Support Engineer Jobs in Scotland

Support Engineer
UK > Scotland

The median Support Engineer salary in Scotland is £28,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 July 2024.

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

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 175 143 152
Rank change year-on-year -32 +9 -50
Permanent jobs requiring a Support Engineer 77 69 101
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 1.35% 1.82% 1.66%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.39% 1.97% 1.77%
Number of salaries quoted 61 60 49
10th Percentile £24,000 £24,450 £24,700
25th Percentile £25,750 £25,000 £26,680
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £28,500 £30,500 £31,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.56% -1.61% -8.82%
75th Percentile £38,750 £38,188 £37,250
90th Percentile £50,250 £45,500 £44,400
UK median annual salary £34,000 £34,000 £34,000

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 5,531 3,496 5,710
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 97.07% 92.15% 93.76%
Number of salaries quoted 2,492 2,018 3,223
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% - +15.79%
75th Percentile £66,250 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%

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 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 2024. 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
Glasgow -50 39 £37,500 - 11
Edinburgh +11 15 £29,250 -4.10% 4
Aberdeen +3 13 £25,000 -43.18% 5
West Lothian - 6 £28,500 -
Dundee -5 1 - -
West Dunbartonshire - 1 £27,500 -
North Lanarkshire - 1 - -
Support Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 26 July 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 Scotland region featuring Support Engineer in the job title.

1 29 (37.66%) Windows
2 28 (36.36%) Microsoft
3 26 (33.77%) Social Skills
4 22 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
5 21 (27.27%) Active Directory
6 19 (24.68%) Linux
6 19 (24.68%) Azure
7 18 (23.38%) Customer Service
8 17 (22.08%) SharePoint
9 14 (18.18%) Microsoft Exchange
10 11 (14.29%) Oracle
11 10 (12.99%) Java
11 10 (12.99%) AWS
11 10 (12.99%) Cybersecurity
12 9 (11.69%) Driving Licence
12 9 (11.69%) Windows Server
12 9 (11.69%) Collaborative Working
12 9 (11.69%) Problem-Solving
12 9 (11.69%) JIRA
12 9 (11.69%) SQL
12 9 (11.69%) SLA
13 8 (10.39%) Microsoft Intune
14 7 (9.09%) KVM
14 7 (9.09%) Entra ID
14 7 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 7 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
14 7 (9.09%) VMware
15 6 (7.79%) Telecoms
15 6 (7.79%) Finance
15 6 (7.79%) Software Engineering

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 17 (22.08%) SharePoint
2 14 (18.18%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (6.49%) Tomcat
3 5 (6.49%) WebSphere
4 4 (5.19%) Apache
4 4 (5.19%) IIS
5 1 (1.30%) Appian
Applications
1 5 (6.49%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.30%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.30%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 22 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
2 19 (24.68%) Azure
3 10 (12.99%) AWS
4 7 (9.09%) Entra ID
5 6 (7.79%) OneDrive
6 3 (3.90%) Power Platform
6 3 (3.90%) PowerApps
7 2 (2.60%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (2.60%) Power Automate
8 1 (1.30%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.30%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.19%) WAN
1 4 (5.19%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (3.90%) Internet
2 3 (3.90%) VoIP
3 2 (2.60%) Firewall
3 2 (2.60%) Remote Desktop
3 2 (2.60%) TCP/IP
3 2 (2.60%) VPN
4 1 (1.30%) DHCP
4 1 (1.30%) DNS
4 1 (1.30%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.49%) Pentaho
2 4 (5.19%) MongoDB
2 4 (5.19%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (5.19%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (11.69%) JIRA
2 5 (6.49%) Bitbucket
General
1 26 (33.77%) Social Skills
2 7 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 6 (7.79%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (7.79%) Finance
3 6 (7.79%) Telecoms
4 5 (6.49%) Law
4 5 (6.49%) Legal
4 5 (6.49%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (5.19%) Billing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.49%) Kafka
2 4 (5.19%) .NET
2 4 (5.19%) REST
2 4 (5.19%) SOAP
2 4 (5.19%) Web Services
3 2 (2.60%) JSON
3 2 (2.60%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (11.69%) Driving Licence
2 5 (6.49%) Reference Data
3 4 (5.19%) Data Centre
3 4 (5.19%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (5.19%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.60%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.60%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.30%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 29 (37.66%) Windows
2 19 (24.68%) Linux
3 9 (11.69%) Windows Server
4 6 (7.79%) Windows 10
5 5 (6.49%) Unix
6 4 (5.19%) AIX
7 3 (3.90%) CentOS
7 3 (3.90%) Debian
7 3 (3.90%) Windows Server 2008
7 3 (3.90%) Windows Server 2012
7 3 (3.90%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (23.38%) Customer Service
2 10 (12.99%) Cybersecurity
3 9 (11.69%) Collaborative Working
3 9 (11.69%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (7.79%) Disaster Recovery
4 6 (7.79%) Proactive Maintenance
4 6 (7.79%) Software Engineering
5 5 (6.49%) Agile
5 5 (6.49%) Analytics
5 5 (6.49%) Asset Management
5 5 (6.49%) DevOps
5 5 (6.49%) ETL
5 5 (6.49%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 5 (6.49%) ITIL
5 5 (6.49%) Risk Management
5 5 (6.49%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 4 (5.19%) Incident Management
6 4 (5.19%) Mentoring
6 4 (5.19%) OO
6 4 (5.19%) Supplier Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (12.99%) Java
2 9 (11.69%) SQL
3 5 (6.49%) C
3 5 (6.49%) Python
3 5 (6.49%) Shell Script
4 4 (5.19%) C#
4 4 (5.19%) C++
4 4 (5.19%) VB
5 3 (3.90%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (6.49%) Security Cleared
3 4 (5.19%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (5.19%) MCSA
4 3 (3.90%) Degree
4 3 (3.90%) MCSE
4 3 (3.90%) RHCT
5 2 (2.60%) A+ Certification
5 2 (2.60%) MCDST
6 1 (1.30%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (11.69%) SLA
2 4 (5.19%) PCI DSS
3 2 (2.60%) Accessibility
System Software
1 21 (27.27%) Active Directory
2 7 (9.09%) KVM
3 4 (5.19%) Hyper-V
3 4 (5.19%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (10.39%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (6.49%) Grafana
2 5 (6.49%) ITRS Geneos
3 1 (1.30%) SCCM
3 1 (1.30%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 28 (36.36%) Microsoft
2 11 (14.29%) Oracle
3 7 (9.09%) VMware
4 5 (6.49%) AppDynamics
4 5 (6.49%) CA
4 5 (6.49%) Dell
4 5 (6.49%) Splunk
4 5 (6.49%) Sybase
5 4 (5.19%) ConnectWise
6 3 (3.90%) Cisco
6 3 (3.90%) Citrix
6 3 (3.90%) Red Hat
6 3 (3.90%) ServiceNow
7 2 (2.60%) Apple
8 1 (1.30%) HP
8 1 (1.30%) Meraki
8 1 (1.30%) Mitel
8 1 (1.30%) ProCurve
8 1 (1.30%) Salesforce