Support Engineer Contracts in Scotland

Support Engineer
UK > Scotland

The median Support Engineer daily rate in Scotland is £150, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 91 87 106
Rank change year-on-year -4 +19 +12
Contract jobs requiring a Support Engineer 25 42 58
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.54% 1.89% 2.03%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.64% 2.00% 2.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 30 44
10th Percentile - £148 £130
25th Percentile £148 £188 £158
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £150 £215 £175
Median % change year-on-year -30.23% +22.86% -2.78%
75th Percentile £259 £340 £280
90th Percentile £299 £750 £306
UK median daily rate £240 £210 £250
% change year-on-year +14.29% -16.00% +24.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 2
10th Percentile - £17.78 £15.22
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.86 £16.29
Median hourly rate £23.00 £18.00 £18.34
Median % change year-on-year +27.78% -1.83% -2.21%
75th Percentile £23.75 £18.14 £20.13
90th Percentile £24.07 £18.22 £21.05
UK median hourly rate £24.58 £20.82 £20.00
% change year-on-year +18.09% +4.08% +14.29%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Scotland with a recognized job title 1,529 2,099 2,722
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.09% 94.68% 95.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 920 1,281 1,953
10th Percentile £263 £205 £238
25th Percentile £370 £369 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - +4.40%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £553
90th Percentile £610 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 114 44
10th Percentile £15.98 £12.50 £12.86
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.25 £16.91
Median hourly rate £20.94 £33.25 £23.18
Median % change year-on-year -37.02% +43.44% -10.53%
75th Percentile £24.66 £60.00 £59.41
90th Percentile £42.58 £66.00 £67.22
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Support Engineer in Scotland

Support Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Support Engineer in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Support Engineer in Scotland

Support Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Support Engineer in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Support Engineer in Scotland

Support Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Support Engineer in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for Support Engineer in Scotland

Support Engineer
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 Support Engineer within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Edinburgh +15 19 £148 -56.47% 2
Glasgow -12 2 £348 +61.63% 8
East Lothian -4 1 £167 +48.44%
Perthshire - 1 - -
Perth and Kinross - 1 - -
Support Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Support Engineer contract 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 contract job ads across the Scotland region featuring Support Engineer in the job title.

1 14 (56.00%) Social Skills
2 13 (52.00%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (48.00%) Windows
4 11 (44.00%) Microsoft
4 11 (44.00%) Microsoft 365
5 10 (40.00%) Azure
6 9 (36.00%) Microsoft Intune
6 9 (36.00%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (36.00%) SharePoint
7 8 (32.00%) Time Management
7 8 (32.00%) QA
8 7 (28.00%) Microsoft Exchange
8 7 (28.00%) Citrix
8 7 (28.00%) Customer Service
8 7 (28.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
9 6 (24.00%) Task Automation
9 6 (24.00%) ITIL
10 5 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (20.00%) A+ Certification
10 5 (20.00%) Device Driver
10 5 (20.00%) PowerShell
10 5 (20.00%) Customer Experience
10 5 (20.00%) Remote Desktop
11 4 (16.00%) Public Sector
12 3 (12.00%) Ticket Management
12 3 (12.00%) Project Management
12 3 (12.00%) Asset Management
12 3 (12.00%) Dell
13 2 (8.00%) Electronics
13 2 (8.00%) Telecoms

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 9 (36.00%) SharePoint
2 7 (28.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 11 (44.00%) Microsoft 365
2 10 (40.00%) Azure
3 1 (4.00%) Apigee
3 1 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (4.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (4.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 5 (20.00%) Remote Desktop
Development Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (4.00%) Git
General
1 14 (56.00%) Social Skills
2 9 (36.00%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (16.00%) Public Sector
4 2 (8.00%) Electronics
4 2 (8.00%) Finance
4 2 (8.00%) Manufacturing
4 2 (8.00%) Marketing
4 2 (8.00%) Telecoms
5 1 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.00%) Loki
1 1 (4.00%) OAuth
1 1 (4.00%) OpenID
1 1 (4.00%) RESTful
1 1 (4.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.00%) Device Driver
2 2 (8.00%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (8.00%) iPhone
3 1 (4.00%) CMDB
3 1 (4.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.00%) EPoS
3 1 (4.00%) Fat Client
3 1 (4.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.00%) Smartphone
3 1 (4.00%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 12 (48.00%) Windows
2 2 (8.00%) Windows 10
3 1 (4.00%) Linux
3 1 (4.00%) Unix
3 1 (4.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (52.00%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (32.00%) Time Management
3 7 (28.00%) Customer Service
3 7 (28.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
4 6 (24.00%) ITIL
4 6 (24.00%) Task Automation
5 5 (20.00%) Customer Experience
6 3 (12.00%) Asset Management
6 3 (12.00%) Project Management
6 3 (12.00%) Ticket Management
7 2 (8.00%) Business Intelligence
7 2 (8.00%) Data Protection
7 2 (8.00%) Digital Marketing
7 2 (8.00%) Programme Management
8 1 (4.00%) Change Control
8 1 (4.00%) CI/CD
8 1 (4.00%) DevOps
8 1 (4.00%) High Availability
8 1 (4.00%) Identity Access Management
8 1 (4.00%) JVM Tuning
Programming Languages
1 5 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (4.00%) Java
2 1 (4.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (20.00%) A+ Certification
1 5 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (8.00%) DBS Check
2 2 (8.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (8.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (32.00%) QA
2 1 (4.00%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (8.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (8.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (4.00%) Docker
2 1 (4.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 9 (36.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (8.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (4.00%) Ansible
3 1 (4.00%) Grafana
3 1 (4.00%) Istio
3 1 (4.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (4.00%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (4.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (44.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (28.00%) Citrix
3 3 (12.00%) Dell
4 2 (8.00%) SAP
4 2 (8.00%) VMware
5 1 (4.00%) Okta
5 1 (4.00%) ServiceNow
5 1 (4.00%) Splunk
5 1 (4.00%) Veritas