Support Engineer Contracts in Scotland

Support Engineer
UK > Scotland

The median Support Engineer daily rate in Scotland is £325 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 67 113 121
Rank change year-on-year +46 +8 +19
Contract jobs requiring a Support Engineer 61 50 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 2.85% 1.87% 1.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.01% 1.96% 1.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 37 24
10th Percentile £126 £130 £130
25th Percentile £194 £158 £159
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £175 £185
Median % change year-on-year +85.71% -5.41% +13.85%
75th Percentile £340 £280 £237
90th Percentile £750 £293 £404
UK median daily rate £213 £250 £213
% change year-on-year -15.00% +17.65% -1.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 7
10th Percentile - £18.10 £16.75
25th Percentile £18.00 £18.69 £17.50
Median hourly rate £18.07 £19.69 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.23% -1.58% +60.06%
75th Percentile £18.17 £20.68 £48.38
90th Percentile £18.23 £21.27 £56.00
UK median hourly rate £22.23 £21.14 £17.50
% change year-on-year +5.16% +20.77% +10.20%

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 2,025 2,550 3,253
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.49% 95.26% 95.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,242 1,774 2,303
10th Percentile £200 £223 £230
25th Percentile £350 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £470
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +1.06% +10.59%
75th Percentile £557 £550 £550
90th Percentile £637 £634 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 128 45 51
10th Percentile £12.30 £12.48 £17.25
25th Percentile £16.00 £14.25 £18.95
Median hourly rate £19.50 £18.50 £37.43
Median % change year-on-year +5.41% -50.57% +66.36%
75th Percentile £58.13 £58.75 £48.38
90th Percentile £66.00 £67.88 £55.84
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.50
% change year-on-year -16.67% +83.67% +12.28%

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 1 June 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 1 June 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 +30 29 £340 +32.04% 8
Glasgow +29 17 £215 +65.38% 15
South Lanarkshire - 8 £750 - 2
Moray - 2 - - 2
Morayshire - 2 - -
Aberdeen -5 1 - - 5
East Lothian - 1 £113 - 1
Support Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 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 38 (62.30%) Security Cleared
2 30 (49.18%) SC Cleared
3 22 (36.07%) Windows
4 20 (32.79%) Linux
5 17 (27.87%) Social Skills
6 15 (24.59%) Microsoft
6 15 (24.59%) Data Centre
7 14 (22.95%) Windows 10
7 14 (22.95%) Active Directory
7 14 (22.95%) Customer Service
7 14 (22.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 13 (21.31%) Red Hat
9 12 (19.67%) SLA
10 11 (18.03%) Service Management
10 11 (18.03%) JIRA
10 11 (18.03%) Atlassian
10 11 (18.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 10 (16.39%) Confluence
12 9 (14.75%) Workflow
12 9 (14.75%) Migration
13 8 (13.11%) Kalman Filter
13 8 (13.11%) Analytics
13 8 (13.11%) KVM
13 8 (13.11%) Microsoft 365
13 8 (13.11%) Remote Desktop
13 8 (13.11%) Data Migration
13 8 (13.11%) Break/Fix
14 7 (11.48%) Linux Command Line
14 7 (11.48%) SCCM
14 7 (11.48%) iPhone

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 10 (16.39%) Confluence
2 4 (6.56%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (3.28%) IIS
Applications
1 5 (8.20%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 8 (13.11%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (6.56%) Azure
2 4 (6.56%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 8 (13.11%) Remote Desktop
2 4 (6.56%) DNS
3 3 (4.92%) VPN
4 2 (3.28%) DHCP
4 2 (3.28%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.64%) Internet
5 1 (1.64%) LAN
5 1 (1.64%) Structured Cabling
5 1 (1.64%) WAN
5 1 (1.64%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (1.64%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 11 (18.03%) JIRA
General
1 17 (27.87%) Social Skills
2 6 (9.84%) Public Sector
3 4 (6.56%) Organisational Skills
3 4 (6.56%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (4.92%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (4.92%) Finance
5 2 (3.28%) Military
5 2 (3.28%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.64%) Electronics
6 1 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.64%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.64%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (11.48%) REST
1 7 (11.48%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 15 (24.59%) Data Centre
2 7 (11.48%) iPhone
2 7 (11.48%) Linux Command Line
3 6 (9.84%) Clustering
4 4 (6.56%) Video Conferencing
5 2 (3.28%) iPad
5 2 (3.28%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.64%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.64%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 22 (36.07%) Windows
2 20 (32.79%) Linux
3 14 (22.95%) Windows 10
4 11 (18.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (9.84%) Solaris
6 4 (6.56%) Mac OS X
6 4 (6.56%) Windows Server
7 2 (3.28%) CentOS
7 2 (3.28%) Debian
7 2 (3.28%) Windows Server 2008
7 2 (3.28%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (3.28%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (1.64%) Android
8 1 (1.64%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (22.95%) Customer Service
1 14 (22.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 11 (18.03%) Service Management
3 9 (14.75%) Migration
3 9 (14.75%) Workflow
4 8 (13.11%) Analytics
4 8 (13.11%) Break/Fix
4 8 (13.11%) Data Migration
4 8 (13.11%) Kalman Filter
5 6 (9.84%) Compliance Management
5 6 (9.84%) High Availability
5 6 (9.84%) Performance Metrics
5 6 (9.84%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (6.56%) Decision-Making
6 4 (6.56%) Service Delivery
6 4 (6.56%) Time Management
7 3 (4.92%) Asset Management
7 3 (4.92%) Proactive Monitoring
8 2 (3.28%) Incident Management
8 2 (3.28%) ITIL
Qualifications
1 38 (62.30%) Security Cleared
2 30 (49.18%) SC Cleared
3 6 (9.84%) RHCE
4 5 (8.20%) Degree
5 4 (6.56%) MCSE
5 4 (6.56%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (3.28%) MCP
6 2 (3.28%) MCSA
6 2 (3.28%) RHCT
7 1 (1.64%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (19.67%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (22.95%) Active Directory
2 8 (13.11%) KVM
3 2 (3.28%) Hyper-V
3 2 (3.28%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (11.48%) SCCM
2 4 (6.56%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (3.28%) WSUS
Vendors
1 15 (24.59%) Microsoft
2 13 (21.31%) Red Hat
3 11 (18.03%) Atlassian
4 6 (9.84%) Apple
4 6 (9.84%) HP
5 5 (8.20%) Samsung
6 4 (6.56%) Citrix
7 3 (4.92%) Cisco
8 2 (3.28%) VMware
9 1 (1.64%) Mitel
9 1 (1.64%) Progress
9 1 (1.64%) SAP
9 1 (1.64%) ServiceNow