Starlink Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Starlink
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring knowledge or experience of Starlink products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Starlink over the 6 months leading up to 20 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Starlink Services, LLC.

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 110 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Starlink 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.061% - -
As % of the Vendors category 0.16% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
UK median daily rate £225 £220 £475
% change year-on-year +2.27% -53.68% -

All Vendors
Scotland

Starlink falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 611 693 929
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 37.51% 41.85% 40.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 372 431 554
10th Percentile £260 £197 £181
25th Percentile £400 £350 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £472 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.86% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £575 £538 £588
90th Percentile £675 £625 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £515 £513
% change year-on-year -2.91% +0.49% -2.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 25 49
10th Percentile £15.77 £18.51 £12.94
25th Percentile £16.17 £20.38 £16.00
Median hourly rate £22.00 £23.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +31.43% -24.80%
75th Percentile £55.00 £24.18 £57.50
90th Percentile £72.60 £28.13 £60.15
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £29.00 £24.50
% change year-on-year -13.28% +18.37% -31.94%

Starlink
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Starlink within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 20 March 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Aberdeen - 1 - -
Starlink
UK

Starlink
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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) VSAT
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) Data Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) Data Network Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) Network Administrator
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Meraki