Senior Support Engineer Jobs in England

Senior Support Engineer
UK > England

The median Senior Support Engineer salary in England is £47,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 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
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 712 867 1021
Rank change year-on-year +155 +154 -299
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Support Engineer 132 80 126
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.15% 0.087% 0.095%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.095% 0.099%
Number of salaries quoted 105 69 105
10th Percentile £32,850 £32,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £35,250 £37,500 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% - +12.50%
75th Percentile £65,000 £53,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £72,433 £72,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% - +12.50%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 80,507 84,319 127,438
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.47% 91.51% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 60,203 53,445 75,746
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,125 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,799 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,761 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Senior Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Support Engineer in England

Senior Support Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Senior Support Engineer in England

Senior Support Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Support Engineer in England over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Support Engineer in England

Senior Support Engineer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Support Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 5 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +133 35 £43,750 -12.50% 8
North of England +69 26 £45,000 -2.70% 11
Midlands +27 26 £45,000 - 11
South East +30 23 £60,000 +56.86% 7
South West -17 17 £50,000 +11.11% 3
Yorkshire +99 15 £70,576 +48.58% 2
East Midlands -1 15 £35,000 -33.68% 5
West Midlands +20 11 £45,000 +5.88% 6
North West - 11 £34,000 - 8
East of England +18 5 £38,500 - 6
Senior Support Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 5 May 2024, Senior 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 England region featuring Senior Support Engineer in the job title.

1 86 (65.15%) Windows
2 69 (52.27%) Azure
3 51 (38.64%) Microsoft 365
4 47 (35.61%) Active Directory
5 45 (34.09%) ITIL
6 41 (31.06%) Microsoft
7 39 (29.55%) Windows Server
7 39 (29.55%) Social Skills
8 37 (28.03%) Entra ID
9 33 (25.00%) Linux
10 32 (24.24%) Microsoft Exchange
11 31 (23.48%) VMware
11 31 (23.48%) Finance
12 29 (21.97%) Mentoring
13 25 (18.94%) TCP/IP
14 24 (18.18%) Customer Service
15 23 (17.42%) PowerShell
16 22 (16.67%) Hyper-V
16 22 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 21 (15.91%) Firewall
18 19 (14.39%) Problem-Solving
19 18 (13.64%) VMware Infrastructure
20 17 (12.88%) CSS
21 16 (12.12%) HTML
21 16 (12.12%) DNS
21 16 (12.12%) ITSM
21 16 (12.12%) Service Management
21 16 (12.12%) Splunk
21 16 (12.12%) Analytical Skills
21 16 (12.12%) Technical Leadership

Senior Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 32 (24.24%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (11.36%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.52%) Confluence
3 2 (1.52%) Skype for Business
3 2 (1.52%) WordPress
4 1 (0.76%) CMS
4 1 (0.76%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 6 (4.55%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 69 (52.27%) Azure
2 51 (38.64%) Microsoft 365
3 37 (28.03%) Entra ID
4 14 (10.61%) OneDrive
4 14 (10.61%) SaaS
5 13 (9.85%) GCP
6 11 (8.33%) AWS
6 11 (8.33%) OpenShift
7 4 (3.03%) IaaS
7 4 (3.03%) PaaS
8 3 (2.27%) Mimecast
9 1 (0.76%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (0.76%) Azure Stack
9 1 (0.76%) Azure Storage
9 1 (0.76%) Nutanix
9 1 (0.76%) Power Platform
9 1 (0.76%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 25 (18.94%) TCP/IP
2 21 (15.91%) Firewall
3 16 (12.12%) DNS
4 13 (9.85%) DHCP
4 13 (9.85%) SNMP
4 13 (9.85%) SSH
5 11 (8.33%) SAN
5 11 (8.33%) VLAN
5 11 (8.33%) WAN
6 7 (5.30%) VoIP
7 5 (3.79%) Internet
7 5 (3.79%) iSCSI
7 5 (3.79%) VPN
8 3 (2.27%) LAN
8 3 (2.27%) Remote Desktop
8 3 (2.27%) Wireless
8 3 (2.27%) xDSL
9 2 (1.52%) DKIM
9 2 (1.52%) DMARC
9 2 (1.52%) PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (9.85%) MySQL
1 13 (9.85%) Relational Database
2 1 (0.76%) Data Lake
2 1 (0.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (10.61%) Eclipse
2 11 (8.33%) IBM UrbanCode
3 2 (1.52%) Git
3 2 (1.52%) IntelliJ
3 2 (1.52%) JIRA
3 2 (1.52%) MSI
4 1 (0.76%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.76%) Gradle
4 1 (0.76%) JUnit
General
1 39 (29.55%) Social Skills
2 31 (23.48%) Finance
3 16 (12.12%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (9.09%) Banking
5 11 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
6 8 (6.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (3.79%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (3.03%) Manufacturing
9 3 (2.27%) Advertising
9 3 (2.27%) Marketing
10 2 (1.52%) Legal
10 2 (1.52%) Retail
10 2 (1.52%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.76%) Electronics
11 1 (0.76%) Law
11 1 (0.76%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.76%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.76%) Social Science
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (12.88%) CSS
2 16 (12.12%) HTML
3 13 (9.85%) Ajax
3 13 (9.85%) AngularJS
3 13 (9.85%) JDBC
3 13 (9.85%) ODBC
3 13 (9.85%) REST
3 13 (9.85%) SOAP
3 13 (9.85%) Web Services
3 13 (9.85%) XHTML
3 13 (9.85%) XML
4 2 (1.52%) Spring
5 1 (0.76%) .NET
5 1 (0.76%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (9.85%) CMDB
2 12 (9.09%) Public Cloud
3 10 (7.58%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (5.30%) Driving Licence
5 5 (3.79%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (3.79%) Fat Client
5 5 (3.79%) Management Information System
5 5 (3.79%) Thin Client
6 3 (2.27%) CCTV
6 3 (2.27%) Replication
7 2 (1.52%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.52%) Handset
7 2 (1.52%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.76%) Blackberry
8 1 (0.76%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.76%) iPad
8 1 (0.76%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.76%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.76%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 86 (65.15%) Windows
2 39 (29.55%) Windows Server
3 33 (25.00%) Linux
4 15 (11.36%) Unix
5 14 (10.61%) Windows Server 2012
6 12 (9.09%) Windows 10
7 7 (5.30%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (2.27%) Mac OS
8 3 (2.27%) Mac OS X
8 3 (2.27%) Windows 7
8 3 (2.27%) Windows Server 2003
8 3 (2.27%) Windows Server 2008
8 3 (2.27%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (1.52%) Android
10 1 (0.76%) AIX
10 1 (0.76%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.76%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (34.09%) ITIL
2 29 (21.97%) Mentoring
3 24 (18.18%) Customer Service
4 22 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 19 (14.39%) Problem-Solving
6 16 (12.12%) ITSM
6 16 (12.12%) Service Management
6 16 (12.12%) Technical Leadership
7 14 (10.61%) Business Intelligence
8 13 (9.85%) Agile
8 13 (9.85%) Data Extraction
8 13 (9.85%) Database Tuning
8 13 (9.85%) Disaster Recovery
8 13 (9.85%) Network Management
8 13 (9.85%) OO
8 13 (9.85%) OOP
9 12 (9.09%) DevOps
9 12 (9.09%) Problem Management
10 11 (8.33%) Cybersecurity
10 11 (8.33%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 23 (17.42%) PowerShell
2 15 (11.36%) Java
2 15 (11.36%) Python
3 14 (10.61%) SQL
4 13 (9.85%) JavaScript
4 13 (9.85%) Perl
5 11 (8.33%) Groovy
6 2 (1.52%) Bash
7 1 (0.76%) C#
7 1 (0.76%) Korn
7 1 (0.76%) tcsh
7 1 (0.76%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (8.33%) Degree
2 8 (6.06%) Microsoft Certification
3 6 (4.55%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (1.52%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.52%) MCP
5 1 (0.76%) CCAA
5 1 (0.76%) CCNA
5 1 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.76%) Citrix Certification
5 1 (0.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.76%) DBS Check
5 1 (0.76%) IBM Certification
5 1 (0.76%) LPIC
5 1 (0.76%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.76%) MCSE
5 1 (0.76%) MCTS
5 1 (0.76%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.06%) GDPR
2 3 (2.27%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (2.27%) SLA
3 1 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 47 (35.61%) Active Directory
2 22 (16.67%) Hyper-V
3 18 (13.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (8.33%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (4.55%) NFS
6 5 (3.79%) vSphere
7 2 (1.52%) Docker
7 2 (1.52%) Terminal Services
7 2 (1.52%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.76%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.76%) Terminal Server
8 1 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.76%) Xen
8 1 (0.76%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 15 (11.36%) Microsoft Intune
2 13 (9.85%) WMI
3 12 (9.09%) Terraform
4 11 (8.33%) Ansible
4 11 (8.33%) Progress Chef
5 10 (7.58%) vCenter Server
6 4 (3.03%) SCCM
7 3 (2.27%) NetCrunch
8 2 (1.52%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.76%) systemd
9 1 (0.76%) WSUS
Vendors
1 41 (31.06%) Microsoft
2 31 (23.48%) VMware
3 16 (12.12%) Splunk
4 15 (11.36%) Oracle
5 12 (9.09%) Google
5 12 (9.09%) IBM
6 10 (7.58%) Cisco
6 10 (7.58%) ServiceNow
7 8 (6.06%) Citrix
8 4 (3.03%) HP
9 3 (2.27%) Dell
9 3 (2.27%) Ivanti
9 3 (2.27%) Meraki
9 3 (2.27%) Palo Alto
10 2 (1.52%) Apple
10 2 (1.52%) ConnectWise
10 2 (1.52%) Sage
11 1 (0.76%) Forcepoint
11 1 (0.76%) SAP
11 1 (0.76%) Sophos