IT Support Engineer Jobs in Scotland

IT Support Engineer
UK > Scotland

The median IT Support Engineer salary in Scotland is £27,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 May 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 251 195 220
Rank change year-on-year -56 +25 -71
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Support Engineer 38 29 26
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.57% 0.63% 0.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.59% 0.70% 0.47%
Number of salaries quoted 35 26 21
10th Percentile £24,100 £24,375 £23,500
25th Percentile £25,500 £25,313 £25,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £27,500 £27,500 £31,133
Median % change year-on-year - -11.67% -30.04%
75th Percentile £30,125 £37,000 £36,000
90th Percentile £32,600 - £36,500
UK median annual salary £30,000 £32,500 £31,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.84% +3.33%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 6,494 4,152 5,542
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.88% 89.89% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 2,626 2,258 2,960
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £28,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £39,659
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,043 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.62% +4.84% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

IT Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Support Engineer in Scotland

IT Support Engineer
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for IT Support Engineer in Scotland

IT Support Engineer
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing IT Support Engineer in Scotland over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for IT Support Engineer in Scotland

IT Support 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 IT Support Engineer within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 9 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
Edinburgh +34 16 £27,500 - 1
Glasgow -102 7 £27,500 -17.91%
West Lothian - 6 £28,500 - 1
Aberdeen -7 5 £30,000 -21.05%
Aberdeenshire +10 2 £24,000 -5.88%
Argyll and Bute - 2 - -
IT Support Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 9 May 2024, IT Support 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 IT Support Engineer in the job title.

1 23 (60.53%) Windows
2 17 (44.74%) Social Skills
3 15 (39.47%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (31.58%) Customer Service
5 10 (26.32%) Organisational Skills
5 10 (26.32%) Microsoft
6 8 (21.05%) SharePoint
7 6 (15.79%) Linux
7 6 (15.79%) Apple
8 5 (13.16%) Active Directory
8 5 (13.16%) Cybersecurity
9 4 (10.53%) Azure
9 4 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
9 4 (10.53%) Mentoring
10 3 (7.89%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (7.89%) Performance Improvement
10 3 (7.89%) Data Centre
10 3 (7.89%) SLA
10 3 (7.89%) Microsoft Exchange
10 3 (7.89%) Internet
10 3 (7.89%) Service Delivery
10 3 (7.89%) Preventative Maintenance
10 3 (7.89%) Onboarding
11 2 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (5.26%) Client Onboarding
11 2 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (5.26%) Agile
11 2 (5.26%) Retail
11 2 (5.26%) Firewall
11 2 (5.26%) VMware

IT Support 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 8 (21.05%) SharePoint
2 3 (7.89%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.63%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 15 (39.47%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (10.53%) Azure
3 2 (5.26%) AWS
4 1 (2.63%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (2.63%) Entra ID
4 1 (2.63%) OneDrive
4 1 (2.63%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.63%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.89%) Internet
2 2 (5.26%) Firewall
2 2 (5.26%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.63%) DHCP
3 1 (2.63%) DNS
3 1 (2.63%) VoIP
3 1 (2.63%) VPN
General
1 17 (44.74%) Social Skills
2 10 (26.32%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (5.26%) French Language
3 2 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (5.26%) Retail
4 1 (2.63%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.63%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.89%) Data Centre
1 3 (7.89%) Hybrid Cloud
1 3 (7.89%) Onboarding
2 2 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 23 (60.53%) Windows
2 6 (15.79%) Linux
3 1 (2.63%) Apple iOS
3 1 (2.63%) Mac OS X
3 1 (2.63%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (31.58%) Customer Service
2 5 (13.16%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (10.53%) Mentoring
3 4 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (7.89%) Performance Improvement
4 3 (7.89%) Preventative Maintenance
4 3 (7.89%) Service Delivery
5 2 (5.26%) Agile
5 2 (5.26%) Client Onboarding
5 2 (5.26%) ITIL
6 1 (2.63%) Analytical Thinking
6 1 (2.63%) Break/Fix
6 1 (2.63%) Change Management
6 1 (2.63%) Data Security
6 1 (2.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 1 (2.63%) Network Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.63%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.89%) SLA
2 1 (2.63%) Accessibility
System Software
1 5 (13.16%) Active Directory
2 2 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.63%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (2.63%) SCCM
1 1 (2.63%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 10 (26.32%) Microsoft
2 6 (15.79%) Apple
3 2 (5.26%) ServiceNow
3 2 (5.26%) VMware
4 1 (2.63%) Cisco
4 1 (2.63%) Salesforce