Support Engineer Jobs in Edinburgh

Support Engineer
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Support Engineer salary in Edinburgh is £28,250 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 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
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 86 118 141
Rank change year-on-year +32 +23 -36
Permanent jobs requiring a Support Engineer 28 35 12
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.84% 1.64% 0.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.92% 1.72% 0.52%
Number of salaries quoted 24 35 8
10th Percentile £24,625 £25,500 £22,675
25th Percentile £26,063 £26,250 £24,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £28,250 £32,500 £27,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.08% +18.18% -17.91%
75th Percentile £38,188 £37,000 £35,625
90th Percentile £65,703 £49,200 £42,000
Scotland median annual salary £28,000 £33,250 £31,133
% change year-on-year -15.79% +6.80% -4.21%

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 2,032 2,299
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.86% 95.49% 97.83%
Number of salaries quoted 1,029 1,201 1,443
10th Percentile £32,700 £36,250 £33,098
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 £91,934 £90,000 £85,000
Scotland median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% +10.53%

Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Support Engineer in Edinburgh

Support Engineer
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

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

Salary trend for Support Engineer in Edinburgh

Support Engineer
Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing Support Engineer in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Support Engineer in Edinburgh

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

For the 6 months to 2 May 2024, 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 Edinburgh region featuring Support Engineer in the job title.

1 17 (60.71%) Windows
2 12 (42.86%) Microsoft 365
3 11 (39.29%) Microsoft
3 11 (39.29%) Social Skills
4 9 (32.14%) Customer Service
4 9 (32.14%) Cybersecurity
4 9 (32.14%) Azure
5 8 (28.57%) Microsoft Exchange
6 7 (25.00%) SharePoint
6 7 (25.00%) SLA
7 6 (21.43%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (21.43%) Active Directory
8 5 (17.86%) Linux
8 5 (17.86%) Entra ID
8 5 (17.86%) Windows 10
8 5 (17.86%) Windows Server
9 4 (14.29%) OneDrive
9 4 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (14.29%) ConnectWise
9 4 (14.29%) ITIL
9 4 (14.29%) WAN
9 4 (14.29%) TCP/IP
9 4 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
9 4 (14.29%) Telecoms
9 4 (14.29%) Finance
9 4 (14.29%) Billing
9 4 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (10.71%) IBM
10 3 (10.71%) Performance Improvement
10 3 (10.71%) Progress Chef

Support 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 8 (28.57%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (25.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (3.57%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 12 (42.86%) Microsoft 365
2 9 (32.14%) Azure
3 5 (17.86%) Entra ID
4 4 (14.29%) OneDrive
5 3 (10.71%) GCP
5 3 (10.71%) OpenShift
6 2 (7.14%) Power Automate
6 2 (7.14%) Power Platform
6 2 (7.14%) PowerApps
7 1 (3.57%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (14.29%) TCP/IP
1 4 (14.29%) WAN
2 2 (7.14%) DHCP
2 2 (7.14%) Firewall
3 1 (3.57%) DNS
3 1 (3.57%) Internet
3 1 (3.57%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 3 (10.71%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 11 (39.29%) Social Skills
2 6 (21.43%) Organisational Skills
3 4 (14.29%) Billing
3 4 (14.29%) Finance
3 4 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
3 4 (14.29%) Telecoms
4 3 (10.71%) Banking
5 1 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.57%) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.71%) Data Centre
1 3 (10.71%) Hybrid Cloud
1 3 (10.71%) Public Cloud
2 1 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 17 (60.71%) Windows
2 5 (17.86%) Linux
2 5 (17.86%) Windows 10
2 5 (17.86%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (32.14%) Customer Service
1 9 (32.14%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (14.29%) ITIL
3 3 (10.71%) Agile
3 3 (10.71%) DevOps
3 3 (10.71%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (10.71%) Mentoring
3 3 (10.71%) Performance Improvement
3 3 (10.71%) Preventative Maintenance
3 3 (10.71%) Problem Management
3 3 (10.71%) Service Management
3 3 (10.71%) Software Delivery
3 3 (10.71%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (7.14%) Data Security
4 2 (7.14%) Line Management
4 2 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (3.57%) Change Management
5 1 (3.57%) ITSM
5 1 (3.57%) Network Design
Programming Languages
1 3 (10.71%) Groovy
1 3 (10.71%) SQL
2 1 (3.57%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (25.00%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (21.43%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.57%) Hyper-V
2 1 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (10.71%) Ansible
2 3 (10.71%) Progress Chef
2 3 (10.71%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (39.29%) Microsoft
2 4 (14.29%) ConnectWise
3 3 (10.71%) Apple
3 3 (10.71%) Google
3 3 (10.71%) IBM
4 2 (7.14%) Cisco
5 1 (3.57%) Juniper
5 1 (3.57%) ServiceNow
5 1 (3.57%) VMware