Infrastructure Automation Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Infrastructure Automation
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Infrastructure Automation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 87 108 96
Rank change year-on-year +21 -12 +33
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 26 8 44
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 1.69% 0.48% 1.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.93% 0.53% 2.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 6 27
10th Percentile £381 £425 £500
25th Percentile £402 £449 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £492 £543
Median % change year-on-year -3.46% -9.39% +3.43%
75th Percentile £538 £531 £636
90th Percentile £613 £584 £745
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £563
% change year-on-year - -6.67% -

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 1,344 1,500 2,164
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 87.50% 89.07% 91.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 771 888 1,341
10th Percentile £238 £221 £250
25th Percentile £384 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £498
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -9.55% +4.74%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £588
90th Percentile £625 £650 £695
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £531
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.13% -3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 44 54
10th Percentile £14.05 £15.07 £12.13
25th Percentile £17.90 £19.59 £16.00
Median hourly rate £20.00 £23.00 £19.06
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +20.70% +3.00%
75th Percentile £25.15 £24.18 £56.05
90th Percentile £48.98 £32.66 £70.38
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £33.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -23.79% -22.35% +21.43%

Infrastructure Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Infrastructure Automation relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Infrastructure Automation job vacancy trend in Scotland

Infrastructure Automation
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Infrastructure Automation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Infrastructure Automation

Infrastructure Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Automation in Scotland over the 6 months to 14 December 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 14 December 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 +3 17 £465 -5.49% 2
Edinburgh - 9 £489 - 3
Infrastructure Automation
UK

Infrastructure Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 2 (7.69%) Anypoint
1 2 (7.69%) Mule
2 1 (3.85%) Confluence
2 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 10 (38.46%) AWS
1 10 (38.46%) Azure
2 6 (23.08%) Azure DevOps
2 6 (23.08%) GCP
3 5 (19.23%) Serverless
4 4 (15.38%) Apigee
5 3 (11.54%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (11.54%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (11.54%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (7.69%) Amazon S3
6 2 (7.69%) Amazon SageMaker
6 2 (7.69%) AWS KMS
6 2 (7.69%) AWS Step Functions
6 2 (7.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (3.85%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (3.85%) Amazon ELB
7 1 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (3.85%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (3.85%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 7 (26.92%) DNS
1 7 (26.92%) TCP/IP
2 4 (15.38%) DHCP
2 4 (15.38%) HTTP
2 4 (15.38%) SSL
3 3 (11.54%) VSAN
4 2 (7.69%) AMQP
4 2 (7.69%) DSL
5 1 (3.85%) Firewall
5 1 (3.85%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.69%) Amazon Athena
1 2 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (3.85%) MongoDB
2 1 (3.85%) NewSQL
2 1 (3.85%) NoSQL
2 1 (3.85%) OLTP
2 1 (3.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (46.15%) Jenkins
2 7 (26.92%) Git
3 5 (19.23%) GitLab
4 2 (7.69%) Liquibase
5 1 (3.85%) Bitbucket
5 1 (3.85%) JIRA
5 1 (3.85%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 10 (38.46%) Finance
2 5 (19.23%) Banking
3 4 (15.38%) Social Skills
4 3 (11.54%) Investment Banking
5 1 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.85%) Financial Institution
5 1 (3.85%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (34.62%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (23.08%) Developer
3 4 (15.38%) Cloud Engineer
3 4 (15.38%) Java Developer
4 3 (11.54%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) Azure Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) Full-Stack Developer
4 3 (11.54%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 2 (7.69%) AWS Data Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Azure Platform Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Data Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) DevOps Platform Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Software Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Architect
6 1 (3.85%) Database Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Integration Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (26.92%) RESTful
2 6 (23.08%) REST
2 6 (23.08%) SOAP
3 4 (15.38%) AngularJS
4 3 (11.54%) OAuth
5 2 (7.69%) ActiveMQ
5 2 (7.69%) Apache Camel
5 2 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (7.69%) JWT
5 2 (7.69%) Kafka
5 2 (7.69%) OAuth2
5 2 (7.69%) PySpark
5 2 (7.69%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (7.69%) Spring
5 2 (7.69%) Spring Boot
5 2 (7.69%) XML
6 1 (3.85%) .NET
6 1 (3.85%) jQuery
6 1 (3.85%) OpenID
6 1 (3.85%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (46.15%) Cloud Native
2 5 (19.23%) Onboarding
3 4 (15.38%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (11.54%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (7.69%) Public Cloud
6 1 (3.85%) Clustering
6 1 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 14 (53.85%) Linux
2 6 (23.08%) Unix
3 2 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (92.31%) CI/CD
2 17 (65.38%) Infrastructure as Code
3 16 (61.54%) DevOps
4 13 (50.00%) Agile
5 8 (30.77%) Software Engineering
6 7 (26.92%) Containerisation
7 4 (15.38%) Full-Stack Development
7 4 (15.38%) High Availability
7 4 (15.38%) Microservices
7 4 (15.38%) Migration
7 4 (15.38%) Observability
7 4 (15.38%) Platform Engineering
7 4 (15.38%) Scrum
8 3 (11.54%) API Integration
8 3 (11.54%) Clean Code
8 3 (11.54%) Investment Management
8 3 (11.54%) Test Automation
8 3 (11.54%) Unit Testing
8 3 (11.54%) Wealth Management
9 2 (7.69%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 15 (57.69%) Python
2 9 (34.62%) Java
3 8 (30.77%) Bash
4 5 (19.23%) Go
4 5 (19.23%) JavaScript
4 5 (19.23%) Perl
5 4 (15.38%) PowerShell
6 3 (11.54%) Shell Script
7 2 (7.69%) DataWeave
7 2 (7.69%) SQL
8 1 (3.85%) ANSI SQL
8 1 (3.85%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (7.69%) AWS Certification
2 1 (3.85%) AWS Certified Developer
2 1 (3.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (3.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.85%) Degree
2 1 (3.85%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 8 (30.77%) Docker
2 3 (11.54%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (11.54%) vSphere
3 1 (3.85%) KVM
Systems Management
1 12 (46.15%) Terraform
2 10 (38.46%) Kubernetes
3 9 (34.62%) Ansible
4 5 (19.23%) Grafana
5 3 (11.54%) Prometheus
6 1 (3.85%) NetBackup
6 1 (3.85%) vRealize
6 1 (3.85%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 6 (23.08%) MuleSoft
2 5 (19.23%) Microsoft
3 4 (15.38%) F5
3 4 (15.38%) Infoblox
3 4 (15.38%) VMware
4 2 (7.69%) Oracle
4 2 (7.69%) Splunk
5 1 (3.85%) Databricks
5 1 (3.85%) Google