Infrastructure Automation Contracts in Scotland

Infrastructure Automation
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Infrastructure Automation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Infrastructure Automation over the 6 months to 22 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
22 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 116 106 158
Rank change year-on-year -10 +52 -9
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 6 57 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.29% 2.14% 0.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 2.31% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 34 11
10th Percentile - £490 £463
25th Percentile £665 £500 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £693 £537 £700
Median % change year-on-year +28.99% -23.25% +40.00%
75th Percentile £722 £575 £725
90th Percentile - £600 £738
UK median daily rate £613 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +11.41% -0.05% +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Infrastructure Automation 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 Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,841 2,465 3,165
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 87.88% 92.39% 93.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,140 1,739 2,231
10th Percentile £219 £260 £250
25th Percentile £363 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £550
90th Percentile £650 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £533
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.29% +7.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 55 49
10th Percentile £12.30 £10.63 £15.04
25th Percentile £15.92 £11.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £19.50 £15.99 £37.43
Median % change year-on-year +21.95% -57.28% -6.43%
75th Percentile £42.71 £50.74 £48.75
90th Percentile £60.75 £67.13 £56.00
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £37.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year -2.58% +44.08% +7.00%

Infrastructure Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Infrastructure Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Automation in Scotland

Infrastructure Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Automation in Scotland

Infrastructure Automation
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 Automation within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 22 May 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
Glasgow -17 6 £693 +15.50%
Infrastructure Automation
UK

Infrastructure Automation
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 5 (83.33%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) AWS
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
1 4 (66.67%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 5 (83.33%) Fibre Channel
1 5 (83.33%) iSCSI
2 4 (66.67%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) DB2
General
1 6 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (66.67%) Finance
3 3 (50.00%) Banking
3 3 (50.00%) Investment Banking
4 1 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 4 (66.67%) Linux Engineer
1 4 (66.67%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
1 4 (66.67%) Python Engineer
1 4 (66.67%) Storage Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (83.33%) Flash
1 5 (83.33%) POSIX
Miscellaneous
1 5 (83.33%) NVMe
2 4 (66.67%) Client/Server
3 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) Linux
2 4 (66.67%) Data ONTAP
2 4 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (66.67%) Unix
2 4 (66.67%) Windows
2 4 (66.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Capacity Management
1 5 (83.33%) Computer Science
1 5 (83.33%) High Availability
1 5 (83.33%) Observability
1 5 (83.33%) Preventative Maintenance
1 5 (83.33%) Problem Management
1 5 (83.33%) SDLC
1 5 (83.33%) Storage Management
2 4 (66.67%) Customer Requirements
2 4 (66.67%) OO
2 4 (66.67%) Storage Virtualisation
3 3 (50.00%) Investment Management
3 3 (50.00%) Wealth Management
4 2 (33.33%) DevOps
5 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
5 1 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (16.67%) Resource Allocation
5 1 (16.67%) Tech Ops
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) Java
1 5 (83.33%) Perl
1 5 (83.33%) Python
2 4 (66.67%) SQL
System Software
1 5 (83.33%) NFS
2 4 (66.67%) Docker
2 4 (66.67%) GPFS
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Kubernetes
1 4 (66.67%) Veritas Storage Foundation
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Brocade
1 4 (66.67%) EMC
1 4 (66.67%) Google
1 4 (66.67%) IBM
1 4 (66.67%) NetApp
1 4 (66.67%) Sybase
1 4 (66.67%) Veritas