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 4 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 43 189
Rank change year-on-year -6 +146 -130
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 16 6 34
As % of all permanent jobs in Glasgow 1.63% 1.45% 0.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.30% 1.56% 0.93%
Number of salaries quoted 10 6 30
10th Percentile £37,375 £36,875 £25,200
25th Percentile - £43,125 £27,838
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £61,250 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -26.53% +28.95% -5.00%
75th Percentile £55,000 £63,750 £52,500
90th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £55,000
Scotland median annual salary £50,000 £54,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -8.26% +21.11% -10.00%

All Process & 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 696 385 3,654
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 70.73% 93.00% 96.54%
Number of salaries quoted 445 208 803
10th Percentile £29,375 £34,625 £31,250
25th Percentile £30,000 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +13.21% -3.64%
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £96,625 £78,600
Scotland median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -18.18% +4.76% -8.70%

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 4 May 2026.

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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (6.25%) Azure
2 1 (6.25%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) DHCP
1 1 (6.25%) DNS
1 1 (6.25%) Firewall
1 1 (6.25%) LAN
1 1 (6.25%) VLAN
1 1 (6.25%) VPN
1 1 (6.25%) WAN
1 1 (6.25%) Wireless
General
1 2 (12.50%) Finance
1 2 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 2 (12.50%) Manufacturing
2 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (87.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (31.25%) Network Engineer
2 5 (31.25%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) IT Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Civil Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) IT Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Senior
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Server Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Server Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Driving Licence
1 2 (12.50%) Onboarding
2 1 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (12.50%) Linux
1 2 (12.50%) Windows
1 2 (12.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (18.75%) Service Delivery
3 2 (12.50%) Budgeting
3 2 (12.50%) Change Management
3 2 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (12.50%) ERP
3 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Management
3 2 (12.50%) IT Strategy
3 2 (12.50%) ITIL
3 2 (12.50%) ITSM
3 2 (12.50%) Risk Management
3 2 (12.50%) Service Management
4 1 (6.25%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (6.25%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (6.25%) High Availability
4 1 (6.25%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (6.25%) Logistics
4 1 (6.25%) Operational Stability
4 1 (6.25%) Project Delivery
4 1 (6.25%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) Degree
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (12.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Active Directory
1 2 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (6.25%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (6.25%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 7 (43.75%) Microsoft
2 2 (12.50%) VMware
3 1 (6.25%) Cisco