Infrastructure Engineer Contracts in Scotland

Infrastructure Engineer
UK > Scotland

The median Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in Scotland is £486, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 22 June 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 96 75 132
Rank change year-on-year -21 +57 -15
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 19 46 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.15% 2.20% 0.93%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.23% 2.33% 0.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 35 10
10th Percentile £425 - £332
25th Percentile £429 £340 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £420 £450
Median % change year-on-year +15.77% -6.67% -5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £494 £513
90th Percentile - £613 £570
UK median daily rate £525 £470 £500
% change year-on-year +11.70% -6.00% +9.29%
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
UK median hourly rate £200.00 £67.50 £72.50
% change year-on-year +196.30% -6.90% +68.37%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 1,551 1,976 2,562
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.11% 94.64% 94.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 867 1,210 1,767
10th Percentile £233 £200 £250
25th Percentile £358 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% +1.06%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £550
90th Percentile £600 £638 £625
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 129 53
10th Percentile £16.02 £12.30 £12.83
25th Percentile £16.84 £15.22 £14.25
Median hourly rate £19.71 £19.50 £18.93
Median % change year-on-year +1.08% +3.01% -49.43%
75th Percentile £25.15 £57.50 £53.75
90th Percentile £57.50 £66.00 £64.60
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £37.50 £44.00
% change year-on-year -27.07% -14.77% +76.00%

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 22 June 2025.

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 22 June 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 -19 14 £525 -8.70% 16
Edinburgh -14 3 £450 +32.35% 12
Infrastructure Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 22 June 2025, 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 15 (78.95%) Python
1 15 (78.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 10 (52.63%) Windows
3 9 (47.37%) Unix
4 8 (42.11%) AWS
4 8 (42.11%) Windows Server
5 7 (36.84%) Terraform
5 7 (36.84%) Linux
5 7 (36.84%) Data Protection
6 6 (31.58%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (26.32%) Operational Stability
7 5 (26.32%) Containerisation
7 5 (26.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (26.32%) AWS Certified Developer
7 5 (26.32%) JIRA
7 5 (26.32%) Mathematics
7 5 (26.32%) Computer Science
7 5 (26.32%) Management Information System
7 5 (26.32%) Serverless
7 5 (26.32%) Confluence
7 5 (26.32%) Bitbucket
7 5 (26.32%) Capacity Management
7 5 (26.32%) AWS Certification
7 5 (26.32%) Continuous Delivery
8 4 (21.05%) Technical Analysis
8 4 (21.05%) Ansible
8 4 (21.05%) Task Automation
8 4 (21.05%) Veritas
8 4 (21.05%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (21.05%) VMware

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 5 (26.32%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 8 (42.11%) AWS
2 5 (26.32%) Serverless
3 3 (15.79%) Amazon S3
3 3 (15.79%) Azure
3 3 (15.79%) Cloud Computing
3 3 (15.79%) Cohesity
3 3 (15.79%) OpenShift
4 1 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.79%) NAS
1 3 (15.79%) SAN
Development Applications
1 5 (26.32%) Bitbucket
1 5 (26.32%) JIRA
2 3 (15.79%) Git
2 3 (15.79%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (21.05%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (10.53%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.26%) Loki
1 1 (5.26%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 5 (26.32%) Management Information System
2 4 (21.05%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (10.53%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 10 (52.63%) Windows
2 9 (47.37%) Unix
3 8 (42.11%) Windows Server
4 7 (36.84%) Linux
5 1 (5.26%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (5.26%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (78.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 7 (36.84%) Data Protection
3 6 (31.58%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (26.32%) Capacity Management
4 5 (26.32%) Computer Science
4 5 (26.32%) Containerisation
4 5 (26.32%) Continuous Delivery
4 5 (26.32%) Mathematics
4 5 (26.32%) Operational Stability
5 4 (21.05%) Storage Management
5 4 (21.05%) Task Automation
5 4 (21.05%) Technical Analysis
6 3 (15.79%) CI/CD
6 3 (15.79%) Data Deduplication
6 3 (15.79%) Observability
6 3 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (10.53%) Decision-Making
7 2 (10.53%) Performance Tuning
8 1 (5.26%) Server Management
8 1 (5.26%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 15 (78.95%) Python
2 3 (15.79%) Shell Script
3 2 (10.53%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (26.32%) AWS Certification
1 5 (26.32%) AWS Certified Developer
1 5 (26.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 3 (15.79%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (10.53%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (5.26%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (5.26%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 7 (36.84%) Terraform
2 4 (21.05%) Ansible
3 3 (15.79%) Kubernetes
3 3 (15.79%) NetBackup
3 3 (15.79%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (5.26%) Grafana
4 1 (5.26%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (21.05%) Veritas
1 4 (21.05%) VMware
2 3 (15.79%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.26%) Citrix
3 1 (5.26%) Dell
3 1 (5.26%) Red Hat
3 1 (5.26%) Splunk