The first table below looks at the demand for the Field Engineer role in IT jobs advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Field Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 22 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the Edinburgh region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Field Engineer
Rank - 91 103
Permanent jobs requiring a Field Engineer 0 1 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh - 0.072% 0.131%
As % of the Job Titles category - 0.076% 0.137%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 1
Average salary - - £23,750
UK excluding London average salary £24,000 £25,500 £25,000
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +2.00%
All Job Titles
Edinburgh
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1042 1320 1456
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 95.77% 95.31% 95.29%
Number of salaries quoted 604 965 1058
Average salary £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.66% -6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £26,000 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Field Engineer
Scotland

Field Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Field Engineer across the Edinburgh region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Edinburgh Field Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Field Engineer
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Field Engineer across the Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh Field Engineer Salary Trend

Field Engineer
Top 16 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh region that cited Field Engineer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled with Field Engineer in their job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
1 4 (100.00%) LAN
1 4 (100.00%) WAN
1 4 (100.00%) DHCP
1 4 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 4 (100.00%) DNS
1 4 (100.00%) Dell
2 2 (50.00%) VLAN
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) MySQL
2 2 (50.00%) Oracle
2 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (50.00%) DB2
2 2 (50.00%) UNIX
2 2 (50.00%) HP

Field Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh region that cited Field Engineer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled with Field Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) LAN
1 4 (100.00%) WAN
1 4 (100.00%) DHCP
1 4 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 4 (100.00%) DNS
2 2 (50.00%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) MySQL
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (50.00%) DB2
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (50.00%) UNIX
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Dell
2 2 (50.00%) Oracle
2 2 (50.00%) HP