IT Engineer Job Trends in Scotland

IT Engineer
UK > Scotland

The median IT Engineer salary in Scotland is £30,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 October 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 125 122 116
Rank change year-on-year -3 -6 +57
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 29 36 43
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 1.11% 1.08% 1.71%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.35% 1.12% 1.77%
Number of salaries quoted 26 25 37
10th Percentile £24,500 £23,400 £26,250
25th Percentile £24,750 £24,000 £28,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £31,500 £37,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -14.86% +23.33%
75th Percentile £31,563 £43,750 £42,500
90th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £72,433
UK median annual salary £35,000 £37,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year -5.41% +5.71% -

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 2,143 3,224 2,425
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 81.92% 96.38% 96.69%
Number of salaries quoted 892 1,629 1,945
10th Percentile £25,600 £30,600 £25,000
25th Percentile £31,500 £40,000 £35,733
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,865 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.88% +0.70% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,750 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £84,925 £80,000 £82,548
UK median annual salary £53,500 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.73% -8.33% -

IT Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'IT Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

IT Engineer job vacancy trend in Scotland

IT Engineer
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for IT Engineer job vacancies in Scotland.

Salary distribution trend for IT Engineer job vacancies in Scotland

IT Engineer
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing IT Engineer in Scotland over the 6 months to 16 October 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 16 October 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 +7 16 £30,000 +25.00% 10
Perth and Kinross - 6 £25,000 -
Aberdeen +20 3 £25,575 +6.56% 3
Edinburgh +9 2 £28,000 -23.81% 4
Dundee +5 1 £35,000 +23.89% 1
Banffshire - 1 - - 2
IT Engineer
UK

IT Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland

For the 6 months to 16 October 2025, IT Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Scotland region featuring IT Engineer in the job title.

1 17 (58.62%) Microsoft
2 12 (41.38%) Windows
3 11 (37.93%) Active Directory
4 10 (34.48%) Degree
4 10 (34.48%) DHCP
4 10 (34.48%) DNS
4 10 (34.48%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (34.48%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (31.03%) Customer Service
5 9 (31.03%) TCP/IP
6 7 (24.14%) Cybersecurity
6 7 (24.14%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (24.14%) OneDrive
7 6 (20.69%) Azure
7 6 (20.69%) Hyper-V
7 6 (20.69%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (20.69%) VMware
7 6 (20.69%) VMware Infrastructure
7 6 (20.69%) Windows 10
8 5 (17.24%) Virtual Environments
9 4 (13.79%) Dell
9 4 (13.79%) ITIL
10 3 (10.34%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (10.34%) Collaborative Culture
10 3 (10.34%) Firewall
10 3 (10.34%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (10.34%) VPN
10 3 (10.34%) Windows Server
11 2 (6.90%) A+ Certification
11 2 (6.90%) Application Security

IT Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 6 (20.69%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.45%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Pegasus Opera
Cloud Services
1 10 (34.48%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (24.14%) OneDrive
3 6 (20.69%) Azure
4 1 (3.45%) AWS
4 1 (3.45%) Datadog
4 1 (3.45%) Entra ID
4 1 (3.45%) OpenShift
4 1 (3.45%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (34.48%) DHCP
1 10 (34.48%) DNS
2 9 (31.03%) TCP/IP
3 3 (10.34%) Firewall
3 3 (10.34%) VPN
4 2 (6.90%) SAN
4 2 (6.90%) Softphone
4 2 (6.90%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (3.45%) IMAP
5 1 (3.45%) LAN
5 1 (3.45%) Network Security
5 1 (3.45%) VoIP
5 1 (3.45%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (3.45%) GitLab
1 1 (3.45%) Jenkins
1 1 (3.45%) JIRA
General
1 16 (55.17%) Social Skills
2 3 (10.34%) Public Sector
3 2 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (6.90%) Law
3 2 (6.90%) Legal
4 1 (3.45%) Advertising
4 1 (3.45%) Banking
4 1 (3.45%) Investment Banking
Miscellaneous
1 15 (51.72%) Driving Licence
2 2 (6.90%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (6.90%) CCTV
2 2 (6.90%) Data Centre
2 2 (6.90%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 2 (6.90%) Management Information System
2 2 (6.90%) Smartphone
3 1 (3.45%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 12 (41.38%) Windows
2 6 (20.69%) Windows 10
3 3 (10.34%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (34.48%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (31.03%) Customer Service
3 7 (24.14%) Cybersecurity
4 5 (17.24%) Virtual Environments
5 4 (13.79%) ITIL
6 3 (10.34%) Collaborative Culture
7 2 (6.90%) Application Security
7 2 (6.90%) Coaching
7 2 (6.90%) DevSecOps
7 2 (6.90%) Identity Access Management
7 2 (6.90%) Incident Management
7 2 (6.90%) Information Security
7 2 (6.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 2 (6.90%) Malware Detection/Protection
7 2 (6.90%) PRINCE2
7 2 (6.90%) Risk Management
7 2 (6.90%) Root Cause Analysis
7 2 (6.90%) SIEM
7 2 (6.90%) SOAR
7 2 (6.90%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.45%) Go
1 1 (3.45%) SQL
1 1 (3.45%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (34.48%) Degree
2 7 (24.14%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (10.34%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (6.90%) A+ Certification
4 2 (6.90%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (6.90%) CCNA
4 2 (6.90%) HND
4 2 (6.90%) MCSE
4 2 (6.90%) Network+ Certification
5 1 (3.45%) CCIE
5 1 (3.45%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (3.45%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (3.45%) SC Cleared
5 1 (3.45%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (6.90%) NCSC
1 2 (6.90%) NIST
1 2 (6.90%) SOC 2
System Software
1 11 (37.93%) Active Directory
2 6 (20.69%) Hyper-V
2 6 (20.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.45%) Docker
3 1 (3.45%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 3 (10.34%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (6.90%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 17 (58.62%) Microsoft
2 6 (20.69%) VMware
3 4 (13.79%) Dell
4 2 (6.90%) HP
5 1 (3.45%) Cisco
5 1 (3.45%) Pegasus
5 1 (3.45%) Sage
5 1 (3.45%) ServiceNow
5 1 (3.45%) Xero