Infrastructure Engineer Contracts in Scotland

Infrastructure Engineer
UK > Scotland

The median Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in Scotland is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 78 144 120
Rank change year-on-year +66 -24 -13
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 50 24 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 2.24% 0.84% 1.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.36% 0.88% 1.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 10 43
10th Percentile £410 £306 £320
25th Percentile £463 £328 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £419 £450
Median % change year-on-year +31.32% -6.93% +5.88%
75th Percentile £700 £468 £575
90th Percentile £730 £578 £600
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £59.03 -
UK median hourly rate £45.00 £63.84 £60.48
% change year-on-year -29.51% +5.56% +51.19%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Scotland. 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 Scotland with a recognized job title 2,119 2,729 3,441
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.77% 95.15% 96.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,300 1,963 2,447
10th Percentile £200 £250 £208
25th Percentile £378 £402 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £451
Median % change year-on-year - +5.44% +6.00%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £541
90th Percentile £663 £650 £615
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 43 56
10th Percentile £12.50 £12.83 £12.46
25th Percentile £16.31 £17.72 £17.50
Median hourly rate £35.00 £23.86 £25.55
Median % change year-on-year +46.69% -6.60% -36.14%
75th Percentile £60.56 £61.78 £47.97
90th Percentile £66.00 £67.50 £54.03
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -22.22% +95.65% -

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in Scotland

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in Scotland

Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in Scotland over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in Scotland

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in Scotland

Infrastructure Engineer
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 Engineer within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 19 April 2024. 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 +28 32 £575 +39.34% 2
Edinburgh +37 12 £488 +8.33% 6
Stirling - 3 £420 - 1
South Lanarkshire - 3 £700 -
Infrastructure Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 19 April 2024, 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 Scotland region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 40 (80.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 26 (52.00%) Azure
3 24 (48.00%) Windows
4 21 (42.00%) Social Skills
5 19 (38.00%) Python
6 17 (34.00%) PowerShell
7 15 (30.00%) Microsoft
7 15 (30.00%) Linux
7 15 (30.00%) Agile
8 14 (28.00%) Problem-Solving
8 14 (28.00%) DevOps
9 13 (26.00%) Finance
10 12 (24.00%) Unix
11 10 (20.00%) Perl
11 10 (20.00%) Firewall
12 9 (18.00%) Analytical Skills
12 9 (18.00%) Banking
12 9 (18.00%) AWS
13 8 (16.00%) Cybersecurity
13 8 (16.00%) Entra ID
13 8 (16.00%) Windows Server
14 7 (14.00%) Infrastructure Automation
14 7 (14.00%) VMware
14 7 (14.00%) SAN
14 7 (14.00%) Active Directory
14 7 (14.00%) Microsoft 365
14 7 (14.00%) SCCM
15 6 (12.00%) DNS
15 6 (12.00%) Data Centre
15 6 (12.00%) Customer Service

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
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 4 (8.00%) SAS
2 3 (6.00%) CMS
3 1 (2.00%) Confluence
3 1 (2.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 26 (52.00%) Azure
2 9 (18.00%) AWS
3 8 (16.00%) Entra ID
4 7 (14.00%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (8.00%) IaaS
5 4 (8.00%) OpenShift
6 2 (4.00%) GCP
7 1 (2.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 10 (20.00%) Firewall
2 7 (14.00%) SAN
3 6 (12.00%) DNS
4 5 (10.00%) TCP/IP
5 4 (8.00%) Fibre Channel
5 4 (8.00%) iSCSI
6 3 (6.00%) NAS
6 3 (6.00%) VLAN
7 2 (4.00%) DHCP
7 2 (4.00%) VSAN
8 1 (2.00%) HTTP
8 1 (2.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.00%) DB2
2 1 (2.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.00%) MySQL
2 1 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (6.00%) JIRA
2 2 (4.00%) Git
2 2 (4.00%) Jenkins
General
1 21 (42.00%) Social Skills
2 13 (26.00%) Finance
3 9 (18.00%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (18.00%) Banking
4 4 (8.00%) Organisational Skills
4 4 (8.00%) Public Sector
5 3 (6.00%) Investment Banking
5 3 (6.00%) Manufacturing
5 3 (6.00%) Retail Banking
6 1 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.00%) Flash
1 4 (8.00%) POSIX
2 1 (2.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (2.00%) Redfish
2 1 (2.00%) REST
2 1 (2.00%) Twisted
2 1 (2.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.00%) Data Centre
2 4 (8.00%) Client/Server
2 4 (8.00%) Management Information System
2 4 (8.00%) NVMe
3 2 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (4.00%) Virtual Team
4 1 (2.00%) Distributed Applications
4 1 (2.00%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (2.00%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (2.00%) PKI
4 1 (2.00%) Private Cloud
4 1 (2.00%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 24 (48.00%) Windows
2 15 (30.00%) Linux
3 12 (24.00%) Unix
4 8 (16.00%) Windows Server
5 5 (10.00%) Mac OS
6 4 (8.00%) Data ONTAP
6 4 (8.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (6.00%) Windows Server 2012
7 3 (6.00%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (2.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (80.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 15 (30.00%) Agile
3 14 (28.00%) DevOps
3 14 (28.00%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (16.00%) Cybersecurity
5 7 (14.00%) Infrastructure Automation
6 6 (12.00%) Customer Service
7 5 (10.00%) Disk Encryption
7 5 (10.00%) High Availability
7 5 (10.00%) ITIL
7 5 (10.00%) Migration
7 5 (10.00%) Refactoring
7 5 (10.00%) SDLC
7 5 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 4 (8.00%) Capacity Management
8 4 (8.00%) Computer Science
8 4 (8.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 4 (8.00%) Disaster Recovery
8 4 (8.00%) OO
8 4 (8.00%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (38.00%) Python
2 17 (34.00%) PowerShell
3 10 (20.00%) Perl
4 5 (10.00%) Java
5 4 (8.00%) SQL
6 2 (4.00%) Bash
6 2 (4.00%) C
6 2 (4.00%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.00%) Elixir
7 1 (2.00%) Go
7 1 (2.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 4 (8.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.00%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (4.00%) MCSE
3 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.00%) Degree
4 1 (2.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 3 (6.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 2 (4.00%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (2.00%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (14.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (10.00%) Docker
2 5 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (8.00%) GPFS
3 4 (8.00%) NFS
3 4 (8.00%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (4.00%) Hyper-V
4 2 (4.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 7 (14.00%) SCCM
2 5 (10.00%) Kubernetes
3 4 (8.00%) Veritas Storage Foundation
4 3 (6.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (4.00%) Terraform
5 2 (4.00%) vRealize
6 1 (2.00%) Ansible
6 1 (2.00%) vCenter Server
6 1 (2.00%) vMotion
Vendors
1 15 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (14.00%) VMware
3 5 (10.00%) Google
3 5 (10.00%) Splunk
4 4 (8.00%) Brocade
4 4 (8.00%) EMC
4 4 (8.00%) HP
4 4 (8.00%) IBM
4 4 (8.00%) NetApp
4 4 (8.00%) Sybase
4 4 (8.00%) Veritas
5 3 (6.00%) Avaya
5 3 (6.00%) Cisco
5 3 (6.00%) Citrix
6 1 (2.00%) Atlassian
6 1 (2.00%) Dell
6 1 (2.00%) Oracle
6 1 (2.00%) SolarWinds