Infrastructure Engineer Job Trends in Scotland

Infrastructure Engineer
UK > Scotland

The median Infrastructure Engineer salary in Scotland is £50,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 20 September 2025.

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

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 124 126
Rank change year-on-year +4 +2 +69
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 32 66 41
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 1.26% 1.57% 1.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.55% 1.63% 1.61%
Number of salaries quoted 14 50 37
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,700 £32,000
25th Percentile £37,188 £35,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,250 £40,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.63% -20.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £68,125 £50,000 £77,715
90th Percentile £70,000 £55,000 £88,451
UK median annual salary £60,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% - -

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 2,063 4,053 2,540
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 81.48% 96.62% 95.27%
Number of salaries quoted 870 1,892 2,021
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £32,000 £40,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £66,250 £69,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £82,751 £80,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings that featured Infrastructure Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer 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 20 September 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 20 September 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 +9 16 £54,000 -1.82% 8
Glasgow +51 14 £48,750 +2.63% 6
Renfrewshire - 1 £52,500 -
East Ayrshire - 1 £40,000 -
Infrastructure Engineer
UK

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland

For the 6 months to 20 September 2025, Infrastructure 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 Scotland region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 32 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 17 (53.13%) Azure
3 14 (43.75%) Python
3 14 (43.75%) Firewall
4 13 (40.63%) Terraform
5 12 (37.50%) DevOps
6 11 (34.38%) CI/CD
7 10 (31.25%) Kubernetes
7 10 (31.25%) Finance
7 10 (31.25%) DNS
8 9 (28.13%) Windows
8 9 (28.13%) Agile
8 9 (28.13%) GCP
8 9 (28.13%) PowerShell
8 9 (28.13%) Roadmaps
8 9 (28.13%) Infrastructure as Code
9 8 (25.00%) Product Roadmap
9 8 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (25.00%) Observability
9 8 (25.00%) AWS
10 7 (21.88%) Splunk
10 7 (21.88%) Private Cloud
10 7 (21.88%) SDLC
10 7 (21.88%) Windows Server
10 7 (21.88%) Migration
10 7 (21.88%) VPN
11 6 (18.75%) Product Ownership
11 6 (18.75%) SQL
11 6 (18.75%) DHCP
11 6 (18.75%) Law

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 3 (9.38%) CICS
1 3 (9.38%) WebSphere
2 2 (6.25%) IIS
2 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (6.25%) SharePoint
3 1 (3.13%) WinCC
Cloud Services
1 17 (53.13%) Azure
2 9 (28.13%) GCP
3 8 (25.00%) AWS
4 4 (12.50%) Azure App Service
4 4 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
4 4 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (12.50%) GitHub
5 2 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (6.25%) Entra ID
5 2 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (3.13%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (3.13%) IaaS
6 1 (3.13%) PaaS
6 1 (3.13%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (43.75%) Firewall
2 10 (31.25%) DNS
3 7 (21.88%) VPN
4 6 (18.75%) DHCP
5 3 (9.38%) LAN
5 3 (9.38%) WAN
6 2 (6.25%) TCP/IP
7 1 (3.13%) BGP
7 1 (3.13%) Modbus
7 1 (3.13%) MPLS
7 1 (3.13%) Network Security
7 1 (3.13%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (3.13%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.38%) DB2
2 1 (3.13%) MySQL
2 1 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (15.63%) JIRA
General
1 10 (31.25%) Finance
2 6 (18.75%) Law
3 5 (15.63%) Social Skills
4 4 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (12.50%) Marketing
5 2 (6.25%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.50%) OLE
2 1 (3.13%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 7 (21.88%) Private Cloud
2 6 (18.75%) Product Ownership
3 4 (12.50%) Mainframe
4 3 (9.38%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (9.38%) Driving Licence
4 3 (9.38%) Public Cloud
5 2 (6.25%) Clustering
5 2 (6.25%) Cyber Security Posture
5 2 (6.25%) Data Centre
5 2 (6.25%) Onboarding
5 2 (6.25%) Operational Technology
5 2 (6.25%) Renewable Energy
5 2 (6.25%) Security Posture
6 1 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (3.13%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 9 (28.13%) Windows
2 7 (21.88%) Windows Server
3 5 (15.63%) Linux
4 4 (12.50%) VMS
5 3 (9.38%) Unix
6 1 (3.13%) AIX
6 1 (3.13%) Solaris
6 1 (3.13%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (3.13%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 12 (37.50%) DevOps
3 11 (34.38%) CI/CD
4 9 (28.13%) Agile
4 9 (28.13%) Infrastructure as Code
4 9 (28.13%) Roadmaps
5 8 (25.00%) Observability
5 8 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (25.00%) Product Roadmap
6 7 (21.88%) Migration
6 7 (21.88%) SDLC
7 5 (15.63%) Kanban
7 5 (15.63%) Scrum
7 5 (15.63%) Tech Ops
8 4 (12.50%) Cloud Operations
8 4 (12.50%) Coaching
8 4 (12.50%) Deployment Automation
8 4 (12.50%) Identity Access Management
8 4 (12.50%) Infrastructure Automation
8 4 (12.50%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 14 (43.75%) Python
2 9 (28.13%) PowerShell
3 6 (18.75%) SQL
4 4 (12.50%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 5 (15.63%) Azure Certification
2 4 (12.50%) DV Cleared
2 4 (12.50%) Security Cleared
3 2 (6.25%) Network+ Certification
4 1 (3.13%) CCNA
4 1 (3.13%) CCNP
4 1 (3.13%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (3.13%) Degree
4 1 (3.13%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.25%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (6.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 2 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (6.25%) NIST
2 1 (3.13%) IEC 61131
2 1 (3.13%) IEC 61508
2 1 (3.13%) QA
System Software
1 5 (15.63%) Docker
2 4 (12.50%) Active Directory
2 4 (12.50%) Hyper-V
2 4 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (9.38%) RACF
4 2 (6.25%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 13 (40.63%) Terraform
2 10 (31.25%) Kubernetes
3 5 (15.63%) Ansible
3 5 (15.63%) Grafana
4 4 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (6.25%) FortiGate
5 2 (6.25%) Prometheus
5 2 (6.25%) Proxmox
6 1 (3.13%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (21.88%) Splunk
2 5 (15.63%) Fortinet
2 5 (15.63%) Microsoft
3 4 (12.50%) IBM
3 4 (12.50%) VMware
4 3 (9.38%) Broadcom
4 3 (9.38%) Cisco
4 3 (9.38%) ServiceNow
5 2 (6.25%) SolarWinds
6 1 (3.13%) F5
6 1 (3.13%) Google
6 1 (3.13%) Oracle
6 1 (3.13%) Rockwell
6 1 (3.13%) Siemens