Systems Support Engineer Jobs in England

System Support Engineer
UK > England

The median System Support Engineer salary in England is £50,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 April 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
16 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 759 927 1068
Rank change year-on-year +168 +141 -247
Permanent jobs requiring a Systems Support Engineer 72 30 48
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.086% 0.031% 0.037%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.091% 0.034% 0.039%
Number of salaries quoted 57 24 41
10th Percentile £27,600 £24,875 £32,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £25,750 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £32,250 £41,500
Median % change year-on-year +55.04% -22.29% +27.69%
75th Percentile £55,000 £39,750 £55,000
90th Percentile - £65,775 £57,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £33,750 £40,500
% change year-on-year +48.15% -16.67% +24.62%

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 79,484 88,194 124,195
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.49% 91.69% 96.04%
Number of salaries quoted 59,920 55,480 76,097
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £42,676
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,433 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £53,308 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.15% - +9.09%

Systems Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Systems Support Engineer in England

Systems Support Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Systems Support Engineer in England

Systems Support Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Systems Support Engineer in England over the 6 months to 16 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Systems Support Engineer in England

Systems 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 Systems Support Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 16 April 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 +159 22 £55,000 -18.52% 4
South East +38 20 £37,500 +15.38% 3
Midlands +32 13 £24,750 -14.66% 4
East Midlands - 13 £24,750 - 3
North of England - 10 £50,000 - 1
North West - 8 £50,000 - 1
South West 0 7 £50,000 +100.00%
Yorkshire - 2 £26,000 -
Systems Support Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 16 April 2024, Systems 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 Systems Support Engineer in the job title.

1 26 (36.11%) Windows
1 26 (36.11%) Linux
2 25 (34.72%) Active Directory
3 23 (31.94%) Problem-Solving
3 23 (31.94%) Social Skills
4 20 (27.78%) Mac OS
4 20 (27.78%) Project Management
4 20 (27.78%) VMware
5 19 (26.39%) Degree
5 19 (26.39%) PowerShell
5 19 (26.39%) Firewall
6 18 (25.00%) Bash
6 18 (25.00%) Task Automation
6 18 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
7 17 (23.61%) Mentoring
7 17 (23.61%) Fintech
8 16 (22.22%) Palo Alto
8 16 (22.22%) Confluence
8 16 (22.22%) Azure
8 16 (22.22%) VMware ESXi
8 16 (22.22%) Bitbucket
8 16 (22.22%) Jenkins
8 16 (22.22%) CI/CD
8 16 (22.22%) Cisco Certification
8 16 (22.22%) Microsoft
8 16 (22.22%) CCNA
8 16 (22.22%) PBX
8 16 (22.22%) MySQL
8 16 (22.22%) JIRA
8 16 (22.22%) Atlassian

Systems 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 16 (22.22%) Confluence
2 11 (15.28%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (4.17%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.39%) CMS
Business Applications
1 2 (2.78%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 16 (22.22%) Azure
2 13 (18.06%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (4.17%) Entra ID
4 2 (2.78%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (26.39%) Firewall
2 16 (22.22%) PBX
3 6 (8.33%) 3G
3 6 (8.33%) 4G
3 6 (8.33%) LTE
3 6 (8.33%) TCP/IP
3 6 (8.33%) VSAT
3 6 (8.33%) Wireless
4 5 (6.94%) DNS
5 3 (4.17%) SSL
5 3 (4.17%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (2.78%) DHCP
6 2 (2.78%) HTTP
6 2 (2.78%) LAN
6 2 (2.78%) VPN
6 2 (2.78%) WAN
7 1 (1.39%) HTTPS
7 1 (1.39%) SAN
7 1 (1.39%) SMTP
7 1 (1.39%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (22.22%) MySQL
1 16 (22.22%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.39%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 16 (22.22%) Bitbucket
1 16 (22.22%) Jenkins
1 16 (22.22%) JIRA
General
1 23 (31.94%) Social Skills
2 18 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (9.72%) Military
4 3 (4.17%) Finance
4 3 (4.17%) Manufacturing
5 2 (2.78%) Banking
6 1 (1.39%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.39%) Automotive
6 1 (1.39%) Electronics
6 1 (1.39%) Marketing
6 1 (1.39%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.39%) Retail
6 1 (1.39%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.78%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (1.39%) CSS
2 1 (1.39%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 7 (9.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 5 (6.94%) Management Information System
3 4 (5.56%) Onboarding
4 3 (4.17%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (2.78%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.78%) Clustering
5 2 (2.78%) Private Cloud
5 2 (2.78%) Video Conferencing
5 2 (2.78%) Video\Live Streaming
6 1 (1.39%) Acoustics
6 1 (1.39%) EPoS
6 1 (1.39%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 26 (36.11%) Linux
1 26 (36.11%) Windows
2 20 (27.78%) Mac OS
3 6 (8.33%) CentOS
4 4 (5.56%) SUSE
4 4 (5.56%) Ubuntu
4 4 (5.56%) Windows Server
5 2 (2.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (2.78%) Windows 10
5 2 (2.78%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (2.78%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (31.94%) Problem-Solving
2 20 (27.78%) Project Management
3 18 (25.00%) Task Automation
4 17 (23.61%) Fintech
4 17 (23.61%) Mentoring
5 16 (22.22%) CI/CD
6 11 (15.28%) Migration
7 8 (11.11%) Architectural Design
8 6 (8.33%) Computer Science
8 6 (8.33%) Technical Leadership
9 4 (5.56%) Mathematics
9 4 (5.56%) Service Management
9 4 (5.56%) Ticket Management
10 3 (4.17%) Customer Service
10 3 (4.17%) ITIL
11 2 (2.78%) Analytical Modelling
11 2 (2.78%) Customer Experience
11 2 (2.78%) High Availability
11 2 (2.78%) Process Improvement
11 2 (2.78%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 19 (26.39%) PowerShell
2 18 (25.00%) Bash
3 4 (5.56%) Python
4 3 (4.17%) SQL
5 2 (2.78%) Perl
5 2 (2.78%) PHP
5 2 (2.78%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.39%) C++
6 1 (1.39%) Korn
6 1 (1.39%) tcsh
Qualifications
1 19 (26.39%) Degree
2 16 (22.22%) CCNA
2 16 (22.22%) Cisco Certification
3 6 (8.33%) GCSC
3 6 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (2.78%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.39%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (1.39%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.39%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.33%) SLA
2 1 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 25 (34.72%) Active Directory
2 16 (22.22%) VMware ESXi
3 5 (6.94%) Hyper-V
4 4 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (2.78%) NFS
6 1 (1.39%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (2.78%) Backup Exec
1 2 (2.78%) ITRS Geneos
1 2 (2.78%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (1.39%) systemd
Vendors
1 20 (27.78%) VMware
2 16 (22.22%) Atlassian
2 16 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 16 (22.22%) Palo Alto
3 10 (13.89%) Cisco
4 6 (8.33%) HP
5 4 (5.56%) Red Hat
6 3 (4.17%) Veeam
7 2 (2.78%) Acronis
7 2 (2.78%) Aruba
7 2 (2.78%) Bloomberg
7 2 (2.78%) Fortinet
7 2 (2.78%) MarketAxess
7 2 (2.78%) Murex
7 2 (2.78%) PagerDuty
7 2 (2.78%) Sage
7 2 (2.78%) Synology
7 2 (2.78%) Tradeweb
7 2 (2.78%) Veritas
8 1 (1.39%) SAP