IT Support Jobs in Edinburgh

IT Support
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median IT Support salary in Edinburgh is £28,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 80 96 134
Rank change year-on-year +16 +38 -23
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Support 33 57 27
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 2.16% 2.67% 1.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.25% 2.80% 1.19%
Number of salaries quoted 32 24 23
10th Percentile £24,375 £25,375 £16,215
25th Percentile £25,750 £26,250 £21,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £28,000 £27,500 £25,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% +10.00% +6.38%
75th Percentile £34,063 £32,438 £27,500
90th Percentile £42,500 £37,000 £30,000
Scotland median annual salary £27,500 £28,250 £25,000
% change year-on-year -2.65% +13.00% -5.66%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Edinburgh

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh. 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 Edinburgh with a recognized job title 1,467 2,035 2,270
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.88% 95.45% 97.84%
Number of salaries quoted 1,037 1,189 1,421
10th Percentile £32,650 £36,314 £33,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £72,433 £77,715 £68,750
90th Percentile £91,934 £90,000 £85,000
Scotland median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% +10.53%

IT Support
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings that featured IT Support in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for IT Support in Edinburgh

IT Support
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing IT Support in Edinburgh.

Salary trend for IT Support in Edinburgh

IT Support
Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing IT Support in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Salary histogram for IT Support in Edinburgh

IT Support Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh

For the 6 months to 29 April 2024, IT Support 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 Edinburgh region featuring IT Support in the job title.

1 18 (54.55%) Windows
1 18 (54.55%) Microsoft 365
2 11 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (30.30%) Microsoft
3 10 (30.30%) Customer Service
4 8 (24.24%) Social Skills
4 8 (24.24%) Active Directory
4 8 (24.24%) Cybersecurity
5 7 (21.21%) Organisational Skills
6 6 (18.18%) Preventative Maintenance
7 5 (15.15%) Service Delivery
7 5 (15.15%) Stakeholder Management
7 5 (15.15%) Azure
8 4 (12.12%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (12.12%) Entra ID
8 4 (12.12%) Windows 10
8 4 (12.12%) Firewall
8 4 (12.12%) Microsoft Exchange
8 4 (12.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
9 3 (9.09%) Apple
9 3 (9.09%) SLA
9 3 (9.09%) Management Information System
9 3 (9.09%) Legal
9 3 (9.09%) Data Centre
9 3 (9.09%) GDPR
9 3 (9.09%) Collaborative Working
9 3 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (9.09%) Time Management
9 3 (9.09%) Data Protection

IT Support Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 4 (12.12%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.03%) IIS
2 1 (3.03%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 18 (54.55%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (15.15%) Azure
3 4 (12.12%) Entra ID
4 1 (3.03%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.12%) Firewall
2 2 (6.06%) TCP/IP
3 1 (3.03%) DHCP
3 1 (3.03%) DNS
3 1 (3.03%) Internet
3 1 (3.03%) LAN
3 1 (3.03%) WAN
3 1 (3.03%) Wi-Fi
General
1 8 (24.24%) Social Skills
2 7 (21.21%) Organisational Skills
3 4 (12.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (9.09%) Legal
5 1 (3.03%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.12%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (9.09%) Data Centre
2 3 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (9.09%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (9.09%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 18 (54.55%) Windows
2 4 (12.12%) Windows 10
3 3 (9.09%) Apple iOS
4 2 (6.06%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (30.30%) Customer Service
3 8 (24.24%) Cybersecurity
4 6 (18.18%) Preventative Maintenance
5 5 (15.15%) Service Delivery
5 5 (15.15%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (9.09%) Collaborative Working
6 3 (9.09%) Data Protection
6 3 (9.09%) Performance Improvement
6 3 (9.09%) Time Management
7 2 (6.06%) ITIL
8 1 (3.03%) Change Management
8 1 (3.03%) Collaborative Culture
8 1 (3.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 1 (3.03%) ITSM
8 1 (3.03%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.03%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.09%) GDPR
1 3 (9.09%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (24.24%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.03%) Hyper-V
2 1 (3.03%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (3.03%) SCCM
Vendors
1 10 (30.30%) Microsoft
2 3 (9.09%) Apple
3 2 (6.06%) iManage
4 1 (3.03%) Cisco
4 1 (3.03%) Citrix
4 1 (3.03%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.03%) VMware