Infrastructure Engineering Contracts in Scotland

Infrastructure Engineering
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Infrastructure Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Infrastructure Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 11 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 52 123 101
Rank change year-on-year +71 -22 +13
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 77 40 78
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 3.59% 1.49% 2.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.13% 1.62% 2.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 22 64
10th Percentile - £339 £300
25th Percentile £340 £425 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £532 £450
Median % change year-on-year -20.09% +18.18% +5.88%
75th Percentile £500 £594 £575
90th Percentile £634 £618 £600
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £475
% change year-on-year -3.75% +9.37% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £59.03 -
UK median hourly rate £54.88 £65.00 £29.73
% change year-on-year -15.58% +118.67% -25.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Infrastructure Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,865 2,470 3,195
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 86.95% 92.13% 93.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,152 1,723 2,262
10th Percentile £220 £250 £250
25th Percentile £363 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.53% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £568 £550 £550
90th Percentile £638 £638 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 57 54
10th Percentile £12.30 £10.63 £15.04
25th Percentile £15.07 £11.25 £17.56
Median hourly rate £19.50 £15.99 £37.43
Median % change year-on-year +21.95% -57.28% -6.43%
75th Percentile £42.71 £43.75 £50.27
90th Percentile £60.75 £65.63 £57.05
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £35.02 £25.68
% change year-on-year +4.24% +36.35% +11.65%

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 June 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 June 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 +54 49 £340 -35.24% 15
Glasgow +19 25 £525 - 15
Stirling - 3 £420 -
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 (3.90%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.60%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 21 (27.27%) Azure
2 19 (24.68%) AWS
3 10 (12.99%) OpenShift
4 9 (11.69%) Amazon EKS
4 9 (11.69%) Entra ID
5 7 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (3.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (3.90%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (3.90%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 3 (3.90%) Amazon S3
6 3 (3.90%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (3.90%) Serverless
7 2 (2.60%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (2.60%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (1.30%) AWS CodeBuild
8 1 (1.30%) AWS CodeCommit
8 1 (1.30%) AWS CodePipeline
8 1 (1.30%) GCP
8 1 (1.30%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.30%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (16.88%) Firewall
2 3 (3.90%) NAS
2 3 (3.90%) SAN
3 2 (2.60%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (1.30%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.49%) MongoDB
2 4 (5.19%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (3.90%) Informix
3 3 (3.90%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.60%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.30%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (1.30%) InfluxDB
5 1 (1.30%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 8 (10.39%) Jenkins
2 7 (9.09%) Git
2 7 (9.09%) Maven
3 6 (7.79%) Gradle
General
1 31 (40.26%) Social Skills
2 11 (14.29%) Finance
3 10 (12.99%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (11.69%) Public Sector
5 3 (3.90%) Manufacturing
5 3 (3.90%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (2.60%) Banking
Job Titles
1 48 (62.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 22 (28.57%) Infrastructure Support
3 14 (18.18%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 14 (18.18%) Support Engineer
4 12 (15.58%) Linux Engineer
4 12 (15.58%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
5 11 (14.29%) Linux Support
5 11 (14.29%) Linux Support Engineer
6 10 (12.99%) Windows Engineer
7 9 (11.69%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
8 8 (10.39%) Infrastructure Specialist
8 8 (10.39%) Infrastructure Support Specialist
8 8 (10.39%) Security Engineer
8 8 (10.39%) Senior
8 8 (10.39%) Support Specialist
9 7 (9.09%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
10 6 (7.79%) Site Manager
10 6 (7.79%) Site Reliability Manager
10 6 (7.79%) Systems Engineer
11 5 (6.49%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.90%) AWS CDK
2 2 (2.60%) Pandas
3 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (1.30%) Redfish
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.79%) Cloud Native
1 6 (7.79%) Clustering
2 5 (6.49%) Data Centre
3 2 (2.60%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.60%) Replication
4 1 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.30%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.30%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.30%) PKI
4 1 (1.30%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 38 (49.35%) Windows
2 25 (32.47%) Linux
3 13 (16.88%) Unix
4 12 (15.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (12.99%) Windows Server
6 7 (9.09%) Mac OS
7 6 (7.79%) Solaris
8 3 (3.90%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (32.47%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (20.78%) Customer Service
3 14 (18.18%) DevOps
4 12 (15.58%) Agile
4 12 (15.58%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 11 (14.29%) ITIL
6 10 (12.99%) Cybersecurity
7 8 (10.39%) Deployment Automation
7 8 (10.39%) High Availability
7 8 (10.39%) Network Management
8 7 (9.09%) Continuous Integration
9 6 (7.79%) Application Security
9 6 (7.79%) CI/CD
9 6 (7.79%) Compliance Management
9 6 (7.79%) Disk Encryption
9 6 (7.79%) OWASP
9 6 (7.79%) Refactoring
10 5 (6.49%) Disaster Recovery
10 5 (6.49%) Root Cause Analysis
10 5 (6.49%) Service-Level Objective
Programming Languages
1 20 (25.97%) Python
2 17 (22.08%) PowerShell
3 8 (10.39%) Bash
3 8 (10.39%) Ruby
4 7 (9.09%) Groovy
4 7 (9.09%) Shell Script
5 3 (3.90%) SQL
5 3 (3.90%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.30%) C
6 1 (1.30%) Perl
Qualifications
1 26 (33.77%) Security Cleared
2 23 (29.87%) SC Cleared
3 8 (10.39%) MCSE
3 8 (10.39%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (7.79%) MCP
4 6 (7.79%) RHCE
5 2 (2.60%) Degree
5 2 (2.60%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.30%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.79%) SLA
2 3 (3.90%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (3.90%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (1.30%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.30%) QA
System Software
1 13 (16.88%) Active Directory
2 6 (7.79%) KVM
3 5 (6.49%) Docker
4 4 (5.19%) Hyper-V
5 2 (2.60%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 1 (1.30%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (1.30%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (1.30%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 16 (20.78%) SCCM
2 12 (15.58%) Ansible
3 10 (12.99%) Terraform
4 9 (11.69%) Kubernetes
5 8 (10.39%) WSUS
6 4 (5.19%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (3.90%) Grafana
8 1 (1.30%) vCenter Server
8 1 (1.30%) vMotion
8 1 (1.30%) vRealize
Vendors
1 23 (29.87%) Microsoft
2 12 (15.58%) Red Hat
3 8 (10.39%) Citrix
3 8 (10.39%) Splunk
4 4 (5.19%) Cisco
4 4 (5.19%) HP
5 3 (3.90%) Oracle
5 3 (3.90%) VMware
6 2 (2.60%) Meraki
7 1 (1.30%) Commvault
7 1 (1.30%) Dell
7 1 (1.30%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.30%) SolarWinds