Infrastructure Monitoring Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Infrastructure Monitoring
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Infrastructure Monitoring skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 127 121 108
Rank change year-on-year -6 -13 -
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Monitoring 8 1 8
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.35% 0.059% 0.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.42% 0.065% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - £420
25th Percentile £625 - £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - £438
75th Percentile £675 - £450
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £519 £413 £500
% change year-on-year +25.82% -17.50% -4.76%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Scotland

Infrastructure Monitoring 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 1,883 1,547 1,715
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 83.39% 91.81% 87.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,013 892 1,068
10th Percentile £288 £258 £213
25th Percentile £375 £369 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.81% +2.89% -5.26%
75th Percentile £558 £538 £550
90th Percentile £650 £600 £653
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 127 78 59
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.46 £12.30
25th Percentile £13.50 £17.30 £14.25
Median hourly rate £17.36 £19.99 £20.29
Median % change year-on-year -13.13% -1.48% +10.70%
75th Percentile £43.96 £25.15 £40.94
90th Percentile £71.40 £28.11 £54.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -37.13% -5.88%

Infrastructure Monitoring
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Infrastructure Monitoring relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Infrastructure Monitoring job vacancy trend in Scotland

Infrastructure Monitoring
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

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

Infrastructure Monitoring
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 Monitoring within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 26 July 2026. 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 - 3 £650 - 1
Edinburgh -6 2 - -
Dundee - 2 - -
Infrastructure Monitoring
UK

Infrastructure Monitoring
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (25.00%) Confluence
2 1 (12.50%) Apache
2 1 (12.50%) JBoss
2 1 (12.50%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 7 (87.50%) Azure
2 6 (75.00%) AWS
3 4 (50.00%) GCP
4 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (12.50%) Nutanix
4 1 (12.50%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) DNS
1 3 (37.50%) SSH
2 2 (25.00%) Ethernet VPN
2 2 (25.00%) HTTPS
2 2 (25.00%) SSL
2 2 (25.00%) VXLAN
3 1 (12.50%) DHCP
3 1 (12.50%) Network Security
3 1 (12.50%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) MariaDB
1 2 (25.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (25.00%) SQLPlus
2 1 (12.50%) OpenStack Swift
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Git
2 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (37.50%) Public Sector
2 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Banking
3 1 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Data Centre Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Developer
1 2 (25.00%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (12.50%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 6 (75.00%) Linux
2 1 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (12.50%) Rocky
2 1 (12.50%) Ubuntu
2 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
1 3 (37.50%) DevOps
1 3 (37.50%) Incident Management
1 3 (37.50%) Project Delivery
1 3 (37.50%) Service Management
2 2 (25.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (25.00%) Data Protection
2 2 (25.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 2 (25.00%) Observability
2 2 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (25.00%) Runbook
2 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (12.50%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (12.50%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (12.50%) Privileged Access Management
3 1 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (12.50%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Python
2 4 (50.00%) Bash
3 2 (25.00%) Search Processing Language
3 2 (25.00%) SQL
4 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
1 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) CCNP
2 2 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (25.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Hyper-V
1 3 (37.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (25.00%) Ceph
2 2 (25.00%) Squid
2 2 (25.00%) VMware NSX
3 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
3 1 (12.50%) iptables
3 1 (12.50%) NFS
3 1 (12.50%) Samba
3 1 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (12.50%) Grafana
2 1 (12.50%) NetBackup
2 1 (12.50%) Rundeck
2 1 (12.50%) SCCM
2 1 (12.50%) SCOM
2 1 (12.50%) SELinux
2 1 (12.50%) systemd
2 1 (12.50%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) VMware
2 3 (37.50%) Splunk
3 2 (25.00%) Barracuda Networks
3 2 (25.00%) Cisco
3 2 (25.00%) Dell
4 1 (12.50%) Citrix
4 1 (12.50%) CyberArk
4 1 (12.50%) SaltStack
4 1 (12.50%) SolarWinds