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

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 68 97
Rank change year-on-year +32 +29 -54
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 45 18 33
As % of all permanent jobs in Glasgow 3.20% 2.41% 1.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.25% 2.66% 2.18%
Number of salaries quoted 21 12 30
10th Percentile £31,250 - £37,250
25th Percentile - £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £61,250 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +63.27% +22.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile - £65,313 £52,500
90th Percentile - £70,000 £61,375
Scotland median annual salary £92,500 £52,500 £47,000
% change year-on-year +76.19% +11.70% -14.55%

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 1,060 677 1,517
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 75.28% 90.75% 90.14%
Number of salaries quoted 666 274 559
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,000 £35,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,750 £54,389
Median % change year-on-year +4.27% -3.01% -1.11%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £85,000 £82,700
Scotland median annual salary £54,194 £38,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +42.62% -30.91% +4.76%

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 21 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 12 (26.67%) AWS
2 11 (24.44%) Azure
3 9 (20.00%) Entra ID
3 9 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (8.89%) Amazon Bedrock
5 3 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (6.67%) Amazon SageMaker
6 2 (4.44%) GCP
7 1 (2.22%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (2.22%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (11.11%) DHCP
1 5 (11.11%) DNS
2 3 (6.67%) VSAN
3 2 (4.44%) Firewall
3 2 (4.44%) VLAN
4 1 (2.22%) Internet
4 1 (2.22%) NAS
4 1 (2.22%) TCP/IP
4 1 (2.22%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.22%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (2.22%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (2.22%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (2.22%) Git
General
1 5 (11.11%) Finance
1 5 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 5 (11.11%) Social Skills
2 4 (8.89%) Law
2 4 (8.89%) Marketing
3 1 (2.22%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (2.22%) Legal
3 1 (2.22%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 25 (55.56%) Lead
2 16 (35.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 15 (33.33%) Software Engineer
4 12 (26.67%) Senior
5 11 (24.44%) Lead Software Engineer
5 11 (24.44%) Reliability Engineer
6 8 (17.78%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 8 (17.78%) Server Engineer
7 7 (15.56%) AWS Engineer
7 7 (15.56%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (15.56%) AWS Infrastructure Lead
7 7 (15.56%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (11.11%) Infrastructure Team Leader
8 5 (11.11%) IT Engineer
8 5 (11.11%) IT Infrastructure Team Leader
8 5 (11.11%) Team Leader
9 4 (8.89%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
9 4 (8.89%) Principal Software Engineer
9 4 (8.89%) Senior Server Engineer
9 4 (8.89%) Windows Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.89%) Terraform
2 3 (6.67%) CrewAI
2 3 (6.67%) LangChain
2 3 (6.67%) LangGraph
2 3 (6.67%) OpenTelemetry
2 3 (6.67%) Ray
2 3 (6.67%) vLLM
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.67%) AI Agents
1 3 (6.67%) Clustering
1 3 (6.67%) Enterprise Storage
2 2 (4.44%) Driving Licence
3 1 (2.22%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.22%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (2.22%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.22%) Private Cloud
3 1 (2.22%) Replication
3 1 (2.22%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (22.22%) Windows
2 8 (17.78%) Windows Server
3 6 (13.33%) Linux
4 4 (8.89%) Debian
4 4 (8.89%) Ubuntu
5 1 (2.22%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (35.56%) Software Engineering
2 13 (28.89%) AI
3 12 (26.67%) LLM
4 10 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
5 7 (15.56%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 6 (13.33%) Migration
6 6 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (13.33%) Service Delivery
7 5 (11.11%) DevOps
7 5 (11.11%) Observability
8 4 (8.89%) Continuous Delivery
8 4 (8.89%) Disaster Recovery
8 4 (8.89%) Generative AI
8 4 (8.89%) Infrastructure as Code
8 4 (8.89%) Infrastructure Management
8 4 (8.89%) ITIL
8 4 (8.89%) ITSM
8 4 (8.89%) Problem Management
8 4 (8.89%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
8 4 (8.89%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (15.56%) PowerShell
2 4 (8.89%) Python
3 1 (2.22%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.22%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (2.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 9 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 6 (13.33%) Hyper-V
3 5 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (2.22%) Docker
4 1 (2.22%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 4 (8.89%) Kubernetes
1 4 (8.89%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (6.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 3 (6.67%) Grafana
2 3 (6.67%) Prometheus
2 3 (6.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 15 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 5 (11.11%) VMware
3 3 (6.67%) EMC
3 3 (6.67%) Intel
3 3 (6.67%) NVIDIA
4 2 (4.44%) Google
5 1 (2.22%) Cisco
5 1 (2.22%) Citrix
5 1 (2.22%) Dell
5 1 (2.22%) Meraki
5 1 (2.22%) QNAP
5 1 (2.22%) Veeam