Infrastructure Engineering Jobs in Scotland

Infrastructure Engineering
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Infrastructure Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Infrastructure Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 140 186 73
Rank change year-on-year +46 -113 +96
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 24 90 178
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.81% 1.35% 3.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.88% 1.46% 4.09%
Number of salaries quoted 17 80 58
10th Percentile £37,000 £26,700 £32,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £30,000 £36,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £60,000 £55,000 £70,875
90th Percentile £64,250 £72,433 £117,236
UK median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% +5.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Infrastructure Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,735 6,175 4,351
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 92.71% 92.38% 94.28%
Number of salaries quoted 1,355 2,389 2,175
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £32,133
25th Percentile £43,750 £40,500 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,650 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,180
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.10% +1.97%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Infrastructure Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineering in Scotland

Infrastructure Engineering
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Infrastructure Engineering in Scotland

Infrastructure Engineering
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in Scotland over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in Scotland

Infrastructure Engineering
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 Engineering within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 16 May 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 +10 11 £54,500 -16.15% 11
Glasgow +157 8 £56,250 +18.42% 13
Aberdeen +25 2 £50,000 +11.11% 1
Argyll and Bute +2 1 - - 1
Dunbartonshire - 1 £52,500 - 3
Renfrewshire - 1 £60,000 - 6
Infrastructure Engineering
UK

Infrastructure Engineering
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 4 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (8.33%) CICS
2 2 (8.33%) SharePoint
3 1 (4.17%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 9 (37.50%) Azure
2 5 (20.83%) AWS
3 4 (16.67%) SaaS
4 3 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (8.33%) Entra ID
5 2 (8.33%) GCP
5 2 (8.33%) IaaS
5 2 (8.33%) PaaS
6 1 (4.17%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 1 (4.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (29.17%) Firewall
2 6 (25.00%) TCP/IP
3 4 (16.67%) DHCP
3 4 (16.67%) DNS
4 3 (12.50%) LAN
4 3 (12.50%) VPN
4 3 (12.50%) WAN
5 2 (8.33%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (4.17%) BGP
6 1 (4.17%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (4.17%) NAS
6 1 (4.17%) Network Security
6 1 (4.17%) OSPF
6 1 (4.17%) SAN
6 1 (4.17%) SSL
6 1 (4.17%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.17%) DB2
1 1 (4.17%) MySQL
1 1 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (4.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Cypress.io
1 2 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 8 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (8.33%) Military
4 1 (4.17%) Finance
4 1 (4.17%) Law
Job Titles
1 16 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (20.83%) Network Engineer
2 5 (20.83%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) IT Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) Automation Test Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) IT Security Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Lead
4 2 (8.33%) Security Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Team Leader
4 2 (8.33%) Test Analyst
5 1 (4.17%) Administrator
5 1 (4.17%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Firewall Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Linux Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Systems Administrator
5 1 (4.17%) Unix Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Windows Administrator
5 1 (4.17%) Windows Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.33%) Middleware
2 1 (4.17%) ARM Templates
2 1 (4.17%) JSON
2 1 (4.17%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.83%) Product Ownership
2 4 (16.67%) Private Cloud
3 2 (8.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 2 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (8.33%) Management Information System
3 2 (8.33%) Public Cloud
4 1 (4.17%) Clustering
4 1 (4.17%) Data Centre
4 1 (4.17%) Driving Licence
4 1 (4.17%) e-Learning
4 1 (4.17%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (4.17%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 11 (45.83%) Windows
2 9 (37.50%) Windows Server
3 3 (12.50%) Linux
3 3 (12.50%) Windows 10
4 2 (8.33%) Unix
5 1 (4.17%) AIX
5 1 (4.17%) Solaris
5 1 (4.17%) VMS
5 1 (4.17%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (4.17%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (25.00%) Agile
1 6 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
1 6 (25.00%) Roadmaps
2 5 (20.83%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (20.83%) Observability
2 5 (20.83%) Software Testing
2 5 (20.83%) Test Automation
3 4 (16.67%) Mentoring
3 4 (16.67%) Product Roadmap
3 4 (16.67%) SDLC
3 4 (16.67%) Thought Leadership
4 3 (12.50%) Design Thinking
4 3 (12.50%) DevOps
4 3 (12.50%) Release Train
4 3 (12.50%) Service Delivery
5 2 (8.33%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (8.33%) Information Security
5 2 (8.33%) ITIL
5 2 (8.33%) Risk Management
5 2 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (20.83%) Python
2 3 (12.50%) PowerShell
3 2 (8.33%) Java
4 1 (4.17%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.17%) JCL
Qualifications
1 4 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 3 (12.50%) DV Cleared
3 2 (8.33%) Azure Certification
3 2 (8.33%) SC Cleared
4 1 (4.17%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (4.17%) Degree
4 1 (4.17%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (8.33%) NCSC
2 2 (8.33%) NIST
2 2 (8.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 8 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 6 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (12.50%) Hyper-V
4 2 (8.33%) vSphere
5 1 (4.17%) BitLocker
5 1 (4.17%) RACF
Systems Management
1 3 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (8.33%) Terraform
3 1 (4.17%) Ansible
3 1 (4.17%) FortiGate
3 1 (4.17%) Grafana
3 1 (4.17%) Kubernetes
3 1 (4.17%) Puppet
Vendors
1 10 (41.67%) Microsoft
2 8 (33.33%) VMware
3 6 (25.00%) Cisco
4 4 (16.67%) Splunk
5 2 (8.33%) Fortinet
5 2 (8.33%) Juniper
5 2 (8.33%) McAfee
5 2 (8.33%) NetApp
6 1 (4.17%) Apple
6 1 (4.17%) Broadcom
6 1 (4.17%) Dell
6 1 (4.17%) IBM
6 1 (4.17%) Oracle
6 1 (4.17%) ServiceNow