Server Engineer Job Trends in Glasgow

Server Engineer
Scotland > Glasgow

The median Server Engineer salary in Glasgow is £32,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 6 August 2026.

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

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 85 191
Rank change year-on-year +20 +106 -107
Permanent jobs requiring a Server Engineer 6 1 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Glasgow 0.53% 0.14% 0.036%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.55% 0.15% 0.037%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £31,250 - £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 - £52,500
75th Percentile £33,750 - £53,750
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median annual salary £32,500 - £52,500
% change year-on-year - - -0.47%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 1,084 668 2,725
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.92% 92.78% 98.16%
Number of salaries quoted 635 278 789
10th Percentile £29,750 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +3.77% -3.64%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,258 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £82,500
Scotland median annual salary £50,000 £50,223 £52,500
% change year-on-year -0.44% -4.34% -4.55%

Server Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Server Engineer job vacancy trend in Glasgow

Server Engineer
Salary Trend in Glasgow

Salary distribution trend for Server Engineer job vacancies in Glasgow.

Salary distribution trend for Server Engineer job vacancies in Glasgow

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

For the 6 months to 6 August 2026, Server 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 Server Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (83.33%) Active Directory
2 5 (83.33%) Azure
2 5 (83.33%) Entra ID
2 5 (83.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (83.33%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (83.33%) PowerShell
2 5 (83.33%) Windows
2 5 (83.33%) Windows Server
3 4 (66.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 4 (66.67%) EMC
3 4 (66.67%) High Availability
3 4 (66.67%) ITIL
3 4 (66.67%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (66.67%) VMware
3 4 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (66.67%) VSAN
4 3 (50.00%) ITSM
4 3 (50.00%) Problem Management
4 3 (50.00%) Service Management
4 3 (50.00%) Task Automation
5 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (16.67%) Debian
5 1 (16.67%) DHCP
5 1 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (16.67%) DNS
5 1 (16.67%) Hyper-V
5 1 (16.67%) Incident Management
5 1 (16.67%) Linux
5 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune

Server 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) Azure
1 5 (83.33%) Entra ID
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) VSAN
2 1 (16.67%) DHCP
2 1 (16.67%) DNS
General
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Clustering
1 4 (66.67%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (16.67%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) Windows
1 5 (83.33%) Windows Server
2 1 (16.67%) Debian
2 1 (16.67%) Linux
2 1 (16.67%) Ubuntu
2 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (66.67%) High Availability
2 4 (66.67%) ITIL
3 3 (50.00%) ITSM
3 3 (50.00%) Problem Management
3 3 (50.00%) Service Management
3 3 (50.00%) Task Automation
4 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (16.67%) Incident Management
4 1 (16.67%) Migration
4 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) PowerShell
System Software
1 5 (83.33%) Active Directory
2 4 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (16.67%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 4 (66.67%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (66.67%) EMC
2 4 (66.67%) VMware