Infrastructure Engineering Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Infrastructure Engineering
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Infrastructure Engineering skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 99 45 94
Rank change year-on-year -54 +49 +9
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 16 78 65
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.01% 4.23% 2.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.11% 4.88% 2.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 51 39
10th Percentile £445 - -
25th Percentile £462 £340 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £460
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -7.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £575 £474 £625
90th Percentile - £613 £700
UK median daily rate £505 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +1.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £56.25
Median hourly rate - - £57.50
75th Percentile - - £58.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £32.00 £70.00 £72.50
% change year-on-year -54.29% -3.45% +59.41%

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 1,447 1,597 2,349
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 91.01% 86.70% 92.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 790 979 1,547
10th Percentile £263 £213 £250
25th Percentile £375 £358 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £538 £550 £550
90th Percentile £600 £675 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 44 62
10th Percentile £16.73 £12.30 £12.01
25th Percentile £17.87 £13.60 £12.84
Median hourly rate £20.00 £18.69 £19.06
Median % change year-on-year +7.02% -1.93% -9.26%
75th Percentile £25.15 £26.94 £57.81
90th Percentile £35.00 £56.75 £66.41
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £41.50
% change year-on-year -40.82% +2.41% +43.55%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

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

Infrastructure Engineering
Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Infrastructure Engineering.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Infrastructure Engineering

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 3 September 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
Edinburgh -39 8 £450 +32.35% 8
Glasgow -27 7 £525 +20.00% 4
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 4 (25.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 7 (43.75%) AWS
2 5 (31.25%) Azure
3 3 (18.75%) Amazon S3
3 3 (18.75%) Cloud Computing
3 3 (18.75%) Cohesity
3 3 (18.75%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (18.75%) OpenShift
3 3 (18.75%) Serverless
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (6.25%) Entra ID
4 1 (6.25%) GCP
4 1 (6.25%) OCI
4 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (18.75%) NAS
1 3 (18.75%) SAN
2 2 (12.50%) Firewall
2 2 (12.50%) LAN
2 2 (12.50%) SDH
2 2 (12.50%) WAN
3 1 (6.25%) ADSL
3 1 (6.25%) MPLS
3 1 (6.25%) PSTN
3 1 (6.25%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 4 (25.00%) JIRA
2 3 (18.75%) Bitbucket
2 3 (18.75%) Git
2 3 (18.75%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (37.50%) Finance
2 5 (31.25%) Social Skills
3 3 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (12.50%) Banking
4 2 (12.50%) Electronics
4 2 (12.50%) Telecoms
5 1 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (6.25%) Legal
5 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
5 1 (6.25%) Retail
5 1 (6.25%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) NetBackup Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Python Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Telecoms Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) AWS Software Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Field Telecoms Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Implementation Specialist
3 1 (6.25%) Lead
3 1 (6.25%) Mac Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Network Field Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Project Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Python Software Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Security Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Senior
3 1 (6.25%) Senior Mac Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Software Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Technical Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Web Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) Java RMI
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Data Centre
2 2 (12.50%) Driving Licence
2 2 (12.50%) Fibre Optics
2 2 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (6.25%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (6.25%) Management Information System
3 1 (6.25%) PKI
3 1 (6.25%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 8 (50.00%) Windows
2 5 (31.25%) Windows Server
3 4 (25.00%) Unix
4 1 (6.25%) Linux
4 1 (6.25%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (25.00%) Data Protection
2 4 (25.00%) Task Automation
3 3 (18.75%) CI/CD
3 3 (18.75%) Containerisation
3 3 (18.75%) Continuous Delivery
3 3 (18.75%) Data Deduplication
3 3 (18.75%) Decision-Making
3 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (18.75%) Observability
3 3 (18.75%) Operational Stability
3 3 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (12.50%) Incident Response
4 2 (12.50%) Penetration Testing
4 2 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (12.50%) Project Delivery
4 2 (12.50%) Risk Assessment
4 2 (12.50%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 7 (43.75%) Python
2 1 (6.25%) Bash
2 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) AWS Certification
2 2 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (12.50%) HNC
2 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
2 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared
3 1 (6.25%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (6.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (6.25%) BC Cleared
3 1 (6.25%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) SLA
2 1 (6.25%) COBIT
2 1 (6.25%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (6.25%) QA
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Active Directory
2 1 (6.25%) Hyper-V
2 1 (6.25%) ProxySG
2 1 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (31.25%) Terraform
2 3 (18.75%) Kubernetes
2 3 (18.75%) NetBackup
2 3 (18.75%) Oracle RMAN
3 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (6.25%) Ansible
4 1 (6.25%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (6.25%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (18.75%) Veritas
3 2 (12.50%) Cisco
3 2 (12.50%) Nokia
4 1 (6.25%) Apple
4 1 (6.25%) Blue Coat
4 1 (6.25%) CheckPoint
4 1 (6.25%) Dell
4 1 (6.25%) Dynatrace
4 1 (6.25%) F5
4 1 (6.25%) Fortinet
4 1 (6.25%) HP
4 1 (6.25%) Oracle
4 1 (6.25%) Qualys
4 1 (6.25%) Symantec