IT Engineer Job Trends 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 7 November 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 67 54
Rank change year-on-year -4 -13 +43
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 17 13 18
As % of all permanent jobs in Glasgow 2.06% 1.33% 2.76%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.22% 1.36% 2.80%
Number of salaries quoted 16 13 13
10th Percentile £25,188 - £25,700
25th Percentile £28,313 - £29,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £24,000 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -31.43% -2.78%
75th Percentile £35,938 £48,750 £38,750
90th Percentile £59,375 £53,000 £42,400
Scotland median annual salary £30,000 £31,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% -10.00% +14.75%

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 765 953 642
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.73% 97.15% 98.32%
Number of salaries quoted 347 530 497
10th Percentile £29,400 £30,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £39,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £75,000
Scotland median annual salary £45,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -15.09% +6.00% -9.09%

IT Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'IT Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

IT Engineer job vacancy trend in Glasgow

IT Engineer
Salary Trend in Glasgow

Salary distribution trend for IT Engineer job vacancies in Glasgow.

Salary distribution trend for IT Engineer job vacancies in Glasgow

IT Engineer
Salary Histogram in Glasgow

Salary distribution for jobs citing IT Engineer in Glasgow over the 6 months to 7 November 2025.

Salary histogram for IT Engineer in Glasgow

IT Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow

For the 6 months to 7 November 2025, IT Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Glasgow region featuring IT Engineer in the job title.

1 9 (52.94%) Active Directory
1 9 (52.94%) Degree
2 8 (47.06%) DHCP
2 8 (47.06%) DNS
2 8 (47.06%) Windows
3 7 (41.18%) Customer Service
3 7 (41.18%) Microsoft
3 7 (41.18%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (41.18%) Microsoft Certification
3 7 (41.18%) TCP/IP
4 6 (35.29%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (29.41%) Hyper-V
5 5 (29.41%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (29.41%) Virtual Environments
5 5 (29.41%) VMware
5 5 (29.41%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (29.41%) Windows 10
6 4 (23.53%) Dell
7 3 (17.65%) Azure
7 3 (17.65%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (17.65%) Collaborative Culture
8 2 (11.76%) A+ Certification
8 2 (11.76%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (11.76%) CCNA
8 2 (11.76%) Coaching
8 2 (11.76%) Firewall
8 2 (11.76%) HND
8 2 (11.76%) HP
8 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 2 (11.76%) ITIL

IT Engineer Skill Set
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 5 (29.41%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (41.18%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (17.65%) Azure
3 1 (5.88%) AWS
3 1 (5.88%) Datadog
3 1 (5.88%) Entra ID
3 1 (5.88%) OpenShift
3 1 (5.88%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (47.06%) DHCP
1 8 (47.06%) DNS
2 7 (41.18%) TCP/IP
3 2 (11.76%) Firewall
3 2 (11.76%) SAN
3 2 (11.76%) Softphone
3 2 (11.76%) VPN
3 2 (11.76%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (5.88%) LAN
4 1 (5.88%) Network Security
4 1 (5.88%) WAN
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) GitLab
1 1 (5.88%) Jenkins
1 1 (5.88%) JIRA
General
1 7 (41.18%) Social Skills
2 3 (17.65%) Public Sector
3 2 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Legal
4 1 (5.88%) Banking
4 1 (5.88%) Investment Banking
Miscellaneous
1 6 (35.29%) Driving Licence
2 2 (11.76%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (11.76%) CCTV
2 2 (11.76%) Data Centre
2 2 (11.76%) Smartphone
3 1 (5.88%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (5.88%) FMCG
3 1 (5.88%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.88%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 8 (47.06%) Windows
2 5 (29.41%) Windows 10
3 2 (11.76%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (41.18%) Customer Service
2 6 (35.29%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (29.41%) Virtual Environments
4 3 (17.65%) Collaborative Culture
5 2 (11.76%) Coaching
5 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (11.76%) ITIL
6 1 (5.88%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (5.88%) DevOps
6 1 (5.88%) Electronic Trading
6 1 (5.88%) Identity Management
6 1 (5.88%) Incident Management
6 1 (5.88%) Information Security
6 1 (5.88%) PRINCE2
6 1 (5.88%) Risk Management
6 1 (5.88%) SIEM
6 1 (5.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 1 (5.88%) Test Automation
6 1 (5.88%) Use Case
6 1 (5.88%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.88%) Go
1 1 (5.88%) SQL
1 1 (5.88%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (52.94%) Degree
2 7 (41.18%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (17.65%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (11.76%) A+ Certification
4 2 (11.76%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (11.76%) CCNA
4 2 (11.76%) HND
4 2 (11.76%) MCSE
4 2 (11.76%) Network+ Certification
5 1 (5.88%) CCIE
5 1 (5.88%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (5.88%) NCSC
1 1 (5.88%) NIST
1 1 (5.88%) SOC 2
System Software
1 9 (52.94%) Active Directory
2 5 (29.41%) Hyper-V
2 5 (29.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (5.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) Kubernetes
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 7 (41.18%) Microsoft
2 5 (29.41%) VMware
3 4 (23.53%) Dell
4 2 (11.76%) HP
5 1 (5.88%) Cisco
5 1 (5.88%) ServiceNow