IT Engineer Jobs in Edinburgh

IT Engineer
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median IT Engineer salary in Edinburgh is £30,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 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
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 82 120 133
Rank change year-on-year +38 +13 -52
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Engineer 30 32 27
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.97% 1.52% 1.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.06% 1.59% 1.17%
Number of salaries quoted 30 24 18
10th Percentile £25,375 - £23,050
25th Percentile £26,250 £26,250 £28,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £34,000 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% -9.33% +33.93%
75th Percentile £38,750 £42,500 £45,000
90th Percentile £43,750 £70,779 £47,500
Scotland median annual salary £28,500 £31,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year -8.06% -4.62% +1.56%

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 1,457 2,007 2,308
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.86% 95.21% 98.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1,029 1,188 1,454
10th Percentile £32,950 £36,250 £33,146
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 £92,047 £89,852 £85,000
Scotland median annual salary £52,500 £56,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -7.08% +7.62% +10.53%

IT Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Engineer in Edinburgh

IT Engineer
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

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

Salary trend for IT Engineer in Edinburgh

IT Engineer
Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing IT Engineer in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Salary histogram for IT Engineer in Edinburgh

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

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, IT 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 Edinburgh region featuring IT Engineer in the job title.

1 21 (70.00%) Windows
2 12 (40.00%) Azure
3 11 (36.67%) Hyper-V
3 11 (36.67%) VMware
3 11 (36.67%) Windows Server
4 10 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (26.67%) TCP/IP
5 8 (26.67%) Active Directory
6 7 (23.33%) Firewall
6 7 (23.33%) Social Skills
7 6 (20.00%) DNS
7 6 (20.00%) DHCP
7 6 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (20.00%) Entra ID
7 6 (20.00%) Driving Licence
7 6 (20.00%) AWS
8 5 (16.67%) Degree
8 5 (16.67%) SCCM
8 5 (16.67%) Information Security
8 5 (16.67%) Migration
8 5 (16.67%) Vulnerability Scanning
8 5 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
8 5 (16.67%) Linux
8 5 (16.67%) SQL Server
8 5 (16.67%) HP
8 5 (16.67%) Dell
8 5 (16.67%) Telecoms
8 5 (16.67%) Microsoft
8 5 (16.67%) Customer Service
9 4 (13.33%) Identity Access Management

IT Engineer 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 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.33%) IIS
2 1 (3.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 12 (40.00%) Azure
2 6 (20.00%) AWS
2 6 (20.00%) Entra ID
2 6 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (13.33%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 8 (26.67%) TCP/IP
2 7 (23.33%) Firewall
3 6 (20.00%) DHCP
3 6 (20.00%) DNS
4 1 (3.33%) Internet
4 1 (3.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
General
1 7 (23.33%) Social Skills
2 5 (16.67%) Telecoms
3 4 (13.33%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (10.00%) Legal
5 1 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.33%) Finance
5 1 (3.33%) Law
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.00%) Driving Licence
2 3 (10.00%) Data Centre
2 3 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 21 (70.00%) Windows
2 11 (36.67%) Windows Server
3 5 (16.67%) Linux
4 4 (13.33%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (3.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (16.67%) Customer Service
1 5 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
1 5 (16.67%) Information Security
1 5 (16.67%) Migration
1 5 (16.67%) Vulnerability Scanning
2 4 (13.33%) Identity Access Management
3 3 (10.00%) Performance Improvement
3 3 (10.00%) Preventative Maintenance
4 2 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (6.67%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (3.33%) Change Management
5 1 (3.33%) ITIL
5 1 (3.33%) ITSM
5 1 (3.33%) Roadmaps
5 1 (3.33%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.00%) SLA
2 1 (3.33%) GDPR
System Software
1 11 (36.67%) Hyper-V
2 8 (26.67%) Active Directory
3 2 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (16.67%) SCCM
Vendors
1 11 (36.67%) VMware
2 5 (16.67%) Dell
2 5 (16.67%) HP
2 5 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 4 (13.33%) Aderant
3 4 (13.33%) iManage
4 3 (10.00%) Apple
5 2 (6.67%) Cisco
6 1 (3.33%) Darktrace
6 1 (3.33%) NetApp
6 1 (3.33%) ServiceNow