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 24 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 67 142
Rank change year-on-year +16 +75 -111
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 24 19 39
As % of all permanent jobs in Glasgow 1.95% 2.63% 1.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.60% 2.90% 1.70%
Number of salaries quoted 6 13 34
10th Percentile - - £38,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £60,000 £48,750
Median % change year-on-year -41.67% +23.08% -11.36%
75th Percentile £56,563 £63,750 £52,500
90th Percentile £62,500 £70,000 £56,375
Scotland median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +16.67% -16.28%

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 922 655 2,288
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 75.02% 90.59% 92.93%
Number of salaries quoted 561 256 670
10th Percentile £29,000 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% -2.73% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £81,250 £85,000 £80,000
Scotland median annual salary £50,000 £43,250 £55,000
% change year-on-year +15.61% -21.36% -

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 24 August 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 (37.50%) Azure
2 8 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (29.17%) Entra ID
4 4 (16.67%) AWS
5 3 (12.50%) Amazon Bedrock
5 3 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (12.50%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (4.17%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.50%) DHCP
1 3 (12.50%) DNS
1 3 (12.50%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.17%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (4.17%) DynamoDB
General
1 6 (25.00%) Finance
1 6 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 4 (16.67%) Law
2 4 (16.67%) Marketing
2 4 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 2 (8.33%) Manufacturing
4 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (41.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 10 (41.67%) Lead
2 7 (29.17%) Server Engineer
3 5 (20.83%) Infrastructure Team Leader
3 5 (20.83%) IT Infrastructure Team Leader
3 5 (20.83%) Team Leader
4 4 (16.67%) Senior
4 4 (16.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (16.67%) Senior Server Engineer
5 3 (12.50%) Hyper-V Engineer
5 3 (12.50%) IT Engineer
5 3 (12.50%) Lead Software Engineer
5 3 (12.50%) Reliability Engineer
5 3 (12.50%) Software Engineer
5 3 (12.50%) Systems Engineer
5 3 (12.50%) Windows Engineer
5 3 (12.50%) Windows Server Engineer
5 3 (12.50%) Windows Systems Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) IT Manager
7 1 (4.17%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.67%) Terraform
2 3 (12.50%) CrewAI
2 3 (12.50%) LangChain
2 3 (12.50%) LangGraph
2 3 (12.50%) OpenTelemetry
2 3 (12.50%) Ray
2 3 (12.50%) vLLM
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.50%) AI Agents
1 3 (12.50%) Clustering
1 3 (12.50%) Enterprise Storage
2 2 (8.33%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.17%) Driving Licence
3 1 (4.17%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (4.17%) Private Cloud
3 1 (4.17%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (33.33%) Windows
2 7 (29.17%) Windows Server
3 3 (12.50%) Debian
3 3 (12.50%) Linux
3 3 (12.50%) Ubuntu
4 1 (4.17%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (37.50%) Continuous Improvement
2 8 (33.33%) Service Delivery
3 6 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (20.83%) Infrastructure Management
4 5 (20.83%) ITIL
4 5 (20.83%) ITSM
4 5 (20.83%) Service Management
5 4 (16.67%) AI
5 4 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
5 4 (16.67%) High Availability
5 4 (16.67%) Migration
5 4 (16.67%) Observability
5 4 (16.67%) Operational Stability
5 4 (16.67%) Problem Management
6 3 (12.50%) Community of Practice
6 3 (12.50%) Incident Response
6 3 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (12.50%) Machine Learning
6 3 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
6 3 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (29.17%) PowerShell
2 4 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (4.17%) Degree
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (8.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 7 (29.17%) Active Directory
2 4 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (12.50%) Hyper-V
4 1 (4.17%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 4 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 4 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (12.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 3 (12.50%) Grafana
2 3 (12.50%) Prometheus
2 3 (12.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 13 (54.17%) Microsoft
2 4 (16.67%) VMware
3 3 (12.50%) EMC
3 3 (12.50%) NVIDIA
4 1 (4.17%) Citrix
4 1 (4.17%) Google