Infrastructure Engineering Contracts in Scotland

Infrastructure Engineering
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 61 131 104
Rank change year-on-year +70 -27 -1
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 69 39 74
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 3.18% 1.42% 2.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.60% 1.53% 2.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 20 59
10th Percentile £340 £306 £300
25th Percentile £408 £414 £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £545 £450
Median % change year-on-year -12.84% +21.11% +5.88%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £575
90th Percentile £689 £621 £600
UK median daily rate £478 £520 £475
% change year-on-year -8.17% +9.47% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £59.03 -
UK median hourly rate £54.88 £61.62 £42.50
% change year-on-year -10.94% +44.98% +6.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,916 2,542 3,190
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.38% 92.54% 93.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,164 1,810 2,261
10th Percentile £225 £262 £250
25th Percentile £375 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £472
Median % change year-on-year - +0.64% +11.06%
75th Percentile £575 £556 £550
90th Percentile £656 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 54 49
10th Percentile £12.30 £10.63 £15.04
25th Percentile £15.75 £11.51 £17.80
Median hourly rate £19.34 £16.25 £37.43
Median % change year-on-year +18.98% -56.59% -6.43%
75th Percentile £46.24 £44.55 £48.75
90th Percentile £60.93 £66.09 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.29% +41.73% +4.82%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineering in Scotland

Infrastructure Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Engineering in Scotland

Infrastructure Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in Scotland over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in Scotland

Infrastructure Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Engineering in Scotland

Infrastructure Engineering
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 Engineering within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 11 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
Edinburgh +50 35 £435 -20.91% 19
Glasgow +28 29 £575 +9.52% 9
Stirling - 3 £420 -
Renfrewshire -2 1 £525 -2.53%
South Lanarkshire - 1 £700 -
Infrastructure Engineering
UK

Infrastructure Engineering
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 3 (4.35%) CMS
2 2 (2.90%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.45%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 22 (31.88%) Azure
2 17 (24.64%) AWS
3 8 (11.59%) Amazon EKS
3 8 (11.59%) Entra ID
3 8 (11.59%) OpenShift
4 6 (8.70%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.45%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.45%) GCP
5 1 (1.45%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.45%) PowerApps
5 1 (1.45%) SaaS
5 1 (1.45%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 14 (20.29%) Firewall
2 5 (7.25%) DNS
3 3 (4.35%) DHCP
3 3 (4.35%) NAS
3 3 (4.35%) SAN
4 2 (2.90%) Remote Desktop
4 2 (2.90%) TCP/IP
4 2 (2.90%) VLAN
4 2 (2.90%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.45%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (1.45%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 10 (14.49%) Jenkins
2 9 (13.04%) Git
3 7 (10.14%) Maven
4 6 (8.70%) Gradle
5 1 (1.45%) JIRA
General
1 26 (37.68%) Social Skills
2 12 (17.39%) Finance
3 9 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (8.70%) Public Sector
5 4 (5.80%) Banking
6 3 (4.35%) Manufacturing
6 3 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (4.35%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 44 (63.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 11 (15.94%) Infrastructure Support
3 10 (14.49%) Windows Engineer
4 9 (13.04%) Linux Engineer
4 9 (13.04%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
4 9 (13.04%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
5 8 (11.59%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 8 (11.59%) Security Engineer
5 8 (11.59%) Senior
5 8 (11.59%) Support Engineer
6 7 (10.14%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
7 6 (8.70%) Site Manager
7 6 (8.70%) Site Reliability Manager
7 6 (8.70%) Systems Engineer
8 5 (7.25%) Cybersecurity Engineer
8 5 (7.25%) Linux Support
8 5 (7.25%) Linux Support Engineer
9 4 (5.80%) Cloud Engineer
9 4 (5.80%) DevOps Engineer
9 4 (5.80%) Linux/Unix DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Graph
1 1 (1.45%) Redfish
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.70%) Data Centre
2 5 (7.25%) Cloud Native
2 5 (7.25%) Clustering
3 3 (4.35%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.90%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.90%) PKI
4 2 (2.90%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.90%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.45%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.45%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.45%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 35 (50.72%) Windows
2 20 (28.99%) Linux
3 14 (20.29%) Unix
4 10 (14.49%) Windows Server
5 5 (7.25%) Mac OS
5 5 (7.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (5.80%) Solaris
7 3 (4.35%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (2.90%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (1.45%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (31.88%) Problem-Solving
2 18 (26.09%) DevOps
3 16 (23.19%) Customer Service
4 15 (21.74%) Agile
5 12 (17.39%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 10 (14.49%) Cybersecurity
7 8 (11.59%) Continuous Integration
7 8 (11.59%) Deployment Automation
7 8 (11.59%) ITIL
8 7 (10.14%) CI/CD
9 6 (8.70%) Application Security
9 6 (8.70%) Disk Encryption
9 6 (8.70%) OWASP
9 6 (8.70%) Refactoring
10 5 (7.25%) Change Management
10 5 (7.25%) Network Management
10 5 (7.25%) Root Cause Analysis
10 5 (7.25%) Service-Level Objective
11 4 (5.80%) Compliance Management
11 4 (5.80%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 22 (31.88%) Python
2 20 (28.99%) PowerShell
3 8 (11.59%) Bash
3 8 (11.59%) Ruby
4 7 (10.14%) Groovy
4 7 (10.14%) Shell Script
5 4 (5.80%) Perl
6 2 (2.90%) C
Qualifications
1 16 (23.19%) Security Cleared
2 12 (17.39%) SC Cleared
3 5 (7.25%) MCSE
3 5 (7.25%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (5.80%) RHCE
5 3 (4.35%) MCP
6 2 (2.90%) Degree
6 2 (2.90%) DV Cleared
6 2 (2.90%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.45%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.45%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.25%) SLA
2 3 (4.35%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (4.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 2 (2.90%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 13 (18.84%) Active Directory
2 5 (7.25%) Docker
2 5 (7.25%) Hyper-V
3 4 (5.80%) KVM
3 4 (5.80%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (2.90%) VMware NSX
6 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 1 (1.45%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (1.45%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (17.39%) SCCM
2 11 (15.94%) Terraform
3 10 (14.49%) Ansible
4 8 (11.59%) Kubernetes
5 5 (7.25%) WSUS
6 3 (4.35%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (2.90%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (2.90%) vCenter Server
7 2 (2.90%) vRealize
8 1 (1.45%) McAfee ePO
8 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Clustering
8 1 (1.45%) vMotion
Vendors
1 23 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 7 (10.14%) Citrix
3 6 (8.70%) Splunk
3 6 (8.70%) VMware
4 5 (7.25%) HP
4 5 (7.25%) Red Hat
5 4 (5.80%) Cisco
6 3 (4.35%) Avaya
7 2 (2.90%) Meraki
7 2 (2.90%) SolarWinds
8 1 (1.45%) Dell
8 1 (1.45%) Dynatrace
8 1 (1.45%) McAfee
8 1 (1.45%) Symantec
8 1 (1.45%) Veritas