IT Engineer Jobs in Glasgow

IT Engineer
Scotland > Glasgow

The median IT Engineer salary in Glasgow is £30,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 July 2025.

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

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 199 112
Rank change year-on-year +134 -87 -13
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 19 20 12
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 2.56% 0.56% 0.81%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.87% 0.57% 0.92%
Number of salaries quoted 19 20 7
10th Percentile £26,000 £23,725 £35,750
25th Percentile £27,813 £24,000 £36,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £27,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -31.25% +40.35%
75th Percentile £63,750 £38,000 £42,500
90th Percentile £103,000 £53,750 £44,500
Scotland median annual salary £30,000 £28,500 £37,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% -22.97% +23.33%

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 662 3,506 1,300
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.10% 98.10% 87.78%
Number of salaries quoted 290 977 651
10th Percentile £29,975 £29,700 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,033 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.54% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £75,000
Scotland median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -

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 2 July 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 2 July 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 9 (47.37%) Windows
2 8 (42.11%) Driving Licence
3 7 (36.84%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (36.84%) Customer Service
3 7 (36.84%) Active Directory
3 7 (36.84%) Microsoft Certification
3 7 (36.84%) DHCP
3 7 (36.84%) DNS
3 7 (36.84%) Microsoft
3 7 (36.84%) VMware
4 6 (31.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (31.58%) Hyper-V
4 6 (31.58%) Degree
4 6 (31.58%) TCP/IP
4 6 (31.58%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (31.58%) Windows 10
5 5 (26.32%) Virtual Environments
5 5 (26.32%) Social Skills
5 5 (26.32%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (21.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 3 (15.79%) DevSecOps
7 3 (15.79%) Vulnerability Scanning
7 3 (15.79%) Application Security
7 3 (15.79%) CI/CD
7 3 (15.79%) SOAR
7 3 (15.79%) NCSC
7 3 (15.79%) NIST
7 3 (15.79%) SOC 2
7 3 (15.79%) Identity Access Management
7 3 (15.79%) DevOps

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 5 (26.32%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (10.53%) Apache Spark
3 1 (5.26%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (36.84%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (15.79%) AWS
3 2 (10.53%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (10.53%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (10.53%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (10.53%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (10.53%) Azure
3 2 (10.53%) Serverless
4 1 (5.26%) OneDrive
4 1 (5.26%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 7 (36.84%) DHCP
1 7 (36.84%) DNS
2 6 (31.58%) TCP/IP
3 3 (15.79%) SAN
4 1 (5.26%) Firewall
4 1 (5.26%) FTP
4 1 (5.26%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.53%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 3 (15.79%) GitLab
1 3 (15.79%) Jenkins
2 2 (10.53%) CircleCI
3 1 (5.26%) JIRA
General
1 5 (26.32%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.79%) Banking
2 3 (15.79%) Finance
2 3 (15.79%) Investment Banking
3 2 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (10.53%) Financial Institution
3 2 (10.53%) Legal
3 2 (10.53%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.26%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.53%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (10.53%) Kafka
2 1 (5.26%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 8 (42.11%) Driving Licence
2 3 (15.79%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 3 (15.79%) Management Information System
3 2 (10.53%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (10.53%) Data Centre
3 2 (10.53%) Smartphone
4 1 (5.26%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 9 (47.37%) Windows
2 6 (31.58%) Windows 10
3 2 (10.53%) Windows Server
4 1 (5.26%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (36.84%) Customer Service
2 6 (31.58%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (26.32%) Virtual Environments
4 4 (21.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (15.79%) Application Security
5 3 (15.79%) CI/CD
5 3 (15.79%) DevOps
5 3 (15.79%) DevSecOps
5 3 (15.79%) Identity Access Management
5 3 (15.79%) Incident Management
5 3 (15.79%) Information Security
5 3 (15.79%) Malware Detection/Protection
5 3 (15.79%) Risk Management
5 3 (15.79%) SIEM
5 3 (15.79%) SOAR
5 3 (15.79%) Use Case
5 3 (15.79%) Vulnerability Management
5 3 (15.79%) Vulnerability Scanning
6 2 (10.53%) Cloud Security
6 2 (10.53%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.53%) Bash
1 2 (10.53%) Python
2 1 (5.26%) Go
Qualifications
1 7 (36.84%) Microsoft Certification
2 6 (31.58%) Degree
3 2 (10.53%) A+ Certification
3 2 (10.53%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (10.53%) CCNA
3 2 (10.53%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (10.53%) MCSE
3 2 (10.53%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (15.79%) NCSC
1 3 (15.79%) NIST
1 3 (15.79%) SOC 2
System Software
1 7 (36.84%) Active Directory
2 6 (31.58%) Hyper-V
2 6 (31.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (15.79%) Docker
4 1 (5.26%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 3 (15.79%) Kubernetes
2 2 (10.53%) Grafana
2 2 (10.53%) Prometheus
2 2 (10.53%) Terraform
3 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 7 (36.84%) Microsoft
1 7 (36.84%) VMware
2 2 (10.53%) Dell
3 1 (5.26%) Cisco
3 1 (5.26%) ServiceNow