Support Engineer Jobs in Scotland

Support Engineer
UK > Scotland

The median Support Engineer salary in Scotland is £30,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 124 190 150
Rank change year-on-year +66 -40 +30
Permanent jobs requiring a Support Engineer 21 88 73
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.75% 1.31% 1.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.82% 1.35% 1.71%
Number of salaries quoted 21 70 68
10th Percentile - £24,240 £24,675
25th Percentile £26,000 £25,750 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £28,250 £33,250
Median % change year-on-year +6.19% -15.04% +6.80%
75th Percentile £33,750 £37,250 £45,000
90th Percentile £38,750 £50,350 £50,000
UK median annual salary £37,500 £32,500 £33,740
% change year-on-year +15.38% -3.68% +1.64%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

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

Permanent vacancies in Scotland with a recognized job title 2,557 6,524 4,262
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.74% 96.85% 90.22%
Number of salaries quoted 1,368 2,620 2,315
10th Percentile £31,250 £27,750 £31,569
25th Percentile £44,000 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% +9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £73,449
90th Percentile £83,738 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,777 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.95% -12.04% -

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
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Support Engineer in Scotland

Support Engineer
Salary Histogram in Scotland

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

Salary histogram for Support Engineer in Scotland

Support Engineer
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Edinburgh 0 8 £30,000 +5.26% 2
West Lothian +11 6 £27,000 -5.26%
Glasgow +151 4 £32,250 +7.50% 8
Lanarkshire - 2 £45,000 - 4
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 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 Scotland region featuring Support Engineer in the job title.

1 9 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 8 (38.10%) Onboarding
3 7 (33.33%) Customer Experience
3 7 (33.33%) Client Onboarding
3 7 (33.33%) CRM
4 6 (28.57%) B2B
4 6 (28.57%) Internet
4 6 (28.57%) SaaS
4 6 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (28.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (19.05%) Linux
6 3 (14.29%) Windows
6 3 (14.29%) Firewall
6 3 (14.29%) Windows Server
7 2 (9.52%) DNS
7 2 (9.52%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (9.52%) Driving Licence
7 2 (9.52%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (9.52%) VMware
7 2 (9.52%) Hyper-V
7 2 (9.52%) WAN
7 2 (9.52%) Active Directory
8 1 (4.76%) Red Hat
8 1 (4.76%) Service Delivery
8 1 (4.76%) Change Management
8 1 (4.76%) Symantec
8 1 (4.76%) SSL
8 1 (4.76%) Cisco
8 1 (4.76%) Microsoft
8 1 (4.76%) DHCP

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 1 (4.76%) Apache
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (4.76%) SharePoint
1 1 (4.76%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 6 (28.57%) SaaS
2 2 (9.52%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (4.76%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (4.76%) Amazon S3
3 1 (4.76%) AWS
3 1 (4.76%) GCP
3 1 (4.76%) GitHub
3 1 (4.76%) OneDrive
3 1 (4.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (28.57%) Internet
2 3 (14.29%) Firewall
3 2 (9.52%) DNS
3 2 (9.52%) WAN
4 1 (4.76%) DHCP
4 1 (4.76%) FTP
4 1 (4.76%) HTTP
4 1 (4.76%) LAN
4 1 (4.76%) SSL
4 1 (4.76%) TCP/IP
4 1 (4.76%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.76%) MariaDB
1 1 (4.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Git
1 1 (4.76%) JIRA
General
1 9 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 6 (28.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (4.76%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.76%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 8 (38.10%) Onboarding
2 2 (9.52%) Driving Licence
2 2 (9.52%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (4.76%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.76%) FMCG
3 1 (4.76%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (19.05%) Linux
2 3 (14.29%) Windows
2 3 (14.29%) Windows Server
3 1 (4.76%) AIX
3 1 (4.76%) Debian
3 1 (4.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (4.76%) Solaris
3 1 (4.76%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (33.33%) Client Onboarding
1 7 (33.33%) CRM
1 7 (33.33%) Customer Experience
2 6 (28.57%) B2B
2 6 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (4.76%) Change Management
3 1 (4.76%) Customer Requirements
3 1 (4.76%) Customer Service
3 1 (4.76%) Data Analysis
3 1 (4.76%) Data Protection
3 1 (4.76%) DevOps
3 1 (4.76%) ITIL
3 1 (4.76%) Open Source
3 1 (4.76%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (4.76%) Presales
3 1 (4.76%) Release Management
3 1 (4.76%) Risk Management
3 1 (4.76%) Service Delivery
3 1 (4.76%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.76%) Bash
Qualifications
1 1 (4.76%) Degree
1 1 (4.76%) DV Cleared
1 1 (4.76%) HNC
1 1 (4.76%) HND
1 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared
1 1 (4.76%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (9.52%) Active Directory
1 2 (9.52%) Hyper-V
2 1 (4.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.76%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (9.52%) VMware
2 1 (4.76%) Cisco
2 1 (4.76%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.76%) Red Hat
2 1 (4.76%) SonicWALL
2 1 (4.76%) Symantec