Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in Edinburgh

Infrastructure Engineer
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Infrastructure Engineer salary in Edinburgh is £54,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 April 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 93 135
Rank change year-on-year +13 +42 -7
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 7 18 16
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.76% 1.17% 0.75%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.82% 1.22% 0.78%
Number of salaries quoted 3 16 15
10th Percentile £48,284 £38,750 £32,000
25th Percentile £49,865 £38,938 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,500 £65,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.15% +44.44% -18.18%
75th Percentile £56,625 £83,125 £85,738
90th Percentile £57,150 £85,000 £87,419
Scotland median annual salary £52,250 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% - +5.56%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Edinburgh

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Edinburgh. 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Edinburgh with a recognized job title 857 1,470 2,051
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.85% 95.83% 95.53%
Number of salaries quoted 431 1,037 1,207
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £36,331
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.09%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,433 £77,715
90th Percentile £98,474 £91,934 £90,000
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% +9.52%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in Edinburgh

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in Edinburgh.

Salary trend for Infrastructure Engineer in Edinburgh

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

For the 6 months to 28 April 2025, Infrastructure Engineer 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 permanent job ads across the Edinburgh region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (57.14%) Agile
2 4 (57.14%) Roadmaps
3 3 (42.86%) Product Ownership
3 3 (42.86%) Design Thinking
3 3 (42.86%) Release Train
3 3 (42.86%) Thought Leadership
3 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (42.86%) Software Testing
3 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
3 3 (42.86%) SDLC
3 3 (42.86%) Observability
3 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
3 3 (42.86%) Azure
3 3 (42.86%) Private Cloud
4 2 (28.57%) Public Cloud
4 2 (28.57%) DevOps
4 2 (28.57%) GCP
4 2 (28.57%) AWS
4 2 (28.57%) SaaS
4 2 (28.57%) PaaS
4 2 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (28.57%) BitLocker
4 2 (28.57%) TCP/IP
4 2 (28.57%) Windows
4 2 (28.57%) Python
4 2 (28.57%) Middleware
4 2 (28.57%) Firewall
4 2 (28.57%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (28.57%) Product Roadmap

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
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 (14.29%) CICS
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) AWS
2 2 (28.57%) GCP
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (28.57%) PaaS
2 2 (28.57%) SaaS
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
3 1 (14.29%) IaaS
3 1 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) Firewall
1 2 (28.57%) TCP/IP
1 2 (28.57%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (14.29%) DHCP
2 1 (14.29%) DNS
2 1 (14.29%) LAN
2 1 (14.29%) Network Security
2 1 (14.29%) SSL
2 1 (14.29%) VPN
2 1 (14.29%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) MySQL
1 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Banking
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Middleware
2 1 (14.29%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Private Cloud
1 3 (42.86%) Product Ownership
2 2 (28.57%) Public Cloud
3 1 (14.29%) Data Centre
3 1 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Windows
2 1 (14.29%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (57.14%) Agile
2 4 (57.14%) Roadmaps
3 3 (42.86%) Design Thinking
3 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (42.86%) Observability
3 3 (42.86%) Release Train
3 3 (42.86%) SDLC
3 3 (42.86%) Software Testing
3 3 (42.86%) Thought Leadership
4 2 (28.57%) DevOps
4 2 (28.57%) Product Roadmap
4 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
5 1 (14.29%) Analytics
5 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (14.29%) Load Balancing
5 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
5 1 (14.29%) Migration
5 1 (14.29%) Service Delivery
5 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) Java
2 1 (14.29%) JCL
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) BitLocker
2 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (14.29%) Puppet
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Apple
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco
2 1 (14.29%) Dell
2 1 (14.29%) Fortinet
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle