Infrastructure Engineering Job Trends in Glasgow

Infrastructure Engineering
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Glasgow requiring Infrastructure Engineering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 52 42
Rank change year-on-year -21 -10 +36
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 15 32 31
As % of all permanent jobs in Glasgow 1.88% 3.27% 4.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.12% 3.80% 4.80%
Number of salaries quoted 9 28 29
10th Percentile - £36,750 £25,200
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £48,750 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -2.50% +8.11%
75th Percentile £70,000 £50,938 £57,500
90th Percentile - £61,625 £63,500
Scotland median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -3.85% +9.47%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Glasgow

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 709 842 646
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 89.07% 86.01% 96.85%
Number of salaries quoted 304 461 504
10th Percentile £29,000 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £31,750 £38,500 £37,733
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £75,000
Scotland median annual salary £38,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -30.91% +4.76% -4.55%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Infrastructure Engineering relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Infrastructure Engineering job vacancy trend in Glasgow

Infrastructure Engineering
Salary Trend in Glasgow

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Infrastructure Engineering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Infrastructure Engineering

Infrastructure Engineering
Salary Histogram in Glasgow

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in Glasgow over the 6 months to 30 October 2025.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in Glasgow

Infrastructure Engineering
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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (20.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (13.33%) IIS
2 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (6.67%) WinCC
Cloud Services
1 8 (53.33%) Azure
2 4 (26.67%) GCP
3 2 (13.33%) AWS
3 2 (13.33%) Entra ID
3 2 (13.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (33.33%) Firewall
2 4 (26.67%) DHCP
2 4 (26.67%) DNS
3 2 (13.33%) TCP/IP
3 2 (13.33%) VPN
4 1 (6.67%) Modbus
General
1 4 (26.67%) Finance
1 4 (26.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 4 (26.67%) Law
1 4 (26.67%) Marketing
2 2 (13.33%) Manufacturing
2 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Military
Job Titles
1 13 (86.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (33.33%) Lead
3 4 (26.67%) Cloud Engineer
3 4 (26.67%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (26.67%) Lead Cloud Engineer
3 4 (26.67%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Network Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Senior
4 2 (13.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) IT Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) IT Security Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Security Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (20.00%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Private Cloud
2 3 (20.00%) Driving Licence
3 2 (13.33%) Cyber Security Posture
3 2 (13.33%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (13.33%) Onboarding
3 2 (13.33%) Operational Technology
3 2 (13.33%) Renewable Energy
3 2 (13.33%) Security Posture
4 1 (6.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (6.67%) Management Information System
4 1 (6.67%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 7 (46.67%) Windows
1 7 (46.67%) Windows Server
2 2 (13.33%) Linux
2 2 (13.33%) Unix
3 1 (6.67%) Windows 10
3 1 (6.67%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (6.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (26.67%) Deployment Automation
3 3 (20.00%) ITIL
3 3 (20.00%) Project Delivery
4 2 (13.33%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (13.33%) Kalman Filter
4 2 (13.33%) Migration
4 2 (13.33%) Server Management
4 2 (13.33%) Server Virtualisation
4 2 (13.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (13.33%) Web Filtering
5 1 (6.67%) Application Security
5 1 (6.67%) DevSecOps
5 1 (6.67%) Identity Access Management
5 1 (6.67%) Malware Detection/Protection
5 1 (6.67%) Mentoring
5 1 (6.67%) Presales
5 1 (6.67%) SIEM
5 1 (6.67%) SOAR
5 1 (6.67%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 4 (26.67%) Python
2 2 (13.33%) PowerShell
2 2 (13.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) Azure Certification
1 4 (26.67%) DV Cleared
1 4 (26.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (13.33%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (20.00%) NIST
2 2 (13.33%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (13.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (6.67%) IEC 61131
3 1 (6.67%) IEC 61508
3 1 (6.67%) NCSC
3 1 (6.67%) QA
3 1 (6.67%) SOC 2
System Software
1 5 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (26.67%) Hyper-V
3 3 (20.00%) Active Directory
4 1 (6.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (26.67%) Kubernetes
1 4 (26.67%) Microsoft Intune
1 4 (26.67%) Terraform
2 2 (13.33%) FortiGate
2 2 (13.33%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 5 (33.33%) VMware
2 3 (20.00%) Cisco
3 2 (13.33%) Fortinet
4 1 (6.67%) Juniper
4 1 (6.67%) McAfee
4 1 (6.67%) NetApp
4 1 (6.67%) Rockwell
4 1 (6.67%) Siemens
4 1 (6.67%) Splunk