Infrastructure Engineer Contracts in Scotland

Infrastructure Engineer
UK > Scotland

The median Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in Scotland is £420 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 77 138 114
Rank change year-on-year +61 -24 +12
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 50 25 58
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 2.33% 0.93% 1.70%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.47% 0.98% 1.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 12 48
10th Percentile - £309 £317
25th Percentile £340 £368 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £450 £463
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -2.70% +8.82%
75th Percentile £528 £531 £576
90th Percentile £667 £595 £600
UK median daily rate £450 £500 £455
% change year-on-year -10.00% +9.89% +10.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £59.03 -
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £63.84 £43.62
% change year-on-year +5.73% +46.35% +8.82%

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 2,025 2,550 3,253
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.49% 95.26% 95.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,242 1,774 2,303
10th Percentile £200 £223 £230
25th Percentile £350 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £470
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +1.06% +10.59%
75th Percentile £557 £550 £550
90th Percentile £637 £634 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 128 45 51
10th Percentile £12.30 £12.48 £17.25
25th Percentile £16.00 £14.25 £18.95
Median hourly rate £19.50 £18.50 £37.43
Median % change year-on-year +5.41% -50.57% +66.36%
75th Percentile £58.13 £58.75 £48.38
90th Percentile £66.00 £67.88 £55.84
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.50
% change year-on-year -16.67% +83.67% +12.28%

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 1 June 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 1 June 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 24 £575 +3.36% 15
Edinburgh +40 22 £340 -24.44% 8
Stirling - 3 £420 -
South Lanarkshire - 1 £750 -
Infrastructure Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 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 46 (92.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 25 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 25 (50.00%) Windows
3 20 (40.00%) Linux
4 19 (38.00%) Azure
5 17 (34.00%) Security Cleared
6 16 (32.00%) SC Cleared
6 16 (32.00%) Problem-Solving
7 14 (28.00%) Microsoft
8 13 (26.00%) Python
8 13 (26.00%) PowerShell
8 13 (26.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 11 (22.00%) Red Hat
9 11 (22.00%) Customer Service
10 10 (20.00%) DevOps
10 10 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
10 10 (20.00%) Finance
10 10 (20.00%) Agile
11 9 (18.00%) SCCM
12 8 (16.00%) High Availability
12 8 (16.00%) ITIL
12 8 (16.00%) Unix
12 8 (16.00%) Cybersecurity
12 8 (16.00%) Entra ID
13 7 (14.00%) Windows Server
13 7 (14.00%) Active Directory
13 7 (14.00%) Firewall
13 7 (14.00%) Splunk
13 7 (14.00%) AWS
13 7 (14.00%) Mac OS

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 2 (4.00%) SAS
2 1 (2.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 19 (38.00%) Azure
2 8 (16.00%) Entra ID
3 7 (14.00%) AWS
4 4 (8.00%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (4.00%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (4.00%) OpenShift
6 1 (2.00%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (2.00%) GCP
6 1 (2.00%) IaaS
6 1 (2.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 7 (14.00%) Firewall
2 5 (10.00%) SAN
3 3 (6.00%) NAS
4 2 (4.00%) Fibre Channel
4 2 (4.00%) iSCSI
5 1 (2.00%) DHCP
5 1 (2.00%) DNS
5 1 (2.00%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (2.00%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.00%) DB2
2 1 (2.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (4.00%) JIRA
2 1 (2.00%) Git
2 1 (2.00%) Jenkins
General
1 25 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 10 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (20.00%) Finance
3 4 (8.00%) Banking
3 4 (8.00%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (6.00%) Manufacturing
5 2 (4.00%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.00%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.00%) Flash
1 2 (4.00%) Pandas
1 2 (4.00%) POSIX
2 1 (2.00%) Redfish
2 1 (2.00%) REST
2 1 (2.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.00%) Clustering
1 6 (12.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (4.00%) Client/Server
2 2 (4.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (4.00%) NVMe
3 1 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.00%) PKI
3 1 (2.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 25 (50.00%) Windows
2 20 (40.00%) Linux
3 13 (26.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (16.00%) Unix
5 7 (14.00%) Mac OS
5 7 (14.00%) Windows Server
6 6 (12.00%) Solaris
7 3 (6.00%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (4.00%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (92.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 16 (32.00%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (22.00%) Customer Service
4 10 (20.00%) Agile
4 10 (20.00%) DevOps
5 8 (16.00%) Cybersecurity
5 8 (16.00%) High Availability
5 8 (16.00%) ITIL
6 6 (12.00%) Compliance Management
7 5 (10.00%) Disk Encryption
7 5 (10.00%) Refactoring
7 5 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 3 (6.00%) Data Security
8 3 (6.00%) Disaster Recovery
8 3 (6.00%) Network Management
8 3 (6.00%) Observability
8 3 (6.00%) Proactive Management
8 3 (6.00%) Problem Management
9 2 (4.00%) Knowledge Transfer
9 2 (4.00%) Preventative Maintenance
Programming Languages
1 13 (26.00%) PowerShell
1 13 (26.00%) Python
2 4 (8.00%) Perl
3 2 (4.00%) Java
3 2 (4.00%) SQL
4 1 (2.00%) C
Qualifications
1 17 (34.00%) Security Cleared
2 16 (32.00%) SC Cleared
3 6 (12.00%) RHCE
4 5 (10.00%) MCSE
4 5 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (6.00%) MCP
6 2 (4.00%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (2.00%) Degree
7 1 (2.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (12.00%) SLA
2 3 (6.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (6.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (2.00%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 7 (14.00%) Active Directory
2 6 (12.00%) KVM
3 4 (8.00%) Hyper-V
4 2 (4.00%) Docker
4 2 (4.00%) GPFS
4 2 (4.00%) NFS
4 2 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 1 (2.00%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (2.00%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (2.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 9 (18.00%) SCCM
2 3 (6.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (6.00%) WSUS
3 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (4.00%) Veritas Storage Foundation
4 1 (2.00%) Ansible
4 1 (2.00%) Terraform
4 1 (2.00%) vCenter Server
4 1 (2.00%) vMotion
4 1 (2.00%) vRealize
Vendors
1 14 (28.00%) Microsoft
2 11 (22.00%) Red Hat
3 7 (14.00%) Splunk
4 5 (10.00%) Citrix
5 4 (8.00%) Cisco
5 4 (8.00%) HP
6 2 (4.00%) Brocade
6 2 (4.00%) EMC
6 2 (4.00%) Google
6 2 (4.00%) IBM
6 2 (4.00%) NetApp
6 2 (4.00%) Sybase
6 2 (4.00%) Veritas
6 2 (4.00%) VMware
7 1 (2.00%) Atlassian
7 1 (2.00%) Dell
7 1 (2.00%) Dynatrace
7 1 (2.00%) Meraki
7 1 (2.00%) SolarWinds