Infrastructure Engineering Jobs in Scotland

Infrastructure Engineering
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Infrastructure Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Infrastructure Engineering over the 6 months to 19 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 199 71 172
Rank change year-on-year -128 +101 -35
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 91 174 77
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 1.35% 3.80% 1.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.47% 4.03% 1.43%
Number of salaries quoted 81 56 56
10th Percentile £26,700 £33,399 £30,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £37,500 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -14.29%
75th Percentile £55,000 £75,389 £55,000
90th Percentile £72,433 £117,236 £75,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Infrastructure Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,195 4,321 5,392
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 92.21% 94.32% 90.97%
Number of salaries quoted 2,404 2,159 2,811
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,211 £31,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,000 £40,501
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +12.24%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £68,275
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Infrastructure Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineering in Scotland

Infrastructure Engineering
Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in Scotland.

Salary trend for Infrastructure Engineering in Scotland

Infrastructure Engineering
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in Scotland over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in Scotland

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 19 May 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
Glasgow -135 32 £47,500 -5.00% 16
Edinburgh +9 26 £65,000 -18.37% 17
Argyll and Bute - 9 £27,400 -
Fife +2 8 £33,000 -30.53% 1
Aberdeen -31 4 £45,000 - 1
Highlands - 4 - -
Dundee -18 2 £30,000 -45.45%
Stirling - 2 £45,500 -
Aberdeenshire - 1 £50,000 -
Infrastructure Engineering
UK

Infrastructure Engineering
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 7 (7.69%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (4.40%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.10%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (3.30%) AutoCAD
2 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (4.40%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 41 (45.05%) Azure
2 26 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
3 18 (19.78%) AWS
4 15 (16.48%) Entra ID
4 15 (16.48%) GCP
5 6 (6.59%) IaaS
5 6 (6.59%) PaaS
6 4 (4.40%) WhatsApp
7 2 (2.20%) AWS Direct Connect
7 2 (2.20%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.10%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (1.10%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 9 (9.89%) Firewall
2 8 (8.79%) VPN
3 7 (7.69%) SAN
3 7 (7.69%) SD-WAN
3 7 (7.69%) VoIP
4 6 (6.59%) WAN
5 4 (4.40%) NetScaler
6 2 (2.20%) DHCP
6 2 (2.20%) DNS
6 2 (2.20%) TCP/IP
7 1 (1.10%) Internet
7 1 (1.10%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.59%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (5.49%) JIRA
2 2 (2.20%) Spinnaker
3 1 (1.10%) Git
3 1 (1.10%) Gradle
3 1 (1.10%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.10%) Maven
General
1 21 (23.08%) Finance
2 14 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 9 (9.89%) Banking
4 8 (8.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (7.69%) Law
5 7 (7.69%) Legal
6 5 (5.49%) Manufacturing
6 5 (5.49%) Public Sector
7 4 (4.40%) Retail
8 3 (3.30%) Local Government
9 2 (2.20%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (2.20%) Police
10 1 (1.10%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 63 (69.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 18 (19.78%) Senior
3 17 (18.68%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 16 (17.58%) Infrastructure Support
5 15 (16.48%) 2nd Line Support
6 11 (12.09%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
6 11 (12.09%) Operations Engineer
7 10 (10.99%) Systems Engineer
8 4 (4.40%) IT Engineer
8 4 (4.40%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (3.30%) Cloud Engineer
9 3 (3.30%) Linux Engineer
9 3 (3.30%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (3.30%) Windows Engineer
9 3 (3.30%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
10 2 (2.20%) Administrator
10 2 (2.20%) Analyst
10 2 (2.20%) DevOps Engineer
10 2 (2.20%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
10 2 (2.20%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.20%) AWS CDK
2 1 (1.10%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (13.19%) Public Cloud
2 8 (8.79%) Data Centre
3 6 (6.59%) Replication
4 4 (4.40%) Cloud Native
4 4 (4.40%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.20%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.10%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.10%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 48 (52.75%) Windows
2 40 (43.96%) Windows Server
3 13 (14.29%) Linux
4 1 (1.10%) Mac OS
4 1 (1.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.10%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (13.19%) Cybersecurity
2 11 (12.09%) DevOps
3 10 (10.99%) ITIL
3 10 (10.99%) Project Delivery
4 8 (8.79%) Infrastructure as Code
4 8 (8.79%) Mentoring
5 7 (7.69%) Business Strategy
5 7 (7.69%) Coaching
5 7 (7.69%) Infrastructure Management
6 6 (6.59%) Agile
6 6 (6.59%) Client Onboarding
6 6 (6.59%) Configuration Management
6 6 (6.59%) Disaster Recovery
6 6 (6.59%) IT Strategy
6 6 (6.59%) Network Virtualisation
6 6 (6.59%) Roadmaps
7 5 (5.49%) Containerisation
7 5 (5.49%) Stakeholder Management
8 4 (4.40%) ERP
8 4 (4.40%) Supply Chain Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (6.59%) PowerShell
2 4 (4.40%) SQL
3 3 (3.30%) Groovy
4 1 (1.10%) Bash
4 1 (1.10%) C
4 1 (1.10%) Python
4 1 (1.10%) Ruby
4 1 (1.10%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 17 (18.68%) Security Cleared
2 15 (16.48%) DV Cleared
3 8 (8.79%) Microsoft Certification
4 7 (7.69%) MCSE
5 6 (6.59%) CCNA
5 6 (6.59%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (5.49%) Azure Certification
7 4 (4.40%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 2 (2.20%) AWS Certification
8 2 (2.20%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (2.20%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 35 (38.46%) Active Directory
2 26 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (9.89%) Hyper-V
4 6 (6.59%) VMware NSX
5 5 (5.49%) Docker
6 4 (4.40%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (4.40%) XenDesktop
7 1 (1.10%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (1.10%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (13.19%) Ansible
2 9 (9.89%) Terraform
3 8 (8.79%) Kubernetes
4 6 (6.59%) FortiGate
5 4 (4.40%) vCenter Server
6 2 (2.20%) Istio
6 2 (2.20%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.10%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (1.10%) SCOM
Vendors
1 32 (35.16%) Microsoft
2 30 (32.97%) VMware
3 13 (14.29%) Cisco
4 7 (7.69%) Google
5 6 (6.59%) EMC
5 6 (6.59%) Meraki
5 6 (6.59%) NetApp
5 6 (6.59%) Sophos
6 5 (5.49%) Citrix
6 5 (5.49%) ServiceNow
7 4 (4.40%) Epicor
7 4 (4.40%) IFS
7 4 (4.40%) JD Edwards
7 4 (4.40%) Nimble Storage
7 4 (4.40%) Oracle
7 4 (4.40%) Veeam
8 1 (1.10%) Red Hat