 5 (23.81%) Social Skills
10 5 (23.81%) Storage Management
11 4 (19.05%) Veritas
11 4 (19.05%) VMware

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
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 8 (38.10%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 13 (61.90%) AWS
2 8 (38.10%) Serverless
3 5 (23.81%) Azure
4 3 (14.29%) Amazon S3
4 3 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (14.29%) Cohesity
4 3 (14.29%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (14.29%) NAS
1 3 (14.29%) SAN
Development Applications
1 8 (38.10%) Bitbucket
1 8 (38.10%) JIRA
2 3 (14.29%) Git
2 3 (14.29%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (23.81%) Social Skills
2 3 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.76%) Loki
1 1 (4.76%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 6 (28.57%) Management Information System
2 2 (9.52%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.76%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.76%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 12 (57.14%) Unix
2 11 (52.38%) Windows
3 10 (47.62%) Linux
4 8 (38.10%) Windows Server
5 2 (9.52%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (76.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 9 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
3 8 (38.10%) Computer Science
3 8 (38.10%) Containerisation
3 8 (38.10%) Continuous Delivery
3 8 (38.10%) Mathematics
3 8 (38.10%) Operational Stability
4 6 (28.57%) Capacity Management
5 5 (23.81%) Data Protection
5 5 (23.81%) Storage Management
5 5 (23.81%) Technical Analysis
6 3 (14.29%) CI/CD
6 3 (14.29%) Data Deduplication
6 3 (14.29%) Observability
6 3 (14.29%) Task Automation
7 2 (9.52%) Configuration Management
7 2 (9.52%) Decision-Making
7 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure Automation
7 2 (9.52%) Performance Tuning
8 1 (4.76%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 18 (85.71%) Python
2 2 (9.52%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (38.10%) AWS Certification
1 8 (38.10%) AWS Certified Developer
1 8 (38.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.76%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.52%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (4.76%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (9.52%) Hyper-V
2 1 (4.76%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 1 (4.76%) Docker
2 1 (4.76%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 1 (4.76%) Virtual Servers
2 1 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (42.86%) Terraform
2 4 (19.05%) Ansible
2 4 (19.05%) Kubernetes
3 3 (14.29%) NetBackup
3 3 (14.29%) Oracle RMAN
4 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (9.52%) Progress Chef
4 2 (9.52%) Puppet
4 2 (9.52%) SCCM
5 1 (4.76%) Grafana
5 1 (4.76%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (19.05%) Veritas
1 4 (19.05%) VMware
2 2 (9.52%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.76%) Cisco
3 1 (4.76%) Splunk