Infrastructure Engineer Job Trends in Glasgow

Infrastructure Engineer
Scotland > Glasgow

The median Infrastructure Engineer salary in Glasgow is £100,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 September 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 68 136
Rank change year-on-year +3 +68 -65
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 10 15 29
As % of all permanent jobs in Glasgow 0.80% 2.07% 1.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.85% 2.18% 1.36%
Number of salaries quoted 1 9 29
10th Percentile - - £37,000
25th Percentile - £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £37,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +166.67% -21.05% +1.06%
75th Percentile - £70,000 £51,250
90th Percentile - - £52,500
Scotland median annual salary £50,000 £48,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +12.94% -15.00%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Glasgow

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

Permanent vacancies in Glasgow with a recognized job title 1,174 688 2,128
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.70% 94.77% 97.88%
Number of salaries quoted 710 287 715
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,900 £32,600
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,500 £53,772
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% -0.51% -2.23%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £82,500
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Infrastructure Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Infrastructure Engineer job vacancy trend in Glasgow

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in Glasgow

Salary distribution trend for Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in Glasgow.

Salary distribution trend for Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in Glasgow

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow

For the 6 months to 3 September 2026, Infrastructure Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Glasgow region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 8 (80.00%) Microsoft
3 4 (40.00%) Azure
3 4 (40.00%) Problem Management
4 3 (30.00%) Active Directory
4 3 (30.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 3 (30.00%) EMC
4 3 (30.00%) Entra ID
4 3 (30.00%) High Availability
4 3 (30.00%) ITIL
4 3 (30.00%) ITSM
4 3 (30.00%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (30.00%) PowerShell
4 3 (30.00%) Service Management
4 3 (30.00%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (30.00%) Task Automation
4 3 (30.00%) VMware
4 3 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (30.00%) VSAN
4 3 (30.00%) Windows
4 3 (30.00%) Windows Server
5 2 (20.00%) AWS
6 1 (10.00%) AI
6 1 (10.00%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (10.00%) Code Quality
6 1 (10.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
6 1 (10.00%) Decision-Making
6 1 (10.00%) Deployment Automation
6 1 (10.00%) DynamoDB

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) Azure
2 3 (30.00%) Entra ID
2 3 (30.00%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (20.00%) AWS
4 1 (10.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (10.00%) DynamoDB
General
1 1 (10.00%) Finance
1 1 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (10.00%) Law
1 1 (10.00%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Clustering
1 3 (30.00%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (10.00%) Private Cloud
2 1 (10.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Windows
1 3 (30.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (40.00%) Problem Management
3 3 (30.00%) High Availability
3 3 (30.00%) ITIL
3 3 (30.00%) ITSM
3 3 (30.00%) Service Management
3 3 (30.00%) Task Automation
4 1 (10.00%) AI
4 1 (10.00%) Code Quality
4 1 (10.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 1 (10.00%) Decision-Making
4 1 (10.00%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (10.00%) Migration
4 1 (10.00%) Observability
4 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (10.00%) Refactoring
4 1 (10.00%) SDLC
4 1 (10.00%) Secure Coding
4 1 (10.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (10.00%) Python
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 3 (30.00%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (30.00%) EMC
2 3 (30.00%) VMware
3 1 (10.00%) Google