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 7 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 62 130
Rank change year-on-year +16 +68 -91
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 32 18 35
As % of all permanent jobs in Glasgow 2.47% 2.47% 1.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.30% 2.74% 1.81%
Number of salaries quoted 14 12 32
10th Percentile £31,250 - £37,750
25th Percentile £37,813 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £61,250 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +63.27% +22.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile - £65,313 £52,500
90th Percentile - £70,000 £60,875
Scotland median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £46,250
% change year-on-year +14.29% +13.51% -15.91%

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 971 658 1,934
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 75.10% 90.26% 91.66%
Number of salaries quoted 609 265 609
10th Percentile £29,750 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,500 £35,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% - -
75th Percentile £71,250 £71,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £86,900 £85,000 £80,000
Scotland median annual salary £50,000 £40,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +25.00% -27.27% -

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 7 September 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 9 (28.13%) Azure
2 8 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (21.88%) AWS
3 7 (21.88%) Entra ID
4 4 (12.50%) Amazon Bedrock
5 3 (9.38%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (9.38%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (3.13%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.50%) DHCP
1 4 (12.50%) DNS
2 3 (9.38%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.13%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (3.13%) DynamoDB
General
1 5 (15.63%) Finance
1 5 (15.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 4 (12.50%) Law
2 4 (12.50%) Marketing
2 4 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.13%) Legal
3 1 (3.13%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 17 (53.13%) Lead
2 11 (34.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 9 (28.13%) Software Engineer
4 8 (25.00%) Server Engineer
5 7 (21.88%) Lead Software Engineer
5 7 (21.88%) Reliability Engineer
5 7 (21.88%) Senior
6 5 (15.63%) Infrastructure Team Leader
6 5 (15.63%) IT Infrastructure Team Leader
6 5 (15.63%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (15.63%) Team Leader
7 4 (12.50%) Hyper-V Engineer
7 4 (12.50%) IT Engineer
7 4 (12.50%) Senior Server Engineer
7 4 (12.50%) Systems Engineer
7 4 (12.50%) Windows Engineer
7 4 (12.50%) Windows Server Engineer
7 4 (12.50%) Windows Systems Engineer
8 3 (9.38%) AWS Engineer
8 3 (9.38%) AWS Infrastructure Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.50%) Terraform
2 3 (9.38%) CrewAI
2 3 (9.38%) LangChain
2 3 (9.38%) LangGraph
2 3 (9.38%) OpenTelemetry
2 3 (9.38%) Ray
2 3 (9.38%) vLLM
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.38%) AI Agents
1 3 (9.38%) Clustering
1 3 (9.38%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (3.13%) Onboarding
2 1 (3.13%) Private Cloud
2 1 (3.13%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (25.00%) Windows
2 7 (21.88%) Windows Server
3 4 (12.50%) Debian
3 4 (12.50%) Linux
3 4 (12.50%) Ubuntu
4 1 (3.13%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (31.25%) Software Engineering
2 9 (28.13%) AI
2 9 (28.13%) Continuous Improvement
3 8 (25.00%) LLM
4 6 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (18.75%) Service Delivery
5 5 (15.63%) Migration
5 5 (15.63%) Observability
6 4 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
6 4 (12.50%) Generative AI
6 4 (12.50%) Infrastructure Management
6 4 (12.50%) ITIL
6 4 (12.50%) ITSM
6 4 (12.50%) Problem Management
6 4 (12.50%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
6 4 (12.50%) Service Management
6 4 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 3 (9.38%) Auto-Scaling
7 3 (9.38%) Incident Response
7 3 (9.38%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 7 (21.88%) PowerShell
2 4 (12.50%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.13%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (3.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 7 (21.88%) Active Directory
2 4 (12.50%) Hyper-V
3 3 (9.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (3.13%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 4 (12.50%) Kubernetes
1 4 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (9.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 3 (9.38%) Grafana
2 3 (9.38%) Prometheus
2 3 (9.38%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 13 (40.63%) Microsoft
2 3 (9.38%) EMC
2 3 (9.38%) NVIDIA
2 3 (9.38%) VMware
3 1 (3.13%) Citrix
3 1 (3.13%) Google
3 1 (3.13%) Intel