IT Engineer Jobs in Scotland

IT Engineer
UK > Scotland

The median IT Engineer salary in Scotland is £28,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 July 2024.

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

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 204 156 176
Rank change year-on-year -48 +20 -72
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 48 55 75
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.84% 1.45% 1.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.87% 1.57% 1.31%
Number of salaries quoted 45 46 57
10th Percentile £24,000 £24,875 £24,200
25th Percentile £25,750 £26,438 £25,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £28,500 £37,000 £30,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.97% +23.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £38,750 £42,500 £42,500
90th Percentile £47,300 £60,000 £49,250
UK median annual salary £35,000 £34,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year +1.45% -1.43% -

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 5,531 3,496 5,710
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 97.07% 92.15% 93.76%
Number of salaries quoted 2,492 2,018 3,223
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% - +15.79%
75th Percentile £66,250 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%

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 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 2024. 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 +25 13 £32,000 -13.51% 6
Glasgow -76 13 £24,000 -40.00% 2
West Lothian - 6 £28,500 -
Aberdeen -9 4 £30,000 -21.05%
East Ayrshire - 4 £26,500 -
Stirling -4 3 £45,000 -
Lanarkshire - 2 £50,000 - 1
North Lanarkshire - 1 - -
Argyll and Bute - 1 - - 1
Fife - 1 - -
IT Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 26 July 2024, 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 23 (47.92%) Windows
2 17 (35.42%) Microsoft
3 16 (33.33%) Social Skills
4 15 (31.25%) Microsoft 365
5 12 (25.00%) Azure
5 12 (25.00%) Active Directory
6 10 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (20.83%) Customer Service
7 9 (18.75%) SharePoint
8 8 (16.67%) Linux
8 8 (16.67%) VMware
9 7 (14.58%) Windows Server
10 6 (12.50%) Entra ID
10 6 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
10 6 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
10 6 (12.50%) Mentoring
11 5 (10.42%) Firewall
11 5 (10.42%) TCP/IP
11 5 (10.42%) AWS
11 5 (10.42%) Hyper-V
11 5 (10.42%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 4 (8.33%) Onboarding
12 4 (8.33%) Vulnerability Scanning
12 4 (8.33%) Cloud Computing
12 4 (8.33%) VPN
12 4 (8.33%) DNS
12 4 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
12 4 (8.33%) VoIP
12 4 (8.33%) Dell

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 9 (18.75%) SharePoint
2 4 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.08%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 15 (31.25%) Microsoft 365
2 12 (25.00%) Azure
3 6 (12.50%) Entra ID
4 5 (10.42%) AWS
5 4 (8.33%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (4.17%) OneDrive
7 1 (2.08%) Mimecast
7 1 (2.08%) Power Platform
7 1 (2.08%) PowerApps
7 1 (2.08%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (10.42%) Firewall
1 5 (10.42%) TCP/IP
2 4 (8.33%) DNS
2 4 (8.33%) VoIP
2 4 (8.33%) VPN
3 3 (6.25%) DHCP
3 3 (6.25%) Internet
3 3 (6.25%) Network Security
3 3 (6.25%) Wireless
4 2 (4.17%) LAN
4 2 (4.17%) SAN
4 2 (4.17%) WAN
5 1 (2.08%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (2.08%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.17%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
General
1 16 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 5 (10.42%) Organisational Skills
3 3 (6.25%) Finance
4 2 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (4.17%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.08%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.08%) Law
5 1 (2.08%) Legal
5 1 (2.08%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.33%) Onboarding
2 3 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (4.17%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 2 (4.17%) Driving Licence
3 2 (4.17%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.08%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.08%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 23 (47.92%) Windows
2 8 (16.67%) Linux
3 7 (14.58%) Windows Server
4 2 (4.17%) Windows 10
5 1 (2.08%) Android
5 1 (2.08%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (20.83%) Customer Service
1 10 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (12.50%) Mentoring
3 4 (8.33%) Information Security
3 4 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (8.33%) Migration
3 4 (8.33%) Vulnerability Scanning
4 3 (6.25%) Identity Access Management
4 3 (6.25%) ITIL
4 3 (6.25%) Patch Management
4 3 (6.25%) Performance Improvement
4 3 (6.25%) Preventative Maintenance
4 3 (6.25%) Risk Management
5 2 (4.17%) Analytics
5 2 (4.17%) Incident Management
5 2 (4.17%) Kalman Filter
5 2 (4.17%) Service Delivery
5 2 (4.17%) Use Case
5 2 (4.17%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (6.25%) PowerShell
2 1 (2.08%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (4.17%) Degree
1 2 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (2.08%) Azure Certification
2 1 (2.08%) CCNA
2 1 (2.08%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (2.08%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.17%) Accessibility
1 2 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (4.17%) NCSC
1 2 (4.17%) NIST
1 2 (4.17%) SOC 2
2 1 (2.08%) GDPR
2 1 (2.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (2.08%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 6 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (10.42%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (6.25%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (4.17%) SCCM
3 1 (2.08%) VxRail
3 1 (2.08%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 17 (35.42%) Microsoft
2 8 (16.67%) VMware
3 4 (8.33%) Cisco
3 4 (8.33%) Dell
4 3 (6.25%) HP
5 2 (4.17%) Apple
5 2 (4.17%) Meraki
5 2 (4.17%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.08%) Aderant
6 1 (2.08%) Citrix
6 1 (2.08%) Darktrace
6 1 (2.08%) iManage
6 1 (2.08%) Mitel
6 1 (2.08%) NetApp
6 1 (2.08%) Palo Alto
6 1 (2.08%) ProCurve
6 1 (2.08%) Salesforce