Senior IT Engineer Jobs in Scotland

Senior IT Engineer
UK > Scotland

The median Senior IT Engineer salary in Scotland is £66,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 8 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
8 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 157 280 215
Rank change year-on-year +123 -65 +33
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior IT Engineer 2 5 9
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.070% 0.075% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.076% 0.077% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 2 5 3
10th Percentile £41,375 - -
25th Percentile £49,063 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £42,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +55.88% +6.25% -23.81%
75th Percentile £86,563 £43,750 £42,500
90th Percentile £96,125 - -
UK median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% +11.11% -5.26%

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 2,637 6,497 4,217
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.66% 96.90% 90.01%
Number of salaries quoted 1,359 2,629 2,296
10th Percentile £31,250 £27,950 £31,472
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 £64,794 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £83,000 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,501 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% -12.50% -

Senior IT Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior IT Engineer in Scotland

Senior IT Engineer
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Senior IT Engineer in Scotland

Senior IT Engineer
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior IT Engineer in Scotland over the 6 months to 8 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior IT Engineer in Scotland

Senior 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 Senior IT Engineer within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 8 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 - 1 £95,000 - 1
Senior IT Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 8 May 2025, Senior 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 Senior IT Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Grafana
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (50.00%) Quantitative Trading
2 1 (50.00%) CircleCI
2 1 (50.00%) Proactive Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
2 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Bash
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (50.00%) Kafka
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (50.00%) Low Latency
2 1 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (50.00%) GitLab
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes

Senior 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 1 (50.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) CircleCI
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Financial Institution
1 1 (50.00%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) Low Latency
1 1 (50.00%) Microservices
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Proactive Monitoring
1 1 (50.00%) Quantitative Trading
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
1 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) VMware