Infrastructure Engineer Job Trends in Scotland

Infrastructure Engineer
UK > Scotland

The median Infrastructure Engineer salary in Scotland is £50,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 5 November 2025.

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

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 99 115
Rank change year-on-year -18 +16 +67
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 31 49 42
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 1.14% 1.51% 1.79%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.40% 1.59% 1.85%
Number of salaries quoted 15 33 38
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £38,125 £40,000 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £46,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.53% -7.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £66,250 £50,000 £76,394
90th Percentile £70,000 £55,000 £117,236
UK median annual salary £60,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +20.00% -4.76% +3.20%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Scotland. 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 Scotland with a recognized job title 2,214 3,090 2,270
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 81.73% 95.16% 96.84%
Number of salaries quoted 997 1,551 1,826
10th Percentile £25,900 £30,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £40,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £66,250 £69,375 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £81,875
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Infrastructure Engineer job vacancy trend in Scotland

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in Scotland.

Salary distribution trend for Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in Scotland

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in Scotland over the 6 months to 5 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in Scotland

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 5 November 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Edinburgh +4 14 £54,000 -1.82% 1
Glasgow -17 14 £46,250 +12.12% 7
Renfrewshire - 1 £52,500 - 1
North Lanarkshire - 1 £50,000 - 2
East Ayrshire - 1 £40,000 -
Infrastructure Engineer
UK

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland

For the 6 months to 5 November 2025, Infrastructure 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 Scotland region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 31 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 17 (54.84%) Azure
3 13 (41.94%) Firewall
3 13 (41.94%) Python
3 13 (41.94%) Terraform
4 11 (35.48%) CI/CD
4 11 (35.48%) DevOps
5 10 (32.26%) DNS
6 9 (29.03%) Kubernetes
6 9 (29.03%) PowerShell
6 9 (29.03%) Windows
7 8 (25.81%) GCP
7 8 (25.81%) Infrastructure as Code
7 8 (25.81%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (22.58%) Agile
8 7 (22.58%) AWS
8 7 (22.58%) Observability
8 7 (22.58%) Product Roadmap
8 7 (22.58%) Roadmaps
8 7 (22.58%) Splunk
8 7 (22.58%) VPN
8 7 (22.58%) Windows Server
9 6 (19.35%) DHCP
9 6 (19.35%) Migration
9 6 (19.35%) SDLC
9 6 (19.35%) SQL
10 5 (16.13%) Ansible
10 5 (16.13%) Azure Certification
10 5 (16.13%) Docker
10 5 (16.13%) Grafana

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 3 (9.68%) CICS
1 3 (9.68%) WebSphere
2 2 (6.45%) IIS
2 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (6.45%) SharePoint
3 1 (3.23%) WinCC
Cloud Services
1 17 (54.84%) Azure
2 8 (25.81%) GCP
3 7 (22.58%) AWS
4 4 (12.90%) Azure App Service
4 4 (12.90%) Azure Data Factory
4 4 (12.90%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (12.90%) GitHub
5 2 (6.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (6.45%) Entra ID
5 2 (6.45%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (3.23%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 13 (41.94%) Firewall
2 10 (32.26%) DNS
3 7 (22.58%) VPN
4 6 (19.35%) DHCP
5 3 (9.68%) LAN
5 3 (9.68%) WAN
6 2 (6.45%) TCP/IP
7 1 (3.23%) BGP
7 1 (3.23%) Modbus
7 1 (3.23%) MPLS
7 1 (3.23%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (3.23%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.68%) DB2
Development Applications
1 5 (16.13%) JIRA
General
1 10 (32.26%) Finance
2 6 (19.35%) Law
3 4 (12.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (12.90%) Marketing
3 4 (12.90%) Social Skills
4 2 (6.45%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.68%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 6 (19.35%) Private Cloud
2 5 (16.13%) Product Ownership
3 4 (12.90%) Mainframe
4 3 (9.68%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (9.68%) Driving Licence
5 2 (6.45%) Clustering
5 2 (6.45%) Cyber Security Posture
5 2 (6.45%) Onboarding
5 2 (6.45%) Operational Technology
5 2 (6.45%) Public Cloud
5 2 (6.45%) Renewable Energy
5 2 (6.45%) Security Posture
6 1 (3.23%) Data Centre
6 1 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (3.23%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 9 (29.03%) Windows
2 7 (22.58%) Windows Server
3 5 (16.13%) Linux
4 4 (12.90%) VMS
5 3 (9.68%) Unix
6 1 (3.23%) AIX
6 1 (3.23%) Solaris
6 1 (3.23%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (3.23%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 11 (35.48%) CI/CD
2 11 (35.48%) DevOps
3 8 (25.81%) Infrastructure as Code
3 8 (25.81%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (22.58%) Agile
4 7 (22.58%) Observability
4 7 (22.58%) Product Roadmap
4 7 (22.58%) Roadmaps
5 6 (19.35%) Migration
5 6 (19.35%) SDLC
6 5 (16.13%) Kanban
6 5 (16.13%) Scrum
6 5 (16.13%) Tech Ops
7 4 (12.90%) Asset Management
7 4 (12.90%) Cloud Operations
7 4 (12.90%) Coaching
7 4 (12.90%) Deployment Automation
7 4 (12.90%) Identity Access Management
7 4 (12.90%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 13 (41.94%) Python
2 9 (29.03%) PowerShell
3 6 (19.35%) SQL
4 4 (12.90%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 5 (16.13%) Azure Certification
2 4 (12.90%) DV Cleared
2 4 (12.90%) Security Cleared
3 2 (6.45%) Network+ Certification
4 1 (3.23%) CCNA
4 1 (3.23%) CCNP
4 1 (3.23%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (3.23%) Degree
4 1 (3.23%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.45%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (6.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 2 (6.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (6.45%) NIST
2 1 (3.23%) IEC 61131
2 1 (3.23%) IEC 61508
2 1 (3.23%) QA
System Software
1 5 (16.13%) Docker
2 4 (12.90%) Active Directory
2 4 (12.90%) Hyper-V
2 4 (12.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (9.68%) RACF
4 2 (6.45%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 13 (41.94%) Terraform
2 9 (29.03%) Kubernetes
3 5 (16.13%) Ansible
3 5 (16.13%) Grafana
4 4 (12.90%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (6.45%) FortiGate
5 2 (6.45%) Prometheus
5 2 (6.45%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 7 (22.58%) Splunk
2 4 (12.90%) Fortinet
2 4 (12.90%) IBM
2 4 (12.90%) Microsoft
2 4 (12.90%) VMware
3 3 (9.68%) Broadcom
3 3 (9.68%) Cisco
3 3 (9.68%) ServiceNow
4 2 (6.45%) SolarWinds
5 1 (3.23%) F5
5 1 (3.23%) Google
5 1 (3.23%) Rockwell
5 1 (3.23%) Siemens