Infrastructure Engineering Contracts in Glasgow

Infrastructure Engineering
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow requiring Infrastructure Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Infrastructure Engineering 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 59 52 71
Rank change year-on-year -7 +19 -13
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 20 30 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 2.51% 3.42% 1.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.68% 3.72% 1.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 18 4
10th Percentile £449 £450 £419
25th Percentile £475 £463 £479
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - +16.67%
75th Percentile £575 £613 £538
90th Percentile - £721 £539
Scotland median daily rate £550 £475 £532
% change year-on-year +15.79% -10.68% +18.18%
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 Process and Methodology Skills
Glasgow

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 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 Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineering in Glasgow

Infrastructure Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Engineering in Glasgow

Infrastructure Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

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

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in Glasgow

Infrastructure Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Engineering in Glasgow

Infrastructure Engineering
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 10 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 17 (85.00%) AWS
2 10 (50.00%) Serverless
3 7 (35.00%) Azure
4 5 (25.00%) Amazon S3
4 5 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
4 5 (25.00%) Cohesity
4 5 (25.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 5 (25.00%) NAS
1 5 (25.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 10 (50.00%) Bitbucket
1 10 (50.00%) JIRA
2 5 (25.00%) Git
2 5 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (35.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (15.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 16 (80.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (15.00%) NetBackup Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Python Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) AWS Software Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Backup Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Backup Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Python Software Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Senior
4 1 (5.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Software Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.00%) Loki
1 1 (5.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (5.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 9 (45.00%) Unix
2 8 (40.00%) Windows
3 5 (25.00%) Linux
3 5 (25.00%) Windows Server
4 2 (10.00%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (55.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 10 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 10 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 10 (50.00%) Operational Stability
3 8 (40.00%) Computer Science
3 8 (40.00%) Mathematics
4 7 (35.00%) Data Protection
5 5 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 5 (25.00%) Data Deduplication
5 5 (25.00%) Observability
5 5 (25.00%) Task Automation
6 4 (20.00%) Decision-Making
6 4 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
7 3 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (10.00%) Configuration Management
8 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Automation
9 1 (5.00%) ITIL
9 1 (5.00%) Penetration Testing
9 1 (5.00%) Problem Management
9 1 (5.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 17 (85.00%) Python
2 2 (10.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (50.00%) AWS Certification
2 8 (40.00%) AWS Certified Developer
2 8 (40.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (5.00%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (10.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (5.00%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 1 (5.00%) Docker
2 1 (5.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 1 (5.00%) Virtual Servers
2 1 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (55.00%) Terraform
2 6 (30.00%) Kubernetes
3 5 (25.00%) NetBackup
3 5 (25.00%) Oracle RMAN
4 4 (20.00%) Ansible
5 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (10.00%) Progress Chef
5 2 (10.00%) Puppet
5 2 (10.00%) SCCM
6 1 (5.00%) Grafana
6 1 (5.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (30.00%) Veritas
2 4 (20.00%) VMware
3 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.00%) Cisco
4 1 (5.00%) Splunk