IT Technician Jobs in Edinburgh

IT Technician
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median IT Technician salary in Edinburgh is £37,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 May 2025.

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

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 88 103 147
Rank change year-on-year +15 +44 +11
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Technician 1 6 3
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.11% 0.40% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.42% 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 1 6 3
10th Percentile - - £28,800
25th Percentile £36,250 £27,750 £29,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £28,500 £31,000
Median % change year-on-year +31.58% -8.06% +27.84%
75th Percentile £38,750 £65,438 £31,750
90th Percentile - £77,500 £31,900
Scotland median annual salary £40,000 £24,000 £30,000
% change year-on-year +66.67% -20.00% +23.71%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Edinburgh

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 818 1,426 1,921
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.59% 95.90% 94.91%
Number of salaries quoted 385 1,004 1,139
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £35,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £44,516
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £80,000 £71,921 £77,715
90th Percentile £98,474 £91,934 £89,852
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £56,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -6.25% +6.67%

IT Technician
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Technician in Edinburgh

IT Technician
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

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

Salary trend for IT Technician in Edinburgh

IT Technician Skill Set
Top 20 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh

For the 6 months to 17 May 2025, IT Technician 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 Technician in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Automotive
1 1 (100.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding

IT Technician 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 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Automotive
1 1 (100.00%) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) VMware