Support Engineer Contracts in Scotland

Support Engineer
UK > Scotland

The median Support Engineer daily rate in Scotland is £238 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 79 113 122
Rank change year-on-year +34 +9 +2
Contract jobs requiring a Support Engineer 48 53 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 2.21% 1.93% 1.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.34% 2.03% 1.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 40 25
10th Percentile £126 £130 £131
25th Percentile £200 £158 £158
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £238 £165 £180
Median % change year-on-year +43.94% -8.33% +20.00%
75th Percentile £340 £279 £223
90th Percentile £750 £293 £393
UK median daily rate £210 £250 £210
% change year-on-year -16.00% +19.05% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 6
10th Percentile £18.03 £15.22 £16.56
25th Percentile £18.07 £16.29 £17.50
Median hourly rate £18.13 £18.34 £18.75
Median % change year-on-year -1.12% -2.21% +50.00%
75th Percentile £18.20 £20.13 £21.69
90th Percentile £18.24 £21.05 £31.13
UK median hourly rate £20.82 £20.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year +4.08% +14.29% +9.38%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Scotland with a recognized job title 2,047 2,615 3,287
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.42% 95.44% 95.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,248 1,866 2,332
10th Percentile £200 £238 £213
25th Percentile £363 £400 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year - +2.70% +8.82%
75th Percentile £575 £554 £550
90th Percentile £650 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 44 52
10th Percentile £12.31 £12.86 £14.65
25th Percentile £16.19 £14.44 £17.50
Median hourly rate £27.90 £22.13 £26.85
Median % change year-on-year +26.08% -17.60% -30.71%
75th Percentile £60.00 £58.82 £47.97
90th Percentile £66.00 £67.22 £54.25
UK median hourly rate £37.34 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -17.02% +88.21% +6.27%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Support Engineer in Scotland

Support Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Support Engineer in Scotland over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Support Engineer in Scotland

Support Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Support Engineer in Scotland

Support Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Support Engineer within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 10 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Edinburgh +23 17 £340 +33.33% 12
Glasgow +23 17 £215 +30.30% 2
South Lanarkshire - 7 £750 -
Aberdeen -2 3 - - 3
East Lothian - 1 £113 -
Support Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 10 May 2024, Support Engineer contract 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 contract job ads across the Scotland region featuring Support Engineer in the job title.

1 25 (52.08%) Security Cleared
2 21 (43.75%) SC Cleared
3 18 (37.50%) Windows
4 16 (33.33%) Social Skills
5 14 (29.17%) Microsoft
5 14 (29.17%) Data Centre
6 13 (27.08%) Active Directory
6 13 (27.08%) Linux
7 11 (22.92%) Customer Service
8 10 (20.83%) Windows 10
8 10 (20.83%) JIRA
8 10 (20.83%) Atlassian
9 9 (18.75%) Confluence
9 9 (18.75%) Service Management
10 8 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 8 (16.67%) Workflow
10 8 (16.67%) Migration
10 8 (16.67%) SLA
10 8 (16.67%) Remote Desktop
10 8 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
11 7 (14.58%) Analytics
11 7 (14.58%) Kalman Filter
11 7 (14.58%) Data Migration
11 7 (14.58%) Red Hat
12 6 (12.50%) Apple
12 6 (12.50%) Web Services
12 6 (12.50%) SCCM
12 6 (12.50%) KVM
12 6 (12.50%) REST
12 6 (12.50%) Public Sector

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 9 (18.75%) Confluence
2 4 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (4.17%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 8 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (8.33%) Azure
2 4 (8.33%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 8 (16.67%) Remote Desktop
2 3 (6.25%) DNS
3 2 (4.17%) TCP/IP
3 2 (4.17%) VPN
4 1 (2.08%) DHCP
4 1 (2.08%) Internet
4 1 (2.08%) LAN
4 1 (2.08%) Structured Cabling
4 1 (2.08%) WAN
4 1 (2.08%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (2.08%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 10 (20.83%) JIRA
General
1 16 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 6 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 3 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
3 3 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (4.17%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.08%) Electronics
5 1 (2.08%) Finance
5 1 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.08%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.08%) Marketing
5 1 (2.08%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (12.50%) REST
1 6 (12.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 14 (29.17%) Data Centre
2 6 (12.50%) Linux Command Line
3 4 (8.33%) Clustering
3 4 (8.33%) iPhone
4 2 (4.17%) iPad
4 2 (4.17%) Management Information System
4 2 (4.17%) Video Conferencing
5 1 (2.08%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.08%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 18 (37.50%) Windows
2 13 (27.08%) Linux
3 10 (20.83%) Windows 10
4 5 (10.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (8.33%) Mac OS X
5 4 (8.33%) Solaris
5 4 (8.33%) Windows Server
6 2 (4.17%) CentOS
6 2 (4.17%) Debian
6 2 (4.17%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (4.17%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (4.17%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (2.08%) Android
7 1 (2.08%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (22.92%) Customer Service
2 9 (18.75%) Service Management
3 8 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 8 (16.67%) Migration
3 8 (16.67%) Workflow
4 7 (14.58%) Analytics
4 7 (14.58%) Data Migration
4 7 (14.58%) Kalman Filter
5 5 (10.42%) Break/Fix
5 5 (10.42%) Performance Metrics
5 5 (10.42%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (8.33%) Compliance Management
6 4 (8.33%) High Availability
7 3 (6.25%) Asset Management
7 3 (6.25%) Decision-Making
7 3 (6.25%) Proactive Monitoring
7 3 (6.25%) Time Management
8 2 (4.17%) Incident Management
8 2 (4.17%) ITIL
8 2 (4.17%) Runbook
Qualifications
1 25 (52.08%) Security Cleared
2 21 (43.75%) SC Cleared
3 4 (8.33%) Degree
3 4 (8.33%) MCSE
3 4 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (8.33%) RHCE
4 2 (4.17%) MCP
4 2 (4.17%) MCSA
4 2 (4.17%) RHCT
5 1 (2.08%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (16.67%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (27.08%) Active Directory
2 6 (12.50%) KVM
3 2 (4.17%) Hyper-V
3 2 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (12.50%) SCCM
2 4 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (4.17%) WSUS
Vendors
1 14 (29.17%) Microsoft
2 10 (20.83%) Atlassian
3 7 (14.58%) Red Hat
4 6 (12.50%) Apple
5 4 (8.33%) Citrix
6 3 (6.25%) HP
6 3 (6.25%) Samsung
7 2 (4.17%) Cisco
7 2 (4.17%) VMware
8 1 (2.08%) Mitel
8 1 (2.08%) Progress
8 1 (2.08%) SAP
8 1 (2.08%) ServiceNow