Infrastructure Engineering Contracts in Edinburgh

Infrastructure Engineering
Scotland > Edinburgh

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for Infrastructure Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Infrastructure Engineering over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 39 82 96
Rank change year-on-year +43 +14 -1
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 37 24 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 4.48% 2.01% 1.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.19% 2.13% 1.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 17 21
10th Percentile - £324 £363
25th Percentile £340 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £378 £550 £425
Median % change year-on-year -31.36% +29.41% -
75th Percentile £500 £600 £538
90th Percentile £634 £618 £575
Scotland median daily rate £450 £532 £450
% change year-on-year -15.39% +18.18% +5.88%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

Infrastructure Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 713 1,125 1,784
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 86.32% 94.30% 93.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 424 793 1,227
10th Percentile £219 £233 £280
25th Percentile £368 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.76%
75th Percentile £563 £538 £568
90th Percentile £661 £613 £638
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 6 13
10th Percentile £13.25 £11.83 £15.53
25th Percentile £16.13 £14.30 £17.50
Median hourly rate £19.17 £19.49 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.64% -40.94% -39.42%
75th Percentile £60.75 £21.57 £48.75
90th Percentile - £37.71 £53.20
Scotland median hourly rate £19.50 £14.50 £37.43
% change year-on-year +34.48% -61.26% -6.43%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineering in Edinburgh

Infrastructure Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Engineering in Edinburgh

Infrastructure Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in Edinburgh

Infrastructure Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Engineering in Edinburgh

Infrastructure Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (2.70%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 12 (32.43%) AWS
2 9 (24.32%) Amazon EKS
3 8 (21.62%) OpenShift
4 3 (8.11%) Azure
5 2 (5.41%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (2.70%) GCP
6 1 (2.70%) SaaS
6 1 (2.70%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 7 (18.92%) Firewall
2 2 (5.41%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.70%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 7 (18.92%) Jenkins
1 7 (18.92%) Maven
2 6 (16.22%) Git
2 6 (16.22%) Gradle
General
1 16 (43.24%) Social Skills
2 5 (13.51%) Finance
2 5 (13.51%) Public Sector
3 3 (8.11%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (48.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 16 (43.24%) Infrastructure Support
3 11 (29.73%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 11 (29.73%) Support Engineer
4 8 (21.62%) Linux Engineer
4 8 (21.62%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
4 8 (21.62%) Linux Support
4 8 (21.62%) Linux Support Engineer
5 6 (16.22%) Site Manager
5 6 (16.22%) Site Reliability Manager
6 5 (13.51%) Cloud Engineer
6 5 (13.51%) Infrastructure Specialist
6 5 (13.51%) Infrastructure Support Specialist
6 5 (13.51%) Support Specialist
7 4 (10.81%) Senior
8 2 (5.41%) Architect
8 2 (5.41%) Security Engineer
8 2 (5.41%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (5.41%) Senior Technical Architect
8 2 (5.41%) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 6 (16.22%) Clustering
2 5 (13.51%) Cloud Native
3 2 (5.41%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.70%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.70%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 18 (48.65%) Windows
2 14 (37.84%) Linux
3 9 (24.32%) Windows Server
4 8 (21.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (16.22%) Solaris
5 6 (16.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (37.84%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (35.14%) Customer Service
3 8 (21.62%) Deployment Automation
4 7 (18.92%) ITIL
4 7 (18.92%) Network Management
5 6 (16.22%) Application Security
5 6 (16.22%) CI/CD
5 6 (16.22%) Compliance Management
5 6 (16.22%) Continuous Integration
5 6 (16.22%) High Availability
5 6 (16.22%) OWASP
5 6 (16.22%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 5 (13.51%) DevOps
6 5 (13.51%) Root Cause Analysis
6 5 (13.51%) Service-Level Objective
7 3 (8.11%) Cybersecurity
7 3 (8.11%) Mentoring
8 2 (5.41%) Coaching
8 2 (5.41%) Fintech
8 2 (5.41%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 8 (21.62%) Bash
1 8 (21.62%) Python
1 8 (21.62%) Ruby
2 7 (18.92%) Groovy
2 7 (18.92%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 18 (48.65%) Security Cleared
2 16 (43.24%) SC Cleared
3 7 (18.92%) MCSE
3 7 (18.92%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (16.22%) RHCE
5 5 (13.51%) MCP
6 2 (5.41%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (2.70%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (16.22%) SLA
2 3 (8.11%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (8.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (2.70%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 8 (21.62%) Active Directory
2 6 (16.22%) KVM
3 5 (13.51%) Docker
4 3 (8.11%) Hyper-V
5 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 1 (2.70%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (2.70%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (24.32%) Kubernetes
2 8 (21.62%) SCCM
2 8 (21.62%) Terraform
3 7 (18.92%) Ansible
3 7 (18.92%) WSUS
Vendors
1 10 (27.03%) Microsoft
2 8 (21.62%) Red Hat
3 5 (13.51%) Citrix
4 2 (5.41%) Meraki
4 2 (5.41%) VMware
5 1 (2.70%) Cisco
5 1 (2.70%) Dynatrace