IT Engineer Jobs in Scotland

IT Engineer
UK > Scotland

The median IT Engineer salary in Scotland is £33,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 5 May 2025.

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

6 months to
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 122 219 160
Rank change year-on-year +97 -59 +7
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 27 65 60
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.94% 0.97% 1.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.03% 1.00% 1.41%
Number of salaries quoted 26 62 45
10th Percentile £26,000 £24,275 £24,750
25th Percentile £26,063 £26,250 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,250 £28,500 £31,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -8.06% -4.62%
75th Percentile £38,750 £38,750 £42,500
90th Percentile £63,750 £43,750 £60,000
UK median annual salary £35,000 £32,500 £34,500
% change year-on-year +7.69% -5.80% -

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 2,614 6,525 4,244
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.43% 96.88% 90.07%
Number of salaries quoted 1,372 2,619 2,309
10th Percentile £31,250 £27,950 £31,569
25th Percentile £44,000 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% +9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £83,664 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% -12.50% -

IT Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Engineer in Scotland

IT Engineer
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for IT Engineer in Scotland

IT Engineer
Salary Histogram in Scotland

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

Salary histogram for IT Engineer in Scotland

IT 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 IT Engineer within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 5 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
Glasgow +179 14 £36,000 +30.91% 7
West Lothian +11 6 £27,000 -5.26% 1
Edinburgh -10 2 £27,500 -8.33% 3
Aberdeen +24 1 £52,500 +50.00%
Lanarkshire - 1 £27,500 - 4
IT Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 5 May 2025, IT 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 IT Engineer in the job title.

1 8 (29.63%) Social Skills
2 7 (25.93%) Windows
3 6 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (18.52%) Windows Server
4 5 (18.52%) Driving Licence
4 5 (18.52%) VMware
4 5 (18.52%) AWS
4 5 (18.52%) Firewall
4 5 (18.52%) Linux
4 5 (18.52%) DNS
5 4 (14.81%) DHCP
5 4 (14.81%) Management Information System
5 4 (14.81%) TCP/IP
5 4 (14.81%) Active Directory
5 4 (14.81%) Azure
5 4 (14.81%) Hyper-V
5 4 (14.81%) Information Security
5 4 (14.81%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (11.11%) Bash
6 3 (11.11%) SIEM
6 3 (11.11%) Vulnerability Management
6 3 (11.11%) Docker
6 3 (11.11%) DevOps
6 3 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 3 (11.11%) NIST
6 3 (11.11%) Finance
6 3 (11.11%) Migration
6 3 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (11.11%) Degree

IT 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 (7.41%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.70%) Apache
2 1 (3.70%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.70%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 5 (18.52%) AWS
2 4 (14.81%) Azure
2 4 (14.81%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (7.41%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (7.41%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (7.41%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (7.41%) Serverless
5 1 (3.70%) Amazon S3
5 1 (3.70%) GitHub
5 1 (3.70%) OneDrive
5 1 (3.70%) Power Platform
5 1 (3.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (18.52%) DNS
1 5 (18.52%) Firewall
2 4 (14.81%) DHCP
2 4 (14.81%) TCP/IP
3 2 (7.41%) SAN
4 1 (3.70%) FTP
4 1 (3.70%) HTTP
4 1 (3.70%) LAN
4 1 (3.70%) NAS
4 1 (3.70%) SSL
4 1 (3.70%) VPN
4 1 (3.70%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.41%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (7.41%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.70%) MariaDB
2 1 (3.70%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (7.41%) CircleCI
1 2 (7.41%) GitLab
1 2 (7.41%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.70%) Git
2 1 (3.70%) JIRA
General
1 8 (29.63%) Social Skills
2 3 (11.11%) Finance
3 2 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (7.41%) Banking
3 2 (7.41%) Financial Institution
3 2 (7.41%) Investment Banking
4 1 (3.70%) Law
4 1 (3.70%) Legal
4 1 (3.70%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.70%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.41%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (7.41%) Kafka
2 1 (3.70%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 5 (18.52%) Driving Licence
2 4 (14.81%) Management Information System
3 2 (7.41%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (3.70%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (3.70%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.70%) FMCG
4 1 (3.70%) Public Cloud
4 1 (3.70%) Security Posture
4 1 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (3.70%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 7 (25.93%) Windows
2 5 (18.52%) Linux
2 5 (18.52%) Windows Server
3 1 (3.70%) Debian
3 1 (3.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (3.70%) Ubuntu
3 1 (3.70%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (14.81%) Information Security
3 3 (11.11%) DevOps
3 3 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (11.11%) Migration
3 3 (11.11%) SIEM
3 3 (11.11%) Vulnerability Management
4 2 (7.41%) Application Security
4 2 (7.41%) CI/CD
4 2 (7.41%) Cloud Security
4 2 (7.41%) Containerisation
4 2 (7.41%) Customer Service
4 2 (7.41%) Deployment Automation
4 2 (7.41%) DevSecOps
4 2 (7.41%) Identity Access Management
4 2 (7.41%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (7.41%) Low Latency
4 2 (7.41%) Proactive Monitoring
4 2 (7.41%) Quantitative Trading
4 2 (7.41%) SOAR
Programming Languages
1 3 (11.11%) Bash
2 2 (7.41%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (11.11%) Degree
2 1 (3.70%) A+ Certification
2 1 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (3.70%) CCNA
2 1 (3.70%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.70%) MCSE
2 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (3.70%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (11.11%) NIST
2 2 (7.41%) NCSC
2 2 (7.41%) SOC 2
3 1 (3.70%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (3.70%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 4 (14.81%) Active Directory
1 4 (14.81%) Hyper-V
2 3 (11.11%) Docker
2 3 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.70%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 3 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (7.41%) Grafana
2 2 (7.41%) Kubernetes
2 2 (7.41%) Prometheus
2 2 (7.41%) Terraform
3 1 (3.70%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (18.52%) VMware
2 2 (7.41%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.70%) Cisco
3 1 (3.70%) Dell
3 1 (3.70%) Draytek
3 1 (3.70%) NETGEAR
3 1 (3.70%) Red Hat
3 1 (3.70%) Ubiquiti