Infrastructure Engineer Job Trends in Scotland

Infrastructure Engineer
UK > Scotland

The median Infrastructure Engineer salary in Scotland is £48,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 23 January 2026.

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

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 113 161
Rank change year-on-year +4 +48 -4
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 39 30 53
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 1.37% 1.18% 1.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.54% 1.26% 1.53%
Number of salaries quoted 20 15 45
10th Percentile - £39,000 £38,100
25th Percentile £45,000 £44,240 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% -4.55% +10.39%
75th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £72,433
90th Percentile £60,000 - £106,342
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -1.71%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 2,537 2,373 3,475
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 88.86% 93.21% 96.26%
Number of salaries quoted 1,251 1,036 2,058
10th Percentile £26,750 £31,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £31,000 £41,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +10.00% -12.89%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,969 £66,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.33%

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 23 January 2026.

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 23 January 2026. 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 -2 19 £45,000 -18.18%
Glasgow +20 9 £45,000 +9.09% 8
Renfrewshire - 4 - - 1
North Lanarkshire - 4 £50,000 -
Lanarkshire - 3 £60,000 - 9
Infrastructure Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 23 January 2026, 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 32 (82.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 9 (23.08%) Windows
3 8 (20.51%) CI/CD
3 8 (20.51%) DevOps
3 8 (20.51%) Firewall
3 8 (20.51%) Microsoft
3 8 (20.51%) Terraform
4 7 (17.95%) Azure
4 7 (17.95%) DNS
4 7 (17.95%) Linux
4 7 (17.95%) VMware
5 6 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (15.38%) PowerShell
5 6 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (15.38%) Python
5 6 (15.38%) VPN
6 5 (12.82%) Docker
6 5 (12.82%) Kubernetes
7 4 (10.26%) Ansible
7 4 (10.26%) Asset Management
7 4 (10.26%) Azure App Service
7 4 (10.26%) Azure Data Factory
7 4 (10.26%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (10.26%) Bicep
7 4 (10.26%) Cloud Operations
7 4 (10.26%) Coaching
7 4 (10.26%) Cybersecurity
7 4 (10.26%) GitHub
7 4 (10.26%) Identity Access Management
7 4 (10.26%) Infrastructure Automation

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 1 (2.56%) CICS
1 1 (2.56%) WebSphere
1 1 (2.56%) WinCC
Cloud Services
1 7 (17.95%) Azure
2 4 (10.26%) Azure App Service
2 4 (10.26%) Azure Data Factory
2 4 (10.26%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (10.26%) GitHub
3 3 (7.69%) AWS
3 3 (7.69%) GCP
4 1 (2.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (2.56%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 8 (20.51%) Firewall
2 7 (17.95%) DNS
3 6 (15.38%) VPN
4 3 (7.69%) DHCP
4 3 (7.69%) LAN
4 3 (7.69%) WAN
5 2 (5.13%) Wireless
6 1 (2.56%) BGP
6 1 (2.56%) Modbus
6 1 (2.56%) MPLS
6 1 (2.56%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (2.56%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.56%) DB2
Development Applications
1 2 (5.13%) JIRA
General
1 4 (10.26%) Finance
2 3 (7.69%) Public Sector
3 2 (5.13%) Law
3 2 (5.13%) Manufacturing
3 2 (5.13%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 9 (23.08%) Renewable Energy
2 4 (10.26%) Data Centre
3 2 (5.13%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (5.13%) Driving Licence
3 2 (5.13%) Operational Technology
3 2 (5.13%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.56%) Mainframe
4 1 (2.56%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.56%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 9 (23.08%) Windows
2 7 (17.95%) Linux
3 4 (10.26%) VMS
4 3 (7.69%) Windows Server
5 1 (2.56%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (2.56%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (82.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 8 (20.51%) CI/CD
2 8 (20.51%) DevOps
3 6 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (10.26%) Asset Management
4 4 (10.26%) Cloud Operations
4 4 (10.26%) Coaching
4 4 (10.26%) Cybersecurity
4 4 (10.26%) Identity Access Management
4 4 (10.26%) Infrastructure Automation
4 4 (10.26%) Migration
4 4 (10.26%) SDLC
5 2 (5.13%) Agile
5 2 (5.13%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (5.13%) Data Protection
5 2 (5.13%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (5.13%) Kanban
5 2 (5.13%) Product Roadmap
5 2 (5.13%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 6 (15.38%) PowerShell
1 6 (15.38%) Python
2 4 (10.26%) Bicep
2 4 (10.26%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.56%) IEC 61131
1 1 (2.56%) IEC 61508
1 1 (2.56%) QA
System Software
1 5 (12.82%) Docker
2 3 (7.69%) Active Directory
2 3 (7.69%) Hyper-V
2 3 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (5.13%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (2.56%) RACF
Systems Management
1 8 (20.51%) Terraform
2 5 (12.82%) Kubernetes
3 4 (10.26%) Ansible
4 2 (5.13%) Grafana
5 1 (2.56%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.56%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 8 (20.51%) Microsoft
2 7 (17.95%) VMware
3 2 (5.13%) ServiceNow
3 2 (5.13%) Splunk
4 1 (2.56%) Broadcom
4 1 (2.56%) F5
4 1 (2.56%) Fortinet
4 1 (2.56%) IBM
4 1 (2.56%) Rockwell
4 1 (2.56%) Siemens
4 1 (2.56%) SolarWinds