Infrastructure Automation Contracts in Scotland

Infrastructure Automation
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 107 112 103
Rank change year-on-year +5 -9 +43
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 9 17 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.55% 0.77% 2.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.59% 0.87% 2.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 9 39
10th Percentile £357 £502 £484
25th Percentile £431 £518 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £693 £525
Median % change year-on-year -29.87% +32.00% -12.13%
75th Percentile £533 £780 £575
90th Percentile £592 - £600
UK median daily rate £525 £625 £550
% change year-on-year -16.00% +13.64% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,518 1,963 2,651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 93.42% 88.54% 92.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 920 1,196 1,908
10th Percentile £263 £229 £263
25th Percentile £375 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £556
90th Percentile £606 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 94 54
10th Percentile £16.19 £12.36 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.00 £11.51
Median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%
75th Percentile £24.66 £40.94 £53.75
90th Percentile £51.48 £60.75 £66.09
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Infrastructure Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Automation in Scotland

Infrastructure Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Automation in Scotland

Infrastructure Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Automation in Scotland

Infrastructure Automation
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Automation within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow -8 5 £530 -23.56% 10
Edinburgh +8 4 £408 -22.38% 4
Infrastructure Automation
UK

Infrastructure Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 (11.11%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) AWS
2 3 (33.33%) Azure
3 2 (22.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon S3
4 1 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (11.11%) Cloud Run
4 1 (11.11%) GCP
4 1 (11.11%) GitHub
4 1 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (11.11%) Google Compute Engine
4 1 (11.11%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (11.11%) OpenShift
4 1 (11.11%) Serverless
4 1 (11.11%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Fibre Channel
1 1 (11.11%) iSCSI
1 1 (11.11%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) DB2
1 1 (11.11%) DynamoDB
1 1 (11.11%) InfluxDB
1 1 (11.11%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) Jenkins
2 3 (33.33%) GitLab
3 2 (22.22%) TeamCity
General
1 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Banking
3 1 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (22.22%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Lead
2 1 (11.11%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Senior
2 1 (11.11%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Software Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Unix Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) AWS CDK
1 1 (11.11%) Flash
1 1 (11.11%) POSIX
1 1 (11.11%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Client/Server
1 1 (11.11%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (11.11%) NVMe
1 1 (11.11%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (44.44%) Linux
1 4 (44.44%) Unix
1 4 (44.44%) Windows
2 2 (22.22%) AIX
2 2 (22.22%) Data ONTAP
2 2 (22.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (11.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) High Availability
2 3 (33.33%) Agile
2 3 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 3 (33.33%) DevOps
3 2 (22.22%) Configuration Management
3 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (22.22%) Observability
3 2 (22.22%) Problem Management
3 2 (22.22%) Storage Management
3 2 (22.22%) Test Automation
4 1 (11.11%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (11.11%) Computer Science
4 1 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (11.11%) Incident Management
4 1 (11.11%) Kanban
4 1 (11.11%) OO
4 1 (11.11%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (11.11%) Scrum
4 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) Python
2 2 (22.22%) Perl
2 2 (22.22%) Shell Script
3 1 (11.11%) Bash
3 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
3 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
1 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (11.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (11.11%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (11.11%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) Docker
2 2 (22.22%) Hyper-V
3 1 (11.11%) GPFS
3 1 (11.11%) KVM
3 1 (11.11%) NFS
3 1 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (11.11%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (55.56%) Ansible
2 3 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (22.22%) Progress Chef
3 2 (22.22%) Puppet
3 2 (22.22%) SCCM
3 2 (22.22%) Terraform
4 1 (11.11%) Grafana
4 1 (11.11%) HAProxy
4 1 (11.11%) Nagios
4 1 (11.11%) PowerCLI
4 1 (11.11%) Red Hat Satellite
4 1 (11.11%) Veritas Storage Foundation
4 1 (11.11%) vRealize
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Splunk
1 3 (33.33%) VMware
2 2 (22.22%) Google
2 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 2 (22.22%) NetApp
3 1 (11.11%) Brocade
3 1 (11.11%) Commvault
3 1 (11.11%) Dynatrace
3 1 (11.11%) EMC
3 1 (11.11%) IBM
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle
3 1 (11.11%) Palo Alto
3 1 (11.11%) Red Hat
3 1 (11.11%) Sybase
3 1 (11.11%) Veritas