Infrastructure Engineer Contracts in Glasgow

Infrastructure Engineer
Scotland > Glasgow

The median Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in Glasgow is £575 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 May 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 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 49 72 67
Rank change year-on-year +23 -5 -3
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 25 12 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 3.03% 1.35% 1.74%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.20% 1.41% 1.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 2 13
10th Percentile £463 £407 -
25th Percentile £491 £447 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £556 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.36% +11.27% +11.11%
75th Percentile £713 £674 £600
90th Percentile £768 £720 -
Scotland median daily rate £463 £450 £463
% change year-on-year +2.78% -2.70% +8.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £59.03 -
Scotland median hourly rate - £59.03 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Glasgow

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Glasgow. 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 Glasgow with a recognized job title 781 849 886
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.78% 95.18% 96.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 527 603 675
10th Percentile £266 £325 £213
25th Percentile £363 £409 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.63% +5.56% +9.09%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £538
90th Percentile £625 £700 £612
Scotland median daily rate £463 £475 £464
% change year-on-year -2.63% +2.29% +9.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 22 17
10th Percentile £12.03 £12.19 £21.90
25th Percentile £16.00 £13.43 £23.97
Median hourly rate £40.94 £14.75 £37.43
Median % change year-on-year +177.56% -60.59% +113.52%
75th Percentile £53.75 £44.55 £43.50
90th Percentile £67.50 £60.37 £56.00
Scotland median hourly rate £24.27 £18.50 £37.43
% change year-on-year +31.20% -50.57% -0.19%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in Glasgow

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in Glasgow

Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

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

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in Glasgow

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in Glasgow.

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in Glasgow

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

For the 6 months to 23 May 2024, 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 Glasgow region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 20 (80.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 16 (64.00%) Windows
3 15 (60.00%) Azure
4 14 (56.00%) PowerShell
5 13 (52.00%) Python
6 12 (48.00%) Social Skills
7 11 (44.00%) Agile
8 10 (40.00%) Unix
8 10 (40.00%) DevOps
9 9 (36.00%) Problem-Solving
9 9 (36.00%) Microsoft
9 9 (36.00%) Finance
10 8 (32.00%) Linux
11 6 (24.00%) AWS
11 6 (24.00%) Analytical Skills
11 6 (24.00%) Perl
11 6 (24.00%) Banking
12 5 (20.00%) Refactoring
12 5 (20.00%) SCCM
12 5 (20.00%) Mac OS
12 5 (20.00%) Windows Server
12 5 (20.00%) Disk Encryption
12 5 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 5 (20.00%) Entra ID
12 5 (20.00%) Data Centre
12 5 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
12 5 (20.00%) Splunk
13 4 (16.00%) Capacity Management
13 4 (16.00%) Fibre Channel
13 4 (16.00%) High Availability

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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 (16.00%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 15 (60.00%) Azure
2 6 (24.00%) AWS
3 5 (20.00%) Entra ID
4 4 (16.00%) OpenShift
5 1 (4.00%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.00%) Fibre Channel
1 4 (16.00%) iSCSI
1 4 (16.00%) SAN
2 3 (12.00%) Firewall
3 2 (8.00%) DNS
4 1 (4.00%) DHCP
4 1 (4.00%) TCP/IP
4 1 (4.00%) VLAN
4 1 (4.00%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.00%) DB2
Development Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Git
1 1 (4.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (4.00%) JIRA
General
1 12 (48.00%) Social Skills
2 9 (36.00%) Finance
3 6 (24.00%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (24.00%) Banking
4 4 (16.00%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (12.00%) Investment Banking
6 1 (4.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.00%) Flash
1 4 (16.00%) POSIX
2 1 (4.00%) Redfish
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.00%) Data Centre
2 4 (16.00%) Client/Server
2 4 (16.00%) NVMe
3 2 (8.00%) Management Information System
4 1 (4.00%) Product Ownership
4 1 (4.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (64.00%) Windows
2 10 (40.00%) Unix
3 8 (32.00%) Linux
4 5 (20.00%) Mac OS
4 5 (20.00%) Windows Server
5 4 (16.00%) Data ONTAP
5 4 (16.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (4.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (80.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 11 (44.00%) Agile
3 10 (40.00%) DevOps
4 9 (36.00%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
5 5 (20.00%) Disk Encryption
5 5 (20.00%) Refactoring
5 5 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 4 (16.00%) Capacity Management
6 4 (16.00%) Computer Science
6 4 (16.00%) Customer Requirements
6 4 (16.00%) High Availability
6 4 (16.00%) Infrastructure Automation
6 4 (16.00%) Observability
6 4 (16.00%) OO
6 4 (16.00%) Preventative Maintenance
6 4 (16.00%) Problem Management
6 4 (16.00%) SDLC
6 4 (16.00%) Storage Management
7 3 (12.00%) Storage Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 14 (56.00%) PowerShell
2 13 (52.00%) Python
3 6 (24.00%) Perl
4 4 (16.00%) Java
4 4 (16.00%) SQL
5 1 (4.00%) C
Qualifications
1 2 (8.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (4.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 4 (16.00%) Docker
1 4 (16.00%) GPFS
1 4 (16.00%) NFS
2 2 (8.00%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (8.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (4.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (4.00%) Hyper-V
3 1 (4.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (20.00%) SCCM
2 4 (16.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (16.00%) Veritas Storage Foundation
3 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (4.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (4.00%) Ansible
4 1 (4.00%) Terraform
4 1 (4.00%) vCenter Server
4 1 (4.00%) vMotion
4 1 (4.00%) vRealize
Vendors
1 9 (36.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (20.00%) Splunk
3 4 (16.00%) Brocade
3 4 (16.00%) EMC
3 4 (16.00%) Google
3 4 (16.00%) IBM
3 4 (16.00%) NetApp
3 4 (16.00%) Sybase
3 4 (16.00%) Veritas
4 2 (8.00%) VMware
5 1 (4.00%) Dell
5 1 (4.00%) HP
5 1 (4.00%) SolarWinds