Infrastructure Engineering Contracts in Scotland

Infrastructure Engineering
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Infrastructure Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Infrastructure Engineering 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 86 65 125
Rank change year-on-year -21 +60 -25
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 30 66 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.85% 2.98% 1.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.98% 3.36% 1.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 43 20
10th Percentile £425 £408 £306
25th Percentile £458 £443 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £475 £532
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -10.68% +18.18%
75th Percentile £575 £634 £581
90th Percentile - £699 £618
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +10.53%
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 £62.50 £46.18 £61.62
% change year-on-year +35.34% -25.05% +23.23%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Infrastructure Engineering 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 Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineering in Scotland

Infrastructure Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Engineering in Scotland

Infrastructure Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in Scotland

Infrastructure Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Engineering in Scotland

Infrastructure Engineering
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 Engineering 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 -7 20 £550 +4.76% 10
Edinburgh -17 7 £425 -10.53% 17
Infrastructure Engineering
UK

Infrastructure Engineering
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 10 (33.33%) Confluence
2 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 17 (56.67%) AWS
2 10 (33.33%) Serverless
3 7 (23.33%) Azure
4 5 (16.67%) Amazon S3
4 5 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
4 5 (16.67%) Cohesity
4 5 (16.67%) OpenShift
5 1 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (16.67%) NAS
1 5 (16.67%) SAN
2 3 (10.00%) LAN
2 3 (10.00%) Network Security
2 3 (10.00%) WAN
3 2 (6.67%) Firewall
3 2 (6.67%) MPLS
3 2 (6.67%) SDH
4 1 (3.33%) ADSL
4 1 (3.33%) DHCP
4 1 (3.33%) DNS
4 1 (3.33%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (3.33%) IPsec
4 1 (3.33%) PSTN
4 1 (3.33%) TCP/IP
4 1 (3.33%) VPN
4 1 (3.33%) Wireless
4 1 (3.33%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.33%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (3.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (33.33%) Bitbucket
1 10 (33.33%) JIRA
2 5 (16.67%) Git
2 5 (16.67%) Jenkins
General
1 11 (36.67%) Social Skills
2 6 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (13.33%) Finance
4 2 (6.67%) Electronics
4 2 (6.67%) Telecoms
5 1 (3.33%) Banking
5 1 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.33%) Legal
5 1 (3.33%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 21 (70.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (10.00%) NetBackup Engineer
3 2 (6.67%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (6.67%) Network Engineer
3 2 (6.67%) Python Engineer
3 2 (6.67%) Telecoms Engineer
4 1 (3.33%) AWS Software Engineer
4 1 (3.33%) Backup Engineer
4 1 (3.33%) Backup Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (3.33%) Build Engineer
4 1 (3.33%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (3.33%) Field Engineer
4 1 (3.33%) Field Telecoms Engineer
4 1 (3.33%) Project Engineer
4 1 (3.33%) Python Software Engineer
4 1 (3.33%) Security Engineer
4 1 (3.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (3.33%) Software Engineer
4 1 (3.33%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (3.33%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.33%) Java RMI
1 1 (3.33%) Loki
1 1 (3.33%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.00%) Data Centre
1 6 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (6.67%) Driving Licence
2 2 (6.67%) Fibre Optics
3 1 (3.33%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.33%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.33%) PKI
3 1 (3.33%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.33%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 13 (43.33%) Windows
2 12 (40.00%) Unix
3 9 (30.00%) Linux
3 9 (30.00%) Windows Server
4 2 (6.67%) AIX
4 2 (6.67%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (3.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (3.33%) Windows 10
5 1 (3.33%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (36.67%) Data Protection
1 11 (36.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 10 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 10 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
2 10 (33.33%) Operational Stability
3 8 (26.67%) Computer Science
3 8 (26.67%) Mathematics
4 7 (23.33%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (16.67%) CI/CD
5 5 (16.67%) Data Deduplication
5 5 (16.67%) Observability
5 5 (16.67%) Task Automation
6 4 (13.33%) Decision-Making
6 4 (13.33%) Performance Tuning
7 3 (10.00%) Project Delivery
8 2 (6.67%) Change Management
8 2 (6.67%) Configuration Management
8 2 (6.67%) Infrastructure Automation
8 2 (6.67%) Process Management
8 2 (6.67%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (60.00%) Python
2 3 (10.00%) Shell Script
3 1 (3.33%) PowerShell
3 1 (3.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (33.33%) AWS Certification
2 8 (26.67%) AWS Certified Developer
2 8 (26.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 4 (13.33%) Security Cleared
4 3 (10.00%) SC Cleared
5 2 (6.67%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (6.67%) HNC
6 1 (3.33%) BC Cleared
6 1 (3.33%) Degree
6 1 (3.33%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.67%) Disclosure Scotland
1 2 (6.67%) SLA
2 1 (3.33%) NIST
2 1 (3.33%) QA
System Software
1 5 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (6.67%) Hyper-V
2 2 (6.67%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (3.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (3.33%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (3.33%) Docker
3 1 (3.33%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 1 (3.33%) Xen
Systems Management
1 12 (40.00%) Terraform
2 6 (20.00%) Ansible
2 6 (20.00%) Kubernetes
3 5 (16.67%) NetBackup
3 5 (16.67%) Oracle RMAN
4 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (6.67%) Progress Chef
4 2 (6.67%) Puppet
4 2 (6.67%) SCCM
5 1 (3.33%) Grafana
5 1 (3.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (26.67%) VMware
2 6 (20.00%) Veritas
3 5 (16.67%) Cisco
4 4 (13.33%) Microsoft
5 2 (6.67%) Citrix
5 2 (6.67%) Nokia
6 1 (3.33%) Aruba
6 1 (3.33%) Dell
6 1 (3.33%) HP
6 1 (3.33%) Meraki
6 1 (3.33%) Palo Alto
6 1 (3.33%) Red Hat
6 1 (3.33%) Splunk