Server Engineer Job Trends in Scotland

Server Engineer
UK > Scotland

The median Server Engineer salary in Scotland is £32,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 6 August 2026.

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

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 152 231
Rank change year-on-year +30 +79 -64
Permanent jobs requiring a Server Engineer 6 1 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.17% 0.039% 0.019%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.047% 0.020%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £31,250 - £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 - £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -0.47%
75th Percentile £33,750 - £53,750
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £57,500 £49,375 £55,000
% change year-on-year +16.46% -10.23% +4.76%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 3,232 2,108 5,057
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.87% 83.22% 97.12%
Number of salaries quoted 1,758 928 2,345
10th Percentile £29,750 £26,929 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,223 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.44% -4.34% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £86,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%

Server Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Server Engineer job vacancy trend in Scotland

Server Engineer
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for Server Engineer job vacancies in Scotland.

Salary distribution trend for Server Engineer job vacancies in Scotland

Server 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 Server Engineer within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 6 August 2026. 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 +20 6 £32,500 - 1
Server Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 6 August 2026, Server 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 Server Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (83.33%) Active Directory
2 5 (83.33%) Azure
2 5 (83.33%) Entra ID
2 5 (83.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (83.33%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (83.33%) PowerShell
2 5 (83.33%) Windows
2 5 (83.33%) Windows Server
3 4 (66.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 4 (66.67%) EMC
3 4 (66.67%) High Availability
3 4 (66.67%) ITIL
3 4 (66.67%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (66.67%) VMware
3 4 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (66.67%) VSAN
4 3 (50.00%) ITSM
4 3 (50.00%) Problem Management
4 3 (50.00%) Service Management
4 3 (50.00%) Task Automation
5 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (16.67%) Debian
5 1 (16.67%) DHCP
5 1 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (16.67%) DNS
5 1 (16.67%) Hyper-V
5 1 (16.67%) Incident Management
5 1 (16.67%) Linux
5 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune

Server 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) Azure
1 5 (83.33%) Entra ID
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) VSAN
2 1 (16.67%) DHCP
2 1 (16.67%) DNS
General
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Clustering
1 4 (66.67%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (16.67%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) Windows
1 5 (83.33%) Windows Server
2 1 (16.67%) Debian
2 1 (16.67%) Linux
2 1 (16.67%) Ubuntu
2 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (66.67%) High Availability
2 4 (66.67%) ITIL
3 3 (50.00%) ITSM
3 3 (50.00%) Problem Management
3 3 (50.00%) Service Management
3 3 (50.00%) Task Automation
4 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (16.67%) Incident Management
4 1 (16.67%) Migration
4 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) PowerShell
System Software
1 5 (83.33%) Active Directory
2 4 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (16.67%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 4 (66.67%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (66.67%) EMC
2 4 (66.67%) VMware