Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in Scotland

Infrastructure Engineer
UK > Scotland

The median Infrastructure Engineer salary in Scotland is £57,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 July 2025.

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

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 149 189 171
Rank change year-on-year +40 -18 +42
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 21 77 41
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.65% 1.17% 0.98%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.78% 1.21% 1.09%
Number of salaries quoted 10 72 32
10th Percentile - £33,000 £32,280
25th Percentile £36,250 £35,563 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +27.78% - -
75th Percentile £68,750 £51,250 £54,688
90th Percentile £70,125 £62,875 £87,083
UK median annual salary £60,000 £49,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +22.45% -2.00% -

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 2,685 6,379 3,778
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 83.39% 97.00% 90.64%
Number of salaries quoted 1,249 2,918 2,090
10th Percentile £26,968 £27,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £39,750 £41,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £84,400 £80,000 £82,548
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

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

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in Scotland.

Salary trend for Infrastructure Engineer in Scotland

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in Scotland over the 6 months to 2 July 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 2 July 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
Glasgow +106 12 £48,750 +2.63% 12
Edinburgh +21 8 £55,000 +4.76% 9
Renfrewshire - 1 £60,000 - 1
Infrastructure Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 2 July 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 21 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 10 (47.62%) Azure
2 10 (47.62%) Python
3 8 (38.10%) Private Cloud
4 7 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (33.33%) Roadmaps
4 7 (33.33%) Windows
4 7 (33.33%) Microsoft
4 7 (33.33%) Agile
5 6 (28.57%) Firewall
5 6 (28.57%) Product Ownership
5 6 (28.57%) Observability
5 6 (28.57%) GCP
5 6 (28.57%) Terraform
6 5 (23.81%) Windows Server
6 5 (23.81%) SDLC
6 5 (23.81%) Kubernetes
6 5 (23.81%) Social Skills
6 5 (23.81%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (23.81%) Product Roadmap
6 5 (23.81%) Azure Certification
6 5 (23.81%) Finance
6 5 (23.81%) Cisco
6 5 (23.81%) TCP/IP
7 4 (19.05%) Linux
7 4 (19.05%) DNS
7 4 (19.05%) Law
7 4 (19.05%) DHCP
7 4 (19.05%) Marketing
7 4 (19.05%) Inclusion and Diversity

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 2 (9.52%) CICS
2 1 (4.76%) IIS
2 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (4.76%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.76%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 10 (47.62%) Azure
2 6 (28.57%) GCP
3 4 (19.05%) AWS
4 1 (4.76%) Entra ID
4 1 (4.76%) IaaS
4 1 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (4.76%) PaaS
4 1 (4.76%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (28.57%) Firewall
2 5 (23.81%) TCP/IP
3 4 (19.05%) DHCP
3 4 (19.05%) DNS
4 2 (9.52%) VPN
5 1 (4.76%) BGP
5 1 (4.76%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (4.76%) NAS
5 1 (4.76%) Network Security
5 1 (4.76%) OSPF
5 1 (4.76%) SAN
5 1 (4.76%) SSL
5 1 (4.76%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.76%) DB2
1 1 (4.76%) MySQL
1 1 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (4.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (9.52%) JIRA
General
1 5 (23.81%) Finance
1 5 (23.81%) Social Skills
2 4 (19.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 4 (19.05%) Law
2 4 (19.05%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (14.29%) OLE
2 2 (9.52%) Middleware
3 1 (4.76%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 8 (38.10%) Private Cloud
2 6 (28.57%) Product Ownership
3 2 (9.52%) Clustering
3 2 (9.52%) Driving Licence
3 2 (9.52%) Public Cloud
4 1 (4.76%) Cyber Security Posture
4 1 (4.76%) Data Centre
4 1 (4.76%) e-Learning
4 1 (4.76%) Mainframe
4 1 (4.76%) Onboarding
4 1 (4.76%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 7 (33.33%) Windows
2 5 (23.81%) Windows Server
3 4 (19.05%) Linux
4 3 (14.29%) Unix
5 1 (4.76%) AIX
5 1 (4.76%) Solaris
5 1 (4.76%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 7 (33.33%) Agile
2 7 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 6 (28.57%) Observability
4 5 (23.81%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (23.81%) Product Roadmap
4 5 (23.81%) SDLC
5 4 (19.05%) Deployment Automation
5 4 (19.05%) Test Automation
5 4 (19.05%) Thought Leadership
6 3 (14.29%) Customer Service
6 3 (14.29%) Design Thinking
6 3 (14.29%) Release Train
6 3 (14.29%) Software Testing
6 3 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (9.52%) CI/CD
7 2 (9.52%) DevOps
7 2 (9.52%) Mentoring
7 2 (9.52%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 10 (47.62%) Python
2 3 (14.29%) PowerShell
3 2 (9.52%) Java
4 1 (4.76%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.76%) JCL
4 1 (4.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (23.81%) Azure Certification
2 3 (14.29%) DV Cleared
2 3 (14.29%) Security Cleared
3 2 (9.52%) Network+ Certification
4 1 (4.76%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (4.76%) Degree
4 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (4.76%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (4.76%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (9.52%) Active Directory
2 2 (9.52%) Hyper-V
3 1 (4.76%) BitLocker
3 1 (4.76%) RACF
Systems Management
1 6 (28.57%) Terraform
2 5 (23.81%) Kubernetes
3 3 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (9.52%) FortiGate
5 1 (4.76%) Ansible
5 1 (4.76%) Grafana
5 1 (4.76%) Proxmox
5 1 (4.76%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 5 (23.81%) Cisco
3 3 (14.29%) Fortinet
3 3 (14.29%) Splunk
3 3 (14.29%) VMware
4 1 (4.76%) Apple
4 1 (4.76%) Broadcom
4 1 (4.76%) Dell
4 1 (4.76%) IBM
4 1 (4.76%) Oracle
4 1 (4.76%) ServiceNow