Senior Infrastructure Engineer Contracts in Scotland

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
UK > Scotland

The median Senior Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in Scotland is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 April 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
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 124 - 167
Rank change year-on-year - - -20
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 8 0 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.36% - 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.38% - 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 3
10th Percentile £459 - £405
25th Percentile £463 - £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - £450
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.88%
75th Percentile £488 - £488
90th Percentile £495 - £495
UK median daily rate £475 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +10.00% +11.11%

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 2,108 2,707 3,399
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.74% 95.12% 96.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,292 1,944 2,410
10th Percentile £200 £250 £212
25th Percentile £377 £403 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £460
Median % change year-on-year - +3.26% +8.24%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £545
90th Percentile £663 £650 £623
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 44 55
10th Percentile £12.50 £12.86 £12.35
25th Percentile £16.25 £17.72 £17.50
Median hourly rate £35.00 £29.43 £25.82
Median % change year-on-year +18.93% +14.00% -35.46%
75th Percentile £60.38 £61.16 £47.98
90th Percentile £66.00 £67.50 £54.09
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -21.11% +95.65% +0.94%

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings that featured Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Infrastructure Engineer in Scotland

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Infrastructure Engineer in Scotland

Senior 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 Senior Infrastructure Engineer within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 23 April 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
Edinburgh - 5 £481 - 2
Glasgow - 3 £475 -
Senior Infrastructure Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 23 April 2024, Senior 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 Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 7 (87.50%) Azure
3 5 (62.50%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (50.00%) Firewall
4 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
4 4 (50.00%) Windows
5 3 (37.50%) Linux
5 3 (37.50%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (37.50%) Finance
5 3 (37.50%) Information Security
5 3 (37.50%) Banking
5 3 (37.50%) Software Deployment
5 3 (37.50%) Server Virtualisation
5 3 (37.50%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
6 2 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (25.00%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
7 1 (12.50%) Vulnerability Scanning
7 1 (12.50%) Kalman Filter
7 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
7 1 (12.50%) Email Filtering
7 1 (12.50%) Security Operations
7 1 (12.50%) PKI
7 1 (12.50%) Degree
7 1 (12.50%) SCCM
7 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure

Senior 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (87.50%) Azure
2 4 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (50.00%) Firewall
General
1 3 (37.50%) Banking
1 3 (37.50%) Finance
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) Windows
2 3 (37.50%) Linux
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (62.50%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (37.50%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (37.50%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (37.50%) Information Security
3 3 (37.50%) Server Virtualisation
3 3 (37.50%) Software Deployment
4 2 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (12.50%) Email Filtering
5 1 (12.50%) ITIL
5 1 (12.50%) Kalman Filter
5 1 (12.50%) Knowledge Transfer
5 1 (12.50%) Security Operations
5 1 (12.50%) Vulnerability Scanning
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
1 1 (12.50%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (12.50%) MCSE
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 2 (25.00%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
1 1 (12.50%) Hyper-V
1 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) VMware