IT Engineer Jobs in Glasgow

IT Engineer
Scotland > Glasgow

The median IT Engineer salary in Glasgow is £36,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 224 119
Rank change year-on-year +183 -105 -26
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 13 12 6
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 2.65% 0.30% 0.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.00% 0.31% 0.45%
Number of salaries quoted 12 12 3
10th Percentile £26,288 - £30,700
25th Percentile £32,906 £26,250 £33,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,750 £27,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +33.64% -31.25% +40.35%
75th Percentile £63,750 £39,750 £45,000
90th Percentile £98,625 £52,875 £46,500
Scotland median annual salary £31,250 £28,500 £37,000
% change year-on-year +9.65% -22.97% +18.84%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Glasgow

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Glasgow. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Glasgow with a recognized job title 433 3,911 1,327
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 88.37% 98.04% 85.78%
Number of salaries quoted 258 859 664
10th Percentile £31,775 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,033 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.54% -4.55% +14.58%
75th Percentile £75,270 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,075 £78,750 £75,000
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £56,618
% change year-on-year +4.76% -7.27% +7.84%

IT Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Job postings that featured IT Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Job vacancy trend for IT Engineer in Glasgow

IT Engineer
Salary Trend in Glasgow

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing IT Engineer in Glasgow.

Salary trend for IT Engineer in Glasgow

IT Engineer
Salary Histogram in Glasgow

Salary distribution for jobs citing IT Engineer in Glasgow over the 6 months to 12 May 2025.

Salary histogram for IT Engineer in Glasgow

IT Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow

For the 6 months to 12 May 2025, IT Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Glasgow region featuring IT Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (30.77%) Windows
3 3 (23.08%) Finance
3 3 (23.08%) Information Security
3 3 (23.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (23.08%) SIEM
3 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (23.08%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (15.38%) DevOps
4 2 (15.38%) Vulnerability Scanning
4 2 (15.38%) Driving Licence
4 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (15.38%) Microservices
4 2 (15.38%) Apache Spark
4 2 (15.38%) GitLab
4 2 (15.38%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
4 2 (15.38%) Identity Access Management
4 2 (15.38%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (15.38%) Terraform
4 2 (15.38%) Grafana
4 2 (15.38%) Windows Server
4 2 (15.38%) Quantitative Trading
4 2 (15.38%) Malware Detection/Protection
4 2 (15.38%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 2 (15.38%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (15.38%) CircleCI
4 2 (15.38%) Proactive Monitoring
4 2 (15.38%) Prometheus
4 2 (15.38%) DevSecOps

IT Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (15.38%) Apache Spark
2 1 (7.69%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (23.08%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (15.38%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (15.38%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (15.38%) AWS
2 2 (15.38%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (15.38%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (15.38%) Azure
2 2 (15.38%) Serverless
3 1 (7.69%) OneDrive
3 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) Firewall
1 2 (15.38%) SAN
2 1 (7.69%) DHCP
2 1 (7.69%) DNS
2 1 (7.69%) FTP
2 1 (7.69%) NAS
2 1 (7.69%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (15.38%) SQL Server
2 1 (7.69%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) CircleCI
1 2 (15.38%) GitLab
1 2 (15.38%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (23.08%) Finance
2 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Banking
2 2 (15.38%) Financial Institution
2 2 (15.38%) Investment Banking
3 1 (7.69%) Law
3 1 (7.69%) Legal
3 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
3 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (15.38%) Kafka
2 1 (7.69%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 2 (15.38%) Driving Licence
1 2 (15.38%) Management Information System
2 1 (7.69%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (7.69%) Data Centre
2 1 (7.69%) FMCG
2 1 (7.69%) Public Cloud
2 1 (7.69%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 4 (30.77%) Windows
2 2 (15.38%) Windows Server
3 1 (7.69%) Linux
3 1 (7.69%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (23.08%) Information Security
2 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (23.08%) SIEM
3 2 (15.38%) Application Security
3 2 (15.38%) CI/CD
3 2 (15.38%) Containerisation
3 2 (15.38%) DevOps
3 2 (15.38%) DevSecOps
3 2 (15.38%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (15.38%) Incident Management
3 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (15.38%) Low Latency
3 2 (15.38%) Malware Detection/Protection
3 2 (15.38%) Microservices
3 2 (15.38%) Proactive Monitoring
3 2 (15.38%) Quantitative Trading
3 2 (15.38%) SOAR
3 2 (15.38%) Vulnerability Management
3 2 (15.38%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 2 (15.38%) Bash
1 2 (15.38%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) A+ Certification
1 1 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (7.69%) CCNA
1 1 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (7.69%) Degree
1 1 (7.69%) MCSE
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (7.69%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (15.38%) NCSC
2 2 (15.38%) NIST
2 2 (15.38%) SOC 2
3 1 (7.69%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (7.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Active Directory
1 2 (15.38%) Docker
2 1 (7.69%) Hyper-V
2 1 (7.69%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Grafana
1 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
1 2 (15.38%) Prometheus
1 2 (15.38%) Terraform
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
1 2 (15.38%) VMware
2 1 (7.69%) Cisco
2 1 (7.69%) Dell