Support Engineer Jobs in Portsmouth

Support Engineer
Hampshire > Portsmouth

The median Support Engineer salary in Portsmouth is £48,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 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
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 36 47 57
Rank change year-on-year +11 +10 -7
Permanent jobs requiring a Support Engineer 20 24 19
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Portsmouth 3.94% 4.93% 2.99%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.18% 5.31% 3.03%
Number of salaries quoted 20 24 18
10th Percentile £39,850 £28,575 £24,850
25th Percentile £45,000 £29,400 £25,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £31,500 £30,000
Median % change year-on-year +53.97% +5.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile - £33,188 £32,500
90th Percentile £58,150 £47,275 -
Hampshire median annual salary £35,000 £30,000 £30,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% - -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Portsmouth

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Portsmouth. 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 Portsmouth with a recognized job title 478 452 627
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.09% 92.81% 98.58%
Number of salaries quoted 404 318 517
10th Percentile £24,500 £28,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,563 £40,750 £43,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -9.09% +22.22%
75th Percentile £61,250 £68,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £85,000
Hampshire median annual salary £50,000 £51,375 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.68% -2.14% +10.53%

Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Portsmouth

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

Job vacancy trend for Support Engineer in Portsmouth

Support Engineer
Salary Trend in Portsmouth

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

Salary trend for Support Engineer in Portsmouth

Support Engineer
Salary Histogram in Portsmouth

Salary distribution for jobs citing Support Engineer in Portsmouth over the 6 months to 18 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Support Engineer in Portsmouth

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

For the 6 months to 18 April 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 Portsmouth region featuring Support Engineer in the job title.

1 15 (75.00%) Windows
1 15 (75.00%) VMware
2 14 (70.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 13 (65.00%) Windows Server
3 13 (65.00%) SLA
4 12 (60.00%) Clustering
5 11 (55.00%) Active Directory
6 10 (50.00%) PKI
6 10 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
6 10 (50.00%) PowerShell
6 10 (50.00%) Windows Server 2012
7 9 (45.00%) vSphere
8 8 (40.00%) XenApp
8 8 (40.00%) OpenSSH
8 8 (40.00%) PowerCLI
8 8 (40.00%) Customer Requirements
8 8 (40.00%) vCenter Server
8 8 (40.00%) VMware ESXi
8 8 (40.00%) IBM BigFix
8 8 (40.00%) Degree
8 8 (40.00%) Problem Management
8 8 (40.00%) Finance
8 8 (40.00%) Citrix
8 8 (40.00%) VB
8 8 (40.00%) ActionScript
8 8 (40.00%) IBM
8 8 (40.00%) Internet
9 6 (30.00%) Microsoft
9 6 (30.00%) Hyper-V
10 5 (25.00%) Microsoft 365

Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Portsmouth 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 3 (15.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (5.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (5.00%) Azure
2 1 (5.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 8 (40.00%) Internet
2 5 (25.00%) Firewall
3 1 (5.00%) BGP
3 1 (5.00%) Broadband
3 1 (5.00%) NAS
3 1 (5.00%) SAN
3 1 (5.00%) SD-WAN
3 1 (5.00%) Skype
3 1 (5.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
General
1 8 (40.00%) Finance
2 4 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Military
4 1 (5.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 12 (60.00%) Clustering
2 10 (50.00%) PKI
3 1 (5.00%) Driving Licence
3 1 (5.00%) Fat Client
3 1 (5.00%) iPhone
3 1 (5.00%) Smartphone
3 1 (5.00%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 15 (75.00%) Windows
2 13 (65.00%) Windows Server
3 10 (50.00%) Windows Server 2012
4 3 (15.00%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (10.00%) Linux
5 2 (10.00%) Windows 10
5 2 (10.00%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (5.00%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (70.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 8 (40.00%) Customer Requirements
2 8 (40.00%) Problem Management
3 3 (15.00%) Project Management
4 2 (10.00%) Incident Management
5 1 (5.00%) Cloud Security
5 1 (5.00%) Database Mirroring
5 1 (5.00%) ITIL
5 1 (5.00%) Kalman Filter
5 1 (5.00%) Key Management
5 1 (5.00%) Mobile Device Management
5 1 (5.00%) Presales
5 1 (5.00%) Service Delivery
5 1 (5.00%) Service Management
5 1 (5.00%) Web Filtering
Programming Languages
1 10 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 8 (40.00%) ActionScript
2 8 (40.00%) VB
3 2 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (40.00%) Degree
2 1 (5.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (65.00%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (55.00%) Active Directory
2 10 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (45.00%) vSphere
4 8 (40.00%) OpenSSH
4 8 (40.00%) VMware ESXi
4 8 (40.00%) XenApp
5 6 (30.00%) Hyper-V
6 1 (5.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 8 (40.00%) IBM BigFix
1 8 (40.00%) PowerCLI
1 8 (40.00%) vCenter Server
2 3 (15.00%) Backup Exec
3 1 (5.00%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (5.00%) FortiGate
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Clustering
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (5.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 15 (75.00%) VMware
2 8 (40.00%) Citrix
2 8 (40.00%) IBM
3 6 (30.00%) Microsoft
4 3 (15.00%) Aruba
4 3 (15.00%) Cisco
4 3 (15.00%) Fortinet
4 3 (15.00%) Veritas
5 1 (5.00%) Draytek
5 1 (5.00%) Juniper
5 1 (5.00%) Oracle
5 1 (5.00%) Red Hat
5 1 (5.00%) Wyse